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President-elect Barack Obama has revealed more Cabinet picks. He's nominated Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu for energy secretary and former New Jersey environmental official Lisa Jackson for EPA. Officials say Colorado Senator Ken Salazar will head the Interior Department.

President George W. Bush says a deal is in the works to help keep General Motors and Chrysler from bankruptcy. A Michigan senator says he expects $8 billion will go to GM and another 7 billion to Chrysler.

Rescue teams in the Philippines have recovered 4 more bodies, 3 girls and a boy. That’s after officials say a small overcrowded ferry overturned in rough seas Sun. More than 2 dozen people died and another 28 are missing.

And California took a pounding from a very strong rainstorm, so intense this school roof collapsed. The threat of mudslides also forced hundreds from their homes. And officials say about 20,000 customers lost power across the state.

Mike Gracia, the Associated Press with AP News Min.