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>> i can go on paper here and say that david koresh told me that as soon as he finishes this manuscript -- >> i'll be splitting out of this place. i'm so sick of mres. >> reporter: sick of mres. and no longer worried about getting raped in prison. >> can i say that i think that's one of your big concerns, is mr. bubba? >> i'm not concerned about bubba. >> people were packing bags. people were all excited. it's over. all of this situation is about to come to an end. >> david, frankly, i'm eagerly awaiting this manuscript. >> i tell you what, it's going to blow your socks off. >> reporter: but t...

>> reporter: and trying to talk their own bosses out of overreacting. >> sometimes there's this compelling thing we call action imperative where authorities feel they have to do something to be seen as decisive and in charge. and when you're compelled to do that, you often end up doing the wrong thing. >> reporter: koresh isn't making it easy. he claims to have weapons that can penetrate the armored personnel carriers, which he calls little buggies. and threatens to blow the government's little buggies to pieces. >> that's when the decision was made by the tactical guys. let's get us a really ...

Lead your people out. be a messiah, not a destroyer. ♪ >> reporter: after 45 minutes, the building is engulfed. only nine people would make it out. >> i came out basically driven out by the fire. >> reporter: sheila martin, who had come out three weeks earlier, is watching the drama on television. terrified for her husband and her four oldest children. >> you're thinking, if they were in the hallway alone? were they running? did the fire catch them? just very horrible to think. >> reporter: fanned by 25-mile-an-hour winds, this is doomsday. critics blame the fire on the

The planes won't get back on schedule until sunday. other areas got hit badly as well. 750 homes are damaged. no reports of deaths or serious injury. in yemen, the embattled president has agreed in principle to step down within 30 days. yemen's neighboring person gulf natio nations brockered the agreement. you want to resolve this as much or more so than you do. >> reporter: after promising federal negotiators that he would lead his followers out, david koresh says god told him not to. >> my god told me to wait and that's all i'm doing. >> reporter: koresh also has an earthly concern -- be...

Wives and sex with underage girls. with this side bar, the law watches but has done little. >> and so as atf is preparing, the media is finding out and trying to make its own preparations in order to cover the raid. >> reporter: on that sunday morning a local tv station sends a photographer out to the branch davidian compound to stake it out. he gets to this road, about a mile away, and realizes, he's lost. the cameraman sees a mail carrier. explains who he is and asks directions. >> the mailman, very friendly, told the guy how he could find the property and then turned around and went to go a...