sizzling 2,000 debris lava decimates a village. >> lava is the winner when it comes to man versus lava. >> a lightning bolt makes a direct hit. >> oh, my god! >> wild time lapse footage of a ma moth dust storm. >> the storm spanned from one side of the horizon to the other. >> baseball sized hailstones. >> oh, my gosh! >> massive wildfires. >> it look looks apocalyptic. >> i thought i was going to

die. >> and the cameras are rolling. "caught on camera" man versus nature. welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa ruer. brewer. the power of the natural world surrounds us. disaster can streak without warning and leave behind utter devastation. when battle lines are drawn between man and nature, frequently nature has the upper hand. it is like a time lapse movie scene. >> looks like something apocalyptic. something kind of end of the world moment. >> though you can see it coming from miles away. >> and look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. >> you can't escape it. >> hot dry weather is the stuff

of legend in this sprawling metropolis of phoenix, arizona. here in the valley of the sun, summer temperatures can exceed 100 degrees for weeks on end. being surrounded by desert only makes things hotter. on july 5, 2011, the combination results in a spectacular phenomenon that fills the sky. >> the storm spans from one side of the horizon to the other. >> this time lapse must be seen to be believed. the storm is called a haboob. >> a haboob is an arabic term and basically just means wind. here in the southwest or across the united states we tend to just use the word dust storm. >> the wind from a dying summer thunderstorm kicks up enough dust to produce a dense massive wall advancing toward the city. while some take cover, veteran storm chaser and video grapher blaine cory sees this perfect

storm as a photo op. >> i get a phone call get out to the nearest hill you can. as soon as i got up to the freeway overpass i saw this coming in. >> while they typically see haboobs several times a year this one was special. >> it was ex-tennysonive in how big it was. it stretched for more than 90 miles. how tall it was. over a mile high according to some reports. most incredibly it was an incredibly dense storm. it was like a wall of dust enveloping you. >> the massive cloud shown here in time lapse takes up almost his entire field of vision. >> as soon as i get up the hill i'm out of brecht. breath. set the tripod recording and step back to see it. >> look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. >> blaine watches in awe as the storm begins to swallow up south phoenix.

>> watch how fast it's coming. how it engulf that light. >> should be here in probably less than four minutes. my guess. and over here we have got people playing softball. don't even know what is about to hit them. >> warnings have gone out on tv and radio but many phoenix residents remain unaware of the approaching bohemith. >> you could literally see airplanes trying to get out of the storm's path. >> the colossal cloud moves with surprising speed and within two and a half minutes the edge of the storm reaches blaine's location in tempe. >> here it comes. >> it rolled in way quicker than i thought it was going to. >> day turns to night in an instant. >> when it rolled in, it immediately went pitch black.

>> you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. >> this is incredible. >> it kind of hits like just a huge wall of wind but you are also setting sandblasted at the same time. dust and sand flowing around you. getting in your teeth and your eyes. you can barely hold your eyes open. >> i think we got the shot and live to shoot another day. >> my next thing was trying to get to safety and get to lower ground. >> but the task proves impossible. blaine can't find his car. >> it really becomes black as night. you get a sense that kind of the end of the world because it is a rusty brown color this envelopes you. >> blaine finally makes out the

faint red lights of cars paralyzed when the massive haboob extinguished the street lights. >> everybody else seems to be hiding out, too. crazy. >> this sudden darkness is the most perilous aspect of the storm. one that can result in deadly accidents on the road. >> the primary daneer that these people are requesting to -- danger that these people are going to experience is the rapid loss of visibility. car, a plane, what have you, you run the risk of crashing that vehicle because you simply cannot see what is in front of you. >> and the large dense haboob spares no inch of ground in its path. this time lapse by photographer mike obinski shows a different angle. you can see the storm roll right over the phoenix skyline including a busy i-10 in the foreground. just before the haboob reaches

the highway obinski makes a mad dash for safety. >> i jumped in my car and it was instantaneous blackout. i have never been in a dust storm that turned the lights out so fast. >> it rolled through without a single death reported. >> it might have been due to the warning that the national weather service was able to put out about this but one of the really nice things about this particular storm was that there was very few injuries associated with it. people were able to do the things that they are supposed to do. pull off to the side of the road and pull their lights off and teak their feet off the break. >> the dense storm leaves thousands without electricity after blowing down multiple power poles. >> power just went out. >> for millions of others, the storm is a nuisance but nothing more. >> i was getting all kinds of

