CNN Student News May 31, 2016

It`s the last day of May 2016 and our last week on air for the school year. We`ll return to our daily broadcast, August 15.

Let`s get started. One of the biggest stories we`ve covered this academic year centers on the millions of migrants and refugees streaming into Europe, the most since World War II. Some are leaving war-torn countries behind them. Some are running from terrorists and their control. Some are just looking for a better life than their home countries have to offer.

Many of these people are trying to get to Europe by cross the Mediterranean Sea. It`s dangerous. They`re often overloaded on small votes and over the past week, at least 65 people have died trying to cross. But hundreds are still missing from several shipwrecks. And officials are afraid that more
than 700 lives might have been lost.

It could have been worst. Italian authorities say they`ve rescued more than 14,000 people in the Mediterranean, just in the past week. The overcrowded boats aren`t the only thing officials have to watch for.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The route from Libya to Europe across these waters is really exploding, especially since Greece and Turkey cracked down on their shores. You could be talking about 100,000 people trying to cross the Mediterranean.

But that`s not the only problem. ISIS are trying to get in on it.

SUBTITLE: Smuggling Jihadis to Europe.

WALSH (on camera): This trade in human souls is awful enough until you think that perhaps ISIS are using this passage of human life into Europe to try and infiltrate the continent with sleeper cells.

(voice-over): A smuggler said it begun about two months ago, 52 Tunisians tried to travel from Libya to Europe in the last (INAUDIBLE), he said. And he was also offered $40,000 by an ISIS leader to take 20 ISIS people across, but he declined.

So, ISIS already control about a tenth of Libya`s huge coastline, about 4,000 to 6,000 fighters are in that area, but the U.S. thinks many in the main stronghold of Sirte. They`ve been helped by Libya being in chaos, with three different governments now claiming they should be in charge.(on camera): Fighting the migrant across this, the whole coastline of Libyan capital Tripoli are just six boats like this, some of which not in particularly good service. You simply can`t imagine how under-resourced things are here, so close to Europe.

(voice-over): Libya`s been a failing state for years, but now, it`s a new and thriving home to ISIS as well. And what`s so staggering is that after they`re allowed to grow in Syria and Iraq, that is happening again, this time even closer to Europe and the West is doing next to nothing about it.

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AZUZ: Not far from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a battle is raging for the city of Falluja. The ISIS terrorist group took over the area in 2014.

But now, Iraqi and local forces who are supported by a U.S.-led coalition are fighting to get the city back. The international group has captured some of the surrounding areas and they entered the city yesterday in fighting described as intense.

Meantime, there were several suicide attacks in Baghdad that reportedly killed dozens of people. ISIS said it was responsible for those. The terrorist group is also suspected of killing men and boys in Falluja who refused to fight for ISIS. Hundreds of families have fled the city to safe areas nearby, but officials say tens of thousands of people could still be caught in the crossfire.

Yesterday was Memorial Day in the United States. It`s observed every year in the last Monday in May, and it`s a time for Americans to remember those who died while serving in the military.

As commander in chief of that military, U.S. President Barack Obama participated in the traditional wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

The monument was originally used for the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War II. Unidentified troops from other U.S. wars were added in later years.

Memorial Day started as Decoration Day, a time when Americans decorated the graves of Union and Confederate troops from the Civil War. Now, flags, flowers, services and ceremonies are held nationwide in honor of falling U.S. troops.Barbara Starr attended in observance at Arlington National Cemetery.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: This was really basically an empty green meadow, and over the years, it has filled as families have laid their loved ones to rest here. This is really the history of the last 15 years of war for American troops and for American military families.

You see, it all basically written here. The battles that have come back into our headlines, Falluja, Ramadi, Baghdad in Iraq. The Korengal, Jalalabad, Kabul, Kandahar in Afghanistan.

We see these families repeatedly come here year after year to visit their loved ones.

I want to have the camera pan over just a bit. You will see, there is a 90-year-old grandmother here. There are small toddlers here. These are people who pause as so many Americans do across this country to pay their respects, we see battle buddies coming here to visit their friend who didn`t make it all the way home. It is quite an awestruck sight every year that we see.

People sort of refer to Section 60 as the saddest acre in America. I got to tell you, I don`t see it that way. On a day like today, what I see is an acre that is full of probably the most solid love that you are going to find. That these are people who are coming to pay their respects, to pay their love to America`s fallen.

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AZUZ: These three schools have two things in common. One, they all made a "Roll Call" requests at CNNStudentNews.com, two, they`ve never been featured before.

Casper Classical Academy is in the city of Casper, Wyoming, and it`s the home of the Cougars.

But they`re not the only ones. Cougars are also watching from Chesapeake High School. It`s in Pasadena, Maryland.

And from Calle Margarita Este, Costa Rica, hello to everyone at Tree of Life International School.

For the first time, a very dangerous superbug has infected an American. She`s a 49-year-old woman from Pennsylvania. She was recently admitted to

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with a very rare kind of E. coli infection.

Health officials don`t know how she got it, but the infections called a superbug because normal antibiotics don`t kill it, even the antibiotic that doctors use as a last resort.

The CDC and the Pennsylvania Department of Health both investigated the case. The women survived. She reportedly responded to other antibiotics, though one report suggests that half the people who get this kind of infection would die from it.

The head of the CDC says doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics when people don`t need them and that new drugs need to be developed quickly.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Antibiotics are one of the miracles of modern medicine. They have saved countless lives. But there`s another side to them.

The bacteria that live in our body, they`ve learned how to outwit many of our most powerful antibiotics. These drug resistant bacteria are called superbugs. Every year, these superbugs infect more than 2 million people in the United States and kill at least 23,000.

Here`s how a bug becomes a superbug. When you take in antibiotic, there could be some bacteria that know how to resist that antibiotic. While those smart bacteria, they`re the ones that survived your round of antibiotics and they flourish. And that`s when you get a proliferation of superbugs.

And the more that we as a community take antibiotics, the more chances the bacteria have to become resistant.

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AZUZ: Majestic, stately, magnificent, proud. This ain`t no petting zoo pony we`re talking about. We`re talking about Frederik the Great, whose long, flowing locks are stampeding across Facebook and earning him the nickname "The Most Handsome Horse in the World."

The Friesian stallion grazes the fields of Arkansas. He`s 15 years old but just recently went viral because of -- well, this -- he`s been given a lot of nicknames but the Fabio of horses. That seems to be the main one, heh.

Maybe he`s equestri-aiming for a beauty contest. Maybe he`s cultivating a winning look to trample all of naysayers. He`s a horse without echooves (ph) and a lot of people are finding beauty in the beast.
I`m Carl Azuz and we`re done horsing around. Hope to see you tomorrow.

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CNN Student New - May 27, 2016

Well, guess what? Fridays are awesome! Thank you for making us part of your day. I`m Carl Azuz.

First up, Hiroshima, Japan. This is the site of where the U.S. dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan. More than 200,000 people were killed


on those bombings, but they were created with bringing World War II to an end, and avoiding an American invasion of the Asian country.

Today, U.S. President Barack Obama is set to become the first sitting American leader to visit Hiroshima. There`s some controversy about the trip. Some analysts say it will be seen as a U.S. apology for the bombing. Some Japanese say the American president should apologize for the attack,

some Americans say he should not. That Japan should apologize first for its mistreatment of U.S. prisoners during World War II.

The White House says President Obama will not apologize for the use of the atomic bomb, but that he`s hoping to draw attention to his goal of reducing the world`s nuclear weapons.

Up next, new leadership for the Taliban. This is a group that once ruled Afghanistan. It allowed the al Qaeda terrorist organization to operate and train there.

That`s why the U.S. led an invasion in 2001 to knock the Taliban out of power. But the group still operates in Southeast Asia and last weekend,

President Obama authorized the drone strike that killed the Taliban`s leader as he was traveling through Pakistan.

U.S. military says Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was planning new attacks on U.S. targets, but the nation of Pakistan objected, calling the U.S. airstrike on Pakistani soil illegal. Mansour has been replaced.

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SUBTITLE: Who are the Taliban in 2016?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Taliban is hard line religious movement based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but in Afghanistan, were partially involved in fighting the Soviets then through a civil war came to power between about 1996 and then were ousted in 2001 by the United States after they sheltered al Qaeda and bin Laden.

What followed was a slow-growing insurgency against the U.S. presence there and now, we`ve seen lost a series of leaders pretty fast. Now, the Taliban`s main constituencies often been in the south, but over a period of time has begun to fracture. It`s got younger radicals in the ranks, more criminal elements, and become frankly a more tired given the lengthy level of fighting they`ve had to endure against the United States.

But its leadership has endured the substantial changes. Mullah Omar, the founder, having died sometime about 2012, 2013. His death being kept secret until Mullah Mansour took the helm. He was then pretty quickly killed by U.S. drone strike just inside Pakistan.

