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(CNN Student News) -- January 3, 2011Download PDF maps related to today's show:TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: We're back! I'm Carl Azuz. This is CNN Student News! It is my privilege to wish you a very happy new year. Welcome to our first show of 2011! We have 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines ready for you; they start right now!First Up: Lame Duck V otesAZUZ: Now, before we went on break, we talked about the status of three proposals being considered by the U.S. Congress. There's been action on all three of them. First, the tax cut deal. This was the compromise that President Obama and Republican leaders had worked out to extend a set of tax cuts for two years. That passed in both the House and the Senate, so everybody's taxes are going to stay right where they are for the next two years.Next, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." That's the policy that banned gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military. It's been in place since 1993, but Congress voted to overturn the policy, which means eventually, gays and lesbians will be able to serve openly.Finally, START, a treaty between the United States and Russia that would limit how many nuclear weapons each country can have. The Senate has to approve these kinds of treaties, and it did. All of this was done during what's called a lame duck session. That's what you call the time between an election and when those people who were elected take office.2011 ChallengesAZUZ: The lame duck session is now over; the new Congress gets to work this week. Ed Henry gives us a preview of what they're going to be working on and how much debate we might have to look forward to.(BEGIN VIDEO)ED HENRY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: To hear the president tell it, bickering with the Republicans is so 2010.BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A lot of folks in this town predicted that after the midterm elections, Washington would be headed for more partisanship and more gridlock. And instead, this has been a season of progress. That's a message that I will take toheart in the New Year, and I hope my Democratic and Republican friends will do the same.HENRY: But with the Republican John Boehner taking the speaker's gavel, that rosy scenario will be tested immediately in 2011, because both parties will now have to agree on a long-term budget after kicking the can down the road on all those spending cuts the Tea Party was demanding and the president's own debt panel was proposing to no avail.OBAMA: I expect we'll have a robust debate about this when we return from the holidays. The debate that will have to answer an increasingly urgent question, and that is how do we cut spending that we don't need while still making investments that we do need.HENRY: With the federal cash register tapped out, it will be especially difficult to tackle the president's biggest challenge of all.OBAMA: My singular focus over the next two years is not rescuing the economy from potential disaster, but rather jump-starting the economy so that we actually start making a dent in the unemployment rate.HENRY: Mr. Obama also may face resistance to his economic plans from both liberals still smarting from the tax deal he just cut and conservatives determined to repeal his health reform law. An independant-minded Republican independent is urging both sides to give the new balance of power a chance.SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI, (R) ALASKA: Let's figure out how we deal with some of these very, very difficult issues, whether it's tax policy or whether it's going to be what we're going to be doing on spending. We've got enough that we need to do that we don't need to get weighted down in the partisan politics.HENRY: Music to the ears of White House aides trying to hammer the message that Republicans now have a responsibility to govern.(END VIDEO)Is This Legit?STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit? The U.S. government takes a census of the country's population every five years. Not legit! It is every 10 years that the government counts how many people live in the U.S.Census ResultsAZUZ: The census is mandated -- that means it's ordered -- by the U.S. Constitution. The first census happened in 1790. And back then, the U.S. population was just under 4 million. Today, it's more than 308 million. That's according to the census that was taken last year. From 2000 to 2010,the country's population increased during that time by 9.7 percent. That is actually the smallest increase since the 1930s and the Great Depression.Part of what the census does is determine how many seats that states get in the U.S. House of Representatives. If a state's population goes up, it could get more seats. If it goes down, it could lose seats. Based on last year's census, eight states will gain members in the House, and ten states will lose members.Wild WeatherAZUZ: The past couple of weeks have seen some pretty severe weather all around the United States. We've seen heavy wind and rain out in California; snow and ice in the western U.S. and upper Plains; and, as you might have heard, a blizzard in the northeast. Some parts of the region got up to three feet of snow. That was terrible for many airports, causing a lot of travel delays. There were some neighborhoods that were covered in snow for days. Eventually, clean-up crews made it out to help clear things off. Though in New York, there were some complaints that those efforts took way too long. Meanwhile, a different kind of storm ripped its way across parts of the Midwest. Samantha Hayes has the details on that for us right now.(BEGIN VIDEO)SAMANTHA HAYES, CNN CORRESPONDENT, W ASHINGTON, D.C.: In Washington County, Arkansas, neighbors sort through the wreckage of their community. Just hours earlier, a tornado ripped through this area just west of Fayetteville.NA THAN LAWRENCE, STORM VICTIM: My whole house started shaking, the windows busted out, and then it was gone. Just like that, it was gone.HAYES: Homes and businesses are destroyed and an ambulance and coroner's truck are part of the heartbreaking scene. The same storm continued its destructive path into Missouri, just outside St. Louis.KEVIN O'LEARY, STORM VICTIM: In five, six seconds it was over. I've always heard that it sounds like a freight train, and that's exactly what it sounded like. And before we could even move it was over and the building was, you know, windows out. My wife just got out of the office two seconds before it hit.HAYES: Tornadoes severely damaged a shopping center in the city of Sunset Hills. Cars and trucks in the parking lot were blown over, and homes in a nearby subdivision were destroyed.WILLIAM NOLAN, MAYOR, SUNSET HILLS: It's incredible, absolutely incredible: cars overturned, trucks overturned. It's kind of hard to believe that such a thing could happen to our city.HAYES: Samantha Hayes, CNN, Washington.(END VIDEO)Arkansas BirdsAZUZ: Officials are hoping to start running some tests today, but they think those storms in Arkansas could be the reason for a New Year's Eve event definitely unexpected: more than a thousand blackbirds just fell from the sky. Most of them were dead. They were all found within a one-mile area. One expert said this kind of thing isn't that unusual and that it might have been caused by lightning or hail. Other officials think that New Year's fireworks might have caused the birds severe stress. Right now, though, this is a mystery; experts are hoping the tests they run will help offer some answers to it.Make us Your Home Page!AZUZ: Here's a resolution for the new year: make CNN Student News your home page! is already your favorite Web site. This is gonna give you instant access to our blog, our Teachers' Lounge, plus all of the resources in our Spotlight and In Depth sections. And our Transcript archive includes every program from this entire school year. The URL once again: !ShoutoutTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the first Shoutout of 2011! Which of these U.S. cities was last to ring in the new year? If you think you know it, shout it out! Was it: A) Seattle, Washington, B) Anchorage, Alaska, C) Honolulu, Hawaii or D) San Francisco, California? Start the countdown at three seconds -- GO! Because of its time zone, Honolulu rang in the new year after the other cities. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!Happy New Year!AZUZ: Five hours before the new year started in Honolulu, this was the scene in New York City's Times Square. There were estimates that a million people were there to count down the final seconds of 2010. And when the clock struck midnight, more than a ton -- two thousand pounds! -- of confetti rained down on the crowd. Of course, the celebrations were all around the world. From Russia to England, China to Australia, people got together in cities everywhere to help usher in the new year with fireworks and special events. Some smaller cities celebrated the new year with their own unique traditions.Before We GoAZUZ: And that includes the one in today's Before We Go segment. We're taking you to Eastover, North Carolina, where they didn't drop a ball for New Year's Eve; they dropped a giant flea! Threefeet tall, 30 pounds. Thankfully, it was made out of foam, wire and wood, not actual flea. There is an explanation for this unusual tradition: Eastover used to be called Flea Hill. They started this new tradition in order to pay tribute to the town's past.GoodbyeAZUZ: So, even if it was just for a flea-ting moment, there's something that bugs us about this idea: Why didn't they drop the fake flea down one part at a time? You know, insect-tions? New year, same old puns! For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. Have a great day.。
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CNN Student News: November 21, 2011[减赤超级委员会,卡扎菲儿子被捕,太阳能面板树]GROUP: Hey, Carl, this is Grace Christian Academy (ph), and this is CNN Student News.CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: And, of course, we thank the students at Chicago's Grace Christian Academy for getting our week going. I'm Carl Azuz, bringing you 10 minutes of headlines from around the globe. We're going to get into our first story today with this report.KATE BOLDUAN, CNN REPORTER: The reason it's been given the nickname of "super committee," if you will, is many believe that this committee has super powers. They basically can bypass a lot of the procedural hurdles that legislation often runs up against as it tries to make its way through the House and Senate.The super committee was created during the debt ceiling debacle over the summer. It was created to basically do what Congress could not do during the debt ceiling negotiations, which was find bigger deficit savings in order to help the country stabilize its debt.There are 12 members on this committee, 12 lawmakers, evenly split between the House and Senate, Democrat and Republican. They were all appointed by the leaders of each chamber. They bring a range of experience, a range of backgrounds and a range of political motivations, if you will.The deadline is tight. The committee has until November 23rd, right before Thanksgiving, to reach agreement. It does not have to be unanimous within the committee. It has to be a majority of the members on the committee that has to reach agreement, and then it is sent to Congress to both chambers, the House and the Senate. And Congress has to vote on it by December 23rd.AZUZ: OK, so we're talking about Congress' super committee and you heard Kate Bolduan say that it has until this Wednesday to recommend a plan to cut more than a trillion dollars over the next 10 years.AZUZ (voice-over): But the committee members need at least 48 hours to look over any plan before they vote on it. So really the deadline is more like today. And as of Sunday, no deal. Assistants to super committee members were saying that the only announcement the committee would be likely to make was that they failed to reach an agreement.So what happens if they don't reach the deadline? Automatic government budget cuts across the board starting in 2013, including cuts to the U.S. military that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said could cause serious problems for America's military.AZUZ: Something to keep in mind: Congress created these deadlines so Congress can change them, too, or decide to get rid of them altogether. Right now, that's what some lawmakers are suggesting that Congress should do. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today's first Shoutout goes to Mr. Prososki and Mr. Waters' homeroom class at Lexington Middle School in Lexington, Nebraska.Where would you find Tahrir Square? You know what to do. Is it in Libya, Egypt, Syria or Yemen? You've got three seconds, go.Tahrir Square is in Egypt's capital city of Cairo. That's your answer, and that's your Shoutout.AZUZ: Tahrir Square was a rallying point for protesters during Egypt's political revolution earlier this year. Same thing's going on there now: more protests. There was an uprising you might remember that happened in the spring, and that drove Egypt's president from office. There are plans for a new constitution and elections.AZUZ (voice-over): But some Egyptians are angry about how long all this is taking since the initial uprising. They're worried that Egypt's military, which is running the government right now, already might have claimed too much power in Egypt's new government.Protesters were back in Tahrir Square over the weekend, fighting with army and police forces. Some people died in the violence. More than a thousand were wounded. Military officials say they want to transfer the government over to civilians. Elections for parliament are scheduled to start next week.AZUZ (voice-over): In the neighboring country of Libya, many people are celebrating the arrest of this man. His name is Saif al-Islam Gadhafi. He's the son of former Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi. Saif Gadhafi had been hiding for months. He was captured over the weekend after a gun battle in the Libyan desert.Saif al-Islam Gadhafi didn't have a high-level job in his father's government, but experts say he had the most influence in Moammar Gadhafi's inner circle, and they thought Saif was the most likely person to take over control after his father. The Gadhafi government has been accused of brutally attacking citizens during Libya's civil war.The International Criminal Court wants to put Saif Gadhafi on trial for crimes against humanity, including murder. But Libyan officials also want to put him on trial in Libya. They want it happen in their court system. So they're -- we don't know yet how this is all going to play out.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit. About how long does it take for light from the sun to reach the Earth? Here we go. Is it eight seconds, eight minutes, eight hours or eight days? Rewind that clock to three seconds and go.It takes a little more than eight minutes for light to travel from the sun to the Earth. That's your answer, and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit.AZUZ: The idea of collecting that light after it makes the 8-minute journey isn't new. You've probably heard of sonar panels. But Aidan Dwyer came up with a unique idea for how to collect sunlight, and his design was inspired by nature. What started out as a science fair project is now getting international attention. Check this out.AIDAN DWYER, INVENTOR: Our yard isn't that big, and we -- my parents always wanted solar panels. So one day I was just walking through the woodson a winter hiking trip, and I noticed that the tree branches, how they collect sunlight, they like go up into the air. And I thought, like, maybe if we put solar panels on the ends of the branches, it would collect a lot of sunlight.My project is about how I'd build a solar panel tree design, and based on the Fibonacci sequence. And it collected more sunlight than a common flat panel array. And it doesn't collect dirt, rain, snow as much as the flat panels. And I think it looks a lot nicer.My project generated a lot of reaction from people around the world. Many people were excited about the idea. Others had great suggestions to make my research better. The Internet allows people to share ideas. But people will -- people will be people and the media will be the media, and the lesson I learned is that sometimes the Internet is not a substitute for scientific peer review. Well, some of the comments were encouraging me and some of them were just -- they were giving me ideas to expand my research. But some, I felt like, didn't understand my project, because I was trying to measure how -- see if the tree design could collect more sunlight, not more open current voltage.I'm using suggestions from different sources to improve the design. My current project is a large-scale Fibonacci array, which has been adopted by a family of chipmunks as a hangout.DWYER: But most importantly, I'm sharing my ideas on solar panels with others to build a better tomorrow.AZUZ: Good stuff. And before we go, over the past 12 years, Peter Larson has spent almost 300 nights camping out, but not in a tent.AZUZ (voice-over): Peter sleeps outside in a cardboard box, braving frigid Minnesota evenings. And it's not some kind of endurance challenge. Peter's sleepouts raise money for those who are less fortunate and who might be sleeping in boxes themselves without a choice.So far, the high school senior has raised nearly $400,000. This year, Peter is planning his longest sleepout yet -- seven weeks.AZUZ: Spending nearly two months out in the cold is a fundraising idea that's really thinking outside the box. We wish Peter (ph) the best of luck with his efforts, and we hope to see you back here tomorrow for our last show of the week. 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(CNN Student News) -- May 26, 2011Download PDF maps related to today's show:TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, everyone. I'm Carl Azuz, and you're tuned in to CNN Student News! It's Thursday, May 26th, and you can leave the next ten minutes to us.First Up: Speech to ParliamentAZUZ: First up, President Obama makes a speech that some people are calling the main event of his week-long trip to Europe. It happened in front of the British Parliament; it's a legislative group that's kinda like the U.S. Congress. During the speech, the president talked about a lot of world issues that the U.S. and Britain have faced together. That includes the economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the revolutions, protests and conflict happening right now in the Arab world, like in Libya. The president said the U.S. and U.K. should and will provide an example for other nations to follow.U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The time for our leadership is now. It was the United States and the United Kingdom and our democratic allies that shaped a world in which new nations could emerge and individuals could thrive. And even as more nations take on the responsibilities of global leadership, our alliance will remain indispensable to the goal of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just.AZUZ: All right, you just heard the president mention the alliance between the U.S. and U.K. Suzanne Malveaux looks back now at some of the recent moments in that close relationship.(BEGIN VIDEO)QUEEN ELIZABETH II: Ladies and gentlemen, we are here to celebrate the tried, tested and, yes, special relationship between our two countries.SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: And it's that special relationship that has defined U.S. foreign policy for generations. Think Thatcher and Reagan.RONALD REAGAN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: Prime minister, the entire world salutes you and your gallant people and gallant nation.MALVEAUX: Or remember former Prime Minister Tony Blair, sometimes criticized for being a little too friendly with President Bush. Their chumminess got Blair in political trouble at home.His support for the Iraq war won him more friends in the U.S. Congress than across the pond.TONY BLAIR, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We will be with you in this fight for liberty. And if our spirit is right and our courage firm, the world will be with us.MALVEAUX: And now, the U.S. and UK have come together on two other wars: in Afghanistan and Libya. Beyond the battlefield, there are real economic ties that bind. Each country invests over $400 billion in the other's economy. And nearly 200,000 U.S. citizens live and work in the UK. So, for Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama, this relationship is not something either leader takes for granted.OBAMA: As Winston Churchill said on a visit to the United States, above all, among the English-speaking peoples, there must be the union of hearts, based upon convictions and common ideals.(END VIDEO)Libya Cave HideawaysAZUZ: President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron both discussed progress being made in Libya's civil war. But they also said that the conflict could last longer than people expect. Libya's long-time leader, Moammar Gadhafi, and his forces are fighting against rebels who want Gadhafi out of power. And there's concern about how Libya's civilians are being affected in all this. Nic Robertson traveled to the outskirts of one Libyan town to find out how living conditions -- and living locations -- can change in times of war.(BEGIN VIDEO)NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNA TIONAL CORRESPONDENT: He's taking us to see some caves where we're told families have been hiding from the shelling. We've yet to see the caves, but we're certainly seeing a lot of children. And this is the only place in Zintan we've seen children. Look at them here: families and children. They've deserted the streets of the city and they're living out here on the edge. The caves, we're told, haven't been lived in by people for about 60 years, but because of the random shelling, they're now going back to hiding in them again.This is the old part of Zintan, right on the hills, on the edge. Down here? Steep. You really feel like you're going into the ancient city here. This is quite incredible. Look up here. These ancient homes here. You can see the power cable now, running inside here. The people can have electricity, some light at night. This is a whole underground labyrinth of caves. The roof is blackened by soot from fires, years of fires. They're black.Then you come out here into this, and the only way out of here is a ladder. It's an absolute labyrinth. Every side you look, there's an entrance here, here, here, here, another room here with a light bulb. This wasn't here 60 years ago. There's blankets in there if you take a look. Blankets,carpets, space for people to live and hide from the shelling.