NBC News war correspondent Bloom dies from blood clot

MSNBC.com | Associated Press
David Bloom, who was embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died Sunday of an apparent pulmonary embolism. An NBC spokeswoman tells the Associated Press the 39-year-old anchor of the weekend “Today” show was traveling with troops about 25 miles south of Baghdad when he suddenly collapsed. “You couldn’t keep him away from a story,” says Tim Russert. “Whenever something was breaking, he wanted to be there.”
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