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To escape. some of them have not -- were not able to escape. right now, we can confirm that there are nine fatalities. but there's still a large portion of the building that still needs to be searched. the building was a warehouse that was kind of like an artist studio that had, you know, several different partitions where they had variouse artists in there. inside it's just a wide assortment of just everything, furniture, mannequins, statues, i mean, just a lot of stuff inside. there's a second floor that had a makeshift stairwell that was actually reported to me being made out of pallets. th...

A fire breaks out that people would have a difficult time escaping? >> well, the building itself originally was a warehouse. and if it would have just remained a warehouse no, you wouldn't expect people to have trouble escaping. because there was a lot of construction where people just, you know, put up partitions. there wasn't a real clear entry or exit path. as mentioned earlier up on the second floor. it was the stairwell, there was one way down from the second floor. and that stairwell was put together through what was described to me as pallets. and if the fire possibly, if it had started...

Studio. it had several different partitions, where they had various artists in there. >> reporter: this fire obviously spread quickly. and fred, the building must be configured in such a way that made it difficult for people to escape. >> all right. dan simon, thank you very much, in oakland. now the phone call that is breaking with nearly 40 years of u.s. diplomatic protocol. china is filing a formal complaint with the u.s. after president-elect trump accepted a call from the taiwanese president tsai. this marks the first publicly reported call with a leader of taiwan since 1979. the u.s. d...

Looks to be a concrete building here. we see different colors of smoke. we see certain heights of flames. what do you see, though, as an expert in fighting these things here? >> well, what you see is, probably a big space. then probably had partitions up there. so if the fire is roaring out, out the roof where the fire is, you see the flames. that's the easy part for the firefighters. all of those other places where the smoke is just escaping slowly out those windows that means that people are probably -- if people are trapped in there, they can't breathe. you cannot possibly survive in that e...

The little people. she'll help the middle class. the reality is that she treats those very same people with contempt. secret service agents assigned to protect her. says being assigned to protect her is a form of punishment because she's so nasty. she will blow up over nothing, just going over a bump in the road. she'll tell agents she doesn't want them to say hello to them in the morning on the way to an event. she will even say she doesn't want to see them. they should literally hide behind partitions so she doesn't have to see them. when she was in the white house she also didn't want to se...