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This nation pausing to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed 15 years ago on 9/11. family members reading the names of the victims at the world trade center in lower manhattan. commemorations also taking place at the pentagon and in shanksville, pennsylvania, where passengers aboard united airlines flight 93 lost their lives in a heroic last stand against the terrorists. welcome to this special edition of "americas news headquarters." im john scott. rick leventhal saw the attacks unfold as the...

School. hers is the tenth death now linked to a defect in a takata airbag. those prompted the re-call of millions of vehicles around the world. lea gabrielle is here. what are they saying? >> she sheriffs office in texas says a piece of metal shot through the airbag and into this womans net, severing her jugular vein. she got out of the vehicle before collapsing. this is the worst of the damage and heres the side shot where you can see the inflated air bag, and now look at this. this is the car ...

Security advocates want the government to explain how they got into the phone to protect other iphone users. zblnc the president of pakistan is cancelling a trip to the united states to deal with a terrorist attack. they wanted to target christians. 15 christians were killed along with 5 2 muslims. a convicted murder who escaped in ohio is back in custody. he escaped sunday. he was caught monday night in the same town where the prison is located. thanks so a new fossil find, scientists are r...

Unicorn. it looks more like a shaggy rhino. fascinating. thank you so much for joining me today. im carol costello. at this hour with berman and bolduan starts now. hello, everyone. im kate bolduan. john is off. on wisconsin and so it is. every candidate running for president in that state today ahead of the primary exactly one week out. were hours also away from a critical stop from the republican candidates. all three will take the stage in milwaukee tonight and face the voters in a live cnn...

>> reporter: this is now the third major attack aqim has claimed on hotels frequented by westerners in africa. its driven by a fierce competition with isis and a desire to kill. >> theyve seen isis grow in nigeria, in libya, in other parts of the region. and they want to make sure that al qaeda is able to compete with isis for recruits and for funds in the region. also theres been a split off faction that has gone over to the isis side. they want to make sure they can keep hold of the foot soldi...

Bush meat is not unique to this area. this is done out of necessity. its naive to impose a policy that said stop hunting all together. we need to find ways to do it smarter and be safer about which animals they need to hunt. they may reduce the risk of contracting that. >> tell us about the transmissibility from the bats. is it just bush meat or other kinds with the bats? are. >> in the case of e bowl, they dont have evidence of direct electronics mission and we dont know which wildlife species ...

>> one of the things that come from wildlife is its human activities that are making the jump. cutting down forests or expanding the agriculture and things that bring us into closer contact with wild animals. its usually through ipsidental contact that they had the opportunity to jump. the idea of hunting wildlife whether its bats or other animals that are infected can put someone in contact through the process of butchering. >> there is a growing body that said deforestation and poverty that dr...

Person to person. presumably with bats, the process will put someone in contact and if the bat upper infected, the person can be exposed. >> this is how prominent bats have become. some research into why they are immune to the virus. they carry it and that has been tested and is known, but they dont exhibit symptoms. >> this is trimendous for the researchers that have deadly consequences when they get into people, but bats dont seem to be affected. bats may be minimally affected and they dont ex...

Taiwan and south of taiwan, we will be borrowing money from china to defend china from taiwan, and this is a crazy world we have gotten into. >> and isnt there a positive like if we owed russia $1 trillion, then wouldnt we have leverage to say, you have to get out of the ukraine or we will double the interest. and we wont get into trouble with them, because we owe them so much money, that we have to make the payments. so it would be okay if more countries lent us more money. >> and you wont be t...

Whole societies. >> the professor says hospitals are struggling, trade and commerce is grinding to a halt. >> an unprecedented outbreak. >> he discovered ebola in 1976. 40 years later, doctors still dont know how to prevent it or where it lurks between epidemics. >> it came out of the blue in west africa. we had no clue that it was circulating there. >> one leading theory is bats are carrying ebola, possibly spreading the virus to other animals and then to people. but testing that theory is diff...