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August 12, 2004 Thursday

SECTION: News; International

HEADLINE: Fighting In Najaf; Bonnie In Fla., Charley Coming; No Authority To Grant Gay Marriage In S.F.; New Study On Antidepressants And Children

BYLINE: Fredricka Whitfield, Miles O'Brien, Matthew Chance, Orelon Sidney, Ed Lavandera, Donna Tetreault, Jeffrey Toobin, Dr. Sanjay Gupta

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U.S. forces are moving in against Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi militia. Cali. Supreme Court rules that San Francisco cannot issue anymore licenses for same-sex marriages, and those issued are now void. There are new concerns today about kids who take certain antidepressants and their risk for suicide.

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Bonnie's moving in, Charley's hot on her heels. Live pictures now from Clearwater Island Beach, Florida, where the storm clouds are gathering, the win

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Two storms, one state-Florida is coping with a big, sloppy mess, and it's about to get worse. Within the past hour, about 380,000 people were asked to evacuate low laying areas around Tampa, Florida. They were asked but not ordered to leave just yet. Charley expected to strike the west coast sometime tomorrow. Florida Governor Jeb Bush says the storm is the big worry.

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GOV. JEB BUSH ®, FLORIDA: My principal message here today is to urge people who have not experienced a hurricane to take this very, very seriously. They have today, really, to prepare for a storm, to identify the means of evacuation if it's suggested that they do so, or if, in fact, they're in the low laying areas on the coast and they're ordered to do so, to plan for this in advance, to prepare their families and to be organized in advance, and to listen very carefully to what local officials say.

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