AP 2010-11-03(在线收听

1. The White House says President Barack Obama isn’t giving up on the House of Representatives even amid dire predictions and poor polls for Democrats. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the president is still working to hold onto control of the chamber in his last few days before the midterm elections.

 

2. A top University of Notre Dame official says there was what he called an extraordinary burst of wind on the football field just before a tower crashed to the ground, killing a student. Declan Sullivan was videotaping practice at the time of the incident.

 

3. An official says the death toll from a tsunami off western Indonesia has risen to 370. The disaster management official says the number is climbing as search and rescue teams reach remote villages on islands slammed by the ten-foot-high waves.

 

4. The London Zoo has welcomed a new member. A baby gorilla was born there Tuesday. The unnamed animal is the first baby gorilla to be born there in 20 years.

 

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