you know, for lack of a better cliche if a crow flies, if you will, probably 2, 3 miles from fertilizer plant roughly, 3 mile from the fertilizer plant. it is on the other side of the interstate and as you see the lights that are across the interstate now, that is a fair ground football field. that is where they initially took some casualties. the site of the blast is more toward the north side of town but it is not far from that at all. millage as far as the inside of the west 2800 in numbers 2800 plus the city of west itself is not huge. again thank you for your patience with me. i will tell you that as i get
thank you for joining us. appreciate it. you are welcome. thank you. we are continuing our live coverage of the fertilizer plant explosion in the town of west texas. a town of 2800 people located 70 miles south of dallas, 120 miles north of austin just to give you a little location there. you were mentioning the town it is known as the checkpoint of central texas. a lot of people from czechoslovakia originated from there and settled there in west texas. tough time for them right now and most likely going forward for quite sometime. long recovery ahead. stay with us. and i have diabetic nerve pain. i worked a patrol unit for 17 years in the city of baltimore. when i first started experiencing the pain, it s hard to describe because you have a numbness but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot.
the blast just missed the cousin. a few windows were knocked out, doors. it will take a lot of time before we gauge the destruction that took place. first responders are still on scene. they are going home to home. they are marking x s on homes that have been evacuated. it s a long road ahead for these folks. we have to clarify this for you. the town is now fully evacuated? no. excuse me. there s an 8-10 block radius that is evacuated. i didn t mean to say that. like you did mention with the wind shifting there is a chance more evacuations can take place but right now it s 8-10 blocks. we will continue to monitor it. thank you for clarifying. elizabeth prann, a long night
texas asking for prayers at his town. there could be several dead including first responders. take a listen to the desperate dispatch call moment after the blast. a bomb just went off inside here. it is pretty bad. we have a lot of firemen down. firefighters down. sending everyone they could to the scene about two hours ago. the west waco fire department was able to gitional information. we understand the next news conference is not scheduled to happen until about 6:00 a.m. eastern time. now that we have been mentioning there have been concerns about the wind shifting
in the town of west texas which could mean more areas might have to be evacuated due to the possibility of toxic fumes which were unleashed by this blast. anhydrous ammonia. maria molina joins us with the weather. i was speak to go you earlier, winds could be a problem. any rain could help. you were mentioning the possibility of lightening which would not be a good thing. lightening would not be a good thing. also looking at the possibility some of these storms that could be impacting this region could pack a punch in terms of large hail and also more damaging wind gusts. 60 miles an hour. i want to talk about the wind. the current conditions in west texas are not good. we have the wind out of the south at 21 miles per hour. gusting to 29 miles per hour. any time you have a fire outdoors and you have windy conditions it will not help firefighters put thisso out it