The episode covers multiple urgent national and international stories, including deteriorating living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln after a 250-day deployment, deadly floods in Indiana, a major earthquake in Indonesia, the tragic death of actress Hayden Panettiere, and Califor
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