ROMANS: The death toll from the huge explosions in northern China now keeps rising. It now stands at 114. The investigation now focusing on what was being stored in that port complex so that any dangerous chemicals spread by the explosions can be contained and removed. CNN's Will Ripley has been there from the beginning for us. He is in Tianjin for us this morning.</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine, for the first time, we're being allowed inside the blast zone. We are on an overpass. And I'll show you this is one of the main roads in Tianjin. And you can see as we scan over here all of those structures. Many of them residential buildings that were some under construction, some occupied at the time of the explosion which has created utter devastation to this area. Look at this parking lot. Full of thousands of cars. Most of them incinerated. Many of them hot to the touch even days after the explosion. And you can see what's left of the chemical warehouse that was holding all of those shipping containers that you see piled off in the distance like toys. There are questions being asked here. Serious questions. This site here is now at the center of a criminal investigation where days later smoke continues to rise. You can see it off in the distance. And crews are continuing to search for the dozens of people still missing. And at this point it is presumed that they did not survive. China has had its share of industrial accidents over the years. This is certainly not the first, but Chinese authorities are saying that they're going to try to take new steps to prevent this from happening again. They're promising a criminal investigation and charges against those who are responsibility for placing these volatile chemicals so close to people's homes, causing an explosion so powerful that it was able to burn and push those large trucks underneath the highway and result in the lives of so many lost -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Will Ripley, thank you for that. 54 minutes past the hour. Your next vacation could be in a galaxy far, far away. Guy, I got big news for "Star Wars" fans. That's next.
Death Toll Rises in Chinese Port City Explosion.