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Near the blast zone, say the testing is just not good enough for them. they have concerns about long-term consequences for them and especially the children. the chinese government is cracking down on whoever is responsible for this. a good portion of tianjin's bus fleet is wiped out. we're learning that top executives with the shipping and logistics company that owned the warehouse at the center of this explosion, they were bringing in chemicals, storing them and then distributing them throughout china. and now there is evidence that these chemicals were possibly being stored in illegal quanti...

Talk about just how toxic it is. >> reporter: that site was a large chemical warehouse containing all sorts of toxic material. sodium cyanide is a chemical used in chemical manufacturing and in the mining industry. it's stuff that is easy to inhale. and if inhaled or ingested it can be lethal to humans quickly. we are talking about 700 tons of it lying around in the blast zone. that's why the military officer in charge are saying they are doing everything they can to handle this with the utmost care and methodically. if the material has leaked into the ground they have been building walls arou...

And everything else. it is the kind of force that make you understand why the authorities are not hopeful they will find any survivors. this grim picture is what you can see with your eyes. the invisible danger you cannot see is also threatening. the 700 tons of sodium cyanide you mentioned, that is a highly volatile and highly toxic chemical used in chemical manufacturing and in the mining industry. if it's inhaled or ingested it could kill somebody quickly but it's here you have 700 tons of it lying around in the blast zone. the authorities say they are methodically dealing with it either ne...

Intact they are shipped away immediately. it's that precaution they are taking. but still they are searching a wider area within a three kilometer radius, have 2,000 soldiers trying to find other chemicals that may have been launched into the air by the blast forces and fallen to the ground. they are looking for it and cleaning it up. >> yeah, that's the big concern, isn't it? the air and water quality. apparently they have measured this but a lot of people are suspicious about the outcome and the results. talk to us about that and what people nearby are going to do as far as where they're goi...

Visited the blast zone. as bad as this looks, some 700 meters or so away from the disaster area. thousands of cars, buildings ob liberated. the latest numbers now, the death toll 114. 70 people still missing and 698 people remain in the hospital as china promises a criminal investigation into this to figure out what went wrong that allowed so many chemicals to be stored at a facility so close to people's homes. chris? >> the white house is demanding china pull culvert agents operating in the u.s. beijing placed agents in america to hunt down fugitives and return them to chin. the u.s. says the...