at 8:05 local time. leaving buildings completely in shambles. skeletons. the concern there were subsequent fires as a result of that exmotiplosioexplosion. triage was brought to a local baseball field, where there, the number of injured, as we have not had confirmation yet, were brought to the triage and treated. and what we have heard and seen the pictures, very bloodied emergency personnel as they try to assist those injured in the process. we have confirmed f eed fatalit. but do not know a number there. the reporting coming out of the area, as well as officials, are not saying the number of fatalities. they're not giving us a number of injuries. although, there's been wide reports of the potential range of the number of injuries. we are monitoring the local official there's to find out what will be happening in terms of that process and dealing with the fatalities as well as the injuries. the wind on the ground is expected to shift at around 7:00 a.m. local time. they are still looking for individuals in an evacuation area. although, according to charles

and seven seven twenty i'm sorry local time and then at around seven fifty pm local fire local time the big the massive explosion ripped through the area. damaging actually it has flattened. a number of buildings local the local media are saying dozens dozens of buildings nearby there was a big apartment unit there with over one hundred people living in it there was a nursing home we know that over one hundred people are being treated at the local hospital at the moment again two people are confirmed dead. and for now actually those are who we still don't have an official sort of number from from from the government but people are saying just judging by the impact that this explosion had on the area there will likely be maybe many more fatalities many more casualties although as sean was saying this was a this is a small town but still this explosion happened very very close to the residential residential area. all right we can have a look now at some of the images that have been appearing on social media just to give people an idea of the scale of this blast they have been posting

local time. 6:00 p.m. central time. then there was an explosion. the explosion happened roughly 2 hours later 8:00 p.m. that was reported 10-8 block radius that was affected initially as a result of all of this. >> we know there are confirmed fatalities as we said. officials are not willing to give a number now. when the fire happened there were 6 too 7 firefighters inside trying to get the fire under control and prevent the devastating explosion that we saw. both firefighters are unaccounted for. if indeed they passed away they died as heros trying to save the lives of everyone else in their town. possibly a police officer was inside that plant at the time of the devastating blast as well. so let's go right now live for a closer look at the devastation. fox news reporter casey seigel joining us with the latest. hi, casey. >> heather, patti ann, good morning to you. we are set up in the media staging area. they are keeping us far away from the scene itself because of the dangers you were just hig

state of texas also leaving over one hundred injured the blaster took place at eight pm local time for shells are now saying that the fire has been contained local authorities confirmed deaths at the fertilizer plant but of the number of casualties is still unclear a number of firefighters are also still missing local residents have been advised to evacuate from the area and the town of west that's just north of away cars the u.s. surge or logical survey says of the blast registered as a two point five magnitude six make event my fighters ambulances and helicopter support for at the scene i witness is say the fire took hold at apartment complexes and schools and houses some of which are collapsed hazardous material teams have been dispatched to tackle the aftermath of the explosion local media reports that a u.s. chemical safety board also headed to the side of the explosion to investigate a local hospitals are coordinating efforts to deal with the inflow of patients many of which are believed to be in critical condition because all of the blast is yet unknown or the explosion took pla

local time seven thirty and it was the end of their working day but at the same time explosion was so big that he had to hit a residential area nearby so maybe it was not it affected lots of people who were near the plant to just live there so we hear about dozens of buildings flattened by this explosion residential buildings so people went home and they were just nearby in this town of west in texas and obviously lots of lots of people were affected by this ok so we can see from the pictures say that emergency services are at the scene and continue to be there for many hours but what's happening in terms of the evacuation where are people being moved to. well people are being evacuated because there is the danger of this second blast there think they are saying that there is this one fertilizer tank that is still intact and you realize that there is a huge fire going on and that tank may eventually explode and just. people hope that this will the will never happen but still. we see the footage of people being treated in an urgent matter on this football field but they are being ta

