4月22日導讀;
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Hi, I'm Carl Azuz.
Hope your week is off to a good start.
First up today on CNN STUDENT NEWS, tragedy atsea. Last week, hundreds of people boarded a boatfrom Libya headed to Europe. It sent out an SOS onSaturday night and as a rescue ship approached,the migrants moved toward it, crowding one side oftheir own boat, causing it to capsize in frigid waters.
Italian Coast Guard officials say they've recovered some survivors,but hundreds of people arefeared dead.
This years, there's been a series of disasters like this.Thousands of migrants beenrescued.Hundreds have died in dangerous Mediterranean crossings on unsafe ships.
Some are looking for a better life in Europe.Some are running from violence and instability incountries like Libya.Some are being trafficked as slaves.
European leaders are holding emergency meetings and increasing the number of patrol ships toaddress the problem.
For millions of Americans, the middle of April is a time of remembrance, reflection andrecovery.
Last week marked the anniversaries of the Boston Marathon bombings and a shooting atVirginia Tech University.
April 19th, 1993 was when the FBI led an assault using tear gas on an armed religious cult inWaco, Texas.
It's not clear exactly how a fire broke out in the compound where the cult was gathered, butdozens of people died.
On April 19th, 1995, a massive bombing occurred at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in theOklahoma capital.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum stands as a monument, with 168 stone andglass chairs representing each victim.
And on April 20th,1999, there was a shooting attack at Columbine High School inLittleton,Colorado.The Columbine Memorial, opened in 2007,pays tribute to the students andteacher who were killed.
April 20th is also the anniversary of a historic environmental disaster.
That massive oil slick now covering some 600 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico and it couldstart reaching the United States coast within hours.
Five Years Later April 20, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes
126 workers were on board
11 were killed
The explosion launched one of the worst environmental disasters in history.4 million barrels ofoil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of nearly three months.Oil washed up on theshorelines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
Since 2010, BP has paid more than 13 billion in claims, advances and settlements and spentmore than 14 billion on cleanup
Today, the once-polluted waters look better.
But the oil isn't completely gone.
Authorities knew it would take years to clean it all up. Back in April of 2010, the U.S. CoastGuard had estimated that 210,000 gallons of oil a day were flooding out of the broken well intothe Gulf of Mexico.
The final U.S.government report on the spill put the blame on the BP Oil Company, TheHalliburton Oil Field Services Company and The Transocean Offshore Drilling Company.
BP finally stopped the spill by putting an oil containment cap on the leaking well andpermanently sealing it off in early August of 2010, more than two months after the deadlyexplosion.
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