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Hillcrest medical center in waco. >> john, first of all, just as martin indicated, we are also starting to feel that weather come through. the same storm system, john, that we tangled with just a few hours ago in oklahoma. this is a pretty strong system. it will bring a lot of wind. a lot of rain to this area. and we'll certainly make it difficult, will hamper that search house-by-house that investigators are doing, thorough, methodical search. here t at the hospital at hillcrest, they saw the most patients, 10 1 patients. five of them are in intensive care. two are in critical condition. and ...

A lot of people hear ammonia and think, isn't that what blew up the murrah building? a form of ammonia, ammonia nitrate was mixed mixed with mee and that created the problem there. and because of what happened in waco and the oklahoma city bombing, people are going, i wonder if there is a connection at this point. they are treating it as a crime scene, but as we heard from the sergeant who was running the operation from waco, he does not expect it to be anything other than an accident at a fertilizer plant. >> brian: it's a town of less than 3,000 people. it's not used to getting national atte...

The good news is we are not seeing a lot of patients arrive at the hospital, so things seem to have stable -- stabilized for us and our neighboring hospital as well. we seem to be in a little better place, but i'm sure there is a long day and tomorrow and weeks ahead for the folks out in west, texas, and so our hearts go out to them and all of our prayers from everybody here in waco. >> now, i know you mentioned earlier, how many patients have you seen throughout the evening? you are just one of the hospitals, one of the facilities getting patients. what do their injuries look like? >> tonight...

Questions about this event. >> firefighters who are among the first responders are there. some unaccounted for. so we will be follow that with reports from the scene right away. >> we have live team coverage covering every angle the way only cnn can. we have george howell live in waco with us standing by with an update on the medical situation there. we're going to begin in west with martin savidge on the groun near the scene. what the the latest? >> john, it's been such a difficult night. it is only going to become an even more difficult day. once daylight comes here, that's when people are r...

>> gretchen: it's interesting because originally during the first press conference early this morning, or one of the first ones, somewhere in the 5:00 a.m east coast hour, the sheriff in charge, i believe of waco, said they were considering this a criminal act. they say that's standard operating procedure, that they always want to look at the crime scene in case it ends up there was foul play. not that they're indicating it was. i find it interesting, i'm wondering if the chemicals being produced at this plant are highly flammable on their own and if not, could there be some other explanation ...