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美国总统奥巴马26日在海军航空站发表讲话时表示，在是否向阿富汗增兵这个严肃的问题上需要时间斟酌，他不会仓促决定。
Glad you’re with us, I’m Catherine Callaway at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at what’s happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Senate Majority Leade rHery Reid announcing yesterday that a public option will be in the senate bill that will allow states to opt out if they want. Reid admits he is not sure if he has enough votes though. It could be a week before the Congressional Budget Office figures out how much it would cost.
President Obama says he will not rush his decision about sending troops to Afghanistan. Some republicans have been pressuring him to decide quickly about deploying up to 40,000 additional troops but he says he is not ready.
We now know what the Northwest pilots said they were doing when they overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles last week. The pilots said they were using their personal laptops and they lost track of time. The pilots told the NTSB they were focused on the new computer program that arranges cruise schedule. They said they didn’t monitor the airplane during that talk. Delta Airline which owns Northwest suspended the pilots. And Delta also says the offense violated airplane policy, and they may lose their jobs.
At least one South Carolina lawmaker could bring up impeaching the governor during a special session about employment benefits today. Lawmakers are adjourned, back in June that was just before Governor Mark Sanford secretly went to Argentina to be with his mistress. One South Carolina republican says the impeachment would have been explored sooner if lawmakers had been in session when Sanford returned.
Fidel Alejandro Castro’s younger sister says that she helped the CIA against her brothers for 8 years. Alejandro Castro knew meanwhile she claimed that she originally supported the Cuba Revolution that brought Fidel to power in 1959. But she became disillusioned and left Cuba in 1964. She says she refused payment for her help. The CIA has not made a comment.
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