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One Week Until Election Day; Iceland Entering a New Period of Volcanic Unrest; Iceland Embraced a Shorter Work Week.

COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I`m Coy Wire. Welcome to CNN 10.

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Now to your news. The clock is ticking, and the race for the White House is heating up. Today marks one week until the 2024 presidential election, and
 

heat up: to become acute or intense

with just days until America makes its big decision, both candidates are crisscrossing the country, focusing on the crucial swing states.

There are seven battleground states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, as well as Nebraska`s second congressional district

that both candidates are focused on.

In order to win the election, one of the candidates must get to 270 electoral college votes. The race is neck and neck. The latest CNN poll
 

neck and neck (在赛马、竞赛、斗争等中)势均力敌, 不分上下, 并驾齐驱

found the candidates deadlocked among likely voters nationwide.
 

deadlocked [ˋdɛd͵lɑkt] adj. 陷入僵局的；僵持的

In the final days of the election, Vice President Kamala Harris is leaning into her messaging on women`s reproductive health rights, while former

President Donald Trump is focused on immigration.

Now, did you know that more than 40 million Americans have already cast their ballots, either by mail or through early in-person voting?

And there`s more on their ballots than just the race for the White House. Americans aren`t just picking a president, they`re also deciding who will

represent them in Congress as both House and Senate seats are up for grabs.
 

up for grabs 人人都可以争取，供大家争取，提供给任何人; available and ready to be won or taken

We`ll hear next from our Senior Political Data Reporter, Harry Enten, with a look at just how close this race is compared with other presidential

races in history.

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HARRY ENTEN, CNN SENIOR DATA REPORTER: The race is close, but if we want to break it down into some numbers here, look, this to me is the simplest

way to sort of show it mathematically. Kamala Harris likely must carry three of these four states to win. These are the states that are most

likely going to determine who the next president of the United States is.

You look in North Carolina, look at this. Donald Trump with less than a point lead. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, that great blue wall in the

great lake states.

Harris ahead by less than a point, less than a point, less than a point. When you`re showing the four most important states and the margin in all

four of them, is one of the candidates up by less than a point? I`m not quite sure there`s any other way to put it than this race is really, really

close.

So let`s just say that the polls were exactly 100% correct. And so the results match the polls and Harris wins Pennsylvania up here in blue. What

does that mean?

Well, it means Kamala Harris gets 276 electoral votes. Of course, you need 270 to win, hence the road to 270. So she just gets over that mark.

But it`s so simple, so simple to give the election to Donald Trump. So I mentioned Pennsylvania. What happens if the results match the polls

exactly, but Trump wins Pennsylvania, we turn Pennsylvania light red or pink, then we get Donald Trump at 281 electoral votes.

When just one state, flipping one state could turn a loser into a winner and vice versa. I`m not quite sure that there`s any way else to put it than

what I said at the very top. This race is close.

So you know, we`re talking about all this and oftentimes I say this race is historically close. And, you know, we look at the popular vote polls. So I

decided to do it a slightly different way, which is, OK, what I`m going to do is at the end of each election cycle, I said, OK, how did the polls look

and what was the projected count in the Electoral College?

Well, at this particular point, if the polls are exactly right, Kamala Harris would get 276 electoral votes. That is the lowest level for a leader

at the end of a campaign in terms of the projected electoral map going back since at least 1972.

In 2000, Al Gore was projected to get 281 electoral votes. Of course, the polls missed in Florida. It flipped. George W. Bush won that campaign.

In 2004, look at that. George W. Bush was projected to get 296 electoral votes. The polls were actually pretty gosh darn close. The only state they

missed was Wisconsin actually. That state flipped into John Kerry`s column.

But the bottom line is this, at this particular point, this is the closest race heading into an election on record, at least over the last 52 years or

so.

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WIRE: Ten-second trivia.

What country had the first parliament in Europe?

England, France, Iceland, or Spain?

Raise your hand if you said Iceland. And that is where we`re headed next.

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LAURA PADDISON, CNN SENIOR CLIMATE WRITER: We`re standing here right next to the crater of the volcano, and it is an assault on the senses. I can
 

assault [əˋsɔlt] n. 袭击

sense [sɛns] n. 感官；官能

hear the roaring of the magma as it spews up from underneath the ground. Over the side of the crater, as far as my eye can see, is lava cooling with

heat rising off it, spewing down towards the sea.

And the smell in the air is thick with sulfur. It smells like eggs. Experts say the volcanic activity in this area of Iceland is entering a new era of
 

sulfur [ˋsʌlfɚ] n.【化】硫（磺）

unrest, an era that could last hundreds of years.

And this future underscores the complicated history that Icelanders have with volcanoes, a relationship that takes but also gives. Standing here,
 

underscore [ʌndɚˋskor] v. 强调

you get such a sense of the power of this volcano, and it`s exactly this power that they`re trying to harness in the north of the country. And if

they can do it, and it`s a big if, they say the potential could be limitless.

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WIRE: All right, you know that feeling you get when a three-day holiday weekend rolls around. It`s pretty nice. Well, imagine getting that feeling

every week. Folks in Iceland aren`t just dreaming about it. They`re living it. The country is hitting the snooze button on one whole day of the

workweek by making it four days instead of five.

They`re setting out to prove that they can get all of their work that`s expected to be done in a week completed in less time. Let`s head to Iceland

now, where they`re turning that Friyay feeling into Thursday.

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ANNA STEWART, CNN REPORTER: Imagine working a shorter week for the same pay. Well, for more than 50% of the workforce in Iceland, this has been a

reality in recent years. It came about thanks to two successful trials in the country dating back to 2015.

Two and a half thousand workers were allowed to reduce their hours from 40 hours to 35, 36 a week, and the results were good. Researchers found that

productivity stayed the same or improved in most workplaces, and workers` well-being increased dramatically.

Now, so much of the country`s workforce has followed suit, so it`s been interesting to look at the Icelandic economy to see if it`s had any sort of effect.
 

follow suit 跟着做, 照别人的方式去做; 学样

Well, given it`s growing at a faster pace than much of Europe, and the unemployment rate is low, it certainly doesn`t appear to be a drag. But
 

drag [dræg] n. 累赘；拖后腿的事

before you all decide that you`re going to take your Mondays off from now on, you might want to ask your employer first, and what works in a very

small country with an outsized service and tourism sector may not work everywhere.

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WIRE: Today`s story getting a 10 out of 10, a kangaroo spotted in a place far, far away from the motherland. You might expect to see kangaroos
 

motherland [ˋmʌðɚ͵lænd] n. 祖国；（殖民地的）母国

bouncing around the outback of Australia, but downtown Durango, Colorado, that`s about as out of place as a penguin at a beach party. Police officers
 

outback [ˋaʊtbæk] n. 澳洲内地；人口稀少开发落后的边疆地区

out of place 不在正确的位置；不合适

responded to a wild 911 call and found themselves in quite the situation, discovering a kangaroo taking a downtown tour.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi. So, I know this is going to sound completely insane but I live downtown and I was just walking home from work, there is like a

baby kangaroo with a diaper on, like wandering around Main Street.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police in Durango, Colorado, responded to that 911 call, body cam capturing the rest.

OFFICER: We -- come here (laughs).

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The red kangaroo was allegedly someone`s pet. It`s legal to own a red kangaroo in Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and

Wildlife.

OFFICER: It`s your mommy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: An officer that responded to the call said, quote, "This was one of the best calls of my career so far. The kangaroo was

eventually recovered by its owner. The animal was not harmed.

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