we heard from him and we spoke to a woman named vanessa williams.e us a great picture, a picture of the huge cloud that went up after the blast. she was in the neighborhood when she took that picture, the windows were getting blown out of her car and her cars were being flattened by this blast. her son -- she's divorced and her son was staying with her husband at the time. she was rushing toward their home. the house had exploded. the son and ex-husband were close by. they were not hurt but her ex-husband jumped on her 8-year-old son to save him. i caught up with her and she was telling me how she feared the worse. >> i can hear the explosion. i'll never forget it. i will never forget pulling up to my son's house and thinking he was dead and my ex-husband was dead. that's very scary. >> reporter: how are you feeling now? >> he's alive. but there are people that aren't. so god be with them. >> reporter: so, team are still combing through the wreckage tonight trying to find survives. i spoke with search and rescue team, they've gone through 70-plus st

it's a fact not lost on tyson's costar vanessa williams. >> you're going to go too far for me one dayughter-in-law. >> it takes me back to when i was a kid lying in bed watching tv and watching her in miss jane pitman. those were the performances that made me want to be an actress. >> reporter: really? absolutely. her image was part of what educated us about slavery, abbot her eerience as a black woman that she portrayed, you know, beautifully in the pieces and in the work that she did. >> reporter: in a recent sunday service at the east gate baptist church back in texas, tyson was again in research mode. something else to take back to broadway. her fans look on her as much as a beacon of social conscience as an award-winning actress. cicely tyson seems quite happy to play both those roles. she won't confirm just how old she really is. by some accounts she's 88. do you think you're ever going to retire? >> there's no age limit on this. i'm not jane pitman. >> reporter: that could be you. osgood: ahead... >> reporter: that could be you. osgood: ahead... what are you guys crazy or somet

vanessa williams was dethroned because of lewd pictures of her.tioned early in her career because of lewd pictures. both of those women survived those things in the '80s when we were more conservative as a country. you're asking me in 2013 can lewd pictures derail a politician? i'm forced to say no because of what history has already taught us and because of what history has shown us about the american people. it's a disgusting industry, politics is, and so anyone that gives into it, you've already got to raise a eyebrow anyway. you're not going to disqualify them because of pictures. and yes, in my book, carol, he did cheat on his wife. but in a lot of people's opinions, all he did was flirt. >> he just -- you see l.c. just redeemed himself with the women of america. >> partially, partially. >> i'm going to have some problems. >> many thanks. we'll be right back. >> thank you. >>> 53 minutes past the hour. check of our top stories in a few minutes. president obama will talk about his brand new budget plan amongst other things, it's expected to pu