1月8日CNN聽力：2016年美國總統推舉行將進入白熱化階段 新年伊始美國中西部遭受罕有冬日大水
Back to work, back to school, back on air.
Thank you for joining CNN STUDENT NEWS for its2016 events coverage.
I'm Carl Azuz.
First up, happy New Year.
Scenes from cities around the world lit up byfireworks just after midnight on January 1st.
2016 is a leap year.
That means it has 366 days in it, the extra one being on February 29th.
So, folks born on that date in a leap year will get to celebrate their birthdays on their actualbirth date.
2016 is also an election year in the U.S. President Obama has reached the two-term limit, soAmerican voters will be choosing a new leader in November.
Before that can happen, though, each major party has to nominate one candidate forpresident, and the president to whittle down the Democratic and Republican fields starts nextmonth.
For the Democrats, three candidates are still in the race.
Polls indicate that the frontrunner is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
For the Republicans, 12 candidates are still in.
Polls indicate that the frontrunner is businessman Donald Trump.
Two GOP candidates dropped out of the race over the Christmas break.
On December 21st, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina announced the end of his runfor president.
And on December 29th, former New York Governor George Pataki suspended his campaign.
President Obama will give his final State of the Union Address in just a few days.
Could his agenda motivate Republicans or divide the Dems?
Then, there are more debates dotting the calendar.
January alone will see more face-to-face confrontations.
February 1st is the critical day, the Iowa caucuses.
This is the big potato.
The winners and losers from Iowa will face each other again for another debate, wedged in justbefore the next vote in New Hampshire.
I appreciate the men and women of New Hampshire.
It's great to be in beautiful New Hampshire.
A win by an establishment Republican in New Hampshire could set the stage for a SouthCarolina showdown.
The Palmetto State's GOP primary is just days later, February 28th.
It's great to be back in South Carolina, a place that believed in me.
And don't forget the Nevada caucuses for the GOP, just three days.
It's exhausting just thinking about it, but no rest for the political weary.
One week later, the first day of March, Super Tuesday, when no fewer than 13 states will casttheir primary votes.
So, put the pedal to the metal, the race to the White House is full speed ahead.
Last night, eight million people in 16 U.S. states were under a flood warning.
It was what remained of a monstrous storm system that struck in late December, stretchingfrom New Mexico to Michigan and sloshing its way east.
It brought several powerful tornadoes to Texas, destroying homes and buildings near Dallas.
Hailstorms, snowstorms, hundreds of flight cancellations hit the central part of the country anddozens of people died in the severe conditions brought by the system.
For some, the worst of it came well after the storm hit, as flood waters flowed in the rivers,they crested their banks and spilled through communities.
The Mississippi flooded and inundated parts of Illinois and its swollen water slowly spread outalong the Mississippi southern part.
It's not expected to reach its highest point in Memphis, Tennessee, until January 9th.
In Greenville, Mississippi, until January 14th.
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, until January 19th.
Relief efforts are being made nationwide.
CNN's "Impact Your World" site has a list of organizations that are helping flood stricken areas.
We put a link to that at CNNStudentNews.com.
Reporter Dan Simon is in Missouri, where officials say storms and flooding killed 15 people overthe past couple of weeks.
This is what you call a giant debris field.
You can see the magnitude of destruction in this community.
All these household items that people have collected and have brought over to this communitycenter, ultimately, this will be taken into the landfill but in the meantime, you need a place toput all of this stuff.
I can tell you that Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri has asked the Obama White House for afederal emergency declaration to speed up the removal process, he says, in order really to getMissouri back on its feet, you have to have all the debris removed and to try to get the clean upaccelerated.
So, he's hoping that the White House will honor that request.
In the meantime, we're going to walk around a little bit.
You can see all of the stuff that people have dropped off.
You can see mattresses and other household items and you see a whole bunch of sandbags inthe back, those cannot be reused at all.
I want you to listen now to what the governor said just a short time ago.
I'm from this part of the state.
I mean, quite frankly, it's almost hard to believe.
When you see the levels of where water was.
When you're coming over historic highs, I mean, from the beginning of time, we kept records byfour and five feet.
I mean, when you're seeing 55 close, when you're seeing a house that's floated, a full housethat's floated into the Highway 30 Bridge and blowing up, I mean, that's - it's almost as ifyou're living on some other planet.
Fortunately, the flood waters have receded.
So, now, what you're left with is just the debris.
And in reality, this is just a fraction of what you're seeing all throughout the state, hundredsof businesses and homes have taken on significant damage.
It's our first "Roll Call" of the year.
Our producers chose these schools from each day's transcript page at CNNStudentNews.com.
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It's there that the Eskimos are watching at Escanaba High School.
In just southeast of Arizona's capital is the city of Chandler.
They're on guard at Arizona College Preparatory.
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