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Hello and welcome, TGIF! I am Christina Park at the CNN headquarters in Atlanta with a look at what’s happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

Well, day two of a first-degree murder trial against a minister’s wife is underway in Selmer, Tennessee. Jurors are hearing 2 very different stories about what private life may have been like for Mary and Matthew Winkler and their 3 young daughters. Well the state says Winkler was involved in a check-cutting skim and was afraid of her husband would find out. The defense’s saying the minister was abusive and controlling. They say Winkler accidentally shot her husband.

For the first time in thirty years, Don Imus, one of the biggest names in talk radio, is out of the studios. CBS fired him yesterday, a day after MSNBC pulled the plug on this TV summoned cast. Imus met with the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team last night to personally apologize for his insult. Deirdre Imus was with her husband during that meeting and stepped in today to finish out his on-air fund raiser.

And New Jersey Governor John Corzine is hospitalized with serious injuries after a car accident on Garden State Parkway last night, who was on his way to that Imus meeting. He’s already had 2-hours of surgeries to repair broken legs and ribs. And he was even more surgeries ahead of them. Corzine was in the front passenger’s seat of the SUV being driven by a state trooper. He was on his way to mediate the meeting between Rutgers Woman’s Basketball team and fired radio host Don Imus.

A strong earthquake rocked Mexico this morning. The US geological survey says the quake has a preliminary magnitude of 6.0. It was centered about 40 miles northwest of Acapulco . A 5.9 magnitude aftershock hit Mexico City a few hours later. Officials are saying so far there had been no deaths, serious injuries or major damage reported.

New evidence in what caused obesity. British researchers studying 39,000 Europeans found a gene they say dictates why some people gain weight while others do not. Researchers are hoping the study publish in the Journal Science would lead a new way to fight this global epidemic.

And that brings you up-to-date. But don’t forget on more these stories and headlines of the day make CNN your news source online or on TV.

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