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Crushed. >>steve: we don't know. there is a story out saying between 5 and 15 confirmed dead. but they fear that the death toll could go into the dozens. maria molina is tracking right now. maria, we were talking about how this registered on the earthquake scale. you've got some data about that and about the winds which are important because we are talking about a big fire. >> we're talking about a big fire. any time you have wind involved with that, that is going to hinder fire fighter efforts. we also know there is very strong storms that are dumping a lot of heavy rain in the vicinity and t...

>> gretchen: it's interesting because originally during the first press conference early this morning, or one of the first ones, somewhere in the 5:00 a.m east coast hour, the sheriff in charge, i believe of waco, said they were considering this a criminal act. they say that's standard operating procedure, that they always want to look at the crime scene in case it ends up there was foul play. not that they're indicating it was. i find it interesting, i'm wondering if the chemicals being produced at this plant are highly flammable on their own and if not, could there be some other explanation ...

That is not going to help out anyone trying to do cleanup efforts in this region. behind this initial line of storms, expecting the rain to linger for several hours out here in the city of west. >>steve: thank you very much. you just heard from dr. marc siegel because the ammonia is already in the air, if you can't smell it, it's not going to be a problem to you. but now it looks as if the major problem caused by this big line of storms is it's going to delay the house-to-house search. >>brian: thoughts go out to the unit of volunteer fire fighters still missing at this hour, who saw the fire....

Around-the-clock operation, staffed 24 hours a day so there would have been employees working there at the time of the fire and of the explosion? there's just simply not a lot of information out there right now about this particular facility. but no doubt, when you look at the a.t.f. coming here to do some investigating and also a federal team from washington, a federal team with the chemical safety board -- i didn't even know that existed until i started seeing it making the rounds -- a federal agency, the chemical safety board and they're tasked with investigating chemical industrial acciden...

We've got a lot of firemen down. >> fire fighters down. again, there has been an explosion. there are fire fighters down. >> the rest home has been seriously damaged. we have many people down. police please respond. >> giving you everybody i can. up deputies, you have bellmead fire. you have e.m.s. i'm sending everybody i got. >>brian: that was the story yesterday. right now we're finding out the ramifications of the chemical explosion, the fertilizer fire happened in west, texas where we know at least 170 people are hurt. sadly we think the casualty number will grow. looking back at this plan...