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>> well, that doesn't tell me too much. i was reading a report just a moment ago, said it started from the outside of the hotel. that is interesting to me. i'm not exactly sure what they meant by that when they reported it. but, you know, it's hard to tell because i don't know the structure of this building. the 20th floor or where it started, is that a lobby area? there's certain hotels and residents where you actually get into the elevator at the bottom and you go up to a certain floor to actually go into the lobby. so i'm not sure how the layout is in this particular building. but that coul...

But burning debris and embers raining down. the area was evacuated. officials say no injuries from the fire itself, though some minor injuries during the evacuation and one fatal heart attack. officials claim it is 90% contained. but it seems to be consistent with the eye witness who said she is seeing no more flames, but you heard josh gatlin saying he still sees some flames. let's town howard, former nypd commissioner. thank you for being with us. what are your thoughts as you watch the events. >> the good news is this building was built in 2008, after 9/11. the international fire codes chan...

When they look at what happened in west, they say, yeah, that was very preventable. the state fire marshal in texas also doesn't have legal authority to require anybody to do anything. remember, this is the state with no fire codes. but the fire marshal for the state ever since west happened, he's been traveling all over the state saying we really ought to change the way we handle this stuff though you won't give any authority to require it. the abc station in dallas recovered a place in east texas which they identified as basically another one of these things waiting to happen. like the ferti...

Tell you either. they might, but they might not and certainly don't have to. we have a lot of ideological debate in our politics about the proper size of government, what government is for. a lot of that debate is very esoteric, very theoretical. but rick perry is going to run for president again on the basis of the texas miracle. where he says things like not having any zoning laws and not having any fire codes, those are the things that make texas great. and we should elect him president because he will apply that texas miracle to the whole country. and greg abbott is the man who's running t...

Lax and lets you get away with a lot you can't get away with other places. no, i means, there is no state fire code at all in texas and beyond that, texas state law bans local communities from establishing their own fire codes at the municipal or county level. so it is literally illegal in the state of texas to require fire alarms, fire exits, sprinklers, anything like that. and at this fertilizer plant in west, texas, the explosive fertilizer was scored in wooden bins in a mostly wooden building. there was no alarm system of any kind. there was no firewall system of any kind. there were no sp...