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>>> LOVE THAT NEW SHOW OPEN.
THIS IS CNN STUDENT NEWS.
WE'RE BRINGING YOU STORIES FROM
AROUND THE WORLD.
WE'LL TAKE YOU UNDERGROUND AND
OUT TO SPACE.
WE'RE STARTING IN THE
PHILIPPINES WITH A POWERFUL
STORM THERE.
YOU CAN SEE THE FLOODING THERE.
IT'S TYPHOON UTOR AND IAND.
THIS ONE, UTOR, IS THE STRONGEST
TYPHOON THAT'S HAPPENED ANYWHERE
IN THE WORLD SO FAR THIS YEAR,
WINDS UP TO 124 MILES PER HOUR.
AT LEAST ONE PERSON KILLED.
20 MORE WERE MISSING YESTERDAY.
MORE THAN 600 HOMES WERE DAMAGED
IN THE AREA WHERE IT MADE
LANDFALL.
THE PHILIPPINES IS MADE UP OF
MORE THAN 7,000 ISLANDS.
AND THEY ARE HIT BY TYPHOONS
EVERY YEAR.
HEAVY RAINS LED TO FLASH
FLOODING IN THE U.S.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO, THESE
CARS WASHED AWAY LIKE TOYS.
SOME PARTS OF THE STATE,
FLOODWATERS WERE MOVING UP TO 30
MILES PER HOUR.
YOU CAN SEE THE WATERS RUSHING
THROUGH THE CARS THAT ARE STICK
IN IT.
THESE VEHICLES WERE IN A PARKING
GARAGE THAT FLOODED.
YOU CAN SEE HOW HIGH THE WATER
ROSE BASED ON HOW LITTLE OF THE
CARS ARE STILL VISIBLE.
ONCE THE FLOODWATERS STARTED TO
RECEDE, THIS IS THE KIND OF
DAMAGE THEY LEFT BEHIND.
AT LEAST ONE PERSON WAS KILLED.
EMERGENCY CREWS WERE SEARCHING
FOR ANYONE WHO WAS MISSING.
RESIDENTS WERE STARTING TO CLEAN
UP AND RECOVER.
THAT COULD TAKE SOME TIME.
>>> IT'S TIME FOR THE SHOUT OUT.
WHICH OF THESE STATES HAS THE
MOST SINK HOLES?
IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW IT, THEN
SHOUT IT OUT.
IS IT ALASKA, CALIFORNIA,
FLORIDA OR MINNESOTA?
YOU'VE GOT THREE SECONDS.
GO.
BECAUSE OF ITS TERRAIN, YOU'RE
MORE LIKELY TO FIND A SINKHOLE
IN FLORIDA THAN THESE OTHER
STATES.
THAT'S YOUR ANSWER AND THAT'S
YOUR SHOUTOUT.
>> FLORIDA'S TERRAIN IS IDEAL
FOR SINKHOLES.
THEY CAN FORM WHEN THE ROCK
UNDER THE LAND SURFACE IS
DISSOLVED BY GROUNDWATER.
THE LAND ABOVE CAN THEN FALL
INTO THE HOLE, TAKING WHATEVER
WAS ON IT.
IN CLERMONT FLD SUNDAY NIGHT,
THIS IS WHAT WAS ON IT WHEN
PEOPLE HEARD CRACKING, POPPING
AND WINDOWS BLOWN AS.
MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE WERE
EVACUATED IN TIME.
THERE WERE NO INJURIES, WHICH IS
KIND OF AMAZING WHEN YOU
CONSIDER THAT THE CRATER THAT
SWALLOWED THIS PLACE WAS 16 FEET
WIDE AND 30 FEET DEEP.
TO SHOW YOU WHAT'S ACTUALLY
UNDER THEM, CNN'S DAVID
MATTINGLY DOVE IN AND TOOK A
SWIM.
>> Reporter: PERHAPS MOST
STRIKING TO ME, HOW APPEARANCES
OF THE SINKHOLE ARE SO
MISLEADING.
A SINGLE BEAM OF SUNLIGHT
REVEALS THE CAVERN IS EVEN
BIGGER BELOW THE SURFACE LINE.
