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Upbeat and then to have that shattered by this concussion, this sound, it's remarkable so many people were able to completely snap to and follow instructions. >> reporter: and we still don't know, brian, whether people were injured trying to get out of that arena. that is a possibility, because there was so many still inside, and there was such a rush to get out once this explosion hit. and also keeping in mind that there were a lot of young people in this audience. there were 11-year-olds 10sh s1 10-year-olds, 9-year-olds, teenagers, moms and dads presumably trying to keep their children safe...

Deployment of the french aircraft carrier. nick, tell us about the impact of the french air strikes on isis targets have on the terrorist group. >> reporter: hala, it is the second night in a row the french war planes have been hitting the caliphate of raqqah. we don't know what they hit. we know at 10:00 local time, the first explosion hit. that is reliable information. they have been insisting of the seven air strikes of last night and 24 they counted the night before last, no civilians have been killed. the targets which appear to be about the night before last around the outskirts and city...

At least 50 people are now dead. hundreds are injured. an american man now living in tianjin was watching a movie with his girlfriend when the explosion hit. >> all of a sudden there's like a loud, like a shockwave sound. i looked out and i saw the plume of smoke. huge plume of smoke. of course immediately pictures, videos, terrible things, people with glass injuries, people on the street, around the area, on the ground, incapacitated, people walking to the hospital. >> nbc's kelly is monitoring all of this from london. kelly, what is the chinese government doing because the way they handle th...

Ear-popping blast that blew out windows, collapsed ceilings and sent residents fleeing for safety. >> our hearts go out to all of the families involved. we're expending every effort to locate each and every loved one. >> reporter: from the rubble, incredible stories of survival. collin paterson was inside a piano shop on the ground floor when the explosion hit. >> pianos all over me. pianos flew out off the ground and actually on the side and probably helped me too. >> reporter: it envoked memories of 9/11, though investigators fingered a very different culprit, leaking natural gas. some resid...

We're expending every effort to locate each and every loved one. >> reporter: from the rubble, incredible stories of survival. collin paterson was inside a piano shop on the ground floor when the explosion hit. >> pianos all over me. pianos flew out off the ground and actually on the side and probably helped me too. >> reporter: it envoked memories of 9/11, though investigators fingered a very different culprit, leaking natural gas. some residents reported smelling just minutes before igniting. >> we all know gas leaks, electrical problems, all these things that have been set up and allowed to...