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several people were taken to the hospital, three of them in critical condition. officials say a crew of up to 6 were working an overnight shift when that blast happened. the explosions began at around 11:00 p.m. at the blue rhino plant in tavares. the plant houses about 53,0 53,0053,000 53,000 0-fund propane cylinders. the cause of that explosion is being investigated. it's being called the largest ever operation against child sex trafficking, more than 100 teens are safe this morning after being rescued in a sting that spanned 76 u.s. cities. the youngest victim just 13 years old. the fbi has taken 159 adults into custody for allegedly running that operation that included truck stops, motels and casinos from san francisco to miami. officials say the group was involved in the commercial exploitation of both adults and children. suspects are expected to face

state and federal charges related to sex crimes and human trafficking. pope francis is back at the vat cap this morning after breeching to millions in brazil. it's what he said on the flight home that's making news. during an impromptu news conference francis reached out a way to gays that's never happened before. the pope said he was not in a position to judge people based on their sexuality. he told reporters "if someone is gay and he searches for the lord and has goodwill, who am i to judge?" while more of a change in style and not direct judge doctrine, it's still a stark contrast from his predecessors. pope benedict called gays "objectively disordered" and john paul ii said homosexual acts were "against natural law." a verdict is expected in the trial of army private bradley manning. he's accused of aiding the enemy of handing over hundreds of

thousands of doults to the wikileaks website. >> good morning, manning faces 21 charges. he's pleaded guilty already to almost half of them but prosecutors are going after the more serious charges of espionage. in court attorneys painted two very different pictures of private first class bradley manning. the defense called him a humanist, concerned about abuses in iraq. here's what he told the judge. he became obsessed on being suspicious and avoiding cooperation with our targets. >> reporter: but prosecutors say he's a traitor, whether or not he intended to aid the enemy, some of the 700,000 documents manning gave to wikileaks were found when navy s.e.a.l.s raided osama bin laden's compound. >> i think it theoretically could have hurt soldiers. i don't know that it did but it

something we would want to guard against as a military. >> there has been no evidence whatsoever of any arm caused by these leaks. the government is saying the sky is falling, but the fact is the chi is not supporting. >> reporter: manning supporters say the judge's ruling could have a chilling effect on whistleblowers and journalists. >> if they put something on the internet if the government doesn't like it the act of putting it on the internet is an act of aiding al qaeda. >> reporter: manning facing anywhere from 20 years to life in a military prison. we will know his fate, we'll know at least the verdict, the judge's decision in a matter of hours, she's set to announce it at 1:00 eastern time from ft. meade. >> tracie, could this be key in determining whether or not he's convicted of the more serious charges. >> whether or not he intended for that information to be given to the enemy, the act of taking

the information, making it public, that alone puts soldiers at risk and that alone should be enough proof to have him convicted under the espionage act for these crimes. >> tracie potts, thank you. now it's time to look at scrambled politics. you know you're in hot political water when even eliot spitzer says he would fire you, that's what's happening to anthony weiner and calls for him to exit the run for city mayor. >> we've had a number of years where municipal lawyers have used computers for the like for improper circumstances and there's appropriate sanctions for that and there should be. >> the bad news for weiner doesn't stop there. after once leading the democratic primary he dropped to fourth in the latest quinnipiac voters, nearly half say he

should drop out. vice president biden is inviting hillary clinton over for a little chat. the two will meet for breakfast at the vice president's residence. north carolina governor has signed sweeping abortion restrictions into law, tighter regulations on state clinics, it's a 180 for the republican government who as candidate pledged to not approve any new abortion restrictions. the senate has confirmed a bush justice official for the fbi. james comey was confirmed as fbi director. a trip to north korea by jimmy carter on monday the white house said he was embarking on a private trip but the carter

aides say he does not have any intention to go to north korea. summer kind of disappeared in a few spots. >> what happened? >> the amazing heat wave and cooled off. yesterday the big weather story continues at this hour, moving through the state of hawaii, tropical storm flossie moved through, some pretty large waves, squally weather with winds up to 50 miles per hour but overall was not a big deal impact event on the hawaiian islands. it's still moving through, the big red blob, thunderstorms south of the big island and the radar shows some of that rain but overall it's a non-event for many areas of hawaii. yesterday there were water rescues in wichita, kansas, heavy rain moved through and the rainfall totals for the month of july we've been drenched in wichita and oklahoma city and tulsa. there's only one or two in the last three summers so it's been a change of a summer season.

