奥巴马在一份声明中说，为了满足阿富汗战场的紧急需要，他已批准国防部长盖茨提出的相关计划。根据这一计划，美国将于今年春天向阿增派一个海军陆战队远征旅，并在夏季再增派一个陆军旅和一些辅助部队。他强调，正是由于美国将削减驻伊拉克的兵力，才使得增兵阿富汗成为可能。

1.President Barack Obama is ordering 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan to train its military and police forces. He says the mountainous region between Afghanistan and Pakistan is the most dangerous place in the world. Obama vowed to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al-Qaeda there.

2.Minnesota's governor's telling residents of Moorhead to heed the advice of emergency responders. Moorhead lies on the other side of the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, where river levels have reached record heights and is still rising.

3.Mourners in Oakland, California said farewell today to four police officers who were gunned down last weekend. The slain officers’caskets draped in American flags, arrived in a caravan that passed under a giant US flag held up by two fire truck ladders.

4.Bar patrons in Arizona got a startle when a bobcat trotted in the front door. One man was attacked and slightly hurt. The cat was shot by police. Tests showed it had rabies.