From the Middle East to North America to Africa, we are moving fast to the start of this Tuesday
show.
U.S. airstrikes in the town of Kobani.
It`s in Northern Syria near the border with Turkey, and it`s become a problem for the
ISIS terrorist group.
Unlike some other towns in the region that fell to ISIS, the Kurds and ethnic groups
have fought to regain control of much of Kobani.
About 70 percent of the city.
U.S.-led airstrikes have helped along with an American airdrop of weapons, ammo and medical
equipment.
That happened Sunday night.
The Obama administration says it looks like the supplies fell into the right hands.
Kobani isn`t the only city under attack from ISIS terrorists.
Yesterday, they launched 15 attacks on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.
The U.S. military says the fight against ISIS won`t be quick.
Spinning the globe to Dallas, Texas.
Some hopeful news to tell you about the Ebola virus.
Yesterday a Dallas country judge cleared more than 40 people who`d had contract with Ebola
victim Thomas Eric Duncan.
The judge said none of these people showed symptoms of Ebola for 21 days.
What doctors considered the maximum incubation period for the virus.
So, their quarantine is over.
Two nurses who apparently caught Ebola from Duncan are still hospitalized, and though
Nigeria and Senegal say they are officially Ebola-free, the disease is still spreading
rapidly in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Just mentioned Nigeria.
It was the news for a very different reason back in April.
That was when the Boko Haram terrorist group kidnapped hundreds of girls from a boarding
school in northeast, Nigeria.
The country`s government says it`s reached a deal with Boko Haram to set the girls free.
But that hasn`t happened yet, and the terrorist groups continues its attacks on civilians.
"Bring Back Our girls," the world has cried.
So, girls in Nigeria are my sisters.
And it`s my responsibility that I speak for my sisters.
Grown man attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls.
It`s infuriating.
And it`s - and it kind of goes beyond understanding that somebody could do this.
It`s been six months, since almost 300 girls were taken from their school in the dead of
night, at the hands of Boko Haram, the Islamist terror group.
The overwhelming majority of them remain unaccounted for.
More than 5 million people have tweeted, "Bring back our girls."
The social media campaign went viral in May, a month after the girls vanished, and it hasn`t
stopped.
And now, the news Friday.
There has been a huge breakthrough in the kidnapping ordeal that launched that global
campaign, bring back our girls.
The deal was expected to include the release of the more than 200 kidnapped school girls.
The government announced a ceasefire, what they say as a step towards bringing the girls
home.
The terrorists have assured that the girls are alive and well.
And their prescriptions will continue in this direction subsequently.
It`s all efforts that was the release of the government.
Skepticism is felt by many.
We want to be able to see any evidence of this deal.
It would help a lot.
I`m sure that majority of Nigerians are I think in - the same trend.
Well, Boko Haram hasn`t yet responded to Nigeria`s claim.
The news has brought cautious optimism.
But online campaigners say they won`t stop until the girls are back.
More than 180 days since their abduction, hope and more waiting.
Just the facts, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl serves in the U.S. Army.
He was deployed to Afghanistan in May of 2009.
And he was captured there a month later.
In 2012, the U.S. government said it was in talks with the Taliban, Afghanistan`s former
rule is to get Bergdahl released.
That happened in May of this year when the U.S. freed five Taliban prisoners in exchange
for Bergdahl.
The U.S. Army has completed its investigation of Sergeant Bergdahl`s disappearance, but
its hasn`t released results yet.
The exchange for Bergdahl was a major controversy, and investigative agency of Congress said
the Obama administration broke the law because it didn`t notify Congress 30 days before the
exchange.
The administration said it had a limited opportunity and took advantage of it.
Also, some soldier who served with Bergdahl said he deserted his post and that`s why he
was captured.
Bergdahl now has a desk job at a fort in Texas.
CNN recently found a pile of letters sent to him before the exchange happened.
What you are looking at here is a little known secret that has been hidden inside the Hailey
Idaho police department for several months.
All of these boxes are filled with letters that were sent to Bowe Bergdahl last Christmas.
Letters of support and well wishes and prayers for his release.
Of course, all of these letters were sent just a few months before he was actually released.
They were sent to the White House, and they were put in boxes.
And eventually, they made their way back here to the state of Idaho and the Bergdahl family
asked some friends to take care of them.
And the big question is, what should be done with all of these letters?
It`s not exactly clear if Bowe Bergdahl even knows that these are here, and his friends
here in Hailey are wondering if he`ll ever want to read them.
That is a fascinating snapshot into the efforts that many friends made to secure his release
very different from the controversy surrounding Bowe Bergdahl after his release.
So many platoon mates of his who have come out and called him a deserter and a traitor.
Obviously, Bowe Bergdahl has become a very controversial figure, but in this boxes and
the snap shots, very positive in nature hoping and praying for Bowe Bergdahl`s safe Release.
This one in particular says we are praying for you to come home soon, so you can b with
your family.
But as far as we know, that hasn`t taken place which is just another layer to this story
that has been very confounding for - for many people in many different ways.
For Monday`s transcript at cnnstudentnews.com, here are few of the thousands of request we
got our roll call.
In Arapahoe Wyoming meet the Falcons or Arapahoe, middle school.
In New Ulm, Minnesota, great the Eagles of New Ulm High School (ph).
And in Haftswjord, Norway, check out the Vikings of the international School of Stovanger.
Thank you all for taking ten minutes for CNN STUDENT NEWS.
When you picture a robot, you might picture R2D2 or a computer that can interact with
us, or something that can accomplish certain tasks, like helping build part of the car
or vacuuming a room.
But where robot vacuum can sent you back about 300 or 400 bucks, they pack-back (Ph) kind
used in war zones, can run about 150,000 each.
In 1990, Helen Greiner and two other roboticists from MIT`s artificial intelligence lab had
a realization: in order for robots to have a real life everyday impact on regular people,
they needed to be mobile, and so iRobot was born.
The Boston Robotics Company was made famous by their Roomba vacuum, but Greiner and the
rest of the team went on to say lives with their series of packbots.
The packbot is a compact truck turbine device that is used by the U.S. military to find
and detonate IEDs.
Search and Rescue teams deploy the backbit to locate missing individuals after natural
disaster.
And Security Teams have you sit to inspect vehicles at large public events.
Users control the packbot using of videogame style controller on the remote lap top.
Where the bas activities are shown in 3d.
The current model of the Packbot.
The Packbot 5 10 carries LED lights, four cameras capable of HD-photography as 312 time
zoom in photography.
The Packbots manipulator arm can reach around corners and can raise up to 80 inches.
And its grabber can hold up to 30 pounds.
Dual rotating clippers that can turn 360 degrees give it Packbot the ability to navigate the
raw obstacles, or reorient something that lands face down.
Several other robotic devices have been designed to aid in military endeavors, including the
(INAUDIBLE) which has been employed by the U.S. Army and the Theodore, which has been
used by the Spanish armed forces.
These robots look like something out of science fiction, but they are real, and they are saving
lives every day.
Before we go, human foosball (ph), yo.
No one is actually attached to the - that get pretty sick after a spin or two.
Folks just grab on to expand a PBS pipe, move left and right and kick.
It almost looks like fun.
The goal of this event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, wasn`t just to score goals, it was to raise
money for a charity that aims to get girls in great school interested in science, math
and engineering.
So, if someone got roped into the game or if it was more than they could handle, they
said playing was off the table.
The cause might have made them paws and take the idea for a spin regardless of whether
they heard cheers of foes.
I`m Carl Azuz.
We`ll see you Wednesday.