AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-02（在线收听）

1. Hurricane Gustav is quickly losing its punch after plowing through south Louisiana's fishing and oil industry.The National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a Category 1 with 90-mile-an-hour winds.

2. Hurricane Gustav is sending water rushing up and over New Orleans' Industrial Canal's floodwall.But city officials and the Army Corps of Engineers say they expect the levees will hold. Half of the streets closest to the canal are flooded,some places knee-deep.

3.The McCain campaign says Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Paliln's unmarried daughter is five-month pregnant.A campagin statement says Bristol Palin will keep her baby due in late December and marry the child's father.(这里的v和p也可以小写）

4. And Vladimir Putin paid a visit to a Russian wildlife preserve. The tough-talking prime minister shot a female tiger with a tranquilizer gun after it had freed itself from a restraint. But it's all for a good cause.The program tracks rare tigers like this one.

WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online

1.rush vi.
To flow or surge rapidly, often with noise: Tons of water rushed over the falls.

2.due adj.
Expected to give birth.