Now, they`ve announced that Haibatullah Akhundzada will be the new leader of the Taliban. All of these potentially shifting the group in a more radical direction. Mullah Mansour opposed peace talks, killed by the White House, the say, because of that. But still, his successor Akhundzada has pretty radical deputies, Siraj Haqqani, the man known by the U.S. as the main facilitator for al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Taliban still there holding more territory than they have any time since 2001 and it seems more radical at this stage.

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AZUZ: We have hundreds of requests coming in for our "Roll Call". The one place our producers look for them is CNNStudentNews.com.

The Egyptian capital of Cairo is first up today. Thank you for making us part of your day at Al Afak Al-Gadeda International School.

Homer Junior High School is next. From the village of Homer Glen, Illinois, we welcome the Mustangs. And it kind of makes sense that the mascot in a school in Aspen, Colorado, would be the Skiers. That school is Aspen High School.

To the U.S. campaign trail, a CNN count of Republican Party delegates shows that businessman Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president. He passed the threshold of 1,237 delegates that a GOP candidate needs. He`s now considered the presumptive nominee that will be made official at the Republican National Convention this July.

There are two Democrats in the race for their party`s nomination. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leads with 1,776 pledged delegates and 528 superdelegates. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has 1,491 pledged delegates and 42 super delegates. A total of 2,383 delegates are needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.

There are more than 600,000 bridges in the U.S. and almost 60,000 of them need work. The concrete use to make many American bridges is cheap and strong, but overtime, it can crack and crumble and it needs to be patched to keep the bridge standing. An engineering professor has developed a bendable concrete. It`s about three times the cost of regular concrete but he says builders can use less
of it and maintain it less often.

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RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Sixty-eight thousand vehicles cross the Arlington Memorial Bridge between D.C. and Virginia every day. This is what the drivers don`t see.

JENNY ANZELMO-SALRES, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SPOKESWOMAN: It`s just eroding and the concrete is falling off.

MARSH (on camera): We have to wear masks and gloves inside of the bridge because this taint is all lead paint. Now, this beam is helping to support the bridge and if you take a look, it`s badly corroded and you see how thin that steel is, you see holes in the steel.

(voice-over): The original support beams from 1932 have never been replaced.

RAY LAHOOD, FORMER TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: We`re like a third world country when it comes to infrastructure.

MARSH: Federal government spending on infrastructure has declined 9 percent from 2003 and 2014. Every state has some degree of bad bridges that need to be repaired. From Los Angeles, where trees are growing out of cracks in this bridge, to Chicago where netting is in place to protect drivers from falling concrete.

LAHOOD: The reason we have 57,000 deficient bridges is because we have not made the investment as a national government.

MARSH: Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood blames Congress to failing to raise the gas tax in 23 years, which funds projects like bridges and roads.

(on camera): Have you been against raising the tax because it`s just bad politics?

REP. BILL SHUSTER (R), PENNSYLVANIA: First of all, the economy hasn`t been great. Raising the gas tax doesn`t solve the long-term funding problem.

MARSH: As Congress has to figure out this long term solution, bridges crumbling. So, what do we do right now?

SHUSTER: Well, our bill, the FAST Act, which we passed in December, the president signed it into law, we put more dollars into focusing on the

critical infrastructure.

MARSH (voice-over): His Republican colleague disagrees.

REP. JIM RENACCI (R), OHIO: It`s funded for five years, but we use 10 years worth of gimmicks to pay for it. These are the kind of things that don`t make sense.

MARSH: Anthony Foxx is the current head of the Department of Transportation.

(on camera): But isn`t everyone guilty? I mean, when Democrats were in control of Congress, this situation was what it is today as well.

ANTHONY FOXX, TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: I think every year we go by, the challenge gets that much greater. And that`s why we don`t have another moment to waste.

MARSH: Researchers at the University of Michigan believe they may have a solution, a bendable concrete that can heal itself from cracks.

PROF. VICTOR LI, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: (INAUDIBLE) set our targets towards creating infrastructures that will last a hundred years.

MARSH: Regular concrete can fail quickly and suddenly.

But Professor Victor Li says the bendable concrete can withstand a force hundred of times more powerful.

This sped up video shows it responds to pressure, cracks heal themselves with the help of air and water.

The technology lines portions of this bridge in Michigan, the hope is it could help already crumbling bridges like the Memorial Bridge near the nation`s capital.

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AZUZ: Before we go, who needs a car alarm? The 68-year-old woman who owns this wagon has the security of nature. Yes, those are bees. Yes, they sting. No, you don`t want to put in your groceries.

This apparently happened when a queen bee got stuck in the back of the car. So, the swarm showed up and tried to free her for two days until beekeepers managed to sweep them into a cardboard box and cart them all the way.

So, did anyone actually get stung, you`d better bee-lieve it. How could you expect them to beehive at a time of royal crisis? It didn`t take their rescue long to jelly (ph) and at least their owner got a free car cleaning.

I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS. We will be off the air for Memorial Day on Monday. It`s part of the U.S. tradition of remembering its fallen servicemen and women. We look forward to seeing you again on Tuesday.

CNN Student News - May 26, 2016

Rolling through the week, we`re rolling through a number of different subjects today and we`re glad to have you along.


First up, the G7, in short for group of seven. Its annual meeting is going on right now in the nation of Japan. The G7 is a membership of seven major world economies, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. It used to be known as the G8 and included Russia. But after that country`s controversial annexation of Crimea in 2014, the other nations suspended Russia`s membership.

G7 leaders meet each year to talk about the global economy and international security. As part of that, a big focus this year is going to be on terrorism, as well as last Thursday`s mysterious crash of an Egypt air flight in the Mediterranean Sea. Other topics for the leaders include uncertainty in the global economy, climate change and infectious diseases.

Earlier this week, we discussed the Obama administration`s decision to remove a ban on U.S. weapon sales to Vietnam. One aspect we haven`t talked about, though, the economic one. Vietnam has dramatically increased its military spending in recent years, during a time of territorial disputes with China.

In 2005, Vietnam spent an estimated $1 billion on defense. Last year, that had increased to more than $4 billion. The vast majority of its military purchases had been made from Russia.

But with the U.S. arms embargo lifted, analysts think Vietnam will look across the Pacific for military equipment.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bloody conflicts and ongoing military tensions mean that countries from nearly every corner of the planet are looking to increase their arsenals. And who is the world`s largest arms exporter is right in the middle of it all? It`s the United States, dealing in weapons ranging from assault rifles to fighter jets and armored tanks.

So, who is on the receiving end? With escalating situations in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, it may not surprise you that the U.S. sells most of its weapons to its Middle Eastern allies. Saudi Arabia was the top recipient of U.S. arms. Between 2011 and 2015, they had purchased everything from American made F15 fighters, M1 Abrams tanks, Apache attack helicopters and Patriot missile batteries.

The United Arab Emirates, Turkey and many other countries are also big customers. Now, these governments are essentially being given the arms as the U.S. government contributes billions to foreign military financing. Roughly $5.7 billion is planned for 2017. Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan
and Iraq are the top recipients of this U.S. largesse.

This trade is not just in the Middle East. Taiwan and South Korea are also big customers, largely in response to China and North Korea, and funding for African militaries will more than double in 2017, from 2015 levels. Likely the consequence of increased terrorist activity in places like Mali, Somalia, and Nigeria.

All told, the United States was responsible for 33 percent of worldwide weapons exports between 2011 and 2015.

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AZUZ: In terms of weather, it`s been a rough week in the Central U.S. There were at least eight tornadoes reported, as the storm system rumbled across Kansas. Vehicles, including a tractor trailer were flipped over. Several people were injured and some homes were damaged.

One meteorologist said multiple centers of circulation developed. What exactly does that mean?

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ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: This is a two-dimensional look of the storm on radar. But meteorologists see a tornado. But what is it exactly that meteorologists see?

Well, let`s take a look. The yellow and green colors you see here are going to be your very heavy rain in the storm. The red color indicates your hail core.

And then all the way down there, the purple circle, that`s where your tornado is going to be. Meteorologists often refer to it as the hook echo, because of the hook shape that it ends up taking.

But these aren`t the only features we look for. We also have to take a look at the winds inside the storm. Imagine this flagpole was inside of our storm and the flags going all the way up to the very top of the cloud. The thing is, the wind changes direction as you go up. So, this naturally creates that rotation necessary for funnel clouds and also even tornadoes.

So, now, let`s take a look at the base of that storm. What you have is you have very warm inflow, warm air coming into the storm and rising, because that`s what warm air does, it goes up. But you also have cold air coming down from the tops of the clouds, and sinking all the way down towards the base. Now, together, these help to create wind shear, down near the perimeter and that is what helps create some of the more violent tornadoes.

Now, what if your tornado has been on the ground for at least a little bit? Then, you start to get this, the debris cloud, which is essentially a collection of all of the stuff that tornado has been able to pick up, everything from dusts, to trees, to even homes.

