response authorities fired tear gas, blue liquid, and used water cannons on the crowd nbc's janis mackey frayerpolicare moving through the streets now to clear out protesters this has gone on -- over the course of several hours. they've used tear gas, water cannon, paint balls, and made several arrests. protesters vowing that this is going to continue. >> that's not the message to the hong kong government, but a message to the world that we want, hong kong wants democracy and freedom now. >> reporter: they will be out in force on tuesday that's china's national day. beijing will be staging a huge military parade, and protesters here are vowing to do everything they can to distract from it janis mackey frayer, nbc news, hong kong. >>> caught on camera, a dramatic oil tanker explosion in south korea. check out this fiery mushroom cloud. the fire spreading to two oil tankers. ten people were injured in the blast. more than 40 sailors were rescued from the burning ships the fire was captured from a driver's rear view camera. two cars narrowly escape the rising flames. >> it looks likes special effe

janis mackey frayer has been there since monday night. what's happening?y, was a seething sunday, hallie, police using hundreds of canisters of tear gas, firing hundreds of rubber bullets, water cannons, sponge grenades and pepper spray used against protesters who were lobbing fire bombs, vandalizing metro stations. and at some points actually tearing up the sidewalks to use the bricks to throw at police. after 17 straight weekends of protests it was the most violent yet, more than 140 people were arrested yesterday alone, which is a sign that police are showing no tolerance because we have to consider the timing of this. tomorrow is china's national day. and there will be huge celebrations in beijing, with that parade that will go through the square, and the s-- kraecre the split screen for the world to show this display of power, while there is this great challenge to that power here in hong kong. there is the expectation that tomorrow will be tense, it will be violent, even the police are suggesting that it could be a dangerous day. there are a lot of r

phillip. >> janis mackey frayer providing the update this morning.. >>> also new today, israel's president begins the process of choosing the next prime minister after tuesday's election resulted in a split decision between incumbent benjamin netanyahu and his closest rival, benny gantz. the cover story of this weekend's jerusalem post reporting gantz vows not to surrender in any coalition talks. the front page of the weekend haaretz says netanyahu wants a unity government but gantz wants to lead it. matt bradley joining us now. its a day of big meetings and big decisions. what are you hearing about how this is playing out? >> reporter: good morning. like you said, it's another big day in israeli politics. in just a few hours we are going to see the real beginning that have horse trading that goes into forming an israeli government which caught on a little more than a week ago or a little less than a week ago after the jewish state went to the polls for the second time in five months. ruben rivlin is meeting today with two bitter rivals who nearly ti

janis mackey frayer is on the ground there in hong kong with the latest. reporter: good morning. this has been going on for several hours and appears to be winding down, but over the course of the afternoon kind of swath through the center of the city thousands of protesters and several police trying to head them off at every step of the way. it turned particularly nasty when the protesters had closed down part of the roadway that gave them essentially front line access to government buildings and what is the garrison for the people's liberation army, they were throwing bricks, they were throwing petrol bombs and the police then responded with water cannons and then out of nowhere some of the special forces came, swooped in using paint balls, trying to target protesters and in the end they did make several arrests. they then spent the next few hours squeezing from every possible side to try to get the crowds to disperse. there is a lot of destruction through central hong kong, there had been fires burning, there is a lot of graffiti. this is one of the mtr

nbc's janis mackey frayer has that story for us this morning janis, good morning. >> reporter: good morningealth officials investigating a surge in breathing illnesses linked to vaping we're bringing you to the source of it all, china. the place where most u.s. vape products are being made but not always regulated this is the world's vaping heartland, a five square mile district in shenzhen, china, 90% of the vaping supply chain where hundreds of chinese factories are making, testing and exporting nearly every vaping product on the planet, from circuit boards and batteries to liquid filled pods so it looks like business is booming. >> absolutely. the business is so good and the market is growing so fast. >> reporter: we were given special access to production lines and testing labs here to show where it all begins before reaching store shelves and vape shops. china made the first e-cigarette back in 2003, vaping is more popular than ever. this factory alone makes 200,000 of these every single day, a $12 billion global market that's largely unregulated. the vaping monopoly centered here has