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President Barack Obama will travel to New York's ground zero today to honor those who died in 9/11 attacks. He'll meet privately with families who lost loved ones. The White House calls the visit "cathartic" after Monday's death of Osama Bin Laden.

The Mississippi River is raging. Forecasters are saying that the Mighty Miss could break records set during the destructive floods of 1927. Towns up and down the river are being evacuated and the flooding is still in the early stages.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says ousting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is the best way to protect Libya's civilians. Clinton has been meeting in Rome with Italy's foreign minister ahead of a diplomatic meeting on Libya.

And wild pictures out of Oregon. A train carrying lumber derailed and struck several tanker cars carrying a flammable liquid. The crash caused a massive fire on a highway northwest of Portland. The derailment forced the evacuation of a half-mile area around the fire.

Noel W, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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