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Explosion site, said he felt his entire house shake. he and his wife and son then jumped in the pickup truck. they were concerned about his wife's mother. so they drove to the retirement home just across the street from the fertilizer factory. the factory, by the way, the plant is almost in the middle of town. this whole community sort of grew up around it, as so many agricultural communities do. they got to the retirement home and found it in ruins. they did manage to find mike baker's mother-in-law. she was okay. they got her out of there. the same may not be true for others who lived in tha...

For the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer. be ready with children's motrin. local authorities there at the explosion site in west, texas, have been very careful about reporting the number of fatalities as well as injuries. our charles hadlock, following the scene there overnight. you have new information for us? >> reporter: yes, i do. and i'm also have a guest here i'm going to try to track down here real quick. let me give you the numbers of. these are new numbers, 30 minutes ago. at hillcrest h...

Us get out. you're being evacuated. we all hurried out. we were ushered out onto the street and way way from the explosion site. the streets were just flooded with thousands of people who had no idea where to go, what was going on. trying to find their loved ones. i had gotten a text from my best friend so i knew she was all right but she was unable to get past police lines and get over back to the hotel. we spent a better part of the afternoon trying to find her and meet up with her. spoke with people in my travels including two triage nurses who talked me through the gruesome details they we...

Intelligence shows they may be backing off. well, now to west virginia. did you see this? a national gas line exploded in a town just ten miles north of charleston. at first, witnesses thought a plane had crash, as the flames shot up over 75 feet in the air before it was put out. at least five homes up in flames, destroyed, and a portion of the nearby freeway was damaged. officials say the area within 1,000 feet of the explosion site was evacuated. many of the surrounding area still without power. people were treated for smoke inhalation. no major injuries, amazingly, where reported in that ...

What's been exposed with the fuel rods. adam, what you can tell us? >> yeah, shepard, we are monitoring the official news service here in japan. they are saying at that explosion site 2.7 meters of one of the rods is now exposed. that's half the length of the rod. that is not good news at all. of course, they have been pumping sea water in to try to keep those sea rods covered. half of one of those rods is now fully exposed is bad news. very, very bad news to put it lightly. in the meantime the mayor of tokyo says they have radiation censors out where they are. these notifications so far there...