local time. one in critical condition. most of the other injuries ranged from minor abrasions to broken bones. they did see some in respiratory distress. officials are asking those in the area to stay indoors because of the risk of potential toxic fumes related to that explosion. initially, there was a three-mile radium set up of a no-fly zone in the event of a potential second explosion. in addition to making sure that the injured are tended to, officials were going door-to-door to ensure that if there was anyone who was trapped or needed assistance, they were provided that. an eyewitness who lives in that community, reported that she received a text message from someone in triage in a those searches were over. that's one source on the ground. nbc has not officially confirmed that. we have heard from other hospitals in the area that they are treating burn victims, which, of course, would be consistent with the nature of this explosion. now, officials are, of course, monitoring this vision. gover

this stage but what we do know is that the explosion took place at seven thirty in the evening local time so given that perhaps perhaps that may have reduced the fatalities if. that wasn't a peak time of the fertilizer plant with workers but nonetheless devastating scenes of as we say two people have been confirmed dead but local media were reporting just shortly after the blast that seventy people had died in speaking to artie's correspondent who said the reason may be that the official death toll is low at the moment is because they are waiting for official identification many people are being treated for the inhalation of toxic fumes. many people have been evacuated to two hospitals one at waco we've heard from sean thomas it's only a small hospital and might not be geared up to the huge number of casualties that they will receive and also many are being taken to another hospital in houston but these are the scenes at the moment from the blast at the fertilizer plant in texas . well staying with news from the u.s. a malicious mail scare has gripped america after letters laced with pois

we do not have a count of how many people were in there this happened around seven pm local time here in texas. not exactly sure how many people were inside of the plant what we do know is that there was a nursing home very nearby. building that many people were able to evacuate from the nursing home but another apartment building also reported to be leveled and it's been doing many people inside of the time in the neighborhood neighboring district eliza plan and immolation to this eliza plot do we know anything about the company. back a little that sort of thing. i'm sorry you're breaking up a little bit. from what we heard here in the fertilizer plant still no cause for what caused the initial. what we have heard from firefighters is that there was initially a fire firefighter started to rush to the scene and the minutes later is when the explosion happened but just to give you a little perspective of how big an explosion it was this is a town of only twenty six hundred people only three inches before this emergency unfortunately appears many of those first responders who were respo

we are a few blocks from the bombing that happened on monday at 2:tift local time. 2:50 local time. watertown is 10 miles west of here near the campus of mit, one of the most press stey yous engineering schools in the world. there is heavy police activity in this area for four to five hours running after a call came in. there were gunshots and the s.w.a.t team moved in. this is a scene still considered active. boston police talking about watertown massachusetts residents to stay where they are and not go outside. wees work throw the information mike levine is with me. mike, your information has been inavailable. what can you report here tonight? >> the latest i am hearing, and perhaps it is stating the obvious, but federal law enforcement does believe what is going on around mit may be related to the bombings on monday. and i am being told local police in the boston area may have arrested someone with, quote, similar features as one of the suspects from the monday bombing. >> mike do you know if the features reflect suspect number one or suspect number two? >> i don't know that. con

local time. west fire department responded to that call and was in the process of working an active fire at the fertilizer plant. at 7:53 p.m. we got the first call of an explosion at the plant. those of you that have seen the video understand the devastating effects of that explosion. it was a significant explosion. i have talked to the troops that are on the ground there now, that were going door to door, and there are homes leveled, there are businesses leveled, there is massive devastation in the downtown west area. i will tell you at this point they are still in the search and rescue phase and they are currently going from door to door, house to house, business to business, still looking for wounded and injured people that have not been able to get out because of their injuries. i can't confirm numbers of casualties, but i can tell you we do have casualties. i can tell you the injured folks from the hospitals. at this point hillcrest hospital has treated at least 100 individuals with varying

state of texas also leaving over one hundred injured the blast took place at eight pm local time officials are now saying that the fire has been contained local authorities confirmed deaths at the fertilizer plant the number of casualties is still unclear the number of firefighters are missing local residents have been advised to evacuate from the area in the town of west just north of waco u.s. geological survey says the blast registered as a point one magnitude seismic event that is the blast caught on camera by an eyewitness firefighters ambulances and helicopter support a still at the scene eyewitnesses said that the fire took hold of apartment complexes and schools and houses some of which collapsed there's also an old person's home which collapsed one hundred thirty three people are believed to be inside houses this material is also spewing from the fertilizer plant and specialist teams have been dispatched to tackle the aftermath of the explosion local media reports that a u.s. chemical safety board or the u.s. chemical board are also heading to the site of the explosion to vest to

