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CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Love that new show open. It is Tuesday, my name is Carl Azuz, this is CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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We are bringing you stories from around the world, and today we`re going to take you underground and out into space.
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But we`re starting in the Philippines, with the impact of a powerful storm there.
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You can see some of the flooding and damage here.
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It`s all the result of Typhoon Utor.
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In the Philippines, it is also called La Bouillo (ph).
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Typhoons are the same kinds of storms as hurricanes.
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They are called different things based on where they happen,
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and this one, Utor, is the strongest typhoon that`s happened anywhere in the world so far this year.
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Winds up to 124 miles per hour.
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At least one person killed. 20 more were missing yesterday.
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More than 600 homes were damaged in the area where it made landfall.
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The Philippines is made up of more than 7,000 islands, and the country is hit by an average of 20 typhoons every year.
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In the U.S., some states are dealing with severe weather as well.
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In Colorado, heavy rains led to flash flooding.
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Take a look at this video.
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These cars washed away like toys.
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In some parts of the state, the floodwaters were up to 10 feet deep and moving at up to 30 miles per hour.
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You can see the water rushing through the cars that are stuck in it.
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These vehicles were in a parking garage that flooded.
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You can see how high the water rose based on how little of the cars are still visible.
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Once the floodwaters started to recede, this is the kind of damage they left behind.
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At least one person was killed.
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Emergency crews were searching for anyone who was missing, and residents were just starting to clean up and recover.
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That could take some time.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s time for the shoutout.
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Which of these states has the most sinkholes?
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If you think you know it, then shout it out.
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Is it Alaska, California, Florida, or Minnesota?
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You got three seconds. Go.
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Because of its terrain, you are more likely to find a sinkhole in Florida than these other states.
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That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
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AZUZ: Florida`s terrain is ideal for sinkholes.
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They can form when the rock under the land`s surface is dissolved by ground water.
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The land above can then fall in the hole, taking along whatever was on it.
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This was on it. In Clermont, Florida, Sunday night, a vacation resort near Disneyworld, where people heard popping, cracking,
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then saw windows blow out as part of the building crumbled into the ground.
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More than 30 people were evacuated in time.
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There were no injuries, which is kind of amazing when you consider that the crater that swallowed this place was 60 feet wide and 15 feet deep.
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Just a reminder of how dangerous sinkholes are.
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And to show you what`s actually under them, CNN`s David Mattingly dove in and took a swim.
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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Perhaps most striking to me how appearances of the sinkhole are so misleading.
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A single beam of sunlight reveals the cavern is even bigger below the waterline,
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with tunnels and passageways carved deep into the darkness.
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But most disturbing could be the view from up top.
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The round opening is deceptively small.
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Little indication of the cavern that`s just beneath my feet.
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Until a hole like this opens up, there`s really no warning, is there?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Correct. It is that random and that sudden.
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And it can happen obviously overnight or at any time.
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MATTINGLY: It can, and it does.
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With thousands of sinkholes opening up in Florida every year.
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AZUZ: This next story started on February 26, 2012.
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That night, 28- year-old George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense,
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and he was not arrested the night of the shooting because police said there wasn`t evidence to disprove his story.
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Some people were angered by that decision. They held rallies in cities across the country.
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And in April of 2012, Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder, and he turned himself in.
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All week long, we`re looking at some of the stories that happened this summer.
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Today, the George Zimmerman trial.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: State of Florida versus George Zimmerman.
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Verdict, we the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That was how the trial ended on July 13th.
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It started more than a year after George Zimmerman was charged with second- degree murder.
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This was a criminal case, which means Zimmerman being prosecuted by the state of Florida,
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and his fate was in the hands of the six people on the jury.
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The trial lasted 14 days;
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56 witnesses testified, but not George Zimmerman.
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The defendant chose not to take the stand.
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The prosecutors argued that Zimmerman intentionally committed an act that caused Trayvon Martin`s death.
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BERNIE DE LA RIONDA, PROSECUTOR: He profiled a 17-year-old boy that had Skittles.
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That`s the crime he committed that evening.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The defense argued that Zimmerman feared for his life, and shot Martin in self-defense.
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MARK O`MARA, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: That is cement.
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That is the sidewalk.
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And that is not an unarmed teenager with nothing but Skittles, trying to get home.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The jury had three options - find Zimmerman guilty of second-degree murder,
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find him guilty of manslaughter - a lesser charge - or find him not guilty.
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After 16.5 hours of deliberation, they returned the verdict of not guilty.
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Across the country, some people responded in anger.
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CROWD (chanting): No justice, no peace.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Others said the judicial system did its job.
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JIMMY CARTER, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: I think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented.
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Because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman,
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that he was not at all defending himself and so forth. It`s not a moral question, it was a legal question.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And President Obama urged Americans to stay calm and reflect,
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saying, quote, "we should ask ourselves if we`re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities."
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If a civil case or a civil rights lawsuit are brought against George Zimmerman,
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he could still be held accountable for Trayvon Martin`s death,
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but not in the criminal trial, which reached its conclusion this summer.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this legit?
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Hercules, Perseus, Mensa are all names of constellations.
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It`s true. Those are three of the 88 official constellations, patterns of stars in the sky.
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AZUZ: Every year, Perseus gets a space shower - well, kind of.
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It`s actually a meteor shower, and it`s not near the constellation.
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It`s called the Perseid meteor shower because it happens in the same part of the sky as the Perseus constellation.
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This meteor shower happens when the earth`s orbit passes near the path of a comet called Swift-Tuttle.
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That usually happens in July or August.
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We get close to the path every year, but the actual comet only approaches our orbit every 130 years.
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Here are a few looks at the Perseid meteor shower, some from past years, one from this year, and a view from space.
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Those streaks of light are meteors hitting the earth`s atmosphere, something that happens more often than you might think.
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AZUZ: Thousands of natural space objects come close to earth every day.
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Some you need a telescope to see. Others you can spot with your eyes.
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Then, there are those you can just pick up after they hit the ground.
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Meteors, sometimes called shooting stars, are the streaks of light you see when these objects enter earth`s atmosphere.
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The light is caused by friction between the object - called a meteoroid - and the air.
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Now, meteors are best seen at night, but they can happen during any part of the day, like this one that caused a sonic boom over Russia in February of 2013.
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Some meteors can be caused by fragments of comets, balls of ice that form way out in space.
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They develop really long tails as they come close to the sun.
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Now, if that tail passes through earth`s atmosphere, you get a meteor shower,
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lots of streaks of light that could last several days.
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Meteors caused by comets melt before they reach the ground.
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Meteors can also be pieces of asteroids, balls of rock that usually orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
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But some asteroids orbit closer to earth, close enough to burn up in the atmosphere, forming meteors.
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If a rocky meteor is not completely incinerated, it could strike the ground, and then it`s called a meteorite.
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This one landed in what`s now Argentina about 4,000 years ago.
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Large ones like that are pretty rare, but NASA says about 100 tons of space stuff slams into earth`s atmosphere every day.
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AZUZ: All right, getting shown up in a YouTube video does not sound like fun,
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but the kid in this YouTube video is at least getting shown up by the best.
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That`s Michael Jordan at his Michael Jordan flight school camp, and it looks like his airness can still throw down.
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This might not be an emphatic slam, but remember, Jordan turned 50 this year, a half-century of hops.
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So how did the crowd respond?
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Hooping and hollering. You know, just generally having a ball.
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No complaints, besides who`s going to slam Michael Jordan?
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Whether or not you think those puns are a foul, we`ll rebound and try some more tomorrow.
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I`m Carl Azuz.
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END