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Starting in oakland, california, where the death toll in that warehouse fire. look at that, now stands at 36 dead, and is expected to rise even further, but investigators believe they know the spot where the fire started, but they don't have a cause yet, because it's so dangerous to even be inside what remains of the building. nbc's gatti schwartz is at the scene for us. gatti, what do we know? >> reporter: chris, right now investigators can't even go inside to recover more bodies. they suspect that there are more bodies inside of that building, but the building right now is fundamentally unst...

By inspectors. it usually takes more than ordinary negligence to give rise to criminal charges. but, in cases as in rhode island, where there was stunning negligence, it gave rise to criminal manslaughter charges. >> okay. so, so the fire in oakland we understand a city building inspector just visited the property on november 17th. not so long ago. there have been persistent complaints about this property. so, what does -- what does that tell you about this ensuing tragedy? >> well, i can't speculate about the specifics, as your press conference noted, the particular source and origin of the f...

Where the steel is actually twisted, and wrapped in the back of the building. we can see fire spread. atf and our local investigators feel very strongly that they have identified the section of the building that is the area of origin. >> is it some sort of kitchen or anything that we know of that could give us a clue? >> it appears to be the back of the building where we imagine the artist's collective was on the first floor and potentially during the concert the dance floor was just above. >> any idea what kind of fire could make the steel do that? does it have to burn at an especially high t...

Have been living inside that building illegally. so who ultimately is responsible for things like, you know, making sure there's enough exits, proper stairways to escape a fire like this and fire sprinklers installed in the building? >> i think in this case, responsibility could lie both with the ultimate owner of the building, and with any master tenants. it has been reported that there were two master tenants who subleased to various artists for studios. it's also been reported that those studios were used for illegal residences. and of course the party was not permitted, as well. so anyone ...

Could be dangerous looking over your facebook feed. a man opening fire after seeing -- and it begs the question than conspiracies be controlled? >> also, we are going to take you back to oakland, california, where they are gearing up for another press briefing to talk about the warehouse fire, there are at least 36 confirmed deaths. because of in staablesability o structure, rescuers are unable to go in. we'll get an update of this.