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AZUZ: We have more than a thousand requests each day for the "Roll Call". If you haven`t been announced yet, please keep trying.

Broad Creek Middle School is first up today. From Newport, North Carolina, the Bulldogs are hunkered down for CNN STUDENT NEWS.

Next, from the city of Andover, Minnesota, how about the Huskies? Great to see everyone at Andover High School.

And finally in the Pacific island nation of the Philippines, thanks for watching from Assumption College, San Lorenzo, in Makati City.

According to the North American Meat Institute, the meat and poultry industry is the biggest segment of U.S. agriculture. Every year, it produces more than 90 billion pounds of beef, chicken, turkey, lamb and pork. When it comes to red meat, so think beef or lamb, the World Health

Organization said last year that people who eat more of it are probably more likely to develop cancer. The North American meat industry says that several studies show no correlation between meat and cancer.

But is there a happy medium, a food that`s essentially a vegetable but still tastes like meat?

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CRISTINA ALESCI, CNNMONEY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For most meat lovers, a good burger makes life worth living.

ETHAN BROWN, BEYOND MEAT CEO: Thanksgiving Day, when we`re -- when playing football. They`re literally tearing turkey (ph) from going and eating it.

I mean, this meat is so central to who we are.

ALESCI: But this burger might make the average carnivore uneasy. It`s made of pea protein. Yet, the juicy patty sizzles, it turns from red to brown on the grill and it crumbles in your mouth, just like the real thing.

In fact, Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown doesn`t see the difference.

BROWN: We`re not going to argue that we`re a veggie burger. What we argue is we`re a meat made from plants.

ALESCI (on camera): Veggie burgers, they`ve gotten a bad wrap. What is noble about Beyond Meat approach to creating a non-meat burger?

BROWN: So, we studied the composition of meat. We studied exactly what makes you want meat, what makes meat insatiating for you, what makes meat nutritionally valuable for you, we`ve gone out and found those in the plant kingdom and we put them in the same architecture as meat. Now, there`s
also the issues because plants don`t taste exactly like meat, obviously, right?

ALESCI: Well, it certainly looks like a burger.

It`s good. Not like a real burger, but the taste is awesome compared to like the traditional non-meat burgers that you would buy in the store.

(voice-over): And it has to, to attract the company`s target audience.

(on camera): Are you really trying to get the McDonald`s consumer?

BROWN: Yes, 100 percent.

We`re not going after vegans, vegetarians. We`re going after people who want to change their diet by reducing meat consumption. They`re not necessarily eliminating meat consumption, but they`re reducing it.

ALESCI (voice-over): And the numbers back it up. Meat consumption has declined in the U.S. And the industry is keenly aware of changing consumer sentiment.

BROWN: Three or four years now, when you into the meat section, almost any major supermarket, you`ll be able to buy plant-based version of meat right next to an animal (ph).

ALESCI: The plant-based version has the same amount of protein as an animal burger with none of the cholesterol.

BROWN: You can eat as many as you like. Like my son, he could this every night for dinner and I would be delighted. I know exactly what`s in it.

So, they`re having burgers every night and not worry about it.

ALESCI (on camera): Ha, I would love that.

(voice-over): But it still doesn`t taste exactly like meat.

(on camera): There`s a lack of chewiness, of gumminess.

BROWN: Sure.

ALESCI: And that it kind takes the fun of eating a burger, it`s like, arr, it kind of like animal, it`s like instinct.

BROWN: Sure. We`re going to take our time, we`re going to get there and we`re going to create something that is absolutely distinguishable from animal protein. But it does take a little time. We`ve invested millions of dollars in this process. We`ll continue to invest millions of dollars.

So, it is actually possible with no scientific obstacle to doing this. But it doesn`t happen overnight.

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AZUZ: Getting the police escort to proms sounds like it can either be you`re really good or really bad thing. In this case, it`s a good one.

The girl you see here is Aleena Kondek. She`s a daughter of a police office who was killed in 2014. So, as a surprise, a number of his colleague showed up last Saturday night to give her an unforgettable escort to the dance. One of the officers said it was their responsibility and honor to stand in for her father.

Plus, it undoubtedly insured her date followed all traffic laws. And while a lot of guys wear black and white tuxes to prom, Aleena`s friend seem to

look their best in blue.

I`m Carl Azuz. We`ll be back tomorrow to escort you to more current events.

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CNN Student News - May 25, 2016

A major battle has begun for a city in Iraq and that`s where we begin today`s show. I`m Carl Azuz, thank you for watching.


Falluja is located in central Iraq, along the banks of the Euphrates River. It`s been controlled by the ISIS terrorist group since early 2014. In fact, it was the first Iraqi city that ISIS captured as part of its plan to create its own Islamic state in Iraq and Syria.

The fight to take Falluja back involves Iraqi troops, police and militias and they`re supported by U.S.-led airstrikes. But trapped in the crossfire between these forces and the ISIS fighters who control the city, an estimated 10,000 civilian families according to the United Nations.

The Iraqi forces dropped leaflets on the city, telling residents how they can get out safely. But activists in the area say ISIS is not allowing civilians to go and that some have died trying to leave.

Falluja is where dozens of U.S. troops were killed during the Iraq war in 2004. It`s a strategic city that`s no stranger to terrorists or violence.

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JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Falluja has a long history of bloody battles. It`s considered a hotbed of Sunni insurgent groups.

SUBTITLE: Why Falluja matters.

KARADSHEH: This was the first city to fall to ISIS, months before any other city in Iraq in January of 2014. Extremist groups like ISIS and al

Qaeda in Iraq before that use Falluja as a symbol of Sunni resistance.

Now, for the Shias of Iraq, many of them feel that a lot of the terrorist attacks that target them, whether it`s ISIS or al Qaeda in Iraq before that, those attacks they feel stemmed from Falluja, especially with its proximity to Baghdad. So, they really have wanted to see ISIS cleared out
of that city for a very long time.

SUBTITLE: In May 2016, Iraqi security forces launched an operation to recapture the city from ISIS.

KARADSHEH: Now, with this new offensive underway right now, it`s expected to last a very long time and expected to be bloody if history is anything to go by.

Here, what remains a major issue is the civilians who may still be trapped inside that city.

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AZUZ: The head of security for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has lost his job. A House of Representatives committee announced the change earlier this week. It followed a congressional hearing on mismanagement at the TSA, the organizations in charge of screening passengers and cargo at airports across the U.S.

But the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the TSA, says it`s had a number of security failures recently, and some had swelled long lines at airport checkpoints, causing hundreds of passengers to miss their flights.

The TSA says Kelly Hogan wasn`t fired specifically for doing anything wrong, but that the agency wanted a different approach to security leadership. It`s saying that a number of management changes are ahead, and that they`ll deliver better leadership and screening operations at American airports.

Starting in Brazil on today`s call of the Roll. The nation has 26 states, and in the northeast state of Ceirra (ph), hello to all of our viewers at

Escola de Ensino Medio Liceu do Crato.

San Juan Hills High School is next. From the U.S. state of California, the Stallions are roaming in San Juan Capistrano.

And one state over, in Arizona, we`ve got some Wolverines watching today. Mountain Vista Middle School rounds out our roll from San Tan Valley.

The walkman, the floppy disks, the dot matrix printer and the VHS, the video home system, these are some of the inventions of the 1970s that have become obsolete with the passage of time and the progress of technology.

But there are some designs of the disco era that we can`t imagine living without, email, the first video games, cellphones. And one thing that doesn`t get a lot of credit but has revolutionized shopping, the bar code.

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RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On June 26, 1974 a pack of Juicy Fruit gum made history when it was the first item ever to be scanned via a state- of-the art technology: the barcode.

And now, more than 40 years later, as many as 5 billion barcodes are scanned every day across the world.

The code itself, those black lines of varying width on the label, was inspired by Morse code. But the holy smokes component of the innovation was how it was scanned by lasers.

Lasers had been the stuff of nerd fantasies until the early 1960s, when the Hughes Aircraft Company unveiled the first one at a press conference.

A Los Angeles newspaper reported the story underneath the headline, "LA man discovers science fiction death ray."

But the fact of the matter is, no one really knew what to do with that new technology until that June morning in 1974 when a pack of Juicy Fruit gum in Ohio changed the world.

Today, barcodes are the unsung heroes that make everything from shipping to boarding an airplane to keeping track of medication possible.

But the biggest beneficiary is retail. Think about a grocery store from yester-year.

Every individual item had to be marked with its price, and the cashier had to manually input it into the register.

So, thanks to the barcode, you`re waiting in the checkout line a whole lot less and the stores themselves benefited big time. The barcodes allow them to keep accurate, real-time inventory. That`s a major advance in efficiency, even if it cost some grocery staff their jobs.

