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Three times the length of a football field. again, our reporter in that region phil the key will go tell us more about that and evgh going on. they had to stop some of the work and now that the storm has been downgraded, it's no longer a hurricane, alex isn't a threat they are pitting things back up. meanwhile, a massive explosion killing more than 200 people in the republic of congo. a fuel tanker flipped over in the eastern part of the country. hurricanes died in the explosion and people were injured that actually ran over to siphon some of the leaking fuel. dozens of homes near the explos...

Is very good at getting people out of harm's way and risking their lives. we've we have service officers responding and bomb squad officers and have officers that are risk their lives to get public out of the twi get them down the streets and away from possible explosion site to save the public. >> i wanted to talk about that. seemed like process of getting people out of times square was orderly. ways coming in and saw people being ushered out. seemed orderly and thousand make sure they don't alarm people when trying to ghemt out of a situation like this. >> they're telling people look tlchl i...

Have been standing by to be able to go in and begin their search. we're told this was a massive explosion so it's really difficult as they go into this mine, make their way in, to even see their way through as they're sort of feeling their ed. >> brian, also, what are they doing to get new ventilation into the explosion site? how are they doing that? are they just digging a hole or what kind of equipment are they using? >> reporter: well, imagine this.

Conclude before we come up with any solid numbers. >> reporter: what are you trying to do to see whether there are additional survivors to the 12 or so that are being treated for injuries? >> pretty much it's a slow dig. you pull pieces of material away slowly and carefully. in case there is somebody injured under that. and you don't want to injure the rescuers. so it's a slow process, and they're in the middle of that right now. >> but the ability to survive something like this, being upclose when natural gas explodes, what kind of blast and repercussions are felt that close to an explosion s...

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