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BEN TINKER, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, everyone. It`s Friday, and you are watching CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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I`m Ben Tinker, in today for Carl Azuz.
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We are wrapping up our first week of the school year with a medical story, a salary question, and a new heir to the throne.
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But first, we`re going to Egypt.
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Yesterday, we reported on the latest violence happening in the North African country.
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More than 500 people were killed there on Wednesday.
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More than 3,700 others were injured.
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This all happened during fighting between security forces and protesters.
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CNN`s Reza Sayah has more from Cairo.
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REZA SAYAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For weeks, Egypt`s military backed interim government had promised to crush a six-week-long sit-in demonstration
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in support of the ousted president, Mohammed Morsy.
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On Wednesday, they delivered, with a ferocious crackdown.
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Authorities claim initially they used tear gas and water cannons to scatter protesters, but that was followed by gunfire.
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They say Morsy supporters fired first, and they were forced to fire back.
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Whoever started it, the gunfire lasted for hours.
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Security forces steadily pushed in,
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and behind makeshift barriers, Morsy supporters desperately held on.
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At a nearby hospital and makeshift clinic, there was little room for the mounting casualties.
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Three volunteer doctors claim security forces stormed the hospital and forced out the medics,
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effectively leaving scores of bloody bodies in government custody.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They put their guns in our faces and said you have to leave in five minutes.
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And we told them that there were many people, many (inaudible) people bleeding inside the hospital (ph).
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And they said it`s not your business and go out now.
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SAYAH: By roughly 6:00 p.m., security forces had taken full control of the sit-in,
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bulldozing hundreds of tents and torching protesters` belongings.
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Thousands of angry Morsy supporters, many of them walking wounded, left in despair.
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For Egypt`s military backed interim government, it was mission accomplished at a steep cost,
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but the fury of Morsy backers and the Muslim Brotherhood signaled a movement determined to keep fighting.
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TINKER: Leaders around the world have spoken out against the violence in Egypt.
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That includes President Barack Obama.
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After all, the U.S. and Egypt are allies.
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That means they support each other and work together.
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Yesterday, the president talked about how the crisis in Egypt could affect that relationship.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt.
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Our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back.
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As a result, this morning we notified the Egyptian government
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that we are canceling our biannual joint military exercise, which was scheduled for next month.
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Going forward, I`ve asked my national security team to assess the implications of the actions taken by the interim government,
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and further steps that we may take as necessary with respect to the U.S.-Egyptian relationship.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me.
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I am an organism whose name comes from the Greek word for change.
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I only have one cell.
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In fact, I am so small that you can only see me with a microscope.
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I use pseudopodia, a kind of false foot, to move.
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I`m an ameba, and some of my species can cause diseases in people.
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TINKER: A 12-year-old in Florida is fighting for his life against a disease he contracted from a rare ameba.
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Earlier this month, Zachary Rainer (ph) was knee-boarding in a water-filled ditch near his house.
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His parents got worried when he slept the entire next day.
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Doctors say Zachary was attacked by naegleria fowleri, which is sometimes called a brain-eating ameba.
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This ameba is usually found in fresh water, lakes and rivers.
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People get infected when contaminated water goes up their nose.
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Then, the ameba travels to the person`s brain and starts attacking tissue there.
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Now, we should note, these infections are very rare.
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In fact, between 2001 and 2010, there were only 32 reported cases in the United States,
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but in those rare instances, the consequences were often fatal.
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In the past 50 years, only 3 people have survived after contracting this ameba.
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Zachary Rainer`s family is hoping he will be number four.
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Next up, internships.
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Some of you may have had one over the summer, or maybe you`ve heard about an older friend in college
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getting this kind of real, on-the-job work experience.
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What you might not know is that not all interns get paid.
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One recently resorted to crowd sourcing, asking for help online to pay her bills.
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Erin McPike looks into whether interns should get an income.
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ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Calling all benefactors.
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Would you spare a nickel to pay for this UNLV student`s living expenses while she interns for Harry Reid in Washington this fall?
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Jessica Patrone (ph) went online to beg for help in paying for food and shelter while she toils away with no pay.