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AZUZ: For about 20 people who live in a housing project in Richmond, Virginia, Craig Dodson has become a sort of father figure. The 37-year-old leads a non-profit organization called Richmond Cycling Corps. It allows young people whose opportunities are extremely limited and whose schools
are some of the lowest performing to join cycling teams and to train to ride.

The lessons and the benefits go far beyond the bike trails.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. Come on back, guys. Rows of five.

CRAIG DODSON, CNN HERO: The thing is for you. You got to get into the woods and then settle in to your rhythm. Do you know what I mean?

Stay positive. Run, run, run.

There you go. That`s how it`s done.

We`re doing great. You see our kids are going through this roller coaster of emotion.

Come on, Jake. I know you fell, dude, but you`ve got this.

What a lot of people can`t say is that our kids have the equivalent of ten suitcases each of baggage that they`re carrying on that bike.

The kids who live in Richmond, public housing, it`s not just bad because of drugs, violence, guns.

You`ve got to tighten up, man. I`m not playing with you right now, man. I`m being serious. You`re clown and way too hard. That`s why we`ve been on you so hard. Matt is going to be here in the morning to pick you up. We`re tired of getting messages from everyone that you`re ducking school.

It`s got to stop or you`re going to fail ninth grade.

Our organization is not about getting kids positive life experiences through bikes. Our job is to get them out of public housing.

Bad news is he got a little suspension, so we can pick him up in the morning next week, put him to work at least.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s what I do here with him.

DODSON: This is a war to me.

What time do you wake up?

It`s me against the circumstances that these kids live in.

You come in and hold them accountable and it shows a level of care that they`re not used to.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Craig, he taught me a lot. He taught me to be your own person. Don`t be what you live around. We never give up.

DODSON: So proud of you, man.

We see the side of these kids that is genius. There are so many things that we wish the world can see. These are kids that have been let down.

Jazz, we`ll pick you up tomorrow around same time, all right?

My promise to them is I`m not going to leave you.

I see you Thursday.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: Those of you who are not "Star Wars" fans are going to see this and think, OK, well, loud sliding door.

But those of you who are "Star Wars" fans might hear it and think --

So, again, the R2D2 screaming door.

Maybe the laughter is not as infectious as the viral Chewbacca mask video, but it certainly made some folks Chewback up to hear it again, thinking it

was R2D2 good to skywalk through just Obi-Wan time.

That`s it for today`s puns solo. It`s part of my Jabba. And for putting up with them, Yoda best.

CNN STUDENT NEWS will you catch Vader.

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CNN Student News - May 24, 2016

Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz.

The Southeast Asian country of Vietnam is where we start today. U.S. President Barack Obama arrived there over the weekend. His goal, to improve relations with a government that was a U.S. enemy during the Vietnam War.


The conflict extended from 1954 to 1975. The communist government of North Vietnam and its allies eventually defeated South Vietnam, which was supported by the U.S. More than 58,000 U.S. troops were among the millions overall who died in the Vietnam War.

Former President Bill Clinton reestablished U.S. diplomatic ties with Vietnam in 1995 and President Obama is hoping to increase economic and security cooperation between the two countries.

Reactions to this trip are mixed. Some veterans groups say it will help remind Americans of the war and those who served. Others say the president needs to ask about more than 1,600 U.S. troops who are still listed as missing from the war.

But there`s another factor in this visit. The U.S. sees Vietnam as a partner in slowing down the influence of China. That country has become increasingly territorial in the South China Sea.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

REPORTER: Like his father before, Le Tan makes his living from the sea. He`s fished these waters for 31 years. But lately, his job has become a lot more dangerous.

LE TAN, VIETNAMESE FISHERMAN (through translator): First, they took our fish and then the essential equipment. If they lacked it, they took it.

If they didn`t, they throw it away.

REPORTER: Tan describes a day when Chinese men boarded his boat, stole his equipment and threaten him and his sons. This happened last year, but he says his boat has been targeted four or five times over the past decade.

Tan says he`s being targeted because he fishes in the Paracels, the chain of islands claimed by Vietnam, China and Taiwan. Vietnamese authorities say hundreds of fishermen from Ly Son, a small island of the east coast of Vietnam, report being intimidated, beaten or robbed by men on Chinese
flagged boats within the Paracels.

Yet, despite the danger, the local government says it`s encouraging men to keep fishing these waters, calling them "defenders of Vietnamese territory".

The Chinese foreign ministry says it has no knowledge about Vietnamese fishermen being beaten or chased away, and the Paracel Islands are its sovereign territory, along with most of the South China Sea.

China is building manmade islands, laying down airstrips, deploying surface to air missiles in defiance of competing claims by other regional players.

And the U.S. has weighed into the fight, challenging China by running freedom of navigation operations in the region and calling for an end to the militarization of the area.

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AZUZ: The North African nation of Egypt, which borders the Mediterranean Sea, has sent a submarine to look for the remains of EgyptAir Flight 804.

It disappeared last Thursday on the way from Paris, France, to Cairo, Egypt. There were 66 people aboard.

Searchers have found wreckage in the Mediterranean -- life vests, plain parts, personal belongings. But locating the fuselage with the plane`s flight data recorders would help explain exactly what happened.

Officials don`t know if the problem was mechanical or terrorism related. Either way, the incident adds to a list of troubles Egypt is facing.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The last five years have been rough on Egypt. The hope and optimism borne in the uprising to depose President Hosni Mubarak have been eclipsed by instability, terrorism, violence and repression.

In 2012, Egypt had its first ever democratic presidential election, electing the Muslim Brotherhood`s Mohamed Morsy. But after a year, he was ousted by the Egyptian military after massive popular protests. Then Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power and later won a presidential election.

Sisi promised to bring stability and prosperity and crack down on terrorism, but so far, he`s failed on all fronts.

Militants in the Sinai Peninsula had set up an ISIS statelet there and they claimed responsibility for the bomb that brought down a Russian MetroJet airliner in October 2015. This came a month after Egyptian security forces killed 12 tourists, wounded 10 others in the country`s western desert after
they were mistaken for terrorists.

Tourism is important part of the Egyptian economy and has taken a nosedive. And with the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, things were probably only get worse.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: On the "Roll Call" this year, we`re happy to say we have visited every continent but Antarctica so far.

Beehive International School from the Czech Republic is first up today. It`s in the nation`s capital of Prague.

Next from Gloucester, Massachusetts, we`re setting sail with the Fishermen of O`Maley Innovation Middle School.

And finally, hello to Waialua High and Intermediate School. It`s in Waialua, Hawaii, the home of the Bulldogs.

In the school district of Cleveland, Mississippi, there are 3,600 students. Sixty-seven percent are black, 29 percent are white, 4 percent are Asian or

Hispanic. And the district has been ordered to desegregate.

Why? Well, the U.S. Supreme Court`s Brown versus Board of Education ruling in 1954 said that states cannot segregate or separate black and white students in school. A federal court says that Cleveland, Mississippi schools are currently divided by race. The school board proposed two plans
to desegregate the schools. The U.S. government proposed one and the judge ordered Cleveland to implement the government`s plan.

But Cleveland might appeal. It says calling its districts segregated is misleading and incorrect.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The legal fight lingering over the schools in this tiny Mississippi town is almost as old as these buildings. A federal court ruled Cleveland, Mississippi, schools are still segregated 62 years after the landmark ruling Brown versus Board of Education.

The feds argued schools on the east side of town are still all black or virtually all black. On the other side of town, campuses have been historically and disproportionately white. The town`s two high schools are at the center of the longstanding case.

And east side`s high school graduation ceremony this week, no white students to be seen. On the west side of town, Cleveland High has a fairly even racial split far from the two-thirds black, one-third white makeup of the community.

The Cleveland School District is now being ordered to merge both its middle and high schools before the next academic year.

It`s a move the district attorney argues would disrupt proven success.

JAMIE JACKS, REPRESENTS CLEVELAND SCHOOL DISTRICT: We think that the choices that we`ve afforded parents over the years have created a system where we have students of both races learning side by side.

SANDOVAL: You have to take a look back to 1965 to understand how the Cleveland School District got to this point.

Bolivar County, the school system that included Cleveland was sued at the height of the civil rights struggle demanding schools desegregate.

District officials maintain they have taken steps to make integration happen over the years. Just four years ago, they eliminated attendance zones divided by worded trains used to run. Open enrollment was implemented, meaning students were now free to choose where they wanted to go.

JACKS: The district certainly feels like it hasn`t been sitting back and doing nothing. We feel like we`ve definitely made that good faith effort.

The fact that we haven`t gotten full-time enrollment in east side doesn`t mean we don`t have an integrated system.

SANDOVAL: Talk to the students at the heart of the legal fight and reaction is mixed.

LONNIESHA SAMPSON, EAST SIDE GRADUATING SENIOR: At East Side, it`s more African-American. It`s not Caucasian. So we really don`t know the full effect of being mixed with different races, you know, getting along with different races.

