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Be built to some pretty strict building codes in terms of their structural integrity. what we are told is it doesn't appear that the... there is serious structural damage to the building but an awful lot of that sheet metal covering is gone. >> have you heard from... been in touch with clean energy officials? have they offered to help? what is their involvement? >> i know one of this owners was onsite today and i talked to him briefly. >> after or before the explosion. >> after. >> what did he say. >> one of the developers was there. they came upon it like the rest of us did. >>... extent of d...

There were 100 people, the latest number, 5 casualties, which, quite frankly, if there were 50 people inside the plant when the explosion occurred, there was a fire and there were talks of hospitals getting ready for burn patients and they expected the number and number injured to be up to hundreds. now 14 injured, being treated as area hospitals there, as we await the news conference in middletown, connecticut where laura ingle is standing by and everybody is on the scene, fire crews to the police to the mayor. >> gregg: no signs of life, the latest word we are getting. people down on the gro...

And no investigation has been able to get started to determine that. >> julie: it is also very difficult to determine exactly how many people were working at the time, there were numbers between 50 and 100 and do you have any estimates as to how many people were in the plant? >> caller: the range of 50 and the exact am is not for sure, 50 to 60 is the most that were there at the time. >> julie: are cadaver dogs part of the search and rescue operation. >> caller: the state brought us dogs, and some of the local fire departments have a system to do search and rescue. >> julie: talk about this da...

Inside and got out and what did they tell you about what they saw... >> i didn't talk to anybody people who were onsite and got out. >> (inaudible). >> i imagine emergency responders talking to them. >> did anyone here talk to anyone. >> i don't know. >> a question for you, too, do you have any way of knowing exactly -- losing my train of thought here. any way of knowing whether there were people who were killed in an additional explosion or killed in the ensuing fire, did it rap right away or when rubble was falling on people... >> i don't know the answer of that but the from what i know of t...

Officials starting to gather here but more details as we get them to you. >> gregg: laura ingle on the scene and that power plant as under construction and apparently they were purging the gas lines. there must have been been an ignition and thus the explosion. it could be felt for miles around. there are survivors, but we don't know the number of dead. lots of injured. we're going to check back with you a bit later on. >> julie: are you ready for some snow. turk to the weather. the super saturday snowstorm that is over but millions of people will be spending superbowl sunday behind a snow blo...