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RIPLEY: “Fred, arriving here, we got the stunning news from the — from the fire officials who have been responding out here, about 900 or so police and firefighters here on the scene. And the news is just about as bad as we could have imagined. I was walking past people in Halloween costumes on the phone. Absolutely sobbing, calling their family members to let them know that they’re OK. You can see that there are stretchers out here waiting to see if there are any more people who need to be taken to the hospital. But the videos that have been appearing on social media combined with the emergency alerts, we knew that something really awful had happened here. This is — to set the scene for you, Fred — this is the Itaewon. Oh, is it possible to go through here? CNN. Just through here. Thank you. This is the Itaewon nightclub district in Seoul. It is iconic for, among other major holidays, Halloween. People fly in from all over the region here in Asia to come here to celebrate Halloween in Itaewon. Come over here, Charlie, if we can. I just want to take you down this row of emergency vehicles here. And you can see this line of stretchers.”