CNN 2010-05-06

How much more can Tennessee take? Parts of the state completely under water this morning after getting pounded with up to 20 inches of water over the weekend. At least 11 people have lost their lives. Others still missing. Hospitals evacuated¹. At Opryland hotel 1,500 guests spent the night at a nearby high school. Thousands of residents have fled their homes. People like this.

'I have been down here 40 years. Never saw it like this. And that’s just sad because we’ve looked for people all day. They’ve said they come but nobody come.'

'We just happen to come down here, when just really to take a picture and then they were bringing the first boat in. And they didn’t know the area, the fire department and so my boyfriend got on the boat with them and off he went.'

And while the rain is over, people are still worried about how high the Cumberland River will crest². Downtown Nashville merchants could lose millions of dollars.

Also, this morning we are keeping a close eye on the failed car bombing in New York’s Time Square. Police still pouring through the surveillance videos to see if they can spot whomever left the vehicle. They wanna talk to this man. The video shows a middle-aged³ white man changing his shirt about half a block from the parked SUV. It was loaded with a crude concoction⁴ of ordinary items like fireworks, furl and fertilizer. One big question still unanswered though. Is this the work of an international terrorist or terrorist? Police are skeptical⁵ of an apparent claim of responsibility right now from the Pakistani Taliban. The group has falsely taken credit for previous attacks on US soil. CNN's Allan Chernoff has been covering the story for us since it first broke Saturday evening. Allan, let’s go ahead to start with the surveillance video and what are the police wanting to know right now about the guy in this video.

'That’s right, Kyra. That is the focus. Surveillance video. That video that shows the man apparently⁶ a white man in his 40s, taking off his shirt, putting that shirt into a bag, putting on another shirt, apparently walking away from the vehicle, that’s one of the primary focuses of interest at the moment when we should point out, there’re lots of other video tapes. Let’s first hear from the police commissioner⁷, Ray Kelly. He spoke⁸ about it on American Morning this morning.'
 

1 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

2 crest   

n.顶点；饰章；羽冠；vt.达到顶点；vi.形成浪尖

参考例句：

• The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
• He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。

3 middle-aged   

adj.中年的

参考例句：

• I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
• The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。

4 concoction   

n.调配(物)；谎言

参考例句：

• She enjoyed the concoction of foreign dishes.她喜欢调制外国菜。
• His story was a sheer concoction.他的故事实在是一纯属捏造之事。

5 skeptical   

adj.怀疑的，多疑的

参考例句：

• Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
• Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。

6 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

7 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。