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I live. it was so chaotic. >> did you see any people when you saw this explosion? were the people already out on the street? >> yeah, there was a lot of people out on the street. i really couldn't see that block from my home. but you could see there was a lot of people running. it was very chaotic when that explosion went off. but it did sound like a big, giant explosion. >> all very, very fryingighteni. there are 15 or 16 people injured. and two people confirmed dead. 200 firefighters on the scene. and we're waiting for a briefing now from mayor de blasio and we'll take a quick break and cont...

Investigators, go house by house, door to door, looking for people, looking for survivors, that number could certainly rise. >> and, george, we speak to medical officials overnight. talking about the range of injuries, they were saying most were blast injuries, people affected by that. giant explosion. not many effects of what we were so concerned about, just this ammonia. eye irritation, not much else be side that. >> reporter: no. aside what we're hearing about dealing with respiratory issues, the threat about the anhydrous ammonia, a little less in that neighborhood, in that area. winds hav...

>> it's a very busy corner. that building didn't exist two years ago. i remember walk by thinking what are they going to put in here? sure enough, the next time i turned around, there was a new building there. so it's been there for less than two years. so this is not an old building with bad pipes. this is a brand-new building that blew up. >> pretty scary. thank you so much, mr. grande. thank you for calling in. and another eyewitness joining me by phone, myra ramos. thanks so much. tell me where you are and what you saw. >> i was in my dad's home. looking out of the window, i see some smoke...

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Rising from the building where the explosion happened because the building is obliterated now. you have to understand, this is a very, very densely populated neighborhood. this is east harlem, new york. and there were literally thousands of people nearby when this happened. we've talked to so many people who have told these horror stories being jolted away as far as a mile away when this explosion hit and they had no idea what happened. people racing to the scene trying to account for loved ones, for friends, neighbors, people who live in the area because there had been a number of homes and b...