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CNN 2009-08-24

We wanna hit you with some headlines. First let's talk about hurricane Bill. It's a little weaker, still a dangerous storm. It's a Category 1. It won't make landfall here in the US, but its effects have been felt along coastlines from North Carolina

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CNN 2009-10-19

Criminal charges expected in that runaway balloon scare. Police searched the Colorado home of the Heenes yesterday, and the family claimed their giant weather balloon got loose on Thursday. At first there were fears that their young son was actually

CNN 2009-05-22

Im Nicole Lapin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is your NOW IN THE NEWS update. President Obama is now backing down from his decision to eventually close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. In a speech at the National Archive, the presid

CNN 2009-04-11

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Hello, Im Melissa Long, heres at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Its Friday, Oct. 10th. Heres a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Yesterdays massive sell off on Wall Street rolled around the world, to send overseas markets plummeting