got him out. wife was trapped in a recliner. got her out. flames started taking that house over. martha: that man is a hero. he saved all those people s lives with the folks helping him. mike tobin is live on the story in chicago. so, mike, what happened is the big question? reporter: that is what is so perplexing about this, martha. so far no cause for this explosion. a spokesman for citizens energy, the power company out there, no one reported smelling gas ahead of the explosion. a local congressman says a meth lab or a bomb have been ruled out as in terms of causes of the explosion. investigators aren t saying anything but all we know that people were doing their business, in their homes at a 11:00 on saturday night and all at once the neighborhood just erupted in flames and broken glass. the bomb blast, shouldn t say bomb blast, but the blast was so powerful, people three miles away reported their homes were shaken badly. at the center of the blast
dozens of other homes damaged, forcing several hundred people to evacuate the neighborhood. two people sustaining minor injuries and a fire lieutenant says it looks like a war zone, but the explosion not stopping. one neighbor from coming to the rescue. and sitting here watching tv next thing we know a loud explosion and the house shook and things falling off the walls and we got up, ran outside and looked around, there was insulation falling down like snow and next think we know you could see the smoke, my son and nephew and i ran over and the house was gone, but the house next to it the sound was caved in and heard people yelling. so we went in and pulled out two daughters and then the husband was trapped under a lot of debris, got him out, and then the wife was trapped in the recliner and finally got her out and flames started taking that house over. thank the lord for that neighbor. apparently it wasn t immediate obvious what caused it. investigators say it will take weeks to f
forcing several00 people to evacuate the neighborhood two people sustaining minor injuries. it looks like a war zone but the explosion not stopping. one neighbor coming to the rescue. it was a loud explosion the house shook we ran up looked around insulation falling like snow. my son my fef new and i ran over and the thousanhouse was gone. the houses next to us got him out and the wife was trapped in the recliern. finally got her out. flames started taking that house over. thank the good lettered for that neighbor. it wasn t immediately obvious what caused this. it could take weeks to find out what caused the explosion. a frightening landing when a
was a writer for time magazine. here s part of an article he wrote about president bush at that time. as part of the effort to convince the public he wasn t on vacation in the generally accepted sense of what the word means, i.e. having fun and not working so he was taking a shot at president bush back then for going on vacation out to crawford, texas. and his argument was then that president bush would be brought out and criticized for meeting with americans. that he would be at crawford most of the time on vacation and then carney criticized the then bush administration for bringing him out and having meetings with americans like one day having them like sort of rub elbows and go to crawford. exactly. while the president was president bush was taking his long vacation down in texas, his handlers, mr. carney said, would invent some photo op once a week to get him somewhere over at habitat for humanity, building a house over in waco or out in colorado. and you re exactly right,
that was per the estate attorney because initially countrywide had called my attorney and asked if there was any interest in assumption of the loan and taking over the ownership and, of course, we were interested. i was interested. so as a condition of that, they wanted payments to get caught up. i went ahead and wrote the check and sent it in for $15,000. the assumption papers came but they were misdated so i was expecting a new set of documents. they never arrived. it took several, several months to play catch up with them finally and according to my attorney, i was not to make anymore payments until i had a legal ownership of the home. exactly. if you write a $15,000 check, you want some acknowledgment. how do you have anything like that? in this case, bank of america bought countrywide. they turned the whole house over. have you seen anything like this before? we see this happening to