PHILLIPS: Just about a quarter past the hour. Here are some of the stories that we're working on in the CNN NEWSROOM. A suicide bomber attacks the main U.S. base in Afghanistan while Vice President Cheney was inside. Cheney is unhurt. The Taliban reportedly claimed that they were targeting him. Also, the secretary of state, the defense secretary, the joint chiefs chairman, all in one room. Senators will grill them on request for a massive boost in war spending. Dozens of San Francisco apartment dwellers run into the street after a landslide. Rocks and boulders tumble down, but amazingly, nobody was hurt.</s>LEMON: Well, horror around a soccer field filled with children. A bomb went off in Ramadi about 70 miles west of Baghdad. At least 18 people have been killed. And now conflicting reports about who is to blame. CNN's Michael Ware is in the Iraqi capital -- Michael.</s>MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, what we're hearing is markedly conflicting reports about an incident this afternoon in the western town of Ramadi. Ramadi is provisionally considered to be one of the headquarters for al Qaeda in Iraq. Now, according to Iraqi Ministry of Interior officials, 18 children were killed when a car bomb exploded near an open field where the children play soccer. However, according to a Reuters wire report, the U.S. military is saying that one of their controlled detonations slightly wounded 30 people and killed nobody. Quoting an American official, saying he does not believe that there were two separate explosions. Apparently, implying that there is much confusion over the nature of this incident. So all we know right now is in western Ramadi there was an explosion of some kind by somebody. A number of people are wounded. We don't know who, if anybody, has been killed.</s>LEMON: CNN's Michael Ware in Baghdad. Thank you so much for that report.</s>PHILLIPS: Well, take a look at his plate. Is it a matter of state? Should British government take over in the case of an obese 8- year-old? Details ahead from the CNN NEWSROOM.
Conflicting Reports Over Ramadi Explosion