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West community center after 9:00 a.m. we will have another press conference at 4:00. thank you. ask for your prayers. >> mayor, what do you say about your [inaudible] >> >>gretchen: the mayor of west texas giving an update, much of the information we've already given with regard to the number of people still missing, injured, confirmed dead, the timing of the fire that happened, about 7:23 central time yesterday and then the explosion 30 minutes later. do we still have casey stegall back? i've been wondering for the last 15 minutes since you were last on whether or not they asked you to also p...

When the explosion occurred. the rest home, nursing home has evacuated and taken all patients out to safe locations. all residents in that area have been evacuated and are in a safe location. i do not have an exact number of casualties at this time. we took over 160 to waco hospitals, area hospitals, for treatment. search-and-rescue teams have been working through the night combing the west haven as well as the fire, the fertilizer plant and also a thorough check of the neighborhood. that is continuing as we speak. for those missing a loved one or need information we will have a line at the

I know we're waiting on a presser. >> yeah, we're waiting on another press conference where we expect to get some more information. not a whole lot of information frankly, has changed in the last few hours. the only real nugget of information that has come out since we last talked that was interesting to note from the mayor is that all of the residents of that nursing home, that nearby nursing home were successfully evacuated. reports that some of those folks sustained injuries to what extent it is unclear at this point. but there were initial responses that that particular nursing home struct...

Is no risk to human life. but if there is risk to human life, you're going to go in there anyway. >> gretchen: a lot of people are writing in this morning with this particular question, which is if this fertilizer plant has been there for significant amount of time, why were there schools and nursing homes and other facilities so close to it, or is it the case that this is just a safe facility and you would build a school next to it? >> i'm not certain which one was there first, unfortunately. no one really anticipates this, which is the worst case scenario. thplant has operated for years and ...

Admitted out of the 65 we've treated. >>steve: what about the last night, the time of the explosion? apparently they heard it as far away as 45 miles away to the north in waxahachie. did you hear it? >> i personal did i did not. there were people close to me that did hear it. >>steve: you didn't feel the earth move either because it did measure on the richter scale? >> no. >>gretchen: thank you so much for bringing us up to speed with the people at your facility, heather. >>brian: there is someone tweeting in the area saying cold front hitting the town. big temperature change. we're waiting fo...