but when this happened, around 8:00 local time, 9:00 eastern, there were firefighters responding and trying to put out a fire at the fertilizer plant and then that explosion want reports of a fireball from 100 feet, launching into the sky, just absolutely incredible. it registered on a seismograph, 25 miles away. the center was a 2.1 seismic event, that's how earthquakes are measured. that's from the u.s. geological survey. the most stark and troubling news out of this. a press conference was held awhile ago and the official said that the number of fatalities could not be confirmed. we have reports from the director of the emergency management services in that region that upwards of 70 people could have been killed in this accident. there was an apartment complex nearby. the official said nothing remains. it is miles per hour just a skeleton. and a nursing home, more than 100 people that had to be evacuated, reports of some of those residents injured. but they said that the casualty count was rising by the minute of the just an incredible situation when you talk about blocks, city bl

local time in the town of west, texas. had already been burning up the time the explosion took place. firefighters were on the scene trying to battle the blaze when the explosion happened. many have severe concerns about the safety of those first responders who were there at the time the explosion took place. charles is in the town of west, texas. he arrived a short time ago. describe what you are seeing. >> a lot of emergency vehicles prowling the streets. most of the activity is on the northern part of town with a fertilizer plant was located. that is also with a hospital is located and where the football field was located where the initial triage unit was set up. that has been sent down and moved to the southern part of town because of fears of another explosion from the plant. the plant was making -- at least stored anhydrous ammonia and, which is a very volatile material used in fertilizer and in making bombs at times. >> we have seen a nursing home, how badly it has been destroyed. this was not a building involved in

authorities speaking earlier in a press conference at about 4:30 local time in watertown, massachusetts. this follows an extraordinary series of events that began at about 10:00 p.m. in cambridge, massachusetts, last night. that's again local time in which two suspects we can now say are the same two suspects in the boston marathon bombing on monday were involved in an incident that involved an armed robbery, a car jacking, the death of an m.i.t. campus official. m.i.t. is now shut for classes today. after this incident, the entire scene moved to watertown, massachusetts, nearby where there was a series of events there which authorities were trying to describe this morning involving gunshots, involving explosive devices and telling nbc that there still remains unsfloeded devices in the area. two suspects, the one you're looking at there in the white hat known as suspect number two is still at large. suspect number one is dead and is we just heard from doctors says the cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds and also blast wounds. more than gunshot wounds i

first talked about what happened last night well maybe you know last night at around five thirty pm local time the f.b.i. released pictures of the two suspects who now we know are two brothers twenty six year olds to milan son and nineteen year old just hearts on these two brothers basically for after the photos were released ended up getting out of their hiding getting into a seven eleven which they robbed hijacked a car releasing the person to whom that car belonged and got into a. car chase with police as a result of which the older brother to middle on was died out of hospital around one thirty five am local time with several gunshots from police he was said to be carrying an i.e.d. on his body and the younger brother nineteen year old europe are is currently on the loose with police trying to locate his whereabouts as we speak and this is certainly what everybody's eyes are on right now the possibility of joe hart being out found any minute any hour in the in the days to come now on especially i hear a lot of action and commotion going on behind you what is the current situation. well the

the blaze under control when the explosion the big explosion happened at around seven fifty pm local time so to give you an idea of how big it was the explosion has registered as a two point one magnitude earthquake and we now we know that it has killed according to local media seventy people and injured hundreds as of now no official numbers have been released we know that the danger is not just just. it's not just the fire but also the chemicals toxic chemicals that the wind keeps spreading around the area. do we know more you mentioned that we don't know an official confirmation of the number of deaths but is expected to be many many more isn't it because there was so much collateral damage you mean a fireman was on our program just a few minutes ago saying that something like seventy hands in the bar that were literally leveled and also. an old person's home where one hundred thirty three people were residents there so the expectation is that actually this death toll could be much much higher. that's right andrew the blast the explosion happened near a residential area near a resident

