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CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Missing masterpieces materialized in reflective relief from a lack of light.
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Those stories are coming up today on CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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But we`re starting with election results and some votes of note from Tuesday.
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This man, Bill de Blasio, is set to be the next mayor of the nation`s largest city, New York.
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He is the first Democrat elected to the mayor`s office since 1989.
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In Virginia, a close race for governor ended in victory for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe.
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Virginia doesn`t allow governors to serve consecutive terms, so the current governor wasn`t running for reelection.
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Just the opposite in New Jersey, though, Republican Governor Chris Christie was reelected Tuesday night.
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It was a big win, too, with the exit poll showing that Governor Christie got more votes than his opponent from voters in almost every age group.
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ome analysts think that display of electability, Governor Christie`s ability to get support from voters, sends a message about the next office he might run for.
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JOHN KING, CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: One unmistakable takeaway, Chris Christie now has the premier brand in Republican politics.
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Look at this map. New Jersey is known as a reliably blue state in presidential politics. Well, in sweeping to landslide reelection, Chris Christie turned almost the entire map red.
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Electability will be his argument now, as he makes the case. He is a strong Republican contender for 2016 in the presidential race.
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Chris Christie can argue, I won the women`s vote, I won the men`s vote. No gender gap for me.
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He will also argue powerfully that not only did he carry the white vote big,
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but among African-Americans, even though his Democratic challenge who won the African American vote,
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Chris Christie, 21 percent of the African-American vote, more than double his take from four years ago.
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Compare that to Mitt Romney and compare that to John McCain. Chris Christie will say he can broaden the Republican base.
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Even more importantly, in making that argument, the electability argument, Chris Christie actually carrying the Latino vote in the state of New Jersey with the slight majority there.
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Again, think about Nevada, think about New Mexico, think about Florida, other presidential battleground states Latinos are critical constituency.
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Chris Christie will make the case I`m the more electable Republican.
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If there is a dent in the electability argument, it is this:
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in his home state as he won a sweeping reelection voters will ask: what if you had Hillary Clinton versus Chris Christie in 2016?
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Well, Hillary Clinton carrying a narrow victory over Chris Christie.
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A bit of a dent in the electability argument. With that poll number ...
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AZUZ: After the states we covered in our first story, the ones in today`s "Roll Call" might look a little familiar.
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New Jersey, the Jackson Memorial High Jaguars put the Garden State on today`s mat.
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Virginia - how about the Wolverines from Woodgrove High in Purcellville, Virginia.
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And New York, specifically, the city of Hamburg and the Hamburg High Bulldogs.
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Thanks for watching, everybody!
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Every month, the city of Greece, New York, holds a public board meeting to talk about the town`s government.
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Since 1999, those meetings have started with the prayer.
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But now, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether that policy is unconstitutional.
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Yesterday, the court`s nine justices heard arguments about whether or not the board meeting prayers violate the establishment clause.
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That`s the part of the First Amendment that says, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
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In other words, government won`t endorse a specific religion.
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City officials in Greece say they aren`t - they say they have invited people from a wide variety of faiths to offer invocations.
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But the plaintiffs in this case argue that the prayers at city board meetings have been overwhelmingly Christian.
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During yesterday`s Supreme Court hearing, some justices discuss whether lawmakers in courts should advise faith (ph) on what to say, what language is considered religious.
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The Supreme Court`s ruling is expected by early next summer.
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ANNOUNCER: It`s time for "The Shoutout."
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What do Marc Chagall, Canaletto and Gustave Courbet have in common?
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If you think you know it, then shout it out!
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Are they all U.N. Secretaries General, artists, Nobel Peace Prize winners or novelists?
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You`ve got three seconds, go!
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Chagall, Canaletto and Courbet are all famous painters.
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That`s your answer and that`s your "Shoutout."
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AZUZ: All of those painters have works in the unique art collection.
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It was in Germany, but it wasn`t in the museum or in exhibit anywhere.
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In fact, no one saw the paintings.
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They were hidden away for about 70 years, and we`re not talking about just a few works of art. We are talking about more than 1300 of them.
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The secret stash was discovered when police raided an apartment in the city of Munich.
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In addition to Chagall and Courbet, officials discovered works from Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec and other famous artists.
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Some of these paintings have been considered lost or destroyed, others had never been recorded.
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Authorities believe, most of the art had been looted by Nazis.
