美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-01-31_在线英语听力室

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1. A huge snow storm along in the East Coast has left behind a bitter cold wave at least 1000 flights are canceled Wednesday following several thousand Tuesday.

2. The school shooting in the Purdue University lead one dead. A fellow engineering student is accused of fatally shooting Senior in the classroom. The police are investigate.

3. The US Secretary of State John Kerry says there's no way that the Syrian President Bashar Assad's asset¹ can be part of the Syrian Transitional Government. This is during a conference on the Syrian conflict being held in Switzerland.

4. Flood in Philippines has reached to eight feet. That merging² houses and vehicles. The coast guard continue the effort to rescue the place and residents in most areas of the country.

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1 asset
n.有价值的资源，优点，长处；财产，资产
参考例句：
Ability to get along with people is an asset in business.在商业界善跟别人相处是可贵的优点。 Intelligence was her main asset.智力是她的主要财富。

2 merging
合并（分类）
参考例句：
Many companies continued to grow by merging with or buying competing firms. 许多公司通过合并或收买竞争对手的公司而不断扩大。来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件 To sequence by repeated splitting and merging. 用反复分开和合并的方法进行的排序。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-01-31