at 10:30 local time last night, there was a report of a robbery at a local convenience store. police respond that. after that, the story goes, an s.u.v., a mercedes s.u.v. was hijacked. when it was filling up for gas at a local gas station, the driver of the s.u.v. escaped but police got hot on the trail of suspect number one and suspect number two. and from that point there was a shootout with multiple round exchanged, possible grenades exchanged as well. and even the possibility of another pressure cooker bomb exploding in the streets of watertown, massachusetts. at 1:30 in the morning, screen right, suspect number one with the dark hat, is dead. suspect number two, however, at 6:30 in the morning local time is still on the run. are they getting close? we certainly hope so, but right now we do not know. watertown has been shut down. watertown, massachusetts. the bus service throughout boston suspended. the t-service, boston's train commuter service line, that's been suspended as well. classes canceled at harvard, emerson college, m.i.t. residents in watertown, belmont, newto

. >> the quake struck at around 8:00 in the morning local time, with a force that shook the earth at least 10 centimeters per second rate the tremor was so strong -- second. the tremor was so strong that many people barely had time to escape. they said it seemed to go on for a long time. >> and lasted about two minutes. i was in the bathroom. it was followed by two aftershocks. >> this part of china is particularly prone to earthquakes because it is in an area of high seismic activity along a major fault line. it has now been five years since a massive quake struck in sichuan province and killed more than 80,000 people. back then it took the emergency services a long period to establish the full extent of the damage. while this event is not as strong as that, it will be sometime before the final casualty count is clear. q'spolls have closed in ira regional elections. it is the first vote to be held without the help of u.s. authorities after troops old out of the country in late 2011. -- pulled out of the country in late 2011. jane ariba is in baghdad. >> with almost no traffic, kids

local time and when the fire officials arrived they realized there was a potential for explosion and they immediately set about evacuating the local apartment complex and the nursing home and some of the houses, but they are still looking because they say the radius was very large of people affected and they are still looking for people that might be trapped in their homes. but you are not getting in any new patients hour by hour at this point? jay -- >> at this point we are not getting additional patients we are aware of. we will remain on alert throughout the night. we have capabilities of accepting more patients throughout the night and into the morning hours. >> all right, and no fatalities at your hospital? >> no fatalities at our hospital. >> brett esrock of providence hospital in the local area there. thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >>> the explosion packing an extremely powerful force as we have been reporting people as far away as 30 miles away felt and heard the blast. elizabeth has been covering the story all nightlong, and she joins us now with the latest

local time. that should be about 7:30 a.m. eastern time, so within the next several minutes we should see the line of storms impacting the city of west. large hail not so much a concern anymore out here. that is a little bit of good news but we're still talking about wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour with some of these storms. we're expecting very heavy rain of over a quarter of an inch possible and also some very dangerous lightning from some of these thunderstorms. a lot of stuff going on here. we're expecting heavy rain. that is not going to help out anyone trying to do cleanup efforts in this region. behind this initial line of storms, expecting the rain to linger for several hours out here in the city of west. >>steve: thank you very much. you just heard from dr. marc siegel because the ammonia is already in the air, if you can't smell it, it's not going to be a problem to you. but now it looks as if the major problem caused by this big line of storms is it's going to delay the house-to-house search. >>brian: thoughts

it happened in the city of federal way around 9:30 local time last night. one suspect was shot and killed by responding officers. so far the motive is unknown. we'll keep our eye on that one for you. >>> residents in the midwest are fighting deadly spring flooding. two were killed when trucks were swept off indiana roads by flash flooding. and one died in missouri where towns along the mississippi like clarksville are trying desperately to hold back the rising water. >> it came very fast, faster than '08 and we don't have the help we had in '08 so everyone is pulling together and doing the best they can. >> we're not out of the woods. if we have rain up north or that quick snow melt, we're going to see higher levels yet. >> the river is expected to crest today in clarksville at 11 feet over flood stage and the town is hoping the sandbags will be high enough. >>> nbc's bill karins joins us now. extreme flooding. she was multitasking. >> she's done it before. experienced on the bagging lines. >> it's like second nature for her. did you see that? >> five years

