with us through some images and you can basically see smoke billowing out of the apartment, so investigators saying it wasn't the fire itself that led to so much damage and death but in fact, the smoke that billowed throughout the interior of the building and according today commissioner, preventing the escape of dozens of people. >> we are indeed a city in shock. it's impossible to go into that room, where scores of family who are in such grief, who are in pain, to see it in a mother's eyes as i held her, who lost her entire family. it's hard to fathom what they're going through. and i went table to table, helped children make their ramen noodle and see heat their pizza