weiner falling fast, new york mayoral candidate caught in the second sexting scandal of his career plummeting in the polls but will anthony weiner drop out of the race? remnants of flossie flooding the streets knocking out power we are tracking this storm. welcome back to early start. i m michaela pereira. i m john berman. great to see you. 31 minutes after the hour. to our top story now. the flames lighting up the sky near orlando. look at that after a propane tank filling plant exploded. residents say it went on for minutes shaking their homes. at least seven people have been injured. it happened in tavares, florida. john is there and joins us on the phone. bring us up to date. reporter: well, michaela, the latest news seems this point the fire is out. the fire crews have been working for the last four hours and continually dumping water on to the plant and the area around it
organization comes up with the names and it s a six-year cycle and if it s a catastrophic name, like katrina, they ll retire and it not bring it back every six years. shepard: one thing just learn, another person was speaking to me, which is so often the case, and while you were explaining that i learn there were in 2012, fewer than five girls were named flossie. so it is not popular and now we see why. you never know, with this storm, maybe there while be a boom on the name flossie. shepard: aim guessing mored a line, brayan, danicka. the caribbeans with some bad weather, too? remember tropical storm dorian? it kind of fizzled out but we re still monitoring it because we have a flareup of convection here so we ll continue to monitor that. we are into hurricane season here with the forecast models are predicting, and whether or not it regenerates, we re still dealing with heavy rain for the
for miles. out west, a similar story. in arizona, a tour bus leaving the grand canyon was overpowered by a flash flood. the bus flipped on its side and was swept 300 yards downstream. all 33 passengers managed to crawl out a window to safety. and the sun and blue skies in hawaii will soon be replaced with dangerous winds and heavy rain. tropical storm warnings and watches up as tropical storm flossie closes in. some parts of the islands could get six to ten inches of rain. now we re taking our latest look at flossie right now. you can actually see how much is torn apart by colder waters and wind shear or different winds at different height. it is weakening. that s the upside. 50 mile per hour winds makes it a tropical storm. what we are expecting is it s a new path, a little farther to the south. and it s moving faster at 17 miles per hour. it actually brings it about 7:00 hawaiian time looking for land
cyanide. we re going to get all the details, bring in a forensic pathologist and a lawyer to see if we can make sense as to whether this case can be made. and this little one is a sight for sore eyes. web this face? that s little nathan wazener. he was seen in public for the first time after being buried in sand. his first appearance in church and what his parents have to say about his miraculous recovery. we re going to start with severe weather across the country, shutting down roads, keeping rescue crews busy. there s record rainfall, drowning deaths, and more from arizona to the northeast. get this, hawaii bracing for tropical storm flossie, the worst storm to face the islands in some 20 years, says meteorologist indra petersons. flossie doesn t sound like a tough name, but this is is a tough storm. definitely looking at a lot of flooding potential as flossie is expected to reach hawaii. and eight inches of rain, a
on supplies ahead of the storm. she is expected to bring heavy rain, gusty wind, dangerous surf to the island. it s been more than 20 years since hawaii was directly affected by anything more than a tropical depression. from hawaii to the northeast we are tracking all the extreme weather. we ll get the latest from accuweather and meteorologist jim dickey. good morning, jim. good morning, john, diana. we saw, soaking rainfall through the weekend across portions of the east. upper low over the great lakes. the front pushing toward the coastal rain. but the front, winding down the i-95 corridor. still some soaking rain through the day across portions of the plains especially in kansas. we switch over to the tropics. two systems we re watching. this is tropical storm flossie, moving westward towards hawaii. we ll see a direct impact from flossie here, monday into tuesday. soaking rain, inches of rain. specially the big island here. mudslides. a big-time concern along with the threat