CNN 2009-05-19

Good morning from the CNN center here in Atlanta, I'm Melissa Long with a look at some of the news happening.

This morning on this Monday, top republicans are demanding an apology from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing the CIA of misleading Congress about the use of waterboarding that is not she can provide evidence supporting her claim. Pelosi claimed she was not told waterboarding had been used and only learned about its use from an aide after other lawmakers were briefed at the CIA in 2003.

The final space walk to fix the Hubble space telescope is underway. Astronauts are doing their repair work outside the space shuttle Atlantis. This is the fifth space walk they had to do on this mission. They are making repairs to buy the telescope a few more years of life. The shuttle will release the Hubble tomorrow.

A boy with cancer whose parents refused to get chemotherapy for him has been ordered to get X-rays today. It's part of judge's decision to have the 13-year-old reevaluated to see if he can still benefit from chemo, he has Hodgkin's lymphoma and his parents stopped the treatments for religious reasons.

We are simple, honest family, we're not out to harm anyone, we never, this is just our way of life and why people are unfriendly on it, I don't know.

 

The compelling interest here is the protection and welfare of children. But the boy's parents say it's his decision not to have chemotherapy. They are giving their son alternative medicines.

More than two weeks after he was taken at gunpoint, a three-year-old back at home with his family, Briant Rodriguez has reunited with his mom over the weekend, he was found wandering the streets of Mexico on Thursday. Authorities say he appeared unharmed.  And the son reunited and he said the last thing he saw was Briant clutching his mother's neck, and that kind of says it all.
Investigators¹ have information about the two suspects but they won't release the names or a motive².

You are up-to-date, those are the headlines making news at this hour, do stay with CNN and CNN.com for more on these news or other news of develops today.

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。