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A lot of developments in the U.S. presidential nomination process.
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That's coming up later today on CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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First up, in the South American nation of Venezuela,
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there's a rationing system in place.
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Residents say that if they want to buy flour,
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rice or milk at a government supermarket, they have to wait in line, sometimes for an entire day,
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and they're limited on the days when they can do that.
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The drop in oil prices in a country whose revenue is dependent on oil sales caused major deficits.
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The government tried to make up for those by printing money.
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That led to severe inflation when the value of currency goes down and the price of goods goes up.
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There are food shortages. People can't get medical care.
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They're buying medicine on the black market.
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Electricity has been rationed in many areas, shutting down power for hours a day.
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There had been riots.
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Stores had been looted, and there's effort going on to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office.
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Officially, Venezuela is a federal presidential republic.
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But the government's moved in recent years toward socialism,
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extended government controls over major industries.
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Venezuela's economic disaster.
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This economic crisis has been years in the making.
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The socialist government here is being accused of really discouraging investment
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in this economy and what's happened over the last years is we've seen severe shortages of food.
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What really made things dramatic though was when oil price plunged about a year and a half ago now.
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Venezuela depends on the selling of oil for almost all of its government income.
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On top of that, it is now so reliant on imports of almost everything.
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They are not taking in enough money to pay for all the imports that they need.
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And that has now led to rampant inflation. The IMF says at least 700 percent by the end of this year.
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Staying in the Western Hemisphere,
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but jumping to Northern Canada. An entire city in the province of Alberta has been evacuated.
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Eighty-eight thousand people have been told to leave their homes
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and whole neighborhoods have been scorched by an explosive wildfire.
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The city of Fort McMurray has been the hardest hit.
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Officials don't know yet what started the fire.
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But they know what's made it worse, extreme temperatures exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit,
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bone dry conditions and high winds.
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Seventy-four hundred acres and 1,600 buildings and houses have been destroyed.
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But there had been no reports of deaths or injuries,
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and cooler weather in the 60s later this week should help firefighters. U.S. President Barack Obama
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traveled to Flint, Michigan, yesterday and took a sip of filtered water.
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His aim: to reassure residents that the federal government isn't ignoring them.
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The city's had a water crisis since its supply was switched two years ago to the polluted Flint River.
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It wasn't treated properly and caused lead, a dangerous toxic metal, to seep into Flint's water supply.
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It's been switched back but problems continue.
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Residents blamed local and state officials for causing them and a complaint
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was filed against the Obama administration last week
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saying the Environmental Protection Agency knew about the lead poisoning months
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before residents were notified.
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President Obama called on Congress to pass emergency funding to help the city.
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U.S. lawmakers are debating a package worth $150 million
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for water system repairs and health care assistance.
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I want to start this "Roll Call" with a special shout-out to all of you teachers watching today.
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Thank you for using the show in your classroom, your home school, your curriculum.
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However you use it, we sincerely appreciate you this Teacher Appreciation Week.
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First school we're visiting is Lebanon Middle School, the home of the Tigers. It's located in Lebanon, Indiana.
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Next, Elko High School is here. In the city of Elko, Nevada, the Indians are watching today.
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And in the South Korean capital of Seoul, it's great to see you everyone at Changchun Middle School.
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Results from Indiana: businessman Donald Trump won the state's primary contest
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for the Republicans and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won for the Democrats.
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Mr. Trump's victory was quickly followed by an announcement from Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
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He said he was suspending his campaign.
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Then, yesterday afternoon, Ohio Governor John Kasich did the same thing.
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What this means is that Trump will run unopposed for the rest of the contest
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and he'll likely clinch the number of delegates
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he needs to become the Republican Party's nominee for president.
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So, there'll probably be known contested convention for the GOP.
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But will there be one for Democrats?
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is still the frontrunner.
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She's won hundreds more delegates and superdelegates than Senator Sanders.
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But he says he has momentum after Tuesday's win,
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and promises to take the fight to the Democratic convention in July.
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Looking ahead to the general election,
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it's not the popular vote but the Electoral College vote that decides who wins the presidency.
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Based on Electoral College results from the last election,
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what would the strategies look like if Hillary Clinton ultimately does face Donald Trump in November?
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This map we're showing you right here is the 2012 map.
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This is Barack Obama, the blue states,
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versus Mitt Romney the red states.
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Another way to look at it is we could do this.
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This is our first CNN battleground map for the 2016 election.
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If they're dark red, we believe they're likely to stay red.