KOLBY JOHNSON, EAST SIDE GRADUATING SENIOR: I think the change would be good for the town, but I don`t think the tradition between the two schools should go away.

SANDOVAL: A look across the country reveals this issue is not unique to Mississippi or the South. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education counted ten other states where black students are least exposed to whites. Michigan and Nevada shared the spotlight with Mississippi as the top three.

In fact, a report by the Government Accountability Office this week found that 16 percent of the nation`s school re-segregated often by both race and income and in a rate that has almost doubled over the recent 13-year period.

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AZUZ: If you like chocolate, coffee and waffle cones, this sounds like a good idea. But if you try to make this to yourself, chances are one of three things happen. One, the coffee pours the waffle cone and spills. Two, the coffee dissolves the waffle cone and then spills. Three, the coffee melts the chocolate, then dissolves the waffle cone, then spills.

The creator of this who says it`s the most Instagrammed coffee ever reportedly use four chocolate compounds to solve the problem. Well, for about 10 minutes anyway. Then it spills -- which means you can`t have your coffee in the cone and drink it, too.

For those who want chocolate and waffle cones, this could coffeed a craving, though coffee connoisseurs might take some cone-vincing because

without the time they favor to savor the flavor, they probably waffle on the whole bean idea.

I`m Carl Azuz. CNN STUDENT NEWS is serving more current events on Tuesday.

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CNN Student News - May 20, 2016

With the academic year winding down, we`re thankful you`re taking 10 minutes for CNN STUDENT NEWS.
I`m Carl Azuz at the CNN Center.

Officials in the Mediterranean Sea have been searching for the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804. Early yesterday morning, it was traveling from Paris,

France, to Cairo, Egypt. It had 66 passengers and crew aboard. When it was over the Mediterranean, at cruising altitude, the safest part of the flight, Greek officials say the plane swerved and then plunged and no one knows yet why.

Aviation authorities say it could have been some sort of technical failure or it could have been terrorism that brought the plane down. It had just passed from Greek air space to Egyptian air space when it dropped off radar and Egypt, France, Greece and the U.S. have all sent search vehicles to the
crash site.

As the recovery mission unfolds and families wait for answers, officials are hoping the plane`s black box explains what happened.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Following a plane crash, the search for survivors always comes first, but just as important is the search for answers. The why and the how. Often those answers are found in the black box.

Since the `60s, all commercial airplanes have been required to have one onboard. Now, the name is a little misleading because they are actually orange. And when we`re talking about a black box, we`re talking about two different boxes --one being the cockpit voice recorder, the other being the
flight data recorder.

Together, they weigh anywhere between 20 to 30 pounds, and they have to be crash proof. Black boxes can survive just about anything: temperatures up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour, forces that are 3400 Gs. Now that`s 3400 times the force of gravity. They are waterproof and they can
save recorded data for two years and it`s a lot of data.

The cockpit voice recorder records the crew`s conversation and background noise. By listening to the ambient sounds in the cockpit before a crash, experts can determine if a stall took place, the RPMs of the engine, and the speed at which the plane was traveling. When these sounds are cross-referenced with ground control conversations, they can even help searchers locate a crash site.

Then, there`s the flight data recorder. It gathers 25 hours of technical data from airplane sensors, recording several thousand discreet pieces of information -- data about the air speed, altitude, pitch, acceleration, roll, fuel, and the list goes on and on.

But to make sense of the data, first you have to find it.

Not an easy thing to do when a plane crashes into the ocean.

Both black box components are outfitted with underwater locator beacons, which self-activate the moment they come into contact with water. They send pings once per second, to signal their location. And can transmit data from as deep as 20,000 feet for up to 30 days, when their batteries then run out.

But on land, there`s no such pinging to help guide the search. Investigators have to sift through the wreckage until they find it.

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AZUZ: Our "Roll Call" schools are picked from one site, CNNStudentNews.com. To make a request, click and comment where it says

"Roll Call".

First up, from the city of Hinton, Iowa, we welcome the Blackhawks. Hinton High School is here.

In southwest Maine, on the U.S. Atlantic coast, we come to the city of Saco. Great to see the Trojans of Thornton Academy.

And in Southeast Asia, in the region of Hong Kong, hello to our viewers at International Christian School.

It`s hard to find the country in the western hemisphere, where the Zika virus isn`t spreading. Mosquitoes have carried in as far north as the

U.S., and as far south as Argentina. It`s also reached islands in the western Pacific and eastern Atlantic Oceans and World Health Organizations

predicts it will turn up in Europe by late spring.

Most people who get Zika won`t even notice. Those who do usually have mild symptoms, fever, headache, rash. But Zika can be very dangerous to

pregnant women because it`s been linked to a birth defect that limits brain development in unborn babies.

Now, we`re showing you how scientists hunt for the mosquitoes that carry Zika in the U.S. territory that`s already been affected.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUBTITLE: Alex Vandam is an entomologist. He studies insects in Puerto Rico. The territory is ground zero for Zika in the United States.

We hung traps throughout the island to catch mosquitoes that spread the virus.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Are you ready to set our first trap?

ALEX VANDAM, ENTOMOLOGIST: Yes.

COHEN: OK. First, of course, we got this, right?

VANDAM: Bug spray time.

COHEN: So, do the mosquitoes like to be in the water or just outside the water?

VANDAM: They`ll hang out like undersides of leaves. They`re looking for moist, muddy habitat.

There you go.

COHEN: So, mosquitoes for Zika would hang out here and then would go out and bite people in this town.

VANDAM: Or there maybe spots in the town itself that are producing mosquitoes.

COHEN: Wow. This is like mosquito paradise back here.

How far can these mosquitoes fly?

VANDAM: Like around two miles to look for a blood mill.

COHEN: So, I can see the mosquitoes here. What are mosquitoes like about this location?

VANDAM: This habitat in particular has lots of pools of water for them to lay their eggs in.

COHEN: And there it goes. We got the light to catch the mosquitoes, the fan to put them down.

They`re around in there.

VANDAM: We got a few things.

There`s a mosquito.

COHEN: Oh, boy, full bounty.

VANDAM: Let`s get these guys down.

COHEN: There`s a lot of bugs in there. Hello, trap.

Oh my goodness. We got a lot in here.

VANDAM: This are is thick with mosquitoes.

COHEN: And there`s a neighborhood just right over there.

VANDAM: Yes.

COHEN: Kids are playing in a soccer game.

VANDAM: Yes.

COHEN: I mean, you see -- when you see this, you see how this spreads.

VANDAM: There`s a mosquito. There`s another one. There`s yet another.

They`re tiny. They`re really long legs, but then they also have a long proboscis or long mouth part.

COHEN: That`s what they do their blood sucking.

VANDAM: Yes. It`s like a really long straw, essentially for them or needle to suck blood.

COHEN: So, there are a lot of different kinds of mosquitoes and not all of them spread Zika. So, let`s check it out and see what kind we got here.

VANDAM: These look like Aedes Aegypti to me. These are the problem mosquitoes that are spreading Zika. Yes, we caught these right next to

people`s homes.

COHEN: We have the same bugs in the Continental United States.

VANDAM: There`s nothing different about them in terms of their ability to spread the virus. It could be to the U.S., they`re totally capable of

doing the same thing in the southern U.S. that they`re doing here in Puerto Rico.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: From the "it`s not everyday you see this" files, look, when a moose plays wind chimes, we`re going to air it. This happened in Alaska, where

you`re more likely to find moose. A woman shot the video from her rural cabin near Denali National Park, where there are plenty of moose on the

loose. And when the animal wasn`t mooching on the bottom part of the chimes, it seemed they soothe the savage beast.

He was really having a good chime. Who says animals can`t be moosical. Maybe he`d prefer Moo-zart, or Demoochy, or Rachmooninoff. But just the

simple chimes were moosic to his ears.

I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT moose. Fridays are awesome!

CNN Student News - May 19. 2016

News about a kidnapped girl in Nigeria starts off our show this Thursday. I`m Carl Azuz.

In 2014, a terrorist group called Boko Haram kidnapped as many as 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria. At least 57 girls were able to escape soon afterward, more than 200 are still missing.

Well, another of the kidnapped girls is now free and safe. But there are different accounts about how this happened.

A witness who is on patrol with a vigilant group that fights Boko Haram says the girl just wondered out of the Sambisa Forest and asked for help.

She was with a baby and a man who identified himself as her husband and said he`d been kidnapped by Boko Haram on a separate occasion.

The witness says the girl has been reunited with her mother. But Nigerian officials say government troops who were working with the vigilantes rescued the girl and that a man she was with is a suspected Boko Haram terrorist. The military says they`re all getting medical attention and screening.

Next today, there`s a vote coming up in Britain that could change the make up of the European Union. On June 23rd, Britons will go to the polls to decide whether to stay part of the 28-nation alliance or to exit from the E.U. and try to negotiate a new trade deal with the association.

