kinston search and rescuer sees it from miles away. >> i heard an explosion and saw the smoke rising the trees. i thought it was a plane crash into the building. i thought there would be a lot of casualties. i've never been in a fire or any incident of that size before. >> the north county fire marshal is also called in that day. >> we're in rural eastern north carolina, a small town. when this happened, it took every resource within our county. for the fire service, this is our world trade center. >> a little more than a year after the 9/11 attack, has small town kinston been the target? with 130 employees on site at the time of the accident, officials quickly rule out that an airplane is to blame. >> within the first hour of being on the scene and contacting the tower at the airport, no evidence of any plane striking the building was seen. so we ruled out a plane going into the building fairly early. >> officer woody spencer of the kinston police department documents the scene on video. >> it was total chaos. flames and smoke billowing from the building. when i started the videotap

one explosion, also in 2003, at west pharmaceutical industries in kinston, north carolina, showed just problem can be. because it was a drug company, the factory floor was immaculate. but plastic dust was hidden above the workers' heads. >> we know that as much as 2 inches of dust had accumulated in the ceiling, probably about a ton of material. that makes for a powerful explosion. >> hours after the blast, employees were still trapped inside. seven died, and scores were injured. carolyn merritt's investigation concluded that osha, the government agency created to safeguard workplaces, had no effective regulation on its books to deal with explosive dust. and she found that osha inspectors routinely overlook the hazard. did osha inspect that work site before the explosion? >> yes, osha had been in that facility. >> what did they find? >> they didn't find any dust issues. >> even when the dust was in plain sight, osha inspectors missed it. as they did at c.t.a., a plant that made soundproofing in corbin, kentucky, where the workplace had been covered in plastic dust. that factory explode

the evidence now a kinston appears secondhand hearsay. inadmissible in federal court, by the way.ed driver of osama bin laden, told an fbi agent he overheard a plan, while at an al qaeda safe house back in 2001. the degree of coercion to produce that information is anybody's guess. some of the responsibility rests with congress, determined to maintain an exploit the fear that allow the american public to turn it limelight on bush administration prime concerns in congress have managed to convince rational individuals like new york city's mayor, for instance, that trying and accused tears in federal court would be too dangerous, too costly, and too lenient. that was getting the record of successful federal terrorism, prosecutions and the fact that sentences in such cases have tended to be far more severe than those meted out by the guantÁnamo military commission. indicates exemplifying the supposed inability of the federal court system to handle terrorist crimes, the alleged planner of the 1998 east african embassy attack was given a life sentence while i'm done himself try to guant