comments from other parts of the world that hadn't seen storms like this, people wondering how many people died. wondering if he died. i made sure to comment back seaing that me and my gear were okay and that it was a cool experience. >> phoenix is no strange to these storms. -- no strange to theser to the. another haboob two months later leaves a bride and groom in the dust. >> congratulations you may kist bride. >> and makes the day to remember beyond unforgettable. no storm that follows can compare to the july 5 event. the haboob of the decade. >> and look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. >> coming up, baseball-sized hailstones. >> oh, my god! >> leave one family with no where to run. >> it's in my room. >> when "caught on camera-man

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oh crap,. >> you may have seen hailstorms. >> look at how big that is. i have never seen hail that big. >> but you have probably never seen anything like this. >> oh, my good! >> it's in my room! >> ararmageddon! >> spring in oklahoma often brings crazy weather but on may 16, 2010 no one could anticipate what is about to rain down. photographer aaron snow is at home with his family as the morning breaks. >> the day started out bright and sunny. the wind got heavier and heavier. and so we started filming from the front door. >> when oklahomans see hail in late spring they immediately

prepare for what may follow. severe lightning or even a tornado. >> oh, my gosh. >> but from the moment aaron and his wife jen saw the size of the first few hail stones they realized that this time the hail itself may do the greatest damage. >> my whole family is at the front doorwaysing the wind and everything pick up. >> that is going to do damage. oh, those are bigger -- >> no! >> and then we notice like these huge pieces of ice just coming out of the sky. >> they are almost baseballs. >> within seconds the handful of falling ice chunks becomes a downpour. >> oh, my god! >> aaron's three-year-old son can hardly keep his eyes off the unusual phenomenon. >> get back from the window. >> sam, get back. oh, my goodness gracious. >> as the hailstorm falls aaron has a disturbing thought. >> initially we were looking at the yard being beat up. the landscaping was ruined within a few seconds and then i

started realizing oh, i didn't put my car in the garage. >> yeah, our cars are ruined. >> the deluge is so intense aaron can't risk running the 0 feet to his car. >> i didn't want to go outside and risk dying. that is a real possibility to get hit in the head with a baseball sized piece of hail and die immediately so there was nothing we could do but just watch our cars get beat up. >> that is all hail. that is not snow. >> aaron is helpless as the waves of projectiles fly. oklahoma city is getting pounded with the large hailstorm. five miles away, mac maddick is taking shelter from the fallen structure of his girlfriend

shannon's apartment. >> look at this. this is not cool, shannon. >> we were filming at the front door and the hail was coming from pounding siding and gutters and ripping everything off. >> look at the siding. the siding over there. >> it is extremely loud when ice that large comes from the sky. it sounds like you are getting pummeled. so that was the scariest portion of it all. it hit with force. things are breaking very easily. >> just anarchy out the front door. everything shattered. bashed in. windows flying. siding flying off the wall. >> it is like a freakin' war zone. i have never seen anything like this. >> mack and shannon are awe struck.

they wait out the storm in shannon about's apartment. but for others in oklahoma city even home is a danger zone. high school senior bonnie ti bbs just raced home to beat the impending downpour when she grabs her camera and begins to film. >> oh, my god. >> we had tons of hailstorms but nothing this large. >> and then it started to get even louder. >> oh, my god. >> the sound started to change. >> oh, my god. it's through the window. >> get away from the windows. >> and then all of a sudden i glassthe sound of gras breaking. >> oh, my god. oh, my god! >> that is when i started to really freak out. >> oh, my god! >> what? >> windows are breaking. >> what? >> windows are breaking. get in the closet. get in the closet. >> it started breaking the skylights that cover the entire house.

>> oh, my god! >> i'm filming it. >> oh, my god! >> check it out. >> get out. get out! >> lane started coming in. glass flying and breaking. limbs hitting and coming through our house. >> it's in my room. >> it was quite unusual and very scary. >> our kitchen windows are broken out. >> after almost ten brutal minutes of pounding. >> broke.nt window wreck. >> i though. >> oh, my gosh. >> residents of oklahoma walk outside to assess the staggering damage. >> there is still huge pieces of hail out here. >> i was expecting -- there is a baseball. >> what i didn't expect was windows totally blown out.

