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Midway through the week, we`re glad you`re taking 10 minutes for CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m
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Carl Azuz.
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First up, surveying the damage in Taiwan. A major storm made landfall in the island`s
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east coast Monday. Typhoon Dujuan brought wind gusts as high as 153 miles per hour and
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prompted the evacuation of 5,000 people from some northeastern mountain areas. They got
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20 inches of rain in a short amount of time. That increased the threat of flooding and
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landslides.
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The storm killed two people and injured hundreds of others. It knocked out power to half a
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million before moving on to mainland China. Dujuan had weakened a bit by the time it made
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landfall. But more than 260,000 Chinese were evacuated.
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As the international fight against the ISIS terrorist group continues, we`re catching
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up with some people who escaped the militants.
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A little over a year ago, ISIS trapped almost 40,000 Yazidis on a mountain in northern Iraq.
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Yazidis are an ancient religious minority. ISIS wanted to kill them because their beliefs
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are different from the extremist Muslim views of ISIS. Thanks to a massive operation to
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evacuate the Yazidis and fight ISIS, thousands of lives were saved.
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In the mad dash to climb aboard a flight to safety, families scrambled to stay together.
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These desperate people spent nine days trapped on a barren mountain under siege from ISIS
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militants who chased them from their homes.
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Amid the chaos and gunfire, terror frozen on the face of a girl in purple, 14-year-old
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Aziza Hamed.
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More than a year later, we found Aziza and her family in this refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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I`m looking forward to this. We`re going to meet some old friends that we encountered
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in very dramatic circumstances more than a year ago. And they`re right up here.
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Dunia, how are you?
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Aziza and her older 18-year-old sister, Dunia, are here along with their elder brother, Thabet,
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his wife and his three children. Their situation now much better than the unfinished construction
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site where they lived for the first seven months after ISIS made them flee their homes.
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The girls tell me they go to school here and they say the camp has started to feel like
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home.
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Aziza, you`ve gotten a little taller than Dunia since I saw you last.
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But it does not take long for terrible memories to resurface.
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What`s making you sad right now?
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"When I see you," Aziza says, "I remember what happened."
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We saw ISIS with our own eyes, how they were capturing people. If we drove down the wrong
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road that day, we would have ended up in ISIS hands, but we took a different road and made
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it to the mountain.
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In the year since their narrow escape, their father`s health has deteriorated, and he can
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no longer walk. No one knows what happened to two elder brothers, who were captured by
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ISIS last year and haven`t been heard from since.
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And another brother, 23-year-old Karem, smuggled himself to Europe on the migrant trail taken
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by so many other people fleeing the Middle East.
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Hey, Karem.
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Hello.
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Hey, how are you? Where are you?
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Deutschland.
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Germany?
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Yes.
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I ask Karem if he misses Iraq.
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No, that`s gone. Iraq is gone for me. I lost it. I want to build a new future for myself.
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There`s no future in Iraq.
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That hopelessness, shared by so many people we talked to in refugee camps in northern
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Iraq, where people like Aziza and Dunia`s older brother, Thabet, still struggle to deal
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with the trauma they endured.
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"I just want to start a new life," he says. "And I want my family to stay safe and to
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stay together."
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One of the few times 15-year-old Aziza really smiles is when I ask her what she`d like to
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do to the men from ISIS who attacked her family.
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"I would stomp on their heads and kill them," she says.
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This girl may have escaped to live another day, but her innocence has been forever lost.
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Ivan Watson, CNN, Dahak, Iraqi Kurdistan.
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We`re roving all over North America in today`s "Roll Call".
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We`ll start in Canada, the province is Alberta, the city is Calgary, the school is St. Francis
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High, home of the Browns.
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Moving south to the central U.S. state of Kansas, we`ve got the Indians of Andale High
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School watching today. Hello, Andale.
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And though Anchorage isn`t the capital of Alaska, it is the state`s largest city and
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it`s where the Rams are watching at Wendler Middle School.
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Time for the shoutout.
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At sea level under normal conditions, how fast would you have to be travelling to be
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supersonic?
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If you know it, shout it out.
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Is it: (a) 253 miles per hour, (b) 530 miles per hour, (c) 612 miles per hour, or (d) 762
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miles per hour?
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You`ve got three seconds. Go!
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On an average day, sound waves travel at about 762 miles per hour. So, option (d) is supersonic.
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That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
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Of course, jets can break the speed of sound, but can a car? One did in 1997 in Nevada`s
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Black Rock Desert. A British driver took a jet engine vehicle to 763 miles per hour,
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a Guinness World Record that still stands.
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It was supersonic and it`s kind of slow, at least when compared to what engineers hope
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what this will do. It`s called the Bloodhound Project, estimated cost, $62 million, paid
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for by sponsors and supporters.
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Critics may say it`s a waste of money, but the project`s director says he hopes it will
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inspire Britain`s future engineers.
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It looks like something out of the latest "James Bond" movie. And there`s even a cube-like
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character. But this is reality.
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Say hello to the Bloodhound, billed as the world`s fastest racing car, making its world
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debut in London.
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Zero to 1,000 miles an hour in 55 seconds. And then when we go through the measured mile
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3.6 seconds, a mile in 3.6 seconds. Then we`ve got to think about stopping.
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This is going to be driven by an RAF pilot. As you can see it`s not quite done yet but
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when it is, it is going to be supersonic.
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This race car is part jet and part rocket.
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This is known as a hybrid rocket. It`s very, very clean and 98 percent efficient. It`s
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amazing thing.
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It was built by a team of Formula One and aerospace experts with help from the British
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Royal Air Force and Army Engineers.
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The goal: to smash the current land speed record of 763 miles an hour.
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The outside is sleek and aerodynamic. And the inside -- well, we`ll let an expert tell
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you all about it.
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You`ve got a most impressive jet engine, the EJ200, coupled with the next generation of
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space travel, rocket motors are being built in the European Space Agency and then the
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most extraordinary aerodynamic design.
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Next up for the Bloodhound: a trip in South Africa to race on a track built especially
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for the supersonic machine. The goal is to hit 800 miles per hour next year and 1,000
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miles per hour in 2017. No doubt this race car is already on 007`s wish list.
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Sherisse Pham, CNN, London.
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Before we go -- a monkey on a loose. Here he is hanging out on a mailbox. Whoops, time
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for a water break. All this being loose makes the money thirsty.
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Hey, street sign, I`m shaking things up.
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So, what, where, why -- well, it happened in Florida. A pet macaque monkey named Zeke
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got out of his cage and monkeyed around a while until his owner came to collect him.
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Zeke`s neighbors had seen this before, so they kept their distance fearing a macaque
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attack.
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So, how does he keep getting out? Must have the mon-key.
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Neighbors probably wish he`d just mon-kept to his house. But if he mon- keeps on doing
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this, you`ll have to wonder what this prim-ate to make him such an escape artist.
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I`m Carl Azuz, and that`s CNN STUDENT NEWS.