CNN Student News - May 12, 2016

Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS -- current events for middle and high school classrooms, no commercials.

This Tuesday, May 12th, Americans from parts of South Dakota and Iowa, stretching down to Arkansas and Texas, are recovering from severe weather.

Over the weekend, fierce storms ripped through the country`s midsection. At least five people were killed, dozens were injured, and several were still missing yesterday afternoon. More than 70 tornadoes were reported.

One of the areas hardest hit was the northeast Texas town of Van, population: 2,300 plus. A fire marshal there says roughly 30 percent of Van was damaged. The town`s schools were closed after getting this kind of damage on Sunday. The district superintendent said they felt blessed this
did not happen during a school day. A high school in Iowa also lost most of its roof.

Apparent tornadoes weren`t the only problem. The storms brought sudden flash flooding the areas of northern Texas. Helicopters were called in to airlift people when flood waters covered the roads nearby.

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CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: So, now, the EF scale, Enhanced Fujita Scale, starts at 0 and goes only to 5. Anything above 200 miles per hour is considered an EF-5 tornado.

If you have a 0, you`re going to lose shingles. A 1, you may lose a couple of boards on the roof. A 2, you lose all the windows, and maybe even a wall. A 3, EF-3, you will lose a couple of walls on the outside, but there were still be a part of the home standing.

An EF-4, most of the home is gone but you`ll still see the refrigerator, you`ll still a closet and you`ll still the bathroom. An EF-5, you cannot find the house. It`s completely gone.

We don`t know how big that Fujita scale will be, how big that tornado will be literally until after we look at the damage.

The greatest threat of a tornado is being hit by something that the tornado is moving. If you`re outside or if you`re not protected inside, if you`re hit by 140 mile per hour 2x4, you`re going to be killed. So, you need to be inside and the lowest, somewhere in the middle of the home, away from windows.

When you hear the word "warning", and you hear your county, that`s when you need to take cover. When you hear the word "watch", that means something might happen today. Let`s have a plan.

When you hear the word "warning", it`s too late to make a plan. You need to already have a plan. Warning is a long word. It`s a bad word (ph).

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AZUZ: If you knew where the town of Munchberg is, you`ll know one of the places we`re going in today`s roll call.

We`re starting in Massachusetts, at John T. Nichols Middle School. It`s great to see the Tigers in Middleborough.

In Annapolis, Missouri, we got a request from the Panthers. We got that yesterday. They`re at South Iron High School.

And now to Munchberg. It`s in Germany where we`re happy to be part of your day at Munchberg High School.

Cicadas, people in Kansas, Missouri, and Mississippi are seeing and hearing them emerged from the ground. Their cacophonous chorus can reach 100 decibels, the loudness of a motorcycle, and it can continue for a month until the next generation of cicadas is established. It doesn`t happen every year, and though it`s not a once in a lifetime event for us, it is for the insects.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Call them cicadas, call them cicadas, don`t call them pretty. It`s like someone took a roach slapped on some wings and glued two orange buggy eyes on them.

Millions of Americans will soon get an up close and personal view. Every new generation of cicadas emerges from underground to mate, that happens every 13 or 17 years.

If their faces are those only cicada mothers could love, they`ve got voices to match, or more accurately, organs on the abdomen of males that vibrant to attract females.

When the guys go out on the prowl, the collective sound is like waves of screeching. This may send some human screeching. But they`re more likely to bug us than actually harm us, unless they poke us with their beaks. They`re not especially destructive to plants either. They do help irate

the soil when they come out, and they`re a veritable buffet for birds and other animals.

So, if you see or hear them where you live, keep an eye on your pets. Some cats and dogs seeking cicada snacks can get sick to their stomachs. For that matter, so can we can. Though some enterprising chefs have gotten creative with them, cooking up everything from cicada quiche to cicada ice cream. Not one of the Baskin Robbins 31 flavors.

Whether you find them annoying or appetizing, you`ll hear what the buzz is all about.

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AZUZ: Fifteen to 20 percent of Americans, so probably some people in your class, have some sort of sleep problem. That`s according to the National Institutes of Health. It could be too little sleep, not enough quality sleep.

It doesn`t mean just being tired all the time. A number of diseases are linked to getting too little sleep. Tens of thousands of car accidents, too. Billions of dollars are spent every year in medical fees linked to sleep problems.

The conditions we sleep in can make a significant difference in the kind and amount of sleep we get.

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SUBTITLE: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Living to 100.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: We don`t get enough sleep in the United States. In fact, we`re getting less sleep than ever.

And I`ll admit, I`m guilty of it as well.

In this country alone, tens of millions of prescriptions are written for sleep medications. People are taking medications more than ever. And they`re taking them with the hope of getting good sleep, which sometimes they can help with. But keep in mind, a lot of times, these types of pills, the affects can last much longer than you realize.

Best way to get a good night sleep is obviously to make it a priority, think about this and really think about the fact that you`re going to schedule your time. You`re going to schedule a sleep time, a wake time. You`re going to avoid caffeine and other stimulants later on in the day.

Also, if you exercise in a regular basis, which you should, maybe trying to do that earlier in the day as well.

Put the devices away. The devices tend to stimulate the mind, making it much harder to turn the mind off and actually get to sleep.

And finally, practice something known as good sleep hygiene. They say that, you know, you want to keep your room around 70 degrees or so. Make sure you darken the room as much as possible. And, obviously, take away any stimulation that might keep you awake.

So, rule number one: don`t sacrifice your sleep for just about anything. Do that and you`ll likely to live to 100.

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SUBTITLE: Character Study.

AZUZ: Dr. Jim Withers` father was also a doctor. He worked in the rural area and often made house calls. You can say his son is walking in his footsteps, but in an urban environment. His program called Operation Safety Net has reached tens of thousands of homeless people, and helped
hundreds of them transition in the homes.

It`s why Dr. Withers is today`s study in character.

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DR. JIM WITHERS, OPERATION SAFETY NET: Street medicine is bringing medical care right to the homeless where they are, under the bridges, along the riverbanks, abandoned buildings.

Safety Net, anybody home?

It`s going to the people.

Can you make a fist? That hurt?

I`ve been making the streets of Pittsburgh for 23 years to treat the homeless. When I started, I was actually really shocked how ill people

were in the street. It was like going to a third world country.

There were runaway kids, 85 year olds, pregnant women, and they all have their own story.

What hurts the most?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These knees, so swollen.

WITHERS: Once you get to know the folks out there, I knew that I had to keep going.

Are you doing OK, medically?

And now, we`ve managed to treat over 10,000 people.

Did they put staples in or stitches?

Infections, diabetes, cancers, it goes on and on and on.

All right. I`m glad we saw you.

For the folks that are willing to come to us, we have a mobile medical van. Then, we have drop in centers.

Open it up again.

We connect with the person.

You got friends. We`ll be there for you, OK?

Then, we advocate with them to get their insurance, get housing and care. Wherever they are, they`re always within our circle of love.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You did so much to me --

WITHERS: It really is a wonderful feeling that people in the street are beginning to get a voice in health care.

Good, steady. You got a good heart.

It`s something that we should take pride in, that we can actually treat people the way we want to be treated.

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SUBTILE: Before We Go.

AZUZ: Some dogs are athletes. Agility dogs are among the best. You`ve seen them racing, jumping, climbing way before. But probably not like

this. It`s a dog`s eye view of overcoming obstacles.

Steeple is the name of a champion agility dog. And someone strapped a camera to his back to get his perspective on what it`s like to course

through a course, beam across beams, tunnel through tunnels, and race to the race to the winner circle.

From the animal`s agility to camera`s ability, the awesome usability showing us the thrill of the race, you could call that steeplechase. Not

just a people pleaser. You`d have to agree, sir, that is a steeple pleaser.

I`m Carl Azuz. Friday, June 5th, is the date many of you teachers are asking about. Friday, June 5th, will be our last show of the school year.

Hope you watch until then.

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CNN Student News - May 11, 2016

A U.S. Navy destroyer sails near a reef in the South China Sea and China scrambles fighter jets and warships in response.

I`m Carl Azuz and that`s where we`re starting.

China has been building islands hundreds of miles from its mainland coast. One of them is called Fiery Cross Reef. It`s part of the Spratly Islands.

In January, China said it had just finished building a runway there.

Yesterday, an American ship called the USS William P. Lawrence sailed within 12 miles of Fiery Cross Reef.

Here`s why that`s significant. According to the United Nations law of the sea, a country controls the waters within 12 nautical miles of its coast.

China says the U.S. threatened its sovereignty and security by sailing too closely to Fiery Cross Reef.

But the U.S. does not recognize China`s claims to control the territory around these manmade islands. It says China doesn`t have law of the sea rights here and sailing nearby was an American way to challenge China`s claims. This is just part of a series of international disagreements over this region.