>> all of the windows are ruined. oh, my gosh. >> imagine baseballs just pounding your car for five minutes solid. >> this is all hail. it was coming down so hard that all of this has holes where the hail hit. >> we are talking about $65,000 worth of damage to cars and the house itself. >> this is the aftermath of. shannons if apartment complex is destroyed. complete armageddon. >> you can't believe that type of damage would come from anything less than a tornado. >> unbelieve school oklahoma city residents begin the long process of repairing roofs, cars and property. estimates of damage from the storm total almost $500 million. it may be a long time before oklahoma sees another storm

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♪ a massive wildfire bill lows of dark smoke looming on o the horizon. and hundreds of residents are directly in the path of the deadly flames. >> i mean if i was going to die, i was going to die. that is the way i look at life. >> september 4, 2011. a town of about 8,000 just 30 miles southeast of austin.

resident richard billas works on the east side of the city and lives less than a mile from the forest that bothers the town. on a windy late summer day this quiet neighborhood is about to become a death trap. >> texas is now officially suffering its second worst drought ever. >> it had been months before it has rained. the worst drought we have seen. >> on top of the lack of rein is the heat and today dallas will be at or above 100 degrees for the 39th day in a row. >> thousands of acres of dry trees and grass have created a recipe for disaster. all it takes is a strong gust of wind to turn this residential neighborhood into a tinderbox. >> the wind was blowing so hard it snapped a power pole and that started a fire. >> as richard drives he spots

the smoke in the distance. >> there is a huge fire burning out here. >> i see something intense or extreme like that i will pull out my phone and start shooting film. >> fast drop county is going crazy. >> despite the risk richard continues to film while he drives. a dangerous combination considering the circumstances. he can't keep his eyes off the hypnotic smoke bill lows towering over the texas trees. but he has yet to realize the danger he is about to face. as soon as he gets home the fire department comes calling. >> the firemen were really serious that it was no joke. they were yelling over the loud speaker. >> leave now! >> i considered leaving but i knew if i left and one little ember was able to make it here

that the house would probably burn down. >> even though most of his neighbors leave, richard is determined to protect his home. he furiously waters his yard and monitors the approaching smoke. but his decision to stay puts him in increasing danger. >> i started getting worried when i notice the fire coming down mcallister and everything was getting smoked out down here and the firefighters were backing up from the fire. it looked apocalyptic to me. >> and it is not long before things go from wad t bad to wo. >> another one burning over there but it is on the other side of the highway still. we are right in the middle of it. >> minutes turn into hours and the second fire starts to send smoke downwind towards richard's house. as the sun' sets richard realizes he was surrounded. >> i was in my front driveway.

i was scared at that point. there is fire all around you and not a lot that you can do about it. just hope that it doesn't get you. >> rather than sit and wait for the fire to reach them, richard takes off in his truck driving toward the smoke. >> looks like i'm rolling through a war zone. >> i wanted to make sure that if there was something that i could put out i was going to put it out. >> richard takes a proactive approach. partly because of his good samaritan spirit on partly out of self-preservation. >> i'm going to take this golf cart trail right here. i don't normally get to do this. >> i went up on the hill, went behind the homes. i pulled my fire extinguishers out of my truck and got my shovel and started doing whatever i could do to put it out. >> the flames are spreading quickly over piles of dry pine needles on the ground and he soon finds the fire is a more

formidable opponent than expect. >> stop recording now so i can put all this stuff out. all right. i got that much of it out. there is still some other stuff burning right there. i ran out o of extinguisher. all right. i came back with my shovel and put a little firebreak right here. this house isn't go -- at least this house isn't going to burn. >> for the moment, richard has saved a strange's house and he hopes he helped save his own in the process. as he races back to his street he realizes time is running out. smoke is surrounding his home. >> it was getting harder and harder to see and if you can't see what is coming at you, you might want to get out of the bay despite his desperate efforts richard realizes he will have to leave his house behind and hope for the best. >> as time went on i was

