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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.


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1 swollen DrcwL     
adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀
参考例句：
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。
2 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。
3 corps pzzxv     
n.(通信等兵种的)部队；(同类作的)一组
参考例句：
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
4 donors 89b49c2bd44d6d6906d17dca7315044b     
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：
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 slumping 65cf3f92e0e7b986ced17e25a7abe6f9     
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：
  • Hong Kong's slumping economy also caused a rise in bankruptcy applications. 香港经济低迷，破产申请个案随之上升。
  • And as with slumping, over-arching can also be a simple postural habit. 就像弯腰驼背，过度挺直也可能只是一种习惯性姿势。
6 survivors 02ddbdca4c6dba0b46d9d823ed2b4b62     
幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
7 autopsy xuVzm     
n.尸体解剖；尸检
参考例句：
  • They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
  • A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。
8 artery 5ekyE     
n.干线，要道；动脉
参考例句：
  • We couldn't feel the changes in the blood pressure within the artery.我们无法感觉到动脉血管内血压的变化。
  • The aorta is the largest artery in the body.主动脉是人体中的最大动脉。
9 ruptured 077b042156149d8d522b697413b3801c     
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：
  • They reported that the pipeline had ruptured. 他们报告说管道已经破裂了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany. 柏林墙终于倒塌了，预示着德国的重新统一。 来自辞典例句

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