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CHINESE NAVY: This is the Chinese navy. This is the Chinese navy. Please go away quickly.

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It`s a standoff in the skies between China and the U.S.

CHINESE NAVY: You go!

SCIUTTO: As Beijing makes a massive and unprecedented land grab 600 miles from its coast.

(on camera): So when`s the last time you went up?

(voice-over): CNN got exclusive access to classified U.S. surveillance flights over the islands. The first time journalists have been allowed on an operational mission by the state-of-the-art P-8A Poseidon.

(on camera): We just arrived on station now above the three islands that are the targets of today`s mission. It`s these three islands that have been the focus of China`s building in the South China Sea over recent years.

(voice-over): In just two years, China has expanded these islands by 2,000 acres, the equivalent of 1,500 football fields and counting.

For China, this new territory is nonnegotiable. China`s foreign minister calls his country`s commitment "unshakable". And China defends the new islands closely, patrolling with coast guard and navy warships and ordering the P-8 out of the airspace eight times on this one mission alone.

The standoff is military to military, but civilian aircraft can be caught in the middle.

(on camera): You heard over the intercom, Chinese navy, this is the Chinese navy. And what was interesting is that there were also civilian aircraft. There was a Delta flight on that same frequency that when it heard that challenge, it piped into the frequency to say, what`s going on?

The Chinese navy then reassuring them.

But as the flight crew tells me, that can be a very nerve-racking experience for civilian aircraft in the area.

(voice-over): Five Southeast Asian nations claim parts of this area as their own. China says this territory is part of their history, claiming ownership back 2,000 years.

But many see economic and military motives as well. The islands are rich in oil and gas deposits, and they extend China`s naval and air presence, challenging the U.S. naval supremacy in the region.

Jim Sciutto, CNN, above the South China Sea.

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AZUZ: U.S. President Barack Obama will be traveling to Japan later this month to meet with the leaders of six other industrialized nations.

They`ll be discussing economic cooperation, energy and international security.

While he`s there, President Obama is scheduled to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima. That`s where the U.S. dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of people and bringing World War II to an end.

Obama`s trip to Hiroshima would be the first time that a sitting American president visited the city. And the White House says the U.S. leader will discuss his goal for the world to get rid of its nuclear weapons.

Critics say the visit would be inappropriate, partly because it will be seen as a U.S. apology for the bombings, and veterans groups say Japan should apologize for its conduct in the war and treatment of American prisoners.

CNN`s Will Ripley has made 10 trips to report inside North Korea. He says the communist government which controls its media also restricts international journalists. North Korean officials direct when a camera can be used, where it can be pointed, and Ripley says they`ve strongly

reprimanded him for his reporting which can include facts that are critical of the nation or its leader.

More than 100 international reporters have had a number of challenges in covering a major political event called the Workers Party Congress. But one thing that Ripley is that the secretive North Korean government seems very secure.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Few places put on these supersized displays of public adulation better than North Korea. It looks like the entire city of Pyongyang has turned out here. But the government officials here with us say only about half of Pyongyang is here, which would still more than 1 million people.

You might ask, when do they have time to practice for these things? Well, we come here, we see people practicing in the evenings after work. It`s workplace groups, it`s core groups, it`s neighborhood centers.

Everybody coming together, spending hours and hours to prepare for these displays that North Korea has really become famous for. This time, it`s to mark the end of the seventh party congress and the election of the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, to a brand new, even bigger title, chairman of the

Workers Party of Korea.

He also was up on stag waving at the crowd and standing beside his new party leadership. And what this means, the unanimous promoting him and the fact that you see all the population out here celebrating the work of the congress, the leader moves forward his plan, his plan to aggressively
develop North Korea`s nuclear weapons, also trying to grow the economy.

Even though the vast majority of these people didn`t participate directly in the political process, only the ruling elite who were standing underneath the supreme leader who were actually at the congress had a vote, a unanimous vote not surprisingly.

Still, these people, they were told by their government what happened and now, they are out here celebrating, not asking questions. This is what it means to be a citizen in the North Korean capital.

Will Ripley, CNN, Pyongyang.

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AZUZ: Today`s "Roll Call" starts in a place described as the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

We`re talking about the community of Shell, Ecuador. And the students and teachers of Nate Saint Memorial School.

Form there, we`re visiting Fayetteville, North Carolina. It`s the home of the Panthers of Cape Fear High School.

And out West in Idaho, more Panthers are stalking CNN STUDENT NEWS. These are from Syringa Middle School in Caldwell.

The regional fire chief in Fort McMurray and the Canadian province of Alberta says he doesn`t remember what some of the town structures used to be. The wildfire that forced the evacuation of 90,000 people burned an estimated 2,400 structures to the ground.

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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I`m in the heart of Fort McMurray and in a neighborhood called Beacon Hill. This is a highly residential area and when you look around, you`re just absolutely amazed because pretty much everything is good.

SUBTITLE: Inside fire-ravaged Fort McMurray.

SIMON: You have dozens if not hundreds of homes destroyed in this one neighborhood. You can see how it just burned to their foundation. You actually see some water leaking over here.

We`re now at another neighborhood called Abasand and this is pretty typical of what you see in wildfires. Pretty much everything is wiped out. But on the other side, you could actually see homes that did not burn.

You can see a children`s playground back here, but by and large, it`s pretty difficult to make out the things you see. Over here is a grill.

Look at this bicycle over here. There`s just nothing left.

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AZUZ: But amazingly, 90 percent of the town survived the fire. All of the schools were safe. Firefighters and volunteers say they`ll be there to help those who lost everything rebuild.

Next today, an event that happens only about 13 times every 100 years. The planet Mercury was visible from Earth. On your screen is that tiny dot moving from left to right across the middle. How was this visible?

One Monday, mercury was lined up between the earth and the sun, in such a way that it appeared to be moving across the face of the star as this black dot. Not a good idea to try to see this with unshaded eyes or vernaculars. The best and safest views were through telescopes with solar filters.

So, why does Mercury look so small? Well, it is. It`s the smallest planet in the solar system and the sun is by far the largest object. The celestial sight was visible to much of the world for about seven and a half hours. The next time this is expected to happen is in 2019.

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At a school in Milton, Massachusetts, ducks on parade. This has become a tradition at Glover Elementary. The principal says a mother duckling has been making her nest inside the school`s courtyard for at least 10 years. So, after her babies hatched, she knows a way through the school to a
nearby pond, and she leaves her little town through a crowd of more than 500 students who look forward to this every spring.

You can say she`s earned the rights for the right rightly righting their course through school. Not too slowly, not too quackly, like a mom thoughtfully pondering to hatch a good plan for her children`s education. Who knows wattle they`ll do with their lives?

I`m Carl Azuz. Hope to see you tomorrow.

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CNN Student News - May 10, 2016

CNN STUDENT NEWS starts right now! I`m Carl Azuz.

The U.S. Geological Survey says Mount St. Helens is still very much alive. The volcano sits in the Cascade Mountains in southwestern Washington state.

It was dormant from the 1950s until 1980 when a massive eruption there blew a thousand feet off the top of the mountain and killed dozens of people and thousands of animals. Since then, it`s had smaller explosions and quakes on and off every few years. Now, scientists say it`s recharging. How do they know?

Mount St. Helens has had an earthquake swarm, a spike in a number of small tremors over the past eight weeks. Seismologists have recorded more than 130 quakes recently and that`s gotten their attention centered on one of the most closely monitored volcanoes on the planet.

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ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST: These have been incredibly small quakes. However, it`s the frequency of them that has scientists kind of keeping a close eye on this.

So, this is the area over the past seven days. These blue squares that you see, those are the monitoring sites that they have out there. And then all of these dots, these are all of the earthquakes that have occurred in this region in the last seven days.

Now, again, I want to point out, none of these have been huge. In fact, most of them have been at a magnitude of 0.5 or less. You and I can`t even detect that, they`re so small.

Now, the maximum was around the 1.03. Again, very hard for humans to detect something of that small magnitude. Now, they all were very shallow, between about 1.2 to four miles in debt. Now, basically what this means is, when you get these swarms, it`s the repressurization of the magma
that`s in there and it kind of seeps through some of the cracks that are there and that`s what causes a lot of these little mini earthquakes.

But you want to keep in mind, this process can continue for years without interruption and that`s what the experts are trying to make sure that people understand. They`re not tossing any anomalous gases come out and they`re not expecting an imminent eruption by any means.

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AZUZ: The U.S. state of North Carolina and the U.S. federal government are suing each other. It has to do with the North Carolina law concerning access to public restrooms.