(END VIDEO)U.S. Severe WeatherAZUZ: To the U.S. now. Parts of the country's mid-section are struggling through a historic tornado season. Officials say more than 500 people have been killed in the storms. The latest round of severe weather hit Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. Oklahoma's governor declared a state of emergency in 68 of the state's 77 counties. That will help free up resources for recovery efforts. Emergency personnel were called out immediately after the storms. Some are searching for victims. Others are working to get power back up and running for the tens of thousands of people who lost it. Officials have determined that the tornado that hit nearby Joplin, Missouri was a 5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The scale measures tornado intensity based on how much damage they cause. A 5 is as high as you can get.Fleet Week in NYAZUZ: A handful of U.S. Navy ships are sailing into New York. That's because it's Fleet Week! The Parade of Ships kicks off the annual event before the vessels drop their anchors at different spots around New York City. Fleet Week gives service members the chance for some R & R in the Big Apple. And it gives civilians the opportunity to go aboard these Navy ships. This week's Fleet Week also brings the USS New York back to New York for the first time since it was commissioned. Part of the ship was made from steel that was recovered from the Twin Towers that were attacked on 9/11 nearly ten years ago.New Fuel LabelsAZUZ: When you go to buy a car, the window sticker gives you a lot of information. But government officials want it to give you more, and in a year or two, that sticker will. New fuel efficiency labels will be required for all new cars starting in 2013. In addition to miles per gallon, you'll see how much you might save -- or spend -- on gas over five years, and how the vehicle stacks up against similar models. Environmental groups support the idea of offering consumers this extra information, but some of them wanted the new labels to assign each vehicle a letter grade. A, B, C, things like that. Critics thought the grades might be too confusing.CNN Teachers' Lounge & BlogAZUZ: At , we are all about your input. First, you teachers. We want to know your thoughts on class rankings. Are you for or against them? That's the newest question in our CNN Student News Teachers' Lounge. You can find that on our home page. Next one is for students. As we wrap up our school year next week, we're going to be talking about the biggest headlines from 2010-2011. You'll see a list of the stories on our blog. What we want is to hear your thoughts on them. Why were these headlines significant? What do you remember most? Soteachers: class rankings. Students: top stories. : get to it!ShoutoutTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. DeLand's social studies students at North Rowan Middle School in Spencer, North Carolina! U.S. pennies are made mostly of what metal? You know what to do! Is it: A) Aluminum, B) Bronze, C) Copper or D) Zinc? You've got three seconds -- GO! The first pennies were pure copper; today, they're more than 97% zinc. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!Before We GoAZUZ: A project with pennies is making some students angry in Washington state. And it's not because they're not worth much.MAYRA EVERSON, STUDENT: How has this gotten out of control? Why did this get out of control? Why wasn't there a stop to it?AZUZ: 14,300 pennies laid out on the cafeteria floor. She's not angry about the project. She's talking about what it represents: the U.S. national debt. Students spent four hours laying out the pennies, with each one symbolizing one billion dollars. The idea was to get other students thinking about the country's $14.3 trillion debt.GoodbyeAZUZ: Using pennies as a visual aid? It's an idea that makes a lot of cents. And it's definitely a change of pace from your normal economics lesson. And if you're out there groaning, just imagine how I feel. CNN Student News returns tomorrow. You can take that to the bank.。
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(CNN Student News) -- October 16, 2013THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.***CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to your Wednesday edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz. Peaceful purposes or nuclear weapons? For years, that`s been the debate over Iran`s controversial nuclear program. Now, the discussion is happening face to face. Representatives from Iran, the U.S., the U.K., Russia, China, France and Germany started meeting yesterday in the Swiss city of Geneva. They are talking about that nuclear program. Iran says it`s serious about resolving disputes over the program. Representatives for the other country say Iran needs to address the concerns about the goals of the program.In the past, Iran has been put under sanctions because of its nuclear program. Sanctions are restrictions, usually economic ones. The goal is to force the country to take action like changing a policy or starting to negotiate with other nations. Some officials and analysts think Iran isoffering to talk about its nuclear program in order to get those sanctions lifted. One of them is Israel`s prime minister. He says Iran regularly deceives the international community, so he doesn`t think the sanctions should be relaxed too soon.Authorities in the Philippines are trying to get an idea of how bad the damage is. A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake violently shook the central part of the country Tuesday morning. Dozens of people were killed, most of them when buildings fell and dozens of others were missing as of last night.A worker with the charity World Vision said people were staying in the streets in the hours after the quake because as you can see from these pictures, some of the buildings that were still standing, were very unsafe to be around. The Philippines is a nation of more than 7,000 islands. Earthquakes are common there. The country`s disaster council said this one damaged ports, roads, schools, churches and homes and some landslides were also reported.Moving back over to Washington D.C., were the debate over the partial government shutdown and debt ceiling is getting more intense than ever. Yesterday, a group of military veterans held a rally in thenation`s capital. They urged the president and Congress to end the shutdown, before its impact hits veterans and their families. At the Capitol, there were reports of proposals from the Republican-led House, and the Democratic-led Senate. CNN reporters were told there are a lot of opinions, but no decisions. All while the clock kept ticking toward Thursday`s debt ceiling deadline.Teachers, we have a bunch of great resources on the debt ceiling. They are in the resources bin on our home page. While you are there, make sure you check out our transcript and daily curriculum page. This is your one stop shop for free educational materials related to each day show, discussion questions, the media literacy question of the day, plus show transcript and downloadable maps. It`s there for you every day, teachers, it`s at .(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)ANNOUNCER: See, if you can I.D. me. I`m a U.S. military decoration. I was established in 1861 for the Navy, and in 1862 for the Army. I`m the country`s highest military honor. I`m the Medal of Honor and among more than 40 million U.S. military veterans I`ve been awarded fewer than 3500 times.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Many of those medals have been awarded posthumously. Before this week, there were five living recipients from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, there are six.In what he described as monumental event, former Army Captain William Swenson received the Medal of Honor yesterday for his actions during a battle in Afghanistan in 2009. The statement nominating him for the honor talks about how Captain Swenson "wilfully put his life in danger multiple times in service of his fallen and wounded comrades."(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was a helicopter ride into the hell of war and the soul of Captain William Swenson, a soldier who refused to leave anyone behind and spoke up to senior commanders when it all went wrong.FORMER CAPT. WILLIAM SWENSON, MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT:And what happened that day, it was a result of clouded judgment. It was result of clouded judgment on behalf of people who did later received letters of reprimand.STARR: In this valley, four years ago, Swenson and his men were ambushed in one of the most brutal firefights of the Afghan war. Swenson said his men did not get urgently needed air support, a claim validated by the Army. Then his nomination file was said to be lost. Now, he`s finally receiving the Medal of Honor, the nation`s highest combat award.It was early morning when the column of more than 100 U.S. and Afghan troops started up the valley`s narrow path. Enemy fire opened up from three sides.SWENSON: Outnumbered, outgunned, and we have taken casualties.STARR: Sergeant First Class Kenneth Wespert (ph) is shot in the throat and lain out in the open.SWENSON: He called out to me and said, I`m hit. And he wasn`t panicked. There was no education of pain. I called to him all right, holdon, I can`t get to you. I`m pinned down, keep fighting.STARR: Swenson run to cross-open ground dodging enemy fire to get him. Sergeant Kevin Duerst was crew chief of the Medevac helo coming to get the wounded. A helmet-mounted camera captures Swenson flashing an orange panel so the helicopter can find him, but it makes him an enemy target. arching of the MedEvac coming to get the wounded. A helmet-STAFF SGT. KEVIN DUERST, CALIF. NATIONAL GUARD: He was completely under control of the whole situation. He knew exactly what had to be done and when.STARR: Swenson and a medic helped Wespert to the helo and then a moment amid the mayhem. Watch as Swenson gently kisses Wespert good bye. Swenson has no memory of it.SWENSON: I was just trying to keep his spirits up. I wanted him to know that it was going to be OK. And I wanted him to know that he`d done his job, but it was time for him to go.STARR: Swenson determined to get everyone out, went back into thebattle with other still under fire to find and bring out the bodies of dead American and Afghan fighters. Sergeant Wespert died a few weeks later. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.(END VIDEOTAPE)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)ANNOUNCER: It`s time for "The Shoutout." Ruminate, sup and gormandize are all synonyms for what action? If you think you know it, then shout it out. Is it walk, eat, drink or paint? You`ve got three seconds, go!After chewing that one over, hopefully, you`d figure that those are all synonyms for eating. That`s your answer and that`s your "Shoutout."(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Chewing that one over. All right, your parents probably told you, don`t talk with your mouth full. A restaurant in Brooklyn, New York is taking that lesson - is taking it a step further. During special meals, diners have to sip their lips from the minute they walk in thedoor.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)STEVE LANGFORD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A quiet revolution at this Green Point restaurant where every week or so, diners get the silent treatment. Four course, prefixed organic meals in complete silence inspired by a young chef`s time in an Eastern culture.NICHOLAS NAUMAN, HEAD CHEF, "EAT" RESTAURANT: I spent some time in a Buddhist monastery in India when I was in college, and we had a silent breakfast everyday.JORDAN COLON, OWNER, "EAT RESTAURANT: We just ask them to turn off their phones and to remain silent for the remainder of the meal.LANGFORD: A hush fulls (ph) over the dining room, interrupted only by the occastional hand gesture or ...UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`ve made a lot of facial expressions, you know.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We found other ways of communicating that (inaudible).LANGFORD: So far, they haven`t had to discipline anybody for making noise, but there have been a couple of close calls.A man steps outside to blow his nose while this woman struggles with a giggle. But how would the inevitable difficult diner complain other than suffering in silence?EVA SCHMIDT, SOUS-CHEF, "EAT RESTAURANT": If there`s something that`s not quite right or, you know, maybe they wanted something different, like it gives one opportunity to kind of just like be with that moment.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: (inaudible) how the food is, though? Either way, we are talking about this on our blog, if you`re 13 or older, we want you to talk aboutit, too.Could you make it through a mute meal? Dine without din, sup in silencio. Better yet, if you try it, tell us how it went. Our blog is up at .It`s Wednesday. That`s when our "Roll Call" goes worldwide. Today, we`re heading to Canada, the Caribbean and Kiev. First stop, Welland (ph), in the province of Ontario. That`s where we check in with the Eagles at Eastdale Secondary School. Then, it`s down to St. Thomas and the U.S. Virgin Islands where the All Saints Cathedral School Vikings make our "Roll Call." And finally, we`ve got the Cossacks from Kiev International School in the capital city of Ukraine.You`ve seen a cat play with the ball of string. Bears get the jumbo version. Actually, this one, his name is Eli, he`s playing tetherball. If you`ve ever played it, the point of the game is to smack the ball so the chain wraps around the poll. Faced on this YouTube video, it looks like Eli has got the hang of it.He`s ducking and weaving, he`s timing his hits. Of course, he`s also not playing against an opponent, so when it comes to effort, Eli may justbe giving it the bear minimum. Still, looks like he`s having a ball. How does he respond to autograph requests? He could growl or sign, get it, or sign. Bear paw (ph), just green in - it`s time for us to poll us. For CNN STUDENT NEWS, I`m Carl Azuz. Have a great rest of your day.END。
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(CNN Student News) -- October 17, 2011BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: An earthquake and hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied. For this day, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.`s return to the National Mall. In this place, he will stand for all time(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)GROUP: CNN Student News rocks!(END VIDEO CLIP)CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Mr. Johnson`s (ph) students, you rock for sending us that iReport. Thanks so much for that.Hello, everyone, my name is Carl Azuz. This is CNN Student News. First up today, we`re going to Washington, D.C., and the event where President Obama was speaking.The dedication of the national memorial for civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You heard the president mention delays from an earthquake, from a hurricane.This dedication was actually supposed to happen back in August on the anniversary of the historic march on Washington. That`s when Dr. King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): During yesterday`s ceremony, President Obama talked about how Americans today could draw inspiration from King`s work and how, quote, "we can`t be discouraged by what is. We`ve got to keep pushing for what ought to be."The dedication included musical performances and speeches by a wide range of people from Dr. King`s children to other leaders in the civil rights movement. (END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Martin Luther King Jr. was from Atlanta and some students from the city had plans to head up to D.C. for this dedication. They talked about why theywere looking forward to the event.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)JOVANAY CHARTER, STUDENT: I`m excited because not only will I be able to get to meet certain civil rights activist, but I will able to stand and see everything that Dr. Martin Luther King worked for.ALEXIS BOOKER, STUDENT: He was not just about helping blacks. He was about helping all races, no matter what color, no matter what you did to him. He was about forgiveness. He wasn`t just about, OK, well, this is my race, and we don`t have this. He was about equality to all mankind. Everybody deserve equal rights.LARCRECIA WALKER, STUDENT: I want to witness something that should go down in history like it`s very -- it`s very emotional for me, because since I wasn`t there when Martin Luther King was alive, it`s good to witness something like this and you have to come back and tell everyone about it.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: The "Occupy Wall Street" movement seems to be going global. These protests started several weeks ago in New York. Different people who were involved say they`re protesting against a lot of different things. But anger at the U.S. financial industry has been a consistent theme with these.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): Well, the protests have spread to other cities in America, now to other cities worldwide, Rome, Berlin, London, Hong Kong, people all over, talking about how the world`s financial problems have hit them.Most of the protests were peaceful. Some did turn violent. For example, in Italy, a different group joined the "Occupy" protests. They fought with police, set cars on fire and smashed windows.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Today`s Shoutout goes out to Mr. Krieger`s social studies classes at Morgan Township School in Malden, Indiana.On what continent will you find the capital cities of Kampala and Kinshasa? You know what to do.Is it Europe, Asia, Africa or South America? You`ve got three seconds, go.Kampala and Kinshasa are the capitals of two African countries. That`s your answer, and that`s your shoutout.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Specifically, those are the capitals of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. U.S. troops are heading to those nations and two others, the Central African Republic and South Sudan. They`re going to advise regional forces, so to give advice to folks in their fight against a militant group that`s accused of killing thousands of people and kidnapping large numbers of children.President Obama says his decision to send troops is connected to protecting America national security. But some U.S. leaders have raised concerns about getting involved in a commitment that the U.S. might not be able to get out of. Barbara Starr looks at the U.S. military`s efforts across Africa.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)BARBARA STARR, CNN REPORTER (voice-over): President Obama is sending 100 combat equipped troops to central Africa to advise local forces on getting rid of one of the continent`s most vicious operatives, Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord`s Resistance Army, a group responsible for atrocities across the region.It`s the first open deployment of U.S. ground combat power to Africa since the Black Hawk Down incident in Somalia in the 1990s that killed 18 troops. U.S. troops may wind up now in Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It`s part of a growing military effort to engage in Africa.GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN: And so our presence on the African continent is part of our network of building partners of gaining intelligence.STARR (voice-over): Still, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff warned current budget cuts could risk it all at a time when the threat to Americans is rising.Gen. Carter Ham oversees all U.S. military operations on the continent. His major worry: Al Qaida in Africa`s threat to Americans. Right now, he said, Al Qaida groups in Somalia, as well as Algeria, Mali and Nigeria, are trying to join forces.GEN. CARTER HAM, U.S. AFRICA COMMANDER: At least the stated intent for those organizations to collaborate and synchronize, which, if they are able to do so, would establish an extremist link, network, if you will, that would extend from Somalia across the north, into the Sahel and then into west Africa. And that network would be very dangerous, not only to us as Americans, but clearly to the Africans as well.STARR (voice-over): Gen. Ham, along with the Central Intelligence Agency, is focused on targeting the militant Al-Shabaab group in Somalia, which is recruiting American Somalis for terrorist training.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: See if you can ID me. I`m a famous European landmark. You`ll find me in Italy, where my construction started in 1173. I`m known for not standing up straight.I`m the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and I lean because I settled unevenly on soft ground.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Concern about soft ground is why some engineers are looking into another famous tower`s tilt. This one`s in London, the clock tower known as Big Ben. The lean isn`t nearly as noticeable as the one you`ll see at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In fact, some people weren`t sure if Big Ben was leaning at all.So Max Foster went inside the mystery in the tower to get some answers.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)MAX FOSTER, CNN REPORTER: Well, there it is, instantly recognizable, of course. But rumor has it this whole tower is toppling over. And what`s worse, it`s toppling over this way, so I feel a bit vulnerable right now. Anyway, to get to the bottom of these rumors, I`m going to climb right back up to the very top.The first thing to say is we`ve just climbed 334 steps and, yes, I am feeling it.The second thing to say is that when we talk about Big Ben, we`re talking about this: it`s the bell. Big Ben is not the tower, it`s not even the clock, it`s the bell. It`s a common misconception, but now you know.Well, this is an iconic image. This is the clock face here at the tower, looking at it from behind, obviously. And a vast clock face it is from this angle. Jonathan Prew, thank you so much for joining us. You`re the principal surveyor here, and you`re the expert. So tell us: is the tower leaning or isn`t it?JONATHAN PREW, SURVEYOR: Yes, the tower is leaning, but just by a very small amount.FOSTER: How much?PREW: Well, at this level here, where we`re standing, it`s just about 267 millimeters, which is about that much.FOSTER: But, as I understand it, it`s leaning more every year. So it`s a -- it`s a -- it`s a growing problem?PREW: It`s gradually leaning, but it`s leaning at a very small amount. It`s less than a millimeter per annum.FOSTER: And at what stage, then, do we get to the Leaning Tower of Pisa?PREW: Well, if nothing happened, it`s over 4,000 years.FOSTER: And so nothing to worry about right now?PREW: Nothing to worry about now.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Well, before we go, a lesson about why you should carefully consider how you answer some questions.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): For example, what would you do for a free season pass to your favorite amusement park? The answer to that one is why these people are chowing down on giant roaches. The promotion was simple: eat a roach, win free roller coaster rides, two events that aren`t for those with weak stomachs. There are some strategies for this. The best way to eat a roach is, of course.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: . "insections." That was probably the first time they tried that promotionidea. Before the second attempt, you know, they`re just going to have to work the "bugs" out.Ah, yes, the "pun" continues on CNN Student News. Our Facebook fans requested it. And if you`re on Facebook, stop by /cnnstudentnews and help us decide whether to pun or not to pun. See you tomorrow.END。
