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Hello I’m Melissa Long at CNN center at Atlanta, with some of the headlines that are now in the news.

At this hour in Thursday, in Beirut Lebanon, a major gun battle going out right now between rattle political factions. Shiite supporters has blurred a powerful fortunate country, a governor against terrors organization by the West, are trading some serious fire power with Sunni Backers of Lebanon’s western-backed government. The clash broke up shortly after the speech from Hezbollah, leader Hassan Nasrallah. We’ll of course keep it posted

World Health Organization says it’s getting reports that Malaria outbreaks in Myanmar, and fears that waterborned illnesses could be next and estimated one million people are homeless, after last week’s cyclone, they are facing hunger, thirst, and disease. The first United Nation’s aid flight arrived today, but Myanmar has not accepted many of their offers of help, the US supportedly is considering air-dropping food and medicines into the military-ruled nation.

No injuries have been reported in Mississippi after a tornado struck parts of Tupelo. The extreme weather caused damage to a large shopping mall and some other structures. The twister was part of the same storm system that cause similar problems in Oklahoma last night. And the bad weather continues to move east.

How to fight cancer win, that’s a focus of a senate committee hearing in its looking into its challenges, and the opportunities available for those living with the disease. It is an issue that host close to home for former cancer patient, and tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong. “simply put the five hundred and sixty thousand deaths that we have a year of this country, four third of them could be prevented, we could save close to two hundred thousand American lives every year, if we simply apply information and the technology and the knowledge that we have to the people who need it the most.”

And Elizabeth Edwards, Cancer survivor, a wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards also testify during today’s Washington hearing.

The calendar and the math are working against Democrat Senator Hilary Clinton but she is not letting up and she in fact let that campaign stop already in West Virginia, ahead of next Tuesday’s primary in the state, today shall also be in South Dakota Orgen, and meantime her democrat rival has lain low today, senator Barak Obama spending the day in Washington meeting with some law makers and he schedules the sit-down with CNN will book a little later today on the situation room

And these are the headlines making news at this hour, for more of the stories on the news of the day, remember CNN is your source whether you’re surfing the web, watching Television or you happen to be on the go with your cell phone, don’t forget about CNN.com updates.