joined on the phone by glenn robinson, the ceo of hillcrest hospital. glenn, thank you for taking the time to speak with us here. what do you know right now? i know we're trying to understand how many people are in need of help tonight? >> erin, good evening. we have received more than 40 patients. many have been brought by ambulance. the rest brought by private vehicle. maybe that 25 by ground ambulance. we've just received word that the weather is starting to clear. we've had high winds in the area that were forcing our choppers to be grounded. now they're becoming airborne and getting some of the critically injured from the scene here. we're being told by authorities on the site we are to anticipate additional injuries coming in. as you reported coming out of the break, the field hospital triage center has been set up by our heart of texas rac. they're assessing many other injuries at this time. we are blessed with a large number of staff that have already come in. our folks responded extremely well this evening. and everything is going well. we're ba

glenn robinson, appreciate your help. let's head back to john berman at one of our other top stories, the boston marathon, the explosion there. helping us cover this other horrible situation this morning, john, as you talk to the people there and, you know, this is their community, this is where they've grown up. you know, they have to face such devastation at this hour, not even knowing how many people have died and hundreds injured and taken to the hospitals. >> that situation clearly so fluid in the town of west, texas. we are following the breaking news in this small town. it's north of waco, about 18 miles. as we saw, there was this massive explosion and this fire at a fertilizer plant that happened late wednesday night. at least two people are confirmed dead so far, but we're told town officials fear dozens more may have been killed. they confirm some firefighters who responded to the scene are currently unaccounted for at this hour. more than 150 people have been injured. they're being treated at area hospitals. th

and we just talked to glenn robinson of hillcrest hospital. they received more than 20 injuries, wounded people by ambulance. dozens more by private vehicle, also choppers in the air and more people coming in as he was speaking. it is obviously a very fluid situation. this is still early on in this incident in the aftermath of the incident. the fire is still burning, we're looking at live pictures right there. we're getting these images as we're showing them to you. and we're going to take a short break. try to find out more information. we'll be right back. ♪ male narrator: there's something positive being generated in california. when ordinary energy is put in the hands of extraordinary people, amazing things happen. the kind of things that drive us to do more, to go further, to be better. we're dedicated to being a company you can count on, because you've always been customers we believe in. your energy plus ours. together, there's no limit to what we can achieve. >>> welcome back. we have continuing information on a massive explosion at a

a little while ago we got to speak by phone with the man who runs that hospital, glenn robinson, whod us what he and his staff are doing to help the injured on this disastrous night. >> at this hour we have now treated more than 100 patients at our trauma center here at hillcrest. we're part of a larger system. scott white memorial which is 30 miles farther to the south, they have also treated several patients this evening. we transferred two pediatric patients to our children's hospital that we knew immediately they would benefit from a higher level of pediatric care. and also area community hospitals have treated additional patients as well. we don't have a total number that have been treated by all the facilities in our region, but it is certainly probably -- at least 150 or more. i'm pleased to report to you, in talking to our trauma surgeons who are here 24 hours a day, seven days a week at our trauma center, they are telling us that probably tonight we will probably wind up admitting 82 of those patients. some have already been treated and released. others will probably be trea

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glenn robinson is on the phone right now. can you hear us? >> yes, uh-huh, i certainly can.an hear you fine. >> thank you very much for joining us. our thoughts are with you. how is the hospital doing with this early influx of casualties? >> well, we are almost back to normal in many ways. of course, it was a very hectic evening, as you would expect with such a sudden influx. but this is something as a trauma center we drill for constantly. we plan for. we hope and pray it never occurs. but when it does occur, we are blessed to have such a great team of professionals of physicians and nurses and staff and they just responded in an amazing way in the hours that followed the explosion that we experienced last night. in fact, we probably had more than 250 physicians and nurses and staff that were not on duty at the time that responded back to our facility and so we were able to more than double our staff and to be able to accommodate taking care of the patients that we were receiving. >> and you received more than 100 patients at one point. how many are currently still being tr