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(CNN Student News) -- April 27, 2011Download PDF maps related to today's show:TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: One question we're asking today: Why would a college want you to keep your head in the clouds? The answer is plane as day. I'm Carl Azuz, and this Wednesday edition of CNN Student News is ready to take flight.First Up: Levee FailsAZUZ: On Monday, the National Weather Service alert said "the levee may fail at any time." Yesterday was "any time." This is the levee we've been telling you about in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. We reported on it yesterday, in fact. It failed in at least four spots along the Black River. Levees are barriers that are designed to prevent flooding. With this one failing, officials are ramping up evacuations in the area. They already ordered some evacuations. Around a thousand more people were told to evacuate on Tuesday.Based on the way that the levee failed, authorities think Poplar Bluff won't get hit too badly. They expect most of the flood waters to end up in a more rural area. Of course, all of this is being caused by tremendous amounts of rain that have been falling there. A police official in Poplar Bluff said the city's gotten 15 inches of rain in the last four days, and more of it is on the way. The National Weather Service says parts of Missouri could see record flooding. That's why Governor Jay Nixon has sent out the Missouri National Guard to help with relief efforts and to reinforce levees.Arkansas StormsAZUZ: From Texas to Tennessee, states across the southern U.S. could face severe thunderstorms, possible tornadoes. But Arkansas, the state that's just to the south of Missouri, has already gotten slammed by severe weather. Storms tore through the state on Monday. More than a dozen homes destroyed, and at least eight people were killed. The state's governor said he was surprised there weren't more deaths given the amount of damage caused by the severe weather. He declared a state of emergency, which will free up money and government resources for the relief efforts. The winds, so powerful that they flipped over cars and ripped up trees, like you see here. The governor said normally, the wind would just snap the trees. But because the ground was so wet, the trees were just pulled right out by the wind.ShoutoutSTAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's first Shoutout goes out to Mr. Logsdon's students at Clyde Boyd Middle School in Sand Springs, Oklahoma! Who employs most U.S. air traffic controllers? You know what to do! Is it the: A) Airlines, B) Airports, C) Private companies or D) U.S. government? You've got three seconds -- GO! Most of the nation's air traffic controllers are employees of the FAA, the government's Federal Aviation Administration. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!Air Traffic CollegeAZUZ: Experts consider the position of air traffic controller to be one of the most stressful jobs in the U.S. When you think about it, it makes sense; there are a lot of lives on the line. The FAA is making some changes to the way that air traffic controllers do their work. It's in response to recent reports about some controllers sleeping on the job. Three of them have been fired for that recently. The end of those careers led Martin Savidge to talk to some people who are about to start their careers.(BEGIN VIDEO)MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN NA TIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A plane in trouble.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mayday, mayday, mayday, Cactus 289 has engine number two flame out.SA VIDGE: It's a 757.GRANT PALADINO, EMBRY-RIDDLE UNIVERSITY STUDENT: Cactus 289, roger. Say your intentions?UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Request immediate landing anywhere we can.SA VIDGE: With close to 200 people on board. OK, so here's the deal. Grant Paladino, right?PALADINO: Yes.SA VIDGE: Grant Paladino is the one who's handling this emergency, and what he's done is redirect the aircraft to, where?PALADINO: Sanford.SA VIDGE: Sanford. And you might be wondering at this point why would I be pestering an air traffic controller in the middle of a crisis? Well, that answer's easy: none of this is realWelcome to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. Dubbed the Harvard of the Sky, it's final exams week. For these would-be air traffic controllers, their grade depends on howwell they handle everything thrown at them.SA VIDGE: Realism is what you are after?SID MCGUIRK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, EMBRY-RIDDLE UNIVERSITY: That's exactly what we're after.SA VIDGE: In the scenarios, in the training, in all that?MCGUIRK: That's correct. We want our students to be as fully prepared when they get to the field as possible.SA VIDGE: For these soon-to-be graduates, it's taken four years working in classrooms and state-of-the-art simulators -- not to mention $120,000 tuition --to get this far. Miranda Blackwelder has learned all aspects of the job, from takeoffs and landings to guiding flights across the country. So, what about the stress?MIRANDA BLACKWELDER, EMBRY-RIDDLE UNIVERSITY SENIOR: That's the first thing everybody says. And it's like, "Well, yes, but what job isn't stressful?"SA VIDGE: Like a number of students, Murray Best started off wanting to be a pilot. Then he got a taste of controlling planes and liked it.Do you ever make mistakes?MURRAY BEST, EMBRY-RIDDLE UNIVERSITY SENIOR: Plenty of times.SA VIDGE: Do you learn from the mistakes?BEST: Definitely, definitely. Because I know that if I made the same mistake in the field, I'd lose my job, and I'd also be responsible for anybody that happened to get hurt. So, it's definitely serious.SA VIDGE: I asked Miranda if all the recent scrutiny on air traffic controllers had her rethinking her career choice.Do you feel good about the job?BLACKWELDER: I do feel good about the job. I feel very confident. I'm very happy about my decision to be going into this field.SA VIDGE: One day likely to be guiding your flight, the class of 2011 feeling good about their future and sounding very much in control. Martin Savidge, CNN, Daytona Beach, Florida.(END VIDEO)Shoutout Extra CreditTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit! Which of these words describes money that's taken out of your paycheck? Is it: A) Commodity, B) Deduction, C) Entitlement or D) Subsidy? Another three seconds on the clock -- GO! When money comes out of your paycheck, it's called a deduction. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit!Your First PaycheckAZUZ: I remember my very first job was as a grocery store bagger, and I also remember being amazed at the amount of deductions coming out of my first paycheck. Any of you with jobs have probably noticed this. It brings up a lot of questions. One of them: If money's being taken out of your paycheck, where is it going? What is it being used for? Is there any chance that you'll get any of that back? We're gonna answer some of those questions today in our last report wrapping up Financial Literacy Month. Earlier this week, I talked with CNN's Ben Tinker about what comes out of your paycheck when you get paid.(BEGIN VIDEO)BEN TINKER, : Carl, I remember how excited I was to get that first job, but I also remember being pretty surprised when I got that first paycheck. That's because until you actually see those numbers in black and white on your pay stub, you can't really have a good understanding of just how much cash is being taken out before the money ever reaches your bank account.So, when you look at how much money you make, there are two terms you want to pay really close attention to. Number one is gross income. That's what you earned before any deductions. This is also what the advertised salary for your job is going to be. But net income, also known as take home pay, is, well, what you're actually taking home after all the taxes, deductions and other withholdings. Carl?AZUZ: So Ben, what exactly is being taken out of our paychecks?TINKER: Well, the biggest chunk of your paycheck is going to FICA, which stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. And that goes to fund things like Social Security and Medicare. But, you won't be needing these things for a really long time, of course. The government, though, needs that constant flow of money from all taxpayers to churn it back out to those who have aged into those programs.You might also be losing out some wages to state income taxes, which go to pay for things like government workers and government projects. Your job might require you to pitch into insurance coverage. And last but not least, though this may be a few years down the line, retirement savings.Carl, the nice thing about it is that you actually get to set aside money on a pre-tax basis, which'll bolster your savings in the long run. Unfortunately, that paycheck is just so much more than a check. Lots of itemized deductions and money coming out, but still lots left over to go in to your pocket. Carl?(END VIDEO)Teacher Appreciation WeekAZUZ: This video was recorded on a smartphone. It's one way you could record your own message to your favorite teachers. Just say why you appreciate them. Then head to the Spotlight section at , and click "iReport: Teacher Appreciation Week." And then look for our email as a follow-up! You only have a couple days to do this -- Teacher Appreciation Week is next week -- so we want you to get on it and get crackin'!Before We GoAZUZ: Before we go, the British royal wedding isn't until Friday. I know a lot of you are really excited. You can get a sneak preview thanks to the folks at LEGO. They've set a complete replica up of the royal event. Prince William and Kate Middleton up at the alter. A full seating arrangement you see there for the guests at Westminster Abbey. You just gotta remember, this is a little smaller than the real version, a lot less expensive. And of course, the whole royal family is in attendance for the big day.GoodbyeAZUZ: A LEGO replica, though? Just sounds a little like child's play. Is it the best royal-related gimmick we've seen? Certainly creative, but we're not married to it. We don't want to be a wed blanket on all of the marriage fun, though, so we're just gonna vow not to make any more puns for today. But there will be some tomorrow, for better or for worse. For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. We'll see you then!。
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TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Wrapping up the week here on CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to the show.First Up: Haiti Relief EffortAZUZ: First up, a massive relief effort is underway to help victims of this week's deadly earthquake in Haiti. The U.S. has pledged $100 million in aid. So has the World Bank. The United Nations has announced $10 million in aid. And technology is playing a part in all of this, as well. The American Red Cross has raised at least $4 million through text message donations.In addition to the money, many countries and relief organizations are sending supplies and personnel. But the damage caused by the quake is making it hard to get that help to the victims who need it. Roads are blocked; docks are damaged; and the airport in Port-au-Prince, the capital city, is so crowded that there's not enough space for planes to land. Many Haitians are taking recovery efforts into their own hands, working to find and free survivors of the quake who've been trapped under the rubble. Part of the reason why this tremor was so destructive is because of where it happened. Jenny Harrison looks at the science behind the quake.(BEGIN VIDEO)JENNY HARRISON, CNN INTERNATIONAL WEATHER ANCHOR: Let me just show you where we are talking about. Here is the fault line. And of course, straightaway, you can see how close to that Port-au-Prince is. There's the epicenter close, as well, to Carrefour. This is the fault we're talking about. Now, this is what is called a strike-slip earthquake, and literally this is what happens. You have the two plates rubbing up against each other. That friction is building, it is building, it is building, and eventually something has to happen.Now, when you have an area that sees many, many earthquakes over whatever period of time, well, then what actually happens is that a lot of that pressure or that friction is actually released periodically, so you don't get this massive buildup of friction, which is exactly what happened here.The deeper down, of course, as you can well imagine, by the time the waves actually reach the surface, those shockwaves, you barely feel it. Thecloser to the earth's surface, then the more shocking it will be; the more impact it is going to have. And again, the distance that you are from the epicenter plays a part, as well as the depth in the earth.Now, also what happened here, was that the epicenter of the quake was well inside the mountains. Very, very dense; much less shaking. But again, once it headed out and was pushing out towards the coast, that's when it began to be felt. Much less dense.Now, at the same time, of course, it couldn't have happened in a worse place because of the population. This gives you an idea of the population of Haiti. And of course, the gray blocks trying to illustrate the intensity of populations. So, the two most densely populated cities, of course, the capital Port-au-Prince and also Carrefour. The violent shaking was felt dramatically all around that area.Now, first of all, you have what is called a primary wave, and this moves everything, obviously, very violently, but can sometimes be over fairly quickly. This is then followed by the S-wave, the secondary waves, of which there could be numerous. We've had numerous aftershocks reported. And you can see what happens. It's called that for a reason: it moves in an S shape. It moves vertically or horizontally. When it moves vertically, this is when we see the most damage, because this is when we see the tops of the buildings coming off like the presidential palace. Literally, it is just shaken off the roots of its foundations.(END VIDEO)Haiti Earthquake ReactionAZUZ: We'd like to know how this story from Haiti has affected you. What's gone through your mind as you've seen images of the people, the rubble, the relief efforts? Log on to , and let us know what you're thinking.Money WordTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Here's the deal: Today's Money Word is foreclosure. It describes when a lender, like a bank, takes control of a property from its owner because the owner has not made payments on a loan. Put that in your word bank!Record ForeclosuresAZUZ: There were more foreclosures in 2009 than in any other year in U.S. history. Nearly three million people fell behind on their mortgage payments, and that was up 21 percent from the year before. Federal and state governments have passed some laws to help homeowners and try to cut down on the number of foreclosures. Some experts say that might have worked, but others argue it's just delaying the inevitable, meaning that more homes will be foreclosed on this year.Proposed Bank FeeAZUZ: Homeowners, not the only ones who needed help in this recession. The banking, auto and insurance industries all got help from the government in the form of financial bailouts. The plan was for that money to be paid back. President Obama wants to make sure that happens, which is why he's asking Congress to charge some of the companies that got federal money a fee. The exact details on how this would work out aren't available yet; they'll be released next month. Some people in the financial industry are against the idea. They point out that a lot of the bailout money has already been paid back, and that this fee would make it harder for the overall U.S. economy to recover.Fast FactsRICK VINCENT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for some Fast Facts! Michael Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father later renamed him Martin Luther King Jr. He became a national civil rights leader in the mid-1950s after leading a successful bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. During the 1963 civil rights demonstration known as the March on Washington, King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech: his vision for a world where people wouldn't be judged based on the color of their skin. In 1964, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the civil rights movement. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. Nine years later, King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Blog ReportAZUZ: The holiday honoring Dr. King is coming up on Monday; we will be off the air for it. But check this out: free discussion questions and activities are available right now at . Also there: our blog. A couple days ago, I asked whether you thought Dr. King's dream had come true. Samantha thinks that "for the most part, we have eradicated" -- good word! -- "eradicated racial discrimination in the U.S. We have an African-American president and a Hispanic Supreme Court justice. We've taken huge steps." But Hunter says: "Discrimination is still a problemas much as it was long ago. A black president is a step, but we still have a whole flight of stairs to go." Dreamer wrote that "if Martin Luther King were still here, he would respect us because of how far we've come since that time. I don't know where we'd be today without him." And from Brady: "I still think there are conflicts between white and black people, but we are constantly moving forward."Student ChanceAZUZ: Moving to the basketball court and one Missouri student's dream. After four years handing out water and towels to players on the team, what he really wanted was to get in the game. Recently, he got his chance. Frank Cusumano of affiliate KSDK has the story.(BEGIN VIDEO)FRANK CUSUMANO, KSDK REPORTER: He slapped five, he shook hands, and David "Chubbs" Stillman even had his own personal cheering section.BILL GUNN, KIRKWOOD H.S. BASKETBALL COACH: You see the guy walking down the halls and he just has a smile on his face and people are just drawn to him.CUSUMANO: Especially on Monday night, when the team manager became a starting guard.DAVID "CHUBBS" STILLMAN, KIRKWOOD HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR: A lot of people were going crazy.CUSUMANO: Chubbs has been in special ed since preschool.ANN STILLMAN, DAVID'S MOTHER: He doesn't have a specific medical diagnosis, but he has multiple learning disabilities.CUSUMANO: Chubbs knew two weeks ago that he was going to dress out, so during the holiday break he did a lot of shooting outside in the backyard. And for this game, he was not coming out bashful.GUNN: I told him his role was to find his favorite spot on the floor, and the team's role was to find him opportunities to get shots off.CUSUMANO: And they did. In the fourth quarter, Chubbs let it fly.D. STILLMAN: It was awesome, them feeding me the ball.KEVIN STILLMAN, DAVID'S FATHER: To watch that ball go through the hoop was just an amazing feeling.A. STILLMAN: He's tried for so many years to overcome the obstacles, and he was able to be the star.CUSUMANO: You can say that again. Because with the clock winding down in a convincing victory over Fox, Chubbs drilled his second three-pointer.Where would that night rank in terms of thrills in your lifetime?D. STILLMAN: It will be the best night.CUSUMANO: How long do you think you'll remember it for?D. STILLMAN: Ever.(END VIDEO)Before We GoAZUZ: Great story. Now, you shoppers know that some sales are worth waiting for. But 20,000 years might be a bit much. That's how long it's taken for this wooly mammoth to get to Arizona. The prehistoric beast, or what's left of it, is part of a fossil exhibit. But the company that's putting him on display is hoping somebody will want to take it home. And hey, they're only asking for half a million bucks.GoodbyeAZUZ: Sounds like a tusk assignment, but that's probably a fair price.I mean, they're not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. Remember, we will be off on Monday for the Martin Luther King holiday. We hope you enjoy the long weekend. For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.。
