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What's up sunshine.

I'm Coy Wire.

 

Happy to be with you.

Thanks for spending part of your day with us here on CNN 10.

 

Your 10 minutes of news with no opinion, no slant. I simply tell you the what letting you decide what to think.

 

slant [slænt] n.【美】【口】观点，看法，倾向；偏见

 

Your news headlines for Thursday May 15th coming in hot. Happy Friday Eve.

First up today this, celebrations ringing out in the streets of Syria after the United States announced it would be ending sanctions against the war torn nation.

 

Sanctions are a form of punishment from one more powerful government to another.

 

They can target individual people, institutions or entire countries.

They are designed to force people in power to comply with laws and discourage future violations and they can wreak havoc on a developing nation's economy.

 

wreak havoc 破壞，擾亂，肆虐

 

It's important for us uh to see relief on sanctions on Syria to help uh the reconstruction of Syria to help uh the Syrian people recover uh from more than a decade of conflict, a decade of under investment and we continue to support the reconstruction whether it's physical or psychological of of Syria.

 

The US enforced these punishments against the regime of Syria's former dictator Bashar al-Assadwho led his country into a 14-year long civil war, ignoring many humanitarian crises before being overthrown last December.

 

The announcement came during President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East where he announced he would be lifting sanctions on Syria during an investment forum in Saudi Arabia.

 

He then met with the Syrian's interim president Ahmed al-Sharah which marks the highest level of US engagement with Syria's new government.

 

interim [ˋɪntərɪm] adj. 过渡期间的；临时的，暂时的

 

Now to a CNN investigation amid Russia's war with Ukraine. How much influence do social media influencers have on you?

Many of us see social media influencers in our socials promoting everything from beauty products to fashion to travel tips.

 

But how do you feel about influencers who might be trying to change the way we think about war.

CNN's Clare Sebastian found Russia is training some aspiring social media stars to convince outsiders that a United Nations recognized part of Ukraine actually belongs to Russia.

 

aspiring [əˋspaɪrɪŋ] adj. 有志气的；有强烈愿望的；有抱负的

 

Mariupol was one of the first Ukrainian cities to fall to Russian military control three years ago.

After this report, press pause. Have a discussion about how you feel about some video bloggers enlisted by the Russian government who are showcasing a very different life in the disputed region.

 

This is Blogger School in Russian occupied Mariupol. Complete with bean bags and a selfie mirror, run by a project called the Donbas Media Center.

 

bean bag（以小球粒或泡沫塑料为充填物、随坐姿而变形的）豆袋椅

 

It offers free tuition and new skills.

Pavel Karbovsky, one of the teachers only launched his own social channels two and a half years ago.

 

He tells me the school founded by a pro-Kremlin news outlet, is not political.

And yet the same can't be said for his own posts to his now 36,000 Tik Tok followers.

 

Just look at what Russia is getting up to in Mariupol, he says here

"Oh wait, they're building, not demolishing.

 

This is Mariupol, our Russian town.

My key goal is to show what's happening here to show the truth.

 

So people stop forming their opinion on Dombas by reading Ukrainian comments which say that this is Ukraine.

It isn't! Why?  We have Russian flags here, Russian passports and Russian laws.

 

3 years after Russia laid siege to Mariupol, destroying according to the UN, an estimated 90% of residential buildings. Mariupol is a key strategic priority for Putin.

 

He even visited 2 years ago to highlight the rebuilding efforts.

And Moscow is now increasingly looking to social media as a subtle, though powerful propaganda tool in these regions.

 

subtle [ˋsʌt!] adj. 细微的; 微妙的

 

And it's clear, revival videos get clicks. Some are couched in lifestyle content, well stocked grocery stores or stylish new cafes.

 

couch [kaʊtʃ] v. 表達[（+in）]

 

Others directly focused on the reconstruction, the drama theater flattened by a Russian attack 3 years ago as hundreds of civilians took shelter.

 

And look how beautiful, says this vlogger who goes by Masha from Mariupol, showing off brand new apartment buildings at sunset.

 

Mariupol's Ukrainian mayor in exile says it's an illusion one which he believes won't work.

This propaganda these madeup clips that they are doing now in Mariupol will not help.

 

Russia has committed a crime in Mariupol and the people of Mariupol know it.

 

Now to the Midwest where crews in northeastern Minnesota are battling to contain three fires burning thousands of acres.

After days of unseasonably warm temperatures and dry conditions raised red flag warnings in the state. Governor Tim Walls activated the Minnesota National Guard this week.

 

And urged people in the evacuation zone to leave the area and some people say they had to flee with just their clothes on their back.

Might have to deal with the Red Cross and put these guys in a temporary shelter until we get access to go back into the house but they don't understand it.

 

I just hope it gets under control soon and people can get home and they got a home and a cabin to go back to I mean they're pretty much at the unknown.

Officials hope that rain and higher relative humidity in the forecast will help fire crews slow the spread of new embers.

 

ember [ˋɛmbɚ] n.（木柴的）余火，余烬

 

Meanwhile a very different type of concerning weather for parts of the Northeast. First, rescue crews jumped into action at a Maryland elementary school that was quickly surrounded by flash flood waters.

 

Thankfully no one in the school was injured.

Our Derek Van Dam, meteorologist extraordinaire is here to tell us how these flood waters accumulated and accumulated so rapidly. Hi, Derek.

