airmanzza

今天已经4月22日了，才听15日的新闻，抱歉。两个月的时间落下了一个星期了。

There have been two new pirate attacks. Somali pirates are holding a Lebanese cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. A NATO spokesman says the ship was attacked by three or four speedboats. And in a rare overnight attack, Somali pirates hijacked the Greek-owned freighter MV Irene. That ship carries nearly two dozen Filipino crew members.

The Obama administration is loosening the rules to let Cuban-Americans travel to see relatives in Cuba more often and they can also send them more money. This is the first significant change in US policy toward Cuba in almost 50 years.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is due in court. He may enter a plea on racketeering and fraud charges. He is accused of trying to sell President Obama's former Senate seat.

Democratic Senate Candidate Al Franken has a message for his rival Norm Coleman: give it up. Yesterday, judges ruled against Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race. He is disputing Franken's 312-vote victory, but Coleman has ten days to appeal to the state Supreme Court, and after that he could appeal to the federal level. Last night, Franken said the win is his.

And music producer Phil Spector found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson, Spector had no obvious reaction to the conviction yesterday in LA. His first trial ended with a deadlocked jury in 2007. The second jury deliberated 30 hours before reaching a verdict.


speedboat                快艇
freighter                货船；运输机
Filipino                菲律宾人
racketeer                敲诈勒索者；诈骗者

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The American cargo ship Liberty Sun was hit with rocket-propelled grenades off the African coast Tuesday night. But none of the 20-member American crew were injured. The ship is actually carrying food aid. The USS Bainbridge was sent in to help. It arrived though after the pirates fled. It is now escorting the Liberty Sun. Meantime the French Navy says it has captured 11 suspected pirates today off the Coast of Kenya.
And today before President Obama heads for Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security is naming a chief to deal with drug violence along the Mexican border. The new chief will also oversee a crackdown on illegal immigration. A source is saying that Allen Burnson, a former federal prosecutor, will be named to that post.
Thousands of teachers in Los Angeles could be laid off. School district officials approved that move last night. In all, more than 5,000 teachers and other district workers could lose their jobs. The district had to find a way to fix an almost 600-million-dollar budget shortfall. District officials are hoping that they can save some of the jobs depending on how much state and federal funding they receive.
Catholics in New York are welcoming their new archbishop. The church held Mass to officially install Timothy Dolan as the new leader of the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese. The archbishop of New York is seen as the most prominent leader of the American Catholic church.
And funny man Stephen Colbert is getting some out-of-this-world recognition. NASA is renaming an orbital exercise machine after him with the help of his fans. Colbert received the most votes in a Space Agency's online poll and so a new treadmill, huh, on the space station is now called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill or COLBERT.

shortfall		赤字 ,差额
archbishop		大主教
treadmill		跑步机
Load Bearing		承重
External Resistance		外部阻力

airmanzza

今天对听写是十分的有抵触情绪。
It's been a long week for the crew of the Maersk Alabama. They are finally back home. The nineteen men were reunited with their families at Andrews Air Force Base overnight and then they were whisked away to a hotel to have some privacy. Their skipper, who was taken hostage by those pirates, now awaits the final leg of his journey home. Captain Richard Phillips arrived in Kenya as the USS Bainbridge blared "Sweet Home Alabama". Phillips is finally off the ship and in the hands of Maersk which has chartered a flight to bring him back to the United States.


President Obama is bound for Mexico for a meeting with his counterpart. It's his first trip to Latin America as president. Issues on the agenda include border drug violence. More than 10,000 people have been killed there in drug-related violence since 2006.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is traveling to Haiti. She is there on the heels of welcome news. The impoverished nation is about to receive 324 million dollars in international pledges. Yesterday, Haiti's prime minister said her country needs even more help, but the commitment is more than she expected in this global recession.

The hot button issue same sex marriage now on the front burner in the state of New York, Governor David Paterson has just introduced a bill to legalize same-sex marriages. Now this measure died in 2007 and still faces strong opposition. Gays and lesbians can already marry across the border in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont.

Friends and family in Tracy California will remember eight-year-old Sandra Cantu at a memorial service today. The eight-year-old disappeared in March. Her body was found last week in a suitcase. Police have charged the mother of one of Sandra's friends with killing her.

whisk		迅速移动,迅速带走，搅拌器，打蛋器
skipper		船长，机长，队长
blare		发出响而刺耳的声音
be bound for		开往…,以…为目的地

airmanzza

总共才用了23分钟，听写15分钟。

Five days after being rescued at sea, a hero's welcome will greet abducted Captain Richard Phillips today in his hometown. He is on his way back to Underhill, Vermont from Kenya. Phillips was rescued on Sunday from Somali pirates in a daring Navy Seal sniper operation. The welcome home signs and the balloons and the yellow ribbons are already up at Vermont.

Cuba President Raul Castro says his government is prepared to meet with the Obama Administration. His announcement comes the very same week that President Obama lifted restrictions on Cuba-Americans' visiting with their relatives in Cuba.

