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UNDATED (AP) — A Senate committee will be questioning Obama administration officials today about the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak, as lawmakers begin evaluating an administration request for $6.2 billion in emergency aid to fight the disease in West Africa. Meanwhile, one day after the government in Mali declared no reported cases of Ebola besides one death last month, authorities now say two people died of the virus this week. They say the victims are a Guinea national and a nurse who helped take care of the patient.
DETROIT (AP) — Unseasonably cold temperatures are spreading across parts of the U.S. as snow already is blanketing areas in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and parts of central Minnesota. The chill is hitting the Appalachians and mid-South this morning, and is expected to affect the East Coast by Thursday. And the drop in temperature is coming fast. In Billings, Montana on Tuesday, temperatures fell from the high 60s into the single digits.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state TV is broadcasting footage of an aircraft it says is a replica of a U.S. stealth drone captured in 2011. Video shows a black aircraft flying over mountainous terrain and arid lands before landing at an unnamed air base. The head of the aerospace division of the elite Revolutionary Guard says Iran will build at least two or three such drones over the next few years and will mass produce it next year.
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man faces a court hearing today on charges that he beat to death a family of four, then buried their bodies in the desert. Charles Merritt is accused of the February 2010 murders of business partner Joseph McStay, McStay's wife, and their sons, ages 3 and 4 at their home in San Diego County. The family's disappearance remained a mystery until the bodies were found in shallow graves last year in the desert outside of Victorville. Merritt was arrested just last week in Los Angeles.
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say the search is on for two men who robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint in New York City's Diamond District. Police say it was a brazen robbery yesterday afternoon, and that one of the store's owners was pistol whipped. They say one robber entered the eighth-floor Watch Standard Jewelry store wearing a dress shirt and suit coat, pulled out a gun and grabbed several pieces of jewelry, putting them into a black bag. The second suspect wore a hooded sweatshirt and waited in the hallway as a lookout.
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