Before we get into the debate over this, here`s an overview of the E.U.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What is the E.U.?

The European Union is a group of countries that work together to create a single market, to allow goods, capital, services and people to move between the member states, as long as they follow the rules and they pay the entry fee.

But we`re getting ahead of ourselves. To start this story, we need to go right back to the end of World War II. After six years of fighting, Europe was disseminated. Economies were collapsing and mistrust was rife as old enemies face the prospect of recreating trade ties.

France and previous occupiers Germany faced the difficult task of creating a unity for profit. So, they started talking, mainly about steel and coal.

In 1951, a total of six countries, France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands reached their first accord by uniting the steel and coal industries, creating the European Coal and Steel Community, or the ECSC. They later introduce the European Economic Community, EEC, in

1958. These two organizations are seen as the origin of the modern European Union, that wouldn`t adopt its new name until 1993.

More than six decades later, the European Union now represents more than half a billion people across 28 countries and with a common currency, the euro, which generates an estimated 14 trillion euros in GDP per year. The premise: countries who are economically linked are less likely to have
conflicts.

But it isn`t a totally happy marriage for many countries. As some are affected differently by world events, there had been arguments over financial regulations, bailouts and different approaches to migration. This has given rise to anti-E.U. parties across Europe, with many calling for their countries to withdraw from arguably the world`s most powerful union.

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AZUZ: British Prime Minister David Cameron does not want that to happen. He has said in the past that he believes the United Kingdom could thrive outside the E.U., but he`s now warning there could be consequences to leaving -- that prices could go up in the U.K., that jobs could be threatened, and that the stability of Europe would be at risk.

Prime Minister Cameron named a rival leader and a terrorist leader as people who might support a British exit.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Who would be happy if we left? Putin might be happy. Al-Baghdadi might be happy. But our friends around the world are giving us a very clear message by saying it`s all up to you. It is your sovereign choice.

But our friends in Australia and New Zealand and America and all around the world, and all around Europe, they`re saying, it`s all up to you, it`s all your choice, but you like to stay. We think it`s good for us and it`s good for you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ: So, what does the opposition say about a possible British exit from the E.U.?

Well, more than 300 businesses recently signed a letter in support of leaving. It said that Britain could be more competitive and that more jobs could be created if the country were to leave. Those who want to exit also say that Britain will have more control over its immigration policy, security and independence. All of these points are debated by supporters and opposers of a British exit.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)

DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: She is likely to be the Democratic nominee, barring something none of us can see right now.

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Then-Senator Clinton beat then-Senator Obama by more than 30 points, 35 points there in Kentucky back in 2008.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Bernie Sanders has a lead of 625 votes.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: This has been switching back and forth over the last hour and Hillary Clinton now ahead.

BLITZER: Are you ready to declare a winner with 99 percent of the votes in?

ALLISON LUNDERGAN GRIMES, KENTUCKY SECRETARY OF STATE: Based on the unofficial vote totals that we are seeing, Hillary Clinton will be the unofficial nominee on behalf of the Democratic Party.

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: A win is a win, you`re right, Wolf. But it`s still -- it`s going to continue to fuel the Bernie

Sanders energy that he is still going to get a fair number of delegates.

BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It appears tonight that we`re going to end up with about half of the delegates from

Kentucky.

(END VIDEO CLIPS)

AZUZ: OK. That was a quick look of how things look for U.S. Democratic presidential candidates during this week`s nominating contests in the state of Kentucky. It was very narrow win for the Democrats` frontrunner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But because her party rival, Vermont

Senator Bernie Sanders, came in such a close second place, losing by only half a percentage point, he picked up almost as many delegates and Senator

Sanders` campaign is considering asking for a recount in Kentucky.

Oregon also held nominating contests on Tuesday. Sanders won in that state with 56 percent of the vote to Secretary Clinton`s 44 percent.

Here`s how the delegate count currently looks for the Democrats. Clinton has 1,774 pledged delegates and 521 superdelegates. Sanders has 1,482 pledged delegates and 41 superdelegates. A Democrat needs 2,383 total delegates to clinch the party nomination.

On the Republican side, businessman Donald Trump is running unopposed. He is the presumptive nominee and his win in Oregon on Tuesday puts him 62 total delegates away from officially clinching the Republican nomination.

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AZUZ: Our producers use each day`s transcript page at CNNStudentNews.com to find "Roll Call" schools.

On Wednesday`s transcript, we found Marian Middle School. They`re watching from the nation of India in the city of Bangalore.

Next to the U.S. East Coast, where the Redcoats are watching from Berlin High School. It`s in Berlin, the center of Connecticut.

And in southern Georgia, we make a stop in the city of Hahira where the Vikings are watching at Hahira Middle School.

If dogs could speak, well, some would have bigger vocabularies than others. There`s a project at Georgia Tech University that fits dogs with a special

vest. The vest has a number of sensors on it. And the dogs are trained to bite or pull or touch one of the sensors with their noses and then that particular sensor triggers a voice that speaks what`s going on.

There could be applications for guide dogs, hearing dogs, search and rescue dogs that could use a signal to point out a specific problem. But what is the training process looks like.

(BGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUBTITLE: Teaching dogs to speak.

MELODY MOORE JACKSON, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, GEORGIA TECH: We`re developing a technology that allows dogs to create message.

This research is really about allowing dogs to talk.

One of my very best researchers is my border collie Sky.

Hey, buddy.

He can say anything we give him the capability to say, so he can tell me the difference between what toys I`m holding. What`s this?

VOICE: That is a ball.

JACKSON: He can tell the difference between what sound he just heard.

VOICE: I hear the doorbell.

JACKSON: He can summon help with a medical alert vest.

We put the vest on him. I showed it to him once and in 27 seconds later, he knew how to activate the sensor.

The longest that any of our dogs to understand the technology was 28 minutes.

Any dog that`s trainable would be able to do this kind of activation because they are based on things that dogs naturally do.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: Before we go, pandas versus zookeeper.

The worker at this panda breeding facility in China was just trying to clean up. But like two unruly toddlers, the pandas teamed up to keep the mess messy, and the basket of leaves had no chance. Fortunately for the zookeeper, these are just panda cubs and she`s able to just scoop them up at one point and relocate them.

But forget about this, when they grow up and weigh 200 pounds each, then they`ll truly be beast of bear-den, leaving caretakers or beartakers bamboozled with their pandamonious pantics and pandazzling shanpandigans that may obstrepandarous but are anything but pandantic.

I`m Carl Azuz and I`m glad I got through that.

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CNN Student News - May 18, 2016

