earlier this evening we heard from texas public safety official d.l. wilson. th the latest information that officials are sharing at this time. let's listen to what he had to say. >> first of all, we'd like our thoughts and prayers to go out to all the community around here in west. it's a small farming community. we've always opened our arms to everybody that passes through here on i-35. they're in our hearts and prayers for this unbelievable tragedy that's happened here tonight. what we're looking at now, we've got the gas companies turning all the gas off to the areas where the explosion happened. we do not need anymore help. get that out right now. firefighters are coming from hundreds of miles to help us. right now we are overflowing with help. tomorrow morning the mayor is going to speak again. right now we have a tremendous amount of injuries, probably over a hundred injuries at this time. at this time we do have confirmed fatalities. the number is not confirmed yet. it could go up by the minute. we're in there searching the area right now and making sur