the moments before the blasts actually occurred. the information we are getting is some of these images may be helpful in this investigation and they are zeroing in on some of the people in these pictures. the president and first lady will be arriving in boston for an interfaith ceremony. they will be joined with leaders from all different denominations including those of the jew i be and isl jewish and islamic fa. they have signed an emergency declaration for massachusetts. molly lion reporting on the latest from boston. we are going to go right now back to the police department with sergeant patrick swan ton wi son / with the waco police. fortunately they are again as i said a very tight knit group here in this community. they have already pulled together.
respond to the initial fire at the scene. those apparently a group of volunteer firefighters who had responded and still being reported as missing. but again sergeant swan ton saying 5-15 people believed dead as a result of this explosion that has happened at this fertilizer plant in west texas. joining us right now on the phone we have heather beck is spokeswoman for providence hospital in waco, one of the hospitals that took in nanny of the injured. thank you for joining us. how many patients have you treated? 67 65 patients. of the 6512 we ha, 12 we have a. we are seeing broken bones, lacerations, bruises, some respiratory distress and head injuries and minor burns. are any of those patients in critical or life threatening condition? we have one patient in critical condition but i am
but again this happened at 8:00 p.m. central time, local time. 9:00 p.m. eastern so the sun was starting to go down. so after the initial explosion, by the time all of the crews could get in here especially the news helicopters, all of the aerial pictures we have so far are all in the darkness. night had already fallen. we are really going to get our sfirns of how widespread, how devastating and how big of an area we are tally talking about here once the sun starts to rise over the next couple of hours. mu and those initial teams can get in there, the helicopters will be up in the air and bring the first aerial pictures. by all accounts we are hearing blocks and blocks of this tiny community in between waco and dallas texas leveled by this explosion patti ann and heather.
will actually help spread the fire. the winds should continue to gust strongly through out the day today gusting as high as 35 mails per hour. as we head into friday strong winds are still forecast gusting to 25 miles per hour. the wind will continue to be a major problem as we head into the next 24-48-hours in this area of texas. west texas is to the north of waco, texas and south of the city of dallas between dallas and waco for those of you not familiar with the area. we have an approaching cold front. this will be a concern as far as any severe weather in the area. you see winds out of the south that s where we are seeing them. south winds mean from the south to the north so it will be blowing toward the north. the concern with that is if there are any chemicals being dispersed from the plant it could belowing more toward the north it could mean evacuations and firefighters may need to change location if we see them