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we woke up to the first blast and went to check out what is happening at the window and saw a huge explosion. we have line of sight from where it happened. it is only a few buildings in the way and the shock wave just blew through our apartment it it blew out the glass and the doors. it just knocked everything over. we knocked out the power. it has really damaged a lot of the building in my complex that were facing that side and other complexes that were facing the other direction. tianjin is one of the most populous cities in china home to 10 million people. it s just to the southeast of beijing. will ripley is there. reporter: when you look around at the devastation here, it s really remarkable. one, just all of the damage that was done to this convention center building, take a look at
choki choking chemical smell in the air. they have no choice but to breathe it in as they run to this parking lot. when you look around at the devastation, it s remarkable. all the damage done to this convention center building, the windows smashed in, the doors as well. take a look at this car. it clearly caught fire. the windows smashed. it s crumpled. we are standing two kilometers from the blast site. at the nearest hospital a severely burned man is wheeled past waiting crowds. others collapse from the pain or the anguish of losing someone they love. during my live report from outside the hospital tempers flared. an angry mob demanding to see the pictures on my phone forces me off the air. police don t stop them.
around at all the devastation here, it s really remarkable one just all the damage that was done to the convention center building, the windows and doors smashed in. take a look at this car. it clearly caught fire. the windows smashed. it s crumpled to bits and we are standing two kilometers from the blast site. we re not even close to the epicenter. that gives you a sense of how strong this was and how scary this was for the 15 million people who live here in tianjin when they were jolts out of bed overnight. a lot of the people in the apartment blacks we visited earlier, there are shards of glass piled up on the ground. and people didn t have time to put on shoes and they were barefoot going through this. that s why hundreds of people are in the hospital, a lot with cuts because of the broken glass. there are helicopters in the air
pushes walls in on people. that is why we have seen so many injuries here. 500 and rising at area hospitals because more than a mile from the accident, you see so much debris. part of this convention center building is still falling down as we stand out here. look at this. there are streets that are full of cars that look just like this. leading up to the epicenter of the explosion. i want to show you the smoke plume. it has gotten worse. the fire is out of control. firefighters are not in there battling it right now. they are so concerned about the toxic chemicals that are burning. they don t know what is being spewed into the air here right now. this is really, christine, what it amounts to, an incredibly tragic industrial accident just two hours from the chinese capital. we are seeing the first signs the chinese government is trying to censor this.
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