CNN 2009-10-08（在线收听）

Hello everyone, I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN center, with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

Today is the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, and the biggest strategic decision could be still to come. Seven hundred and seventy eight US troops have died there since the war against the Taliban began just a few weeks after 9.11. The US took less time to defeat Germany and Japan in World War II. In March President Obama announced he was sending twenty one thousand more troops to Afghanistan. Now published reports say that General Stanley Mcstone is asking for as many as forty thousand more. That would place more than a hundred thousand Americans’ lives at stake there.

Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are both meeting with Chicago's mayor later this morning. Mayor Richard J. Daley is expected to ask for more federal money to hire extra police officers. Some of these officers could be dedicated to covering Chicago's schools. Forty children have been killed in violent crimes across the city of Chicago so far this year.

New details about an email scam. Even more people may have been affected . It started with hotmail. Microsoft says the users were tricked into revealing their passwords in a fishing scam. Now media reports say that some people using google, yahoo and other email services were also tricked. The big concern is that many people use one password for all of their online accounts.

Look at this stunning discovery, a space discovery, revealing Saturn's newest halo, NASA's scientists spotted an enormous ring around that planet. It is by far the largest of Saturn's rings. It is, its diameter is equal to three hundred Saturns lined up side by side. It would take about a billion earth to fill the ring.

Two Americans and an Israeli won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And they will split the one point four million dollars for the work on their structure of ribosomes. Those are like construction workers inside your cells and they build protein.

Those are the headlines for you. Stay with CNN for more on these stories and other news of the day.