growing anger and calls for compensation after those deadly warehouse explosions in northern china. some homeowners want the government to buy back their homes. they fear chemicals in the air and on the ground make it unsafe to live there. investigations into workplace safety and negligence at the warehouse now underway. the number of missing from the explosions is climbing. cnn's will ripley live at a rail station severely damaged by the explosions. will, we can see around you barrels of chemicals scattered all over the place. >> reporter: it's really remarkable when you look at this damage, christine. this entire light rail station was, if you go inside, everything kind of fell apart. there's a good part of tianjin's bus fleet in the parking lot there. the windows are all smashed. yes, we've seen a lot of chemicals contamination. there are barrels strewn all other the place. you can see at the edge of the tracks here there's a barrel