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Hello everyone, I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN. com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

Decision day for the Democrats1. The National Committee's Rules Committee is meeting in Washington right now. The committee is trying to decide what to do with the delegates from Florida and Michigan. Both states you may remember lost their delegates as punishment for moving up their primaries to January.

Afghan officials say 100 suspected Taliban militants2 have been killed. An Interior Ministry3 spokesman says Afghan security forces aided by coalition4 troops fought for two days to retake an area of Farah province. He says five Taliban commanders and two Afghan policemen are among the dead.

Chinese crews are working around the clock desperately5 trying to stop another earthquake-related disaster in Sichuan province. A huge lake formed by a landslide6 is threatening to spill over its banks and flood the hard-hit communities below. Teams are digging a spillway to drain that water. Two hundred thousand people have already been told to evacuate7 those at-risk areas. That means many victims are being uprooted8 yet again after first losing their homes in the earthquake.

The Atlantic Hurricane Season doesn't officially begin until tomorrow but you know what? Why wait? The first named tropical storm of the season, Authur, has formed near the coast of Belize and is already moving inland. Its maximum sustained winds are about 40 miles an hour right now. Authur is expected to weaken as it moves further inland today. Projections9 show it moving over the Yucatan Peninsula today, then back over the Gulf10 before it hits southern Mexico later next week.

Getting a plumber11 to fix your toilet can be costly12 as most of us know, but you imagine how much it's costing to fix a malfunctioning13 toilet at the International Space Station. NASA says all systems are go for today's shuttle launch. Among the items Discovery is carrying, a new pump for the space station's toilet which has been on the fritz lately. Yuck! The shuttle is also loaded with the contribution from Japan to the space station, the Kibo lab.

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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1 democrats 655beefefdcaf76097d489a3ff245f76     
n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 militants 3fa50c1e4338320d8495907fdc5bdbaf     
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
3 ministry kD5x2     
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
4 coalition pWlyi     
n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合
参考例句：
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
5 desperately cu7znp     
adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地
参考例句：
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
6 landslide XxyyG     
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利
参考例句：
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
7 evacuate ai1zL     
v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便
参考例句：
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
8 uprooted e0d29adea5aedb3a1fcedf8605a30128     
v.把（某物）连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 )；根除；赶走；把…赶出家园
参考例句：
  • Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着，树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 projections 7275a1e8ba6325ecfc03ebb61a4b9192     
预测( projection的名词复数 )； 投影； 投掷； 突起物
参考例句：
  • Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
  • The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。
10 gulf 1e0xp     
n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂
参考例句：
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
11 plumber f2qzM     
n.(装修水管的)管子工
参考例句：
  • Have you asked the plumber to come and look at the leaking pipe?你叫管道工来检查漏水的管子了吗？
  • The plumber screwed up the tap by means of a spanner.管子工用板手把龙头旋紧。
12 costly 7zXxh     
adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的
参考例句：
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。
13 malfunctioning 1fad45d7d841115924d97b278aea7280     
出故障
参考例句：
  • But something was malfunctioning in the equipment due to human error. 但由于人为的错误，设备发生故障了。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
  • Choke coils are useful for prevention of malfunctioning electronic equipment. 扼流圈对于防止电器设备的故障很有帮助。 来自互联网

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