Here`s what happened:

In March, North Carolina passed what`s called the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act. One thing the law does is require people to use the restroom that matches the gender listed on their birth certificates.

The U.S. Justice Department argues the state law breaks a federal law because it discriminates against people who are transgender, people who identify with the different gender than the one on their birth certificates.

So, last week, the government told North Carolina to, quote, "remedy" its law by Monday or that it would be in violence of people`s civil rights and could face a government lawsuit.

North Carolina argues its bathroom law applies equally to everyone because it doesn`t take into account gender identity or transgender status, just birth certificate. The state says the government gave two short a deadline for it to change its law and that the Justice Department is overstepping
its authority by trying to change norms in the U.S.

So, North Carolina announced yesterday it would sue the federal government. The government then said it would sue North Carolina, a federal court will decide what happens next.

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REPORTER: Private bathrooms might seem so simple. One for men, one for women and everyone gets to go.

But in the United States, there`s actually a long and complicated history of people fighting for the right to pee in private and in peace. It started with cholera outbreaks in 1800s. That`s when London and then the rest of the world realized that doing your thing on the street shouldn`t, you know, be a thing. The bathroom followed and so did the ongoing fight over who gets to use it and exactly what it should look like.

Women were an early focus. Back in the late 1800s, lots of people were uncomfortable with the idea of women being in public at all, much less using restrooms alongside men. So, state regulations of factories created restrooms specifically to keep men and women apart.

Next was race. The infamous Jim Crow laws after the Civil War created separate restrooms for white and colored people. These laws started to overturn with the Supreme Court decision in 1954.

Yet segregation continued. In the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic caused an outcry over gay men using public toilets. Since the publicly wrongly assumed the disease could be caught by using their toilet after an HIV positive person. And for Americans with physical disabilities, bathrooms
big enough for wheelchairs weren`t mandated by federal law until 1990.

Now, the debate is about transgender rights. Maybe that debate seems new, but look at the history and you`ll see that toilets have a long and curiously important place in American politics.

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AZUZ: Hear that? The roll is calling. Let`s answer and find out who`s here.

On yesterday`s transcript page at CNNStudentNews.com, we heard from the Leopards. In Washington, D.C., shout-out to everyone watching at LaSalle-

Backus Education Campus.

Travelling down the East Coast, we come to winter springs Florid and the home of the Trailblazers at Indian Trails Middle School.

And in the kingdom of Bahrain, hello to our viewers at The Bahrain School. It`s located in the community of Juffair.

In Austria, Brazil and Nicaragua, it`s at age of 16 years. In Sudan and Indonesia, it`s 17 years. In Russia, Australia, Honduras and the U.S., it`s 18 years. And in Japan, it`s 20.

We`re talking about the legal age to vote. CNN recently spoke to a group of American teenagers who won`t be able to vote this November, but still have and are willing to share their views.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m too young to vote.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m too young to vote.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m maybe too young to vote.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m maybe too young to vote.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But I`m not too young to care about the nation`s security and the way our veterans are treated.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m not too young to realize that in order to thrive as a nation, we have to rise above discrimination and prejudice.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m not too young to listen and decide what`s best from our future as an American.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m not too young to want a moderate president who get bipartisan support and unite a divided country.

KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You want that? Really? Is that even possible? Is that possible?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Honestly, sometimes, it doesn`t seem like it.

WALLACE: Thomas, what did you write? Too young to vote but not too young to --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To realize that our country is sinking and we desperately need a leader who is willing and able to bring it afloat.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m maybe too young to vote, but I`m not too young to know that election is more about pushing party agendas than being flexible to benefit the nation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m maybe too young to vote but I`m not too young to worry about my future as a woman and a student applying to college.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My Uncle Craig, he passed away because of 9/11 He`s working in the World Trade Center, and I just think we need to focus more on our nation`s security because that shouldn`t have happened.

WALLACE: What are your biggest concerns right now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just the prejudice going around and all the hate. Make America land of free again.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What I want to see from the president, the next president probably would be a sign of leadership and every aspect of his life he shows leadership, and will set an example for the rest of the country to follow him as our president, the tough guy.

WALLACE: Or gal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, or gal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are the people who are going to be running the country soon. So, you`re going to have to start listening to us.

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AZUZ: First time we told you about Erik Weihenmayer. He just accomplished what he called the scariest thing he`d ever done. He kayaked the rapids of the Colorado River. Weihenmayer is blind. He had a guide but that person was in a separate kayak behind him.

Because Weihenmayer`s life has been a story of taking barriers head on, he`s now helping others do the same thing.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Erik Weihenmayer has scaled the Seven Summits and braved the violent Colorado

River Rapids -- in the dark.

At 4 years old, he was diagnosed with a rare eye disease called juvenile retinoschisis. By high school, Erik was completely blind.

ERIK WEIHENMAYER, BLIND ADVENTURER: I wanted to be with my friends and going on dates, and I was afraid that I wasn`t going to be able to participate in life.

GUPTA: But he did, joining the wrestling team and learning how to rock climb.

WEIHENMAYER: You`re just feeling the way up the rock face.

GUPTA: He became an accomplished mountaineer and set his sights on Everest.

WEIHENMAYER: Himalayan experts said, you cannot stop if you fall. You can`t think at high altitude. It wouldn`t be a good place for a bind person.

GUPTA: Erik disagreed and in 2001 became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

WEIHENMAYER: And we`re on the top. The is Erik and Luis. I can`t believe it!

GUPTA: Seeking out new adventures, Erik trained for six years to kayak 277 miles of the Colorado River to the Grand Canyon.

WEIHENMAYER: I`m not just doing this thing so I can prove that blind people can do this or that. That`s kind of shallow. You do it because that`s living fully.

GUPTA: The now 47-year-old is using that mantra to help others facing challenges through his nonprofit No Barriers.

WEIHENMAYER: I think in our lives, all of us in a way are climbing blind.

GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.

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AZUZ: It`s not quite the running of the bulls. After all, who`d be afraid of one of these was nipping at your heels. Yes, they`re dogs, they`re

Chihuahuas, the smallest breed of dog, and they`re participating at the Ninth Annual Running of the Chihuahuas in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Well, some of them are anyway. It all started as a radio stunt, and the event has grown, unlike the dogs, to include 100 scrappy puppies.

Even though some seemed Chihua-without motivation, others weren`t Chihua- waiting around for a chance to Chihuahua the audience, Chihuawering (ph) onlookers with sheer yappiness at their adograble Chihuahua antics.

I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS.

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CNN Student News - May 9, 2016

Hope you had a great weekend or that one is just five days away. I`m Carl Azuz. Welcome to the show.

First up, we`re reporting from North Korea. A major political gathering is going on there. It`s called the Seventh Congress of the Workers Party of Korea and it`s a rare event. The last time this meeting took place was 36 years ago.

This event brought more than 3,400 party members to the North Korean capital Pyongyang. It started on Friday and doesn`t have a formal end date, though it`s expected to last a few days.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un who heads up the communist state didn`t announce any major policy changes in his three-hour speech. But he did outline a five-year plan to help his nation`s struggling economy, increasing coal output, automating jobs and factories and mechanizing farms were all part
of it. He also discussed the need to generate more electricity, promoting renewable energy and nuclear power.

In Pyongyang, which has the highest standard of living in North Korea, many people only have electricity for a few hours of the morning and the evening.

So, what`s it like for international reporters to cover an event like this and a country whose government controls its media.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It`s day three of the party congress and we`ve been waiting here in the parking lot of the Yanggakdo Hotel for almost an hour. We see a lot of the government officials on their phones, perhaps trying to figure out where exactly the group of press is going to be going today.

We took a short drive through Pyongyang, a beautiful Sunday morning, didn`t know where we were going, and we just arrived at the People`s House of

Culture. We don`t know who`s inside the building, but if you look at this row of shiny black Mercedes here, and specifically look at the licensed plate numbers, that would indicate, these are some of the highest level members of the Workers Party of Korea.

We`ve been told to bring all of our gear, including our backpacks inside. We`ve been given our passports as well, for some kind of a security check.
What happened?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Program has changed.

RIPLEY: Program changed. Where are we going?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Back to hotel. Have lunch and rest.

RIPLEY: Well, there you go. We`re heading back to the hotel. The program has changed.

After three hours of waiting at our hotel, we were all told to rush and gather in front of the television for this. State TV broke in for a

special report, which turned out to be the leader`s full speech that he gave on Saturday to the Workers Party congress. It`s been going on for

well over two hours. Of course, we already read the full transcript. It`s the first eight pages of morning paper, coverage of the front and back pages.

If you`re looking for any major policy changes or announcements, you won`t find them in the speech. The leader talked about North Korean history from

1980 until today. He did say this country won`t use its nuclear weapons unless provoked first, but we`ve heard that before.

