Cnn Student News 2010年10月6日

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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hey! Thanks for hanging out with us again on CNN Student News. We've got your updates on the trapped miners in Chile and a couple of iReports from Ohio students on bullying. We're starting with a story out of New York City, though.

First Up: Shahzad Sentenced

AZUZ: The man who tried to bomb Times Square on May 1st is headed to prison for the rest of his life. Faisal Shahzad was sentenced yesterday. You might remember the sight of Shahzad's crime, an SUV was found smoking in Times Square, filled with explosives. It didn't go off, and Shahzad was caught a couple days later when he tried to hop a plane for Pakistan. In the courtroom Tuesday, Shahzad didn't show any sorrow for what he'd tried to do. He interrupted the judge, said he didn't care about his sentence. It came a few months after Shahzad pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him, which included trying to use a weapon of mass destruction and trying to commit international terrorism. The judge in the case said Shahzad could appeal the sentence, but that his punishment of life in prison would keep other would-be terrorists, from following in Shazhad's footsteps.

Terror Alert

AZUZ: More terrorism-related news out of Europe. 12 people were arrested yesterday in France. Police believe they might have ties to terrorism. Nine of them are thought to be connected to an Islamist movement, and they're accused of trying to get guns and bombs. This story of a terrorist plot has Europeans on edge. And it's developing after the U.S. issued an unusual advisory to American citizens, telling them to be on guard if they travel anywhere in Europe. Britain, Sweden and Japan are also warning their citizens about this.

Rescuers Inch Closer

AZUZ: 33 trapped miners in Chile could be significantly closer to seeing daylight for the first time in months! A drill is getting very close to where they're trapped. And they could be rescued by the end of October -- maybe sooner. But the danger increases as the rescue gets closer. Our report from the scene comes from CNN's Patrick Oppman.

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PATRICK OPPMAN, CNN ALL-PLATFORM JOURNALIST: After more than 60 days underground, the rescue of 33 trapped miners may be close at hand. The Plan B drill is only about 160 meters away from the men. Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said he hopes the men are rescued by next week before he has to leave to Europe on an official visit.

But rescue officials at the mines said their priority is still to rescue the men quickly but safely. Officials are still giving a timeline of between October 15 and October 30 for when they plan to pull off this rescue. Once the drill bit actually reaches the men, then begins a whole other process of putting a lining down the hole which will act as a buffer between the rescue capsule and the mine shaft walls. Then heavy equipment such as winches need to be brought in which will lower down that rescue capsule to the men.

Officials have also said they are working on a list of how the men will leave the mine. They said that it makes more sense for the healthiest men who require less help and less time to get to the surface to go first. But officials said they have not formalized that list for who gets to leave this underground prison and in what order.

Patrick Oppman, CNN, Copiapo, Chile.

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Shoutout

CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Osborn's social studies classes at Mapleton Middle and High School in Mapleton, Oregon! What is the highest safety rating given to cars by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration? Is it: A) Four-Star, B) Five-Star, C) Grade A, or D) Gold Seal? You've got three seconds -- GO! The highest rating given by the government agency is the Five-Star safety rating. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

Rating Safety

AZUZ: In its newest safety review of vehicles, the government's simplifying what the five-star rating means: how well vehicles hold up to front crashes, side-impact crashes and how well they keep from rolling over. The new tests themselves are more thorough, though. So getting that five-star rating, isn't as easy for carmakers. Of the first 33 models tested, only two of them got the new, five-star rating: The Hyundai Sonata and the BMW 5 series, both of them sedans. Most of the other models got four-star ratings, except the Toyota Camry, which got three stars. And the Nissan Versa, which got two. Oh, and this is interesting: The government is now using female crash test dummies in its tests. It used to be just males.

Bullying

AZUZ: CNN is taking a hard look at school bullying this week, and we have a couple of iReports, from Mrs. Spiess and her middle school students in Bryan, Ohio. Listen to this: it gives you an idea of why bullying is so widespread.

