CNN 2009-07-09

Good morning, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN center in Atlanta. It's Wednesday, July 8th. Here is a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

President Obama is joining the other leaders of the world's top industrialized nations for the G-8 summit. Mr. Obama arrived earlier today for the session in L'Aquila Italy and topping the agenda for the leaders how best to handle this stage of the global recession. Two other issues being discussed how to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and climate change.

Undercover agents easily smuggle¹ bombs into some federal buildings. That's from a Government Accountability Office report that's out today. This video shows the agents smuggling² the bomb materials through X-ray machines. They tried this at ten federal buildings and succeeded each time. Then they managed to assemble the bombs inside and carried them to different offices.

The White House promised a sweeping³ overhaul⁴ of the nation's food safety system. 76 million people get sick every year from their food according to the CDC and 5000 of them die. To make your eggs safer the Agriculture Department will have new standards to cut salmonella by the end of the year. The USDA will test more at meat-packing plants to find the deadly E.coli bacteria.

A man from Georgia thought his vehicle was in the shop until he got a ticket in the mail, turns out the repair shop owner took it home and didn't pay a highway toll⁵ and he agreed to keep the car at the shop until the guy could pay the bill. It was there for weeks. The shop owner drove it 87 miles. He says that's from the test drives and also from the trip home.

I'm not out sporting around in his car styling. I've got one of my own
I don't think any other dealership⁶ would've driven my car home.

You are up-to-date. Those are the headlines for you this hour. Do stay with CNN and CNN.com for more on these stories or other news that develops today.

1 smuggle   

vt.私运；vi.走私

参考例句：

• Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
• She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。

2 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

3 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？

4 overhaul   

v./n.大修，仔细检查

参考例句：

• Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
• It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知，铁路系统需要大检修。

5 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

6 dealership   

n.商品特许经销处

参考例句：

• The car dealership has a large inventory of used cars. 这家汽车经销商拥有数量庞大的二手车。
• A key to this effort is the experience in the dealership. 达到这个成果的关键是销售的体验。