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This is Monica Ferrett.

I'm Brad Binkley.

Our top story, a massive explosion in Beirut occurred actually it was being reported as we went to air yesterday

but more details have emerged. The devastation is shocking. 200 to 300,000 people are left homeless or otherwise damaged.

100 people have died, countless have been injured.

The cause of the explosion is not crystal clear.

There were chemicals in the port that had been considered dangerous and were seized and stored there since 2013.

There was one report that said Israel denies shooting a rocket at Lebanon and another report that said these are not

nuclear weapons. Yeah that's the first one I saw the first report in this I saw

sources confirmed that these were not nuclear weapons, which to your point yesterday made me go,

oh, maybe they were nuclear weapons.

Right, that's how I was being.

Having crossed my mind until that.

As soon as they start saying what it isn't, I start thinking there's a chance that that's what it is but what they

say that it is I would say is pretty much no chance but I think the because

there's there's putting out stories like that it It seems to me that there is something

fishy going on or at least they want you to think but it was just too huge an

explosion. There's a lot of video of it which I don't think that's not to be expected and what is weird is that there isn't a ton of video on everything else

But they're talking about Lebanon having issues with Israel, being in the worst economic crisis and the longest time.

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