seema jilani is a pedidiatrician based inn beirut.he treated her own daughter, who was injured in the blast. stay with us. [music break] ♪ amy: we defy darkness. democracynow! the quarantine report. -- sent a devastating shockwave through the lebanese capital, tuesday evening, leveling buildings, overturning cars, and chattering windows. more than 100 people have been confirmed dead. hundreds are still missing. at the time of the blast, lebanon already facing an economic, political and public health crisis, exacerbated by u.s. sanctions imposed by the trump administration. at the white house, president trump told reporters u.s. military generals believed the explosion was caused by a bomb. >> it seemed like it, based on the explosion. i met with some of our great generals, and they seem to feel that was. -- feel it was. it wasn't some kind of manufacturing explosion type of event. this seems to be, according to them, they would know better than i would, but they seemed to think it was an attack, a bomb of some kind. amy: he is referri

seema jilani anmmergency room doctor fro texas working in beirut. she spent the hospital ride singing to comfort her four- arar-old daughter. >> i've worked is of conflict like iraq, afghanistan and gaza. what i saw yesterday was on the scale of that if not more in my particular personal experience. i have never experienced something like this. >> reporter: lebanese security officials have said nearly 3000 tons of the fertilizer ammonium nitrate was stored in the port. it's highly explosive and can be used for making improvised bombs. it had been there for six years, after being confiscated from a ship. a level of mismanagement hard to comprehend. today lebanese president michael aoun visited the blast site. in a speech later in the day, aoun promised justice. >> ( translated ): we are determined to investigate and reveal what happened as soon as possible, to hand out punishment to those responsible. the port ia lifeline for a city and a country already in the grip of an economic collapse, the result of years of the large white bungs here, half-dest