we just heart from sergeant william swanson. the items to watch at this moment, based on what he said moments ago. fatalities confirmed. they are still trying to understand the magnitude of those fatalities. injuries, the numbers have varied. 50 to 70. we've heard upwards of 100, depending on the report. looking forward, this is one of the concerns that you heard some of the reporters asking. and that's the issue of hydrous ammonia and the affects it has on the area and those injured. and they're looking at the weather patterns. the reason they're looking at weather patterns is, of course, in fighting the smoldering fires and a possible cloud. you heard sergeant william swanson, moments ago, being careful how to address the issue of hydrous ammonia. there were tanks they were trying to protect early in the evening. 7:50 p.m. local time. when the tanks exploded, causing this, perhaps, large explosion that we're talking about, that measured 2.1 on the richter scale. were there gases that went up into the air? and how were they goi

we turn now to sergeant swanson. >> what can you tell us about it?well, just to kind of bring you up to speed, i can tell you about 6:00 p.m. tonight, west fire department responded to a fire call at a fertilizer plant. shortly after they got there, there was a massive explosion about 50 minutes later. the firefighters and law enforcement that were there and some of the community members were in the process of evacuating people away from the area. because they knew the significant danger there at the fire -- in the fertilizer plant. once they started doing that, the explosion occurred. there have been numerous people injured, we're talking in the hundreds. there are confirmed fatalities. at this point, we do not have numbers. we're waiting to see specifically a little bit better count before we start putting out numbers. but we're probably going to see that increase as we do a little bit more of a recovery operation at some point later in the morning. i can tell you, i just talked to my commander who is on the ground there, on the scene. we are going

well for more perspective on the volatile situation let's cross live now to david swanson a peace activist and author of war is a lie david thank you very much for being with us let's get right to it this recent attack has it once again drawn the attention to the issue of civilian casualties is this is war though is this justifiable on any level well this is an illegal war as all wars are it was not authorized by the united nations though americans like to believe it was in contrast to the iraq war which they believe wasn't accurately enough but this you know is not an exception this is not a mistake out i after over a decade of this story appearing over and over and over again it's just unbelievable for anyone to suggest that this is some kind of of of unique event in the course of this war but sadly i'm not sure u.s. attention has been drawn to this i mean even the the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that killed americans and in particular one woman who was a state department employee who had

gloria swanson, joe kennedy and rose kennedy. gloria swanson and her daughter were their house guests when they were still living in bronxville, a new york suburb. rose kennedy had to turn a blind eye. she had to know that if she left joe kennedy, it would destroy their family, which both of them were devoted to. she simply decided within herself that this was something she would have to tolerate, and so she looked upon gloria as their good friend, and that her husband was just trying to help her with her hollywood career. he was a producer at that time. and she simply swallowed it. but there was a time earlier than that that she actually went home to her father. there was dalliances of other kinds. and she went home, she told her father what it was all about. and he said, "rose, this was ion," but he didn't say i told you not to marry him. he was much nicer. he said, "this is your decision, and you must live with it. go home, rose. go home to your family." and so she did. but it was that close a thing, and her father saying you

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sergeant patrick swanson joins us.what's happening at the plant now and what more we know about possible fatalities? yes, sir. i can tell you at this point the last that i heard, that there was still a small amount of fire burning at the plant. they were initially concerned about that as it was underneath some anhydrous ammonia tanks. it's my understanding the fire is under control now. it is still smouldering but not near the threat it was g our searc and rescue mode. atf is here, the state fire marshals are here. they'll start their criminal investigation side of this. i can tell you that there is nothing at this point to indicate that this is a criminal issue, but we will address that. we will find out first and foremost if, in fact, that's what occurred. if that doesn't turn to be the case, we'll end up going to an industrial-type accident. >> so what do you think happened? th >> we don't know. we know there was a fire in the plant. about 20 minutes after the initial firefighters responded, they were there, they re

