-
(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Good morning from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui. Thanks for checking in. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
A levee break this morning in Illinois near the swollen1 Mississippi River has forced the closure of the Great River Bridge that links Gulf2 Port to Burlington. The break has engineers keeping watch on other levees, just in case. The Army Corps3 of Engineers estimates that more than two dozen levees between Davenport, Iowa and St Louis could fail this week. Now the race is on to raise those levees with millions of sandbags. President Bush will see some of the damage himself on Thursday.
The American Red Cross is out of cash. It says it's borrowing money to pay for disaster relief for the Midwest flooding victims. Over the past two months, the Red Cross has responded to 30 disasters. Executives also say donors4 are giving less because of high gas prices and the slumping5 housing market.
In China, more than 60 people have died in some of the worst flooding in decades. The rising waters have forced more than one million people out of their homes and torrential rains have been making it extremely difficult to help those who are survivors6 of last month's earthquake.
This afternoon people will get a chance to say goodbye to Tim Russert. There is a public wake for the late "Meet the Press" host in Washington. A private funeral and burial will take place tomorrow. Russert died of a heart attack on Friday. An autopsy7 showed he had an enlarged heart and a blocked artery8 that ruptured9.
Be sure to stick with CNN.com 24/7 for news from all around the world. Of course we are gonna have your updates right here throughout the day.
1 swollen | |
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 gulf | |
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 corps | |
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 donors | |
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 slumping | |
大幅度下降,暴跌( slump的现在分词 ); 沉重或突然地落下[倒下] | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 survivors | |
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 autopsy | |
n.尸体解剖;尸检 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 artery | |
n.干线,要道;动脉 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 ruptured | |
v.(使)破裂( rupture的过去式和过去分词 );(使体内组织等)断裂;使(友好关系)破裂;使绝交 | |
参考例句: |
|
|