Giuliani hospitalized for flu-like symptoms

Hello on this Thursday, December 20, 2007. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline Update.

Doctors say Republican Rudy Giuliani can go home today after spending the night in the hospital. The presidential candidate was admitted in St. Louis yesterday with flu-like symptoms. He'd been campaigning in Missouri, preparing for the Republican primary there in February. There's no word yet on when the former New York mayor would leave the hospital today.

White House staffers are returning to work today following a fire that broke out in their building in the White House compound. Yesterday, smoke billowed from the historic Eisenhower executive office building. The fire reportedly started in the ceremonial offices of Vice President Dick Cheney, although he was in the White House at the time. Officials the source of the fire may have been an electrical closet or telephone bank. There were no reports of any injuries.

The Democratic presidential candidates are virtually neck and neck with just two weeks until the Iowa caucuses. A new poll out shows 30 percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers support Senator Hillary Clinton as the nominee. Senator Barack Obama trails closely behind at 28 percent and Senator John Edwards comes in at 26 percent. The poll's sampling error is at plus or minus 4 percentage points, making the race nearly a tie. On the Republican side, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee leads the GOP pack at 33 percent. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney comes in second place at 25 percent.

The CIA is expected to begin turning over documents to Congress related to the destruction of terror suspect videotapes. The agency reportedly agreed to give up the material after a House committee chairman prepared subpoenas for officials and attorneys. The tapes were apparently destroyed in 2005 and showed the use of harsh interrogation techniques on two Al Qaeda suspects that year.

That's all for now. Check out our weekly White House wrap up tomorrow on upi.com. Thanks for watching.

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[sexwithbozscaggs]

Too bad he didn't die. (giuliani)

[SaintWicked721]

too bad it didn't kill him

[Chiffon56]

DENNTONN: What are "moros", fu**face? And the sentence should have read..."liberals should, at least, learn..." You forgot the commas. What was that about sentence structure, asshole?

[Chiffon56]

If the mother-fu**er can't even handle the flu...how the hell will he handle al Qaeda? He has to go to the HOSPITAL for flu symptoms? What a fu**ing pussy.

[DENNTONN]

Check out the moros that posted responses to this. You idiot liberals really should at least learn how to spell and form sentence structure.. God Bless Rudy.

[Kisinkona]

He just drank too much, he's a drunk like Bush...

[truestpain]

I hope he dies.

[enferno00]

he is a dirty italian

[freestuffffff]

Giuliani should shut up and go home. He's a lying sack of shit responsible for many innocent deaths among NYFD firefighters on 9/11. He had advance warning of the collapse of the towers. NYFD had nonworking walkie-talkies and so died in the collapse, and could not then bear witness to the many explosions detonated within the buildings causing their controlled demolition.

[pigoprha]

want to know a secret click on my name for CIA Tapes