AP 2011-02-07(在线收听

1. President Barack Obama has chosen Jay Carney to replace outgoing Robert Gibbs as the White House Press Secretary. Carney is currently Vice President Joe Biden's communications chief. He previously worked for Time Magazine.

 

2. Police say an American missionary couple who were attacked by gunmen in Mexico may have been targeted for their 2008 Chevy pickup truck. Sam Davis frantically drove against traffic Wednesday to get his wife who had been shot in the head to a hospital across the border. She died about an hour after her arriving in Texas.

 

3. Things are slowly returning to normal as the East Coast digs out from another round of snow. Crews from New York to Washington spent much of Thursday removing wrecked and abandoned cars from highways and restoring power. At least six deaths are blamed on this latest storm.

 

4. The rumors can stop swirling. The baby grand piano that turned up on a Miami sandbar was burned to tatters by New Year’s revelers, then brought to its new home by a 16-year-old who said he was hoping the idea might help him get into a prestigious art school.

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