AP 2011-09-07（在线收听） |
1. President Barack Obama stood on a bridge overlooking a rain-swollen river in New Jersey and said the federal government would work to rebuild towns recovering from Hurricane Irene. The Passaic, which had washed over the bridge swept through the once-booming factory town, flooding the downtown and forcing hundreds to evacuate. 2. Hours after coming ashore in Louisiana, Tropic Storm Lee continues to dump heavy rain along the Gulf coast. Parts of Louisiana and Mississippi have received close to a foot of rains so far, and the storm is barely moving.
3. Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife returned to his native France Sunday. His arrival came four months after the former head of the International Monetary Fund was yanked off a Paris-bound flight to face an accusation that he tried to rape a hotel maid.
4. A penguin nicknamed Happy Feet needed a nudge but finally made it back into the waters of the Antarctic Ocean. The slide happened two month after he showed up on a New Zealand beach about 2,000 miles from home. |
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