Some buildings are still unsafe to check.

On Christmas Day, a recreational vehicle was parked on 2nd Avenue North in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. In the early morning, a warning suddenly went out, advising all who could hear it to evacuate immediately. Shortly after, the RV detonated in a massive explosion, damaging at least 40 buildings on the street, both homes and businesses, and injuring 8 people.

Since the detonation, the foundations of the damaged buildings have been under observation by structural engineers to determine if they are safe to enter and survey. Today, a portion of the buildings were officially deemed safe, and 20 business and home owners will be escorted by Nashville police into the blast zone to examine the extent of the damage more closely. It will still be several more days before the rest of the blast zone is deemed safe to enter.

Numerous small business owners, who have already been on difficult times due to the COVID-19 pandemic reducing their business, have been left in dire straits by this attack. “I know those streets like the back of my hand. It’s my life. It’s my love. I’m down there every day of the week for years, and I can’t even make out what the shop was or is or where (it is) almost. And it’s truly heartbreaking,” Pete Gibson, the owner of Pride & Glory Tattoo on 2nd Avenue, told CNN.

“This year’s been tough,” Gibson continued. “It’s obviously been a little down compared to normal. But right when we get a little light at the end of the tunnel, it all goes away in two seconds.”

The perpetrator of the bombing, identified yesterday as 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner, is presumed to have been killed in the blast. CNN spoke to several of Warner’s neighbors about him, most of whom described him as a recluse. One particular neighbor, Rick Laude, spoke to Warner four days prior to the bombing, where he received a cryptic warning.

“I said, ‘Hey, Anthony, is Santa going to bring you something good for Christmas?'” Laude said. “He said, ‘Yes, I’m going to be more famous. I’m going to be so famous Nashville will never forget me.'”