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You`re only a day away from Friday. You`re watching CNN STUDENT NEWS.You`re ten minutes away from getting up to speed on current events.
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We are starting in China today. Big meeting there.
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It`s the once a year gathering of the National People`s Congress.
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It includes thousands of delegates from all over the country.
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China is a communist state. The government controls the economy and other parts of society.
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So, the National People`s Congress is limited. It won`t be voting on any major laws.
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But this meeting is a chance for China to talk about its economic plans.
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And because it`s the world`s second largest economy, international economists are watching to see what China will do.
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Other parts of the international community are watching Ukraine.
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A lot of talking about the crisis there yesterday. Meetings involving officials from the European Union, Ukraine, Russia, the U.S., but there wasn`t a lot of action.
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Some U.S. officials are still considering economic sanctions against Russian for its involvement in Ukraine.
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Russia`s threatening economic action of its own that could hurt trade in other parts of Europe.
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You didn`t see it, you didn`t feel it. You might not have known it was there.
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But an asteroid zipped by us yesterday.
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Well, that`s relative. It was close by space standards, it wasn`t in terms of miles.
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But since there is a one in 10,000 chance of this same asteroid coming back near us, on March 4, 2046, Chad Myers is going to help us get to know it.
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Hey, Carl, an asteroid yesterday flew between the Earth and the Moon, or at least the orbit of the Moon.
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It`s about a quarter of a million miles between the Earth to the Moon.
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And this was slightly inside of it. 90 percent, all the way from here to here, or ten percent from here to here.
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So, it was still about 217,000 miles away as it flew on by the Earth.
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Now, let`s think about the size of this. Because here`s the baseball diamond right here.
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Here`s actually the tournament field. If you take a ball of - a big rock and you put it right over the infield, that`s how big this asteroid was.
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Right over the infield of any baseball diamond.
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Now, you take that, you fly that in between the Earth and the Moon.
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And you have something going for it. Now, this is not one of the closer ones probably will have this year.
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And you have something going for it. Now, this is not one of the closer ones probably will have this year.
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But it certainly is 90 percent of the way between the Earth and the Moon, and it`s called DX-110.
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110 because it`s actually the hundred and tenth asteroid that they have found so far this year.
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Think about this, though: last year 21 asteroids flew closer to the Earth than this one, and the chance of this actually hitting the Earth was only one in about ten million.
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Now, it was probably more of a big deal to the asteroid that the Earth got so close.
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Because if you`re standing on the asteroid and all of a sudden the Earth flies on by, you`re thinking yourself, wow, that was the size of an Earth,
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not the size of the baseball field.
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And a lot more danger to the asteroid right there than to the Earth as it flew on by. Carl.
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Big changes are coming to the SAT exam: fewer students have been taking it.
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And the College Board, the group that administers the test, says it wants the SAT to be more connected to what`s being taught in high school.
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Changes take effect in two years. The top score you can get currently, 2400. It`s going back to 1600.
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Vocabulary words will be easier, essays will no longer be mandatory.
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And you won`t need to know as much about as many subjects.
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Critics say it will dumb down the test.
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It will be more closely aligned with common core curriculum, which supporters applaud for setting national education standards.
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The critics say it hurt students and goes against state`s rights to set their own standards.
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Time for The Shoutout. The word aurum is Latin for what element on the Periodic Table?
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If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it, silver, aluminum, tungsten or gold? You`ve got three seconds, go.
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With atomic symbol Au and atomic number 79, gold comes from the Latin term Aurum.
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With atomic symbol Au and atomic number 79, gold comes from the Latin term Aurum.
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That`s your answer, and that`s your shout out.
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Yesterday, gold was trading on a stock market at over $1300 and ounce.
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It doesn`t tarnish or corrode, it`s been used in Jewelry for thousands of years.
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It`s mentioned in the Bible, the Torah, the Koran.
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And it`s been the one universally acceptable form of currency.
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People have haunted Golden Mountains and seas. But recently, it just turned up in someone`s back yard.
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It may be the greatest buried treasure ever found in the United States.
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Coin after coin, more than 14,000. Al of them pure gold, found by some lucky couple on their California property.
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Estimated worse? $10 million dollars.
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How do they find these coins?
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They were out walking the dog on their property like they`ve done for years, and they spied something metal and they went to investigate.
