the plant is operated by the t.p.c. group.eral chemicals are produced at the plant, including butadiene, which is used to make synthetic rubber. exposure to the chemical could cause damage to the nervous system. >> 24-7 air monitoring has been carried out. all of that has shown there are no contaminants in the air that are harmful to human health. >> reporter: instead of driving to dallas for thanksgiving, don and diana plokhooy spent part of their holiday cleaning shards of glass from inside their bedroom. despite the mandatory evacuation order, they are still counting their blessings. >> i just can't believe nobody got hurt bad or killed. this is amazing to me. >> reporter: the plant's owner has been fined in the past. in january, they were fined more than $200,000 by the state for air quality violations. david. >> begnaud: omar, thank you. china today summoned the u.s. ambassador to beijing to express its anger at president trump. yesterday, the president signed two bipartisan bills supporting human rights in hong kong and

the refinery owned by bit t.p.c. group produces followers of tons of chemical petroleum based products now the situation important which is is ongoing as far as we understand them urgency services seek to bring the fire under control as quickly as they can journalist campaigner on health and environmental issues oliver to kill believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any background toxicity. somebody quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufacturers on this site i think that the really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local mayor of following this since the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant and these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this golden triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents i think that this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional

the t.p.c. group plant produced chemicals like butadiene, which could damage nervous systems.uthorities say the e.p.a. is monitoring air quality. >> we have taken at the moment, as best a defensive position as we possibly can in order to try to get everything initiated as cooling, isolate as much as we possibly can, so that we're not continuing to feed the source of the fire. >> reporter: we were right outside the burning chemical plant when that second explosion occurred. we saw it. we felt it. it was jarring. officials now say that the mandatory evacuation circle now covers a four-mile radius around the plant. firefighters are now working to put out the fire, so they can figure out what caused it. david. >> begnaud: courtney zubowski near the scene in southeast texas tonight. thank you, courtney. it is one of the busiest nights ever for travel in the u.s. and for tens of millions of people, the timing could not be worse. two major storms are whipping up trouble coast to coast. you've got heavy snow and rain that are causing wipeout conditions on the roads in the west and the

from the surrounding areas the fires caused extensive damage would fishel say it's now contained t.p.c. group which owns the refinery says their focus is on protecting the public and the environment we heard from some locals. i was in my room when the windows open in the series i turned around the window with a little boring gentle examples for now from the sky oh boy the big boy. little boys that size. i was in the most sound sleep i probably have gotten in the last 2 or 3 weeks. it didn't last long when i am out of the porch watching far above my houses over there and it it was at an angle about like the image it's quite large we're just really unsure of what's going on. at this point we're worried about their body. you know just trying to play it safe well as bought heading away just a few of its time the back with the latest news rundown in 30 minutes time see that . one there is only johnson. and i just got out of prison for. 41 years. 72 years so. i got arrested for to some i. feel like just everything was taken out of. my work and. i think it was. meant to snow man that looks a little

the refinery t.p.c. group produces thousands of tons of chemical and petroleum based products and journalist and campaign on health and environmental issues all of a to me was that a substantial investigation will be needed. some pretty quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufacturer's own site i think that really quite a lot of investigation will be immediately just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this and the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this golden triangle area but at the same time there are all these pollution incidents i think this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut the resources of the as it's intending to do boom bust coming away just a few of its time we're back in 30 minutes with the latest glo

the refinery owned by the t.p.c. group produces thousands of tons of chemical and petroleum based products the situation import nature is still ongoing and is emerging as the services seek to bring the fire under control as quickly as possible journalist and campaign on health and environmental issues all of a take l. believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any background toxicity. some really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufactures on this site are synergetic compound such as beauty in benzene and lots of chemical precursors going into synthetic rubber fuel additives. lubricants how to this past really a very wide range of things many of which are toxic really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this incident the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they

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