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1、 Its Tuesday. My name is Carl Azuz, and we welcome you to CNN Student News. Ten minutes, no commercials, headlines from around the world, and we have a lot of them for you today.First up, were talking about winter weather. Now a large snowstorm in the northeastern U.S. is not that unusual. But when

2、it happens near the end of April, thats a bit more unexpected, especially when it comes after the warmest March on record, and winter that didnt really have that much snow.（BEGIN VIDEO CLIP）AZUZ （voice-over）: It was a different story on Monday. Parts of New York were expecting 10 inches of snow, any

3、where from eight to 16 inches around Pennsylvania. One meteorologist said it wont last long. Temperatures are expected to go up this week.Brian Todd was in Pennsylvania on Monday as the snow came down. He was looking at one particular challenge: when winter weather hits at this time of year.BRIAN TO

4、DD, AMS METEOROLOGIST: As the heavy snow continues to fall here in north central Pennsylvania, this is what officials here are primarily worried about, the snow kind of building up on the foliage. The full foliage in a lot of the trees that has popped out, of course, since its late April, when the s

5、now really starts to build up in this and in other areas, its going to make the trees very, very heavy.Some of the trees are expected to collapse and fall onto power lines. That has already happened. We are told that more than 20,000 customers in this area of north central Pennsylvania are without p

6、ower. They have about 200 crews from the power and electric company Penelec, fanning out all over this area. As for the roads here, the main roads in this general area still are passable, obviously.A lot of truck traffic and car traffic coming through here. This is the corridor road leading to Inter

7、state 80, which is a major east-west corridor for truck routes. But officials are concerned that those routes may be disrupted, may be slowed down a little bit by this snow.Interestingly enough, a lot of the trucks that are out here to plow and salt roads had to have their plows and spreaders reatta

8、ched to them, because they have taken all that equipment off, of course not anticipating this weather to hit.（END VIDEO CLIP）AZUZ: In some of those states struggling with severe weather yesterday, voters are heading to the polls today. There are Republican presidential primaries in New York and Penn

9、sylvania as well as in Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is now the presumptive Republican nominee. Hes expected to win the partys nomination. But primary season isnt officially over, and Governor Romney isnt the only Republican candidate whos still in

10、 the race. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and U.S. Representative Ron Paul are on the ballot in all five states holding contests today.President Obama spent part of the day Monday focused on human rights. He visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaus

11、t was the systematic killing of millions of Jewish people by Nazi Germany during World War II.During his visit to the museum, President Obama announced that hell award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, who tried to warn the world about the Holocaust.The president also announced a new

12、executive order that aims to stop countries from using technology to abuse human rights. He specifically talked about cell phone monitoring in Syria, and he explained the importance of addressing global violence.BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We need to be doing everything we can to p

13、revent and respond to these kinds of atrocities, because national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people. On this day in history, back in 1800, President John Adams established the Library of Congress. The institution is now one of the largest libraries in the world.In 1898, Spain d

14、eclared war on the United States. The Spanish- American war was mostly over within three months.And in 1990, the Hubble telescope hitched a ride on a shuttle into space. Hubble has spent decades exploring and documenting our universe. Heading over to Europe now for a pair of political stories that b

15、oth involve prime ministers, the first one is in the Netherlands. Mark Rutte has been the prime minister of that country since 2010 - not any more. Rutte handed in his resignation yesterday. The prime minister is the leader of the party in the majority, but no party won a majority in the last electi

16、ons.So Rutte put together a coalition of several parties. One of those backed out of the coalition on Monday. No coalition, no majority, which is why Rutte stepped down. This could lead to new elections in the Netherlands, maybe as soon as this summer.This is Icelands former prime minister, Geir Haa

17、rde. He is the first world leader to be convicted of a criminal charge in connection with the global financial crisis. Before that started, Iceland was one of the worlds wealthiest countries, but its banking system collapsed in 2008, wiping out billions of dollars in savings.Haarde was convicted of

18、negligence related to that collapse, but he was cleared of three other charges and a court official says the former Icelandic prime minister wont face any punishment.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me. I come from space, but Im most often seen in the Earths atmosphere. I usually dont stick ar

19、ound longer than a few seconds. Im a glowing streak thats sometimes called a shooting or falling star.Im a meteor, a space object you can see burning up in the night sky. When a bunch of those glowing streaks show up in the sky all at the same time, its known as a meteor shower. Theres one that happ

20、ens every year, right at the same time, and scientists say its the cause of some mysterious booms in California recently, although there are some residents who arent so sure. Sharokina Shams of affiliate KCRA has the details for us.BRIAN CAMPBELL: And I looked straight up through here at the Sierras

21、, and it looked like the sun coming at you.VICKI, AMADOR COUNTY: It was so loud that it shook the ground and continued long enough for my husband to run over to me and shelter me with his body.CAMPBELL: There was a really low rumble that started getting louder and louder and louder, like a rocket ta

22、king off. And then it finally started shaking the house and everything.CRAIG SHOEMAKER, NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: I think it is exciting.SHAROKINA SHAMS, KCRA CORRESPONDENT: Craig Shoemaker is a lead forecaster with the National Weather Service. He says what happened today was part of the ongoing Ly

23、rid meteor shower. It happens every April 22nd, and if it had been dark, might have looked something like this.SHOEMAKER: And the causes of that have been a debris cloud thats left over from Comet Thatcher. The amount of meteors that pass through the atmosphere vary every year. This year it seems to

24、 be that maybe weve had a few more than usually. There may be some larger ones that have passed through.Today some people, including Campbell, were skeptical. I thought it was a satellite coming down, because we see meteors all the time and meteors dont burst into thousands of blue sparks, you know.

25、 They just disappear. All right. Tell me if this sounds familiar. Youre eating ice cream, and all of a sudden, wham, massive headache. Youre suffering from sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. Most of us, thank heavens, just know it as a brain freeze. Some scientists are trying to figure out what causes

26、 it. According to their research, that headache may actually be your brain acting in self-defense. It allows more blood flow to deal with the extreme cold, and that could be what causes the pain.Why would anyone care about figuring out brain freeze? Well, what theyre hoping is that their results cou

27、ld influence research on other types of headaches, like severe migraines. One expert said he doesnt think this brain freeze study is going to offer any breakthroughs. The scientist who ran the study says more tests need to be done. Its prom season, so sights like this one, high school students decke

28、d out in dresses and tuxes - you see this stuff. Its pretty common.But this particular prom were showing you is all different. Its the first one for students in Joplin, Missouri, since a massive tornado devastated their city last year. Back then, news cameras were in town to cover the deadliest torn

29、ado in more than 60 years.This time, those cameras were back to cover a celebration. The rebuilding is far from over in Joplin, but one student described this prom as a victory call, and said its a sign that, quote, no tornado can take us down. Before we go, your parents might have told you not to p

30、lay with your food. They never said anything about your dishes. This is speed stacking. Youve probably seen this before. You probably assume the video was sped up. Its not. And if you think stacking isnt a sport, youre going to have to take that up with the Junior Olympics, because it is being featured as part of this years games.These speedsters are trying to qualify for that c