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CNN Student News) -- February 10, 2014THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.***CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Economics, the food supply, the Olympics - all subjects covered this Monday on CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz. Welcome to the show.First up, U.S. unemployment and jobs numbers. The government usually releases this info on the first Friday of every month. It`s important, because it can indicated how the economy is doing. Latest numbers are a mixed bag. On one hand, the unemployment rate ticked down one tenths of a percentage point to 6.6 percent in January. That`s the lowest it`s been in five years. But it only measure people who are actively looking for jobs, and many Americans have given up. The economy added 113,000 jobs in January, economists call that weak. They were expecting 178,000. The United States national debt is $17.3 trillion and counting. It`s the highest level of any country in the world. The debt limit, or ceiling was created during World War I. It was intended to limit how much the government spent. But Congress has always raised it when it was hit. And now that we`ve hit it again, that`s what Congress is expected to do again.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It`s back in town, the debt limits circus. But the juggling isn`t the conventional kind you might find in the big top. This juggling uses special accounting rules and billions of dollars. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has some experience juggling. In fact, he`s a pretty good juggler, after all. He had to do this last fall. But like the movie "Groundhog Day", we`re back at the same place. Effectively, the Treasury can`t borrow more money to run the country, because we`ve reached the legal debt limit. That`s right. To run the country, we have to borrow some money to do everything we`ve promised. Lew now has to use accounting tricks to keep the U.S. solvent, but he can`t do it for very long. He`s already warned that if a deal isn`t done by the end of the month, America risks a default on some of its obligations. And the smart money bets, Congress comes up with the deal in the next few weeks that we avoid a market meltdown, a global panic, spiking interest rates.House Speaker John Boehner already saying that even getting close to a default isn`t an option this time. And after last fall`s government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats don`t seem to have much stomach for a standoff. So, the juggling has begun for now and investors can watch Jack Lew pull off more daring moves to buy time to keep the U.S. from fiscal freefall until Congress gets a budget deal, but it needs a deal soon. Christine Romans, CNN, New York.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: The Obama administration is taking another step in support of same sex marriage. It`s expanding how the government recognizes it. What this means: same sex couples will get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples do wherever the U.S. government has jurisdiction. So, this will apply in court cases, prison visitations and when it comes to spousal benefits when a police officer or a firefighter is killed on the job. This doesn`t legalize same sex marriage in all 50 states. Currently 17 states allow that. But it means that same sex couples who get married in a state where it is legal will get government benefits even if they leave in a state where it`s not. The U.S. Attorney General says this will change countless lives of same sex couples for the better. Some critics say the government is going too far. The National Organization of Marriage says "It underminesthe authority of states to make their own decisions about how marriage is handled under law."UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See, if you can I.D. me. I`m a U.S. government agency that dates back to 1862. In the president`s cabinet I`m represented by Thomas Vilsack. Part of my job is to oversee the U.S. farming industry. I`m the U.S. Department of Agriculture or USDA and I work to ensure America`s food supply is safe.AZUZ: One way the USDA does that is by inspecting the companies that produce food. If a company breaks the law by not getting those inspections, it may have to recall the food it makes. That`s what`s happening with the Rancho Feeding Corporation. It`s recalling 8.7 million pounds of beef and veal, because it wasn`t properly inspected by the USDA. The government says some of the meat came from animals that had diseases or that weren`t safe for human consumption. The meat was sent to places in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas. We don`t know yet if it was sold in markets or restaurants. But the USDA says that so far, no one has reported getting sick from eating it.OK, separate story about sickness. The most common stomach bug we can get is norovirus. 19 million or more Americans get it every year in crowded places like nursing homes, daycare centers or cruise ships. In fact, almost 900 people on two different cruise ships have gotten norovirus so far this year. So, why isn`t it more common on Navy ships(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pick it up! Pick it up!UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The U.S. Navy prides itself on being ready to fight. Whether it`s a fire on the flight deck like this drill on the USS Iwo Jima, or in the ship`s bowels where they battle an unseen enemy: germs.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Command is cleaning stations.CAPTAIN JIM MCGOVERN, IWO JIMA COMMANDING OFFICER: Serious outbreaks of ten or 20 individuals being sick are taken very seriously and we, you know, we attack those outbreaks.UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: I`m the United States sailor ...UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: With 3,000 sailors and Marines on board the Iwo Jima, you might think outbreaks of illness would be common. Norovirus sickened nearly 700 people on the cruise ship last month. But the Navy never lets it get to that point. When illnesses like Norovirus break out, sailors are quickly isolated.VICE ADMIRAL MATTHEW NATHAN, SURGEON GENERAL OF THE NAVY: We either restrict them to medical, we restrict them to their quarters, we do not allow them to traverse to the food stations, to the galleys, to the library, to the gym.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And ships are cleaned around the clock.JOHN CANEVARI, IWO JIMA CREWMAN: Every day at 07:30 we basically do a clearing station of the ship.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: From stem to stern, every sailor sweeps, scrubs and swabs.DANA GORDON, IWO JIMA EXECUTIVE OFFICER: All of our sailors out cleaning from over here, it`s the decks, the (inaudible) all the way down to the decks.JAKEILA OWENS, IWO JIMA CULINARY SPECIALIST: It`s important to keep this area clean, because cross contamination is a big factor in food borne illness.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Outbreak or not, the galley is inspected by the ship`s medical stuff constantly, looking for everything from dirt to expired food.AARAON FERGUSON, IWO JIMA PREVENTIVE MEDICINE TECHNICIAN: We go through every day, two to three times a day during meal periods, after meal periods for the cleaning. So that way, we know that their practices are safe for the crew.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s military discipline that makes the difference, the Navy surgeon general says.NATHAN: If you have a ship whose main center of gravity is social gatherings, food places, dancing areas and swimming pools, all those things that sailors wish they had, but don`t have on our Navy ships, then I think it`s much more challenging environment to control the spread of a highly contagious virus.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: If you`re watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics on Friday, you saw some huge and technologically advanced visual effects. It was part fireworks show, part movie making, part Russian ballet, and part remembrance of Russia`s complicated and controversial history. It brought together projection and reflection, but you couldn`t quite call it perfection.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)RACHEL NICHOLS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As competition continues here in Sochi, so does the controversy. This time, the focus is on the opening ceremony. At the beginning of the ceremony, a stage manager gave a bad direction to the crew, and one of the electronic snowflakes that was supposed to transform into an Olympic ring, well, it didn`t. American viewers saw that, and so did most of the rest of the world. But not here in Russia. Russian TV actually admitted that when they saw the mistake, they had to broadcast - cut to rehearsal video of the ring functioning properly. And the director also seemed to think that was no big deal. Take a listen.KONSTANTIN ERNST, SOCHI 2014 CEREMONIES PRODUCER (through translator): When we understood because we had headphones communicating with all the technical people, we were in contact with them. Just a few seconds before we understood that the rings were not opening, we ordered the production booth, which provided the Russian national signal that we were taking the ring opening from the rehearsal. That was the only piece that we used.NICHOLS: So, in Russia, the mistake never happened. It`s a good reminder here that the official narrative doesn`t always match real life. In Sochi, I`m Rachel Nichols, CNN.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: Titanic, how you could describe today`s CNN STUDENT NEWS Roll Call. Why Because it`s about the titans at GrandTerrace High School in Grand Terrace, California. It`s about the Titans at Papillion La Vista South High School in Papillion, Nebraska. And guess what The Titans what Davidson Middle School in Southgate, Michigan. Thanks for watching you all.There are only snow many times you can build a snowman before the coolness wears off. So, what do you do then You take it up a notch. Or in this case, many notches. From a place that`s quite compatible with cold, Chicago, Illinois, the annual Snow Day Sculpting Competition pits 27 teams against ten foot blocks of snow. Given them the chance to shape a wonderland out of the long cold winter. Some of these teams practice all year using sand. So there`s a bit of grit to it: it takes more than a grain of talent. I know that shapes up another edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS. We`ll bring you more cutting edge stories tomorrow. We hope you can carve back ten minutes for the show.END。
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1111111q(CNN Student News) -- February 28, 2012THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.***(MUSIC PLAYING)CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Hi, I`m Carl Azuz, and you`re watching CNN Student News. Today we`re talking about political primaries（候选人选拔会）, a matriculation milestone and a musical mentor. But we`re beginning in the state of Ohio.Residents and officials in the city of Chardon are trying to make sense of（搞清楚，搞明白）a shooting at a high school there. One student was killed in the attack; four others were wounded. According to reports, the suspected gunman is also a student at the school. He was arrested yesterday.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): As students ran from the shooting, some of them used their cell phones to call police, or text their parents to let them know they were OK.A lot of schools practice what to do in these types of situations. They run drill s for shootings or natural disasters. And one student at Chardon High said he thinks what happened yesterday could have been even worse if it wasn`t for that preparation.EVAN ERASMUS, STUDENT, CHARDON HIGH SCHOOL: I think that`s what really helped keep it at a minimum of what it was, as bad as it was already. I think it could have been a lot worse if it -- we didn`t do the drills that we -- that they had us to do.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Jumping now to the presidential campaign trail, it`s been a few weeks since the last Republican contest（比赛，竞争）. But two states are taking over the political spotlight today, and those two states are Arizona and Michigan. Voters are heading to the polls there, cast ing their ballot s for Republican presidential candidate（候选人）s.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, formerSenator Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and U.S. Representative Ron Paul -- they`re trying to win delegate s in these primaries and caucuses. Win enough, and you get the party`s nomination for president.There are 59 delegates up for grab s today in Arizona and Michigan.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: One issue（that comes up a lot during presidential campaigns）is education. According to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the country just marked an educational milestone. Has to do with how many Americans have a college degree.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): In March of last year, 30 percent of adults who are at least 25 years old had a degree. Back in 1998, it was less than 25 percent. The director of the Census Bureau called this, quote, "an important milestone," saying the more education people have, the more likely they are to have a job and earn more money.According to another census report, workers with a bachelor`s degree earned around $20,000 more on average than workers with a high school diploma. (END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Today`s Shoutout goes out to Ms. McElroy`s social studies classes at Hilton Head Christian Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Which of these places is divided by the 38th parallel? Is it the Bering Strait, Korean Peninsula, Aleutian Islands or Marianas Trench? You`ve got three seconds, go.The parallel at 38 degrees north latitude divides North and South Korea. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: When those countries fought against each other in the Korean War, the United States was on the side of the South. And the United States and South Korea are still allies. They`re both the target of harsh words from North Korea （朝鲜）right now.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): That is because of military drills, like the ones you see right here. The U.S. and South Korea are running joint operations right now . They`re working together. But North Korea says the drills are designed to provoke them. And officials from the north say they`re ready to fight a war against South Korea and the U.S.North Korea`s relationships with other countries have been uncertain since long-time leader Kim Jong-il died in December.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Well, part of the tension surrounding North Korea has to do with its nuclear program. Similar situation in Iran. You`ve heard us talk about sanction s, penalties put on Iran by the U.S. and the United Nations. The goal of those sanctions was to get Iran to stop its nuclear activities. Matthew Chance has more on the tension between Iran and the integrity（）community.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN REPORTER: But Iran says very clearly that it is not building a nuclear bomb. It says that it`s never done any research into building a nuclear bomb. It says that all of its nuclear activities are directed towards purely peaceful purposes.The trouble is that it`s, you know, not many people in the international community believe Iran. They do believe -- and there`s evidence to suggest（按时）that, in the past, they may have conducted some research which would be relevant to making a nuclear bomb.What we know is that it certainly doesn`t have a nuclear weapon. I mean, that`s one thing to make absolutely clear. What it does have is the ability to enrich uranium. Uranium is the substance which is needed to fuel nuclear reactors. And if you enrich it even more, it`s the substance that you need to create a nuclear bomb.Iran has been enriching this uranium for years now, as it has every right to do, because it`s a member of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. It`s allowed, under that treaty, to enrich uranium. But the trouble is, in the past, it`s not disclose d some of its activities to the international community, and that`s why there`s such a lack of trust with Iran at the moment.Well, IAEA is the U.N.`s nuclear watchdog agency. It`s the independent body, which has, you know, a whole range of nations that are members, including Iran, that inspect s nuclear facilities, not just in Iran, but all over the world.（There are a lot of questions that the IAEA has that Iran has not answered. For instance, it wants access, the U.N. does, to search suspicious nuclear sites that it suspects may have been the location where nuclear weapons testing may have been carried out or development for those weapons may have been carried out. And so there are lots of areas, lots of gaps in Iran`s story, that it has yet to fill out.）(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me. I`m a title that`s associated with the music industry. Originally, I was used to describe radio hosts, but now I can be anyone who plays recorded music in media or in clubs.Some famous examples include Wolfman Jack, Spinderella and Moby.I`m a deejay, which stands for disc jockey.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Beverly Bond has made her mark on the music world because of her skills with a turntable. She`s also helping train the next generation of deejay s. It`s part of an organization that she started that uses music to send a positive message.Fredricka Whitfield has more on Bond`s efforts to empower youngAfrican-Americans.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN REPORTER (voice-over): This popular deejay is on a mission. She`s trying to remix the image of black women in media.DJ BEVERLY BOND, FOUNDER, BLACK GIRLS ROCK: Women are often objectified, especially in entertainment. Those messages do take a toll. They hack away at our self-esteem in the most subliminal of ways.Other people thought that there was no point in talking about it, just kind of play in this boys` club.WHITFIELD (voice-over): But Beverly Bond scratched her way in, playing by her own rules.BOND: There were certainly some guys who were very taken aback by me and how good I was. It was almost like they weren`t expecting me to be so good. But the women were so supportive of me, and that was a beautiful thing. They were from all walks of life, who just had an admiration and a respect for the fact that I represented women well.WHITFIELD (voice-over): In 2066, Bond, a former model, founded Black Girls Rock, a non-profit dedicated to empowering girls of color through academic and arts-based programs. One of the first lessons learned is to deejay.BOND: I think it`s important to tell all girls that they rock. I just think that black girls do not get the message.You can`t find the sound (ph)?They are just as important as any other girl in the world.WHITFIELD (voice-over): Through Black Girls Rock, Beverly hopes to inspire girls to be confident and, above all, themselves.JAHIRA COLBERT, BLACK GIRLS ROCK: Black Girls Rock is like a family to me. Like it means that I have, you know, a comfort place, to know that I can be comfortable in the skin that I`m in.VEANNAH SMITH, BLACK GIRLS ROCK: Beverly Bond inspired black girls like myself by showing that we don`t have to follow the stereotype of not following (what other people are saying). I`m doing what, in my heart, I think is right.BOND: We need to inspire the next generation to know that there is greatness beyond just the very limited media images that they often see as the only representations of their sex.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Well, the dog in today`s "Before We Go" segment isn`t necessarily a musician.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): But he definitely has some rhythm. Listen to this YouTubevideo.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Wow, good job.AZUZ (voice-over): He is barking to the beat of his own jumping, and he seems to launch into a new round on command. All right, we know that a dog on a trampoline isn`t necessarily unique. But give him some time. He`s trying to pioneer a canine crossover between athletics and music. And it takes a little while for something like that to get off the ground. But once he gets it right --(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: -- everyone is probably going to jump on the idea. It`s time for us to bounce, because "dog-gone" it, we`re out of time on CNN Student News. I`m Carl Azuz, and we`ll see you tomorrow.(MUSIC PLAYING)END。
