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mecal officials in chinare trying t stop an outbreak o pneumonic plague tt has kied three pele. it's goi on in a fming community 10,000 chin's northwest. dical workers are disinfeing the areand killing rats and insect and flees which c becarr causes pneumonic plague. that can kl people within hourif it's not properly treated. >>> onhealth issue we've been trying to highght here is maternal health. each year more than a half million women acrosshe wld die whe giving birth. most of them from developing countries. in haiti, the situation is desperat as violence, brit cal chaos, and insufficient international aid have hampered even the mt basic health cae. teresa boa of al jazeera english traveled to port-au-prince to see how suspecting mothers are coping. we waryou the story contains some graphic imagesf child birth. >> reporter: giving birtin haiti, the country wth the highest maternal mortity rate in the western hemisphere. is eight mohs' pregnan and like most of the births here, er's is premature. st. catherine hospal is the ly place where women in the slum can g some kind of as

i don't see how it' arigt mecally possible for the resident to pursu both parts of hisspending agenda wic are popular with the pple and with the congss without raising taxes on the lk of americans. there's st not enough money inhe over $250,000 a year crowto pay for what he wants to do. >> the sum inolved are unfathable. ho does this really impact people who are lving normal lives? >> that's a great question. i think one of their difficulties is the hort swer is it doesn't. right now, e are gettingby on very lowintest rates because her countries, thechinese in paricular, are willing to lnd usndless amounts of money. as long as it goes on, e're fi and people shouldn't worry about it. the problem is it's no going to go on foreve and if we are noprepared and wehaven't done things to reduce our reliance o foreign borring and at some point they decide ey have le us enough money it wi be a wrenching adjument. >> assume these feign countries nd us monday becae it's-- len us money because it something n for them. why do they tink so? >> because thee are not very manylternatives. if the world

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to extend health care insurance to millions of americans while slowing the skplegs of the country's mecal costs. the vote sets up a showdown in the full house in september. >>> lawmakers are working to rescue the government's cash for clungers program. it's program that rewards drivers who trade in gas-guzzling cars for more fuel-efficient models. derrick ward joins us live from silver springs with the details. good morning, derrick. >> reporter: good morning. they were open at 2:00 this morning trying to get all the cash for clunkers deal that they could amid fears that the program could run out of money. they're breathing a sh of relief after receiving encouraging word from the capitol hill. they agreed to increase it to $2 billion more. people can trade in their gas guzzlers and get a more fuel-efficient vehicle. this program is scheduled to run until november 1st, but they almost ran out of money at the end of this week. they got about $779 million in their coffers and that coming outo about 773,000 cars nationwide and it's testament that this program is something that is very popular

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