CNN 2011-04-29

change, an egg roll, and an extraordinary talk show host. CNN Student News is back -- and so am I -- to bring you 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines from around the world. First up, police in Poplar Bluff, Missouri are going door to door, tellin

CNN 2011-04-30

Down the... in the southern part of Barler County, south of Poplar Bluff, there was a bridge in the levee about 5 a.m. in this morning. We have 200 soldiers on the ground right there right now, so we can just pay in the security operations, evacuatio

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美联社新闻一分钟 2008-06-28

1. Crews are rushing to build a four-foot-tall sandbag levee around an eastern Missouri community. Emergency workers are hoping it will block floodwaters from a broken levee south of the town of Winfield. Officials say muskrat holes caused that brea

VOA标准英语2013--Floods Challenge Midwest Farmers

Floods Challenge Midwest Farmers On his land outside Peoria, Darrel Kammeyer is keeping one eye on the rising Illinois River and another on the only thing standing between it and his farmland, a seven-meter-tall levee. It was constructed to hold back

CNN 2011-05-01

On Monday, the National Weather Service alert said the levee may fail at any time. Yesterday was any time. This is the levee we've been telling you about in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. We reported on it yesterday, in fact. It failed in at least four spot

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NPR 2011-05-13

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama wants two more years out of FBI Director Robert Mueller, whose 10-year term expires this September 4. He plans to ask Congress to let Mueller stay on the job longer because of what he de

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-10

1. A wildfire has burned more than 800 acres in downtown Los Angeles. Animals at the nearby city zoo were moved indoors and dozens of homes were evacuated. 2. There were more evacuations in Missouri where levees have been topped by rising flood wate

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美联社新闻一分钟 2008-06-18

1. A levee near Gulfport, Illinois was not able to hold back the rising water of the Mississippi river. Officials are urging residents to evacuate from waterlogged areas near the state line. They say there have been more than a half dozen levee brea

AP 2011-06-10

1. High winds and dry conditions have helped spread what's now the third-largest wildfire in Arizona history. Thousands of people are believed to have already evacuated the mountains of eastern Arizona and hundreds more have been warned to be ready.

AP 2011-06-19

1. Two people have been questioned about an abandoned campfire that may have started a massive wildfire in Arizona. The blaze is the second largest in the state's history. 2. Crews in Iowa are hoping a temporary levee will hold back floodwaters of th

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Vicksburg Businesses Band Together to Fight Floodwater As flooding continues along the Mississippi River, happy outcomes are hard to come by. There is one neighborhood in the South Vicksburg area of Mississippi, though, where five small businesses ha

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CNN 2008-06-20

Hello, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The Mississippi River is gushing through a hole in the massive levee outside Winfield, Missouri. And police officers are telling

AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-10-02)

1. Some residents along the Wisconsin River in central Wisconsin are leaving their homes after a levee started to fail. Officials say water is only leaking from the Caledonia Levee and that it has not completely collapsed. Folks in Wisconsin, Minneso

美联社新闻一分钟 2008-06-12

1. A sandbagged levee is still keeping the Cedar River out of downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa. But more rain is following and officials are asking for extra volunteer sandbaggers. Forecasters say a dry spell could be coming soon. 2. Low humidity and 40-mi