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Hi I'm Carl Azuz. First up today on CNN Student News
a rare intersection of the three branches of US government. This doesn't happen every day.
At the center of this story three job appointments made by President Obama
you know from civics that for certain government jobs the president can simply
appoint whomever he wants. He nominates people for them
and the senate gives the president advice and consent by deciding whether
to approve
his nominations. The founding fathers wanted to keep any one branch of
government from having too much power over the others
what's known as checks and balances. But what if the senate's not in session
and the jobs aren't filled? Well, the president can make recess appointments
temporarily filling the jobs until the end of the following year
unless the senate decides to approve them for longer. Well, over the senate's holiday
break from 2011 to 2012
President Obama appointed three people to the National Labor Relations Board
without Senate approval. The president States
these were recess appointments that he could make temporarily
without advice and consent as some of his predecessors have done
but the Senate wasn't technically in recess.
It was in pro forma and what that means it wasn't passing laws are conducting
official business
but it was technically in session, formally convening
and then immediately adjourning. Some senators set this up to prevent President Obama
from making recess appointments. Now for the third branch, the judicial one.
Yesterday the supreme court took this up, it could decide whether President
Obama's appointments were appropriate
or if they violated the constitutional principle of advice and consent.
It really comes down to how the High Court defines the senate's
recess time for the shoutout parts-per-million is commonly used as a
measurement
out what if you think you know it shouted out it
digitisation buoyancy pollution
or radiant you've got three seconds go
of of when you're talking about small level the pollution
you're likely talking about it in terms apart from million
that's your answer and that's your shout out officials in West Virginia say as
far as a certain chemicals concerned one part per million is a low enough level
the water safe for drinking but after a recent chemical spill
it spiked as high as two to three parts per million
and officials put a ban on tap water for days
in the state's largest city schools were forced to shut down
restaurants had to close no washing dishes
no showers residents were told to use tap water
only for flushing toilets and biting buyers pollution levels are now
decreasing allowing some folks to start
washing out their water lines but they've had to be creative to get by
without running water
in a state of emergency
you do whatever type
firefighters in Charleston West Virginia come to the rescue with water
bottles of it at least 670 cases
problem or the lines to collect keep growing
just the man of God 300,000 people have been forced to get by on bottled water
since Thursday now both that's when a chemical leak was found to have tainted
the water supply
schools are shut down water samples are being tested around the clock for signs
of improvement
I believe that we're at a point where we could say that we see
live at the end of the tunnel but there's still no specific time line for
lifting the water use Bay him
it'll happen in days it's people were anxious because they don't have
certainty about the
what's going on officials now believe as many as 75 100 gallons of a chemical
used to clean coal
leaked into the water supply from a one inch hole in the underground part a
storage tank
the problem was discovered around 8 o'clock Thursday morning
when someone reported smelling the center licorice
freedom industries which owns the tank says it became aware of the leak
around 10:30 I think there should be a thorough investigation of what happened
and
while this incident happened have freedom industries
investigators say it'll take weeks to determine whether to leak could have
somehow been prevented and
just how quickly it was detected for another day
people in West Virginia are left high and dry
US State Department is warning Americans that large-scale public events like the
Olympics
are attractive targets for terrorists this doesn't mean they'll try
or successfully carry out an attack Olympics organizers in russia say next
month's events
will be the safest and most secure games ever the US officials are telling
travelers to take no chances
the State Department has issued a travel warning for people heading for the
Olympic Games in Sochi
barely four weeks away now they say that they should be careful with their
surroundings that they should be aware in the region there have been a number
terrorist attacks over the past decade also targeting
government buildings travel hubs schools also also buildings
blood the state department says they don't have a specific
terror threat but they're aware of for the Olympics however
Russian officials over the weekend have arrested two groups of people
one of those groups six people's they say were responsible for a car bombing
in the region just north of so Chia a couple weeks ago
they say that group of people admitted under questioning
that they were planning to carry out another big attacks a Russian officials
say that they move just in time to thwart an attack by that group up six
another group by people they arrested and another region just north of
searching again
the police they're saying that they that the five people they are arrested had
weapons and a homemade bomb as well containing about
five pounds two and a half kilograms or so at high explosive TNT
so the security efforts in the region still high
the state department lurching anyone traveling to the Olympics to be cautious
to look out over in their surroundings on also saying that because the medical
facilities in Sochi haven't been tested
for high number she act and because medical facilities in russia the state
department says
don't necessarily much what people would expect in the West
there were advising people traveling to the Olympics to get medical insurance
and repatriation insurance as well in case they need to be
flown out for some medical injury sadat advice coming
over the weekend from the state department Nick Robinson CNN
Moscow
on
today's role call involves ramblers and stingers but it has nothing to do with
Georgia Tech
we're talking about the Ramblers above what they have high school there
watching today from will pay it
George and then his fingers the martin bergman charter school they're located
in New Orleans Louisiana
and lest we forget my bulldog we've got those two
both in high school and both in California this spot on our role called
for you
season holcomb from mom a resident of South Carolina
and a proud Clemson graduate something happened recently involving her son
that made her even prouder overall no mater he is one of only 15 students
accepted into a college program for young people with intellectual
disabilities
now you can see how he reacted 20-year-old Ryan
holcomb Ryan has Down syndrome but he doesn't let that hold them back up when
he made here's part of his
video application to college Clemson University knows that far too many
people like Ryan get left out
the college experience so they've actually designed a program for students
like a man just the other day
Ryan got a letter Clemson watch the reaction
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for to the fall of 2000
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they said yes what he said
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sweatshirt says college I regulations Ryan a quality education is the good
stuff
and you are going to get it hormel
stunned of course and some are so many will go to have this year because why
would you think Down syndrome you think
limitation but now you see that limits our
only what you make them and Ryan is proving that on a very grand Spanish
graduating I'm Center program layout
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mosaic noun a declaration made by putting a whole bunch of smaller pieces
together
but there's something fishy about this one it's made up sushi
more than 100 sushi chefs say that three times fast
rolled up their sleeves and their lunch they covered more than 400 square feet
at an event in hong kong to set a Guinness world record for largest
sushi mosaic more than 20 1000 pieces and keep it all fresh
they did this are really cool skating rink a core some thinkers like the food
were off from all the effort but wanna rock accomplishment
those chefs were on a roll putting their sushi skill to the taste
getting in the swim a record-setting succulents all
to the tuna international recognition I'm carless season of who she get
tomorrow
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