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Well, at the CNN Center in Atlanta, I’m Nicole Lapin. Here are some headlines in NOW IN THE NEWS.
First lady Laura Bush is calling at Myanmar’s military rulers to accept aid from the US and from the rest of the world. The state department says the military Junta has so far refused to allow an American disaster team into that country to access the damage from the deadly cyclone. Myanmar’s government says that the death toll could reach 10 thousand. Relief workers say that the most urgent need right now is just clean water. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. It is the deadliest natural disaster in recent history to hit Myanmar. The country, of course, formally know as Burma.
Iraqi internal minister meanwhile is now reporting that 13 people have been killed in the fighting in Baghdad. Remote of the death in the southern city Salum. The US military is now saying that it killed 10 militants, meanwhile Iran says it will not hold more security talks with the United States until Washington stop what it calls savage attacks in Iraq. There have been three previous rounds of talks.
The so-called DC madam killed herself to escape going to prison. Police have released Deborah Jeane Plafrey’s suicide note in which she called her conviction a ‘modern-day lynching‘. She wrote that she was unable to live out a sentence only to live prison to a ‘broken, penniless and very much alone existence’. Palfrey hangs herself last Thursday at her mom’s home right near Florida.
Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles has just rejected an appeal from a convicted killer scheduled to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow night. William Earl Lynd will be the first person put to death that way since the Supreme Court affirmed that lethal injection was a constitutional method last month.Lynd was sentenced to die for kidnapping and murdering his former girlfriend in 1988.
Today, some yahoo investors sold off the stock, sending yahoo’s shares tumbling 19% at one point during the day. It comes two days after Microsoft withdrew its 46-billion-dollar bid to buy the giant internet portal. Microsoft CEO says the two sides could not reach a deal. Yahoo had been pressed for a higher price. Both the sides are trying to better compete with the Google for the billions of dollars in the internet advertising revenue
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