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[By WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York, NY]
A woman struck in a hit-and-run accident Monday morning on Manhattan's Amsterdam Avenue has died, CBS 2 HD has learned. Police are searching for the driver of a gray or silver SUV, described by a witness at the sight of the incident. Police say the victim was struck around 3:15 a.m. Monday morning on the south-bound side of Amsterdam Avenue, near 145th Street.
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Walter Cronkite, the iconic broadcast journalist who was dubbed the "most trusted man in America" during his time as the face of "The CBS Evening News," has passed away. He was 92. Cronkite anchored the CBS News flagship broadcast from 1962 to 1981, signing off each broadcast with his trademark, "And that's the way it is..."
A city official says an early-morning shootout has left one police officer in critical condition and three others wounded in Jersey City. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was not authoritied to release the information. The official says two suspects, who initially fired upon officers while having a dispute, were killed.
Salvage teams at the site of Iran’s worst plane crash in six years have recovered the Caspian Airlines Tupolev TU 154’s two flight recorders. But the force of the impact and the subsequent fireball from a near-full load of fuel badly-damaged the ‘black boxes’, which had spewed out their recording tape. A third flight recorder is still missing. Recovering any vital data as to the causes of the crash could prove difficult.
Eye witnesses say the plane’s tail was on fire before it went down, and the last messages from the cockpit were that the plane had suffered a technical failure and the pilot was attempting a crash landing.
This is the third Russian-made TU 154 to crash in Iran since 2002. The Iranians have been under sanctions for nearly 30 years from the USA, stopping purchase of Boeings, spare parts, or any other aircraft using American engines.
A major health scare in Colorado has created shockwaves here in New York. Surgical technician Kristen Parker was arrested for allegedly swapping needles tainted with hepatitis C for ones filled with a painkiller at two Colorado hospitals. She told police before moving to Colorado she worked at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco between Oct. 8, 2007 and Feb. 28, 2008, and may have engaged in similar conduct while employed at Northern Westchester, although it is not known whether she was infected with hepatitis C at that time.
Police have arrested a teenager for the bombing of an Upper East Side Starbucks in May, a blast that shattered windows and left employees and residents shaken. The suspect's identity has not yet been released. The May 25 explosion, which shattered multiple windows at the coffee shop, was caused by a makeshift device constructed out of a small plastic bottle and low-explosive type of powder.
The WHO has said it could be the end of the year before a vaccine for the H1N1 influenza is properly licensed.
However, countries are being allowed to use emergency provisions to get the medication out faster if they decide the need is there.
Experts say the vaccine will be marketable in the next couple of months, but will need to undergo tests.
“The regulatory authority will certainly want to have a better handle on safety in the clinical trials, the dosing in clinical trials, and these clinical trials will take some time.” said aWHO vaccine expert in Geneva.
Meanwhile, more than 400 schools will be closed for five days in the Thai capital Bangkok, to allow for thorough disinfection.
There have been more than 4000 reported cases of H1N1 in the country, and 24 confirmed deaths.
The Thai government has also placed an order for two million doses of a vaccine, with delivery expected in December.
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