everywhere in red shows where it was 90 degrees yesterday, not many spots were that warm. look how cool it was from kansas city to chicago to minneapolis and even up there in some spots in the northern rockies it was a little bit cooler so that has led to a cool night, great sleeping night, the ac gets a break from montana through the great lakes and portions of new england are chilly there this morning. that will lead to a great tuesday for the northern half of the country. stormy in areas of arkansas into tennessee but there's no signs of our big heat coming back in august either. it looks at least the first half on the cooler side in many areas in the east. >> seems like a pretty quiet time otherwise. >> this is typical late july. once we get to the middle of august we're full blown hurricane season. the peak suspect first week of september. >> thanks so much, bill. coming up we'll have your first look at business including why the oracle of omaha is channeling willy wonka. plus earth had a friendly visitor last night. we'll tell you about it when

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some other stories making news this morning the body of former major league pitcher frank castillo was recovered from a lake northeast of phoenix monday afternoon. castillo, who was not a strong swimmer, jumped into the lake sunday and never resurfaced. a woman was arrested monday after green paint was found splattered in two different chapels of the national cathedral. friday's defacing of the lincoln memorial was strewn in green paint as well. an asteroid the size of five football fields zoomed by earth last night, it kept its distance at 2.2 million miles from our atmosphere. and now it's time for your first look at business. we turn to cnbc's hampton

peerspee pearson. >> stocks closed low are on monday. the fed begins a two-day meeting today with investors looking for more clarity on when interest rates may go up. we also get data on home prices and consumer confidence. if you blinked you missed it, time warner cable pulled cbs from its line-up in new york, l.a. and dallas this morning and quickly reversed the decision. the two sides are continuing in talks to resolve a dispute over programming fees. and twitter may be edging closer to an ipo. "usa today" reports the microblogging service posted an opening for a financial reporting manager who filed documents for a possible ipo. market watchers expect twitter to go public early next year. back to you. >> thanks so much, hampton. willy wonka reincarnated? the famous candy company founder will be played by billionaire warren buffett. he's auctions off an all you can

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our top political stories and joining me in the studio for our first look at politics is boris enstein, contributor for "the daily column." anthony weiner you have the poll saying he should get out of the race. why is this guy being so defiant. what does he have to gain? >> very little gain and getting out on his own terms he's failed at that. there's a story the clintons are upset at the way the weiners tried to portray themselves as almost a second coming of the clintons. so they're really not making any friends internally amongst democrats right now. he definitely needs to get out and i really want him off my titles. >> americans are willing to give a second chance but not necessarily a third. >> the crazy thing if he stays around there's going to be a third and fourth and a fifth necessarily because there's more

out there. let's turn to mitt romney, not that there's a connection between the two. >> absolutely not. >> he's trying to rewrite history. he said "actually i didn't say that, that's how it began to be perceived and so i had to ultimately respond to the perception, because perception is reality." but he absolutely did say that 47% of the population didn't want to take responsibility for their lives. so, a, why is he doing this now and b, why with something easily verifiable. >> there's no need to rehash the whole situation. the comment was not that bad. he should have stood up for it earlier and said i did say it, that was my view at the time, this was an internal planning discussion for the election with some very small circle donors, it has nothing to do with him going forward as president of the united states. this is unnecessary. >> let's talk the infighting with gop, it seems like

everything from immigration to c chris christie and rand paul, i want to read you what byron york said "it's what happens to parties when they don't have a leader and republicans after two straight presidential losses have no one who even approaches national leadership, so factions appear and diversions worsen." >> absolutely not, chris christie is the more common sense business conservative and rand paul the leader of the tea party conservatives. they're never going to agree on a lot of issues. some overlap. now it is my hope as a republican as the primaries do get going whoever will perform, i hope it's chris christie at this point, he is not as tainted as mitt romney was in the primary the last way around. there's no problem with going at each other within the republican