getting more and more concerned. wind was still going pretty crazy. i was worried that it was going to change directions and if the wind changed directions then we were screwed. >> richard finally admits defeat, grabs his dogs and races away from the scene. >> it is not a good feeling knowing that the next time you come back to your house it is not going to be there. >> night falls. a caravan of the last few holdouts from the neighborhood joins richard on the escape route. >> it looks like a freaking war zone out here. >> we did find a way out and we dodged trees and went through ditches and got past and got out. >> but it will be weeks before he is able to return to his neighborhood. >> for two weeks there was a continued breakout of fires. we could not get back in. >> all the while, richard is in the dark, not knowing whether

his home is still standing. >> we just didn't know and we couldn't get anybody to tell us. >> finally, richard gets the call he has been waiting for. >> two weeks later someone was able to check the neighborhood. they told us that our house was still there. >> the fire has died down just across the road from richard's home. >> the fire was about 150-yards from where i'm standing right here. you look straight over there you can still see where it is kind of burnt and went right on past us. >> in a strange twist the friend who delivered the good news to richard has lost his own home less than two miles away from richard's. just like hundreds of other residents who come home to heartbreak brian returns to find nothing but a foundation and charred memorys. >> this is just one of 1600 homes that burned. so this story repeats itself

1599 other times. fire can take everything you got just like that. >> the historic blaze claims the lives of two residents and consumes 34,000 acres. richard counts his blessings and because he stayed behind and filmed his footage can now be used by the texas forest service to better understand the path the fea fire took. even so, he has a word of warning for those who find themselves in the path of a wildfire. >> my advice to others, if you can get out, get out when you can. >> lucky to see you guys again or hope you guys get to see me again. >> coming up, a storm chaser catches up you to the storm but gets a little too close to the action. >> oh! oh, my god! >> when "caught on camera-man

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here is what is happening. dozens of couples lined up outside san francisco about's city hall as clerks have started issuing same-sex marriage licenses again. this comes after a supreme court decision earlier this week. the state department is warning americans not to travel to egypt. warning comes as violent protests rage there. an american college student was stabbed to death. two people missing in new york state after heavy rains in inundated the northeast and left severe flooding. now, let's take you back to "caught on camera." welcome back to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. many victims of natural disaster are caught off guard or simply going about their routine.

others look tor for danger andd it. >> we are in a tornado watch issued until 8:00 this evening. >> this is starting to drop down a little bit. >> what happens when the storm turns around and chases them? >> oh, oh, my god! the car was just struck by [ bleep ] lightning. oh, my god! >> may 7, 2000. under bright skies, storm chaser john person begins to record his experience. >> welcome to kimball, nebraska. just inside the nebraska border. we are not sure if we are at ground zero or not. >> typically during a storm chase the skies will be really sunny and clear and look very safe but then all of a sudden in the afternoon the clouds just start boiling up out of no where and then the action quickly begins from there. >> okay. as we can see things are start to fire p. we have good convection here. >> he makes the risky choice to

chase alone today. he does, however, make sure to stay connect. >> over here is the ham radio. i see some of the antennas there. >> after it three hours on the road, he sees the development he has been waiting for. >> behind me is a fully formed cell. i'm on the eastern side of it now which means that i want to get around it. >> coming in behind the storm is the safest part of the storm because you are not threatened by the storm coming at you. but at the same time, you are in the part of the storm where any tornadoes will typically form. >> to his dismay, he sees he is in exactly the wrong place. >> unfortunately, it looks like i'm headed more into the center of the cell than i would like to. >> i realized that i had to drive-thru the thunderstorms in order to get to the backside of them. >> we are in a tornado watch issued until 8:00 this evening. >> this cloud here is starting to drop done a little bit.

>> despite the risk, john continues to record. a dangerous distraction in an already tense situation. >> very dangerous. borderline stupid. >> there is all kinds of things you have to be ready for. heavy rain. strong winds. >> very strong winds. gusts easily up to 50 or 60 miles per hour. >> potentially damaging hail and, of course, tornadoes, some of which may be wrapped in rain that you can't even see. >> as he nears the back edge of the powerful storm he makes the mess take of thinking the worst is behind him. >> i relaxed some what as i got to where i wanted to be and realized i was probably okay. >> wrong. >> very well defined rain shaft over here. we will get a better shot of that pretty soon. at least we are in the clear. >> john is about to get a shot but not the kind he expected.

