CNN 2009-09-24

I’m Nicole Lapin at the CNN center in Atlanta. Here’s a look at what’s happening now in the news.

Cleanup is under way across many parts of Georgia as the state recovers from deadly flooding. Major highways all around Atlanta are now back open, but look at this, days and days of flooding have resulted to high waters. Most students in the Atlanta metro¹ area are back in class today though, after getting a rain day as schools try to clean up. But schools in a few Georgia counties² still remain closed.

And fresh wild fires are spreading and even threatening hundreds of homes in the southern California area. The fire which is
in Ventura County³ has burned 85,00 acres. Governor⁴ Arnold Schwarsenegger decared a state of emergency there. Emergency crews say that hundreds of structures are threatened. The fire is only 10% contained.

Parts of an Australian turned red, ur, all of Australia turned red I should say, when a dust storm, look at this, a picked-up throughout this, southern part of the country. House officials are warning with, ur, for people with asthma⁵ and heart conditions stay indoors⁶, wear masks like that. Ambulance services say that they’ve received a lot of calls involving people with breathing problems already.

Also a safety warning out today that could have connections to the deadly airplane crash. European safety experts have issued a warning on part of the airbus 8330 and 8340.And the part measures air speed and a faulty⁷ one could have played a role in the Air France flight that killed 228 people in June. Airbus says that the parts are in limited use.

Gas prices are slightly lower today. Turbulay are now reporting the national average for a gallon of self-serve regular unleaded is 2.54 dollars. That is down four tenth of a cent from just yesterday. Last time, this year, ur, last year at this time, I should say, you remember this, prices for a gallon of self-serve regular were just under 3.73 dollars a gallon. So what
a difference a year makes.

Those are the headlines at this hour, for more on those stories and other news of the day, CNN is always your source on line, on TV or on your cellphone.

1 metro   

n.地铁；adj.大都市的；(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国，主要经营零售)

参考例句：

• Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗？
• The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。

2 counties   

郡，县( county的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The deposits spread for 100 kilometers across four counties. 这些矿藏绵延一百公里，跨越四个县。
• The Jinggang Mountains stand where the boundaries of four counties meet. 井冈山位于四县之交。

3 county   

n.县，郡

参考例句：

• When the good news reached there,the whole county rejoiced.喜讯传到那里时，全县的人都欢欣鼓舞起来。
• In that year county after county fell to the enemy.那一年一个又一个的县城沦入敌人手中。

4 governor   

n.统治者，地方长官(如省长，州长，总督等)

参考例句：

• The governor was an expert at fencing with reporters.这位州长是搪塞新闻记者的能手。
• He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。

5 asthma   

n.气喘病，哮喘病

参考例句：

• I think he's having an asthma attack.我想他现在是哮喘病发作了。
• Its presence in allergic asthma is well known.它在过敏性气喘中的存在是大家很熟悉的。

6 indoors   

adv.(在)室内，(在)户内

参考例句：

• Because of the coldness of the weather we stayed indoors.我们因天气寒冷呆在家里。
• It is very cold outside,you'd better come indoors across the board.外面很冷，你们所有人最好都进屋。

7 faulty   

adj.有缺点的；有错误的；不完善的

参考例句：

• This faulty connection is the source of the engine trouble.这种错误的连接法是引擎出毛病的原因。
• The plan is faulty in every respect.无论从哪个方面来看这项计划都不完善。