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In the `30s and the 1940s the group confiscated thousands of artworks from galleries or private collectors.
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Other pieces were stolen from Jewish families during the Nazi era.
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The apartment where this collection was found belongs to the son of an art collector who historians say dealt with the Nazis.
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He claimed the works were destroyed during World War II bombings.
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And our historian said the paintings were in relative good condition, a little dirty, but not damaged.
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Experts say, the collection has a value "so high" it can`t be estimated.
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Fascinating stuff.
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Next stop today, we are heading to Norway, for a bright idea whose time has come even if it took a century.
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This is a story about a place where because of the local geography, even with the son is shining, the town is in the shade.
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City officials came across a solution when they took some time to reflect and shed a little light on the situation.
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MARI RAMOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It`s like flipping a switch on the Sun.
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A small town in Norway is getting some much needed sunshine.
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Thanks to 100 year old idea.
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OYSTEIN HAUGAN, SUN MIRROR PROJECT MANAGER: And we take the mirror and reflect the sun down to us.
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So, it`s a crazy idea, but it`s funny, and I think the people like it.
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RAMOS: Welcome to Rjukan, where they even start three giant mirrors on the mountainside overlooking the town.
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You see, Rjukan sits in a narrow valley, surrounded in all sites by mountains.
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From September to March, the town of about 3,000 people leaves in perpetual shade, but not anymore.
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HAUGAN: It`s important to have the sun in wintertime, and in this town we didn`t have the sun six months a year in wintertime.
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And people up here, they are - they want to have the sun.
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The idea was first proposed in 1913 by a local factory owner.
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But it went nowhere.
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A local artist reintroduced the idea recently, and now the mirrors have finally become a reality.
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The hi-tech mirrors are solar and wind-powered.
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They adjust automatically, constantly following the sun, catching its race and reflecting them down into the town square.
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Out of cost of nearly $850,000, some call the mirrors an expensive gimmick, but most of the town`s residents like the idea.
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And local officials are hoping the mirrors bring not only sunshine to the town, but put it in the spotlight for tourists as well.
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Mari Ramos, CNN.
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AZUZ: Trouble for the NFL`s Miami Dolphins off the field.
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More details have emerged since we told you about this earlier this week.
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Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin are both offensive linemen for the Dolphins.
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Martin suddenly left the team last week, and other players including Incognito, have been accused of harassing Martin,
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making him pay for expensive meals, getting up from the lunch table when Martin sat down with them.
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"The Sun Sentinel" , a newspaper in South Florida said that Miami Dolphins` coaches reportedly asked Incognito to toughen up Martin,
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and that Incognito who is accused of using racial slurs against Martin, threatening him and bullying him, might have gone too far.
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We haven`t heard directly from Martin. We have heard something from Incognito who`s suspended from the Dolphins` early this week.
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RICHIE INCOGNITO: You know, I`m just - I`m just trying to whether the storm right now and (INAUDIBLE).
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AZUZ: The NFL has launched a formal investigation into all this.
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Meantime, former Dolphins` running back Ricky Williams played alongside Incognito and got along with him.
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William says the NFL is a different type of environment than what outsiders are used to.
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That to play in it, you`ve got to be tougher.
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RICKY WILLIAMS, FORMER MIAMI DOLPHINS RUNNING BACK: You can talk about bullying, but for me this whole idea of bullying, it makes someone a victim.
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And what I found with victims, victims are just usually victimizing other people.
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And so, like you can`t really have a victim mentality and be successful in the NFL. It just doesn`t happen.
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AZUZ: On Facebook, Jonathan wrote, the only problem I find with these, is one guy was a bully to the other.
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And the other one was too much of a coward to stand up for himself.
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We are also hearing from some of you.
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On our blog, Brian wrote "I think Incognito took it too far. Why would you say racist remarks and threats to your teammate?"
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AZUZ: Ricky Davis was a big Red Sox fun, but he doesn`t live in Boston.
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Davis is from Tennessee.
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And since he can`t get to the real Fenway Park without making a road trip, he built a fake Fenway on his property, where at least the outfield wall including Fenway`s famous green monster.
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David says, he started the project at the end of the regular season and kept working as his team made its way to the title.
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His wife, kids and grandkids all helped out too.
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So, instead of this being a tedious project, you get the whole family involved and do it the Fenway.
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But they had a ball. Plus, when you`re doing all the work yourself, no one can go on strike.
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We`re out. I`m Carl Azuz. Have a great day.
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