CDC INVESTIGATING DEADLY RESPIRATORY ILLNESS IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA **

TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED **

FIVE REMAIN HOSPITALIZED **

ALL WERE ADMITTED IN RECENT WKS WITH FEVER, COUGH AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH **

IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT'S CAUSING THE ILLNESS BUT SOME OF THE SEVEN PATIENTS ALSO **

AN EMERGENCY OFFICIAL SAYS OKLAHOMA SCHOOLS HIT HARD BY TORNADO HAD NO SAFE **

SEVEN CHILDREN DIED WHILE TAKING COVER IN ABOVE-GROUND CLASSROOMS **

MORE THAN 100 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STATE REPORTEDLY HAVE TORNADO SHELTERS **

THE STATE'S DIR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SAYS IT'S UP TO EACH JURISDICTION **

FMR CONGRESSMAN ANTHONY WEINER LAUNCHES RUN TO BECOME NYC MAYOR **

THE DEM ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY ON YOUTUBE ALMOST TWO YRS AFTER RESIGNING **

WEINER SAYS HE'S LEARNED SOME "TOUGH LESSONS" AND HOPES HE GETS "A SECOND **

HIS CAMPAIGN PROPOSALS INCLUDE GIVING EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT A KINDLE **

CT TRAIN SERVICE RETURNS TO NORMAL FOLLOWING FRIDAY'S CRASH THAT INJURED **

A STRETCH OF TRACK NEAR BRIDGEPORT HAD TO BE REBUILT **

STATE LAWMAKERS PLAN TO HOLD HEARINGS ON THE COLLISION **

THEY SAY THE RAIL NETWORK IS IN NEED OF EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS **

STRONG CONSUMER DEMAND CAUSING U.S. AUTO MAKERS TO CUT BACK ON SUMMER **

THE TRADITIONAL TWO-WK BREAK IS BEING REDUCED OR COMPLETELY BYPASSED AT **

U.S. DEMAND FOR NEW CARS AND TRUCKS IS UP 7% THROUGH APRIL **

LAWMAKERS SEEK TO CURB MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT EPIDEMIC **


 

Latest from inside the Repub Convention (notes from an FNC colleague)

Below is about Governor Romney…he has arrived in the arena for a walk thru in advance of his speech tonight:

On convention stage for walk thru and photo.

About 150 staffers in position on the front steps of stage for a class photo.

Media lined up for several hours to watch has been pushed further away from the stage than other times.

As with other walk thru speakers the teleprompter is loaded with the Gettysburg Address. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on….”. Though most speakers have only done a ten count into the microphone.

Before that by three dress rehearsals of the doobie bros “takin’ it to the streets” by taylor hicks and the snl band. Hicks must be the only guy in a 1,000 mile radius sporting a scarf. At least it’s red white + blue.









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