Hi, there, I'm Virginia Cha at the cnn center in Atlanta. And here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
A Philadelphia police officer is dead after being shot by a robber.This is surveillance video from the doughnut shop where it happened. Police say the gunman in the hood shot officer Charles Cassidy in the head just as the officer entered the shop.The gunman is still on the run. Police are hoping someone might recognize his walk. He appears to have a limp. Cassidy is the third police officer shot this week in Philadelphia.
The southern water wars have moved to the nation's capital.The governors of Georgia, Alabama and Florida are in Washington trying to hammer out a water agreement. The states have been fighting over water rights for nearly 20 years, but it's become desperate this year because of a record drought. At issue is the amount of water released from a Georgia reservoir downstream to Florida and Alabama.
October ended with the deaths of two more US troops in Iraq.The US military says they were killed yesterday when an explosion went off near their vehicle in a northern province.The blast also injured two other soldiers.Thirty-nine US troops died in October.That is well below the 65 deaths in September.