So, in the end, even through we`re inside this country covering the Workers Party congress, the state controlled media continues to be our best and only source of information.

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AZUZ: A man who was evacuating Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, over the weekend says it looked like a scene out of a disaster movie. A wildfire whose causes still being investigated has forced at least 90,000 people to evacuate their homes, most of them in Fort McMurray and surrounding communities. It has spread to an area of more than 770 square miles.

The blaze is about half the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Even with 500 firefighters, 15 helicopters and 14 air tankers involved, officials don`t have it under control. But they hope that nature could help out. There was a 70 percent chance of rain the area last night and more possible this morning. That could make a noticeable difference in a province that`s been described as tinder dry and windy, two conditions that make wildfires more dangerous.

Fort McMurray has had its power grid damaged. The water is undrinkable. For some residents, everything at home is lost.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s heartbreaking because I don`t know if I have anything to go back to. I really don`t know. And I`ve been -- with my 7 years old, I went through the same thing. I left the Congo to come here. So, it brings back those memories so bad, the last few nights, I haven`t
slept. I`m up all night. I realized that I`m a refugee again in a country that I thought I wouldn`t be a refugee. So, it`s so heartbreaking.

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AZUZ: So far, no deaths have been blamed directly on the disaster. Plumes of smoke can be seen as far away as Iowa, though. And that`s not the only atmospheric effect of a wildfire.

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CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: If you`ve been watching this wildfire video, you notice the smoke rising up into the sky. But you may notice something else -- you may find a pyrocumulus cloud. So, how does it happen?

Well, you have the ground. And in the summertime, the sunshine hits the ground and you get big wide puffy clouds.

But with the fire, this is rapidly rising here. This isn`t sunshine. This is really hot air going straight up into the atmosphere, and then you get the condescension.

The condescension makes clouds. The clouds can become a cumulu-like nimbus cloud, what we call pyrocumulus because of the fire. But you can get lightning. The lightning can create more fires.

Also, when the storm dies, you can get wind blowing out of the thing and taking the embers from one fire, blowing it down wind and making more fires. So, that`s the danger of a pyrocumulus cloud. Look for the puffy clouds than look like a thunderstorm that`s created by the fire itself.

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AZUZ: Time for a quick check of who`s watching this Monday. This is a CNN STUDENT NEWS "Roll Call".

From Omaha, Nebraska, the Packers are here. Omaha South High School leads things off for us.

Moving east, we`re making a stop in Gnadenhutten, Ohio. Great to have the Braves of Indian Valley High School watching today.

And last but not least, from Liberty, South Carolina, we`re looking to the Falcons. Liberty Middle School rounds out our roll.

The U.S. government estimates that every year, opioid painkillers are linked to as many as 19,000 deaths in America, and that the number of

overdose deaths has quadrupled since 1999, along with the sales of prescription drugs. An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration is recommending that doctors should be required to get a special form of training before they`re allowed to prescribed opioids.

Critics including some national doctors groups say that mandatory government training isn`t the answer, that physicians already have

extensive training, and that a new FDA program wouldn`t cover some causes of the problem, like when a patient doesn`t use opioids correctly, or when someone illegally gives his painkillers to someone else. Many doctors, health officials and experts do agree, though, that more needs to be done to address opioid addiction.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Every 19 minutes, someone dies from an accidental drug overdose. Most of the time, it`s from

prescription drugs like oxycodone or hydrocodone. These drugs all belong to a family of drugs called opioids.

SUBTITLE: Why are opioids addictive?

GUPTA: They are prescribed to deal with pain. But they also boost dopamine, giving some people a high. They can also slow down your breathing and are highly addictive.

So, why is it so easy to get hooked?

Well, for one, your body can build up a tolerance, so that the more you use, the larger dose you need to get the same effect.

Secondly, you can become dependent on them. In fact, your body creates natural opioids that are released when you hurt yourself. But if you habitual use painkillers, your body stops producing its own and relies on the drugs instead. If you try and stop then, the body goes through withdrawal.

Consider this, in 2012, there were 259 million prescriptions written for opioid painkillers, nearly enough for every American adult and child to

have their own bottle of pills.

Look, we need to treat pain. But we also don`t need to treat everything with a pill.

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AZUZ: The public has spoken, but Britain`s government didn`t like what it had to say. Boaty McBoatface is what people voted to name a new $287

million research ship. Boaty got 124,000 votes, but Britain`s Science Ministry says it wanted something that fits the ship`s scientific mission.

So, it torpedoed Boaty and chose a fourth place name that got 11,000 votes.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

REPORTER: So, yes, Boaty McBoatface didn`t win that infamous ship-naming contest.

(BOOS)

REPORTER: I know, I know.

McBoatface became a household name when U.K. officials made a mistake of asking the public for input on naming their newest research vessel. Boaty quickly shot to the top of the list and spawned countless imitators Horsey McHorseface, Trainy McTrainface, and so forth.

So, who did win?

Well, the ship will be named the RSS Sir David Attenborough, after the knighted English broadcaster and naturalist.

I guess he`s worthy. But don`t worry, Boaty isn`t making a total Abouty McBoutface and sailing out of our lives forever. The moniker will live on as the name of the one of the ship`s small submersible vehicles. Aw, Suby McSubface.

Bon voyage, Boaty.

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AZUZ: So, while some might put on some a Pouty McPoutface, saying subbing the name for the sub is a subliminal and unac-sub-eptable way of sinking public opinion, others might say it`s fitting in the name of science to Attenborough David`s name. It all begs the question, what`s in the name to

keep a shipping shipshape? Guess it comes to whatever floats your boat.

I`m Carl Azuz.

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CNN Student New - May 6, 2016

Fridays are awesome! I`m Carl Azuz. This is CNN STUDENT NEWS. You`re daily 10-minute breakdown of world events.

We`re starting with news concerning Russia. The world`s largest country in land area is building up its military presence in the Black Sea. Russia borders part of this body of water. It also controversially annexed Crimea in 2014. The peninsula houses a significant Russian seaport in the Black Sea.

Also in the region, the U.S. has sent several F-22 Raptor warplanes to Romania, another border country of the sea.

So, what`s the significance of all this? Well, relations between the U.S. and Russia are at a low point. And America has been showing for its allies in the region, who were members of NATO.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a group of countries that banded together after World War II to balance out the military strength of the Soviet Union. So, a military buildup in the Black Sea is like an international show of power.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUBTITLE: Black Sea tensions.

CLARISSA WARD, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Black Sea has become one of the most hotly contested and heavily militarized regions.

This is not a new phenomenon. For hundreds of years, Russia has seen the Black Sea as strategically vital, and if you take a look at a map, it`s not hard to see why this Black Sea is so strategically valuable to Russia.

Firstly, it acts essentially as a bridge between two continents, a gateway between Europe and the Middle East, and it also provides crucial access to the Mediterranean and to oceans beyond. That gives it value commercially, but also gives it importance militarily. And if you take a look at the
conflict in Syria, you can see that the Black Sea provides a vital strategic and logistics hub to the Russians who are carrying out military activities in that conflict there.

Now, if you also take a look at the other countries that are bordering the Black Sea. It will help you understand the situation a little bit better - - Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia and Turkey. With the exception of Turkey, all of the were either Soviet states or part of the Soviet bloc, and with Georgia and Ukraine aspiring to move closer to NATO, Russia is increasingly surrounded by treaty allies.

Russia has said again and again that it strongly believes that former Soviet republics should remain under the Russian sphere of influence and it has also been complaining for decades about what it calls NATO aggression, essentially that Western Alliance which it sees as pushing up aggressively
against Russia`s borders.

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AZUZ: OK. Now, we`re diving deeper. International maritime tensions aren`t limited to the Black Sea. We reported on China`s controversial buildup of manmade islands in the South China Sea. The U.S. is reportedly planning to use submarine drones to help keep tabs on that region.

And American officials say that Russian submarine is at levels that the U.S. Navy hasn`t seen in decades.

Russia has increased its patrols in the Atlantic, including in areas near U.S. waters, as the American military is trying to keep its upper hand by developing subs like the USS Missouri. And CNN recently got a chance to climb aboard.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: This is a very important time for submarine operations. They are way of projecting power across the planet really, silently. It`s called the "silent service". Their job is to hide really, so no one knows where they are.

I`m standing on the bridge of the USS Missouri. It`s a nuclear attack submarine. It`s a rare visit, really one of the most incredible things  I`ve ever done as a reporter.

We`re going to show you what it is like to live and work on board here, where people sleep, where they eat, where they do their jobs, dangerous job at times.

COMMANDER FRASER HUDSON, USS MISSOURI: The world is -- has quite a proliferation of submarines. And the best way right now to find another submarine is with a submarine.

