美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-03（在线收听）

1.The Coast Guard says it will continue to search waters off Florida's Gulf Coast for three missing boaters. That's after crews rescued a fourth man. Former University of South Florida football player Nick Schuyler was clinging to an overturned boat that belongs to Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper.

2.More than a million school kids from South Carolina to New Hampshire had a day off. That's thanks to a massive late-winter snow storm that hit the eastern seaboard. The weather is blamed for four deaths, hundreds of cancelled flights and power outages in New Jersey, Virginia and the Carolinas.

3.President Barack Obama has introduced Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his choice to be secretary of health and human services. Obama also announced he had selected Nancy-Ann DeParle to be director of the White House Office for Health Reform.

4.And rescuers in Tasmania are racing against the clock. They are trying to save nearly 200 stranded pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins. Scientists say it's unusual for this many to get stranded together.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.cling to: phrase

to stick to someone or something, or seem to surround them

2.bottlenose: n. [动]宽吻海豚