MOST DISTURBING COULD BE THE
VIEW FROM UP TOP, THE ROUND
OPENING IS DECEPTIVELY SMALL.
LITTLE INDICATION OF THE CAVERN
THAT'S JUST BENEATH MY FEET.
>> UNTIL A HOLE LIKE THIS OPENS
UP, THERE'S REALLY NO WARNING,
IS THERE?
>> CORRECT.
IT'S THAT RANDOM AND THAT SUDDEN
AND IT COULD HAPPEN, OBVIOUSLY,
OVERNIGHT OR AT ANY TIME.
>> IT CAN AND IT DOES.
WITH THOUSANDS OF SINK HOLES
OPENING UP IN FLORIDA EVERY
YEAR.
>>> THIS NEXT STORY STARTED IN
2012, NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH CAPTAIN
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN SHOT AND KILLED
TRAYVON MARTIN.
HE WASN'T ARRESTED THE NIGHT OF
THE SHOOTING BECAUSE POLICE SAID
THERE WASN'T EVIDENCE TO
DISPROVE HIS STORY.
SOME PEOPLE WERE ANGERED BY THAT
DECISION, HOLDING RALLIES IN
CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
IN APRIL 2012 ZIMMERMAN WAS
CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE
*** AND HE TURNED HIMSELF IN.
ALL WEEK LONG WE'RE LOOKING AT
THE STORIES THAT HAPPENED THIS
SUMMER.
TODAY, THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN
TRIAL.
>> STATE OF FLORIDA VERSUS
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT.
WE, THE JURY, FIND GEORGE
ZIMMERMAN NOT GUILTY.
>> THAT WAS HOW THE TRIAL ENDED
ON JULY 13th.
IT STARTED MORE THAN A YEAR
AFTER GEORGE ZIMMERMAN WAS
CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE
***.
THIS WAS A CRIMINAL CASE, WHICH
MEANS ZIMMERMAN BEING PROSECUTED
BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND HIS
FATE WAS IN THE HANDS OF THE SIX
PEOPLE ON THE JURY.
THE TRIAL LASTED 14 DAYS, 56
WITNESSES TESTIFIED, BUT NOT
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN.
THE DEFENDANT CHOSE NOT TO TAKE
THE STAND.
THE PROSECUTORS ARGUE THAT
ZIMMERMAN INTENTIONALLY
COMMITTED AN ACT THAT CAUSED
TRAYVON MARTIN'S DEATH.
>> HE PROFILED A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY
THAT HAD SKITTLES.
THAT'S THE CRIME HE COMMITTED
THAT EVENING.
>> THE DEFENSE ARGUED THAT
ZIMMERMAN FEARED FOR HIS LIFE
AND SHOT MARTIN IN SELF-DEFENSE.
>> THAT'S CEMENT.
THAT IS SIDEWALK.
AND THAT IS NOT AN UNARMED
TEENAGER WITH NOTHING BUT
SKITTLES TRYING TO GET HOME.
>> THE JURY HAD THREE OPTIONS.
FIND ZIMMERMAN GUILTY OF
SECOND-DEGREE ***, FIND HIM
GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER, A LESSER
CHARGE, OR FIND HIM NOT GUILTY.
AFTER 16 1/2 HOURS OF
DELIBERATION, THEY RETURNED THE
VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY.
KRS THE COUNTRY, SOME PEOPLE
RESPONDED IN ANGER.
OTHERS SAID THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM
DID ITS JOB.
>> I THINK THE JURY MADE THE
RIGHT DECISION BASED ON THE
EVIDENCE PRESENTED BECAUSE THE
PROSECUTION INADVERTENTLY SET
THE STANDARD SO HIGH THAT THE
JURY HAD TO BE CONVINCED THAT IT
WAS A DELIBERATE ACT BY
ZIMMERMAN THAT HE WAS NOT AT ALL
DEFENDING HIMSELF AND SO FORTH.
IT'S NOT A MORAL QUESTION.
IT WAS A LEGAL QUESTION.
>> AND PRESIDENT OBAMA URGED
AMERICANS TO STAY CALM AND
REFLECT, SAYING, QUOTE, WE
SHOULD ASK OURSELVES IF WE'RE
DOING ALL WE CAN TO WIDEN THE
CIRCLE OF COMPASSION AND
UNDERSTANDING IN OUR OWN
COMMUNITIES.