SCIUTTO: The bad guys, whoever they are, have to assume that there`s a sub within range if they were to do anything. Is that a fact?

HUDSON: Well, stealth is clearly -- without stealth, a submarine could not do the missions it does.

COMMANDER OLLIE LEWIS, COMMANDER, SUBMARINE SQUADRON 12: We operate in places where we didn`t have to rely on an adversary being there to challenge us. But that`s changing.

SCIUTTO: Since it`s worth going out, just on a training mission, most of these torpedoes are what are called practice shots. They don`t have actual ordnance on them. But you look at the green ones here, these are actual live torpedoes, and anytime a U.S. submarine goes out of port, it`s carrying at least a couple of these for self defense.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The firing order is, tubes five and eight. In the window, tube five and eight.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shooting.

SCIUTTO: That was the huge rush of air pressure that fires out in this case, a water slog, a torpedo tube full of water. But you could feel the pressure change in your ears, not just down here in the torpedo room but throughout the entire submarine. It just shows you what kind of power is
necessary to get that torpedo out of the tube.

This is the beginning of what they call angles and dangles, a series of steep descents and ascents designed to show the full capability of the boat, but also to test the crew`s readiness.

You hear that alarm as we approach 20 degrees. We`re going to get to 25- degree angle. Keep in mind, I`m standing up straight now. But as I`m leaning forward, that`s keeping me vertical in relation to the ground, as the angle ascend gets sharper.

Someone asked me today if U.S. submarine forces are preparing for war. We`re not at war, certainly not with another power that has submarine capability. But yes, they are preparing every day for that possibility, in case it were to happen. They want to be prepared if called upon to act.

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AZUZ: Starting today`s "Roll Call" on the Central American country between Guatemala and Nicaragua. We`re talking about Honduras. And it`s great to see everyone at Good Shepherd Christian Academy in Zamorano.

To the city of Toccoa, Georgia, we`ve got the Indians watching today. Shout-out to Stephens County High School.

And in the U.S. Northeast, make sense we make a stop at Northeast Middle School. It`s in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the home of the Hornets.

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AZUZ: Before we go, three words: Jurassic Park tortoise.

It`s supposed to remind you of the movie, but instead of vicious velociprators and tyrannical tyrannosauruses, it`s got a tortoise. His name is Louie. He`s got his own pool, grazing area and visitor center. And if you happen to find yourself trapped inside with the power out and nothing to keep you company but a cold-blooded Chelonian, well, you can just walk to the house.

Louie seems to like it. It`s really brought him out of its shell. And if you said he`d pick up a bad habitat, he`d probably rip-tile you to snap it, or tur-tell you to crawl away. Of course, no one knows for sure, but we`re certain that`s what his retortoise.

I`m Carl Azuz. Have an amazing weekend.

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CNN Student News - May 5, 2016

A lot of developments in the U.S. presidential nomination process. That`s coming up later today on CNN STUDENT NEWS.

First up, in the South American nation of Venezuela, there`s a rationing in place. Residents say that if they want to buy flour, rice or milk at a government supermarket, they have to wait in line, sometimes for an entire day, and they`re limited on the days when they can do that.

The drop in oil prices in a country whose revenue is dependent on oil sales caused major deficits. The government tried to make up for those by printing money. That led to severe inflation when the value of currency goes down and the price of goods goes up.

There are food shortages. People can`t get medical care. They`re buying medicine on the black market.

Electricity has been rationed in many areas, shutting down power for hours a day. There had been riots. Stores had been looted, and there`s effort going on to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office.

Officially, Venezuela is a federal presidential republic. But the government`s move in recent years toward socialism, extended government controls over major industries.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUBTITLE: Venezuela`s economic disaster.

PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This economic crisis has been years in the making. The socialist government here is being accused of really discouraging investment in this economy and what`s happened over the last years is we`ve seen severe shortages of food.

What really made things dramatic though was when oil price plunged about a year and a half ago now. Venezuela depends on the selling of oil for almost all of its government income.

On top of that, it is now so reliant on imports of almost everything. They are not taking in enough money to pay for all the imports that they need.

And that has now led to rampant inflation. The IMF says at least 700 percent by the end of this year.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: Staying in the Western Hemisphere, and jumping to Northern Canada. An entire city in the province of Alberta has been evacuated. Eighty-eight thousand people have been told to leave their homes and whole neighborhoods have been scorched by an explosive wildfire.

The city of Fort McMurray has been the hardest hit. Officials don`t know yet what started the fire. But they know what`s made it worse, extreme temperatures exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit, bone dry conditions and high winds. Seventy-four hundred acres and 1,600 buildings and houses have been
destroyed. But there had been no reports of deaths or no injuries, and cooler weather in the 60s later this week should help firefighters.

U.S. President Barack Obama traveled to Flint, Michigan, yesterday and took a sip of filtered water. His aim: to reassure residents that the federal government isn`t ignoring them.

The city`s had a water crisis since its supply was switched two years ago to the polluted Flint River. It wasn`t treated properly and caused lead, a dangerous toxic metal, to seep into Flint`s water supply. It`s been switched back but problems continue. Residents blamed local and state officials for causing them and a complaint was filed against the Obama administration last week saying the Environmental Protection Agency knew about the lead poisoning months before residents were notified.

President Obama called on Congress to pass emergency funding to help the city. U.S. lawmakers are debating a package worth $150 million for water system repairs and health care assistance.

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AZUZ: I want to start this "Roll Call" with a special shout-out to all of you teachers watching today. Thank you for using the show in your classroom, your home school, your curriculum. However you use it, we sincerely appreciate you this Teacher Appreciation Week.

First school we`re visiting is Lebanon Middle School, the home of the Tigers. It`s located in Lebanon, Indiana.

Next, Elko High School is here. In the city of Elko, Nevada, the Indians are watching today.

And in the South Korean capital of Seoul, it`s great to see you everyone at Changchun Middle School.

Results from Indiana: businessman Donald Trump won the state`s primary contest for the Republicans and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won for the

Democrats.

Mr. Trump`s victory was quickly followed by an announcement from Texas Senator Ted Cruz. He said he was suspending his campaign. Then, yesterday afternoon, Ohio Governor John Kasich did the same thing.

What this means is that Trump will run unopposed for the rest of the contest and he`ll likely clinch the number of delegates he needs to become the Republican Party`s nominee for president. So, there`ll probably be contested convention for the GOP.

But will there be one for Democrats? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is still the frontrunner. She`s won hundreds more delegates and superdelegates than Senator Sanders. But he says he has momentum after Tuesday`s win, and promises to take the fight to the Democratic convention in July.

Looking ahead to the general election, it`s not the popular vote but the Electoral College vote that decides who wins the presidency. Based on

Electoral College results from the last election, what would the strategies look like if Hillary Clinton ultimately does face Donald Trump in November?

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JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This map we`re showing you right here is the 2012 map. This is Barack Obama, the blue states, versus Mitt Romney the red states.

Another way to look at it is we could do this. This is our first CNN battleground map for the 2016 election. If they`re dark red, we believe they`re likely to stay red. If they`re dark blue, we think they`re likely to stay blue, and you see the lighter shades for likely Democratic states or likely Republican states.

Let me start, Wolf, on this map. Donald Trump says, I can beat Hillary Clinton in places that are traditionally Democratic. If Donald Trump could do that and Democrats watching are going to say, hey, wait a minute, it won`t happen. But if Donald Trump can win in Pennsylvania, if Donald Trump
can win in Ohio, Michigan and the come over here and win Wisconsin, he`s the president of the United States.

You can do it -- now, you can do it, I make it sound easy. Those are four states that have been traditionally Democratic for a long time. But it can be done just in this part of the country, which is why Donald Trump reaches out to Bernie Sanders supporters, why Donald Trump talks about the trade message. In his mind, in his campaign team`s mind, you can do this in one part of the country where he has proven that he has appeal to blue collar workers.

Now, the Clinton campaign would never concede this is going to happen. They`re going to say that this state, Pennsylvania, has not gone

Republicans since George H.W. Bush. They`re going to say, we`re going to compete in all these other states. They`re going to say, you`re never going to take that away.

But let`s assume let`s just say, I pick these two. Let`s say Donald Trump gets two of them. Where else does he go? That is the fascinating question for the Trump campaign.

Obviously, Florida is one of the biggest prices. Hillary Clinton believes with the Latino vote, with the suburban vote and a changing state that she can keep it. But what if Donald Trump won Florida? This is now the chess game going on both campaigns. How do you change the map? Can Donald Trump

put these states in play? If so, where does Hillary Clinton go looking?

