turn myself in and thought i thought about the missing black women and chirp. i started thinking about flint, michigan. i started thinking about the crack cocaine epidemic. i started thinking about all the injustice and the trafficking that my people go through. that s why i snapped. i wasn t thinking like, you know, kill, kill, kill. i was thinking white supremacy has to die and the people who benefit from white supremacy are white men. prosecutors say he ll undergo a mental competency evaluation next month and horrifying video to show you. this little girl falling out of a bus in arkansas. the whole thing caught on dashcam of a volunteer fire fighter who happened to be driving behind. he obviously rushed in to help.
march 14, cancer or not. a volunteer fire fighter forced to battle that massive fire for 35 minutes alone. budget cuts slashed the illinois town s entire fire department. he struggled to keep the flames from spreading to a nearby home. it was pretty difficult due to the wind and i have an occupied home next door. it was pretty difficult to battle it alone. eventually help from another district did arrive. no one hurt. sheer panic how the pilot described the moment a bird smashed through his plane s window. the plane going 170 miles an hour when that bird hit the glass. the pilot rob weber s head was cut. he did land safely. it was a slap in the
public, if you call their line, that only direct family call. they said they ve been flooded all evening, as you can imagine, with people calling about loved ones, seeing if they re okay, and they re just asking that immediate family call only. that way they can make sure everyone gets through. that is some relatively good news considering the difficulties that we ve gone through tonight. chris, who was at hillcrest baptist tonight, reporting for us. thank you. we appreciate that information. you re welcome. these pictures you re seeing have come to us from the waco tribune. they give you a ground level view of what happened in the few minutes after the explosion took place. some idea of the devastation, people helping people that goes on even at this hour. kelly slater is up in the news room at the social media center. so much going on right now. we understand that perry s office is in full motion. first we want to get to this inside picture. this is from a volunteer
welcome back. we are covering this fertilizer explosion. just a massive situation in west, texas. we got some pictures now of a mushroom cloud, new pictures. take a look at this. that is the massive, massive mushroom cloud the mayor described earlier on the telephone. this is tommy musca you re about to hear. he is also a volunteer firefighter who says he was on his way to fight a fire that occurred at this chemical plant when it exploded. what i do know is approximately 6:30 there was a fire at the fertilizer plant on jerry marshall drive, north of the city of west. approximately 7:00 that plant exploded. the explosion propelled in a
and casualties. we have a lot of information that we have to get to. in fact, the mayor of the small town, west, has just had a press conference, and some of the things he s talking about is the damage. we re talking about 50 to 75 structures, including homes and businesses, nursing home, a school, and an apartment complex. he says, the intermediate school caught on fire, and a number of houses in the area are completely destroyed or damaged. he also goes on to say they are now evacuating the area. this is a four square area around this plant that essentially is decimated. half of the town of 2,800 people have been evacuated. we re talking about more than 100 injuries, people being taken to a number of different hospitals. firefighters that were fighting the initial blaze, which is what was happening first, and then this explosion occurred, are still unaccounted for. the mayor of this town, west, texas, is a volunteer firefighter himself. he was there. he says he was knocked off of