people are dead. police and firefighters are combing through what is left of the destroyed building, trying to find survivors, cnn s with the latest. rescue workers are continuing their task of sifting through rubble, what used to be the iconic five-star hotel saratoga, after an explosion ripped through the hotel early on friday. what we are told by cuban officials is that a gas truck had arrived. the gas for the hotel for cooking as the hotel workers were ready to reopen the hotel to tourists next week. as the gas was being delivered, a leak caused the hotel to fill up full of gas and that led to a massive explosion that gutted this hotel. we arrived moments after dthe
workers continued their grim task of sifting through massive amounts of rubble, what used to be the iconic five-star hotel saratoga after an explosion ripped through the hotel early on friday. what we re told by cuban officials is that a gas truck had arrived. gas for the hotel users for cooking as the hotel workers readied to reopen the hotel to tourists next week. and somehow as this gas was diagnose delivered to the hotel, a leak apparently caused the hotel to fill full of gas, and that led to this massive explosion that gutted this hotel. we arrived moments after the explosion. we saw people being taken from the rubble. there was one woman who was barely able to walk. there was one woman covered in blood, obviously seriously injured, in a stretcher being taken away, in a stretcher. and we saw rescue workers using their bare hands to claw away that rubble and see if there was