Let`s say Donald Trump -- I don`t think that one we should just yet, but let`s leave this one blue -- let`s say Donald Trump wins these three,

Hillary Clinton still winning here, where does Trump go for the other one? Well, he`s going to have to try in smaller states like in Iowa, in smaller states like in New Hampshire, starts to even out the math. So, as we begin the calculations and the thinking about the general election, there`s no
question for Donald Trump, the first test is change the map in the industrial states that have been reliably blue for quite a long time.

If you`re Hillary Clinton, what are you looking at? You think it`s possible, possible, with a high Latino turnout, that you might be able to turn Arizona. You think it`s possible, if you can get a high African- American turnout and if conservatives say Never Trump and stay home, you could a state like Georgia, where the combination of high Democratic turnout suppress conservative turnout. These are the calculations now going on the campaign.

But as I reset this, I just want to reset it and come back to this. As you look at the Obama-Romney map, the biggest tests for the Trump campaign is actually to prove, to prove and have the polling prove that you can compete across here, because if you can make the Democrats spend time, money,
resources here, then it can change the map in other ways.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Now, we`re talking hypothetically about a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But Bernie Sanders, he did win in Indiana, an important win for him. His supporters are going to say, why aren`t we paying attention to his win? The answer is it`s
proportional.

KING: It`s proportional. And look, if Bernie Sanders were somehow to become the Democratic nominee, we have the same -- you`ll be having the very same conversation about the electoral map in those states.

But here`s the issue for Bernie Sanders, let me take the superdelegates off the table for a minute. We give Bernie Sanders Indiana, Hillary Clinton begun the night with a more than 300 lead in just pledged delegates. Bernie Sanders will shave into that, but, Wolf, he`s going to cut it very modest because of the proportional Democratic rules. Even if he wins by, he`s up now by seven points, even if he wins by seven points, you split the delegates, 53-46, something roughly along those lines.

So, he`ll gain, if she starts way over 315 -- and you play this out the rest of the way -- number one, if he won everything left, 55-45, a bigger margin than he`s winning tonight, he still wouldn`t catch up.

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AZUZ: A couple of weeks ago, we showed you a type of hoverboard apparently powered by a jet turbine engine. Its inventor, Franky Zapata, just set a

Guinness World Record on it for the furthest flight on a hoverboard. He was off the coast of Southern France. He had to fly farther than 905 feet, the previous record, and he did it. Zapata flew almost 1 1/2 miles.

The board is still a prototype. You can`t buy one. But if it hits the market, it`s the board to board if you`re bored with the boards that board on water, board on land, board on asphalt, board on sand, but leave you gasping for air, wishing you`d soared with the board that hovers aboarding the gravity that holds down others.

That`s all I got today. I`m Carl Azuz. We`ll see you Friday.

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CNN Student News - May 4, 2016

Wherever you`re watching today, we`re grateful you`re taking 10 minutes for CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz.

First up, a U.S. military casualty in the fight against the ISIS terrorist group. In northern Iraq yesterday, a U.S. Navy SEAL was killed during what

was described as a coordinated assault by 100 ISIS fighters. This is the third American death in combat since the U.S. sent troops back in Iraq in
2014.

At that time, President said that American forces would not be returning in combat in Iraq. But last October, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said there are American troops in combat every day, though their overall role is to train and support local forces in their fight against ISIS.

Secretary Carter said yesterday that the death of the Navy SEAL shows that, quote, "it`s a serious fight that we have to wage in Iraq." A spokesman
from the Pentagon added that the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS will honor the sacrifice by defeating the terrorist."

Going into yesterday`s primary elections of the U.S. state of Indiana, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was leading Vermont Senator

Bernie Sanders in the quest for the Democratic nomination. Clinton had 1,666 pledged delegates and 513 super delegates. Sanders had 1,359 pledged
delegates and 41 super delegates. To clinch the nomination, a Democrat needs 2,383 total delegates.

Businessman Donald Trump was leading Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich in the quest for the Republican nomination. Trump had
1,002 delegates, Cruz had 572, and Kasich had 156. To clinch the nomination, a Republican needs 1,237 total delegates.

Both of the candidates in second place are hoping for contested conventions this summer to give them a shot at the nomination. But as you`ll see in
this report that Tom Foreman did before yesterday`s primaries, their window may be closing.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Take a look at the latest delegate count here and you can see how Donald Trump is closing in on the winning number.

He only needs 235 more delegates to clinch the deal.

But Ted Cruz is very effectively winning the shadow primary, this effort to make sure that more of the actual people filling the delegate rolls are his
loyalists. He did it again in Arizona and Missouri and in Virginia this past weekend.

Why does this matter? Let`s bring out Virginia and talk about it. Donald Trump won handily here over Cruz, more than 2-1 in the vote. This past weekend, the party selected 13 at large delegates, people to fill the jobs. They have to reflect the state vote on the first vote at a contested, if it

comes to that.

So, right now, it would be sort of like this. But Cruz so effectively stacked this group with his loyalists that if you get past that first vote,they could be expected to change their votes like this, and suddenly, Cruz would be dominant and Trump would essentially lose or could lose a state
that he already won.

This is the real Cruz strategy right now. But he is running out of time and space to make it happen. Eighty percent of the Republican vote has already happened out there. Donald Trump has won handily.

Only 10 states remained, the ones in yellow here. Indiana, that`s one with 150 delegates that will be decided over this next month, and next month after that, there`d be about 300 decided, the biggest one being California out there.

If Donald Trump gets more than half of all the delegates in those remaining 10 states, that`s it. It won`t matter what Cruz did to work on a contestedconvention. There may not be one and it could be all over.

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AZUZ: Most of the schools in Detroit, Michigan, were closed yesterday and Monday. Hundreds of teachers there staged a massive sickout. But theystill arrived to protest over a crisis that`s been decades in the making.

The city`s population has dropped by almost two-thirds since its pick in 1950s. School enrolment has dropped by 100,000 students in the last decade alone. With fewer students, the city gets less state funding for its schools and that`s put them in tremendous debt. There`s also alleged corruption in the school system and low student achievement.

Michigan state lawmakers are considering a $33 million emergency loan for Detroit schools. But at this point, the system says it will run out of money to pay its teachers by the end of June.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(CHANTING)

REPORTER: Its teachers calling in sick, but it`s the school system that`s really ailing.

JUDGE STEVEN RHODES, TRANSITION MANAGER, DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: The future of Detroit is as much at stake here as the future of the school system.

REPORTER: Detroit public school teachers protesting Monday, calling in sick en masse, forcing all but three schools in the district to close.

The issue: money, not enough to pay some teachers in July and August.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have already worked. So, we continue to work, it will be like we are working for free. What profession works for free?

REPORTER: The school district is deeply in debt, $515 million so far. It will run out of funds on July 1st, unless the state legislature steps up with more cash and quickly.

RHODES: The Michigan legislature understands the urgency and importance of the reform legislation that is before it.

REPORTER: It`s not the first sickout in Detroit. In January, teachers walked out over poor school conditions. In some cases, there were rats,

cockroaches, black mold, and even crumbling ceilings. This time, teachers have had enough.

IVY BAILEY, INTERIM PRESIDENT, DETROIT FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: We have reached the breaking point. Enough is enough.

REPORTER: The district says this latest walkout doesn`t help. In fact, it will cost them $2 million in state funding. Instead, it wants the community to put pressure on lawmakers.

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AZUZ: Rocking and roll calling. Here are three of the schools from the hundreds of requests we received on yesterday`s transcript page.

The American School of Madrid is watching today, and it`s located in Madrid, the capital of Spain.

Next up, the Colts are on the roll. You`ll find Jackson Hole Middle School in the town of Jackson, Wyoming.

And our third stop is in Galesburg, Illinois. The Lions are watching from Galesburg Christian School.

Half of American teens say they feel addicted to their mobile devices and more than half of parents say their kids are. This is according to a new study by Common Sense Media. And an expert in digital detoxification says one sign of a problem is when a young person would rather play videogames inside, alone, than go to the movies or hang out with friends.

It`s not known yet whether a large number of people would fit into a technical definition of an addict when it comes to cell phone use. But those who think they might aren`t limited to teenagers. The study found that 27 percent of parents have troubled unplugging.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KELLY WALLACE, CNN REPORTER: Would you say you are addicted to your phone?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

SUBTITLE: Digital dependence.

WALLACE: Do you ever wonder if that 24/7 connectedness is making us less connected? Consider this: 90 percent of American adults have cell phones, and 29 percent of cell phone users say they can`t live without those cell phones.

Could you go a day without your phone, could you?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I don`t think so.

WALLACE: Is it true you sleep with it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I sleep with my phone.

WALLACE: Where is your phone when you`re sleeping?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Usually in my hand, under my fellow. So, like it`s in my hand the whole time when I`m sleeping.

