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25-mile-an-hour winds, this is dooms day. critics blame the fire on the fbi's tear gas. but an independent special counsel ultimately found david koresh ordered the fire set with accelerants. >> i blame david koresh, but because i believe he's to blame does not mean we, the fbi, did everything right or we did not make mistake, because certainly we did. >> reporter: you believe patience would have provided many more survivors? >> no question in my mind. i believe a successful negotiation is not getting everyone out alive. it's getting everyone out alive that we could. if my judgment we did not ...

>> reporter: within minutes, there's a second fire. then a third. >> this is not the way to end this. lead your people out. be a messiah, not a destroyer. ♪ >> reporter: after 45 minutes, the building is engulfed. only nine people would make it out. >> i came out basically driven out by the fire. >> reporter: sheila martin, who had come out three weeks earlier, is watching the drama on television. terrified for her husband and her four oldest children. >> you're thinking, if they were in the hallway alone? were they running? did the fire catch them? just very horrible to think. >> reporter: ...

But an independent special counsel ultimately found david koresh ordered the fire set with accelerants. >> i blame david koresh, but because i believe he's to blame does not mean we, the fbi, did everything right or we did not make mistakes, because we certainly did. >> reporter: you believe patience would have provided many more survivors? >> no question in my mind. i believe a successful negotiation is not getting everyone out alive. it's getting everyone out alive that we could. in my judgment we did not get out all the people, potentially everyone that we could have. for me, that's a failu...

Council ultimately found david koresh ordered the fire set. sheila martin's family died from smoke and fire. do you still cry? >> yes. i think the middle of the night is the worst. when you wake up and you think about things and you see a picture, and see their smile. i can't remember the way they sounded. you can't remember their voices. >> reporter: at least 20 deaths were from gunshots. they were suicides and mercy killings. among them, david koresh and sherry doyle. >> i'm not happy that she died. but i'm resigned to the fact that she died. >> reporter: remarkably, clive doyle and sheila m...

Million egyptians living in libya who are heading back home. at the border posts between libya and egypt, we spoke to border officials who say in this day alone 15,000 egyptians crossed back into their country. and most of the traffic on the road coming from the border was egyptians leaving the country. because obviously they're very concerned about the unstable situation here. otherwise, though, however, we saw that gas stations are open, there are some stores open. there is some semblance of ordinary life. but obviously tensions are very high. we saw one place where an ammunition dump is on ...