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(CNN Student News) -- January 20, 2011Download PDF maps related to today's show:TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. In today's edition of CNN Student News, we're breaking down a debate over part of the Bill of Rights. First, though, a White House welcome.First Up: Presidential VisitAZUZ: That's first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama officially welcoming Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House. This ceremony happened yesterday morning. President Hu was met by several top U.S. officials as well as a military honor guard. Kicked off a day of meetings between the two leaders. During a news conference later in the day, the Chinese president said his country and the U.S. "share broad common interests and important common responsibilities."One of those common interests: the global economy. We want you to have a look at this online interactive from CNN Money. This is a list of the largest economies in 2010. When you rank them by size, like they are here, you can see that the U.S. is number one, more than twice the size of China, which is number two. But when you rank these world economies by how much they grew in 2010, watch what happens. China moves to number one; it grew more than 10 percent last year. And the U.S. isn't even on that list.With China's economy getting bigger, some people think it's important for other countries -- like the U.S. -- to learn more about Chinese culture. There are some school programs doing exactly that. But as Chris Welch explains, there's some concern about who's paying for these programs.(BEGIN VIDEO)CHRIS WELCH, CNN ALL-PLATFORM JOURNALIST: In this class, it's easy to forget you're in suburban Ohio. Teachers are prepping预科教育，准备教育kids for an increasingly global economy, one that will inevitably involve China, the world's second largest economy.ANDREW ALDIS, CHINESE LANGUAGE STUDENT: I think it's very valuable to learn a language that a lot of people in the U.S. will speak in the future and certainly is huge in business.WELCH: The school hosts visiting teachers from China, and they're planning a student trip to the nation this summer. It's funded in part by the Chinese government. This school will get $30,000.By and large, the school's endeavor is being received with open arms. But that said, not everyone's ready to embrace a warm and fuzzy relationship with China.The Hacienda Le Puente School District outside Los Angeles was poised to receive similar funds from the Chinese government, but community members weren't comfortable with what they call "communist propaganda (主贬)（尤指偏狭误导的）宣传；谣言" in the hands of elementary students. Back in Ohio, administrators say the Chinese government has no say in what the school teaches. But students and faculty say anti-Chinese sentiment still shows up.As a teacher, do you ever hear people say, "I don't want my kids learning Chinese because that's a communist country"?CHIWEI LIN, CHINESE TEACHER: Yes. I do.WELCH: Ohio State Professor Oded Shenkar specializes in China.ODED SHENKAR, OHIO STA TE UNIVERSITY: I don't think they're going to go on record, or going to go through the school and, you know, let's teach you how to form a communist cell. You know, that's not going to happen. But there are subtle things.WELCH: Subtle things, he says, like a visiting teacher from China potentially overstepping bounds. This school says, bottom line, opening a dialogue between the two nations is a good place to start. Chris Welch, CNN, Gahanna, Ohio.(END VIDEO)ShoutoutTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout! What U.S. constitutional amendment addresses the right to bear (of a person) carry arms? If you think you know it, then shout it out! Is it the: A) 2nd Amendment, B) 5th Amendment, C) 16th Amendment or D) 23rd Amendment? You've got three seconds -- GO! That right is covered in the Second Amendment, and it's led to a lot of debate. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!The Second AmendmentAZUZ: Okay, as promised, we're turning our attention to the Bill of Rights and specifically the Second Amendment. This is an amendment that has been debated for decades, and that debate gets a lot of attention after an event like the shooting in Tucson, Arizona.But to understand what the disagreement is over, you've gotta first understand exactly what the amendment says: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." So, does this mean that a militia or the people should have guns? Ah, there's the rub.Two views：Many supporters of gun control look to the first part of the amendment for their argument. Their view: this amendment protects the right of a militia, like the National Guard, to have guns, but not necessarily everyone else. So, this is an interpretation that effectively limits who can carry a firearm. People who support gun rights generally look to the second part of the Second Amendment, the part that says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." Their view: This amendment protects individuals' rights to have guns. So, this interpretation suggests non-military citizens should be free to have firearms.Now, here's where the legislative and judicial systems come in. Congress has passed laws that limit who can get or transport guns. But the Supreme Court has mostly left the issue of gun control for states to decide. I say "mostly" because it did make a decision last year that basically said this: The Second Amendment guarantees that individuals may have guns, and that guarantee must factor in to state laws.Is This Legit?JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit? Bats are the only animals that use echolocation, a process of using sound to locate objects.定位Not legit! Some birds, whales and dolphins use this process, as well.Dolphin EcholocationAZUZ: I always remember studying echolocation in association with dolphins. You might be familiar with echolocation by another name, though: sonar. It's pretty much the same thing. You send out these sound waves, and when they bounce off of objects, the reflection of the waves tells you -- or in this case, the animal -- where the objects are. We're gonna take it to John Zarrella, now, who takes us to the Florida Keys, where researchers are putting some dolphins' echolocation skills to the test.(BEGIN VIDEO)JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF AND CORRESPONDENT: Say hello to Tanner.EMIL Y GUARINO, TANNER'S TRAINER: Hi, buddy. Look who's here. Good morning. Hi, handsome.ZARRELLA: The 8-year-old bottlenose dolphin is not only a good-looking dude, he's also really smart.GUARINO: All right, Tanner. Let's show them what echolocation looks like.ZARRELLA: Trainer Emily Guarino throws a ring out in the water with cups over his eyes so hecan't see. Tanner, using his echolocation, his underwater sonar, finds and retrieves the ring. That's pretty cool, right? Well, at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, scientists have found dolphins' smarts...GUARINO: Really blew us away.ZARRELLA: ...Go way beyond ring retrieval. 收回，找回GUARINO: Monkey see, monkey do; that's a myth. It turns out that the animal best able to imitate other than humans is the dolphin.ZARRELLA: For their study, Tanner was paired with another dolphin. Here, it's Kibby. The trainer gives Tanner the hand gesture that means imitate and then covers both Tanner's eyes. Kibby is signaled to do a specific behavior. Kibby waves his tail, Tanner imitates him perfectly.GUARINO: Wow! You got it! That was it. Give me 10. All right.ZARRELLA: The behaviors are all pre-taught, like splashing the water or running the lagoon.GUARINO: Beautiful.ZARRELLA: But with his blindfold, Tanner has no idea which behavior Kibby is doing. How does Tanner do it? Maybe his sonar, or he's picking the characteristic sound made by the behavior. Researchers and trainers specifically chose behaviors that were safe for Tanner. For instance, they didn't want him jumping out of the water while he was wearing the eye cups. Researchers say the dolphins' cognitive ability to understand what it means to imitate and then carry it out is amazing.KELL Y JAAKKOLA, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER: That shows a kind of problem-solving flexibility that we haven't seen anywhere else.ZARRELLA: During the actual research project, Tanner imitated the behaviors successfully more than 58 percent of the time, ruling out luck or chance.GUARINO: Kibby brought a rock. Oh, so did Tanner!ZARRELLA: John Zarrella, CNN, Grassy Key in the Florida Keys.(END VIDEO)Before We GoAZUZ: It's always amazing to consider how intelligent dolphins are. Now usually, our Before We Go is about animals in some way. Now, that last story was about animals, so today, we are going from the Florida heat to the Colorado cold to show you what some people are doing: extrememountain biking. Or really lazy skiing, depending on how you look at this. It does kinda look like fun. The idea seems to be trading in tires for skis, swapping out poles for handlebars, and then just ripping your way or, as might be in my case, crashing your way down the mountain. It might seem a bit daunting, but if you can make it out of the starting gates...GoodbyeAZUZ: ...chances are, it's all downhill from there. You might've seen that one coming. We'll try again! You know some thrill seeker probably came up with this ski-eme just for fun. But I'm guessing halfway down the slope, he realized it was snow laughing matter. All right! For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. That wraps up our show today, but we are coming back tomorrow, where Fridays are always awesome on our show. Look forward to seeing you then. Have a great afternoon!。
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Impact Your World
AZUZ: While BP and the government work to stop the underwater leak, other groups are dealing with the effects of this spill on the surface of the water and on land. And you can help out. Go to the Spotlight section on our home page, . Click on the "Impact Your World" link. Find out how you can volunteer to help make a difference.
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AZUZ: One thing that every concussion does have in common is that they all temporarily interfere with how your brain works. They can affect things like your memory, speech or reflexes. And anyone who's had a concussion is more likely to have another one. Most concussions are caused by a hit to the head. It's part of the reason you hear so much about them so much in sports, especially contact sports like this one. A congressional committee is looking at the long-term impact of these head injuries and how to prevent them. It held a hearing on the issue yesterday. Nolan Harrison, who played for 10 years in the NFL, says that the pressure of the pro game can sometimes work against concerns about concussions.
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(CNN Student News) -- October 6, 2011CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: How can a country that`s surrounded by water run out of it? The answer`s coming your way. I`m Carl Azuz, welcoming you to this Thursday edition of CNN Student News.First up, anger in Athens as Greek protesters take over the streets of their capital city. Earlier this week, we talked about Greece being in financial trouble. The government`s trying to find ways to cut spending in order to avoid going broke. They`ve already made some changes, including layoffs and salary cuts, and they`re planning to do more.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): Obviously, this is not going over well with Greek citizens. Yesterday, thousands of them marched through Athens, speaking out against their government and its cuts. They actually shut down part of the city.There was also a nationwide strike by public workers. That shut down the Athens airport, government offices and schools. Some high school students held their own protests at schools that were in session.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Several countries are trying to find ways to stop the violence that`s been going on in Syria. Protesters there are speaking out against their president, and Syrian government forces are reportedly cracking down on the protesters.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): The United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution Tuesday that would have called for an immediate end to the violence. But two of the council`s permanent members, China and Russia, voted no. So the resolution didn`t pass.China said it wouldn`t have helped Syria`s situation. Russia was concerned it might send the wrong message. The no votes led to some pretty harsh words from other nations.SUSAN RICE, AMBASSADOR: The United States is outraged that this council has utterly failed to address an urgent moral challenge and a growing threat to regional peace and security.GERARD ARAUD, FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. (through translator): Let there be no mistake: this veto will not stop us. No veto can give carte blanche to the Syrian authorities, who have lost full legitimacy in assassinating and kill their people.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: There`s a bill moving through the U.S. Senate that could take aim at one of America`s trading partners, China. This bill would put a tax on any products that come from a nation whose currency is undervalued.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): China has been accused of manipulating its currency to keep it weak. Now why would a country want to do that? Well, if your currency is weak, it means your products are cheaper to buy.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: That might be good for the country with the weak currency. But if you`re an American manufacturer, it means having to compete with cheaper Chinese products. The senators who support this bill say they`re trying to help out American companies.But some leaders in the House of Representatives say the U.S. should not get involved with another country`s currency.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)JOHN BOEHNER, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: I think it`s pretty dangerous to be moving legislation through the United States Congress, forcing someone to deal with the value of their currency. This is -- this is well beyond, I think, what the Congress ought to be doing.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: See if you can ID me. I`m a weather event that takes place in the Pacific Ocean. I`m associated with unusually cold water temperatures that could affect the weather around the world.My name means "little girl" in Spanish.I`m La Nina, and I usually occur every few years.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. It`s a very real and very serious concern for a pair of islands in the South Pacific, and it`s all because of a La Nina event going on right now.What`s worse here is that experts don`t think this event is going to go away for a while. Guillermo Arduino looks at what led to the current situation and just how bad the problem is.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)GUILLERMO ARDUINO, CNN REPORTER (voice-over): A crisis in paradise: two Pacific island nations are running out of water. Tuvalu and Tokelau, surrounded by a turquoise ocean, have declared a state of emergency because they will run out of drinking water in less than two weeks.The islands are about 3,000 kilometers to the north of New Zealand, and about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. Thousands of people here rely solely on rainwater to drink.MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER: The rainfall tends to happen usually between November and April, but we`ve had a La Nina here this year. And that has brought drier-than-average conditions. And it really poses a toll on this entire region. ADUINO (voice-over): According to the U.S. Climate Prediction Center, La Nina is expected to strengthen and continue into the beginning of next year. CNN meteorologists do not expect any substantial rain in the near future, but the New Zealand Red Cross is airlifting water containers, tarps and emergency desalination units.Rain is not the only climate challenge on the local islanders` minds. Tuvaluans have also struggled with a sinking of their island due to the rise of seawater levels in the past year. Yet residents are unwilling to leave home, still longing to live a lifestyle that is tranquil but now thirsty -- Guillermo Arduino, CNN, Atlanta.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today`s Shoutout goes out to Ms. Schuttert`s history classes at Del Webb Middle School in Henderson, Nevada.James Naismith is known as the inventor of what sport? You know what to do. Is it baseball, basketball, football or hockey? You`ve got three seconds, go.Naismith developed the game of basketball when he was an athletic instructor at the YMCA. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: And, of course, people have been playing basketball ever since. But they`re not playing it now, at least not in the NBA. The league is in a lockout. The entire preseason has been canceled, and the start of the regular season could be in jeopardy. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): Representatives from the players` union and the league office have been trying to make a deal. So far nothing has happened. A contract that sets up rules for players` salaries is the biggest hitch here.But if games get canceled, no one gets paid. Players won`t get paychecks, owners won`t make money from the games, the NBA says canceling the pre-season costs more than $200 million in revenue. But some players are finding a way to stay on the court. They`re signing short-term contracts with teams in Europe.(END VIDEO CLIP) AZUZ: A lot of times the stories you see in the news are about violence or anger. But there are people out there making good news, like Eddie Canales. He`s one of this year`s CNN Heroes, people who make a positive difference in their communities. Canales is helping high school athletes all over Texas by providing information, inspiration and hope.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)CHRIS CANALES, GRIDIRON HEROES: Growing up in Texas, football is very important, just like a religion. You get the adrenaline going, you want to win.EDDIE CANALES, GRIDIRON HEROES: It was senior night. Chris was having the game of his life.CHRIS CANALES: It was the fourth quarter. I made a touchdown-saving tackle. I didn`t hear my teammates saying, Chris, come on, let`s go. I couldn`t move.EDDIE CANALES: You don`t want to even think that your son might never walk again. That was a hard pill to swallow.CHRIS CANALES: Around my one-year anniversary, I was going through a lot of depression.EDDIE CANALES: So I said, "Let`s go to a football game." We ended up watching another young man suffer a spinal cord injury. Chris, he turns to me, said, "Dad, we`ve got to go help him."I`m Eddie Canales. My goal is to be there for young men that have suffered spinal cord injuries playing high school football.CHRIS CANALES: When we hear about injury, we go to the family as soon as we can.EDDIE CANALES: . since we`ve started, and we`ve worked with 19 families just in the state of Texas. We help them with ramps in their homes or wheelchair accessible vehicles.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, we got room.EDDIE CANALES: It`s a very expensive injury. For someone injured on the professional level, it`s going to be taken care of. But on the high school level, it`s a totally different story. We want to make sure that these kids are not forgotten.CHRIS CANALES: We`re a band of brothers. Our biggest bond is football.EDDIE CANALES: They were on the gridiron, but they`ve never quit. They`ve never given up. That`s what keeps me pushing.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Fantastic story there. Teachers, you can check out our CNN Heroes Curriculum Guide on our home page.Before we go today, you can see brown bears at the Bronx Zoo every day.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): But every weekend in October, you can see them do this -- well, at least the ones with good hand-eye coordination.It a total trick-or-treat setup. The pumpkins are the treat and then the bears show off their tricks, like dunking it underwater. Besides, everyone needs some special food sometimes.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: . otherwise they`d just be left with the "bear" necessities. All right. CNN Student News returns tomorrow to close out the week. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday, and we`ll look forward to seeing you then.END。
