There's a chance taking place in Germany's government. For the first time in almost 60 years, a right wing nationalist party has won seats in the nation's parliament. What won't change? The country's leader. Chancellor Angela Merkel will keep her job

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年9月

1.Face to Face with Hurricane Camille Joseph P. Blank 1 John Koshak, Jr., knew that Hurricane Camille would be bad. Radio and television warnings had sounded throughout that Sunday, last August 17, as Camille lashed northwestward across the Gulf of M

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New Orleans Works to Rebuild Music Scene After Katrina 新奥尔良重建被飓风摧毁的音乐场所 NEW ORLEANS New Orleans is known for its music. But 10 years ago, the music was drowned out by the howling winds and rising water brought by Hurri

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Three years to the day after a ferocious category 5 hurricane made landfall in Western Mexico, the region was bracing for another Pacific cyclone Tuesday evening. This time, it's Hurricane Willa. At one point when it was still out at sea, Willa had r

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This is AP News Minute. President Trump talked about immigration, the Russia investigation and the media during a rally in West Virginia. He mostly ignored legal developments involving Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen. Manafort, the former Trump campa

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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: The Caribbean nation of Haiti has postponed a presidential election. Four U.S. states have declared states of emergency and it's all because of Hurricane Matthew. As it approached the island nation of Bahamas last

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Starting with the drought that's been going on. It's not one you might have heard of. The Atlantic hurricane drought it's been more than 10 years since a category three or stronger hurricane has made landfall in the Eastern U.S. or on the Gulf Coast.

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Several states along the U.S. Gulf Coast are cleaning up from Hurricane Nate. Storm's first landfall in the country was near the mouth of the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana. That was just after midnight Sunday. It's second landfall was in B

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What remains of Hurricane Irma has moved inland. Last night, the storm had howled through Georgia, toward Alabama and Tennessee, and was expected to clip several other southern states. But its greatest toll on the U.S. was in Florida, where it made l

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The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is officially over. These storms can form at anytime, but the window of when they're most likely expired yesterday. It was an unusual season in several ways. One, it might have been the most expensive for the U.S. H

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While we were on the subject of seasons, the Atlantic hurricane season typically runs from June 1st through November 30th. But as we've said before, these storms don't always follow the calendar, and the good example of that was spinning in the Gulf

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今天我们要学的词是 barometer。 Barometer的意思是气压表、晴雨表,When a hurricane hits, 'Waffle House' becomes a barometer,当飓风来袭时,华夫饼屋就成了晴雨表。什么意思呢?就是这家餐饮店是否开门显

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Tonight heavy rain will spread eastwards to all parts, bringing difficult travelling conditions with surface water and spray, the winds will strengthen behind the rain band with gales developing in many places by dawn, the strongest winds will be dur

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Superstorm Sandy Beaches Boats Along New Jersey Shore It was forecast as one of the largest storms in American history. And yet, some New Jersey citizens stood their ground. Mandatory evacuation... by the time it came in, unfortunately, we didn't hav

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Disaster Conference Meets Against Backdrop of Vanuatu Cyclone Destruction 世界气候会议在瓦努阿图飓风吹袭背景下召开 SENDAI, JAPAN How the world should protect itself from natural disasters and climate change and who should pay for

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After crossing the Florida peninsula and coastal portions of the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Frances struck the Florida panhandle. Frances, an extremely slow-moving storm caused heavy flooding and at least two deaths in Florida. The storm also cau

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Africa Kicks-up A Lot of Dust 非洲大陆的灰尘飘向美国 Bits and pieces of the African continent are falling on the United States and surrounding regions much of the year. Scientists say large amounts of African dust may be having major effec

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今天我们要学的词是devastate。 Devastate, 是破坏的意思。8月29号是卡特里娜飓风来袭两周年的日子。媒体报导说,Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, there is still much work t

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Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, has predicted further negative impacts for Americans from the U.S. and global financial crisis, which he called a credit tsunami. Greenspan and two other current and former U.S. officials, faced t

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More than a million people remain without electrical power and other normal services nearly five days after Hurricane Ike passed over the Houston-Galveston area. Tensions are growing between various government entities over problems in providing need

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