 Great to have you back watching CNN Student news.
I'm Carl Azuz. We're starting with international tensions surrounding the Black Sea.
 This body of water is bordered by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Those last three countries are members of NATO, and the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization says stability around the Black Sea is important to the security of the whole region.
 NATO is concerned about several challenges. One, Russia's involvement in the war in Ukraine.
Two, terrorism like ISIS is bringing to countries South of the Black Sea.
 And three, the massive influx of migrants and refugees to countries in the region.
NATO was created in 1949 to balance out Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe.
The US is a NATO member, and America's working to support NATO countries by sending fighters to the Black Sea region.
    These airforce pilots are preparing for a unique mission. They will be accompanying two US fighter jets to Romania,
 a NATO ally on the Black Sea. It will be the first time America's fearsome F- 22 Raptor has landed there.
 An opportunity for the US to show it is bolstering NATO defenses on Russia's doorstep.
    Flying one of the two is squadron commander lieutenant colonel Daniel Wkowsky.
    He explained what makes the F- 22 special.
    A combination of stealth, super- cruise, increased situational awareness that the aircraft provides us,
    which all that adds up to a unique asymmetric advantage on the battlefield.
    So basically you're saying this is the best fighter jet in the world.
    The aircraft is truly incredible, and it is indeed the best fighter jet in the world.
    The technology is so advanced that Congress has banned their sale overseas. On route to Romania,
    the jets must regularly be refueled. A delicate balancing act we got to see close up.
    A nasal called a boom is lowered from the tanker, the jet then moves into place directly below it and the gas starts pumping.
    Officially this is a training exercise to US fighter jets from a fixed base to a forward operating base,
    but it's the symbolism that is important here.
    This is intended as a show of force to an increasingly assertive Russia.
    If you're getting ready to fly somewhere,
 officials at Atlanta Hearts Field the worlds busiest airport say you should probably get there as many as three hours earlier.
At Chicago O'Hare workers from     one airline brought out cots for people to sleep on,
 because hundreds recently missed their flights after getting stuck in TSA security lines.
Airport and airline officials have been warning this could happen.
    Security bottlenecks. The problem; the transportation security administration doesn't have enough screeners to check travelers.
 It says it's limited in what it can do by US government funding, but it's trying to make changes.
    Well, TSA heard the call from passengers, airlines, and airports. They must do better. This summer,
    air travel is expected to rise to the highest level ever, with 222 million people expected to fly.
    Now, we're not even at that peak travel season yet,
 and for months flyers have been dealing with long security lines and missed flights because of it.
    We were just in security for almost two hours, and ran to our gate,
 and it was three minutes shy of the door closing.
So we got a hotel and are back and hopefully I make this one.
    I got here about 2. 5 hours early and it still wasn't enough time.
    And I had to go back to my friend's place and try it again this morning.
    TSA immediately increased overtime for its officers last week.
    And they are speeding up the hiring process for 768 officers to get them on the job by June 15th,
    but the union representing TSA officers say that won't be enough. 6, 000 new hires are needed.
    They're also deploying bomb sniffing dogs as a part of a way to cut the wait times.
    And now things will not get better overnight,
 but the goal is to start getting passengers through those security checkpoints faster at least by June.
In the meantime, some airports like San Diego International have hired entertainment to de- stress passengers
 while they wait, including stilt walkers, jugglers and clowns.
    I guess they figure if you're going to be waiting in line for an hour or more, why not be entertained? Back to you.
    Of course you don't have worry about security checks if you're a mosquito but you should probably worry about Fort Myers, Florida.
A group of entomologists and biologists is there to study what mosquitos do.
 And an arsenal of 26 trucks, 11 helicopters and 4 airplanes is there to kill them.
Warmer summer temperatures bring more mosquitos. Some mosquitos carry Zika,
    a virus that can cause birth defects in the unborn children of pregnant women.
So communities like Fort Meyers are aiming to keep mosquito populations down.
 But not all cities have the budgets to fight on that scale,
    so the approach is different from place to place, and the effectiveness of pesticides is too.
    They are very much alive.
    The weather is about to warm up. The mosquitoes are gonna be swarming.
    How do we know what to spray them with?
    At the moment we don't have a good way of knowing what the resistance profile is in the continental US.
    In one state, you can have different pockets of resistance in different places.
    Absolutely, that's a big challenge.
    All right, how good is your geography? Think about the capitol of Slovenia and see if you got it right for our third school today.
 We'll start in the US state of Michigan. Hello to the Cardinals.
    Legg middle school, in the city of Coldwater, kicks off our roll call.
 In the Southeast, we've got the Panthers watching today, from Lanett, Alabama.
 Welcome to Lanett junior high school. In the capital of Slovenia, is Ljubljana,
    and that's where the British international school of Ljubljana is watching. Great to see you.
It's not hard to find well documented tips on how to fall asleep faster.
 Turn off your electronics. Cool down your room.
    Try a warm bath of shower before bed. For many people, it's waking up that's the hard part.
 Especially if your alarm clock, or more likely your phone, interrupts your sleep cycle.
 Still, with or without a snooze button, the infamous alarm is something millions have been living with for 140 years.
    Steam engines, factories, and spinning jennies get most of the attention.
 But, there was actually something much more mundane that helped shift the world's economy from agrarian towards industrial.
    And, if you're like 68 % of Americans, it's probably the first thing you interact with in the morning.
    I'm talking about the alarm clock. For thousands of years, people took their temporal cues from the sun.
    Sure, it might have made scheduling a meeting a little bit difficult, but then again,
there weren't many meetings back then. People tended to fend for themselves and their immediate community.
    But then, the industrial revolution changed everything. Workers had to be punctual.
 Time became money, so to speak. So we became slaves of the ticking clock.
None of this sunrise sunset scheduling     that worked for the predictable rhythms of farm life.
    Plus, there weren't any roosters to wake you. So how did the workforce adjust to the new world order?
    At first, factories installed whistles or bells
that sounded throughout the area to alert its employees that the work day was set to begin.
Some companies even hired knocker- uppers to bang on windows
    and rouse their employees at their homes.
 Then, in 1876, an American company received the first patent for a mechanical alarm.
Even though the concept in the crude models dated back to Plato, these were the first mass produced alarm clocks,
 and they paved the way for a huge improvement in personal and business efficiency.
And they're also why I'm so groggy all the time.
    New Hampshire's Mount Washington has observed record wind gusts in its day, so this isn't really unusual,
    but it is fun to look at. A pair of weather researchers recently brave gust of 109 miles per hour and
    a wind chill of 20 degrees below 0 to show us how wind is stronger than people. Getting blown over.
    Literally sitting into the wind. All part of the fun. The guy on your screen described playing like this as exhausting,
    so you could say he got winded. But if you've got wind of a wind with its wind up that could take your breath away,
wouldn't you want to play windefinitely? You'd be winding all day.
    I'm Carl Jesus with your ten minute window of current events wishing you a winderful day.

CNN Student News - May 16, 2016

With three weeks to go before our summer break, CNN STUDENT NEWS is happy to see you. I`m Carl Azuz at the CNN Center.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is planning to speed up its hiring of more than 700 officers, increase the use of overtime and use more dogs to help with security screenings. And this is why: Hours long wait at security checkpoints and airports across the country, missed flights, check
bags missing their flights after a TSA computer slowdown.

The TSA, which handles security of U.S. airline travelers, says it lost thousands of employees in 2014 and that they haven`t yet been replaced.

But the number of passengers it has to screen has not slowed down. Officials say longer wait times are inevitable as traveler increases during the summer and that it won`t take short cuts in its screening process that could make Americans less safe. So, bottom line: if you`re planning to fly, factor in some extra time for security.

Up next, a controversial instruction from the U.S. government to public school districts. It concerns people who are transgender, those who identify as the different gender than what`s on their birth certificate. Without U.S. Census information on gender identity, we don`t know how many Americans are transgender. Some estimates suggest it`s somewhere around half of 1 percent.

Last week, the Obama administration sent out a letter telling schools to allow transgender students to use whichever bathroom matches their gender identity. They wouldn`t need a medical diagnosis or a birth certificate, only a communication from a parent or guardian about the students` gender identity. This is a directive from the federal government. It`s not a law passed by Congress. But it threatens schools that don`t follow it with the loss of government funding.

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DAN PATRICK, TEXAS LT. GOVERNOR: We will not yield to blackmail from the president of the United States.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The federal government calls them guidelines. But several states, including Texas, see them more as a threat.

PATRICK: This goes against the values of so many people. It has nothing to do with anyone being against a transgender child.

VALENCIA: At a Friday morning press conference, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says a line has been crossed by the federal government after the Department of Justice sent a letter on transgender bathroom use in public schools across the United States.

PATRICK: I`m telling all the superintendents of Texas right now -- you have about three weeks left of the school year. Do not enact this policy.

VALENCIA: In the letter, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, "There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex."

Under the guidelines, public schools that receive federal money are obligated to treat students consistent with their gender identity, even if their records indicated a different sex, access sex-segregated facilities consistent with a student`s gender identity and protect a student`s privacy
related to their transgender status.

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VALENCIA: The action sets the stage for a legal battle that`s been in the making since March. House Bill 2 in North Carolina began the recent controversy. The law requires transpeople to use the public restroom related to the gender on their birth certificate, not how they identify.

VALENCIA: North Carolina and the feds have traded accusations and lawsuits. Some states, including Arkansas and Texas, insist there`s been government overreach. The feds say civil rights have been violated.

GOV. PAT MCCRORY (R), NORTH CAROLINA: This is not just a North Carolina issue. This is now a national issue.

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AZUZ: From North Dakota to southern Vietnam, get ready to go globe- trotting on the "Roll Call".

Nedrose High School is up first. From the Rough Rider State, we`re looking up to the Cardinals in Minot.

Now to the capital of Utah. In Salt Lake City, thank you for watching from the Salt Lake Valley Detention Center.

And from the Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, it`s great to see our viewers at Starlight International School. Thanks for your request at

CNNStudentNews.com.

The queen`s 90th birthday is greater than anyone`s super sweet 16. Britain`s Queen Elizabeth II is enjoying a series of celebrations. The one this weekend involved hundreds of horses and hundreds more musicians, dancers, performers. It`s all in honor of the United Kingdom`s longest reigning monarch. She reached that milestone last year, exceeding the reign of her great, great grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Even though her position is largely ceremonial, the queen does not have much lawmaking power which rests with Britain`s parliament. She`s a revered person around the world. What took place over the weekend is only one of the celebrations she`ll have.

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SUBTITLE: The queen`s two birthdays.

KATE WILLIAMS, HISTORIAN AND ROYAL EXPERT: The two birthdays days all the way back to George II in 1748. His real birth, it was in November, and he thought they might get cold and they might get ailed. So, I`m going to move it to June, where fingers crossed, the weather is going better.

So, the queen`s real birthday, 21st of April, 1926, when she was born. That celebrated with a quiet family celebration and she has her official birthday, usually second Saturday in June, and what we have is trooping the colour, big parades, big celebration, the queen in her carriage, all based
in London here at Buckingham Palace.

