1. Georgia's president says Russian troops have effectively cut the country in half. Troops have seized a strategic city that straddles the country's main east-west highway. Meantime, a State Department spokesman says the US wants to see the Russians stand down.

2. Six people were hospitalized after an early-morning fire ripped through three residential buildings in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Two responding police officers were treated on the scene for smoke inhalation. The Red Cross is helping about 30 people who were left homeless.

3. Police in Montreal say they were trying to make an arrest when last night's rioting broke out. One police officer was shot, stores were looted and firefighters were pelted with beer bottles. The rioting followed a peaceful protest a day after police shot three people, one fatally.

4. And this 700-pound man was once considered the world's most obese person. Now for the first time in five months and with the aid of a forklift, Manuel Uribe has left his home. He traveled to the shore of a lake in northern Mexico without ever leaving his specially designed bed.