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The press conference was over. these family members telling us that all they want is the truth, and their children are contractor firefighters, contractors. they fight fires just like the official firefighters, but they don't have benefits or military status. these parents say that their children may not even be in the official count of the missing, something that government officials deny. so, obviously, there's a lot of tension and a lot of suspicion here, and frankly, a lot of fear among the residents about what may be in the air here, isa. >> and that is completely understandable. let me a...

Evacuation zone around the site of the disaster. a few hours ago, during a live report right here on cnn, our crew was pushed around by someone trying to stop us from reporting. although it wasn't clear who that person was. >> reporter: the area that you're seeing here, these are some of the apartment complexes that are completely unlivable at the moment. please, sir, take your hand off our camera. please take your hand off our camera. please take your hand off our camera. [ speaking foreign language ] he's telling us that the air is poisonous and that's why we need to get away. and yet, you n...

Thousands of residents here are waking up in shelters this morning set up at ten different schools around the city. some of them don't have clothes or food and so that's being handed out as well. in just a couple of hours we could learn whether it will be safe for that biological and chemical response team to go to the blast zone which is just beyond those buildings back there. yesterday we saw a large black smoke plume. today we see occasional smoke but nothing like what we saw yesterday. a sign that perhaps this wicked fire is finally starting to burn itself out with the investigation just g...

Of the first blast. there was a group in our party that had just crossed over the media bridge that got her high heel stuck in the grating material that makes up the media bridge. that delayed our travels down boylston street by about 45 seconds. were we 45 seconds ahead of where i was standing i might well have been in the first blast zone. it was just horrific. it was like a scene from -- well civilians should never see that. our first responders are trained for it military folks are trained for it but what we saw and experienced on boylston street that day was really like an act of war. so ...

It was actually a boiler. sloeding inside this house in washington state. debris and shrapnel went flying through the children's playroom where the family was playing minutes before the blast. >> it actually launched itself sideways into another room about 15 feet into a separate room. >> it just really hit me how absolutely close of a call this had been. i could see my husband and child playing in that room right before the blast. my daughter's room is right above the blast zone. >> fire crews say the boiler malfunctioned. they say check your boiler and water heater every year. in texas, re...