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Otherwise, she says she will miss out on this once-in-a- lifetime chance to take advantage of this crucial career move without loans.
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Ironic, because plenty of lawmakers here are constantly fighting to raise the federal minimum wage,
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but in their own offices, they are not even paying some of their hardest workers.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Only Congress, among anybody in the federal government,
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only Congress is allowed to use unpaid interns, because they have explicitly written an exemption for themselves into the law.
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MCPIKE: And it`s not just Washington looking for free labor.
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Lots of those glamorous Hollywood internships don`t pay either.
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Eric Flatt (ph) worked for free on the blockbuster hit "Black Swan,"
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but he later sued, complaining it was unfair to pay him nothing.
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He warns that only rich kids can score prestigious internships.
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But the Employment Policies Institute`s Michael Saltsman warns mandating internships be paid could rob everyone of the experience.
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MICHAEL SALTSMAN, EMPLOYMENT POLICIES INST.: I think it`s crucial that we maintain a situation where interns don`t have to be paid.
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I think if we do have a situation like that, you have employers who may decide it`s not worth the hassle.
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MCPIKE: And these jobs are not all full of copies, coffee and mail rooms.
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One intern asked a question at the White House briefing, and several reached fame for sprinting right out of the Supreme Court with copies of crucial rulings.
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But even if it`s not that quite that glamorous, there is pressure just to get one.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All I hear from the career center at school is, internships are almost a necessary thing now.
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It`s not - your resume needs to have internships on it when you graduate, or you`re way, way behind.
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TINKER: Interns and income. That`s our first blog post of the new school year, at cnnstudentnews.com.
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Remember, you have to be at least 13 years old to comment on our blog.
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Tell us what you think about the issue, but only tell us your first name.
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Please, no last names, schools, or city names on the blog.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s time for the shoutout.
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In what country will you find Trafalgar Square, the cliffs of Dover and Stonehenge?
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If you think you know it, then shout it out.
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Are they in Greece, New Zealand, Canada, or the United Kingdom?
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You`ve got three seconds, go.
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Those landmarks are in the United Kingdom.
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That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
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TINKER: And the British royal family reigns over all of those landmarks and everything else in the United Kingdom.
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The UK is a constitutional monarchy, so the royal family doesn`t actually control the government,
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but it does get a lot of attention in the United Kingdom and all over the world.
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Our weeklong recap of summer news stories wraps up with the newest royal addition.
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TINKER: On Monday, July 22nd, Catherine the duchess of Cambridge and her husband, Prince Williams, welcomed their first child.
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Prince George Alexander Louis was born at 4:24 p.m., weighing eight pounds, six ounces.
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The world waited in anticipation to catch a glimpse of the new prince.
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But they didn`t wait long.
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He made his first public appearance on his second day in the world.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There`s the baby, the new royal heir in the United Kingdom.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s got a good pair of lungs on him, that`s for sure.
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He`s a big boy, he`s quite heavy.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s a special time. I think any parent having (inaudible) sort of know what this feeling (inaudible).
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very special.
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TINKER: Thanks to a new law, the royal couple`s baby, whether it was a boy or a girl, would be third in line for the British throne,
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but it might be a while before Prince George gets to rule.
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Right now, his great grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, still reigns.
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Next in line is his grandfather, Prince Charles, and then his dad, Prince William.
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The little prince is not in a hurry, though.
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He has some growing up to do first.
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TINKER: Back in March, Josh Roggles (ph) won a three-point shooting contest by hitting 13 of 15 shots.
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For this YouTube video, he added a zero to the end of those numbers.
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Josh sank 135 three`s in just five minutes.
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He only missed 12 shots.
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The math on this, 147 total attempts in 300 seconds;
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one shot launched every 2 seconds;
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and Josh nailed nearly 92 percent of them.
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The high school junior`s 135 makes set a new unofficial record.
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Now, listen, I don`t know if he was trying to court attention,
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but that video sure helped him net some, don`t you think?
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And if there ever was a question about his shooting skills, well,
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I think he made his point, all 405 of them. Congratulations, Josh.
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That`s where the clock runs out on us today.
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I`m Ben Tinker, in for Carl Azuz. Have a great weekend.
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