 

extraordinaire [ɛkstrɔrdiˋnɛr] adj.【法】（用作后置定语）特别的，非凡的

 

Yeah, Coy. This is really some astounding video coming out of western Maryland.

Look how quickly the water rose within the western port region.

 

This is a small community at the base of the Allegheny Mountains. Even the local fire department impacted by the flooding rains.

But I want you to take note of just how much mountainous terrain is with it within this community.

 

Uh this plays an important factor in the potential of rapid rises and rivers and the flash flood scenario that often plays out in West Virginia uh parts of the Appalachian Mountains.

 

Uh it is this topography the mountainous stretches of land that aids in the potential of this water flowing down into the communities below.

 

topography [təˋpɑgrəfɪ] n. 地形，地貌

aid [ed] v. 帮助; 有助于

 

You can see the mountains in the background and how quickly those roads turn into rivers.

Again the Appalachian Mountains they stretch roughly 2,000 miles over the eastern portions of our country.

 

Now the Allegheny Mountains make part of the Appalachian Mountain Range and uh the west western port Maryland. This is in western Maryland is this community here.

 

Notice the topography surrounding this small town.

So when it rains 1,2,3 inches per hour on these mountains and hillsides that water has to rush somewhere and it goes unfortunately to the communities and the valleys below.

 

This is why Coy, it is so important to pay close attention to when there is a flash flood alert uh rather a flood alert, a flash flood warning or simply a flood warning.

 

Remember that rapid rise in water is when you'll see that shading of red pop up on your weather map.

That is when you want to take shelter and seek higher ground, Coy.

 

Pop quiz hotshot. There are five major garbage patches accumulated in the world's oceans.

Where's the largest?

 

Indian Ocean, North Pacific, South Pacific or Atlantic Ocean.

 

If you said North Pacific ding ding you are correct.

 

It's known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Rotating sea currents have pulled ocean pollution and debris into the patch that covers an area roughly twice the size of the state of Texas.

 

Now we go to some news that was out of this world but is now back on it.

After more than 50 years stuck in space, a Soviet-era spacecraft is believed to have crashed back onto the Earth's surface.

 

The spacecraft known as Cosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in March of 1972 and it spent years aimlessly trapped in Earth's orbit after it malfunctioned on its mission to Venus.

 

Astronomers and space traffic experts have kept an eye on the craft over the years as the atmospheric pool brought its orbital path closer and closer to home.

 

At only three feet in diameter Cosmos 482 no longer had the ability to maneuver itself.

And the European Space Agency says it evaded radar tracking in Germany. Russian Space Agency says the probe entered the atmosphere on Saturday splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta Indonesia.

 

evade [ɪˋved] v. 躲避；逃避；回避

 

Because it was originally designed to withstand Venus's brutal atmosphere, experts say it likely survived the estimated 17,000 mph re-entry in one piece making it less of a danger to those of us on Earth.

 

Now to a shocking historical find in Argentina where a collection of secret Nazi documents seized during World War II was found completely by chance.

 

Judicial officials at Argentina's Supreme Court were relocating court archives from its basement to a new museum when they stumbled upon boxes of German government records.

 

judicial [dʒuˋdɪʃəl]  adj. 司法的

stumble upon 偶然发现

 

Officials believed the boxes had been sent to Argentina from the German embassy in Tokyo in 1941.

At the time the German diplomatic mission marked the boxes as quote personal items belonging to its members.

 

diplomatic [͵dɪpləˋmætɪk] adj. 外交的；外交人员的

 

But when officials opened the crates they found stacks of Nazi papers, propaganda, postcards and photographs along with thousands of notebooks from Nazi groups.

 

Officials are now combing through the materials and they say they hope to gain new information about the Holocaust and the Nazi party's operations around the world.

 

comb through 彻底搜查

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 goes to a traffic stop that led to the rescue of a spider monkey.

When police in Solano County, California pulled over a vehicle this month it led to the search of a suspect's home and that led to the discovery of an endangered species, a young female spider monkey.

 

The folks at the Oakland Zoo named her Violeta, and she had a physical done, a CT scan, lab test just to make sure she was in good health, and once she's had some proper nutrition care she will be.

 

Can you believe she's the second pet spider monkey in a 6-month span that's been taken to the zoo after a traffic stop.

It's not legal to own primates in California but staffers at the Oakland Zoo, they say that finding these monkeys is becoming a trend.

 

Spider monkeys we're seeing more and more of them coming up from South America and being brought into private homes.

 

And it's just not appropriate for these animals. They're wild animals and they need proper care and uh they should be in the wild.  Good thing Violeta is safe and sound, getting some great care.

 

Maybe now she'll find a loving new troop, which is a name for a group of monkeys. Did you know?

 

troop [trup]  n. a herd, flock, or swarm

 

All right to all my super troopers out there.

 

trooper [ˋtrupɚ] n. 骑兵；装甲兵；骑兵的马

 

We have a shout out going to Mr. Bronin and all of the Wildcats at Godley High School in Godley, Texas.

We are so glad you enjoyed yesterday's episode on xenotransplantation.

 

Keep up all the good work in your medical technology training classes and thank you for making us part of your day.

Rise up everyone. Let's make it a great one. Smell the flowers, cool the soup. It is Friday eve and I'll see you right back here tomorrow to finish this week strong on

 

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