were there fires burning within there? something as simple as a cigarette can cause a fire that could lead to something like this. those are all things that need to be worked out by the experts. the investigation will hopefully reveal those details. any time you have a collapse of a structure, you have fire, smoke, that can be deadly to people inside of the building. we know that when there is smoke and a lot of fire and people are in there, they lose direction inside of a location and that leads to events like this. we are not going to sit here and speculate on how each victim may have died. this is a tragedy. there is no easy answers right
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a fire breaks out that people would have a difficult time escaping? well, the building itself originally was a warehouse. and if it would have just remained a warehouse no, you wouldn t expect people to have trouble escaping. because there was a lot of construction where people just, you know, put up partitions. there wasn t a real clear entry or exit path. as mentioned earlier up on the second floor. it was the stairwell, there was one way down from the second floor. and that stairwell was put together through what was described to me as pallets. and if the fire possibly, if it had started in that area, everyone on the second floor would not have been able to escape. so i don t know where the fire started. but i know that the way the building was situated, it really
hospitals that may have self-transported, that may have been treated and released that maybe hadn t checked in with family yet. at the last press conference we heard a haunting quote, you either made it out or you didn t make it out. that s the estimate from the sheriff s department who is looking into this as well. they are telling people not to call local hospitals because they have a good hold on either the numbers of people who are inside that warehouse or outside that warehouse. the work has to be investigators getting into the building to actually figure out how this started, where this started, but also figuring out how many people were actually trapped in a huge structure that went up overnight in a very fast moving fire. we are in a very sensitive phase of this investigation that will include a lot of grief, according to officials. thank you, steve. we are going to watch if that does happen, the briefing in the
the fire breaking out last night during a party in this warehouse, as you look at these live pictures here. they are in west oakland close to san francisco. we expect potentially another briefing within the next hour or two. when that does happen, we ll monitor that for you here on msnbc. a tragedy in california we are watching. jury deliberations in the high profile murder trial former south carolina police officer michael slager. that will resume monday. the panel telling the judge it was hopelessly deadlocked. a single juror wrote a letter to the judge saying he could not convict the former north charleston police officer. despite the deadlock, the jurors told the court they want to keep deliberating. we kept hearing it s over, it s over. we ll just wait till monday. slager is charged in the death of walter scott who was shot in the back as he ran from a traffic stop last year.