By John Bonifield, CNN    updated 5:31 PM EDT, Fri September 6, 2013

SNIPPET:Officials believe the child is a 4-year-old boy from Mississippi who may have come in contact with the waterborne Naegleria fowleri amoeba while playing on a plastic toy water slide, St. Bernard Parish President David Peralta told CNN affiliate WWLTV. Water samples taken from the home tested positive for the amoeba, according to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.

SOURCE:  http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/health/amoeba-death/index.html?on.cnn=2

Remote control helicopter kills teenager in NYC park

A New York teenager has been killed when the toy remote control helicopter he was flying struck him in the head.

SOURCE:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23992647

PHOTO CREDIT:  (Photo by Jeff Abel )

Seattle area hit with massive thunder storm that delivers 5900 lightening strikes.

SNIPPET;  The Associated PressA storm that dumped heavy rain on Washington state left a wake of damaged roads, a nearly 8-foot-high mudslide and overflowed sewers. But late-summer sunshine is returning soon, according to the National Weather Service.

SOURCE:  http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/09/storms-wake-big-sinkhole-mudslides-overflowed-sewers/

SINKHOLE:

Sinkhole opens up in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood

BY KIRO RADIO STAFF  on September 6, 2013 @ 7:05 am (Updated: 9:39 am – 9/6/13 )

SNIPPET:  KIRO Radio reporter Chris Sullivan describes the pocket as “pretty sizable” so far. The sinkhole measures 33 feet long, 12 feet wide and 6 feet deep.

SOURCE:  http://mynorthwest.com/11/2348304/Sinkhole-opens-up-in-Seattles-South-Park-neighborhood

Better flu vaccine on the horizon

By Dr. Anthony Fauci, Special to CNN            updated 1:19 PM EDT, Tue September 3, 2013

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