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They are not telling us how many people may have died. we do know close to 200 people now have been injured. some of those people seriously. we also understand, elizabeth, that some of those injured are in fact the elderly and children. >> well, i can't thank you enough for joining us throughout the evening, todd. we will continue to watch the situation like you said. we can't anticipate some pretty grim pictures when folks begin to wake up. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thanks, elizabeth. joining us now on the phone is brett esrock who is the ceo of the providence h...

Is that correct? >> yes. i want to make a point that we have a regular routine service with the hospitals in waco and many smaller hospitals in the surrounding aerowras. we are their service provider. we have wonderful medical care down there. fortunately we had a good supply on hand when things happened last night. however, we understand there will be great need for a long time to come. we sent blood last night, several hundred units of blood. we're just letting people know that obviously everyone wants to go out and give blood right away and hurt out. we will certainly need people with o-neg...

Community that has really been rocked by this. rocked by the explosion and then rocked by the aftermath because it's small, you know. they know each other and the sad and grim reality is that people did not make it out of this alive. and there are going to be a lot of broken hearts here, no doubt about it. >> steve: let us ask you about this: we know that in anticipation there could be a big explosion because there was a fire at this plant and we just played the youtube video right there that they evacuated as many people as they could and then there was the explosion. then they within door to...

>> do you know of previous fire safety issues at this plant in the past couple or few years? >> i do not. and, again, i will tell you, even though we are relatively close, the city of west has their own police department. they have their own city management, city employees. we are here in assistance this morning and from last night. those specific questions about what goes on, the intimate questions about whether there have been problems there before, potential fire there before, will have to come from somebody that would know that inside the city. >> estimate how many people from your departm...

Sent were intercepted at another site before they ever reached anyone. >> brian: as we've been telling you, the massive explosion left up to 15 people dead that gretchen was referring to and more than 160 people injured and more burned. heather childers is tracking where the victims are, how they're being treated and how many there actually are. heather? >> right. we're getting a closer look at some of the numbers. we know they're being treated at three hospitals in texas. primarily for burns and shrapnel wounds. at least 100 people are getting treated at hillcrest hospital and more than 60 at...