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And gio, this is a big unknown. the decision to ground those balloons could be made before the parade and even during it? reporter: that s right, tom. it could actually be made at any moment tomorrow. now, thousands of officers, they re going to be out here tomorrow along that parade route and a whole lot of spectators, we re talking about more than 3 million people expected at this parade tomorrow. that s just an incredible number, tom. so many hoping those balloons do fly. all right, gio, thank you. we want to turn now to another breaking story we ve been following all day. a chemical plan explosion forcing evacuations in texas. the fire still burning more than 17 hours after the first blast in the middle of the night. and new trouble, take a look at this, just this afternoon, part of the plant collapsing, sending a fireball and debris into the air. the initial blast felt for miles, blowing out windows on some homes. here s abc s marcus moore. reporter: tonight, the new image ....
reporter: this is a hard question and you don t have to answer it. do you feel like donald trump is using your sister? in a way, yes. sensationalizing it is not the route we would like to go. reporter: so your message to donald trump would be what? if you re going to use somebody s name and you re going to sensationalize the death of a beautiful young lady, maybe you should call and talk to the family first and see what their views are. asked about trump s plan to keep undocumented immigrants out by building a bigger fence along the u.s./mexico border, steinle called it irrational and not common sense. five people reported hurt in a plan explosion in newport, washington. officials say the cause was some kind of chemical explosion but they don t know the exact cause, but a chemical explosion is the suspicion here. two of the victims have been ....
I m not sure into the problem is we don t know. what we have been told by the owners of the project, this is there could be anywhere from 100 to 200 people working on the site. on any given day. exactly what that number is, that is the starting point and that is the number they can t nail down, how many were there today. what i january was aware of. they were purging gas lines all weekend long. and when they ran the test, fortunately what i was told is, most of people who were working there are evacuated from the building when they ran the test. it isn t like there were 100 people in the building when the explosion occurred. but they are trying to figure out what was on the job today and where are they now? . talk to people who were ....
Rock. things like that. gregg: we are listening to the news conference, a tragic situation in middletown, connecticut, an explosion at a power plant under construction, five people confirmed dead. terrorism has been ruled out. according to the mayor. gas lines were being tested. they were being purged and the explosion resulted. the concussion could be felt for miles around. there is a rescue and recovery team on the scene, looking for people who may still be in the rubble. julie: and we are switching gears, look, arizona, police stand off on i-10. near casa grande, arizona. we understand first of all, i-10 has been closed both direction due to a stand off. these four agencies are on the ground and i understand they are trying to get potentially people outside of that u-haul, we are told that this u-haul could be a human trafficking situation. whereas illegal immigrant could be inside the large u-haul which ....