from what we have been told from governor deval patrick, he is not able to communicate. elizabeth cohen will stand by at the hospital and let us know if there are developments over there. thank you. while the suspect recovers over at that medical center, here in the boston area, the investigation is dramatically heating up. we ll find out how prosecutors plan to make a case against the boston bombing suspect. plus, another community dealing with tragedy today. victims of that deadly plant explosion in west, texas, they re being remembered today at church services. lots of news happening today right here on cnn. [ male announcer ] straight from red lobster s chefs to your table for a limited time! it s our seafood dinner for two for just 25 dollars! a handcrafted seafood feast made to share. first you each get salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. then choose two from a wide variety of chef-inspired entrées like our new honey garlic crispy shrimp or new seafood lover s linguini
and a half ago. this is a section of town ma may have broken windows but no structural damage. north of that is an area that has been devastated by the plant explosion. you have houses that were completely demolished, others that were blown apart and others that r were crippled by the egs ploegs on wednesday night. we have that number, 14 people who died. the morning after the explosion i was talking to the texas congressman who represents west and he was telling me in his conversations with local officials they knew that that was going to go much higher. do they have a good number on how many people are still missing who they can t find? well initially they thought as many as 60 people were missing but they believe that the number is much less than that. they said yesterday they would be surprised if it were one or two more death toll rising by that amount. they said that moest most people have been accounted for.
service is set to get underway about 50 minutes from now. also as the president arrives, there is a statement that has been put out on this breaking news that this texas deadly plant explosion. here is part of the quote that came out from the white house a moment ago. today our prayers go out to the people of west texas in the aftermath of last night s deadly explosion. i want to thank the first-responders who worked tire lesly through the night to contain and treat the wounded. he goes on to talk about a tight-knit community that has been rocked to its core and rocked to its foundation. we re juggling both of these stories right now. more from texas we get more information and certainly more from boston with the president arriving here only moments ago. back to new york with patti ann who has a bit more on this right now. patti ann: as you mentioned president obama is in boston for that memorial service in honor of the three people killed and 176 up injured in the marathon attack. he
that is mile, several miles from where we are. copley square is behind me which is the piece of video we showed you a moment ago. a nation remembers boston today and it should be quite an emotional day as that ceremony gets underway, now on the schedule for 11:00 a.m. eastern time. full coverage here throughout america s newsroom on that. back to patti ann now in new york. patti ann: bill, meanwhile the fires are still smoldering in texas. authorities saying the site of that massive plant explosion in the city of west is still too hot to investigate. fires there still burning. the latest on the ongoing investigation coming up. i will confirm there have been fatalities. i think we will see those fatalities increase as we get towards the morning. numerous injured have been moved from the scenes to the hospitals.
there. so that will be the process. it s going on now, and it will continue in probably a bigger way after sunrise. once again, abc s jim ryan reporting from very close to the plant explosion. we thank you for joining us this morning, jim. a developing situation. we want to go right now to our dallas affiliate, wfaa, and listen in to that station s wall to wall coverage from west texas. doctors and nurses that came in when they issued that code green emergency alert. the ceo of the hospital just saying how thankful they were that they had everyone come in when they did as quickly as they did, and they were able to hand handle, obviously, a stressful situation much better. we spoke to several volunteers outside of the hospital from local churches who were able to help and do what they can. we could see groups of people bringing in food for the families that are there waiting to hear about their loved ones. they did ask us to ask the