>> oh! oh, my god! the car was just struck by lightning. oh, my god! oh, my god! holy [ bleep ] >> it was like somebody had smashed concrete blocks on the back of my truck. it was this loud shattering sound out of no where with no warning whatsoever. >> oh! >> it shot like orange andorra and purple sparks ought over the front windshield. it instantly filled the interior of the truck with smoke. i swore my head up. >> the car was just track by lightning. >> i was terrified because i realized what just happened.

>> oh, my god! holy [ bleep ] >> i thought he was going to die so i absolutely andicked. >> even for a battle scared veteran storm chaser taking a hit like this is a bone chilling moment. >> i started honking on the horn because there was an rv in front of me. i thought i would try to get their attention but they just sped on ahead and i actually don't blame them at all because they might have thought that they were next. >> alone, john pulls out his cell phone. >> i need to stop. i need to call 911 right away. >> as john calls for help, his footage is cut off for several minutes. >> the thing about the 911 call, is that they he didn't know exactly where i was and neither did i. it took them about 15 minutes to get there. >> now, that the storm has passed and help has arrived, john begins to film again. >> i'm here with the nebraska sheriff and the truck was just

struck by lightning. imagine that. >> when the officer showed up it was like neither of us could believe what had just happened. >> a flat tire. you can see where the lightning went in right there on the corner. and it also goo got the back t. this one. again, you can see where the lightning actually went and connected on through. >> the lightning current was so strong that even though the tires were made of rubber there was enough steel in the tires to channel the electricity and caused them to instantly go flat. >> the lightning takes quite a toll on his equipment. >> what happened was that it hit the radio antenna for the ham radio and it used to be right here, the antenna going up about that high. you can see scorch marks on the back of the truck here. >> john is lucky to escape with his life. with unbelievable footage, and

a lesson he will never forget. >> when other people see the video they are just as amazed as i am but also relieved because they realize you really are safe in your vehicle during a thunderstorm. >> oh, my god! the car was just struck by [ bleep ] lightning. oh, my god! >> coming up, life in this hawaiian town is a dream come true until it becomes a nightmare. >> there is really nothing you can do to stop a lava flow. >> when "caught on camera man versus nature" continues. as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪

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>> lava goes wherever it wants to go. it is very unpredictable. >> for ten weeks in 1990, mick is at the edge of the disaster, capturing the flow on camera. on the big island of hawaii, mick kalbur has maze a living documenting laugh van persie flows. they never cease to amaze him. but the one story stands out villagee rest when a large is is decimated by lava. >> this was a beautiful air yak then. it has just been turn inside a parking lot. very little left down here. >> the story begins in 1983. kalapana is a lush beautiful

fishing village but the proximity to an active volcano means that residents live watchfully, ever mindful of the threat of destruction. >> in january of 1983 the volcano eas a results. necmick and his crew begin to film the explosive event. >> it would high if the 800 to 15- feet in the air and it was absolutely amazing. >> the high town continuing is a masstive spectacle but looks can be dereceiving. >> it is efusive, not explosive like mount st. helens. thousand it is less likely to dump destructive amounts of ash on surrounding towns. 20 miles away, kalapana is not in imminent danger. that is, until something changes. >> late 1986, it stopped high

fountaining and started to form tubes which allows the lava to go long distances. >> because of the tube formation in 1986 the lava flowing has a greater reach putting nearby towns on high alert. many residents have a theo logical explanation for all this. some hawaiians traditionally attribute the volatile and unpredictable activity to the goddess pele. >> the fire goddess or volcano goddess. the lava is the manifestation of pele. it is obvious why the hawaiians gave a deity to that because it looks like it is alive. >> the volcano continues to pump out laugh van persie and for three years residents live

with on again off again laugh flows. causing isolated destruction. in june of 1989 the lava creeps to within a mile and a half of the village. by the time the flow stops the visitor center just west of the town is burned to the ground. no one is killed but the fire at the visitor center serves as an ominous warning. one year later, the lava returns. this time pushing farther than before. in april of 1990, the nightmare scenario begins to unfold. >> when the lava first came in, it was ominous and obvious that something serious was going on. >> the molten rock can reach temperatures of 2,000-degrees and eat everything in its path. but fortunately, the slow

