CNN 2011-04-21(在线收听) |
…talk tornadoes. Watch this time-lapsed look at one funnel cloud slamming into downtown Raleigh. Wow. It's one of the many reasons for the state of emergency, in effect right now in North Carolina. Statewide, more than 20 people were killed. Nearly half of them in one small community. Taking a look at stories making across the country. A small Tennessee community is offering $25,000 for a tip that leads police to a 20-year-old nursing student. Authorities believe someone kidnapped Holly Bobo from her home last week. Her brother says he saw a man wearing camouflage leading her into the woods. Church members in the area had a special service yesterday. Pray for Bobo’s safe return. A church in Bertie County, North Carolina was forced to hold services outside on Sunday. This is the community that tornados devastated over the weekend. 11 were killed. And former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan is weighing on the budget debate. He says the Bush era’s tax cuts should be allowed to expire. Match.com says it will begin screening users against the national sex offender database. It comes after a Californian woman identified as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit against the company saying she’d been raped by someone she met on the site. Near Long Island in New York divers have backed in the water today, searching for more bodies, as the investigation into possible serial killings continues. So far investigators have found the remains of, at least 8 women nearby. 4 have been identified. In Idaho, rescue workers are digging through rocky soil, trying to reach a miner trapped at the bottom of a mine underground. It’s been ongoing communication with the trapped miner, called underground in the appropriate named, “Lucky Friday Mine”. We are following new developments this morning in the battle for Libya. Mummuar Gaddafi’s troops have intensified their shelling of Misrata, as they tried to recapture the rebel city. And opposition source tells CNN that at least 21 people were killed just yesterday, and the bullets and motors make no concession for age. The humanitarian group, Younes, says dozens of children have died there. |
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