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>> the blast missed my cousin's house, the house on the corner there. two windows were knocked out, a door. >>gretchen: the fertilizer plant is located near homes, apartments, businesses, a school and even a nursing home. the blast leveled a four-block radius. its force blew out windows and doors. an emergency responder heard it and said he immediately ran into the nursing home to start pulling those people out. >> we would go into each room. there was sheet rock on top of the patients. as quick as i could, i would get that. the halls were in devastation. lights were down. the ceilings were do...

Firefighters were able to evaluate the situation and realized they were in a very scary predicament. they begin to evacuate apartments and they begin to evacuate nursing homes of about 130 units. the apartment complex i mentioned was 50-unit complex. and then they went out in a radius around the homes. we did hear from one first responder who said it was a very chaotic situation. listen. >> we heard the explosion, so we went ahead and hurried up and got into town. it was a situation where we pulled up at the retirement home because we knew they would need help. all of the windows were blown ou...

Lumber and electrical panels and sheet rock and insulation, tools and supplies. and the stores in this region in long island, in new york city and in new jersey are hiring 500 new workers because of the increase in business. listen. >> this has been very devastating to the areas around us with the amount of homes that were impacted from it that there's a lot of restoration work that has to be done immediately, so so they're not waiting for the spring. they're doing it now. >> reporter: home depot says these are temporary jobs, 120-day contracts, but they could lead to full-time positions, and ...

I think everyone should watch super bowl 42 and watch the catch david tyree made when he caught the ball in a pack of players in his helmet. that's real. they're the best of the best. and there's plenty more moments on the field like that. >> okay. that's not clearly a yes or no answer. nfl quarterback and star of one of the videos, joe flacco, should be able to take us behind the scenes. >> i would say it was pretty straight forward. i picked up the football, i threw the football. i just threw them as hard as i could. it took a little while, but it was worth it. it was a lot of fun. i got a g...

Through the sheet rock. i started to get cuts and scrapes all over my arm. so they put makeup on the cuts on my arm. but it wasn't a big deal, it didn't hurt or anything. >> okay, so cooley is playing defense against doubters, too football fans want to get to the bottom of the real or fake debate. many try the stunts out for themselves. as parodies flood the internet. >> all right. watch this. >> some were really bad. >> oh! >> the worse they got, the more fun we had watching them. >> very funny. but we still can't definitively answer if the original videos are real or fake. time to bring in t...