moving lava flow could take weeks to reach deep into the city. for thevides time fortress residents to prepare or to evacuate. the long wait toughened out where it goes takes an emotional toll. >> it was agonizing. the people were saying is it going to stop. is it going to take my house. some people would move their houses. some people would pack up belongings and leave. some people just left everything there and walked away. it was pretty crazy. >> the river of fire is unstoppable with the volcano producing half a million cubic yards of lava every day. >> there is really nothing you can do to stop a lava flow. i have seen people spray it with a garden hose and firemen shoot water and it will freeze the outside but you it is going to go some place else is so lava is the winner when it comes to man versus lava. >> the lava takes out house

after house. maureen gapp is one of dozens of residents who can only watch as lava moves in on her home. >> right there. and i just -- i still think i'm going to wake up tomorrow in my bedroom and everything is going to be here. and i don't know what is going to happen when i wake up and it is not. it is going to be hard. >> once the lava reaches her home, it ignites an intense fire. when all is said and done, miraclously, no lives are lost but the town is almost completely covered. some hawaiians like walter yamaguchi who lost his business lava believe this is allelieve of the work of pel. >> she try heed to give me a long vacation. why cry. stop and start over again. >> they say if pele wants a house come back and take it.

if pele wants to reclaim the land let it happen. it is hers in the first place and if she wants it, she is going to take it. >> as the lava cools it creates a vast rolling sea of black rock across the land. more than two decades, new residents have come to build on top of the rock even though they know the volcano fury may return at any moment. >> what amazes me is after the fact it came down and burned a few houses and was present in the area people would still build houses. right now there is 30 or so houses that are wilt on the flow that took kalapana. they are sprouting up. >> the 1990 disaster in the village is just one chapter in the continuing saga of man's turbulent relationship with nature in the aloha state. a phenomenon mick plans to be

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a massive wave of toxic red mud surges into a small town. >> there was practically who warning for the people. >> it as two-fold disaster. while multiple residents drown, many more suffer exposure to the deadly material. >> any person coming in contact with red mud is liable to is suffer from caustic burns. >> and the full extent of the disaster remains unknown >> that is the first time that major is spill has happened

with the material. >> and this environmental catastrophe is all caught on camera. october 4, 2010. at an aluminum plant in hungary, a breach in the wall of a containment dam releases 35 million cubic feet of toxic red sludge. >> when the red mud was released it created a flood that move od down the valley extremely rapidly. >> red mud is a by product of the almost creation process. it is normally dried and then covered with soil and grass to dispose of it. today it runs down on unsuspectinsuspecting citizens. >> a tsunami like wave moved down the val valli and rose to a height of approximately two meters especially in the village nearest to the spill

site. reports from people at the scene have said that it moved faster than you you could run. >> the crimson river pushes cars out of the way and sends residents running for their lives. >> my 82-year-old father pushed my mother up to the window and we took him to the hospital because the alkylide burned his legs. >> an incident overseas has a lot of people wondering could it happen here. >> the devastating footage is broadcast worldwide. hong those watchin watching isn burke a professor of environmental w geochemistry. >> i saw it on the news like everybody else and was struck by the magnitude of it and the throughs pictures. >> though only a fraction of the waste is released the resulting spill is ko lass sal, surging into multiple towns and giving the region a haunting

blood red stain. >> seems similar to the deep water horizon spill. the amount of material released is roughly equivalent in both spills. >> after rushing through the town the wave of destruction subsides. the damage is immense. >> people in their homes mostly in the village lost their lives due to drowning and 5 drowninge were caught up in red mud and needed hospitalization due to the caustic nature of the red mud it. >> and the land could be irreparably harmed. dr. burke travels to hungary and witnesses the aftermath firsthand. >> we went back primarily to recover samples from the repository and look at what possible hazards are involved with that. >> in all, ten people lose

their lives in the disaster. dozens of homes are ruined. and 15 square miles of land are affected. al of this devastation leaves more questions than answers. >> because it is the first spill of this type of material no one hassed it did id how this material behaves in a natural environment. >> in time, more will be understood. meanwhile the investigation into the cause of the breach is underway. as residents rebuild, they look back in sadness on the day the red flood martinned their picturesque town forever. sadly, just as nature can strike in an in tan instant ane terrible destruction man can wreak havoc on nature and leave

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