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(CNN Student News) -- December 3, 2013CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: From the Earth to the Moon, we`ve got you covered. In today`s edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS we`re going to get started in the Bronx. Yesterday, we reported on a train accident in that borough of New York City. Four people were killed and more than 60 others were injured when seven cars jumped the tracks. The big question now is what happened, was the train going too fast, was there a problem with the breaks, was human error involved? Investigators are getting information off of the vent recorders that were on the train. And some of the passengers are giving their stories of what happened.(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)RYAN KELLY, INJURED PASSENGER: I`ve got thrown across back and forth. And it came to like a halt, and there were just people screaming.ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Early Sunday,a throng of rescue workers scoured the grisly scene one rail card nearly plunging into the river where divers checked for bodies under water.ARBEE GUIVESUS, INJURED PASSENGER: I can see some people like flying from my left like the rear sidings, people from the back - that`s just crazy.FIELD: At 7:20 A.M. the commuter train carrying 150 passengers on its way to Grand Central Station from Poughkeepsie approached an extremely sharp curve that required a speed limit of 30 miles per hour along the Harlem River, compared to the straightway prior, requiring a speed limit of 70 miles per hour.GOV. ANDREW CUOMO, (D ) NEW YORK: The curve has been here for many, many years, right? And trains take the curve, but it can`t just be the curve.FIELD: The train conductor said he tried to apply the brakes, but says they didn`t work as all seven cars derailed barreling off the tracks.AMANDA SWANSON, PASSENGER: By the time I looked up, it was completely going off its track, and there was just like the rubble from under the tracks like flying like at my face.FIELD: Only 1700 feet away from a previous July derailment, that`s where ten garbage freight cars flipped on their sides.EARL WEENER, NTSB: We don`t` know what the train speed was, we will learn that from the vehicle event recorders.FIELD: This is the second passenger train derailment in six months from Metro-North. In May, an east-bound train derailed in Bridgeport, Connecticut and was hit by a westbound train. 76 people were injured.Sunday`s crash eerily similar to the train that derailed in northwestern Spain killing 79 passengers. In that crash the train was approaching a sharp turn. Security video showed the shocking moment the train going more than twice the speed limit hurdled of the tracks. Officials are looking into what role, if any, speed played in the Bronx accident.(END VIDEO TAPE)AZUZ: The next story today, Merrill Newman is 85 years old. He`s an American, lives in California. In October, he took at ten-day tour of North Korea. He never left North Korea. The country shut itself off from most of the world. It`s run by a dictator, Kim Jong-un, who can be unpredictable. So, it`s hard for other countries to know what the North Korean government is doing or why. Merrill Newman was detained by North Korean officials right before his plane left. Another American, Kenneth Bae, was arrested in North Korea last year. They could be released soon, but as one experts says, when it comes to North Korea, nobody knows very much.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)MERRILL NEWMAN, AMERICAN HELD IN NORTH KOREA: I understand that in U.S. and Western countries there is misleading information and propaganda about DPRK.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: North Korean state media released this video over the weekend of detained American tourist, 85-year old Merrill Newman reading a handwritten apology. Pyongyang saying Newman admits he`s guilty of big crimes when he fought for the U.S. in the Korean War killing civilians, working withanticommunist guerrillas and planning now, 60 years later, to try to meet up with them. The video shows Newman signing the four page statement he read on camera, dated November 9th and sealing it with him thumb print in red ink. What happened to him next isn`t clear. After being held since late October, taken off a plane just as his tour group was leaving.The White House is now weighing in. A spokeswoman saying the U.S. is deeply concerned,calling on North Korea to release Newman and fellow American Kenneth Bae now held for more than a year. But one expert says, that could complicate an already sensitive situation.DR. HAN PARK, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: North Korea doesn`t want to give the impression to the world that North Korea is - giving in to the demand or pressures coming from Washington.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson who says his North Korean contacts aren`t responding, told CNN on Sunday, that Kim Jong- un isn`t following North Korea`s usual pattern of releasing Americans after getting the purported confession.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, this is baffling, but this is a newly regime of the new leader, and I suspect he`s sending different signals, but nobody knows what those signals are.(END VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s time for "The Shoutout". What`s the third country to send the person into space? If you think you know it then shout it out! Was it Russia, China, France or the United Kingdom? You`ve got three seconds, go!In 2003, China joined the U.S and Russia as the only countries that put a person in space. That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.AZUZ: A decade later, China is hoping that breaking of that same (inaudible) group with another space milestone. So far, only the U.S. and former Soviet Union have launched spacecraft that have landed on the Moon. This week, a Chinese rocket took off in the same direction, and by later this month, the lunar landing list c ouldlengthen the three.(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It`s the latest milestone, and China is accelerating space program, aiming to be only the third country to execute a soft landing on the Moon surface.Predawn on Monday in southwest China. The Long March rocket launched without a hitch. In the nose of the rocket the Chang`e 3 lunar probe carrying the (inaudible), or "Jade Rabbit" moon. Millions voted on the name, taken from Chinese folklore. If successful, the solar part buggy will touch down in mid-December using its six wheels and mechanical arm to conduct three months of scientific study in the Bay of Rainbows, a lunar lava plain. The last soft lunar landing was conducted by the Soviets way back in 1976. China`s space program was late in getting results, but with the government pouring billions into its manned and unmanned missions, China has taken its place as one of the major space players.State media says the Chang`e probe has separated from its rocket and is now in the Earth orbit. They say, this is just the next step in the space program that aims for deep space. David McKenzie, CNN Beijing.(END VIDEO TAPE)AZUZ: We`re (inaudible) into the "Roll Call" and all of today schools are high flyers. We just talked about China space program. John Glenn was one of the first American astronauts and the rockets from John Glenn High in Westland, Michigan make today`s roll. From there we rocket over to Ardmore, Oklahoma to tell the tale of the Dickson comets, and we come in for a landing in Crossville, Tennessee with the Cumberland County High School jets.Unless you are a pilot or maybe a bird, you`ll probably love this idea: an order comes through at . It`s boxed up in the nearby warehouse and sent rolling down a conveyer belt. Then it gets awesome: a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle picks it up and guided by GPS only, nobody is driving, flies it to your doorstep and drops it off within 30 minutes. Then your car folds up into a suitcase you can pick up and take to work. OK, so maybe it`s not quite the Jetsons, but itcertainly sounds space age. Amazon hopes to be flying your order to your doorstep within five years, though an Australian book company hopes to airmail with drones next year. But as cool as it sounds to say, Prime Air delivered by octocopters, that`s what Air Amazon is called, it`s got some challenges in just getting off the ground in the U.S. One, it`s illegal. At least right now, the Federal Aviation Administration doesn`t currently allow unmanned vehicles to make deliveries. Two, it won`t work for everything. Just stuff under five pounds. So, kayaks won`t fly. Three, it would only work within ten miles of Amazon warehouses, that`s the range of the octocopters. And four, Amazon CEO says it can`t be landing on people`s heads. So, that`s a (inaudible) to work out.We can d rone on about the practicality, legality cost effectiveness and technology, but aside from all that, this would be great for ordering pizza.If you`re already on Facebook, you can air your thoughts about this at /cnnstudentnews.Sweet. How else would you describe the world`s largest cupcake mosaic? El Salvador just set the new record. A mosaic is a piece of art made out of smaller pieces arranged in a pattern. In this case, the pattern incorporates the El Salvador flag and the smaller pieces are more than 21,000 cupcakes. That adds up to a world record you could really sink your teeth into. The mosaic was impressive enough. The record, the icing on the cupcake.It`s time to go, but we`re not deserting you for long. We are back tomorrow with more CNN STUDENT NEWS.ENDCNN Student News) -- December 2, 2013THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: A new month, a new week and a new day. Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS. We`re starting December in Thailand. The country is a constitutional monarchy. That means it has a king. The government is run by an elected prime minister. Right now, that prime minister is Yingluck Shinawatra. Some people in Thailand want her out of power. They say she`s a puppet for her brother. He was prime minister until he was forced out of power and convicted of corruption. Yingluck Shinawatra denies the accusation against her. Her critics have been calling for her to step down for weeks. Yesterday, protesters tried to force their way into government headquarters in Bangkok. On Friday, they jumped the gate at the army headquarters, demanding help to overthrow the government.For the most part, the protests have been peaceful, but on Saturday, four people were killed when protesters fought with Prime Minister Shinawatra`s supporters. Each side blames the other for starting the violence, but the situation in Bangkok is tense.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The tear gas canisters are starting once again, and you can see everyone starts to run. Look over here. Some of these tear gas canisters are actually being thrown back. The (inaudible) police lines by the protesters. Watch (ph) the car (ph).Some of the protesters are actually firing straight back, as soon as they see the tear gas coming. Over here.We have to try and get away from the tear gas at this point. Otherwise we just can`t keep reporting. But you can see the sheer level of the tear gas that`s here at the moment. This basically disperses the crowds in a matter of minutes, but then they just come straight back once the tear gas actually clears. So it`s a very difficult situation here on the streets of Bangkok as you can see.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: In the Bronx, a borough of New York City, investigators are trying to figure out what caused a passenger train to jump off the tracks. About 150 people were on board when it happened Sunday morning. At least four were killed and more than 65 were injured. By Sunday afternoon, authorities thought that all passengers were accounted for. Seven of the eight cars were off the tracks. At least two turnedon their sides. One car was just a few feet away from the Harlem River. This happened in the same area where a freight train derailed in July.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just the facts. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It interferes with the body`s ability to fight off diseases, and it can cause AIDS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. In 2012, more than 35 million people worldwide were living with HIV or AIDS. There is no cure for HIV or AIDS, but medications can slow down the progress of the disease.AZUZ: HIV/AIDS can be spread through sexual contact or by sharing a needle with someone who is infected, and mothers with the disease can pass it on to their babies if they`re not treated properly. Getting that word out is part of the goal of World AIDS Day. It was yesterday, December 1. And it is symbolized by red ribbons that are worn or displayed at events around the globe. Those who participate remember people who died from the disease and help raise money to fight it.HIV used to be considered a death sentence. That`s not the case today. There are medicines, as you heard, that can help those who are infected live longer. Problem is, not everyone has access to these medicines, and not everyone with HIV/AIDS is diagnosed in time. World AIDS Day aims to change that.A White House official says the difference is like night and day. He`s talking about changes to . It`s a web site for Americans to sign up for Obamacare. When it launched on October 1, the site struggled through breakdowns, error messages, long delays. President Obama`s administration set a November 30 deadline to make improvements. Now officials say the site`s running smoothly for the vast majority of users. Officials say the work isn`t over. They`ll keep dealing with bugs and glitches. Some Republicans who have been critical of the Obamacare law say the White House should wait before declaring that the web site truly is fixed.Movie fans probably know Paul Walker best from the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but the actor`s career started back when he was 2. He worked on TV shows, movies, and he helped start a charity focused on disaster relief. Sadly, Walker`s life was cut short over the weekend.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right behind you.NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: One of Hollywod`s most bankable stars, Paul Walker, who has made a name for himself in the "Fast and Furious" movie franchise, died in a fiery car crash in Santa Clarita, California. A second person also died in the accident. Both were attending a charity event for Walker`s organization, Reach Out WorldWide. The event was intended to benefit the victims of typhoon Hayian in the Philippines. The crash happened just north of Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. According to his representative, Paul Walker was not driving the 2005 Porsche. When deputies arrived, the car was on fire. Both people in the car pronounced dead at the scene.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There`s nothing. We tried. We went through fire extinguishers.TURNER: All that remains, burned mangle metal, and a light pole that`s been knocked down. Authorities say speed was a factor.Walker wasn`t just a car enthusiast on screen. Off screen, the actor competed in the Red Line Time Attack racing series. He had been filming the seventh installment of "Fast and Furious" at the time of his death, and some of Hollywood`s biggest stars are reacting.Co-star Vin Diesel said on his Instagram account, "Brother, I will miss you very much.I am absolutely speechless. Heaven has gained a new angel. Rest in peace."And another "Fast and Furious" co-star Ludacris tweeted, "Your humble spirit was felt from the start. Wherever you blessed your presence, you always left a mark." And fellow actor Tyrese Gibson said, "My heart is hurting so bad, no one can make me believe this is real. My God, My God, I can`t believe I`m writing this."(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon, signed a 10-year-old to its women`s basketball team. She doesn`t get any playing time on the court, but the team`s coach says the newest member offers some perspective to her teammates about life off the court.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you remember what you`re going to say to them?UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The coach leads the newest member of the Lady Knights onto the court. They circle up. She has a message.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Work hard.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 10-year-old Lexie De Las Raos (ph) just signed with the women`s basketball team at Warner Pacific College.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go, Knights, go. Yay, Knights, woo-hoo!UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Officially, she is the honorary sixth man.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go, girls!UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Unofficially, she is a role model at 10.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With iPhones and iPads and the I-World, we`re trying to get them to think outside of I and think about somebody else besides themselves.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Lexie is that somebody else.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you excited about the game tomorrow?UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She`s been fighting cancer nearly as long as Jessica Owens (ph) has been dribbling a basketball. That`s nine years, if you`re counting.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What surprises me is just the amount of hope that she has. And strength. I`ve never known someone that strong, especially being so young.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it just changes their whole outlook straight away when she walks in the gym, and she has a smile on her face, and she`s limping, and I mean, it`s just amazing to see the turnaround in their personalities when that happens.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Such an overwhelming feeling. It`s just great, it`s wonderful.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I wouldn`t, like, be able to do half the things she does. She`s like really brave. She trusts people. And I like that about her.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Getting poked with needles and just all the pain and all the medicines, and then just losing her sight last year. There`s no really way of getting used to that.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All the gym, all the cancer talk disappears.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Life is so much more than just the sport that we play. Really, it`s about just caring about others.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She`s a member of a college basketball team. She follows the game, cheers with friends, forgets about the pain.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go Lady Knights, it`s time to fight! You can do it!UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Lexie is having fun, and the players are learning a valuable lesson - never give up.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: We are storming into a new month of roll call schools. Today, we`re reaching weathering (ph) heights. Starting from a sand storm. The Sandys from Amarillo High School in Amarillo, Texas. Next up is a surprise. Surprise, Arizona, home of the Valley Vista High and the Monsoon. From there, we will take an eastern view to Virginia and check out of the Cyclones from Eastern View High School.There is a pretty good chance you`ve seen a gingerbread house, maybe a gingerbread lane. What you`re looking at here is a gingerbread village, and even that might be minimizing this miniature marvel, especially since it set a record as the largest gingerbread village, ever. More than 150 buildings, the whole thing weighs 1.5 tons. The man who made it all by hand started this project in February, and with so many intricate details to worry about, we`re sure he worked gingerly, but it sure turned into one sweet project. It`s going to eat up all our time for now. Have a great rest of the day. We`ll see you again tomorrow.ENDCNN Student News) -- November 26, 2013THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.***CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: It`s Tuesday. It`s our last show before Thanksgiving. Millions of Americans are expected to travel for the holiday. One thing they might want to pack: patience. A stretch of winter weather is making its way across the country and threatening to cause havoc for travel plans. Heavy snow, strong winds, freezing rain - hundreds of flights have been affected, most of the winter weather should be gone by Thursday, but the days leading up to Thanksgiving could be a scramble for travelers and airlines.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Two things that should never go together: peak holiday travel and treacherous winter weather. A traveler`s nightmare: cancellations, delays and frustration all around.In Dallas where ice coated airplanes, airlines were forced to precancel hundreds of flights to avoid the inevitable. Airlines and airports are experienced with wild weather and they are ready for this round.ALEXANDRA MARREN, UNITED AIRLINES OPERATIONS V.P.: You can call this the nerve center of the airline.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: United watches the weather and directs every flight around the world from their headquarters in Chicago. The decision to cancel flights happens here.VOICE OF JIM DEYOUNG, UNITED AIRLINES MANAGING DIRECTOR NETWORK OPERATIONS: These individuals are actually measuring the impact of weather. Of the air traffic control system and coordinating not only internally with United Airlines, but with the FAA.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They are talking to this FAA command center near Washington.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let`s go to Jacksonville and get their concerns first (ph) (inaudible)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Conference calls keep airlines and FAA controllers up todate with changing conditions, and a warning for travelers: think before you book.GEORGE HOBICA, : Probably, the worst mistake is to take a connecting flight or if you do connect to connect through a known bad weather airport like Chicago or Denver or Detroit or Minneapolis. Airports that are prone to snow storms.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But a storm as big as this one will be hard to avoid. (END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: Well, yesterday we reported on an international agreement involving Iran`s controversial nuclear program. We told you some government`s responses to this deal. T oday, we`ve got more reaction.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, ( R) SOUTH CAROLINA : The sanctions actually worked, but this interim deal gives the Iranians $7 billion in cash, and it leaves in place one of the most sophisticated enrichment programs around.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I become very happy because as a first thing, that`s a thing about it, is about medicines.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The medicines.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Effects of on the price of medicine, because it`s very high and I see it`s better now.SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D) NEW YORK: I`m disappointed by the terms of the agreement between Iran and the P5+1 nations. Because it does not seem proportional.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody is happy about it, because we hope for a change and the (inaudible) situation that we are (inaudible).(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: We all struggle with stress or adversity at time. Some people have strategies for dealing with it. They might pray, they might meditate. Maybe listen to music orfind comfort with friends. Imagine if you are the leader of the free world. That`s a job filled with stress. One person on President Obama`s staff had an idea to help.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)JAKE TAPPER, ANCHOR "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER": In the midst of a bruising 2008 presidential campaign, a young staffer was quietly praying for his candidate and decided to let him know.JOSHUA DUBOIS, AUTHOR, "THE PRESIDENT`S DEVOTIONAL": I was thinking, you know, I wonder who is looking after his soul, his spirit, and so shot him an email, wasn`t sure what kind of response I was going to get - I was going to get (inaudible) what would happen if I sent this note, and in a few minutes he wrote back and said, this is exactly what I was looking for.TAPPER: That message was a short meditation on the 23 psalm, you know, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." And that started a daily tradition for Joshua Dubois and Barack Obama. About 2,000 devotions later, the emails are part of how the president quietly practices his Christian faith. DuBois joined the administration as the director of faith and neighborhood partnerships, helping to shape policy and acting as a bridge between faith leaders and President Obama.President Obama is not somebody who wears his spirituality on his sleeve.