The White House has released Gorge W. Bush Administration memos detailing interrogation tactics used on terror suspects after 9-11. Critics say the tactics amounted to torture. President Obama says CIA operatives who used the interrogation methods won't be prosecuted.

Today President Obama travels to Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americans. The chief topic--global economic crisis. But some of the participants will also be talking about jobs and trade.

The motive behind a deadly hospital shooting is still a mystery today. It happened on Thursday at Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Witnesses say Mario Ramirez killed two of his co-workers and then turned the gun on himself.

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President Obama is at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. He shook hands with the long-time US foe Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. The Venezuelan leader said he wants to be a friend but he gave Mr. Obama a book that accuses the US of actually exploiting Latin America.

North Korea meantime is still defiant over its April 5th rocket launch. In a television broadcast today, North Korea warns the outside world that any sanctions or pressure will be a declaration of war.

We are following a developing story as well out of central Maryland, near Frederick actually, police are investigating the deaths of five people found in a house in Middletown. The bodies of the victims, new images right now believed to be a man, a woman, and three children were discovered this morning. Police have not revealed if there were any signs of violence in the home. We will bring you more details as they become available, but the entire town there shocked at what has taken place.

An American journalist gets an eight-year prison sentence on spying charges in Iran; it is drawing immediate denunciations here in the United States. Roxanna Saberi was put on trial this week in Teheran. Saberi is an Iranian-American actually born in North Dakota. She is a freelance for National Public Radio and other news organizations and she was writing a book about Iranian culture while doing some of her research in Tehran. Her father and her defense attorney say they will keep working for her freedom.

Not only coerced, but also deceived. She was deceived to talk; they told her that if she says like this they would free her. And then they didn't free her. Later she found out that it was a, it was a trick.

The US calls the espionage charges baseless and is demanding Saberi's release.

The power is still out at thousands of homes and businesses in Colorado after a major spring snowstorm. An 80-mile stretch of Interstate 80 has just been reopened but the road is still slow and very sloppy.

foe		敌人；对手
denunciation		公开谴责
baseless		没有根据的
Interstate 80		80号洲际公路
sloppy		稀湿的，无条理的；（衣服）肥大的

airmanzza

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, Nicole Lapin. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

Chrysler has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In a statement, the company says the filing of the automaker is in its best interest. The company failed to meet today's Treasury Department deadline to reach deals with creditors who loan the company about seven billion dollars. Meantime, Chrysler says it has reached an agreement in principle with the Italian automaker Fiat to establish a global alliance of sorts to form what they call a vibrant new company.

All schools are closed in Mexico which has been hit hardest by the swine flu virus. The strain's also known as H1N1. Mexico's president is telling people to stay home for about five days. Starting tomorrow, non-essential government offices will be closed untill next Tuesday. The World Health Organization has confirmed 236 cases of swine flu around the globe.

It appears the August wedding for the suspected Craigslist killer is not gonna happen. That's according to a lawyer for Philip Markoff's fiancee Megan McAllister. He confirms the wedding is being quote "dismantled" and says that the evidence against Markoff is making McAllister her family reevaluate him.

Obviously they are disturbing to anybody who would look and at that particular, I don't say it's been put for some meaning but obviously you gotta have to understand that's not the person that she knew in love. That's not the person that her family took into their, took into their family as a person that was gonna marry their daughter. So you have that big dichotomy of what this person was to them and what he's now being portrayed in the media.

Markoff has pleaded not guilty to killing a woman at the Boston Marriott. He also denies robbing another woman he also reportedly met through Craigslist.

And those are the headlines at this hour. For more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is always your source on live on TV or on your cell phone.

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From the CNN Center here in Atlanta, I'm Melissa Long. It's Friday, May 1st. Here's a look at some of the stories making news at this hour.

Leaders in Hongkong are reporting the first case of swine flu. They say the Mexican citizen flew to the region yesterday. If the World Health Organization confirms the diagnosis , it would be the first case of H1N1 in Asia. The patient is now isolated in a hospital.

Supreme Court Justice David Souter says he always prefered his native New Hampshire to D.C.. And our legal sources, tell CNN that Souter will inform his colleagues today that  he's retiring from what he's called the world's best job in the world's worst city. He'll probably leave in June when the court finishes up for the summer. Analysts are already speculating on who will fill his seat.

The balance on the court will probably not shift a great deal. Souter has become a part of the liberal wing. Obama will appoint someone who will vote much the same way, but new people always change the court and a new liberal justice, perhaps a woman, perhaps an African-American, perhaps the first Hispanic on the court, really could change the court in a, in subtle but real way.

Cold case investigators believe they've tracked down a serial killer from decades ago. Yesterday Los Angeles police announced that 72-year-old John Floyd Thomas Jr. was likely behind the murders of as many as 30 women between 1955 and 1978. He's in custody charge so far with two of the killings. A criminal justice expert says Thomas must be smart of avoiding being caught for so long.

