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nt much of the day after Wednesday night's blast searching the town for survivors.The small town is reeling as rescuers comb the rubble house by house and one official laments: "part of that community is gone."Police initially said between 5 to 15 people were killed during the massive blast at West Fertilizer. The explosion occurred around 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, a town located 45 miles north. It sent flames spiraling high into the evening sky and rained burning embers, shrapnel and debris down on frightened residents.- Waco Police Department Sgt. William Patrick SwantonTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott told reporters in a news conference Thursday night that the impact of the explosion was worse than he expected. "The devastation is immense," he said. But, he added the other thing he saw while touring West was "the sign of hope" and "the beginnings of a community trying to piece itself back together."A member of the city council, Al Vanek, said a four-block area around the explosion was "totally decimated." Other witnesses compared the scene to that of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and authorities said the plant made materials similar to that used to fuel the bomb that tore apart that city's Murrah Federal Building.Debby Marak told The Associated Press that she noticed a lot of smoke in the area across town near the plant when she finished teaching her religion class Wednesday. She said she drove over to cks that also included an expansion of rights for gun owners.Its pretty hard to get people organized for action on legislation that doesnt address the incident that spurred the vote and is so watered down that liberal activists were hard pressed to even call it better than nothing.And the same will be true when it comes to the other looming challenges of the year, immigration and a budget. Getting people to march on behalf of a convoluted measure that doesnt match their activist aspirations sounds pretty implausible. And those two issues are far more complicated than gun control.Second, when does Obama have the time?The list of urgent challenges facing the president doesnt allow him to be crisscrossing the country to hold rallies. But his ground troops, like the donors who are funding Obamas continuing campaign effort, arent going to show up for just a Tweet or a Web video. They want the man himself, not some campaign aide deputized by Obama to round up the posse.And it wont do for the president to be away from Washington pushing his personal agenda on one narrow issue when a bomber is on the loose in Boston, the North Koreas are fueling up rockets, somebody is sending poisoned envelopes to Senators and the economy is teetering again.Obama could use his celebrity and network to bring 15,000 to Jackson Square to make Landrieu worry, but he cant do it when the rest of the country is expecting him to be dealing with issues of urgent conc