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City of oakland. our first priority is the humane and compassionate removal of the victims of this tragedy. i want to assure you that we are continuing to operate a 24/7 recovery operation to effectuate that removal. secondly, we're supporting the family and the loved ones. some who are coming from very far away. we're working as fast as we can. i really want to commend the coroner's office that's put extraordinary resources to speed up our ability to positively identify the victims of this fire. then our final focus is doing everything that we can to preserve evidence and to conduct the recov...

Launched. only the district attorney can state that. what i have confirmed is that the criminal investigation team of the district attorney has been activated. a district attorney representative is on site and is working in partnership with other law enforcement agencies. we're ensuring that this investigation and recovery operation is conducted in a manner that preserves evidence, is conducted in manner that allows us to get to the bottom of what caused this and leaves those types of options open. it is far too early for us to have any suspicions about what caused this fire. that is something...

What's going to happen. it can go this way, that way, it can explode, off gas. all kinds of things that could happen. >> when the batteries start shooting out of it, one shot out, shot directly over the top of my sneakers, and it burned my shoes, like melted it. >> timothy grabs water and pours it onto the hoverboard. it works. the fire is out. but was that really the best decision? >> water is not a good idea, because you're dealing with electronics. so if you get water on it, then you're going to be dealing with possibly getting shocked. >> so, after calling 911, your next step is to grab a ...

And go over a large tree. and there is this pile of leave -- >> hi, richard lui, msnbc headquarters. we're taking you live to oakland, the left-hand side of the screen. we're about to get another update from not only the mayor but other officials undergoing the tough process of understanding what has happened at the warehouse fire there in oakland, california. the death count at last we had heard from them, 30. let's listen in. >> at this point, the last number we gave out of deceased folks was 30. that has since moved up to 33. 33 victims of this fire thus far. we continue to work inside the ...

Nine bodies have been recovered from a warehouse gutted from a warehouse fire in california. and raul castro urged thousands of cubans to continue his brother's legacy. now back to "split second decision." almost half a million fires ignite each year in buildings. that's according to the fire protection association. it's an average of one fire every minute of every day. in houston, texas, fire breaks out at a five-storey apartment complex under construction. a worker climbs the roof to investigate, but by then the fire is too big to extinguish, and it gets worse. the worker tries to find h...