Christie Defends Ebola Quarantine, Syria Fuel Prices Soar, Lava Threatens Residents in Hawaii
Here's what I'm reading up on this morning:
- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defends the mandatory quarantine of Kaci Hickox, a nurse suspected of having been infected with Ebola.
- The second Dallas-area nurse infected with Ebola is now free of the virus.
- Authorities in Mexico arrest four people suspected of abducting and likely killing 43 students--but not the local mayor who allegedly ordered the hit.
- Fuel prices--along with pretty much everything else--are skyrocketing in Syria.
- Meanwhile, British war photographer and IS hostage John Cantlie is now the apparent new face of a new IS propaganda video.
- Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano threatens to destroy homes as smoke starts to take its toll on local residents.
- Alibaba founder, and one of China's richest men, Jack Ma says he doesn't actually shop online.
- Are you ready to pay to subscribe to YouTube?
- The rate of babies born with symptoms on the spectrum of fetal alcohol symptom disorder in the U.S. is much higher than expected, at up to nearly 5 percent of all births.
- Global warming also makes it colder and snowier in the winter.