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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The death toll from floods in India and Pakistan is past 400, and authorities are warning of more flooding in the days ahead. The floods have put half a million people in danger and thousands of people are homeless. Pakistani and Indian troops have been using boats and helicopters to drop food supplies to stranded families and to evacuate villagers. In Pakistan, at least 205 people have died, and in India, 200.
PHOENIX (AP) — In the Southwest United States, remnants of Hurricane Norbert are bringing rains and flooding to desert. At least two people were killed Monday when their vehicles were swept away by floodwaters in Arizona. Rains are expected to continue through Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) — A hospital in Atlanta is about to get its third Ebola patient. Emory University Hospital says a person who contracted Ebola is expected to arrive in Atlanta today. Last month, two American aid workers who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia were treated at Emory and they've since recovered. And an American doctor is being treated in Nebraska. The World Health Organization has said that one of its doctors working in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone contracted the disease and was being evacuated.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Today, President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders to outline his plan to combat militants from the group Islamic State. U.S. officials say Obama wants to respond to the militant threat with a broader counterterror mission than he had previously planned, but that he's still not committing U.S. troops to a ground war. On Wednesday, Obama will outline his plan to the nation.
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) — A police officer in Walnut Creek, California, has pleaded no contest to beating a woman with a baseball bat. The Contra Costa Times reports that 53-year-old Gregory Thompson was off-duty when in a ski mask and gloves he beat the woman he believed was trying to break into his father's vacant house. The woman told police she had run out of gas and was walking to get help when she came under attack. Prosecutors say they'll recommend Thompson be given a year in the county jail.
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