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Real shock. >> at this point we're looking for fragments. one bomb -- >> reporter: turned into thousands of weapons, scattered more than 100 yards. this was part of the pressure cooker. now mangled and razor-sharp. no wonder so many people got hurt. instead of nails, we filled the pot with nuts from a hardware store, shot out like bullets, they pierced plywood, some melted from the heat. look at the back of it. how fast were these things moving when they went out of there? >> they can travel 1,000, 2,000 feet a second. >> reporter: a second. faster than sound. >> right. they'll move faster tha...

The real shock. >> at this point we're looking for fragments. >> reporter: one bomb turned into thousands of weapons, scattered northern 100 yards. this is part of the pressure cooker. now manning sharp. no wonder so many people got hurt. instead of nails, we filled the pot with nuts from a hardware store, shot out like bullets, they pierced plywood. some even melted from the heat. look at the back of it. how fast were these things moving when they went out of there? >> they can travel a thousand, 2,000 feet a second. >> reporter: that's faster than sound. >> they'll move faster than the speed...

Some who were critical became stable. this is a fluctuating and fluid situation for some time. >> is it your opinion as well it could have been worse? you could have had more people who lost their lives because of this? >> yeah. you know, i think there's no question, if you watched some of the tape again, you know, you see people who are pretty close to the blast, to the origin of the blast, were able to run out of there. there are a people a little further away who seemed to be injured. it seems like the blast, as the doctors described it to me, did stay on the ground for a period of time and...

>> the plant was pretty close to a mountain range and when the pressure wave went out, it rebounded off the mountain and came back with even more force. >> nearly everybody you talked to, no matter where they were at in las vegas, felt a tremendous hit. we realized that this was a serious, huge disaster. as you can see the damage, it really began to hit home. >> dennis todd watches from the mountain top in disbelief. >> i was not ready for the mother lode explosion when it came. it looked like nothing that i had ever seen before. >> the explosion kills two people, one whose body is never found...

Businesses throughout the cities of henderson and las vegas. >> the plant was pretty close to a mountain range and when the pressure wave went out, it rebounded off the mountain and came back at an even more force. >> nearly everybody you talked to, no matter where they were at in las vegas, felt a tremendous hit. we realized that this was a serious, huge disaster. as you can see the damage, it really began to hit home. >> dennis todd watches from the mountain top in disbelief. >> i was not ready for the mother load explosion when it came. it looked like nothing that i had ever seen before. >>...