WALLACE: What would it feel like if I said you couldn`t check for a day?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like the Stone Age.

WALLACE: Seventy-one of teens are on more than one social networking site, and studies show that social media can sometimes not be great for self-

esteem. One study in fact found that the more time people spent on Facebook, the worst they felt about their own lives.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you`re not having a good day and then you go on Facebook and you see how your best friend just went to Disney and your

other friend, you know, just got a boyfriend and everyone is having such a great life, because we only post our happy moments, then that makes you

feel worse.

WALLACE: China and South Korea have already identified Internet addiction as a significant public health threat that hasn`t happened yet in the

United States, but people in this country are already being treated for Internet addiction.

It isn`t all bad. Forty-six percent of the workforce feel more productive and 87 percent say the Internet and cell phones improve their ability to

learn new things.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s the future, the new generation. I think we`re embracing it. And we`re growing a lot from social networking. It`s helping us out a lot.

WALLACE: Do you think in a way we`re losing out on these personal connections? I mean, look at us, we`re having a conversation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is probably the longest conversation I`ve had since I`ve been in America.

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AZUZ: Usually, you eat the pizza and throw the box away. Now, you can eat both! A pizzeria in Brooklyn, New York, has invented a pizza box made out of pizza. It`s like three pizzas in one. It might not be as germ-free as that pizza box normally keeps a pie, and at $40 a box, it doesn`t take you many bucks.

But except for a plastic piece inside that separates the box from the pizza, the inside pizza, the restaurant says it`s totally pie-odegradable.

So, is it enough to blow the lead on cardboard boxes? It does cost a little more dough and it looks pretty crusty, but at least you don`t need to toss it. Everyone can get a piece of the pie, even when only the boxes left. And the invention baked up one great unboxing video.

I`m Carl Azuz and we thank you for giving us a slice of your day.

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CNN Student News - May 3, 2016

Welcome to the show. I`m Carl Azuz at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia.Today, we`re starting with the trip to two locations in the Caribbean Sea.

The first is the island of Puerto Rico, which is going through a sort of exodus. Puerto Rico is a territory of the U.S. with commonwealth status.

What that means it has its own government, though it`s subject to U.S. federal laws. And even though its residents don`t have to pay some U.S. federal taxes, many of them are moving to the U.S. where they will.

Puerto Rico is losing its population. Why? Well, it`s been in a recession, a period of economic decline for 10 years.

People are leaving in search of better opportunities in the United States. And in many cases, they`re not moving back. Currently, more Puerto Ricans live in the U.S. than on the island itself, and it may be on track to record the greatest exodus in its history.

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Seventy billion dollars. Puerto Rico is deep in debt, $70 billion of it, and lenders are knocking on the island door. It`s a situation so bad, it`s often compared to Greece and Detroit. Tax refunds delayed, home prices cratering, and the population dwindling. Four hundred forty thousand people have left in the last decade.

Puerto Rico`s tax base is shrinking. It`s been in so-called debt spiral. That`s according to its governor.

And it`s not just New York hedge funds that own Puerto Rico`s debt. It`s grandmas and grandpas who put their life savings into what they thought were safe government bonds.

Filing for bankruptcy, cutting federal aid programs, the options are grim. And getting all those parties to agree on a solution would be no easy task.

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AZUZ: The second Caribbean location visiting is the island nation of Cuba. A seven-day cruise docked in the capital of Havana yesterday.

Why is that significant? It sailed from Miami, Florida. It`s part of the Cold War rivalry between Cuba and the U.S. On and off travel restrictions were in place between the two nations. Those were lifted late in 2014, as part of an agreement between U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro.

President Obama started normalizing relations with Cuba, saying that decades of isolating the island nation, not dealing with it economically or politically had failed to influence the communist government to improve its human rights record. Critics say Cuba`s human rights record hasn`t
improved under President Obama`s policy either.

But the cruise ship that docked in Havana Monday is one example of some change between the two countries, even though this voyage almost didn`t happen.

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PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The first U.S. to Cuba cruise in nearly four decades is finally under way.

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OPPMANN: One more step towards greater ties between the U.S. and its Communist-run neighbor.

Some of the 700 passengers aboard Carnival`s Fathom line say they feel like they`re making history.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE TOURIST: My grandmother went way back in the day before it ever closed. So just to be able to go there and meet the people and see the people, it will be meaningful to us.

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OPPMANN: But it`s been anything but smooth sailing for the week-long cruise that will make three stops in Cuba. Cuban-Americans protested at Carnival`s Miami headquarters after the company said the Cuban law prevented Carnival from accepting bookings from anyone born in Cuba. The island`s government says the restrictions on Cubans traveling aboard boats were in place to prevent Cubans from making the often dangerous journey to the United States.

(on camera): Facing growing public outcry, Carnival said it would delay the cruises until everyone could travel to Cuba. That`s when the Cuban

government did something completely unexpected and reversed their decades- old policy.

(voice-over): Now, Cuban-born people who have passports issued by Cuba can travel to island on cruise ships. And the Cuban government has said it will soon ease restrictions on private boats, and not a moment too soon for Carnival.

ARNOLD DONALD, CEO, CARNIVAL CORPORATION: To be a part of being the first people to be able to sail from the U.S. to Cuba and back, including those who were born in Cuba, is a tremendous privilege and honor.

OPPMANN: The Cuban government reversing course happens rarely, even less so to satisfy U.S. business concerns. But apparently opening to U.S. cruise companies and the potential earnings it would bring was just too good an opportunity for Cuba to have sailed by.

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AZUZ: Seven hundred and thirty-five days in North Korea was long enough. That`s a quote from U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae, who just gave his first interview since he was released from a North Korean prison in 2014.

It`s not known exactly why Bae was arrested in 2012. He was a tour operator in North Korea. He was charged with hostile acts. Two years went

by before the U.S. director of national intelligence carried a letter from President Obama addressed to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

U.S. officials say that might have been the high level that North Korea wanted from the U.S. Shortly afterward, Bae was released. He hasn`t forgotten his ordeal or what got him through it.

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KENNETH BAE, FORMER NORTH KOREAN POLITICAL PRISONER: I was the first American ever sent to a labor camp in North Korea and I have to work from 8:00 in the morning until 6:00 at night six days a week. Working on the field, doing farming, labor, work on carrying a rock and shoveling coal.

And all those things that was physically very demanding and was very difficult, especially I have a back problems and different issues that I have before even imprisonment.

But along the way, that I found myself adjusting the life in those Korean prison, just depending upon God and just solely pretty much living day to day and just live one day at a time.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Did they tell you you`re not going home? You`re going to be here forever? What kind of things would they say to you in the prison?

BAE: Well, there was a one prosecutor assigned to my case for the last year of my imprisonment. He came to me almost every week and say, no one remember you. You have been forgotten by people, your government, you`re not going home anytime soon, you`ll be here for 15 years. You`ll be 60

before you go home.

CUOMO: What would that do to your head?

BAE: Obviously, it was very difficult to take it in. But I was holding on to the promise that it was from -- when I was praying from God that, you know, he will be my rescuer and the U.S. government would do everything possible that bring me home.

So, I was holding on to the promise.

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AZUZ: From the U.S. east to the Middle East, it`s time for the call of the roll.

Carmel High School is up first. It`s in Patterson, New York, and it`s great to see the Rams.

Not too far away is the community of Blackwood, New Jersey. And we got the Lions watching there at Glen Landing Middle School.

And from the United Arab Emirates, hello to our viewers at Dubai American Academy. It`s in the Emirate of Dubai on the Persian Gulf.

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AZUZ: A University of Colorado professor says some dogs love a good squeeze. A professional dog trainer says maybe dogs just don`t like being snuggled and photograph at the same time. The point, not everybody agrees with the University of British Columbia professor who says dogs hate hugs.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There`s nothing like a doggy hug to tug at your heart. But is it mutual?

Let`s ask the owner of Special Agent Maxwell Smart.

(on camera): Do you think he does love it when you hug him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know he does.

MOOS (voice-over): Good thing Maxwell isn`t smart enough to read "psychology today." The data says, don`t hug the dog.

(on camera): Supposedly dogs hate it when we hug them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Really? Not this one. He`s a lover, not a fighter.

MOOS (voice-over): But according to a new study, almost 82 percent of dogs show at least one sign of stress while being hugged. Some of the signs, ears down, and head turned to avoid eye contact.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can I hug you, sweetheart? Can I hug you, sweetheart?

MOOS: Submissive eye-closing, lip-licking, anxious yawning. When psychology professor and dog author, Stanley Coren, looked at 250 photos from the Internet of people hugging their dogs, four out of five of the dogs showed stress.