local time the sun sets here.g sources about web sites. bath to catherine now with the latest on the intelligence she is is gathering from her sources in washington, dc. hello. >> thank you, bill. fox news understands all the electronic traffic associated with the brothers is being scoured, including the youtube sites which included islamic propaganda. we now have the third source confirming to us that all travel records are being reviewed and the older brother was out of the nuss early 2012 for a period of prolonged period of time to russia. this is of investigative interest because the fbi is working to understand when the l the brothers or one of the brothers had foreign training or was directed by a foreign terrorist organization. fox news is told that the bombmaker who made the devices would have needed practice to build a device with a viable detonator. fox news also understands investigators are eager to execute warrants at the residences associated with the suspects and to review their computers but this i

the first occurred to at 10:30 local time. bengaluru. the device was attacked a motor the -- motorbike perhaps to gas tank. elections will be on may 5. according to officials, two have been killed, 16 interests, -- 16 injured, eight of them police. shoppers,y thankfully, as maybe the intended. have this is a busy market area. it's slowly wakes up in the morning, shops just about to open. the blast area has been cordoned off. it has demolished the fronts of many shops and there's a glass spread over large area. now the police are combing the area for clues. the national investigation agency is leading the operation. they're gaining footage from shops in the area. the second blast happened about three hours later, very close to a construction site overpass on the way to the airport. there are few details of that coming through. no reports of any injuries. we're waiting to hear more on that. the home minister of india says that he's working very closely with the state government to try to find out who was behind this. is no claim of respons

there was a rumble about 8:55 last night, local time. 7:55 local time, 8:55 eastern and we all felt thenderstorms aren't supposed to be here until later today, we were expecting rain. and then when i walked outside i realized there were no thunderstorms around. so what was that. and certainly within ten or 15 minutes, we started getting the phone calls about the disaster here in west. there is a pattern of destruction on the landscape here in west, texas. where the plant once stood. emanating out from that is a ring of damage that includes dozens of homes and businesses. that have been destroyed. the nearby high school has also been damaged. it caught on fire with the debris that rained down from the sky that night. and then a nearby nursing home is also damaged. the patients inside all elderly had to be removed last night and taken to shelter elsewhere in the county. and also a nearby partment complex has been battered and torn beyond recognition. beyond that, there's a death toll here. between five and 15 people are believed to have been killed by this explosion. and in that number is

witnesses say it went up in flames so fast the driver had no time to react. a local homeless man was arrested for what police say appears to be a random attack. >> when the suspect walked up to him, through a flammable -- flew a flammable liquid inside of the vehicle and caught the victim on fire. suspect fled. >> the good samaritan helped the victim out of the car. he's now in the hospital in critical condition. the suspect was caught a block away. witnesses say the victim may have refused to give the suspect money before the attack. >>> developing news rescuers are scrambling to find a missing snow shoer caught in an avalanche east of seattle. he was with friends at snoqualmie pass, a device showed the group was sent down the mountain at more than 50 miles an hour for about 1,000 feet. two men emerged from the snow but their friend is still missing. avalanches hit at least one other group of snow shoers today at heavy snow was falling in the cascades. >>> now it started as a flight to pa lee ended with tore buyed passengers -- bali ended with tore fied passengers f

this happened about 5:30 local time. they were called on scene to the southeast side of chicago.erson being reported with serious to critical condition by the chicago fire department. we will keep you posted on this. you can see that huge hole there again on the southeast side of chicago. we are back in a matter of minutes. enough about the book, i want to hear about your date. well, he showed up in a van. [ women ] oh-awww. [ voices in background ] [ female announcer ] swapportunity. the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a delicious 90 calorie yoplait light. ♪ sorry... about your date, the details of your date. [ female announcer ] just one swap a day helps keep the calories away. yoplait. it is so good. >>> a plea hearing for garcia-torres, charged with kidnap and murder in the disappearance of sierra lamar which happened last year. her body has yet to be found. >> 6:40. oakland police hope surveillance video will help them catch a suspected child molester. take a good look. the man seen running in this video is believed to have attacked a 7-year-old girl last satu

