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He said it has been a frantic, frantic night. one of the things that's interesting that they do say is at this point, as the night has progressed, they have enough emergency personnel on the ground to help out in is the mayor speaking right now, tommy muska. >> i'm going to give a brief statement on the activities over the last 12 hours. approximately 7:30 the west fertilizer plant was on fire, fully consumed. the west volunteer fire department responded. approximately 7:55, the plant exploded. approximately 50 to 60, five-block area, radius, houses were damaged, heavily damaged. west west hav...

This is cnn breaking news. >> that explosion in west, texas, at a fertilizer plant so powerful it was measured and registered as an earthquake. that's how powerful it was. following a massive fire there, ongoing situation. dozens of people feared dead. hundreds, over 150 people injured, being sent to local hospitals. still much unknown about what's going on in west, texas, as they are trying to get it under control. >> listen to the description on the ground. >> the ball of fire, went up and looked like a nuclear bomb went off. big old mushroom cloud. >> dozens of people here dead perhaps. hun...

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Letters were laced with ricin. a. >> i'm john berman, live in boston. >> we begin in the small town of west, texas, about 20 miles west of waco. it resembles a war zone this morning. it was rocked overnight by a chemical explosion and a fire at fertilizer plant. that blast captured on video. just incredible. dozens of homes or buildings were leveled or damaged. the town's mayor telling cnn what that explosion felt like. >> i have never seen an explosion like that. a ball of fire went up. looked like a nuclear bomb went off. big old mushroom cloud. >> about half the population of west, texas, s...

People and get people to safety and trying to contain some of the fires. last night was horrific for so many people who were trapped, literally trapped in breezy point, calling 911 saying, my house is on fire, or the house next to me is on fire and no one could get to them. it's anyone's worst nightmare and yet today the skies are clearing up, we are thankful that to my knowledge there hasn't been anyone who was killed by a fire in breezy point. you know, but it's just total, total devastation. >> let's keep this picture up as the councilman talks. you think about war zones and that is exactly...