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If they're dark blue, we think they're likely to stay blue,
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and you see the lighter shades for likely Democratic states or likely Republican states.
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Let me start, Wolf, on this map. Donald Trump says,
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I can beat Hillary Clinton in places that are traditionally Democratic.
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If Donald Trump could do that and Democrats watching are going to say,
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hey, wait a minute, it won't happen.
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But if Donald Trump can win in Pennsylvania, if Donald Trump can win in Ohio,
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Michigan and the come over here and win Wisconsin, he's the president of the United States.
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You can do it -- now, you can do it, I make it sound easy.
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Those are four states that have been traditionally Democratic for a long time.
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But it can be done just in this part of the country,
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which is why Donald Trump reaches out to Bernie Sanders supporters,
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why Donald Trump talks about the trade message.
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In his mind, in his campaign team's mind,
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you can do this in one part of the country where he has proven that he has appeal to blue collar workers.
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Now, the Clinton campaign would never concede this is going to happen.
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They're going to say that this state, Pennsylvania, has not gone Republicans since George H.W. Bush.
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They're going to say, we're going to compete in all these other states.
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They're going to say, you're never going to take that away.
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But let's assume let's just say, I pick these two. Let's say Donald Trump gets two of them.
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Where else does he go?
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That is the fascinating question for the Trump campaign.
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Obviously, Florida is one of the biggest prices. Hillary Clinton believes with the Latino vote,
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with the suburban vote and a changing state that she can keep it. But what if Donald Trump won Florida?
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This is now the chess game going on both campaigns.
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How do you change the map?
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Can Donald Trump put these states in play? If so, where does Hillary Clinton go looking?
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Let's say Donald Trump -- I don't think that one we should just yet, but let's leave this one blue --
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let's say Donald Trump wins these three,
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Hillary Clinton still winning here, where does Trump go for the other one?
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Well, he's going to have to try in smaller states like in Iowa, in smaller states like in New Hampshire,
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starts to even out the math.
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So, as we begin the calculations and the thinking about the general election,
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there's no question for Donald Trump, the first test is change the map in the industrial states
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that have been reliably blue for quite a long time.
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If you're Hillary Clinton, what are you looking at?
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You think it's possible, possible, with a high Latino turnout, that you might be able to turn Arizona.
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You think it's possible, if you can get a high African- American turnout
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and if conservatives say Never Trump and stay home, you could turn a state like Georgia,
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where the combination of high Democratic turnout suppress conservative turnout.
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These are the calculations now going on the campaign.
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But as I reset this, I just want to reset it and come back to this. As you look at the Obama-Romney map,
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the biggest tests for the Trump campaign is actually to prove, to prove and have the polling prove
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that you can compete across here, because if you can make the Democrats spend time, money,
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resources here, then it can change the map in other ways.
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Now, we're talking hypothetically about a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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But Bernie Sanders, he did win in Indiana, an important win for him. His supporters are going to say,
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why aren't we paying attention to his win? The answer is it's proportional.
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It's proportional. And look, if Bernie Sanders were somehow to become the Democratic nominee,
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we have the same -- you'll be having the very same conversation about the electoral map in those states.
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But here's the issue for Bernie Sanders, let me take the superdelegates off the table for a minute.
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We give Bernie Sanders Indiana,
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Hillary Clinton begun the night with a more than 300 lead in just pledged delegates.
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Bernie Sanders will shave into that,
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but, Wolf, he's going to cut it very modest because of the proportional Democratic rules.
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Even if he wins by, he's up now by seven points, even if he wins by seven points, you split the delegates,
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53-46, something roughly along those lines. So, he'll gain, if she starts way over 315 --
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and you play this out the rest of the way -- number one, if he won everything left, 55-45,
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a bigger margin than he's winning tonight, he still wouldn't catch up.
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A couple of weeks ago, we showed you a type of hoverboard apparently powered by a jet turbine engine.
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Its inventor, Franky Zapata, just set a Guinness World Record on it for the furthest flight on a hoverboard.
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He was off the coast of Southern France. He had to fly farther than 905 feet, the previous record, and he did it.
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Zapata flew almost 1 1/2 miles.
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The board is still a prototype.
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You can't buy one.
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But if it hits the market, it's the board to board if you're bored with the boards that board on water,
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board on land, board on asphalt, board on sand, but leave you gasping for air,
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wishing you'd soared with the board that hovers aboarding the gravity that holds down others.
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That's all I got today. I'm Carl Azuz. We'll see you Friday.