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Some reporting the smell of gas in the air. more than 120 firefighters and rescue personnel responding as raging flames shot out of the building. >> a maelstrom of fire, hanging wires, gas leaking, building collapsing around them, to try to get into this building and make a rescue. >> reporter: david, officials say the fire is under control, but dozens have been forced out of their homes, as crews investigate what caused this devastating blast. david? >> erielle reshef tonight. erielle, thank you. and tonight, with millions of americans set to travel for the holiday, the forecast is now shap...

Don dahler is at the scene. >> reporter: the explosion rocked this south philadelphia neighborhood just before noon, engulfing as many as four row houses in thick smoke and flames and trapping as many as two people inside. the blast blew out windows several blocks away, and knocked over residents in their own homes. more than 120 firefighters fought the fire from the ground and neighboring buildings. adam teel is philadelphia's fire commissioner. >> our first companies went into a maelstrom of fires, hanging wires, gas leaking, building collapsing around them-- to try to get into this building...

Posture, sorry the russian posture on gay rights. the u.s. doesn't really have much of a say here, unless throw in money to bolster the economy. like to see, of course, the ukraine head west and a lot of noise by george bush back in 2004 over the first evolution here to try to make that happen. but, america's influence here is less in many ways because it's a european fight and so many other problems that are pretty much broken to almost unhealable damage. the u.s./russian relation share that this is just something else they're going to have to try to talk about but probably fail to. >> nick p...

Twister blew right by them. this video is black because there was no power. listen to this. [crying] >> okay? [roaring] >> shepard: getting help to those folks who need it has not been easy. raining heavily off and on in joplin today. a number of fires said to be burning and then there are the gas fumes, unstable buildings, downed power lines all over the place. incredible mess. our correspondent kris gutierrez live in job minute missouri tonight. chris, how is it looking? >> shepard, i could smell gas leaking in a neighborhood just down the street from here where

The gas shutoff, and then they were able to extinguish the flames and then start the search and rescue. >> otherwise it was a dangerous situation for them to approach at this time? >> correct. you don't want to extinguish the flame because then you're going to have gas leaking into the atmosphery wisconsin can cause more problems. so you want to cut the source off of the gas. >> reporter: do you know how much time passed before you were able to get up close to find any survivors? >> i'm not sure of the time. i'm sure it was done in a pretty timely manner. i know they had the flames extinguishe...