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From the CNN center in Atlanta, I`m Nicole Lapin, it`s great to see you today, here`s a look at what`s happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
In Concord, North Carolina, police are now looking for a gunman who were apparently shot and killed two women at soda bottling plant, authorities are using dogs and a helicopter to search this area. Police say the suspect was seen running away from the scene and witnesses say he was actually wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and has long dreadlocks but they don`t know much else. Well the shooting did happen at Sun-drop bottling company.
Thousands upon thousands of people are evacuating homes, businesses, and even a hospital. A severe flooding continues right now. In Iowa officials are calling for a lot of people to voluntarily // by 6 pm today. And Cedar Rapids officials say that a hundred bloods in that city are simply flooded like this. Meantime, two dead in other Midwestern states have been blamed of floods as well, one person in Minnesota and another in Michigan were killed when they were submerged in their cars.
Also another // at NASA twice, NASA engineers say debris spotted floating away from the shuttle Discovery has preliminarily being identified as a thermal clip from the brick system, it responded after a thruster was testifier. An official said that the twilled 18 age object is one of the three clips that a project is all part of the essentials to protect the shuttle`s // the speed braid, during a launch and a send. They say // would not actually post a risk during reentry and landing. Meantime, NASA says a bomb seeing running along the edge of the shuttle`s // was just a trick of blinding.
Salmonella outbreak in tomatoes is growing, the federal government announced that the 23 states have reported 228 cases, still no word on the source of the bacterial, and health officials simply aren`t sure if the tainted tomatoes are off the market at all. Well the FDA is saying that tomatoes in Florida and in California have been declared safety.
And day, another record for gas prices, AAA is now saying that the prices of gallon of // regular rose to just over 4 dollars and 6 cents a gallon, 27 states and the desperate Columbia, Washington DC of course, now paying more than 4 bucks a gallon for regular of gas.
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