investigation once rescue operations are over but that so far there is no evidence of foul play artie's romandie linda told me the latest from the scene a little enya. that's right the mayor of west texas spoke to was just a few minutes ago and just confirmed some of the facts of the disaster that we created here sixteen homes have been damaged in this explosion those are the homes that are closest to the black shite that we were in town just a few minutes. and saw that there were several other businesses which also sustained some damage to the windows which were blown out educated still a search and recovery situation we try to get as close to the site of u.k. police put in a radius of about a mile or around the site which is still considered to be dangerous for people to approach however about half of the town of twenty six hundred people have been evacuated so far because i just want to remind of you was that moment when that blast went off i let's just take a look here. well you know like i think we're going to he's going to hear any preliminary assessments although the destruction. of the those t