But this year, because she`s 90, she has a birthday in May as well, and that`s going to be much more fun, pop concerts, more shows. So we have three birthdays, actual birthday, the official birthday, and the fun birthday.

And it`s not just in Britain that the queen`s birthday celebrated. It`s across the commonwealth, including in Canada, where it`s a public holiday and Australia, where it defers according to where you are.

Some people are saying she`s 90, it could be the last big birthday. But her mother did live to 101. So, hopefully, we`re going to be celebrating a big 100th birthday in 2026.

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AZUZ: You know when you`re Facebook, and stories up on your trending feed. The company says that the employees who review those stories are not allowed to prioritize one political view over another.

Here`s why the company is talking about this. Last week, the technology news site Gizmodo published a report that accused Facebook of promoting a liberal news bias. According to the report, reviewers of the site`s trending news section allegedly kept stories about conservative subjects
from appearing in people`s feeds, even though they were actually trending among users.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is investigating the report and that it`s found no evidence that this happened. And if it does,

Facebook will take steps to address it.

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LAURIE SEGALL, CNN SENIOR TECH CORRESPONDENT: Ever wonder how a topic becomes trending on Facebook, you know the column "Hot Topics" to the right of your newsfeed?

Well, here`s how it works: according to Facebook`s head of search, these topics are surfaced by an algorithm. Now, the idea is to flag most popular conversations happening on Facebook. And also there`s this human element, the topics are reviewed by a team of curators who make sure they`re
actually trending in the real world.

So, here are the guidelines: curators are supposed to weed out hoaxes, spam and duplicate topics. A former curator said there`s transparency in these decisions. Employees actually have to write out the reasons they blacklist a topic. I`m also told that some curators may surface a conversation that
might not yet be trending. This is during a breaking news event.

So, here`s a controversy. According to a Gizmodo report, former Facebook contractors say curators routinely suppressed stories about conservative issues. In a statement, Facebook says, no, they don`t prioritize one viewpoint over another.

But is the human element inadvertently biasing what we see on Facebook?

People consume news from Facebook. The company has this power to serve as what we see and also what we don`t see.

So, this report raises an important question. Could the folks on the team have subconsciously or subtly steered away from conservative stories? And if so, what responsibility does Facebook have?

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AZUZ: Riley the retriever has been going to doggy day care for most of his five years of life. He loves it.

How do we know? Well, when his owner left the house one day recently, Riley popped the lock on his fence, walked more than a mile through downtown Belmont, North Carolina, and took a seat outside Happy Dog, the daycare center, until someone let him in. Yes, he spent the day there and
no, they didn`t make his owners paid for it.

Now, he makes one of his new tricks, they might have a bone to pick with his owners and make them retriever some cash. A puppy`s play place can`t throw its services to the dogs without digging up some funding. But the story is one doggone great endorsement on yelp!

I`m Carl Azuz. CNN STUDENT NEWS is back tomorrow.

CNN Student News - May 13, 2016

Hello and welcome to Fridays are awesome! It happens every Friday here. I`m Carl Azuz.

And we`re taking you around the world for today`s current events.

First up, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, these are some of the countries in Southeast Asia that are suffering under a heatwave and a dangerous drought. Temperatures are rising, over 112 degrees Fahrenheit in some places. That`s setting records.

In Malaysia, schools are closing and animals are dying. Wells and lakes are drying up. Vegetables are withering.

Same story for crops in Vietnam, with the Mekong River at record low levels. And the Indian government says 330 million people, more than the entire population of the U.S., have been affected by drought.So, what`s causing all of this?

Scientists say the blame rests with El Nino. We`ve talked about this natural climate cycle a lot since last year, when it started disrupting normal U.S. weather patterns. This El Nino is tied for the strongest one on record. And even as it weakens and approaches its end, it`s still affecting weather worldwide.

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JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We`ve heard so much talk about El Nino, but what is it? In fact, it`s a weather phenomenon that happens between the Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere. It can have an influence on the temperature and the weather all over the world.

In the springtime, the trade winds start to relax and in a normal year, they come back during the Asian monsoon and the summer. During an El Nino year, they don`t. In fact, some years, the trade winds can even reverse.

That has a huge impact on the Pacific Ocean. During a normal year, warm water is pulled on the west side of the ocean, cooler water on the east side. That results in cooler waters off the coast of California, and warmer waters in the western Pacific.

During an El Nino year, that thermocline tilt goes away. And so, warm water is spilt all the way over to the east side of the Pacific. That increases convection. It also brings thunderstorms to the coasts of California, and droughts to the western side of the Pacific.

We all know that El Nino will impact the world. The only question is, how will it affect you?

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AZUZ: Yesterday, a group of nine climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest. More than 4,000 people have done that in history, but this is the first time in over two years that anyone`s made it to the top. Why? Because in 2014 and 2015, deadly avalanches, one of them, the result of an
earthquake in Nepal brought a tragic end to the climbing season.

The weather on Everest is generally unpredictable. But so far this year, it`s reportedly been pretty good. Still, climbing the mountain is incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and expensive. It can cost anywhere from $35,000 to $100,000, once you factor in the permit, the Sherpas who will assist you and the supplies. Yet, there`s no shortage of people who are willing to try each year.

And by the numbers look now at the tallest mountain on the planet. Everest rises more than 29,000 feet into the sky. To put into perspective, imagine stacking 20 Empire State Buildings on top of each other.

The first people that summit the mountain, Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, who reached the top back in 1953.

The record for most climbs to the summit, Apa Sherpa, who`s made it 21 times. And Yuichiro Miura at age 80 became the oldest person ever to climb

Everest. And another proof that age is just a number, Jordan Romero at age 13 is the youngest person to reach the summit.

But danger remains. More than 225 people have lost their lives trying to climb the mountain.

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AZUZ: Not too far from the Japanese capital of Tokyo is where we`re starting today`s call of the roll.

First up is Camp Zama Middle School. Thank you for making us part of your Friday in Camp Zama, Japan.

Jumping across the Pacific, we`re making a stop in La Habra, California. The Heralds are watching from Whittier Christian High School.

And from the city of Danville, Arkansas, in the school of Danville Middle, welcome to the Little Johns. Great to see you.

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SUBTITLE: Hyperloop One test day.

ANNOUNCER: Four, three, two, one --

(CHEERS)

SUBTITLE: Hyperloop One sled travelled 116 mph and hit 2.5 times the force of gravity.

Using a linear-electric motor, the sled travelled 1,000 yards in 1.9 seconds.

The track was charged with 7,000 volts of electricity.

This was an open air test.

These tubes will soon become an enclosed 1.5 kilometer test track.

Hyperloop One will then test technology that will allow the sled to levitate and achef speeds over 400 mph.

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AZUZ: Next today, there`s a new project underway, an undersea cable system that will connect South Africa with Southern Asia, the Middle East and ultimately, the rest of the world. Though it will stretch for thousands of miles, it will account for just the tiny part of the vast intricate network
of underwater fiber cables that ships have been laying since the 1800s.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Where you`re watching this video, the United States, Europe, Asia, it`s a cliche to say we live in an interconnected world. But, duh, we do.

And the global circulatory system that delivers 99 percent of international data from point A to points B through C and back again is made of fiber optic cable. Unlike copper cables, which transmit electrical energy, fiber optic cables transmit light. That makes them significantly faster and less
susceptible to interference.

Fiber optics trumps satellites too. They`re cheaper, they`re faster, and you don`t get those delays.

Fiber optic cables are very deep underwater, over 300 of them connect every continent not named Antarctica, and laid end to end the 550,000 miles of cable would circle the earth 22 times.

And, boy, is that good for business? Ecommerce isn`t bound by borders. An international stock trade can be executed in a flash. You can video conference with colleagues in Florida, or France, of Fiji, not a problem.

Take a ride on the global fiber optic network, and offices wired with the fiber network allow for speedy data sharing. So, we here at CNN can send our videos from one edit sweep to another really fast.

And consider this, thanks to fiber optic cables, innovations aren`t bound by bandwidth. Remember trying to stream a video in the old days? Brutal.
 Do you think Netflix would even come to be with that kind of infrastructure? I mean, would you even be watching this video?

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AZUZ: A mom in New York recently surprised her daughter at college by sneaking into a dorm room and snapping a selfie.

Looks great. There`s just a little problem. The mom says, "Look where I am. Where are you?" The daughter says, "Where`s that? I`m in my dorm."

Then she writes, "Please tell me you`re not in someone else`s dorm?" And the mom promptly thought, uh-uh.

We see this happens all the time, but it probably doesn`t. Hey, at least the picture went viral. Will this shut the dorm on future visits? It was

a mama`s mistake. Everyone who`s lived on campus would say there`s roomy for improvement. Surprise visits always keep students guesting and at

least mom hasn`t lost her college.

I`m Carl Azuz and I am so glad I graduated.

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