KAYLEA BOWERS, MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT: I think if you think about it, everybody's bullied someone at some point in time, whether it's shoving someone into a locker or calling somebody a name. So, yes, I have bullied someone.

AZUZ: She brings up an interesting point: How do you define bullying? Is it shoving someone in a locker? Is it calling names? Whatever definitions there are, Kyra had a great description of what bullying feels like.

KYRA ROBINETT, MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT: To me, it makes you feel like you have a bottomless pit in your stomach. Like, you're always worried about when the bully is going to come and pick on you and stuff. And it feels like nobody wants to help you. They want to laugh along with the bully.

Hispanic Heritage Month - Latino Youth Struggles

AZUZ: We're in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month -- running through October 15th. And we had a great conversation recently with CNN en Espanol's Sebastian Castro. He traveled to five cities across the U.S. to interview Latino students about their experiences. Teachers, please note this was a very honest discussion about some of the discrimination the students said they'd faced. Here we go.

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AZUZ: Talk to us about your five city tour. What cities did you visit?

SEBASTIAN CASTRO, CNN EN ESPANOL: Well first off, I went to Miami, then I flew to New York, Chicago, Phoenix and L.A., all in five days.

AZUZ: What were some of the subjects on the minds of the Latino students you spoke to?

CASTRO: Well definitely, like I was saying, the immigration law is a big debate amongst Latinos. Some of them are feeling pretty angry, some of them are really active towards it. They're joining organizations, marching, talking to their representatives.

AZUZ: Now during this project you got several iReports from some of the Latino students you spoke to. I think we have one to play right now. Let's take a listen.

CAROLINA RUIZ, IREPORTER: The obstacle that I faced is that when I was living in North Carolina, I was kind of considered Mexican and not spoken to. The people there didn't want to look at me, didn't want to talk to me, automatically shunned me because they thought I was that race. And once they realized I was Colombian and Cuban, then they thought different of me and they wanted to be friends with me. And I thought it was kind of hypocritical to like one Hispanic race and not the other.

AZUZ: So, Sebastian, did you hear a lot of people say things like Carolina did?

CASTRO: A lot of Americans tend to put us all Latinos in the same box. Usually by thinking that we are Mexican even though we have various backgrounds just like any European or any other person from around the world would.

AZUZ: Did they have any ideas about how the country could get past that?

CASTRO: Their ideas where to just educate people, like we're doing right now. Show students, show people from a young age that we are all of different backgrounds, we come from different countries, we have different kinds of blood.

AZUZ: And we have a segment from another iReporter sharing that person's experience. Lets take a listen...

DEYA JOURDAIN, IREPORTER: When I first came to NYU, I spoke a lot of Spanish and I was very ethnic, my skin color, my hair color, everything was very Dominican, I guess you could say. And I went to my first business class and I was one of two minorities in the class, which was very shocking to me. But, what was more shocking was the fact that there was this stereotype of us Latinos of us minority that we didn't attend business school. And I was very proud to be one of two minorities to be at a business school in a class of 60 people representing the Latino population.

AZUZ: Sebastian, we've heard a couple of different perspectives. How would you sum up the feelings of the Latino students you spoke too?

CASTRO: They're trying to show people, prove themselves, achieve their dreams by putting all the effort they can.

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Before We Go

AZUZ: Before we go, back when the Rubik's Cube got popular in the 1980s, there was no such thing as iReport. There was no such thing as you! But thanks to digital video, an iconic toy, and stop-motion photography, we're able to show one way of solving the puzzle. Having had one of these things as a kid, I can tell you it's a lot easier watching it, than solving it. The cube became helpful in teaching algebraic group theory.

Goodbye

AZUZ: ...although it was responsible for millions of mental blocks! All right, all right, but you try thinking of a pun with the word "Rubik." And if you do think of one, post it on our wall on Facebook. That address is Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews. And we'll meet you back at this address tomorrow! Thanks for watching, y'all!