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They though it was full of paint.
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The couple wants to remain anonymous.
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But that hasn`t stopped some people from trying to figure out who they are and how the riches wound up on their property.
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The latest theory is that it`s part of an earlier 20th Century heist at the San Francisco Met.
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This newspaper article from 1901 makes reference to the sum of $30,000 in gold coin stolen from the vault of the cashier.
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The face value of the buried treasure was nearly the same amount.
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The thief Walter M Dimmick was eventually busted where that gold was never found.
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Could this be the long lost loot? And if it is, could it also spell bad news for those who found it.
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Could this be the long lost loot? And if it is, could it also spell bad news for those who found it.
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Yes, according to legal experts.
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In the case where you can clearly identify the owner and clearly identify the crime, the finder`s right to the treasure certainly diminishes.
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But don`t start feeling sorry for them. Apparently, in this case it really is finders` keepers.
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The man says It doesn`t have any information linking the coins to any thefts at any U.S Mint Facility.
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Perhaps, the most likely scenario, it was just a guy hiding his money.
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Back then, they didn`t always trust the banks, you know.
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They lucky couple is trusting these men to be their coin dealers.
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Filthy and covered with the 120 years of dirt, they brought them back to their original luster.
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Do you think your odds are better of winning the lottery of finding gold buried in your yard?
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Winning the lottery, no doubt about it.
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The treasure unearthed, but the secret behind it remains buried.
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Dan Simon, CNN, San Francisco.
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Sale into port and bat in the hatches.
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Because there is a storm brewing in today`s Roll Call. We are taking you to Chandler, Arizona.
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Where the forecast at Santan Junior High School is for the storm with the chance of awesome.
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Next, we are moving north to Mount Pleasant, Utah. That`s where they hawks are perched watching from North Sanpete High School.
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And we`ll up todays` roll in Iowa saluting the Trojents (ph) of West Marshall Middle school.
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Glad to be part of your day and stake center.
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When good things happen to good folks. 12-year old Louis Corbett is a giant Boston Celtics fan.
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He`s never seen the game in person. Louis leaves in Oakland, the largest city in New Zealand.
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Because he has a rare eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa,
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his parents and his favorite team are helping him see all he can while he can.
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At 7 a.m., from 9,000 miles away, Louis Corbett shakes out the sleep wearing the Celtics T-shirt and a permanent smile.
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He gets a kiss from mom, and he`s ready to Skype on his favorite topic.
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Very excited. Well, Larry Bush.
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Louis, like two of his brothers has a rear genetic eye disease that leaves most patients blind by age 40.
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It`s going that way quickly.
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In fact, Louis doesn`t expect to have his sight for much longer.
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I just think of it as just - slowly going down, but I don`t know -(INAUDIBLE) watch.
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His parents do, and they want Louis to build a library of images in his brain.
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Memories in his mind`s eye.
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And when they asked him what he wants to see most.
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I want to see basketball in America.
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The kid is always wearing Celtic screen. Even when he got to meet a professional New Zealand hoops team.
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Neighbors started raising money for a trip to Boston, and it`s spread on social media.
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That`s when the Celtics owners, the Grousbecks whose son is blind, thought.
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And they were all over, Corinne Grousbeck tweeting, Our son has a similar disease that affected him at birth. I`m on it!
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Boston Celtics got hold of us and said, hey, if you`re coming - love to see you. And what can we do?
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The team`s bringing Louis to Boston next week. He`ll watch his favorite team live from a lecture (ph) box.
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I`m (INAUDIBLE) the Celtics who (INAUDIBLE) because yeah, first (INAUDIBLE) and me, I just want to make (INAUDIBLE) that will be cool
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Now that is a banner night.
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There are a number of traditions associated with Lent in the carnival and Mardi Gras season.
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This is when you probably don`t know about.
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It`s the Washington National Cathedral Pancake race.
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Competitors try to flip flap jack three times before the finish.
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Legend has it that back in 1445, a British woman was making pancakes when she heard the church bells ring.
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She didn`t want to be late for the service, so she took her frying pan with her
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That run is no piece of pancake. It`s no cake walk.
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You know, they say, no pan, no gain.
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And when push comes to shrove, the race will put your skilling to the test.
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Do what you can to avoid a flapjack, and we`ll see you fry-day when CNN STUDENT NEWS returns.