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    Phil Keating reports from Miami

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Breaking news now the FBI on a college campus in Florida explosives had to be found inside of a dorm room after a student takes his own life.

Phil Keating is live in -- -- would review with more on this breaking story feel good morning.

Good morning bill all classes scheduled to start before noon today remain canceled for the day this is Florida's largest college campus.

The university of central Florida's on the east side of the Orlando metropolitan area.

And all of that went down in tower one that is one of the dormitory towers shortly after midnight that is when fire alarms went off and as police were up.

Heading over towards that dormitory that's when they found another report about students with the gun.

And when they got into the student's room he was dead apparently from self inflicted gunshot wound.

But -- also quickly found Natalee assault weapon in there and a handgun in their but improvised explosive devices in the the student's backpack according to reports -- right now the FBI is on the scene with their Hazmat guys -- bomb techs and -- investigators.

As well as the Orange County bomb squad.

They are trying to make sure that the bonds these makeshift bomb that the student apparently had prepared.

The intention of which we do not know at this point because he is dead.

And they do you say there was no note or some sort of a manifesto.

Left behind so right now.

The bomb experts are trying to make sure those devices are safely diffused so they can then allow students back -- tower one but that is totally evacuated.

Hundreds of students have been evacuated it's a major issue on this very large campus that morning.

-- right now and try to get everything under that absolutely bizarre -- -- suicide occurred on campus in the storm.

It was reported around.

Midnight.

Midnight in the evening.

And then when the police showed up at the campus.

You know -- in that dorm that they they found these explosive devices now was there any sort of threat that was called -- From the student or maybe as classmates or is that something we just cannot answer.

We -- -- answer that right now but all of the early reports are that there was no statement or any kind of a threat made by the students no indication that perhaps.

And so sort of a plan was in the works for early Monday morning.

What we do know is that the makeshift bombs -- in one room -- of his dormitory suite.

There's actually kitchen area and these -- in tower one on campus and they found everything in one backtrack not.

We don't know yet what the details are as to the components of this improvised explosive device.

We'll kind of damage it could have caused whether it was going to be some sort of a booby trapped raids such as was the case out in Aurora.

Last summer after the movie you.

A lot of questions here Phil thank you know the FBI is on the scene there and will work to get some answers from.

Campus as well thanks --

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