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People there sustain? >> most of them werer blast injuries. the ceiling fell. i know at least one broken leg, broken femur, upper thigh. the ceiling fell on them. maybe as many as between seven and ten nursing home residents not accounted for. they may have been picked up by members but we don't know. it was very, very hectic. >> it's been a long, long night for dr. george smith right there. we want to go to patrick swanson right now who is on the phone for us right now. sergeant swanton is on the phone. we just heard a news conference. sergeant swar on tnton, can you us the latest right now? ...

Patti ann: taking you back now to our other top story of the day, a massive deadly explosion of the fertilizer plant in the city of west, texas. we're hearing from sergeant patrick swanson in the city of. this is 20 miles north of waco. let's listen. >> this is a volunteer fire department. meaning that they probably have a very large contingent of people willing to risk their lives for their neighbors and their community at a phone call. that's what they were doing last night when this occurred. i don't know how many initially responded. i do know that there were numerous firefighters there. w...

Explosion as well. it sounds to me as patrick swanson, he was the gentleman giving the briefing with the waco police department. it seems to me that these individuals are just incredible heros. literally putting themselves in the line of fire and in the line of danger to get people out of their homes. what really strikes me is here we are six hours, a little over six hours after the explosion, elizabeth, and they are still evacuating people from their homes. we understand that some of those individuals are actually trapped in the rubble of their houses. they are trying to get the people out. t...

0 headquarters in for martha maccallum. we have to stress no arrests have been made. we're still waiting for the fbi to hold its news conference. one was canceled of course amid a flurry of reports that an arrest had been made. those reports were shot down. massachusetts governor deval patrick speaking on the resilience of the boston community. >> these are times all kinds of forces sometimes conspire to make people start think of categories of people in sometimes uncharitable ways. this community will recover and will heal if we turn to each other rather than on even other bill: homeland secu...

0 suffer from the smoke inhalation and we are learning that the fumes were toxic. i believe it is anhurst ammonia, and you can correct me if i am wrong. that sounds pretty dangerous. >> i don't know my chemicals like i probably should, so i don't know the long-term impact of that, but our respiratory therapists are on site and we had almost a dozen of them available that knew what they were doing in order to treat these patients effectively along with the doctors who are caring for them. they had the right skills and the equipment to take care of their needs. unsure of what that looks like. >>...