PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The big commuter scramble is on in Philadelphia, where transit workers have gone on strike. The strike by the transit system's largest union has stalled the city's buses, subways and trolleys a day after the World Series shifted to New York. The system normally makes nearly 930,000 trips a day.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says tests show the swine flu vaccine will protect people and do it safely. Dr. Anthony Fauci (FOW'-chee) of the National Institutes of Health says tests were done on millions of people who have received the H1N1 flu vaccine. He appeared this morning on CBS.

KABUL (AP) — Afghanistan's president is reaching out to his political opponents after winning re-election in a vote marred by fraud. Hamid Karzai won by default when his chief rival dropped out of a planned runoff. He's promising to create an inclusive government and end the corruption that has undermined his administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AHN'-geh-lah MEHR'-kuhl) is meeting with Presidnet Barack Obama this morning, then plans to make a case for a global deal on climate change to a joint meeting of Congress. Former Vice President Al Gore says he thinks Obama will attend talks in Copenhagen next month aimed at negotiating an international agreement on cutting carbon emissions.

LONDON (AP) — Madeleine McCann was four years old when she disappeared while on vacation with her family in Portugal in May 2007. A video released today by British police imagines what she might look like two years later. Police urged Internet users to spread the pictures and her father tells the BBC the video is an attempt to contact specific people.