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The world. American nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti. The effort to free them. People across the u. S. Are under heat alerts and relief may be in sight for some . Officials warning is still important to take precautions. Alive after 46,000 years. We will seek to a scientist who helped revive a worm that is millennia old. Live, from cnn. This is, cnn newsroom. In haiti where the u. S. Is working to free an american nurse and her charge child. Thats according to the humanitarian organization where she has worked for the two were reportedly abducted on thursday. The nurse, alex, is shown here in video from the organization. Shes married to the head of the group, the u. S. State department is working with haitian authorities to try and free the woman and her child. So mike lets bring cnns paula newton. She has covered the situation in haiti for us. Paula, what more have you been to learn about the woman and her child abducted in haiti . We learn from the organization that posted on t
Thanks britley ritz for that. Sorry, our lights are a little bright right there. Its almost like being outside, very bright. Im fredricka whitfield, good to see you. We begin this hour with the overseas kidnapping of an american nurse and her child. Alex was reportedly abducted thursday morning while serving in their Community Ministry in haiti. The two were taken from the organizations campus near portauprince. She is married to the director of the christian humanitarian aid group. Pa Paula Hancock is following the story for us. Reporter the charity did confirm the abduction and the details are quite disturbing. Remember, this was a nurse from New Hampshire, working for the charity. She was abducted along with her child and this was actually on what they call is the campus of this charity close to p portauprince. They said shes a deeply passionate person who considers haiti as her home and her passion. She works tirelessly to bring relief as she loves to serve the people of haiti in t
disruption tomorrow with the icy conditions, could be issues on rail services too because of the cold weather and they have told people not to drive unless they really, really have two tomorrow. the higher you are, the more likely you are to see some of the white stuff around you. tomos, thank you. this image of a young polar bear asleep on an iceberg has won the wildlife photographer of the year people s choice award. the man who took it has told us all about how he got that image. the population of sudan needs humanitarian assistance. 25 million people far too this programme continues on bbc one. is the shadow cabinet at war with itself? it s three years since the shadow chancellor rachel reeves announced the £28 billion green bonanza, boasting it would make labour the greenest government in history. since then it s been going and going and now it appears gone. we ll be asking one of tony blair s former senior operatives and the leader of a labour think tank if keir star
two teaches dead. the press conference is moments away. what do you hope people get out of this? hopefully some light to the failures and unfortunately this happened to us for the lessons to be shared with somebody else. and also this hour in new hampshire, donald trump xwois on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away.oxwois on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away.exwois on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away.s on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away. a vote for nikki haley is a vote for joe biden. if she win, biden wins and i m telling you that. and a report has been released that described a chaotic scene that could have been stopped and some of the children had been saved if some of the officers had followed standard protocols in response. and we re awaiting the press conference from merric