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And hello I'm Brooke Baldwin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here’s a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

Bleak¹ day on Wall Street as Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy². The storied investment bank spent the weekend looking for suitors, but when talks fell through, the only option was bankruptcy. The effect on the US market was profound. The Dow Jones dropped by hundreds of points in the first minutes of trading.

And the official numbers put the death toll³ from Hurricane Ike at 15 in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Millions of people in Texas are without power right now and thousands have no clean drinking water. Gulf⁴ Coast residents whose homes, as you can see here, just damaged or many of them destroyed by the storm will have to stay even longer in shelters.

And you might have noticed the change in gas prices after Hurricane Ike. AAA says the national average has jumped 17 cents since Friday. It is now sitting at $3.84 and some people, can you believe this, they are paying more than 5 bucks⁵ a gallon in some parts of the country. Analysts⁶ say that should be temporary because Ike did not cause as much damage as feared.

And in Nigeria a rebel group is making good on a declaration of an oil war. Rebels claim they have stormed a Shell Oil facility and burned it to the ground. That  attack comes just one day after the group sent a warning to companies. The rebel group wants the government, the Federal government to send more revenues to the impoverished⁷ oil producing south.

And you just saw some live pictures from Las Vegas. Opening statements have begun in the O.J. Simpson’s trial. He and a former golfing buddy⁸ pleaded not guilty to 12 different charges including kidnapping, armed robbery, and conspiracy⁹. Just over a year ago, Simpson and five other men confronted 2 sports memorabilia dealers¹⁰ in a Las Vegas hotel room. Prosecutors¹¹ say some of the men were armed. Simpson says he was only trying to reclaim¹² some of his stolen personal property. If convicted of the most serious charge here, both men could go to prison for life.

And those are some of the headlines this hour. Of course stay with  CNN for more on those stories and other news of the day.