We were prepared. Emergency shelters were open. We evacuated and also a lot of people. But, when you get that much water in that period of time, we literally were taking on an inch-and-a-half of rain an hour and for a sustained period, you just can't
Well, the winds are just really strong right now. The rain has just become a stinging rain. It's been going on for hours but it really picked up as the eye makes its way here. Last update about an hour or so ago, the eye is like 80 miles away from Na
First up, Libya steps into the spotlight at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The North African country is in the middle of a revolution that removed long-time leader Moammar Gadhafi from power. Yesterday, the U.N. welcomed L
Hello, welcome to CNN Students News. Its Monday 24th, and were glad to have you along as the month of October wires down. After nearly nine years, Americas work in Iraq will be over. Over next two months, our troops in Iraq, tens of thousands of them
Stories making news Cross Country. In Florida two firefighters have been killed battling a wildfire near Jacksonville. Officials thought that fire was contained but it flared up again yesterday. And in Georgia, a Delta Airlines jet returns safely to
Hello, everyone, I am Carl Assuz, welcome to CNN student news. We are talking about important groups of people involved with the 22th US president true election. Not the case though, It is the Pacific group of voters. First up, though, American leade
Hey, there, hope you had a great weekend, I'm C.A. This week in the United Nations, there is a big meeting scheduled to take place at the annual gathering of the UN general assembly. That's factoring into two of our top stories today. The first of th
Checking today's new across country now in Sandiyago take a look at this pretty scaring moment during a drug bolw race when it's see the driver's enginee is exploed and cut they when the driver silly inside than shut up of 15 feet in the air,It was t
It is getting a lot of attention of here in New York because we saw this term political last week.There was a special congressional race though publican contender made this issue.R sees some republican presidential hopefulls questionning the presiden
Hi, Im Carl Azuz. As we wrap up the week here on CNN Students News. We are talking about earthquake and basketball. You are going to hear some students advice on staying safe when you behind the wheel. And we are going to share some your opinions fro
If any one of you ever doubts that you can build that future, if anyone ever tells you that you shouldnt or you cant, then I want you to say with one voice,the voice of a generation.You tell them, Yes, we can,What do you say? Yes, we can! That's a ca
We look at this Washington Post article.I think it'a accurate and I don't think it's anything new.I have been here for little last four years and based on what we have seen here, Al-Qaeda as we knew it no longer exist and if it still does exist,there
It is very disspointing that he will not own up his responsibility in this particular crime and we acturally looking forward to the independent forensic expert report that acutally do out on saturday this week which we believe the turning point to br
This week we're taking you behind the scenes to answer a question we get asked a lot around this time of year. What does CNN students news do over the summer? Let's go find out. First up, we are gonna talk to the executive producer of CNN students ne
After Rick Perry accused president Obama of pursuing a policy of appeasement in the middle east at a news conference. He turned the podium to a conservative Israeli politician, who is as blunt spoken as the Texas governor. I want to thank governor Ri
Checking some stories making news across the country now, New Mexico state police respond to reports of a plane down in a lake, floating among the debris, huge bundles of cocaine. No survivors found. Police divers are searching for the pilot, possibl
The government has been concerned about the number of people whod been going in and out of this, the 20 kilometer exclusion zone. Well, up to now residents have been able to go in and collect some their positions, check on their homes and so on. That
We continue to call on BP to fulfill their promises of their ads.We continue to call on on BP to truly make it right.Here in Louisiana we have over 300 miles of our coast that continue to be oil. We again call on BP to make these payments within days
We have the U.S. Forrest Service here helping us as well as firefighters from states all across the nation. When we're looking at the rural areas, there is no tax base out there to fund the fire services. We set priorities of life and property protec
We've got some mementos that we have that we still haven't been able to find, and they're fairly important to us. So, we're going to make a final look underneath as we lift up the debris. Perhaps we can find some of it. Everything that is salvageable