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911 call from Jackson home: He's not breathing
FROM: CNN.COM
The person at Michael Jackson's home who called 911 Thursday told the operator the singer wasn't breathing and wasn't conscious, according to a recording of phone call released Friday.
"I need an ambulance," the person told the 911 operator.
Police spoke with Jackson's doctor on Thursday but have been unable to reach him Friday for further questioning, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
A car the doctor was using was towed from Jackson's home Thursday and impounded, authorities said.
The car may contain "medications pertinent to the investigation" into Jackson's death, said detective Agustin Villanueva of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police did not release the doctor's name.
Public records show the car is registered to a Texas woman who is an associate of a cardiologist. The cardiologist is licensed in California and Texas and also has an office in Las Vegas, Nevada.
CNN's calls to the doctor's office were not immediately returned.
Authorities said Friday the cause of Michael Jackson's death will not be determined officially for weeks.
The superstar's sudden death Thursday at age 50 left a family devastated, an industry stunned and legions of fans lost. It also left a glaring question: What happened?
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Baghdad market bombing adds to soaring death toll
FROM: CNN.COM
A market bombing in central Baghdad killed 15 people Friday morning, continuing the spike in violence as the deadline approaches for the United States to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities.
The bomb went off in a commercial area where men buy and sell motorcycles, an Interior Ministry official said.
A motorcycle filled with explosives detonated about 9 a.m., killing 15 and wounding 46 others, the official said.
Several bombings over the past three days in and around Baghdad have killed nearly 100 people.
The intensifying violence precedes a deadline for the United States to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns, as spelled out in an agreement with the country's leaders.
By June 30, security responsibilities will be left to Iraqis, and U.S. forces are to remain only as trainers and advisers.
Several assaults over the past two days, in which about 25 people died, followed a major blast Wednesday, when at least 72 people were killed and 135 injured at a Baghdad market.
That market bombing in Baghdad's Sadr City on Wednesday was widely condemned.
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NTSB to probe problems on other Airbus Flights
FROM: CNN.COM
United States accident investigators are probing two recent failures of airspeed and altitude indications aboard Airbus A330s -- the same type of plane that crashed into the Atlantic nearly a month ago.
The planes landed safely and there were no injuries or damage, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. One flight was between the United States and Brazil in May and the other between Hong Kong and Japan in June.
The probes were launched in the aftermath of the June 1 crash in the Atlantic Ocean -- when Air France Flight 447 was flying to Paris, France, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All 228 people on board the plane, an A330, were killed.
Investigators are looking at the possible role of airspeed sensors known as pitot tubes, among other factors, as a possible cause of the Flight 447 crash.
That flight sent 24 automated error messages in the four minutes before it crashed, the head of the French accident investigation board, Paul-Louis Arslanian, has said. The error messages all indicate there were problems with on-board information about the plane's speed, which can cause some of the plane's instruments to stop functioning, Arslanian said.
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