we had a press conference from patrick swanson with the wake dco police department. he did say after the responders arrived at the fire and recognized there was the presence of anhydrous ammonia they recognized there was a danger they did begin evacuating people at that point. a woman was quoted in local reports as saying when she saw the fire she started driving toward it to see if she could help out. two boys came in and said you can't come in here they are telling us all to leave because the fertilizer plant is on fire and there's a danger of explosion. people were told to leave the area prior to the blast itself. according to sergeant swanson they started evacuating people once they realized there was a potential for this devastation. >> it could have been potentially much worse. i asked that specific question because they know in texas what can happen at a fertilizer plant. the worst industrial accident that has ever happened in this country happened in texas at a fertilizer plant. happened on april 16th if that is ironic to you way back in 1947 in texas city te

soldiers a diplomat and a defense department contract in the southern province of the ball david swanson peace activist and the author of war is a lie says the u.s. media unfortunately doesn't draw enough attention to attacks where innocent afghans die. even the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that killed americans and in particular one woman who was a state department employee who had met john kerry and the u.s. deaths of course are always smaller and of course that they dominate the coverage of americans are not aware of the extent to which this war is essentially a one sided slaughter of helpless people who meant us no ill and has been for over a decade the debate going on is how many u.s. troops will stay beyond two thousand and fourteen that but the idea that they should be staying until the end of two thousand and fourteen and that we should just accept that is sort of built into all the news coverage in the united states and it's actually rather outrageous because there's been no evide

. >> reporter: david swanson is a clinical psychologist. he says most teens simply don't think about the consequences of posting those photos online. >> they're thinking it's a limited number of people who are going to see it, but when word gets out, the victim feels as if the entire world can see it, and that's why you see them turn to suicide. >> reporter: 17-year-old canadian student died last week. her mother, leia, says she committed suicide after photos of her being raped went viral. >> she wanted to be heard and she wanted someone to believe her. y and nobody did. >> reporter: another grieving family, dealing with the loss of a daughter. audrey pott's parents plan to tell their story publicly on monday. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: later, medicare patients have their chemoaffected by the sequester. the 14-year-old golfer who is the talk of the masters. and in texas, a high-profile arrest of a formerti oshen the cbs evening news continues. in nearly a year, former egyptian president hosni mubarak appeared in public

terrorist cells agreeing to work closely with american experts on the issue and to activists david swanson the things washington will be too upset with security issues now and i want to bring any positive results. there's a huge escalation in security and fear and in police presence i mean there are there's just a horrific scene in boston but the response will be incredibly disproportionate we will see the intense upsurge in fear and even indian police and military presence this illusion that technology is going to save us that feeling our skies with drones and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras and treating every airport airline passenger as a potential terrorist just going to save us is to use an incredible delusion we have seen a predictable and predicted even increase in terrorism throughout the course of the global war on the globe or the global war on terror as they call it you cannot fight a war against a tactic and not kill people. and eliminate. violence by other people in fact you have just the opposite effect as top u.s. military commanders have confessed. on top o

expected being affected by this cloud as well and we just listened a couple of minutes ago to sergeant swanson from the why. police department he says that at the moment the still pulling bodies from there were things that are being flattened he said to be a great understanding of the devastation that's been cool coast in the morning when this daylight but he also did touch on the fact there's been a huge response from emergency services from surrounding areas and you told us early that this is something that's long been coordinated in prepared for indeed when a situation happens anywhere in the united states law enforcement agencies have contingency plans in place and whether it be local state depending on how big the emergency is how big the response level comes into play and in this case we've heard stories of departments responding from eighty miles away to this particularly disaster so you have local state county officials all coming together and coordinating and working together and this is something that they've trained for through many years ok well we are just joined by keith hopkins

