CNN 2009-09-14

Investigators¹ are pouring over potential evidence. Collected from a lab were missing Yale's student Anne Lee was last seen. Surveillance video shows the 21-year-old entering the building, but it's not clear if she ever left that building. University officials say there's no indication she was on a run  / she was trying to get away. Lee was supposed to get married today.

Just a heartbreaking story right there, but also this wants to tell about our top scene will be performed today on Christopher Kelly. Now Kelly was a close aid and fund raiser for former Illinoian governor Robert Rebage. He was found dead yesterday. Kelly was indeed facing federal corruption² charges and he was supposed to report to Federal President on Friday to serve a three-year term for playing guilty two tax fraud charges.

Two roadside bombings in Afghanistan have left four Americans dead. Now earlier the U.S military said five troops were killed, they have now corrected that number. At one of the attacks Taliban militants³ ambushed⁴ US forces in western Afghanistan's Farah Province, and US-Afghanistan official say dozens of militants were killed.

President Obama tells CBS that he has quoting here no interest in quote on healthcare reform that does not get the job done. Those comments coming tonight on the network's 60-minutes program. The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is expected to review a compromise reform plan on Wednesday.

Also in Brazil now, some following problems there. They have seen this for almost a week now. Severe weather there, tornado⁵ calls, some landsilides. A lot of people have been displaced, thousands we know of. The numbers we are giving here, five dead and 120 injuries that we know of. Thousands, really thousands are in government's shelters right now and a lot more people, you know, it's just a mercy, people try to wait for all of the relative things like that... so. Some of the villagers are just cut off because of flood water.

1 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》

2 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

3 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 ambushed   

v.埋伏( ambush的过去式和过去分词 )；埋伏着

参考例句：

• The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The military vehicles were ambushed. 军车遭到伏击。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。