(on camera): How important is religion and spirituality and Jesus Christ ...DUBOIS: Yeah.TAPPER: to President Obama.DUBOIS: You know, it`s very important. And I, for one, would rather have a leader who leaves out a sermon than preaches one.TAPPER: He has been criticized for not picking a church.DUBOIS: Yeah.TAPPER: In Washington, D.C.DUBOIS: We recognized very early on that when you bring the whole package ofthe presidency, all the Secret Service and all the lines and barricades and so forth to a local congregation, there is a lot of burden there, and so instead of picking one congregation, he decided to visit several.TAPPER (voice over): With politics, policy and war, the business of being the president can be altogether unholy.(on camera): How do you as somebody who is so attuned to the president`s spiritual needs reconcile the job, which is borne out of tough unheavenly decisions and his relationship with God.DUBOIS: As long as, you know, you are - you feel that within your own soul that the moves that you are making, are right with God and right with yourself, and that`s the best we can ask for. And so, my job was to help - push him towards that relationship with God where they could have their own conversation about what was right and then he makes the best decisions that he can.TAPPER (voice over): His job approval rating at their lowest point in some polls. The president`s in a tough time now. During past periods of doubt and difficulty, DuBois has sent to the president a go to devotional about bouncing back. He quotes second Corinthians. And he combined that with the story about legendary boxer Joe Lewis refusing to take a quick rest on the mat after being knocked down because he didn`t want his opponent to get any rest either.(END VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this legit? Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights. It`s true. The holiday is also known as the Feast of Dedication and the Feast of Maccabees.AZUZ: Hanukkah commemorates the victory of the Maccabees. A group of Jewish people. It also celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The holiday lasts eight nights, the start of Hanukkah isn`t always on the same day. This year, it starts at sunset on Wednesday, which means the eight day holiday coincided with a major U.S. holiday.Fortunately for turkey, Thanksgiving isn`t America`s favorite holiday. That`s Christmas with Thanksgiving in second. Unfortunately for turkeys, they are on the menu for both. So it`s not a time of year when turkeys have holiday cheer. They maybe especially concerned in one of the four U.S. towns named after them. Turkey, Texas. Turkey, North Carolina, Turkey Creek, Louisiana or Turkey Creek, Arizona. Northern turkeys may also be on the wing in Pennsylvania if they leave near the townships of Upper Turkeyfoot or Lower Turkeyfoot. One thing that`s afoot nationwide, Americans are talking turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. The National Turkey Federation, which no turkeys are actually members says that 88 percent of Americans gobble up turkey on Thanksgiving. A 2012 Gallup survey found only five percent of Americans consider themselves vegetarians, in case you are wondering. What this means, 46 million turkeys will be at the Thanksgiving table, but they won`t be enjoying the meal. They probably had a better time running wild at the first Thanksgiving celebration. There is no proof that turkey was on the table in 1621. What was? Venison is one possibility, my dear. Of course, almost 400 years later, a deer for dinner could leave some passionate poultry partakers plaintiff. But it could save time for cooks: it takes about five hour to oven bake a large stuffed turkey. Without that, people could carve out plenty more time for cranberry sauce or sweet potatoes. Two Thanksgiving traditions that might not ruffle turkey`s feathers.Midwest takes center stage for our last "Roll Call" of November. In Brookville, Ohio, we`ve got the blue devils from Brookville High School. Going west, in a little north to Westby, Wisconsin. And that`s where we check in with the Northman. And in Greensberg (ph) Indiana, the South Decatur Cougars grab a spot on the roll.That gobbles up almost all our time in this pre- Thanksgiving show. I`m personally thankful for having the best audience at CNN. We`re going to leave you with some "I-Report" sharing what you are thankful for. Have a very happy Thanksgiving. We`ll see you Monday.END(CNN Student News) -- November 25, 2013THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND。
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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Advertisements in school: Should they be there? You're gonna hear what one school board in Canada says. I'm Carl Azuz. CNN Student News starts right now.First Up: Disaster in JapanAZUZ: First up, officials say the situation at a nuclear power plant in Japan is getting worse. Now, we're gonna help you understand some of the problems there. But first, we want to go through how this plant works.In this kind of a power plant, the electricity comes from fuel rods made from a radioactive element called uranium. Inside the reactor, those rods go into the core. And then, control rods help with a process called fission. That breaks up the radioactive atoms, causing heat and releasing steam. The steam goes out of the reactor. It spins turbines. And those spinning turbines generate electricity. Another important part of the process is the pump. That pushes water into the reactor. Fission creates a lot of heat, so you need that water to cool down the fuel rods.That's where the problem has come in at this plant in Japan. The tsunami flooded the back-up generators, so they were not able to pump water into the reactors. The water that was in the reactors burned off and left those radioactive fuel rods exposed and heating up. The big concern now is about radiation getting out of the plants and into the atmosphere.But one thing to keep in mind is that we all encounter small amounts of radiation every day! There's a unit of measurement we're gonna use. It's called a millisievert. Americans typically get about 3 millisieverts of radiation every year. This can come from ultraviolet rays from the sun, cosmic rays from space. The Earth's atmosphere does a great job of protecting us, though. There are small amounts of radiation in the air through radon gas, and tiny amounts in the ground, like carbon-14 that scientists use for carbon dating and uranium. But though three millisieverts a year is average, you can get a bit more radiation from flying, 'cause you're above a lot of that atmosphere that protects us from radiation. Chest x-rays can give you one-tenth of a millisievert, or 10 days' equivalent of the radiation we naturally get. And a chest CT scan can give a dose of 8 millisieverts, or three years' equivalent of natural radiation.But keep in mind: While you do get more radiation from these things, the levels are still not considered dangerous, so there's no need to worry if you've recently had a CT scan. Radiation exposure is possible for the workers at the plant in Japan, though. And we're talking serious exposure. Officials have been evacuating people from the area around the plant. And meanwhile, rescue workers, still searching for victims from the quake and tsunami. Doctor Sanjay Gupta has one survivor's story.(BEGIN VIDEO)DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: The images are tough to watch. But as I learned, the stories are even harder to hear. You see those cars being tossed aroundlike toys? Well this man, Iyabashi, was in one of them, and he lived to tell about it.So, you were looking out your windshield and you saw the water coming?He tried to escape, but it was too late.IYABASHI [TRANSLATED]: "Over and over I was hit," he said, and then his car flooded.GUPTA: Mr. Iyabashi doesn't know how he was saved. The next thing he remembered was pulling up in the ambulance to Saka hospital.As you might imagine, triage is a big deal at a place like this. Here at Saka Hospital, they basically categorize patients into four categories immediately. Green if it was a relatively minor injury; yellow if it was more serious; red if it was very serious; and black if the patient had died. When Mr. Iyabashi came in, he was considered a red. Critically injured, his life was now in the hands of Dr. Takanori Sasaki.It's important to point out that Dr. Sasaki, he's been here since Friday. He never left the hospital since the earthquake occurred and has been taking care of these patients, has headed the emergency room.Day after day, Saka Hospital stayed open with Dr. Sasaki in charge, taking care of hundreds of patients. In Japan, near drownings and cardiac arrest are the most common serious injuries seen, followed by head and crush injuries.Now, Dr. Sasaki has been here since Friday, and I want to give you an idea of just how busy the busiest hospital has been after the earthquake and the tsunami. Six hundred patients seen here over the last several days. 79 patients remain; 13 patients have died.Watching Iyabashi closely, it is clear he is haunted by what happened to him. The tsunami robbed him of just about everything. In fact, you're looking at all he has left. But then, a rare smile. And he tells me, almost in disbelief, "I am still alive."Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Shiogama City, Japan.(END VIDEO)Economic ImpactAZUZ: The earthquake and tsunami are also having an economic impact, and not just on Japan. Stock markets around the world are taking significant hits because investors are worried about the financial impact of this disaster. That includes in the U.S., where the Dow Jones was down more than 100 points during the day on Tuesday. The Dow gives an idea of how the whole U.S. stock market is doing, And in Japan itself, the Nikkei, which is kind of like that country's Dow Jones,had one of the worst single-day drops in its history on Tuesday.Blog PromoAZUZ: We know a lot of you might be wondering how you can reach out to the victims of this disaster in Japan. One way: our blog. You can go to and leave some words of encouragement for your fellow students in Japan. And our Teachers' Lounge gives educators the same kind of opportunity. You can share how you're presenting information about this disaster to your classes and talk about some of the teachable moments in this story. The blog, the Teachers' Lounge: both at .I.D. MeTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D. Me! I'm a Middle Eastern country that's going through political unrest. I'm an island nation that's located in the Persian Gulf. And my capital city is Manama. I'm Bahrain, and I'm home to around 1.2 million people.State of EmergencyAZUZ: Bahrain is under a state of emergency right now. It will be for the next three months! The nation's king announced the move this week after weeks of protests against the government. He also asked for help from nearby countries, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who sent troops to Bahrain to help get the situation there under control. The Bahraini government says these outside forces will "protect the safety of citizens." Many of those citizens have been involved in protests like this one. There were reports yesterday of fighting between protesters and security forces. But the reports indicated that the security forces were Bahraini, not from one of the other countries we mentioned.Honoring WWI VeteranAZUZ: The American flag at the White House, and flags across the country, were flown at half-staff yesterday. This was done in honor of Frank Buckles. Buckles, whom you see in this video, was the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I. Later in life, he pushed for the creation of a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C. to honor his fellow veterans. He died last month at the age of 110. Buckles was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors. But before that, Buckles lay in honor for public viewing at Arlington so visitors could pay tribute to the last of a generation. One U.S. senator said it was a fitting way to say goodbye.ShoutoutSTAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Batalon's social studies classes at Aldrich Jr. High in Warwick, Rhode Island! Toronto is located in which Canadian province? Is it: A) British Columbia, B) Quebec, C) Ontario or D) Nova Scotia? You've got threeseconds -- GO! Ontario is where you'll find Toronto; it's also Canada's most populated city. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!Ads in School?AZUZ: And Toronto is where you'll find the school board that we mentioned at the beginning of today's show. The issue again is advertisements in school, and a vote on whether or not to expand a test program that would put those ads in front of students. Four Toronto-area schools had these video boards installed in the hallways. They show announcements, educational information, even how much time you have to get to your next class. Expanding the program would put the video screens in 70 schools and have them run advertisements on them one-third of the time. The schools would get money for allowing the ads. But the school board voted against it, with some members saying students don't go to school to see ads. Supporters say they'll try to bring up the proposal again in the future.Before We GoAZUZ: Before we go, if any of you guys think you're too tough for scented candles, say hello to the Man Can! An enterprising 13-year-old from Ohio came up with the idea when his sister was selling candles for school. He thought, hey, how come there are no manly scented candles? Now, we don't mean like sweat. He made some that smell like pizza, campfire, grass, bacon. He makes them out of old soup cans -- donates the soup -- and since Thanksgiving, when he started up the business, he's sold 500 candles!GoodbyeAZUZ: That is the sweet smell of success. Sounds like someone has a nose for business, and the drive to come up with a company that makes a lot of scents. We'd come up with some more puns, but they wouldn't hold a candle to that last one. For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz。
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: A warning about the war in Afghanistan from the top U.S. commander in the country? We'll tell you what he has to say. I'm Carl Azuz. CNN Student News starts right now!First Up: Suspects in CourtAZUZ: First up, an investigation into an alleged terror plot moves to the courtroom, as three men charged with lying to federal agents appear before a judge. We first reported on this story yesterday. Authorities arrested two of the suspects in Colorado and the other one in New York. The Justice Department says the three are among several people who are under investigation in connection with an alleged plan to set off explosive devices somewhere in the U.S. The mayor of New York City says this is a reminder "that terrorism hasn't gone away."Jeanne Meserve has the latest on this investigation.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)JEANNE MESERVE, HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan national who has been the focal point of this terror probe, was arrested at his home outside Denver Saturday night along with his father, Mohammed Zazi. The owner of this Muslim burial service in Queens, New York, Ahmad Afzali, was the third taken into custody. All are charged with making false statements to the FBI during a terror investigation. Court documents reveal no details about the timing or targeting of the alleged explosives plot, but they allege that Najibullah Zazi lied about nine pages of detailed bombmaking instructions found on his computer.RAY KELLY, NEW YORK POLICE COMMISSIONER: The FBI had taken his computer, had mirror ed it -- had copied it, in essence -- put it back in hiscar. Mr. Zazi had not known that that had happened, apparently. So when he was questioned about whether or not he knew anything about these handwritten notes, and they were shown to him, he denied that knowledgeMESERVE: The court documents also allege that Najibullah Zazi admitted getting explosives and weapons training at an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan, though Zazi and his lawyer claimed Saturday he had not made such an admission. Experts say the charge s were file d to pressure the men into cooperating with the ongoing investigation of Najibullah Zazi.FRAN TOWNSEND, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTOR: What direction is he getting from al Qaeda members in the federally administered tribal areas in addition to the training that he got? Secondly, who else has he communicated with here in the United States? Obviously, the government has some idea ofwho that is based on their surveillance, both electronic and physical. But what they want to do is make sure they've identified the entire net, the whole range of consparators.MESERVE: In Queens, New York, where one of the arrests took place, a member of the Muslim community expressed surprise the alleged plot had come to light now.MAN ON THE STREET: It's the end of Ramadan. People are more humble, people are more religious. It would be very hard for me to imagine people who would be do ing wrong deed s during that month, a special time of the year.MESERVE: Experts say it is possible, even likely, that additional charges will be brought. They say the government likely revealed as little as possible in these first charges as it shores up its case and continues the investigation in the U.S., Pakistan and elsewhere. Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Denver.(END VIDEO CLIP)Troops in AfghanistanAZUZ: Moving to military news, now. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, says that more troops are needed there in the next year, or else the war "will likely result in failure." That statement was part of a document that was leaked to The Washington Post newspaper recently. There are currently 62,000 U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan. The Pentagon plans to add an additional 6,000 troops by the end of the year. But some members of Congress think Gen. McChrystal may call for thousands more.President's WeekAZUZ: Ultimately, that is President Obama's choice as Commander in Chief of the U.S. He says he wants to evaluate the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan before he makes decisions about troop level s. Meantimne, the president is looking at a busy schedule this week.Startingtoday, he's in ew York for the United Nations General Assembly. That conference will address a number of global issues. Then Thursday, the president heads to Pittsburgh to host a two-day meeting of the G20, a group of the world's largest economies.Word to the WiseMICHELLE WRIGHT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: A Word to the Wise...deluge (noun) a heavy rain, downpour or floodsource: dictionarySoutheast FloodingAZUZ: Deluge, however you say it, that is what parts of the southeastern U.S. are struggling through right now. Days of deluge led rivers and creek s to overflow on Monday, causing severe flooding that claimed several lives in parts of Georgia and Tennessee. This in a region that was recently grip ped by a severe drought.You can see how deep the water is in this video from Atlanta. The flooding trap ped some students at school for a while. They were able to get out later with help from the fire department. In other parts of the region, people were forced to evacuate their homes because of fears about dams and levee s failing. Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency for 17 counties. Yesterday, one emergency official said, "We're in rescue-and-recovery mode. It has not stopped raining, and another line of thunderstorms is coming."Shuttle Arrives HomeAZUZ: Those same storms made for an interesting flight home for the space shuttle Discovery. It hitched a ride on the back of a 747 for the 2,500-mile trek from California back to Florida. You might remember that Discovery touched down on the west coast after its recent trip to the international space station. During yesterday's final leg of the journey home, theshuttle's carrier aircraft actually had to navigate around those storms, which the pilot said made for the most challenging weather situation he's dealt with in more than 10 of these trips.ShoutoutGEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Gleason's social studies class at Ron Watson Middle School in Yuma, Arizona! Who said, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right"? Was it: A) William Shakespeare, B) Mark Twain, C) Thomas Edison or D) Henry Ford? You've got three seconds -- GO! That quote on confidence comes from Henry Ford. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!Morning SunshineAZUZ: Confidence is a major theme of Robin Meade's new book, "Morning Sunshine." You might recognize the name, Ms. Meade is the anchor of "Morning Express" on HLN. Recently, I talked with her about some of the challengesshe's faced and what advice she might have for you. The full interview is at CNNStudentNews. Part of our conversation is right here.(BEGIN VIDEO)AZUZ: We all struggle on that path to wherever we're going. You discussed times when you have struggled with your singing voice, with your speaking voice in the past. How would you encourage a quarterback who's missing his receivers, or a band member who's missing her notes, or an A student who's going to get a B?MEADE: So in my case, at one point in my early 20s I lost my singing voice; I had a voice paralysis. And then when I had some panic attacks about ten years ago on the air, and in effect I lost my speaking voice. For me, I didn't appreciate those talents until they were gone. So you bet, when they came back I was like, "Oooh, I am so grateful for that." So, maybe while you are missing the receiver, maybe while you are not getting the grades that you wantthis quarter, just know that you have so much to be grateful for. You're not getting those grades, but it's not because you're not intelligent. You're intelligent; something's just missing the mark. But it shouldn't change your perception of your own talent. That does not change. That is a constant.AZUZ: All right, I'm going to out you here. Robin Meade is not perfect.MEADE: Not perfect at all.AZUZ: Despite what some of you all may believe. You talked about how you had pneumonia as a child up until you were five years old, some of the struggles that you had along the way. And you write that "it's dangerous for young people to assume that everyone else's accomplishments came easily." Can you talk about some of the struggles you had on the way to hosting "Morning Express"?MEADE: One of the points in writing this book was I wanted it to be a road map for people, foryoung people as well, who maybe have some self-esteem issues. I wanted to give you ashort-cut, maybe a little pointer about confidence booster s. But I do think it's dangerous for people to look at people in the spotlight like myself or a football player or even if it's your local accountant. To look at them and go, "Hmmm, that must have been easy; I on the other hand have problems, so I'll never be successful like that." That's not true. All of us have some hurdle that we have to overcome. So, maybe you're experiencing something right now. It doesn't mean that you can not be successful in the future. You are a success right now. You just have to figure out how to channel everything that's going on in your life.(END VIDEO)PromoAZUZ: Great advice. Believe it or not, CNN Student News has been around for 20 years! No, I have not been with the show that long. But it isa good time for us to celebrate, so we are! Check out our special anniversary show this Friday! It'll take a look at some of the biggest stories from the past two decades. We hope you'll join us to mark the occasion.Before We GoAZUZ: Before we go, a story about science on a budget. So, let's say you're a college student who wants to takes pictures from space? No problem, at least for these guys from MIT. Earlier this month, they launched a weather balloon, along with a camera, cell phone, drink cooler and hand warmers 17 miles up. All to snap some shots of the Earth. It worked! Better yet, the whole thing cost less than $150!GoodbyeAZUZ: That's impressive, because since sometimes, the price of projects like these can really balloon out of control. We'll pop back intomorrow for more CNN Student News. I'm Carl Azuz, hope to see you then。