heightened security measures some of which were severely criticized by human rights groups david swanson's an antiwar activist he believes that betting on technology to keep people safe is extreme and a misguided there is a huge escalation in security and inherent in police presence i mean there are there's was a horrific scene in boston but the response will be incredibly disproportionate we will see any intense upsurge in fear and even indian police and military presence this illusion that technology is going to save us that filling our skies with drones and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras and treating every airport airline passenger as a potential terrorist is going to save us is is an incredible delusion we have seen a predictable and predicted increase in terrorism throughout the course of the global war on the global or the global war on terror as they call it you cannot fight a war against a tactic you cannot kill people and eliminate. violence by other people in fact you have just the opposite effect as top u.s. military commanders have confessed. of this is on tap

afghanistan today that that is what we need to avoid in this moment of antiwar activists that david swanson are joining us live here in on say a great pleasure i thank you so much indeed for joining us on the program today yes thank you. live from moscow this is r.t. and this news just in for people of reportedly being killed during post-election protests in venezuela it follows the closest vote in almost half a century which saw the later his chosen successor elected as president but there is anger because nearly half the population doesn't want nicolas maduro as its leader artie's tester australia is gauging the mood in the capital caracas. well as the opposition is staunchly contesting the results of the presidential election the supporters of in the get up the mess had come out to destroy some of the mother of who they were protesting against the results claiming that they're not ready to accept just as a ticket to be there says that he's not going to accept the results unless there is a recount as far as the protest requests are you saw incidents of a stone throwing at the police and t

sergeant william swanson, from the waco police department, in the town of west, texas, to assist, sayinge still looking and going door-to-door for -- in certain areas. however, as charles hadlock has been telling us, that seems to be diminished activity, compared to earlier in the evening. speaking with "the new york times," the destruction, the magnitude of this explosion, was similar to an iraq war scene, in terms of describing the destruction. also, saying that one might compare it to the 1995 oklahoma city bombing in terms of the magnitude again and the after effects of the explosion. winds on the ground, our last report, overcast with haze and windy. you get a sense in this picture of one of the buildings that was on fire after the explosion. wind is part of this. 75 degrees fahrenheit. wind speeds, 26 to 36 miles per hour. excuse me. 30 miles per hour, as high as that, according to one of our latest reports in the area. so, winds will shift, though. in about three or four hours. we're about to enter the eighth hour since this explosion has happened on the ground. charles hadlock, w

it sounds to me as patrick swanson, he was the gentleman giving the briefing with the waco police department. it seems to me that these individuals are just incredible heros. literally putting themselves in the line of fire and in the line of danger to get people out of their homes. what really strikes me is here we are six hours, a little over six hours after the explosion, elizabeth, and they are still evacuating people from their homes. we understand that some of those individuals are actually trapped in the rubble of their houses. they are trying to get the people out. the fire is is still burning in some locations. it is a very, very dangerous situation in this early morning hour. >> i thought it was so unbelievable when he was describing the state of the homes, the brick being ripped apart. he said it looked like tornadic activity, and i have seen it as devastating. to think a blast can have that ripple affect is hard to fathom. they are still going door-to-door, and you are correct when you say he was preparing us what we will see when the sun does in fact come up hours from now in we

if you're looking at the numbers, adhd researcher james swanson said... apparently quite a bit. but that's not to say that adhd isn't real or that kids who have it and are put on medication don't benefit enormously from the treatment. in fact, one mother of an adhd child told abc news that the new numbers could mean that many kids who have the ailment are finally getting the medicine they need. >> i think that once people start hearing about it and talking with others, that that's a big reason why we're seeing the increase. >> john: for more, i'm pleased to be joined by dr. william graf a pediatric neurologist and a professor at the yale school of medicine and by corey hebert assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at tulane university. gentlemen, welcome. such a pleasure to have you both this evening. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you john. >> john: we want to begin tonight's show talking about this topic because nobody else is. let me begin with dr. hebert, what are the symptoms of adhd? >> you have a kid running around like he has a motor inside of him