If he didn't have that certain cunning, that criminal savoir-faire, if you will, we would caught him decades ago. But there is a small group of serial offenders who have that, that street smarts to avoid the cops and to stay at large for decades so they could assemble a body count of dozens.

And a famous Colonel helped the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee to fix potholes . The work's been done thanks to a donation from KFC restaurants. Chattanooga is one of four cities to receive donations for the repairs but there is a catch. The potholes have to be stamped, refreshed by KFC.

You're up-to-date. It's Friday, May 1st . Do stay with CNN and CNN.com for more on these stories or other news that develops today.

Body count refers to the total number of people killed in a particular event. In combat, the body count is often based on the number of confirmed kills, but occasionally only an estimate.

fill one's seat		填补某人的职位
savoir-faire		〈法〉处世机警,随机应变之道,能力才干
pothole		路面凹坑

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Prosecutors call it a hate crime, but the jury did not agree. Two teenagers are acquitted, They were yesterday of murder in a Pennsylvania courtroom and instead Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak were convicted of simple assault in the beating death last summer of Luis Ramirez. The prosecutors allege the teens and their friends goaded Ramirez into a fight, while an attorney for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund very upset with the verdict. It was a long case and the jury has rendered their verdict and they took a long time to deliberate on the case and we respect their verdict. Failure to indicate the death of Luis Ramirez has set an extremely dangerous precedent. The jurors here sending the message that you can brutally beat a person without regard to their life and get away with it continue with your life uninterrupted, not in this case there wasn't even a slap on the wrist. In this case the message is that a person who may not be popular in society based on their national origin or certain characteristic has less value in our society. Ramirez died of blunt force trauma two days after the beating. Defense attorneys say the trial was difficult. It was a long process. We have been fighting this case for lots of months, it was highly charged obviously by all these cameras, the week of trial was very difficult and we are just delighted that it ended the way it did. The number of the swine flue cases has jumped dramatically overnight. But we are gonna to keep this in perspective for you, here is the latest. The World Health Organization reporting that 615 people infected in 15 countries now that would be a 67% increase from the 365 confirmed cases that were reported just yesterday. However this is not because they are starting to see more new cases however these are just suspected cases that are now confirmed through testing in a lab. Also Hong Kong and South Korea have each confirmed one case about 200 guests and 100 staff members at one Hong Kong hotel had to be quarantined. The government ordered that quarantine after a Mexican man staying in the hotel got sick. So far the strain in the US has not been nearly as deadly as we have been seeing in Mexico, we do know about 16 people confirmed dead from the swine flu in Mexico, just one child died of the swine flu here in the US, but President Obama says the US will be ready if this virus somehow mutates into something that is worse. This morning in his weekly address, he assured American people that every resource is being used. As our scientists and researchers learn more information about this virus everyday, the guidance we offer will likely change. What we will not change is the fact that we will be making every recommendation based on the best science possible. We will also continue investing in every resource necessary to treat this virus and prevent a wider outbreak. The good news is that the current strain of H1N1 can be defeated by a course of antiviral treatment that we already have on hand. We began this week with 50 million courses of this treatment in the Strategic National Stockpile. Over the course of the last few days, we've delivered one quarter of that stockpile to states so they are prepared to treat anyone who is infected with this virus, we then purchased an additional thirteen million treatments to refill our strategic stockpiles. render		作出（裁决，宣判）
a slap on the wrist		略予申斥
in perspective		正确地
Strategic National Stockpile		国家战略储备

airmanzza

Good to have you with us,I am Virginia Cha at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Some Cinco de Mayo celebrations are being cancelled today in the US and Mexico because of lingering concerns over the H1N1 flu.But Mexico's president promises life is getting back to normal in Mexico City. That city was shut down for several days at the height of the scare.
President Obama is now reaching out to senators who will play a role in confirming the president's Supreme Court choice. One of those is Republican Orrin Hatch who told political.com that he believes a nominee to replace retiring Justice David Suter could be named by the end of the week.Senate Majority leader Harry Reid says he helps president nominate a former governor or senator or someone what he called real life experiences.
Suspected rebels took control of a tank base near Georgia's capital of Tbilisi this morning, but the government says the mutiny is now under control. About 500 troops possibly some civilians were involved in the attempted rebellion in the former Soviet State. The government believes it was intended to disrupt tomorrow's start of Joint NATO Military Exercises in that former Soviet Republic.
Voters in Detroit are chosing who will be their mayor for the next seven and a half month. The run-off race is between Ken Cockrel Jr and basketball Hall of Famer turn businessman Dave Bing. Cockrel went from city council president to mayor when Kwame Kilpatrick resign back in September. Kilpatrick served 100 days in jail for obstruction of justice.
You'd have to be pretty hungry to look for a meal where this guy is dinning. This bear hanging out in 4 miles Florida looking for a free meal. People are being told to stay away and as always, don't feed the bears. They look cute but they are pretty strong.Animal control officers have been trying to lure it into a trap, using,of all things--donuts. You've found something is now and on .
Those are the headlines of this hour.Stay with CNN Center for more on those storys and all you other news of the day.

Tbilisi

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