adam: less than 500 meters from the warehouse, activist cherine el zein filmed from the street. ed recording. cherine: for two minutes, it was silence. i don't remember anything. and then i think we woke up, and we starting asking if everyone is okay. and we starting after the dust was a bit less, we starting seeing people walking with blood all over and screaming. people were screaming. [horn honking] adam: the blast wave tore through gemmayze, omar and hala's world. omar: frankly, we didn't know if it was a strike, it was a bomb. is anyone bombing us? i just walked downstairs barefoot, and i just felt i couldn't move my arm anymore, and i was covered in blood all over. i have stitches in my head, bleeding from glass and my legs. [ringing] adam: their café was wrecked. hala: there were dead people on the streets; people were bleeding from everywhere. buildings has already collapsed. it was absolutely nuts. and i got a hold of him on the phone, and he tells me i'm alive, but i need a hospital. adam: the blast wave roared through beirut at more than 300 meters a second. its full f