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A five gallon bucket. normally a device like that will not contain really well an explosive device. you want to tamp those explosives so they're in a metal container to create blast-over pressures and that will explode your device, whatever it is you have in there. so that leaves either an incendiary device or gas device which could explode itself or dissipate itself in that plastic bucket. our first thought, and i was discussing this with many -- a couple of international terrorism experts. we were chatting this morning. the first thought was, it was a gas device. something which can be activ...

Debris in the wounds, as well as the shrapnel. and, you know, i think with washing them out, the dead -- debriding the dead tissue, removing all of the debris, there's a good chance they can avoid serious infection. yes, infection would be a major risk with these patients. >> tell me about the burn victims. was there any burns involved? i'm not that familiar what happens with a blast. were there burns? or is it all immediate wounds? they're not going to get worse. like, burns tend to get worse. >> yes, we had several burns. none of them were major burns. we had a few people with hand burns. pr...

Patients up to the operating room as quickly as possible. so under sterile conditions we could wash out these wounds, remove the foreign debris, the dirt, the grime, the street debris in the wounds, as well as the shrapnel. and, you know, i think with washing them out, the dead tissue, removing all the debris, there's a good chance they can avoid serious infection. yes, infection would be a major risk with these patients. >> tell me about the burn victims. was there any burns involved? i'm not that familiar what happens with a blast. were there burns? or is it all immediate wounds? burns tend ...

Or is it all immediate wounds? they're not going to get worse. like, burns tend to get worse. >> yes, we had several burns. none of them were major burns. we had a few people with hand burns. probably put up their hands to protect themselves reflexively and got some flash burns on the hands. we had some people with burns on their backs that weren't that severe. so i don't think the burns that we received are going to be really a threat to these patients. >> how about traumatic hearing loss? that kind of thing? blindness? anything like that come of this? >> no blindness. we had four patients th...

And our specialists and guests are standing by with full coverage. first, to the london underground bombing, which has triggered a sweeping manhunt. we have two reports. cnn's matthew chance is in london. but we begin with cnn's brian todd. brian, what are you learning? >> reporter: london very much on edge tonight. british prime minister theresa may announced the threat level has been raised from severe to critical. that means that another attack may be imminent. we're getting new details tonight on the bomb itself, which, if it had detonated completely, would have brought much more carnage o...