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YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully launches | The Hill

The latest test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifted off successfully from Brownsville, Texas. This version of the vessel is considered the largest rocket ever launched. #SpaceX #Starship "The Hill on NewsNation" combines the power of two trusted news sources to define today's most-pressing issues, and question Washington's power brokers on what matters most to the people they serve and what matters most to Americans.

NPR (The Associated Press) - 40,000 people under evacuation orders after chemical tank leak in Southern California

About 40,000 people were under evacuation orders and schools shut down Friday in Southern California after a storage tank continued to leak a hazardous chemical that officials said could rupture or explode.

NYTIMES (Apoorva Mandavilli and Hamed Aleaziz) - U.S. to Block Entry to More Noncitizens Who May Have Been Exposed to Ebola

The Trump administration announced plans to expand a ban on entering the United States to legal permanent residents who had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan.

NYTIMES (Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi) - Mob Burns Congo Ebola Center Amid Rare Strain Outbreak

Several hundred people massed at the gates of a hospital to demand the body of a suspected Ebola victim. Violence broke out when staff refused the request.

YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Should Americans be worried about Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks?

Associate Director for Global Health and Public Health Policy at KFF Dr. Josh Michaud spoke to The Hill about the current Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks, and whether they pose a risk to Americans. Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Wednesday he suspects the spreading Ebola outbreak in Africa will spread across three new countries and become a “very significant pandemic.” “I suspect this is going to become a very significant pandemic, probably going to leak into Tanzania, leak into southern Sudan, maybe leak into Rwanda,” Redfield said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” Read more:…

NYTIMES (Dustin Volz and Julian E. Barnes) - Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence. Trump Names Aaron Lukas Acting Chief.

Ms. Gabbard had a difficult tenure in the Trump administration and was seldom seen in the room when the president made important national-security moves.