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CNN Student News 5.11.2011 TranscriptsTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: You might have seen this kind of technology before; you might have even used it yourself at home. But how much is it worth? That's one of the issues we're exploring today on CNN Student News!First Up: Memphis FloodingAZUZ: First up today, some positive news for people dealing with flooding from the Mississippi River, finally. The river began cresting yesterday. That means it reached what experts think should be its highest point. But the cresting was only happening around the city of Memphis, Tennessee. Now, officials are focusing their concerns on Louisiana and Mississippi. The river isn't expected to crest there until next week.These floods have some people looking back more than 80 years. This is newsreel footage from 1927. Same river, the Mississippi. It was the worst flooding it had ever seen. 600,000 people forced from their homes. The floods caused the equivalent of nearly $624 million in damages. Those record floods led engineers to build a system of levees, the barriers designed to hold back floods. They're hoping those levees will keep the flooding happening right now from getting as bad as it did in the 1920s.Back north in Memphis, experts are saying that while the river might not get any higher, it might not get significantly lower for a while, either. Rob Marciano's on the scene, telling us about the timeframe.(BEGIN VIDEO)ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Officially, it's cresting. That's going to be the theme, I think, going forward, is how excruciatingly slow this water has risen and how slow it's going to go down. How much it's risen, that's indisputable, and that's painful as well. Typically, it would be about a half a mile wide. Now, it's three miles wide. This is Riverside Drive. Should be just a road. Now, it's part of the river here across parts of Memphis.We're on the western edge of town, obviously. We're also at the western edge of Beale Street, which comes into an intersection with Riverside Drive. That's flooded. The famed night spots and blues establishments a little bit further east are untouched. Graceland, untouched. And for the most part, in downtown Memphis, it's business as usual.But you go to some of the surrounding areas in the outskirts of the city where the tributaries are feeding into the swollen Mississippi, which, really, the river is just not allowing any more water coming in, that's where we're seeing most of the flooding. We'vegot over 900 homes that have been affected by this flooding. Over 400 people are in shelters across the area, and there's still evacuations that are underway.And the river is going to take, well, heck, it's going to take a full five days before this river in this spot goes down just one foot. So, we're going to be in major flood stage here for at least a week, if not two weeks.I spoke with Colonel Reichling, who is the man in charge here in Memphis with the Army Corps of Engineers. He says the levees are holding up pretty good. They have got some weaknesses, some leaks that they have had to patch along the way. But for the most part, things are going according to plan. But what's not in the plan is to have this type of historic flood up and down the Mississippi, with that historic rainfall we saw further upstream. And seeing the rivers rise like this is certainly something to witness. If you're part of the flood, you certainly don't want any part of this history-making event. And it will be two, three weeks before this water gets down into the Gulf of Mexico.(END VIDEO)I.D. MeMICHELLE WRIGHT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D. Me! I'm located in Texas on the Rio Grande River. I'm the largest border city between the U.S. and Mexico. Translated from Spanish, my name means "the pass." I'm El Paso, and I'm just across the border from Juarez, Mexico.Immigration DebateAZUZ: El Paso's location on the border with Mexico makes it an interesting setting to talk about immigration. That's what President Obama did during a visit to the Texas city yesterday. He wants reform in U.S. immigration policies, but he's also said he doesn't plan to act on his own. He wants Congress to be part of this. Immigration is an issue that stirs up a lot of emotions, and the president says he understands why.U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The truth is, we've often wrestled with the politics of who is and who isn't allowed to come into this country. Because these issues touch on what we believe, touch deeply on our convictions about who we are as a people, about what it means to be an American, these debates often elicit strong emotions.AZUZ: One of the biggest issues in that debate is over the country's border with Mexico. Some Republican leaders say they won't consider other immigration policies until that border is under better control. President Obama is pushing for tighter security, too. But in a recent speech, he said he wants to make sure that security is focused mostly on criminals. Rafael Romo is in Arizona, along a different part of the U.S.-Mexico border. He gives us a look at the agents responsible for patrolling it.(BEGIN VIDEO)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, we've got two approaching the ravine again. Make that three.RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SENIOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR: The call comes in and we rush to the scene. It's dark and the agents know they only have minutes to find the suspect.RUDY GARCIA, U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENT: He jumped the fence and, you know, he didn't stop. He just kept running.ROMO: Agent Rudy Garcia finds the men hiding underneath a platform in a backyard.GARCIA: You have to search every little crevice and every crack because, you know, they can hide anywhere.ROMO: The migrant says he comes from southern Mexico.LEONZO LOPEZ, MEXICAN MIGRANT [IN SPANISH]: My family and poverty in Mexico...I want better. I just want a job to support my family.ROMO: Not far from there, seven more would-be immigrants have been arrested, including this 32-year-old man.CAIN MEZA AGUIRRE, MEXICAN MIGRANT [IN SPANISH]: Back to Mexico with my family and never come back. That's what I want.ROMO: Before the night is over, agents say they will detain more than 300 people. This is Nogales, Arizona, a battlefront in the fight against smuggling organizations.GARCIA: They like to try and operate under the cover of darkness, because they think that they're not going to be seen.ROMO: From a nearby control room, infrared technology gives agents eyes in the dark. Daylight reveals other resources, like surveillance towers, vehicles, and an agent force that has more than doubled in the last 10 years to more than 3,400 for just over 250 miles along the Arizona border. Agents say they're fighting a new enemy.DAVID JIMAREZ, U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENT: The whole smuggling organization has changed. It's not your mom-and-pop shop anymore. Now, everything is organized crime.(END VIDEO)ShoutoutTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Kussy's social studies classes at Payne Junior High School in Chandler, Arizona! What is the largest software company in the world? You know what to do! Is it: A) Electronic Arts, B) Nintendo, C) Sony or D) Microsoft? Start the clock at three seconds -- and GO! Microsoft tops the list as the world's largest software company. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!Tech Industry DealAZUZ: Looks like Microsoft is about to get bigger. The company is buying Skype, the internet phone service you saw me using to introduce today's show. In order to make that purchase, Microsoft is shelling out $8.5 billion, a price one analyst called "slightly expensive." Skype, as a lot of you might know, offers real-time video and voice communications. Microsoft said it plans to incorporate that technology into things it already owns, like the Xbox or Microsoft Office. Another expert called this a good move, but he pointed out that Microsoft has a mixed record when it comes to buying other companies. He said that could mean bad news for Skype.Privacy ConcernsAZUZ: Technology's also a topic of conversation on Capitol Hill. Executives from Google and Apple were asked to meet with a Senate subcommittee yesterday to talk about privacy concerns on smart phones and other mobile devices. This was in response to recent reports that some apps track and store their users' locations. Senator Al Franken, the chairman of the subcommittee, said he likes using technology to look up maps or the weather. But he says there needs to be a balance. The technology company executives explained why their devices gather the information. They also pointed out that users can turn off tracking options or deny them by refusing to give consent.Blog PromoAZUZ: We want to get your thoughts on this, though. Go to our home page, , scroll down 'til you hit our blog. That's where we're asking about your opinions on this idea of your phones, or other mobile devices, being able to track your location. Major problem? No big deal? Share your thoughts -- and only your first names -- with us at Before We GoAZUZ: When it comes to some vehicles, sometimes things are more than meets the eye. For example, runaway SUV? No, one that just doesn't need a driver. Look, mom, no hands! You've heard of smart cars. This might be the smartest. It's a robotic vehicle. You just plug in the route, put it in neutral, and let it go. Speed limits, rules of the road, knowing when to switch lanes. This thing can do it all, thanks to lasers, computers and cameras.GoodbyeAZUZ: This auto 'bot might transform the way you look at vehicles. Or it could just drive you crazy. If you don't know what to think, we guess you're neutral. Just make sure you don't give the car a phone, because it's bound to make some crank calls. We're having a gas with all these puns, but it's time for us to hit the road. For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. And we will see you tomorrow.。
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(CNN Student News) -- November 16, 2011CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: It`s time for you to take 10 minutes away from your schoolwork and let CNN Student News catch you up on the world`s headlines. I`m your guide, Carl Azuz. We`re starting today in the Pacific.More U.S. troops could be headed to Australia. That`s one of the headlines that`s expected come out of President Obama`s trip there this week. The U.S. and Australia are allies. Australia has supported the U.S. in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other military conflicts in the 20th century.Now some countries are concerned about how strong China is becoming in the Western Pacific region. So as Brianna Keilar explains, having more American troops in Australia could be seen as a kind of defense against the spread of China`s influence.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN REPORTER (voice-over): The third time`s a charm. After canceling planned trips to Australia twice now, President Obama is finally headed down under.KEILAR: While the president`s visit to the APEC summit here in Hawaii was more about emphasizing U.S. trade interests in Asia, his visit to Australia is more about U.S. military interests in the region.KEILAR (voice-over): President Obama`s first stop, the capital city of Canberra, where he will address parliament, commemorating America`s 60- year military alliance with Australia.Then he heads north to the military stronghold of Darwin, where he`s expected to announce a plan for a more pronounced U.S. military presence in the country. It`s a symbolic increase of America`s profile in the region, as China demonstrates its might.VICTOR CHA, CSIS: Clearly the Chinese, as they experience larger and larger amounts of economic growth, are starting to flex their diplomatic muscle further away from the shores of China into Southeast Asia. And I think countries in the region are looking to the United States to help balance against that.KEILAR (voice-over): American allies like Japan and Korea are concerned U.S. budget cuts could shrink America`s military commitments in Asia. China recently launched its first aircraft carrier, and has made territorial claims tomuch of the South China Sea.ADM. ROBERT WILLARD: The South China, of vital interest to the region, of national interest to the United States, an area that carries an immense amount of commerce and an area in which we must maintain maritime security and peace.KEILAR: The president`s stop in Australia is part of a push to highlight a new era in U.S. foreign policy, focusing less on Iraq and Afghanistan, and instead looking east -- Brianna Keilar, CNN, Honolulu.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Trouble and confusion surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): . police moved in on Tuesday to kick protesters out of Zuccotti Park. It`s a private park they`ve used as a base to speak out against a lot of different issues. Protesters have been there two months, and city officials and the park`s owners say conditions have gotten dangerous and dirty.So the park was cleared out on Tuesday morning. A couple of court battles followed. And when the dust settled, the New York Supreme Court had decided that, while protesters are allowed to gather in the park under their First Amendment rights, those rights do not allow them to stay there indefinitely, camping in tents and setting up other structures.So to sum up: they can protest there; they can`t camp there.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Today`s Shoutout goes out to Mr. Madigan`s study skills class at Miamisburg Middle School in Miamisburg, Ohio. What Central African country is home to the most active volcano on the continent? Here we go. Is it Democratic Republican of Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa or Somalia? You`ve got three seconds, go.The Democratic Republic of Congo is the only Central African nation here and it`s where you`ll find Africa`s most active volcano. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: And that volcano is putting on a major fireworks show.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): You can see why tourists at Virunga National Park aren`t coming just to see the gorillas. This eruption started more than a week ago. Scientists don`t know when it`ll end. They do believe the lava is heading to an area that`s uninhabited and that it`s not a threat to the endangered gorillas in the area. You can see these pictures are pretty close-up.Virunga National Park has actually set up a camp, one a mile away from the eruption, where tourists can spend the night if they want. The lava`s estimated to be spewing almost a thousand feet from the top of the volcano. For perspective, Old Faithful`s water reaches about 140 feet in the air.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: If banning sugary drinks at school doesn`t stop students from drinking them otherwise, should schools still ban the drinks?(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): At , Kara says school is about 61/2 hours every weekday. That`s 61/2 hours that kids aren`t drinking soda or other sugary drinks.Claire says banning the drinks on campus gets the anti-childhood obesity message across and it may encourage students to refrain from drinking them altogether.On the other side of this, Brenda doesn`t think sugary drinks should be banned because students are going to drink them anyway. It`s not the school`s job to raise awareness about obesity, she writes.Majdahlin says a soda may not be as healthy as orange juice, but will it really affect your grade on a math test? I believe the choice should be the student`s, not the school`s.And from Victory, to solve obesity, we must start at the homes, not the schools. Bringing sugary drinks back to school will help sales at the school.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this legit? According to the CDC, the best way to reduce the number of germs on your hands is to wash them with soap and water.Totally true, and the CDC recommends washing them for at least 20 seconds at a time.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adds that washing your hands is one of the best ways to avoid getting sick. But there are parts of the world that don`t have access to clean soap and clean water, things that you and I take for granted.Derreck Kayongo says this isn`t an issue of availability. It`s an issue of costs, and it`s what he`s doing about it that`s why he`s one of this year`s top 10 CNN Heroes.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)DERRECK KAYONGO, CNN HERO: A child of war can be simply described as a kid caught between a rock and a hard place. You wake up every morning thinking, we just want to survive.Sanitation, is it a priority? We have about 2 million kids that die of sanitation issues, mainly because they don`t wash their hands.I am Derreck Kayongo. I`m a former refugee. Now I help people fight disease with better sanitation.Do you have some soap for me?UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, it`s over here.KAYONGO: Yes, this is great.The issue is not the availability of soap, but the issue is cost. Can they afford it?UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Housekeeping.KAYONGO: Eight hundred million bars of soap that the hotels throw away in theU.S. alone every year, we`re able to get a lot of soap, which we can process and make brand new soap out of it.We clean it, melt it and then cut it into final bars. We box it and ship it.GROUP: Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome, Derrick.KAYONGO: Being here in Kenya at this orphanage is coming full circle, but with good news. It`s very important for them to have the bar of soap, but also to use it so they can fight off diseases.Those are clean. That`s very good.One of the things that I have learned from the kids is a sense of resilience. To know that they have this sense of hope and joy is remarkable. Do I feel like I`m having an impact on them? Yes. I think so.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): There`s more than a minute left in today`s show, but time is running out for you to vote for the CNN Hero of the Year. Go to our home page -- , scroll down to the Heroes bin. That is where you`ll learn more about Derreck Kayongo and the rest of this year`s top 10.Teachers, it`s also where you can find our free CNN Heroes discussion guide. The CNN Heroes Tribute Special airs December 11th on CNN.And teachers, you`re going to love this. CNN has launched a new education blog. It`s called "Schools of Thought," and it offers food for thought on all things education. The policies, the practices, the people - - you can get there from . Just look for "Schools of Thought," and join in on the education conversation.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: All right. You know that when a cruise ship sails, propellers are actually pushing it through the water. It`s not really sailing.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): This is how sailing got its name. Ships like the "Star of India" were blown by the wind across the sea. Built in the 1860s, this is theoldest active sailing ship. She`s been around the world 21 times, though in retirement she stays closer to her California home. A crew of volunteers sails this ship -- literally -- every November.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: Makes for a good history segment as long as you don`t leave your notes in Davy Jones` Locker. And while that pun might not have been seaworthy, once I get started, there just no way of "mutin` me." CNN Student News is always your harbor for headlines. We`ll set sail with more tomorrow.END。