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it's great to have you watching CNN Student News this is our second to last
show of the school year
I'm Carl Azuz and i'm glad to bring it to you we've covered a lot of back
and forth this week surrounding a controversial prisoner exchange
in order to bring home army sergeant Beaubourg all the last American captive
from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
the Obama administration okayed the release a five high-ranking members of
the Taliban
Afghanistan's former rulers who have ties to terrorists
a new video from the Taliban shows the moments when sergeant Bergdahl was
released
he's taken from a truck walked over to US Special Forces who were seen shaking
hands with Taliban members
and put aboard a Black Hawk helicopter US senator says this video will likely
be used as propaganda
by the Taliban that group is called this exchange
a big victory the Obama administration which has been criticized by Democrats
and Republicans over the exchange
says it needed to act fast because Bergdahl's health was in jeopardy
is debate over that continues Randi Kaye looks into the history a prisoner
exchanges
prisoner swaps in america are as old as the country itself
think back to the American Revolutionary War
when President George Washington exchanged enemy prisoners for americans
this letter from the National Archives written by Washington himself
lays out the terms at one such exchange
president Madison swapped prisoners to during the war of 1812
trading the enemy for American military personnel
Abraham Lincoln also traded enemy fighters
for american soldiers fast-forward to nineteen sixty-two
when Francis Gary Powers in American u-2 pilot was released by Russia in exchange
for convicted soviet spy named Rudolf Abel
powers plane was downed in 1960 during a reconnaissance flight over moscow
the two works changed in the middle of a bridge between
East Germany and West Germany powers family was informed
just five minutes before the White House announced it
in March 1991 at the end of the first Gulf War
a rack accepted the terms of a cease-fire that led to an exchange of
POWs
including thirty five Americans which were freed and sent to Riyadh
as many as 20 prisoners from Allied forces
were handed over to every one thing I'm
they look happy to be home happy to be in Reno but what about in ongoing
conflict
when a US soldier is being held by a designated terrorist organization
on that score there does not seem to be any precedent
Randy K CNN New York
welcome to the roll call look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane
its golden Eagles y'all the Ferndale high school Golden Eagles are watching
their parched in Washington State
over in Belle Plaine Minnesota we see some Tigers on the prowl hello to Belle
Plaine junior high
and in the Peach State in the city of Griffin Georgia
it's the Mustangs Avril hope with Road middle school rounding out today's role
it's happened before a hail storm struck the Woodhouse
auto family a car dealership outside Omaha Nebraska
and people from all over called up looking for discounts
the hail that hit this week was the size baseball's
it dropped on 4300 vehicles company officials estimate the damage it caused
a $162 million dollars
police say 20 people in the area were taking the hospital with injuries
the line of severe storms that hit the nation's heartland brought at least 12
report a possible tornadoes
trees are down powers knocked out and flooding stranded some folks in Nebraska
severe weather was headed East last night storms are expected in the
mid-atlantic states today
it's been five years since the Great Recession
officially ended this was the economic downturn that hit between 2007 and 2009
but still having effects on people CNN Money says the recovery in the US jobs
has been the slowest
ever more americans are using food stamps than ever
wages are rising but barely is this all taking a toll on the American dream
the American Dream is this national ideal
the goal of prosperity and thick death but in CNN Money
American Dream Paul fifty-nine percent of people favor guarde look at how you
define it
it not achievable young adults are the most pessimistic
it had a hard time finding good jobs at the country recovers from the recession
and they're already concerns about the next generation to
sixty-three percent of Americans say that most children in the US will not be
better off than their parents
the problem is that while most people are managing to tread water
that not translating into solid financial security
but not everybody's on board with these findings the booking
centers that the American dream isn't dead and that these negative perceptions
are necessarily supported by
back since two major studies earlier this year show that the ability to climb
the economic ladder have not changed significantly over time
I'm Al Ittihad in New York time for the shoutout where would you find the line
water water everywhere nor any drop to drink you know what to do
is it in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Moby Dick
the Old Man and the sea for Seabiscuit you got three seconds go
of of of Coleridge's my love the Ancient Mariner has this line about being
surrounded by seawater
Nunavik drinkable that's your answer and that's your shout out
course those sailors had only been able to be selling
that water to take the sold out a bit then they could have drank it
the basic process of converting seawater to drinking water is
Inc should but doing this on a large scale is difficult and expensive
the fact that more than 70 percent after this covered by ocean
inspire scientists to keep on trying do with California experiencing one or more
throughout the state
history access to fresh water has never been more important
or more different home here in Southern California
largest the foundation plant in the western hemisphere is being constructed
will soon take water from the ocean actually
15 million gallons of fresh water and a california's in a serious drought right
now
and any new water supplies are important to the region we have our 190 billion
dollar economy in this region
dependent on water the question you need to consider is worth the cost not have
enough water
unlike let's say
water that comes from rainfall water that comes from snowpack
we're utilizing what essentially is the world's largest reservoir in the Pacific
Ocean
the Carlsbad desalination plant will cost approximately one billion dollars
the fresh water will be pumped 10 miles underground to regional delivery system
providing water to an additional 300,000 San Diego County residence
customers they won't know whether they're drinking desalinated water or
not
that's right that's right on this piece become part of the overall supply
through a process called reverse osmosis the plant will cover every two gallons
of seawater
into one gallon freshwater filtering out ninety-nine point nine percent at the
Salt
the salt or Brian that's removed is discharged back into the ocean
the deceleration process traditional in takes a lot of energy
a plant this size would normally use as much energy in a single day
I seventy homes in a year officials at the Carlsbad plants eight beers will use
46 percent less energy
the project is not without criticism environmentalists point out that the
Sala nation
requires a lot of energy and that Brian discharge can negatively impact on
marine life
we're creating more marine weapons into south to San Diego day to you
create new habitats shellfish can reproduce their with respect to the
morning discharge from
to Luton the primacy water problems aside
the plant is expected to be completed in 2016
everybody is extremely excited to see this project coming online in providing
us with
new our spot
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before we go many have you probably felt like this this morning
wake up or I
you have to get up door me you have to get up
not laying down all day you hang
all for the Great Dane wants to do he's dog tired
to the puppies credit this video was taken at 3:30 in the morning with his
owners have to get up to open their bagel shop
but no matter what they say or what they do
4 just wouldn't deign to get outta bed
he finds just a thought a bit alarming all he probably dreams have activities
like
snorkeling or sleepwalking but if you ask him to leave all that in his wake
he'll probably just to use to sleep on I'm carless here's our last show the
school year is tomorrow we hope you're up for it
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