CNN 2009-10-31

Hello everyone, I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN center in Atlanta, with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

The search continues for 9 people missing off the coast of California after a midair collision. The Coast Guard says they will keep searching for survivors¹ of victims of last night’s crash. The Coast Guard and Navy searched all night and they were able to find some debris², but no survivors. uh, three helicopters, several ships now taking part in that search.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenging Pakistan to do more to hunt down members of Al-Qaeda in that country, she said she finds it difficult to believe that no one in the Pakistani government knows where Al-Qaeda members are. She also addressed another global security issue, and that is Iran’s nuclear ambition. She talked about the country’s counter-proposal to an international draft agreement. Iran wants its uranium enrichment enriched on un-Iranian soil by a third country under the supervision³ by the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency.

The House could vote as early as next week on health care reform. Democrats⁴ unveiled their final version yesterday with an 894-billion-dollar price tag. And the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi says they will finance that bill with a tax on the wealthy and cost-cutting in Medicare and Medicaid. And she also said it would provide coverage⁵ for 36 million more Americans.

The bill will expand coverage, including a public option to boost choice and competition in the health insurance reform.
1990 pages, that’s about four reams of paper, I would say that the people that are getting reams are the American people.

Dentists, pharmacists, EMTs and other health care workers will be able to give H1N1 vaccine⁶ shots in New York State. It’s part of a state of emergency the Governor David Paterson declared yesterday. It’s to try and keep hospitals and clinics from being overwhelmed with swine flu patients. H1N1-related cases have grown in New York State. In fact, 75 people have died from it.

Talk about Hellfire and Grime stone, a Texas church turned its sanctuary⁷ into an imaginary hell for Halloween. Look at that. Oh, the display, some say, is inappropriate for a church. The idea behind their fear factory is to deliver, well, a powerful spiritual message. A pastor⁸ says everything in the fear factory is based on biblical teachings. Nice!

Those are the headlines for you. Stay with CNN for more on these stories and other news of the day.

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

3 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

4 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

6 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

7 sanctuary   

n.圣所，圣堂，寺庙；禁猎区，保护区

参考例句：

• There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
• Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。

8 pastor   

n.牧师，牧人

参考例句：

• He was the son of a poor pastor.他是一个穷牧师的儿子。
• We have no pastor at present:the church is run by five deacons.我们目前没有牧师：教会的事是由五位执事管理的。