
Alaa Elassar
Journalist at CNN
🇵🇸🇪🇬 Journalist for @CNN Digital. Master's grad @ColumbiaJourn. Ex CNN International, Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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3 days ago |
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alaa Elassar |Sara Smart
Reid Seybold’s voice shook as he recalled the texts he sent loved ones from the classroom where he barricaded himself, as a barrage of gunshots, screams and sirens turned his university from a picturesque Florida campus into a crime scene. “I love you,” he wrote to his boyfriend and family.
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3 days ago |
waow.com | Alaa Elassar |Sara Smart
(CNN) — Reid Seybold’s voice shook as he recalled the texts he sent loved ones from the classroom where he barricaded himself, as a barrage of gunshots, screams and sirens turned his university from a picturesque Florida campus into a crime scene. “I love you,” he wrote to his boyfriend and family.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Alaa Elassar |Michelle Watson
The helicopter tour company whose sightseeing chopper plunged into the Hudson River on Thursday is shutting down operations immediately, the Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday. The FAA will be launching an immediate review of the license and safety record of New York Helicopter Tours, it said in a post on X. It added it will continue to support the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation. US Sen.
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1 week ago |
cnn.com | Alaa Elassar
Police and fire crews from New York and New Jersey respond to the scene Thursday where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River. Yuki Iwamura/AP CNN — New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging federal authorities to revoke the operating certificate of the helicopter tour company whose sightseeing chopper plunged into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing everyone on board, including three children.
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1 week ago |
cnn.com | Alaa Elassar
Passengers on two international flights were stuck at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery, Alabama due to severe weather. Mapbox CNN — Nearly 300 passengers on board two international flights heading to Atlanta on Thursday were stuck for hours on an Alabama tarmac after their flights were diverted, amid severe weather, to a small airport without Customs and Border Protection staffing.
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