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In surrounding communities. they are evacuating a five-mile radius around the plant. that is because of the potential for toxic fumes. i did talk to one woman who lived at that apartment complex you were mentioning. she said that this plant has had fires before, being a fertilizer plant, but they've always been real small. that this one that started today was much bigger than any they'd ever seen. still, they were just watching it. >> that's when the apartment building collapsed, she said she just started running. she saw some people with injuries. we don't know yet how many people suffered an...

The west apartments, the structure was there but apartments were just blown out. people were coming out bloody and injured. >> officials say dozens of homes have been flattened along with businesses in that part of town. the school caught on fire. a nursing home was damaged, and an apartment complex was flattened. they are still searching door by door and lot by lot trying to find survivors, and we're told that 160 people have been injured. the fatality count is now somewhere between 5 and 15, and among dead are 3 to 4 fire fighters, and a law enforcement officer slashed a fire fighter who was...

And by 7:45 they realized the fire was out of control and the fire chief ordered all of his men out of the burning plant. it was too late. seven minutes later the plant exploded. the explosion could be felt up to 70 miles away. i was in kaufman county covering the d.a. murders there and i was inside a building and the windows shook. we thought it's not supposed to be raining. the thunderstorms aren't supposed to be here for several hours. that must have been a big gust of wind. a few minutes later the cell phones started going off and we knew it was much worse than that. a terrible explosion h...

Are cutting off the main flow of gas, natural gas. they're cutting off power so we don't have secondary fire from electricity sparked fires, things along that line. currently, we're still there. many agencies, we're here assisting west p.d. i can tell you that the mayor has been here earlier tonight. he is also a firefighter for this city. it's taken a toll on him because he knows that potentially he's lost some firefighters. i can confirm that there may be firefighters that are unaccounted for and potentially law enforcement officer, as well. we're trying to determine that. they were on-scene...

The ground in woodward. i talked to my dad last night in abilene, kansas, he was in the storm cellar all weekend long from sun up right through the middle of the night. >> yeah, good thing because there were such severe storms. i just talked with the mayor of woodward and the fatality count has gone up to six, according to the mayor hill. he says there was one person who was in critical condition and had been transferred to a hospital in amarillo and he has passed away so that number now from woodward coming up to six. these horrible stories like that and then you start to hear other stories o...