<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wbztv.com/national/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV</title><link>http://wbztv.com/national</link><description><![CDATA[Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Corporation. All rights reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:19:24 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[House Begins Health Care Bill Debate]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/health.care.vote.2.1298108.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/health.care.vote.2.1298108.html</link><description><![CDATA[The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health
care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of
Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system. In the opening moments of debate, Democrats hailed the legislation as
an advance for the nation's social fabric and a moral and economic
imperative.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:53:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds Mourn Fort Hood Shooting Victims]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/fort.hood.shooting.2.1298126.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/fort.hood.shooting.2.1298126.html</link><description><![CDATA[A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight
vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community
looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly
went on a deadly shooting spree at the military post. A grief
counseling center was set up Friday at the Killeen Community Center to
help residents struggling to make sense of one of the worst mass
shootings ever on a military facility in the United States. At least 13
people died and more than two dozen were wounded in the attack a day
earlier.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:53:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Banks Shut Nationwide, Bringing Total To 120]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/bank.failure.fdic.2.1298120.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/bank.failure.fdic.2.1298120.html</link><description><![CDATA[Regulators on Friday shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and California, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 120 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults on loans. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over United Commercial Bank in San Francisco, with $11.2 billion in assets and $7.5 billion in deposits. East West Bancorp Inc., parent company of East West Bank based in Pasadena, Calif., is buying all of the deposits and most of the failed bank's assets.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:54:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accused Orlando Shooter Held In Jail Without Bond]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/orlando.shooter.jail.2.1298159.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/orlando.shooter.jail.2.1298159.html</link><description><![CDATA[The engineer accused of fatally shooting one worker and wounding five
others at the firm where he once worked appeared briefly in court
Saturday and was ordered held without bond. A judge ordered
that Jason Rodriguez, 40, be held without bail at the Orange County
Jail in Orlando for Friday's shooting. His defense attorney, Bob
Wesley, asked the judge that police and prosecutors have no contact
with Rodriguez without his permission.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:54:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fort Hood Suspect Worried About Fighting Muslims]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/fort.hood.shooter.2.1298139.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/fort.hood.shooter.2.1298139.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Muslim leader says the Army psychiatrist suspected of going on a
shooting rampage at Fort Hood asked him for advice on what he should
tell soldiers who had concerns about going to fight Muslims in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Osman Danquah is the
co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen. He says he had
a bad feeling about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan after the two talked twice
in late summer.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:54:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afghan Officials: NATO Strike Killed Afghan Troops]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/afghanistan.nato.topps.2.1298135.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/afghanistan.nato.topps.2.1298135.html</link><description><![CDATA[Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said Saturday that a NATO airstrike in
the western province of Badghis the previous day mistakenly hit a joint
base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four
Afghan soldiers and three policemen. NATO said it and Afghan
authorities were investigating whether an alliance airstrike during an
operation Friday to rescue two missing American paratroopers had caused
casualties. It said it could not confirm whether the base had been hit.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:54:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgruntled Ex-Engineer Suspected In Fla. Shooting]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/orlando.office.shootings.2.1296477.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/orlando.office.shootings.2.1296477.html</link><description><![CDATA[Police say a former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando, Fla., engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obtain unemployment benefits. Authorities say suspect Jason Rodriguez opened fire in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five others.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:05:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official: Gun Used At Ft. Hood Dubbed 'Cop Killer']]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/fort.hood.shooting.2.1297441.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/fort.hood.shooting.2.1297441.html</link><description><![CDATA[A 5.7-millimeter pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting was purchased legally by suspect Nidal Hasan at a Texas gun shop, law enforcement officials said Friday. Records indicate Hasan bought the FN 5.7 at store called "Guns Galore" in Killeen, Texas, in recent months and that gun was used in the attack that left 13 people dead, one of the officials said.<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:59:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Maj. Hassan, A Mystery ]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/profile.shooter.suspect.2.1295780.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/profile.shooter.suspect.2.1295780.html</link><description><![CDATA[As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship -- common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead. Investigators examined Hasan's computer, his home and his garbage Friday to learn what motivated the suspect, who lay in a coma, shot four times in the frantic bloodletting. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:00:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobless Rate Tops 10 Pct. For First Time Since '83]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/national/jobless.rate.10.2.1295985.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/national/jobless.rate.10.2.1295985.html</link><description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 &#151; and is likely to go higher. Nearly
16 million people can't find jobs even though the worst recession since
the Great Depression has apparently ended. The Labor Department said
Friday that the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October,
less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September. August job
losses were also revised lower, to 154,000 from 201,000.<br />
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