did get another sample of the virus from china. ran it through the advanced molecular system found certain mutations in the virus had they gone all the way could have rendered our front line anti-wire ral rals tamiflu. this had been able to overcome the final step it could have become resistant to those drugs. it hadn t gotten there yet, but we can tell by looking at it is on its way there. reporter: that would be problematic. it would be problematic. reporter: centers for disease control completed work on important diagnostic kits because the first case of h7n9 was detected outside of china a man in taiwan who spent two weeks traveling in china. martha? martha: john, thank you. bill: they have lost so much. some of the first victims of the texas plant explosion are being laid to rest today. we re now getting updates
it doesn t mean he can t breathe. very often when patients have a large loss of blood, doctors prefer the machine breathe ratherthen the patient. it puts less strain on the patient. and people are often sedated when they re intubated. they re out of t not able to hold a conversation. wolf. all right, elizabeth, there could be some dramatic developments over at the hospital where you are. we re going to get back to you. we ll see if a magistrate or a judge actually shows up to notify this suspect at bedside about potential charges, what s going on. stand by, elizabeth. certainly, building a case against the boston bombing suspects is going to be intense. we re going to show you the brand new jihadist video that we have just discovered. it could become part of the investigation. and as boston tries to recover, another community, another community is also dealing with its own tragedy. remembering the victims of the texas plant explosion as they re
did trigger. it was measured as a 2.5 earthquake on the richter scale. it actually is a minor earthquake. that s what it s classified at. it was detected in amarillo, texas, more than 400 miles away from the city of west in texas. just incredible how far away this traveled. there are reports this earthquake or the shake in the ground was felt as far away as waco, texas, which is about 20 miles away from west. some people, i think i heard even in dallas, texas, which is about 80 miles away from the city of west, texas. as far as the wind incredible it triggered a shake and people could feel it. this is an explosion that happened at a plant. we have an approaching cold front heading eastbound. we see winds out of the south blowing towards the north. right now they are blowing strongly. we re seeing gusts of over 30 miles per hour being recorded in the city of west. this front is headed eastbound. behind the front we will see a shift in the wind direction. they will be blowing from
7:30 we received a call of a fire call. tpraoeurdz responded fire fighters responded. 15, 20 minutes later was the call of the explosion. it is a chemical fertilizer plant. they produce anhydrous ammonia. they produce the anhydrous ammonia there? this is a tparpblg farming community. it is a big fertilizer plant. there is a railroad facility, railroad cars that bring tanks of anhydrous ammonia in. it s that kind of plant. they produce here shifts to local farmers, hence the reason we have such a large explosion because of the chemicals that were there. we don t know if it s staffed 24 hours a day, if there were people on site working? i do not. obviously a major employer, i would imagine with it being that large, you describing the rail system infrastructure that s in place.
west community center after 9:00 a.m. we will have another press conference at 4:00. thank you. ask for your prayers. mayor, what do you say about your [inaudible] gretchen: the mayor of west texas giving an update, much of the information we ve already given with regard to the number of people still missing, injured, confirmed dead, the timing of the fire that happened, about 7:23 central time yesterday and then the explosion 30 minutes later. do we still have casey stegall back? i ve been wondering for the last 15 minutes since you were last on whether or not they asked you to also put on a mask when you arrived on the scene? a lot of our viewers will be concerned about the people around there like yourself not having a mask on. what have they told stphu