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Biochemical experts are working to neutralize the threat. searching up to three kilometers from the immediate blast area. taking air soil, and water samples. these stray chemicals sitting in an unsecured area less than a kilometer from the blast zone. >> do you know what this is? do you know if it poses a danger to anybody? >> reporter: tianjin's chief environmental officer tees me searchers have not entered residential area due to safety concerns about broken glass. he says they'll begin searching those areas if needed. chemical experts say it's impossible to know exactly what that is or what...

I'm never going back to a manual brush. the death toll from the huge explosions from northern china keeps rising. the death toll now stands at 114. the investigation goes to what was stored in the port. cnn's will ripley is in tianjin for us this morning. will. >> reporter: christine, for the first time, we are allowed inside the blast zone. we are on an overpass. i'll show you this is one of the main roads in tianjin. you can see as we scan over here all of those structures. many residential buildings that were some under construction and some occupied at the time of the explosion which has...

The explosion. they also rescued a 19-year-old firefighter. he has horrible burns, chest injuries, a crack in his skull. but both of those men are expected to be okay. as you mentioned, you look at the power and what the explosion did to this, which was a temporary offense building at a construction site near the blast zone. there's diminishing hope anyone could have possibly survived the two huge fireballs that ensued. 90 people are missing. 85 of them were firefighters trying to respond. government now confirming they did use water in the initial response to the fire. and number of the diffe...

The wind shift was bringing some of these chemicals back in closer to the city, closer to the people who live here. and so, we detected a bit of a wind shift here at this shelter, where we believe there are still families that haven't been evacuated yet. and everybody around here for the most part is wearing their masks, and so, we decided to do so as well, isa. >> and we've seen you and everyone behind you with a mask. but this is just so our viewers understand here, this is a port city, but it's also a heavily built living area, too. how concerned are people there about the air quality? beca...

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