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Hello, there. Good to see you. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Virginia Cha with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

The Bush Administration is considering a plan B, as it were, to help Detroit's Big Three automakers after the Senate failed to pass a bailout plan. The White House may use some money set aside for Wall Street and give that to the auto¹ industry.

The markets turned mixed after news that the White House might step in and help the auto industry. Still the Dow Jones remained in negative numbers at last checkout², but right now it is positive. Asian and European markets tumbled in Friday trading.

The European Union members have agreed on an economic stimulus³ package of about 264 billion dollars. The announcement came at an EU summit in Brussels. It's hoped the money will help dig the continent out of the current recession.

Meantime in Florida, investigators⁴ are trying to identify the skeletal remains⁵ of a young child. They were found less than a half mile from the home of three-year old Caylee Anthony who's been missing since June. Police tell CNN that they searched Caylee's grandparents' home overnight and they quote "absolutely found something of interest" . Meantime, Caylee's mother Casey Anthony has been charged with her daughter's murder, as you may already know, based mainly on circumstantial evidence.

Jurors in the Brain Nichols case returned for a fourth day of deliberation today. The jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on a sentence of life in prison or death for Nichols yesterday. Nichols was convicted of killing⁶ a judge and three others in a violent shooting spree that began in a downtown Atlanta courthouse in 2005.

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1 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
参考例句：
Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。 The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

2 checkout
n.（超市等）收银台，付款处
参考例句：
Could you pay at the checkout.你能在结帐处付款吗。 A man was wheeling his shopping trolley to the checkout.一个男人正推着购物车向付款台走去。

3 stimulus
n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物
参考例句：
Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。 Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

4 investigators
n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
参考例句：
This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。 The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。来自《简明英汉词典》

5 remains
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。 The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

6 killing
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。 Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

7 wireless
adj.无线的；n.无线电
参考例句：
There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。 Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

8 gadget
n.小巧的机械，精巧的装置，小玩意儿
参考例句：
This gadget isn't much good.这小机械没什么用处。 She has invented a nifty little gadget for undoing stubborn nuts and bolts.她发明了一种灵巧的小工具用来松开紧固的螺母和螺栓。