fatalities. although officials are saying that there will in fact be fatalities. i'm joined now by kxas reporter ben russell, who is on the scene live in west texas. ben, what can you tell us about what you've seen tonight and what's happening there? >> reporter: i can tell you a lot has changed since we first arrived here. perhaps around 9:00 central time. we are now about the better part of a mile away from where this incident happened. we are at the command center. this city you see here, the city of waco police department, this is where all the major decisions are being made. that's why we're in this area. the situation going on still at this time is again perhaps bay mile away from me. i don't know if you can make it out. there are some large bright lights you see there. that's the west high school football field. that's the area where they were triaging patients in this area. the area where this fertilizer plant was is just north of that. what we have seen when we were in that area before we were moved here, we saw buildings on fire. they appeared to be barns, not homes, though we understand