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Hello to you, I am Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta, here is a look at what’s happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Investigators1 are on the scene of an accident at the Denver airport. A Continental2 Airline's jet veered3 off the runway last night and caught fire. All 115 people on board were able to escape the plane, at least 38 of them were taken to the hospital with only minor4 injuries. Here is what some passengers witnessed.
"On my side of the plane, I could see the engine, I noticed it was on fire, I could feel the heat come from the window, because I was on the window side of the plane."
" I just worried about my son, just making sure that he was okay, we just, we saw ,I looked to the side and I saw my husband, and there was a big like fireball out of the window, and I was just, you know, I was thrilled. I didn't know what to do."
To the weather now, where residents in the northeast and northwest are bracing5 for yet another major winter storm just a day after being hit by a heavy snow and bone-chilling temperatures. Our iReporters are capturing those images and sending them to us as they happen this near white-out conditions were sent to us by John Sullivan in Burlington, Massachusetts. If you want to share your weather pictures, just log on to iReport.com
A couple of small earthquakes in central California this morning. One with a magnitude of 4.1 located just a half hour outside Salinas, another much weaker, struck around 10 a.m. local time. No injuries or damages have been reported.
More international pressure on Zimbabwe's government these days. US announcing today it no longer supports a power-sharing deal between rival political parties. A top US diplomat6 says a power-sharing deal is not even possible with current leader Robert Mugabe still in power. Several international leaders including President George Bush are calling for Mugabe to step down. The country is in the middle of humanitarian7 crisis with the cholera8 outbreak, killing9 more than a thousand people. That's according to the UN.
Two luxury hotels damaged in last month's terror attacks in Mumbai, India, reopen today. The Taj Mahal Palace and Oberoi Trident hotels both open their doors to guests today. On November 26th, You may remember, the hotels and several other locations in Mumbai were paralyzed by coordinated10 terror attacks. Bombs and gunfire and fire killed more than 160 people.
Those are the headlines at this hour, for more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source, online, on TV, even when you are on the go.
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adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的 | |
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v.(尤指交通工具)改变方向或路线( veer的过去式和过去分词 );(指谈话内容、人的行为或观点)突然改变;(指风) (在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向)逐渐转向;风向顺时针转 | |
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adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修 | |
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5 bracing | |
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n.外交官,外交家;能交际的人,圆滑的人 | |
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7 humanitarian | |
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者 | |
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8 cholera | |
n.霍乱 | |
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9 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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10 coordinated | |
adj.协调的 | |
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