National and International News-Tuesday, Sept. 5th

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi lawmakers are back from their summer recess, voting today to extend the country's state of emergency for 30 more days. It gives security forces greater powers and affects all areas except the Kurdish region in the north.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - Some leading Democrats say it's time for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to go. They've drawn up a letter to President Bush saying Bush's "stay the course strategy" in Iraq has failed. A Republican lawmaker accuses Democrats of wanting to retreat before the mission there is completed.

CAIRNS, Australia (AP) - The final moments of Steve Irwin's life were caught on videotape and police are holding the tape as evidence in the investigation of his death. The footage shows T-V's"Crocodile Hunter" pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest before he collapsed and died yesterday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The attorney for the owners of a Louisiana nursing home where 34 people died during Hurricane Katrina plans to present some new information today. He says the new details will cast doubt on the state's negligent homicide case against the owners.

MIAMI (AP) - Large, but disorganized. That's what a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center says about a weather system spinning over the open Atlantic. Winds are not yet strong enough to give the system a name. If that happens, it will become Tropical Storm Florence.