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Hey, I'm Carl Azuz with CNN's Student News.
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Your source for current events, fun features and puzzling puns.
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You're gonna see why in a few minutes.
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First up, though, we're updating you on a standoff in the US state of Oregon.
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On our January 8th show, which you can find in the archive of our website,
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we reported on a man named Ammon Bundy
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and a group of armed protestors who took over an unoccupied federal
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building in rural Southeast Oregon.
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Some of the demonstrators are still there.
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But yesterday, eight people connected to the standoff were arrested,
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including protest leader Ammon Bundy and four others at a traffic stop.
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That's also where a demonstrator identified as LaVoy Finicum
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was shot and killed. Law enforcement officials say
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it's not clear who fired first, police or the protestors.
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The demonstrators say Finicum had his hands in the air when he was shot.
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A local sheriff says the death didn't have to happen
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and he called for the occupiers of the federal building to leave.
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The demonstrators say that's something they will not do.
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We're moving one state to the south now.
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In the city of Pacifica, California, there's a state of emergency and this is why.
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It almost looks like a scale model of a dangerous cliff side.
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Because it's real, officials have asked residents of homes
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and apartment complexes to get out.
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The rapid erosion of the coast has been blamed on storms caused by El Ni o.
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The backyards of some properties have already been washed out to sea.
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But even though city officials have labeled the properties
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unsafe and ordered residents to leave,
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some people say they're not going anywhere.
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They don't think the danger is imminent.
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It's not the first time homes in this area have been evacuated.
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Storms have been eroding these cliffs for years.
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Officials say relief organizations like the Red Cross
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have been contacted to help support those who've had to abandon their homes.
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Northeastern US is where we're starting today's call of the roll.
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From Hancock, Maine, please welcome the Hornets.
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Hancock Grammar School gets things going today.
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From Bridgeport, Connecticut, we've got some presidents watching.
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They're presiding over Warren Harding High School.
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And from the capital of South Korea, that's Seoul,
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please welcome our viewers from Whimoon High School.
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Great to have you watching.
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Ellis Island is in Upper New York Bay.
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It's only about 27 acres in size.
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For awhile it was used for landfill.
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In the early 1800s, it was a fort.
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At one point it was a detention center for people
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suspected of supporting US enemies.
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But it's most famous as the gateway to America.
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For millions of immigrants from the 1890s through the 1950s,
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Ellis Island was where they were identified,
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recorded and given permission to enter the US.
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Part of that process included physical exams
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and there is a lesser known area of Ellis Island that housed the sick.
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I go down this hallway.
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I'm going to be going to the hospital built to restore the health
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of people suffering from minor injuries, broken bones, goiters.
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Even babies were born in this building.
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These immigrants were expected to do physically demanding work.
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And if they found that you didn't have the physique
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or the capacity to do that kind of work, they'd possibly deport you.
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Go down this hallway though, you're gonna go to the contagious
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and infectious disease hospital that we're talking about.
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Diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, tuberculosis, trachoma.
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Hopefully I survive it, then I can return to the immigration process.
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You're gonna see some barbaric treatments.
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They would be the medical treatments of the day.
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For the most part though, this is the first time the third- class
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patient would ever see the inside of a hospital. Each pavilion is the same.
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It's gonna be a very large open room, in the back,
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where patients going to be as far from the hallway as possible.
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There would have been 14 beds in the room,
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each bed positioned between each of the windows.
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There were private rooms, but if you had a private room, you likely were either psychotic,
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or you perhaps had tuberculosis.
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These are the isolation wards of Ellis Island.
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The people here are gonna be suffering from serious diseases,
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maybe multiple diseases.
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So one of the cruel ironies of this room is the better view you have of the statue.
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It's least likely that you're gonna survive your disease before getting to the United States.
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This is the autopsy amphitheater,
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it's gonna be a darkened room, this surgical lamp's gonna illuminate the autopsy space.
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You're not gonna find too many people dying of malaria
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in the city hospital of New York.
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Doctors wanna come out to see an autopsy being performed on an immigrant.
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If you worked here at Ellis Island, you likely lived here.
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This is the staff house, very important medical officers lived here
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with their families, feet away from people dying of diphtheria.
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Children playing in here, enjoying Christmas.
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40 % of all Americans can trace an immigrant who came through Ellis Island.
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So these stories need to be told,
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it requires guides and volunteers to actually mine these stories
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and then share with the people as they come here to visit Ellis Island.
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Okay, just as an athlete dreams of pro sports or an actor dreams
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of the big screen many of those who are in band or in a band
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have dreams of success in the music industry.
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And you probably know enough about it to expect
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it's a pay your dues profession. You have to earn your success.
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So what does that look like? CNN caught up with a group of songwriters
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who showed us some of the challenges of making music in the streaming age.
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This is captured by.
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It's lunchtime at the Manhattan studios of songwriter producer team The Eleven.
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1: 04 PM And they're starting on a brand new song.
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Brothers James and Matt Morales and their partner Dave Rodriguez are collaborating
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today with singer songwriter Ginette Claudette.
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They start with a chord progression. It's got that New York radio, Latin.
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And then the song's core message.
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I'm anticipating being with you, kind of vibe.
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Got me waiting, kind of thing. Those are just the words that I'm playing with.
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So we're just half an hour into the process and things are progressing really quickly.
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This is not the romantic notion of songwriting that you might think,
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the thunderbolt of inspiration that just happens.
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These guys are under intense pressure to keep churning out music as quickly as possible.
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There are a lot more songwriters, I would say today,
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because the technology allows us to do that.
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Technology makes everything so much faster and quicker, we have to expedite the process.
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Three hours in and a song is starting to take shape.
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The Eleven got a lucky break four years ago when a friend
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and music manager spotted one of their tracks.
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That lead to a publishing contract with one of the world's biggest
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publishing companies, Sony ATV, and the work started flowing.
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We've had with Meghan Trainor, Sean Jessie McCartney.
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Their's though, is a rare success story.
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Jason Blume, a 20 year veteran of the industry,
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who's written songs for Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys,
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says this is the most difficult time he's ever seen for songwriters.
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I personally have had a situation where more than a million airings
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on YouTube earned me $ 30.
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Streaming has not caught up in terms of the payments,
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and it's almost impossible for songwriters to earn a living.
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So what do songwriters do? We have to write amazing songs.
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Good is not good enough anymore.
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It's a message keenly felt by this group,
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even with the extra money they earn from producing their own music.
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Now if you write a hit record and you have 5 %
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of a smash multi platinum selling record,
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5 % may not sound like a lot but the music business is a business of nickels
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and dimes and if you make enough nickels and dimes
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you can make a lot of money.
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After five hours of work they have the skeleton of a new record.
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Is it gonna be a hit? We hope so, it's hard to say, we don't get to make that call.
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The laughter, is nervous, in an industry where profits are spread ever thinner,
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that next big hit, means everything. CNN, New York.
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A 14 year old from Kentucky holds the Guinness World
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record for solving a Rubik's Cube.
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He lined up all the colors on the three by three block in less than five seconds.
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Well, this robot's a little faster.
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It gets the job done in just over one second using a computer application,
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several cameras, some stepper motors and some 3D printed robot
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arms to position the cube.
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Its builder say they've created a puzzle solving machine
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worthy of a new world record.
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If they made it more complicated, it could be a Rubik's Goldberg machine.
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Only if you folks are gonna get that like those who can really solve a Rubik's cube.
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It's a mental block, a square deal, a challenge measured in cubits.
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Still, puns about it always make for a colorful conclusion
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to CNN Student News. We hope to see you tomorrow. I'm Carl Azuz.