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The chemical plant. if it gets there, boris, we're looking at massive evacuations, closest proximity to the fire is a housing complex with over 900 families. that alone would be a challenge to try to find where we would take the families, considering we're still in a pandemic. can't put them all in one gym. there are many challenges we're facing, but we're grateful for efforts to police, ems, and to god that we haven't had single loss of life. one firefighter was injured, in the hospital. he is okay. he was amongst firefighters that had to be treated on scene, but they're okay. >> can't say en...

Story. >> reporter: 77-year-old juan sal czar is a democrat, or at least he used to be. in december, salazar, says someone wearing a red baseball cap approached him and switched his party affiliation, without his consent. you were a lifelong democrat? >> from 1978. >> reporter: and now, all the sudden, you are a republican? >> now, a republican. >> you don't want to be a republican? >> i don't want to be. >> reporter: he says it all happened at his housing complex in miami, florida. it is home to elderly, low-income residents who speak little english. he says he now believes it was a republica...

Problem. a lot of them were point to that pay as part of the real issue here and it's tough to get started being an officer. in fact, we're standing in front of a housing complex right behind me and this is for new recruits in the city of atlanta and they can stay here and it lowers their cost barrier to get into the force. every officer we talked about talked about changing the profession and they want to see real change in policing across the country. they want to be a part of it, but with covid, we can stay home sometimes and not commute. they have to go in every single day. they have to fa...

Is housing complex in miami, florida, home to elderly low income residents who speak little english, he now believes it was a republican who told him he needed to update his registration. keep in mind in florida, once you register to vote, there is no reason to update the registration unless you want to make a change like your party affiliation. that was not the case with any people we spoke with. >> this is the old card.>> it says right here, democratic party. the new card says republican party. of florida. that is not what you want? figure no, i want to be a democrat. >> reporter: he is not ...

Oh, no. oh, no. who's going to decide who and when a person is going to die? we must never allow that. because this is the kind of thing that ushers in the terror of a hitler's germany. we must not allow these kind of things to enter our consciousness. >> i wanted to write a story very much about this guy and his power and the reach he had. so i began to contact ex-members. and they said that all is not so good inside, that there were beatings if you got out of line. there was a lot of sex abuse. and the story took on a new life at that point. very soon afterwards, the church members began lea...