美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-05-28

 Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to CNN Student News.

In yesterday's special edition, we asked you to share your thoughts about this week's deadly tornado¹ in Oklahoma. From Rebecca, we can't stop this, but we can try our best to work on helping² the victims and repairing the damage; and from Jessica, stay strong, stay together and hold on, 'cause Oklahoma is getting on the road to recovery. That road is certainly to be a long one, there's people return to their homes and start the rebuild. Ensurance official thinks the tornado might have cause more than 2 billion dollars in damages. Chris Cuomo examined the power of the storm.

--We're gonna take you to the tornado's path from beginning to end. If you look down here, you're gonna see a brown line, right starts from this debris³ field, and starts going this direction. That is the actually the tornado's trail, and as you see it's going to get much more dramatic as we get near populated area.

You literally⁴ can trace with your finger a line where the tornado wind, the path is completely obvious. It's about a block and an half wide. And you notice it just by seeing everything that's destroyed.

Right now we're flying at 2,500 feet high above the ground. Sicentist say that the debris of the tornado contains 10 times as high as we are right now into the air. Look the trees, it looks like people pulled them up and laid them down there, just like they were waiting their garden. And those are huge old grow fine trees.

Cars are just littered along the trail they were never there, they weren't parked here, they were tossed⁵ like toys. This part of the community really showed you the randomicity and tensity of the tornado, some homes are just completely gone, and in a block away being spared. And this part of debris trail ends at a school where children lost their lives.

To protect themselves during the storms, some people went in the storm shelters in their homes. This YouTube video shows what it looked like when one Oklahoma family came out ot its shelter.

The Mayor of Moore Oklahoma, the city that was hit the worst by this tornado, says he's going to push for a new law. It would require that any new home has to be built with either a storm shelter or a safe room. The safe room was all that was left standing⁶ when the tornado hit this family's home in Alabama in 2011. The house was destroyed. The families stayed inside the room. The special rooms and shelters aren't luxurious⁷, they have one purpose to keep people alive. Gary Tuchman shows us how.

--The people who lived in this house that was destroyed survived. They survived because they left well advance. But if they did not leave well advance, they would survive also. Because they had this heavy metal storm shelter. I wanna show you how it works.

You open the door, and you take a look inside. You see it's very cramp⁸ inside, there is not much room, but plenty of room to survive. Walk down the steps with your family, you can fit 7 or 8 people and the important things here, clothing, pictures, valuables. You come in and then you just shut the door. And you're safe and sound as the tornado goes above you. There's no doubt that the people would survive if they went into the shelter. When the storms over, you open it up and you all come out. One thing you kept in mind you may say, woo, the rubble⁹ falls on this you are hard to get out. Well, you don't lift it up, you slide it and you slide it under here. And if the rubble fall on the top of it, lots of rubble, you may not able to slided it. But then you're alive, presumably¹⁰ told your relatives that you're here, and they told recuers and they come and they rescue you.

And one thing in my wonder why don't schools in the tornado belt Oklahoma and Texas in Kansas all have storm shelters, all have basements. Well, you should point out it is not a law. And the fact is, many school districts say it's just not economically feasible to have these. It cost several thousand dollars these personal shelters.

1 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

2 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

3 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 tossed   

v.（轻轻或漫不经心地）扔( toss的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）摇荡；摇匀；（为…）掷硬币决定

参考例句：

• I tossed the book aside and got up. 我把书丢在一边，站了起来。
• He angrily tossed his tools and would work no longer. 他怒气冲冲地扔下工具不肯再干了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

7 luxurious   

adj.精美而昂贵的；豪华的

参考例句：

• This is a luxurious car complete with air conditioning and telephone.这是一辆附有空调设备和电话的豪华轿车。
• The rich man lives in luxurious surroundings.这位富人生活在奢侈的环境中。

8 cramp   

n.痉挛；[pl.](腹)绞痛；vt.限制，束缚

参考例句：

• Winston stopped writing,partly because he was suffering from cramp.温斯顿驻了笔，手指也写麻了。
• The swimmer was seized with a cramp and had to be helped out of the water.那个在游泳的人突然抽起筋来，让别人帮着上了岸。

9 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

10 presumably   

adv.据推测，大概，可能

参考例句：

• No reply from him yet,presumably he hasn't received my letter.他没有回信，想必没有收到我的信。
• Presumably she could be trusted to find a safe place.或许满可以相信她，找得到安全的所在。