美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-13

Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. This is CNN Student News where Fridays are awesome¹.

Our last show with this school year starts with the first name storm of Atlantic hurricane season. Wind and rain from Andrea started heatin Florida yesterday. Storm was projected to move across the state and up the east coast. Andrea was a tropical strom yesterday. Experts predicted it wouldn't be over water long enough to strengthen into a new hurricane before it made a landfall.

Next up, there are some controversy² concerning phone records. A British newspaper reports that the US National Security Agency collects from phone records from Verison on daily basis. The NSA didn't comment on the report neither did Verison, when US Senate said the program is legal that has been going on for 7 years. A US Congressman³ says the program helps stop the terrorist attack  in the US. But others say this violate and expectations of privacy. Another senator discribed that the government overreached, and he said most Americans would find shocking.

North Korea and South Korea are talking about talking. The countries are planning to discuss the Kaesong industrial zone. It's a manufactory area in North Korea that's right on the border. It's also been a symbol of cooperation with North and South Koreans working there together.

But North Korea shut it down in April as tensions increased on the Korea Peninsular. That's just one of the major stories we covered this school year. Here is a look back.

An incredible 570-million-kilometer journey is coming to an end. NASA's rover Curiosity is on final approach to Mars.

--Touchdwon confirmed. We're safe on Mars. The rover Curiosity continues to send back just spectacular image every day. The pictures are getting better and better.

At this time, we have the began the balloon inflation, capsule systems are green, instrumentation is green, payload is green and medical systems are green.

--I had tears in my eyes when I was coming back a couple of times. Because you're sitting there and you thought about the moment so many times, you know, how it would feel, and how it would look like. And this is a way bigger that I anticipated.

We are riding around at 2 o'clock in the morning, we &&&&& the people out of water. As you see, these people down the street.

--You have a national guard now, thank God, helping⁴ rescue people out there home so there's nowhere to go. There a veyr stench of gasoline in the water as well.

Right now, I'm much concern about preventing any other loss of life, getting people to safe places, and then we will worry about the election. The election will take care of itself.

1 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

2 controversy   

n.争论，辩论，争吵

参考例句：

• That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
• We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。

3 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

4 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。