here's waco police sergeant patrick swanson just a short time ago. >> there is a significant area around the fertilizer plant that has been destroyed. homes have been destroyed and there are homes flattened and part of that community is gone. >> nbc's charles hadlock is live in the small town of west, texas. charles, what are people saying so far? what's the latest? >> reporter: they say it's a very tedious process, but they are still holding out hope that they will find survivors in the rubble that is left in the northern part of west, texas. the plant itself is on the northeast corner of town, and it exploded last night after fire broke out about 7:30. about 7:45 the fire chief realized the fire was getting out of control. he order his men out, and seven minutes later the whole building exploded. jill jenkins was a triage nurse. she was one of the first ones to arrive on the scene. here's what she had to say. >> when i got on the scene it was approximately two minutes after the explosion. it actually looked like 9/11, what you saw on tv with 9/11. there were people laying in their yard

we're hearing from sergeant patrick swanson in the city of. this is 20 miles north of waco.et's listen. >> this is a volunteer fire department. meaning that they probably have a very large contingent of people willing to risk their lives for their neighbors and their community at a phone call. that's what they were doing last night when this occurred. i don't know how many initially responded. i do know that there were numerous firefighters there. we have accounted for many but there are some that are not accounted for. i think that kind of brings me up to speed that i know again, i know the information is little limited. short of assuring you they are there on the ground there, they are calling a search-and-rescue mode. that is good news to me. meaning that they're probably still getting to injured people. they have not gotten to a int of no return where they don't think anybody is still alive. i will answer questions but please with me as i call on you to as i see hands. i will get to as many of you as i can. everybody kind of listen so we don't repeat questions, fair enou

the second problem, jeff swanson at duke has terrific research. mass shootings.hat we generalize from these very, very rare events, again, we've only had 30, 40, 50 of these. build policy based on that. we shoot each other. we shoot ourselves. there are 19,000 suicides. >> there are other questions to be asked beyond which piece of equipment was the person holding. i mean, killing is contextual. there's a lot going on. you talked about the war on terror. i can't help think that some of our gun legislation is like tsa strategy. take off your shoes to stop terrorism. no, we have to actually do more -- we have to ask more questions about why is killing happening. this crazy story out of georgia, young kids shoot a baby in the stroller. the gun is part of the problem but that's not the full picture. >> preventing the -- always fighting the last war. we go back and prevent the crime. now you take your shoes off because there was one -- sort of like what are you missing? yet, it feels to me that this is one of the places where people start to agree as well. they'll agr

we want to go to patrick swanson right now who is on the phone for us right now.geant swanton is on the phone. we just heard a news conference. sergeant swar on tnton, can you us the latest right now? >> yeah, update what i basically did with the rest of the folks. at this point we are still in a search and rescue operation. we know that we have at least 160 plus individuals that have been treated at local hospitals for injuries ranging from minor cuts, wounds, to broken bones. some of the injuries have been described to me as critical type injuries. we know now that the fire call actually went out at approximately 7:29 p.m. local time. the west volunteer fire department responded to the scene. several firefighters were actually in the process of working the fire. they knew because of a seriousness of where they were they started doing evacuations. at 7:53 we got the first call of an explosion at the plant. that explosion was a devastating explosion for this community. it has leveled homes in neighborhoods around the area. it has leveled some of the businesses. we

i want to bring in sergeant swanson with the waco police department who has been briefing us and giving us all the great information that's been coming out. thank you for being with us, sir. sergeant, tell us a little bit as you were sort of characterizing earlier, it is classified a crime scene but that is sort of standard. it doesn't mean that a crime is suspected here? >> correct. we're going to start off in that mode. hopefully we will find that there is not any criminal activity and we'll be able to move into an industrial accident type investigation. obviously the first part of it is going to be conducted with a.t.f., our state fire marshals. they are here on the scene and they're going to conduct a possible criminal investigation if in fact that proves to be the case. our county sherrifs department is here. they're going to work the deaths that have come from the explosion and fire. we'll move forward on it and see where it leads. >> this is tricky because obviously you're working in the dark of night and we've been talking about that a lot. once the sun starts to come up we're g