IF A CIVIL CASE OR CIVIL RIGHTS
LAWSUIT ARE BROUGHT AGAINST
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, HE COULD STILL
BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR TRAYVON
MARTIN'S DEATH, BUT NOT IN A
CRIMINAL TRIAL, WHICH REACHED
ITS CONCLUSION THIS SUMMER.
>>> IS THIS LEGIT?
HERCULES, PERSEUS AND MENSA ARE
ALL NAMES OF CONSTELLATIONS.
IT'S TRUE.
>> EVERY YEAR, PERSEUS GETS A
SPACE SHOWER.
KIND OF.
IT'S A METEOR SHOWER.
IT'S CALLED THE PERSEID METEOR
SHOWER BECAUSE IT HAPPENS IN THE
SAME PASTOR SKY OF THE PERSEUS
CONSTELLATION.
THAT USUALLY HAPPENS IN JULY OR
AUGUST.
WE GET CLOSE TO THE PATH EVERY
YEAR, BUT THE ACTUAL COMET ONLY
APPROACHES OUR ORBIT EVERY 130
YEARS.
HERE ARE A FEW LOOKS AT THE
METEOR SHOWER.
SOME FROM PAST YEARS, ONE FROM
THIS YEAR AND ONE FROM SPACE.
SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS MORE
OFTEN THAN YOU MIGHT THINK.
THOUSANDS OF NATURAL SPACE
OBJECTS COME KOES TO EARTH EVERY
DAY.
SOME YOU NEED A TELESCOPE TO
SEE.
OTHERS YOU CAN SPOT WITH YOUR
EYES.
THEN THERE ARE THOSE YOU CAN
JUST PICK UP AFTER THEY HIT THE
GROUND.
METEORS, SOMETIMES CALLED
SHOOTING STARS, ARE THE STREAKS
OF LIGHT YOU SEE WHEN THESE
OBJECTS ENTER EARTH'S
ATMOSPHERE, CAUSED BY FRICTION
BETWEEN THE OBJECT, CALLED A
METEOROID, AND THE AIR.
THEY'RE BEST SEEN AT NIGHT BUT
CAN HAPPEN ANY TIME DURING THE
DAY, LIKE THIS ONE THAT CAUSED A
SONIC BOOM OVER RUSSIA IN
FEBRUARY 2013.
SOME METEORS CAN BE CAUSED BY
FRAGMENTS OF COMETS, BALLS OF
ICE THAT FORM WAY OUT IN THE
SPACE F THAT TAIL PASSES THROUGH
EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, YOU GET A
METEOR SHOWER, LOTS OF STREAKS
OF LIGHT THAT COULD LAST SEVERAL
DAYS.
METEORS CAUSED BY COMETS MELT
BEFORE THEY REACH THE GROUND.
BALLS OF ROCK THAT USUALLY ORBIT
BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER.
SOME ORBIT CLOSER TO EARTH,
CLOSE ENOUGH TO BURN UP IN THE
ATMOSPHERE.
IF A METEOR ISN'T COMPLETELY
INCINERATED, IT CAN HIT THE
GROUND AND THEN IS CALLED A
METEORITE.
LARGE ONES LIKE THIS ARE PRETTY
RARE.
NASA SAYS ABOUT 100 TONS OF
SPACE STUFF SLAMS INTO EARTH'S
ATMOSPHERE EVERY DAY.
>> GETTING SHOWN UP IN A YOUTUBE
VIDEO DOESN'T SOUND LIKE FUN.
THE KID IN THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO IS
AT LEAST GETTING SHOWN UP BY THE
BEST.
THAT'S MICHAEL JORDAN AND
MICHAEL JORDAN FLIGHT SCHOOL
CAMP AND IT LOOKS LIKE HIS
AIRINESS CAN STILL THROW DOWN.
JORDAN TURNED 50 THIS YEAR, A
HALF CENTURY OF HOPS.
SO HOW DID THE CROWD RESPOND?
HOOPING AND HOLLERING, GENERALLY
HAVING A BALL.
NO COMPLAINTS.