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Section of the line was more than six decades old. and just today we've learned this, that pg&e, the local utility, knew for three years that the pipeline itself was dangerous. so dangerous they committed to repair a portion of it just a couple miles north of the explosion site, but they did not fix it. and to add insult to injury, pg&e was already getting millions of dollars from utility customers. those millions were meant to be spent doing the work they said they'd do, but they didn't. millions from rate payers who some of them, the same people whose homes are now gone. dan simon did the rp...

And it made it difficult for firefighters to attack. the heat was so intense that they couldn't attack it by the ground at first. it took them several hour just to gain the upper hand. right now, as you mentioned, crews are back at the explosion site and looking for anyone who may have survived that. they have search dogs up there and they are trying to get a better grasp for not only what happened but who may have survived the blast. >> when i was talking to folks this morning, one of the things that they taked about is they thought that the people were in a state of shock, which is absolutel...

We have a fireball still coming out. >> of course they didn't know it wasn't a plane, they didn't know at first. it was a gas line. later we would learn a broken section of the line was more than six decades old. and just today we've learned this, that pg&e, the local utility, knew for three years that the pipeline itself was dangerous. so dangerous they committed to repair a portion of it just a couple miles north of the explosion site, but they did not fix it. and to add insult to injury, pg&e was already getting millions of dollars from utility customers, those millions were meant to be spe...