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0 please keep the videos coming. just keep prancercizing and putting a spring in our step because our explosions rocking a florida town overnight. a giant fireball filling the sky. several hospitalized. rest againsts evacuated as a propane plant goes up in flames. why would someone do this? national landmarks vandalized splattered with green paint an a woman behind bars. this morning investigators are asking could she have acted alone? how did they do it, heist of the century, a thief making off with $136 million in jewels from a luxury french hotel. how exactly did he do it? we re live in cannes. there s something fishy with that. seems straight out of the movies. inside man in there. that s my suspicion. i m john berman. i m michaela pereira. we begin with breaking news from florida where a plant that refills propane tanks has exploded near orlando. these pictures, filling the sky with a spectacular but terrifying site. what do we know about this? reporter: the video is dramatic. the loud blast sounded like there were bombs going off. started in a town 45 minutes northwest of orlando. initially more than a dozen employees were believed to be missing but authorities say thankfully they have all been accounted for. seven employees were taken to regional hospitals. we don t know the extent of their injuries. what we do know is that there were 53,000 cylinders of propane at the plant. more than a million pounds in all. authorities braced for the worst and set up a half mile evacuation around the plant and began pouring water on the facility. the good news in all of this is that authorities say no one has died. that is great news, alina. any word about the cause. reporter: so far the cause of the explosions and fire is not immediately known presumably authorities will be working to find out exactly what caused this to happen. you said there were no deaths inside the plant. what about the people who live nearby? are there any homes? reporter: there are homes, a spokesperson for the lake county sheriff s office said there are 50 homes three-quarters of a mile away from the plant. the evacuation area set up is a half mile around the plant and more good news, no residents were hurt in the blast. those pictures we re looking at and deep looking at, simply terrifying and with the amount of propane there. it s a near miracle there were no deaths there. all right, alina machado, thanks. big question in the nation s capital, who is defacing some of washington s most notable landmarks? one person is in custody but as pamela brown tells us investigators aren t sure she s the only culprit. reporter: cleaning crews spent monday scrubbing green paint off a wall inside two national cathedral chapels. a woman was arrested. a law enforcement source says the 58-year-old woman was found carrying a green paint can when she was arrested. i can confirm an arrest was made. the suspect who appears to have vandalized beth le them and children s chapel, the original vandalism was found in the lower level and closed that and later in the afternoon additional paint had been found in children s chapel. reporter: it s still unknown if the suspect is linked to the vandalism of three other d.c. landmarks in recent days. on friday authorities discovered green paint splattered on the lincoln memorial. as crews continue to clean it up they found green paint on joseph hen henry. adding to the history, it was found on the statue of martin luther a day before the national cathedral incident. officials are still investigating whether the vandalism is linked or if these are copycat crimes. pamela brown, cnn, washington. also in washington, the senate has given its okay to the next fbi director, james comey was confirmed 93-1 with only sand rand paul voting against. he had a hold on the nomination as he asked for more information on the drone program. he was a top lawyer in the justice department under george w. bush and takes over for robert mueller who has served in the post there the top fbi post for a dozen years. we could find out more as soon as today about the nsa surveillance program. the agency plans to declassify additional information about the programs and the top secret court that oversees anti-terror operations. not clear what will be unveiled or how much information the obama administration will make public. edward snowden s father is defending his son as the nsa leaker seeks temporary asylum in russia. he tells anderson cooper on 360 his son should not return unless he gets assurances he will get a fair trial and people are focusing too much on the leaks and not enough on the programs the leaks revealed. he s not living a comfortable life at this point. i know my son. i know he loves his country. what he believed is that this information, the american people needed to be aware of what their government was doing to them. spying upon them. meantime, edward snowden remains holed up at a moscow airport. they have received his asylum request that would let him leave the country. a verdict is expected in the case of an army private who admitted leaking documents. bradley manning faces the trial. he was blowing the whistle on the government. president obama travels to chattanooga talking jobs and the middle class at an am some shipping center. they announced plans to hire 7,000 more workers nationwide. the white house says the speech will focus on creating high-wage jobs to help the middle class and promote sustainable economic growth. a new wave of violence in iraq. security officials say at least 50 people were killed and more than a dozen car bombings monday. more than 100 people were injured. ten of the blasts in baghdad. mostly in shiite neighborhoods. other attacks have intensified in iraq since the start of ramadan earlier this month. authorities in switzerland trying to determine what caused two commuter trains to collide. the driver of one of the trains was killed and nearly three dozen passengers injured. five seriously. the trains were traveling on a route in western switzerland near lausanne. monday night a new round of marches by supporters of deposed president mohamed morsi sent them towards security headquarters in cairo and raised fears the country is closer to descending into chaos. a top diplomat met with the former president and ara damon is in cairo this morning. good morning. reporter: good morning, michaela. katherine ashton has been in cairo since yesterday and reportedly met with deposed president morsi for two hours. still waiting for details as to what they discussed and also waiting for specific details as to what she may have been able to negotiate between deposed president mohamed morsi, his supporters, the muslim brotherhood on the one hand and on the other the egyptian military and government it backs. she is facing an incredibly tough task as both of these sides are very hardened in their positions. the international community and the especially the united states still want to see political negotiation ending up resolving this crisis that really has egypt teetering on a knife s edge but it s very hard to see exactly how that is going to materialize given that the pro-morsi camp is so hardened in their position, in their demand that morsi be returned to power and that, of course, is a n nonstarter for those who do oppose him. a lot of people in the pro-morsi camp say they are willing to stand their ground there. they ve already begun digging in, erecting even more barricades making medical preparations they say fully anticipating that the military, the security forces are going to try to go in and clear them out. and so a lot of other egyptians that we re talking to are saying they re incredibly naturally concerned about the direction that the country is heading and there was such optimism some two years ago after president, former president mubarak was removed from power and some of those jupg egyptians feel as though their revolution has been hijacked twice. first by the muslim brotherhood and there is a dangerous road ahead. arwa, thank you so much. some breaking weather news. flossie has been downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression but people in hawaii may not know the difference. they re getting battered by heavy waves and high winds. in the weather center feet away we are tracking it. it made itself towards the hawaiian islands. look at the radar. you can see how it started to break apart and now it s dissipating again. talked about that 35-mile-per-hour steady winds and continue to watch this. the change in the track moving northwest. next 36 hours, remnant low and dissipate in 72 hours after that. still dealing with heavy rains and strong winds 40 miles per hour as it makes its way towards kauai. dorian, not developing, still heavy rain out towards turks and caicos. look at this unbelievable rain the last 24 hours that kind of shot through kansas. we are going to monitor that today. active here. look at all the lightning and such a slow-moving system that very heavy rain is still expected today. the other big difference we ll look at, of course, other than heavy rain is in the dakotas, the threat for heavy showers there, the good news, northeast, southeast still getting a break at least pore a little bit. we ll take it. thanks, indra. several homes exploding and neighborhoods shaken. we ll show you the rubble left behind. more than $100 million in jewels stolen from a luxury hotel in france. police searching for one masked man. how did he pull it off? live to cannes right after the break. take these bags to room 12 please. 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