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Intents and purposes, burnt to the ground. barely passageways to get into different parts of that warehouse to begin with and now have the task of going in, identifying, trying to find more victims and then to pull them out and then to identify, cross-reference, those victims with family and loved ones, and people who have information on who these people are. so there is a solidified count of just how many people, what the loss of life is in this incident. it could be that this is a mass casualty incident upwards of 40 people that were killed in that fire. what we flow. 11:30 last night, 50 to...

Contact the alameda county's sheriff's bureau. there may be distinguishing marks such as tattoos, piercings, identifying marks that would help for us to identify and bring family closure. or verify the person was or was not their loved one inside the building. >> we are beginning the recovery process inside the building. the building is tricky to work. we have water coming down on top of our people. there's beams. there's wreckage and debris we have to maneuver through. we'll be working with fire to help us do that. this is not an easy task by any means. we are asking people if you have

Party-goers? >> we have talked to folk whose have come out, individuals who were at this location and left prior to the fire or were able to get out. we'll all be working together for that information. we won't go into details about what they said. at this time i want to share with you, it is not deemed a crime scene. if it takes a different term where it deems to be a crime scene we already have our personnel working side by side with investigators as we move through this process. what i would like to do, i know you have a lot of questions.

Missing persons unaccounted for persons. some of these folks are not from within the united states. they're visitors. a lot of the people that were, are victims here are young people and when i say young people, people in their 20s to 30s. >> all right. that from a news briefing earlier today, in the afternoon. it is right now 2:00 p.m. in oakland, california. where a warehouse fire that happened about 14 hours ago has killed nine people. 25 unaccounted for. the concern that we are watching, is it that we could see that death count increase, but we're going to go to a news briefing that we exp...

>> there is no reason yet to suspect arson. you have to work these investigations at the worst case scenario and then downgrade from there. you bring in all your experts, all your arson experts. then you narrow it down to was this an electrical issue? was this some type of other maybe pyro technic that lit a fire? were there fires burning in there? something as simple as a cigarette could cause a fire that leads to something like this. those all need to be worked out by the experts. >> the debris you were mentioning in the front, difficulty of entry you had, could that have contributed? >> we ...