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It is thick black sludge. and the rescue teams, the mop-up teams have been working around the clock. they say theyve probably got about 70% of the oil so far. they say they will have completed the task by saturday. but certainly if you look at this area, there is a lot of oil on the beach still. no one has taken responsibility for human error in this. but theres a lot of questions being raised on the impact on tourism. this is a big tourist area, its quite close to bangkok, the capital of thaila...

Deputy as question at that time they turned their back to get the information. >> reporter: harding who was free is now in custody. and police think harding and the driver of the get away car arent the only ones part of the plot. >> seems to be well-thought out and evidently there were several individuals involved. >> reporter: authorities arent saying much more than that as everyone here tries to figure out how something that is supposed to be so hard is made to look, so, so easy. >> unbelievab...

The blue rhino propane plant went up in flames around midnight. authorities feared the worst. there were some injuries among the workers. but miraculously, no one was killed. >> eight were transported to local hospitals in the area. at this point according to the blue rhino management, everyone whom they knew to be there last night that was scheduled to work has been accounted for. >> reporter: a spokesman for blue rhino said 24 workers were inside the plant at the time of the explosion. officia...

Human error from one of the staff. >> the aftermath this morning looks like a battle zone with twisted metal along the roads everywhere. currently five of the plant employees are still in critical condition. shannon, back to you. >> steve, thank you very much. the florida incident just the latest in a series of gas explosions across the country over the last several months. they include these, in june, an explosion in franklinton, louisiana. back in may, a fire at a natural gas facility in new...

The scene here is very different from the scene we encounter eed last naight. the fire has been contained and put out. we saw the canisters involved in the explosion. we heard from richard keith, who is the fire chief of the city. he says the investigation is going on but there are some clues. lets take a listen. >> we dont think there was any act of sabotage or anything like that. we think it was an equipment failure with a combination of maybe human error from one of the staff. >> reporter: wo...

>> brian: unless john wants a blood test. >> anna: 37 minutes after the hour. we have some new information on our top story. overnight dozens of massive explosions rocking a florida town as a propane plant blows up. what happened? wofl reporter has the breaking details. what can you tell us, ryan? >> good morning. we just heard in the last 15 minutes, the fire chief said in four decades, hes never seen anything this spectacular. eight are injured. they added one person to the list. four are crit...

The judge did not rule today, saying that because constitutional issues are involved here, she wants to hear from the commonwealths attorney general. now, the attorney generals office said they are going to need some time to clarify exactly what the judge is looking for and to take a look at the case file. erin? >> all right, john, thank you very much. been reporting on this story from the beginning. still to come, a new report shows our government gone wild. the number of workplace violations...

Fertilizer plant that rocked the small town of west, texas. 15 people died, most of them first responders. the devastation there spanned a five block radius. the cause of that deadly blast is still under investigation. the investigation in florida is just beginning. no word yet on a possible cause, but the fire chief just held a news conference moments ago and he says that he does not think that this was an agent of sabotage. he says this was probably equipment failure with a combination of huma...

>> good morning, everyone. we have all the top headlines. >> lets take a look. making news, a series of explosions jolting a central florida town. the fire chief saying the massive fire at the blue rhino propane plant may have been the result of equipment failure and human error. all workers on staff were accounted for. eight people were hurt. some critically. the plant holds 53,000 20-pound propane cylinders. the fire is now under control. authorities in switzerland investigating a head-on co...

Past the hour, a fire official says equipment failure and human error may have caused last nights terrifying explosions at a florida propane tank. eight workers suffered injuries when propane tank cylinders exploded. the fire is now out, the cause still under investigation. maybe a big break in the rash of vandalismibles dents. a 58-year-old woman is now charged with defacing the national cathedral with splashes of green paint. she was carrying a can of paint when she was placed until arrest. ...