CNN 2009-08-16

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A suicide bomber¹ set off a car-bomb today in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, at least seven people killed, another hundred injured. Yeah,the explosion went off near NATO Security headquarters and the U.S Embassy. Now the Taliban, which has vowed² to disrupt next Thursday's elections is claiming responsibility for this explosion.

 Mass of rescue operation underway in Taiwan to save people from the flooding and mudslide triggered by typhoon Morakot. It slammed into Taiwan last Saturday, This spawned³ the worst flooding and landslide⁴ there in fifty years. Take a look at some of what's been happening there. Those waters just rush. Friends and families of victims holding memorial services across Taiwan today. More than a hundred people are confirmed dead but official said the death toll⁵ could go as high as five hundred.

 President Obama, he is taking his Health Care show on the road this weekend. He is in Montana this morning where he held a town hall meeting yesterday. The crowd was pretty civil for the President but he did get some tough yet polite questions about his reform plan. A lot of Health Care related events happening across country. No doubt. I want you to take a look at this map because it can give you an indication on where they all are happening across the country. Democratic Congressman⁶ Perter Stark⁷, well he is holding three, not one, not two but three in fact in California well he is gonna be a busy guy. As you can see from the map, there are also events in Chicago and Atlanta.

 The latest on these wildfires in California in fact, one is called the Lockheed Fire. Taking a look at it right now. Strong winds are indeed making it very difficult to fight this fire. It's just outside of Santa Cruz, California. Also getting some new video overnight, close to eight square miles of a forest have been burned. About 15 percent of this fire has been contained. So that shows you that not a whole lot, but there are plenty of fire fighters on the scene working this, some fifteen hundred in fact, and a lot of mandatory⁸ evacuations are in place, as well as a state of an emergency which has been declared because of this fire.