time. but now i can positively tell you that there's nothing there. the local authorities are determined to find the meteorite no matter what it takes and turn the village into a tourist attraction the locals on the whole a ready to greet their guests. people have to walk to the media right you can't drive there use a horse environmentally friendly vehicle this only happens once in a hundred years everyone wants to have a look trying to find the media right. finally that's where it is we've been looking for there. is some else. the scientific expedition is now near the village of. his residence have reported the break down of the image and can be found in the snow covered fee. here it is. almost through to the ice crust these are the small fragments so they only went as deep as the first layer of crust. but then here you can see the tail it's clear to see. well here is the stone itself this beautiful. this was the first fragmentation followed by the impact wave so it mostly split into such small fragments and they rained down everywhere. there really is a lot o

, that is where he started that deadly rampage early in the morning, around 4:00 in the morning local time one knows why. he is age 60. everyone here is saying that he was mellow, that he did not have any psychological problems. that he was in good relations with all the neighbors and older relatives and no one knows why he decided to go to the shooting spree so early in the morning. just a few minutes ago i spoke with people who actually survive and were saved by the police patrol, who arrived here at around 5:00 in the morning and they are still under shock. they do not know what happened or why it happened. as we learn that this moment, three people, including the shooter himself, are fighting for their lives in a hospital. no one knows if this number of 13 victims will be final eventually. >> give us some context to this. serbia is still feeling after the war, the economy has been depressed. people are struggling? how often do a thing is like this happen? especially gun violence? >> and gun related violence is not so rare here in serbia. things like this, mass killings like this actual

local time police had reports of a robbery near mit and the campus there. that's when an mip cruiser, that police officer shot multiple times inside the vehicle at sinths of main and vasser street in and out of wauttow -- watert. that officer pronounced dead at massachusetts general hospital a short time later. that hospital is seeing too much karnage and too much trauma in the past week. the suspects 1 and 2 they car jacked a mercedes benz if you have and stopped at a local gas station. when they were refilling their car that is when the driver of the suv was somehowable to escape or one off and that drive is said to be okay. there was a trail of police officers on their tail and then the activity commenced in watertown we are watching now. still waiting for suspect number 2. that is the man in the white baseball hat that is still on the run and on the lose. what is he carrying? what sort of weapons does he have? did he stock mile weapons before hand? what kind of information does he have that they can track. suspect number 1 according to police is now dead

analysts say that the magnitude 7.8 earthquake his tuesday afternoon local time. they say it was 86 kilometers east/southeast of hash. they felt it in new delhi. some rushed out of buildings and waited in parking lot. in pakistan, there was the shaking in a tv station. >>> a magnitude tremor hit southern iran a week cool. plates that meet underneath have generated two major earthquakes in the last 20 years. . in 2003, a quake struck the southeastern city of baum. and a 7.7 tremor hit north western iran leading 30,000 dead. law enforcement officers are coming through evidence to see who attacked the boston mary on this and why. two bombs wept off and killed two people and injured nearly 30 others. investigators say police have found more explosives near the site. the bombs went off on monday afternoon. the first knocked back runners 30 meters from the finish. the second hit people a short distance away. emergency medical crews rushed to the scene. the dead include an 8-year-old boy. more than ten people were seriously wounded. u.s. media are reporting that police f

this evening local time. there was a fire burning at the time that the explosion took place, and so firefighters were on the scene battling that blaze at the time of the explosion. there are of course a lot of concerns about the fate of those firefighters at this time given that they were on scene at the time that that massive explosion took place. just to give you a sense of how big this explosion was, it was felt as far as 70 miles away. nbc's own charles hadlock was about 58 miles away, and he says that he felt something at the time that this explosion took place. it was heard even farther away. there was an individual who was driving who reported it as being like a tornado and said that it blew out her windshield. just to give you a sense of the power of that blast. now, it destroyed a number of buildings in the community. reportedly, 75 to 100 homes and businesses have been damaged and destroyed in the area. we've seen footage. they are severely damaged. one nursing home was almost completely destroyed. h