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Cnn world center. thank you very much. i want to bring you up to date on a developing story out of china. state media reporting at least 12 people are dead after a gas explosion in hubei province sunday morning. officials say 150 have been rescued from the rubble, including 37 with serious injuries. the cause of the explosion is unknown. kristie lu stark joins me from hong kong with the latest. we re still trying to piece together what happened and how many fatalities, but cau us through what you know. reporter: this is what we know, a massive gas pipe explosion has ripped through a neighborhood area in the central chinese province of hubei, taken the lives of at least 12 people, 140 found by rescue workers so far, 37 are called to be severely injured. this incident, this explosion, took place 6:30 a.m. local time. ....
General hospital, that according to a spokeswoman for the hospital. no word of their conditions right now. we heard from one of our producers, an eyewitness to the second explosion, suggesting that at least half a dozen or so people were injured, perhaps many more. you re looking at these pictures of that street, normally it would be filled with runners coming close to the conclusion of this boston marathon, but right now it is the law enforcement has removed all the people from the area as a result of these explosions that occurred. very dramatic developments. we don t know if there is a connection to the boston marathon, which is a major sporting event in the united states, or if it was something less sinister, a pipe explosion, a gas explosion, a generator explosion, something underground at boston. we re trying to determine what exactly happened. but you can see you can see the smoke coming in from that explosion right now. matt frucci, are you still us ....
Victims who perished aboard united flight 93. this open field is wher the plane crashed here invi shanksville, pennsylvania. construction is under way for a permanent memorial and they hope the first phase will be completed by the 10th anniversary of this tragic day. as we mentioned, investigators are narrowing their search into what caused a deadly pipe explosion in san francisco, just outsi of san francisco. cnn has now obtained exclusive video of people reacting to the blast as it happened. at the same time, a lot of people as well out the, in your owbon neighborhoods, thinkg can something like this possibln happen in my own neighborhood? how widespread are the une dergroked,d pipelines that to be checked, need to be inspected more often, maybe a little old? josh levs looking into that for us. some scary stuff here. everybody wondering could my neighborhood go up like that? you mightny not realize how many miles of these pipelines ....
President is still in office. there is a deadlock that the protesters have shut down all of egypt. there is no more tourism. businesses have been closed for a week. talk of food shortages and other problems. yet, the president is still in power. the question now comes: who takes power? possibly suleiman, the vice president. there was an assassination attempt against him recently after he was nameed vice president by mubarak to pacify the protesters. so, what happened in the assassination attempt? two of the guards were wonned and obviously suleiman survived. how that plays into this we are not sure. the third thing where it is having more of a global implication and regional implication beyond the fears everyone had, gas leans pipe explosion on the north sinai, someone, probably strikes up there or the al qaeda cells in the sinai used this and the chaos of the protests to attack ....
Trace gallagher has more live from our west coast newsroom, trace. reporter: i ve got to tell you, megyn the more we look into this the more concerning this gets, five days after the san bruno pipe explosion and we still have no idea what the exact cause was. the ntsb saying, look around the country. there could be thousands, maybe tens of thousands of pipes that are in the same condition the san bruno pipe was in. remember, if you want to look at these pictures, the san bruno pipes were all put in in the 1950s. this is 1948, look at the hillsides, the area, there are very few subdivisions put in here. they were all put in by the 1950s. now we ll show you almost of the same picture of what it looks like today, you ll get a better example. look at the sprawl. on top of all of those gas lines that were put in 50 years ago, and keep in mind that for a metal pipe 50 years is about the life expectancy, look at the sprawl in the same area. all those pipes that were put in ....