party because we are choosing who is going to be our bearer for 2016 and beyond. >> it's a conversation we could have longer if we had time. boris thanks for being here this morning. now it's time for the latest headlines in sports and i'm joined by my colleague richard lui. >> good morning to you, mara. we were reminded of the quint etenial question in baseball. safe or not. fly ball, pulls it down, in comes the red sox daniel in a va, called out here, what do you think, mara? >> i think he's safe. >> the replay seems to show he's safe but tampa gets the win and first place by a game and a half. lot of stuff happening on twitter. jason giambi cracks the winning home run 3-2 over the white sox, 42-year-old giambi the oldest player to hit a walkoff homer. next in line we have to go back to 1976 it was hank aaron, 45

days younger. the lawyer for yankees alex rodriguez is going to fight any suspension. he told espn they are focused on an appeal right now. the question is when and if he will hit the diamond again and under which rules he might face penalties. we'll watch that. no suspension for boston's david ortiz says ""the boston globe."" big papi went big, he was mad at the ump after he struck out "the globe" saying the mlb reviewed that incident and said okay for now. >> his mother would not approve. >> she's shaking her finger for him. president obama welcoming willie mays. the team presented the president with a baseball and autographed bat. how about a beer? a free beer and a bratwurst, i'll take that. milwaukee fans in august get a $10 voucher to spend at home games, the brewers trying to

make nice because their star player ryan braun was suspended for the season. estimated costs though, mara, $3 million, that's more than not paying braun. the baltimore ravens training camp getting a little hot but hold on what's that, ice cream, ice cream truck! ice cream man! >> excited about ice cream. >> even 300-pound linemen like a chipwich. only defense which won got treated. ice cream! doughnuts on the racetrack. watch the blue ferrari in front, holy moly, 360 degrees unscathed. they average over 300 miles an hour. was he doing hand over hand? >> that tells me i know nothing about cars but how well made that car is, it's worth that money, it can do that and keep moving? >> it's a great driver, hand over hand or whatever. >> thanks so much. coming up, richard will be

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bill karins. >> record deal. >> what amazes me is how much research must go into finding the words, pours, vibrations. >> and how many times. >> you have an interesting story about money. >> "forbes" list for highest paid actresses. leading the list was angelina jolie at $33 million, jennifer lawrence $26 million. when you compare it to the highest paid actors, angelina jolie doesn't make the top five she's $15 million behind the rock. my question to you, there's inequality in the income in hollywood will we ever see a female actress be the highest paid in hollywood. >> i do because in the adult industry women are a bigger draw. at some point hollywood will catch up to that if female actors are a bigger draw they will make more money. >> do you think it will happen in our lifetime?

>> it's only a matter of tile. we are seeing 70 cents on the dollar for everyday folks like ourselves when we see that inequality for actresses and actors it's only a matter of time. >> it will have to be somebody very special. >> i don't know if this is accurate but most moviegoers are male so if you get a big enough draw. >> marilyn monroe. >> yes, then she would get big bucks. there's a woman in germany that deserves a big old medal, she gave birth to the biggest baby that country has ever seen, 13.47 pounds at birth. >> did you say 13? >> 22.6 inches. >> he was not born via c-section, came out naturally. he was the largest ever born in germany but not the largest born ever. the biggest baby ever was born in indonesia, almost 20 pounds. >> no, cannot be -- 20 pounds?! i can't follow that.

that is really interesting, a 13-pound baby. >> it's remarkable a baby could be that size and come out via natural childbirth. >> time to call your mom. >> exactly, thank you. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay sooned "way too early" starts now. at this point, nothing is getting this guy out of the race, not slipping poll numbers, not staff jumping ship, not financial impropriety, nothing. he doesn't just think he should be mayor despite these things, he now thinks he should be mayor because of them. >> you can be an effective mayor as a result of everything going on? is anyone supporting you? >> i argue this. i argue this i'm going to be a successful mayor because of that, because it's going to give me a level of independence. >> oh, it's going to give you a level of independence all right, because if new yorkers do the right thing it's going to make

you independent from the [ bleep ] office of mayor. >> the assault on anthony weiner continues as the new york city mayoral candidate continues his campaign despite growing criticism and a man with a unique perspective on sex scandals, eliot spitzer, has a message for the former congressman. the pope goes where no pope has gone before him, his surprising statement on gays and the role of women in the church and a controversial call in the red sox/rays game and looks like the ump blew it but did the sox get redemption later in the game? this is "way too early." hey everybody, good morning i'm thomas roberts in for brian shackman. we start with seven people who are in the hospital after a propane plant exploded last night