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volunta voluntary. >> if the cdc approves it and the school says it's okay, i'd say it. >> reporter: bexsero is the only vaccine available to protect against meningitis b, approved this year for use in europe and australia. but not yet approved in the u.s. it's been administered to 8,000 people and the cdc says it's considered safe. some doctors say it's key to stopping the outbreak that started when a student returned to school sick following spring break. >> there are a number of people, we don't know what proportion, in that student population that are carriers of this bug, back in their throats. they're feeling fine. nobody knows that they have it. but they can spread it and give it to others. >> reporter: the cdc has fda approval to import bexsero as part of an investigational drug program. it will only be available at an option at princeton university but there's no estimate on how many students will take it. >> i want to do more research and find out exactly what the
the school is hoping to make the first of two doses available earlier next month. for more on this, let's turn to cnn's alexander field. >> reporter: princeton university leaders say they're ready to offer thousands of students a vaccine that is not approved for use in the united states, an effort to stop an outbreak of a dangerous and contagious disease that's showing up on campus. >> pending final cdc approval, the university is prepared to accept these recommendations and make arrangements to provide access to this vaccine as soon as possible. >> reporter: since march, seven cases of meningitis b, a rare and possibly deadly disease have been linked to the ivy league university. now the centers for disease control is preparing to recommend doses of the vaccine bexsero for all 5,000 undergraduates as well as graduate students who live in dormitories and members of the university community with certain medical conditions. vaccinations will be free and
vaccine entails. >> reporter: alexandra fields, cnn, princeton, new jersey. >> thanks, alexandra field for that reporting. the headlines, beginning with breaking news. suicide bombers are being blamed for deadly explosions in the front of the iranian embassy in southern beirut. 23 people have been killed. let's go to senior international correspondent nick paton walsh, live in lebanon with the latest. nick? >> reporter: 146 people wounded, it appears talking to staid media there were two suicide bombers, one in a motorcycle, one on a car, that proched this iranian embassy and detonated their devices some short time apart. the iranian ambassador saying the embassy was the target and that his -- has been killed in the blast. a troubling escalation, not only because this is the first time we've seen suicide bombers used for a very long time but iran is
right now. john, great to see you. thank you. >> it's what makes it fun. >> i guess so. that's one way to describe it. thanks, john. back over to michaela for more of the top stories. good morning to you once again. we want to bring you up to date on the latest news. the death toll rising to eight from sunday's onslaught of tornados in the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power from wisconsin to missouri. in hard-hit illinois, state of emergency has been declared in seven counties. with seven confirmed cases of meningitis "b" on campus, princeton university will make a vaccine available to students and staff that is not yet approved in the u.s. it's the only vaccine for the potentially deadly strain of the disease. it's approved for use in europe and australia. so far, the fda has improved importing the meningitis b v vaccine. the spying can go on for now. an appeal was rejected from a