TAPPER: A mushroom cloud of fire. That's breaking news in our World Lead today. A series of explosions have rocked China's eastern coast. This is happening at a container port that store flammable material. CNN's Will Ripley is headed in that direction. He joins me live on the phone -- Will.</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Jake, as daylight starts to break here, we are -- a very grim scene in a constituent of some 15 million people hours in Beijing that was jolted awake overnight and rocked by this huge explosion. You're seeing the videos that people are posting on social media, but to give you a sense of the scope of this. This explosion didn't happen in a very densely populated part of the city. There are potentially hundreds of people in hospitals right now. Not necessarily from the blast itself, but because of the glass in their homes smashing in and being blown violently inside. At least seven people are reported dead now from Chinese state media. Eighteen firefighting teams are still trying to put out the flames from the chemical fire that sparked this series of explosions. We think there were they at least three, possibly more, and the cause of this is still unknown right now -- Jake.</s>TAPPER: Will Ripley, thank you so much. Brand-new images to show you in the National Lead, this is the sort of that river that turned bright orange out west. That's the problem, toxins flowing right into the fresh water. Now the outrage directed at the federal agency that could soon be forced to pay up. That's next.
Series Of Explosions Rocks Chinese Port