STANLEY COREN, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBINE: The internet is filled with pictures of happy owners hugging stressed dogs.

MOOS: Professor Coren says dogs evolve so that their main means of defense is to run away. What does a hug do? Immobilize him.

(on camera): So if you hug him, what does he do?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He runs to me.

MOOS (voice-over): Professor Coren compares hugging a dog to what one of his aunts used to do.

COREN: She came over and grabbed both of my cheeks and said, oh, you`re so cute. Well, it hurt and I didn`t like it at all.

MOOS: But dog owners aren`t buying it.

(on camera): Does your dog like to be hugged?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He does, yes. He likes to kiss as well.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I hug him, he leans into me and seems to be very happy.

MOOS (voice-over): Maybe they`re part of the approximately 8 percent of dogs found to be comfortable getting hugged.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He says that`s a full of baloney.

MOOS: But even Max would probably prefer baloney to a hug.

Jeanne Moos, CNN.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look, he`s loving it. He`s loving it.

MOOS (on camera): Yes, but I haven`t immobilized him.

(voice-over): New York.

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AZUZ: Hard to believe that even in a doggy dog world, our best friends were thinking, how canine get out of this? There are times they seem hug-

ry for affection, not wanting to wag war against someone who unleashes it. It`s not a bark or a bite, it`s a huge. And unless the stress causes

unrest, it paints a pretty picture of puppy love.

I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS.

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CNN Student News - May 2, 2016

The destruction of Ivory, the danger of melanoma, and the debate over voting booth selfies are three of the stories we`re covering today. I`m Carl Azuz.

We`ll start in Kenya. It took 10 days for officials there to build the 12 actual ivory towers that are now burning. They are both priceless and worthless.

The piles of tusks from 8,000 elephants, the horns for more than 340 rhinos, exotic animal skins, sandalwood bark, it`s all being intentionally burn in the largest torching of illegal wildlife products ever. Kenya`s president says his country has lost as many as 70 percent of its elements.

Poaching, the illegal killing of animals, claims the life of an elephant every 15 minutes and a record number of rhinos were poached last year.

Critics say destroying these materials will actually increase their value on the black market and increase poaching. But supporters say it hasn`t in the past and that the burns as symbolic as it is destructive.

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ROBYN KRIEL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The fire is crackling loudly, you can feel the warmth from far away, and the smoke is quickly filling the air.

In some parts of the world, this would be considered ludicrous. In fact, there`s been a lot of controversy surrounding this burn -- 105 tons of ivory, 1.35 tons of rhino horn literally going up in smoke. That`s an estimated black market value of $172 million. Now, no more.

Kenya`s message to the world, this ivory is worthless. It has no value unless on a live animal.

It`s not the first born in Kenya`s history. Kenya first began burning ivory in 1989 and initially saw good results. Experts attribute the scourge in poaching to Asia`s voraciously growing appetite for ivory, particularly in China.

This is the biggest ivory burn in the world`s history. It`s left 12 piles of contraband, like these, blackened with smoke, in a fire due to last for more than a week. But Kenyans hope this will change perceptions forever.

Robyn Kriel, CNN, Nairobi National Park, Kenya.

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AZUZ: Next up, chaos in the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq. The ISIS terrorist group, which controls large parts of land there, says it`s responsible for a pair of suicide bombings on Sunday. They happened in a city in southern Iraq where at least 11 people died and more than a dozen others were wounded.

And a day beforehand, in the nation`s capital, there was a rush of hundreds of angry protesters inside Baghdad`s Green Zone. This is a four square mile heavily fortified area of government buildings and international embassies. The protesters ransacked parts of Iraq`s parliament building before Iraqi security forces regained control. A controversial Iraqi religious leader had stirred up the crowd on Saturday, criticizing Iraq`s politicians and calling them corrupt. The nation has been struggling with political problems, in addition to terrorism and instability.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry have traveled there recently to push more stability in Iraq, expressed support for its leaders and encouraged them to work together.

Health officials say that a 70-year-old man in Puerto Rico recently died from complications of the Zika virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control, it`s the first time that a Zika infection has contributed to someone`s death in the U.S. or its territories. The man had contracted, then mostly recovered from Zika. But within a few days, he developed a bleeding disorder associated with the virus and that led to his death.

Brazil, where the Olympics are being held in August has been hardest hit by Zika cases, so South Korea has designed special suits for its athletes.

They`ll be wearing long pans and blazers for the opening and closing ceremonies and their track suits will have insect repellant built in, a sign of the times as the games get closer.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Zika, a virus unheard of 70 years ago, is exploding around the planet, creating what the World Health Organization calls a global health emergency. Common symptoms include fever, rash, headaches and red eyes -- if there are any symptoms at all.

Four out of five people who get Zika don`t even know it. Zika is spread primarily by the female Aedes Aegypti mosquito. She`s called the roach of the mosquito world, due to her crafty ways of hiding and breeding inside homes, making her hard to find and eliminate.

Zika is also been linked to Guillain-Barre, a rare auto immune disorder that can lead to paralysis.

But what makes Zika really scary is an alarming connection between the virus and microcephaly. That`s a neurological disorder where babies are born with small heads and small brains, with severe developmental issues, even death.

Some countries are so concerned. They are warning women not to get pregnant.

While in the United States, CDC officials are telling pregnant women not to travel to any of the countries where Zika is circulating.

Scientists are working around the clock to attack the virus. But as of yet, there`s no vaccine, or medicine to treat Zika.

So, protect yourself by using and reapplying insect repellant, wearing thick long sleeve shorts and pants, and staying inside in screened air- conditioning rooms and areas where Zika is active. And be sure to remove any standing water where mosquitoes can breathe.

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AZUZ: Our producers choose "Roll Call" schools from CNNStudentNews.com, making one request a day without spamming is the way to go.
P.E. McGibbon Public School commented on Friday`s transcript. It`s in Sarnia, Ontario, in the nation of Canada.

We also heard from Buckner Alternative High School. Shout-out to our viewers in La Grange, Kentucky.

And finally from Western Kentucky, please welcome the Warriors. Weston Middle School rounds out our roll.

Melanoma Monday doesn`t really have a good ring to it, and that`s the point. It`s the start of Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention

Month. This is an awareness campaign by the American Academy of Dermatology.

It goes on every year at May to get people`s attention about skin cancer. The organization says one in five Americans will develop some form of skin cancer in their lifetime. The event aims to tell people, particularly those who spent time in the sun what to watch out for.

Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: A melanoma is a cancer that begins in the skin cells. The face and the neck are common areas for

melanomas to appear. For men also, the chest and the back, for women, the legs. Exposure to U.V. lights such as the sun causes most melanomas.

When melanoma is caught early, it`s almost always curable. In fact, when you look at people where melanoma was caught early, five years later, 97

percent of them are still alive. But when melanoma is caught late, it is extremely deadly. When you look at melanomas that are stage four, that`s the most advanced, five years later, only 15 percent to 20 percent of those people are still alive.

Unfortunately, melanoma is particularly likely to spread to the brain. When you look at people with stage four melanoma, 60 percent of those patients will develop brain tumors.

There are various treatments for melanoma. It can include surgery, radiation chemotherapy and the use of targeted, newer cancer drugs.

Now, some melanomas can`t be prevented, but some can. So, the most important thing is to stay out of the sun as much as you can, and if you are in the sun, cover up with clothing or with sunscreen. And certainly, don`t use tanning beds.

The American Cancer Society recommends that you check your body once a month. Look for moles, look for new moles, and also for changes in moles

that already you have.

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AZUZ: Should American voters be allowed to take selfies in the voting booth?

Snapchat is now out of a few different groups fighting against bans on ballot box selfies.

There`s no federal law about this, but most states don`t allow voters to show their marked ballot, which indicate whom they voted for. In

Pennsylvania and Indiana, you could go to jail for voting booth pictures. In Vermont, you can take selfies, but not share them. In Oregon and

Wyoming, there are no laws against this.

Snapchat says that ballot box selfies are part of free speech and that they`re just a way that voters, especially young voters, engaged in the

political process. Critics say selfies threatened the secret ballot, where your vote is private and free from outside influences. They`re also concerned about corrupt political groups paying people to vote and then requiring ballot box selfies as proof.

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From our "don`t try this at home or really anywhere" files, a low altitude parachuting competition in China. Competitors had about three seconds from the time they jump to do a few stunts like back flips and twist, and then open their chutes. Skydivers came from around the world to do this and
waiting for them at the bottom, of the gorge below, was a floating platform with the bull`s eye they aim for.

Thankfully, people were able to open up to shoot debris, to spread and share their canopies, floats we`re seeing in air and water, touchdowns and end zones made to order.

CNN STUDENT NEWS wishes all of you happy landings.

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