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Exactly caused this. it's the williams company's olaphins plant. one official on the ground doesn't know how many people were hurt but he does see ambulances taking folks away from the plant. we are trying to work on how many people worked there and what caused the explosion. we talked a lot about weather, jon in the country today. we checked on that, weather is not a factor here but we know there are chemicals being made at this plant. as we get more information w tht of louisiana. jon: i see blue skies behind the smoke cloud there. that is an ominous picture. we'll get you more information a...

Set [ bleep ] fire. [ bleep ] smoke cloud. [ bleep ] is that? oh, my god [ bleep ]. imagine [ bleep ] being burnt like that. i don't know. back up. oh, my god. oh. >> people heard and felt that blast for miles around. remarkably, no one was hurt except the truck driver who hit the train. nor was anyone hurt nearby. the chemicals, though, while dangerous, are not toxic if inhaled. amtrak uses a different line so

Set [ bleep ] fire. [ bleep ] smoke cloud. [ bleep ] is that? oh, my god [ bleep ]. imagine [ bleep ] being burnt like that. i don't know. back up. oh, my god. oh. >> people heard and felt that blast for miles around. remarkably, no one was hurt except the truck driver who hit the train. nor was anyone hurt nearby. the chemicals, though, while dangerous, are not toxic if inhaled. amtrak uses a different line so

You can see what it did to the warehouse nearby. one man, eric beverly, who was driving by, started taking video as he got closer and closer to the scene. as you'll see, he almost got too close. >> whatever that is, it's torching. [ bleep ] crazy. set [ bleep ] fire. [ bleep ] smoke cloud. [ bleep ] is that? oh, my god [ bleep ]. imagine [ bleep ] being burnt like that. i don't know. back up.

>> it caught an oil well on fire with a horsehead pump that was several feet away from it. that's how intense the heat was. >> fire officials soon learn the train cars are carrying crude oil and ethanol. >> we went ahead and evacuated two miles downwind and a mile each side of it just to make sure that everybody was out of any kind of smoke cloud or anything else. >> huge flames spew from the super-heated inferno and thick dark smoke fills the sky. >> pan back. pan back. pan back. we just had a huge explosion. >> it really kind of surprised us, caught us off guard. >> suddenly, one of the trai...