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I'm here with sanjay gupta. this is develop, we don't know how severe these injuries are. we don't know if people are dead. but you do know about these kinds of injuries. >> and we hear about fertilizer plants in particular, being a concern. some of the concerns are the same concerns you would see in any particular explosion. the sorts of blast injuries we've been talking about here in boston. >> as you know from the explosions here in boston, went to 9 different hospitals. that number is going to end up going to a small hospital in west, about 200, 230 bed hospitals. much different sitwax in ...

Enormous power. huge ball of fire. this tremendous noise. we were just playing it again there. you can only imagine if you were a resident near that. you've heard people as much as 40 miles away felt some kind of aftershock. the latest pitches that we've been seeing, as well as the area, it looks like a huge bomb site. really devastating. >> yeah, it really is. and one of the e-mails that we received was talking about the several pronged challenge. the initial treage center was there and we heard they were moving the triage because of the potential for toxic fumes or a second explosion.

So a lot of work to be done here tonight. >> i really appreciate you jiening me, thank you for taking the time. >> i'm joined now by marti marti mckalups. this is a pretty devastating incident. how much is the red cross ininvolved? >> we're all closely ininvolved with this. we come in and make sure we take care of the physical needs of the people who have been displaced and provide comfort and hope over their recovery. and in terms of what you're hearing on the ground, are we right in hearing that there are various issues here? one is these properties that were just flat lined by the explosion...

>> i eenl rig'm right now at th center outside of west. i was about two blocks away responding to the fire when it exploded. >> we're getting conflicted reports, but it would seem a very large number of people's properties and homes have been -- >> it's about a five-block radius of the fertilizer plant. >> so how many homes do you think have been flattened in this? >> oh, 60, maybe 80. one school, one nursing home, one apartment. >> and do you expect there have been many people that have died in these homes? >> obviously, yeah, it's a huge explosion. so there's going to be casualties.

About 20, 25 on the way to us right now. >> the death toll at the moment is three people. but we're being told that there are scores of firefighters who >> the information is that there originally are fighting if tire was a fire at this fertilizer who remainin unaccounted for afr plant and fire officers were attending to the fire when exploezed. the explosion. clearly, there are a large number of properties. we've heard 10, 15, to as many as 60 or more that have been completely flattened by the explosion. >>. >> what we were told initially, and presumably, there are many that there had been an...