Its all about battling for the top spot. Absolutely, tim. For 144 years the United States has been the worlds biggest km economy. China is catching up fast. Now a new way of measuring growth backed by the world bank suggests china could overtake the u. S. By the end of this year. We asked is this a real threat or simply some very clever number crunching . Hello. It is midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. 2 00 p. M. In baghdad where the first parliamentary elections are taking place since the u. S. Pulled their troops out of the country three years ago. Amid a backdrop of the worst violence since 2008, iraqis are going to the polls to decide whether to give Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki a third term in office. More than 150 people have been killed in the past week alone. There will be no voting in two cities in the sunni dominated Anbar Province in fallujah and ramadi where fighting between al qaeda gunmen and iraqi forces prevented polling stations from being set up. Voting
After it simply vanished into thin air. Heres the latest information were getting. U. S. Officials say an automatic system on the plane was pinging satellites for hours after air Traffic Controllers lost all contact with the aircraft. Investigators think the plane continued flying during that time. A senior u. S. Official says theres a significant likelihood potential at least its now at the bottom of the ocean but no conclusions can yet be reached. A reuters report suggests the plane was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course towards the andaman islands near india. Theres heightened suspicions that increase the opportunity that foul play may have been involved. And the search area for the missing plane has expanded further into the indian ocean as well as the South China Sea. The United States today sent the destroyer the uss kidd to scour the indian ocean in search of the aircraft. Lets bring in barbara starr. Does the Ship Movement seem to give credence to the comment by a
Youre in the situation room. Were following multiple breaking stories this hour. Hundreds of students running in fear from a school under siege. This time in marysville, washington, state. North of seattle, a shooter opening fire in a high school cafeteria, killing one person and wounding others before turning the gun on himself. We have new information coming in to the situation room right now. Were following the ebola scare in americas biggest city. A doctor is now in isolation in a new york city hospital. His fiancee and two friends are quarantined. And a medical s. W. A. T. Team is deployed amid urgent efforts to track down his possible contacts. Our correspondents and analysts, newsmakers are standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with the latest on the School Shooting. Cnns tom foreman is standing by with that. Were piecing together all this information as well as we can at this hour, what happened at the school. Heres what we know about the alleged gunman. Jaylen fryberg was
We want to give you a sense of the panic inside parliament when the gunman open fired. Mccormack mcsweeney is the Parliament Hill bureau chief. Just take a listen to his audio that he recorded himself. I dont know. A bunch of gunshots. A guy with a shotgun . . Where do we go . Where do we go . Its certainly chilling listening to the details of that. We do want to check in now with susan candiotti. She is in ottawa and she joins us now live. So susan, what more are we learning about the suspect and about the investigation of this shooting rampage. Hi, rosemary. Well, we understand that he was born under a different name. The name that he was born under was Michael David hall, born in 1982 here in canada. And as you indicated, converted to islam. Prior to that, he had a lot of problems with drugs, we are told. And there are also several reports that he faced arrests for both drugs and other petty crimes over the years. Some of these dating back several, several years. We are also underst