CNN news 2008-11-29 加文本

From the cnn Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Here's your NOW IN THE NEWS update.

Scores are dead in the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, India, including foreigners, police and at least 11 attackers. The death toll is expected to rise as the authorities search the luxury Taj Mahal hotel. The scene of bloody violence that continued two days after the attacks began. At least two Americans are dead, a father and his teenage daughter from Virginia. They and many others were killed at the Hotel Oberoi .Go to cnn.com for all the latest on this developing story.

President Bush has been keeping up with the situation in Mumbai as well. Bush has worked hard to cultivate the relationship with the Indian government. He has been monitoring the situation in Mumbai through Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice has been working on phones talking to her counterparts in India, Pakistan and in Britain.

In New York State, at a Wal-Mart on Long Island, police now say that a worker died after a crowd broke through the doors and trampled him just as the store was opening up at 5 am, Friday morning. While Wal-Mart has not confirmed this stampede took place, it does say that a medical emergency closed the store, a pregnant woman and three other shoppers were injured slightly and taken to the hospital.

No flights in or out. Thousands of passengers are stuck at Thailand's two airports in Bangkok shut down due to mass protests. Demonstrators stormed the airport days ago calling for the prime minister to resign. The protests have completely cut off all air traffic to the city dealing a heavy blow to Thailand's economy. The prime minister has demoted the nation's top police chief in response and declared the state of emergency at the airport.(WWw.hxen.net)

Pirates are striking again in the Gulf of Aden. More than two-dozen crewmen aboard the chemical tanker from Singapore, but media reporting now indicating that three security guards, two British, one Irish did manage to jump off board before it was too late. They were rescued by a helicopter dispatched from one of the many military stops now patrolling the pirate-infested waters.

Those are the headlines at this hour. For more on those stories and other news of the day, cnn is always your source online, on TV, or on your cellphone.