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It`s field trip season here at CNN Center.
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And I want to thank Eagles Landing Christian Academy for visiting yesterday.
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It was great meeting you.
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Our first story this Thursday centers on the Florida Panhandle.
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A U.S. Defense official says a Blackhawk helicopter,
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like this one, crashed during a training mission on Tuesday night.
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Within hours,
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searchers found debris around an island near Eglin Air Force Base.
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The seven U.S. Marines and four Army air crew
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aboard the chopper were presumed dead.
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There was heavy fog in the area where the aircraft crashed.
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But a military spokeswoman says
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it`s too early to tell if that`s what caused the accident.
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A second helicopter traveling with it returned safely to base.
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General Martin Dempsey,
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the highest ranking member of the military,
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says this is a reminder that those who serve put themselves at risk,
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both in training and in combat.
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The U.S. Congress is considering
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whether to approve President Obama`s request
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for military action against the ISIS terrorist group.
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It had its first hearing on the request yesterday.
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The president`s plan puts a three year limit on military force against ISIS.
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The next president would have to
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get Congress` approval for anything longer than that.
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And it says there will be no enduring offensive ground combat for U.S. troops.
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That`s language that`s been criticized as unclear
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from some Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
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At yesterday`s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing,
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General Martin Dempsey,
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and secretary of State John Kerry
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all testified about the president`s plan to fight ISIS.
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We simply cannot allow this collection of murderers
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and thugs to achieve, in their group, their ambition,
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which includes, by the way,
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most likely the death or submission of all those who oppose it.
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President Obama says his plan does not authorize
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another ground war like those in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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But some Democrats in Congress want the proposal
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to be more limited in terms of where,
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how long and how much U.S. force is needed.
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And some Republicans think the plan is too limited
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and not forceful enough to defeat ISIS.
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Lawmakers say it could be months
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before the House and Senate vote on the president`s request.
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We`re going coast-to-coast on today`s Roll Call.
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Out West, way out West,
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we`re starting with Manokotak Nunaniq School.
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It`s in Manokotak, Alaska, where The Lynxs are watching
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Independence, Missouri is our next stop.
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It`s where the Nighthawks are online at Nativity of Mary Middle School.
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And we`ll wrap up our Roll in West Newbury,
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Massachusetts with Pentucket Regional Middle School.
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It`s great to see the Sachems this Thursday.
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For years now,
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it`s been a case of good news/bad news with the U.S. economy.
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The bad news, on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average,
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a stock market indicator, took a dive,
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dropping more than 332 points, its worst day of the year.
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Inflation in China, debt in Greece,
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wholesale inventories in the U.S., they all shared the blame.
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Also, U.S. wages, they`re not increasing enough
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to help American workers feel like they`re better off.
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Now for the good news.
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1.7 -- that`s how many job seekers there are for every job opening.
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This is my favorite labor market chart. Why?
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At the height of the recession, that number was nearly seven.
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That meant there were seven people competing for every available job opening.
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There are, today, five million job openings in the country.
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That`s a 14-year high.
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It`s just the latest evidence the U.S. labor market is getting stronger.
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More people are quitting their jobs, too.
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Why is that a good thing? That is a sign of confidence.
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You usually don`t quit your job unless you`re pretty sure you can get a new one.
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Now, this job market isn`t perfect,
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but it`s the best in seven years.
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Temperatures have heated up in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Today`s high is 36, but it was in the mid-50s yesterday.
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The city is less than two inches of snow away
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from having had its snowiest winter ever recorded,
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and it may yet break its record of 107.6 inches
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that was set in the winter of 1995-1996.
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But the place that may be the all-time record holder
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for heaviest snowfall in a day is nowhere near Boston.
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In February, the residents of Boston
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may have experienced their snowiest month on record.
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But in Capracotta, a small village in Italy,
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people there are literally on a different level.
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Well, it`s not an official record yet,
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but it looks like the Italian village got 100.8 inches in just 18 hours.
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If confirmed, it will stand as the all-time record
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for the most snowfall in a 24 hour period.
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Well, the extraordinary pictures posted Tuesday
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show entire buildings and cars in Capracotta
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and the nearby town of Pescocostanzo buried.
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A snow blower tries to clear the street.
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The town is a three hour drive east of Rome
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and sit at an altitude of 4,662 feet.
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It has a population of roughly 1,000 people.
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Media Web reported that the snow fell in 18 hours
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and that in unpopulated areas at higher altitudes,
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it`s likely accumulations were much more significant.
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Well, the World Meteorological Organization
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will confirm whether or not this snowfall surpassed the all-time 24 hour record,
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which is 75.8 inches set in Silver Lake, Colorado in 1921.
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Time for the Shoutout.
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What is represented by this formula, CNH20N?
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If you think you know it, shout it out.
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Is it sugar, sucralose, bleach or baking soda?
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You got three seconds, go!
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This is the general formula for the sample carbohydrate known as sugar.
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That`s your answer and that`s your Shoutout.
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Sugar cane, sugar beets,
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honey and maple sap are some natural sources of sugar.
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So is fruit. And you`d expect to find plenty of sucrose
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in candy and soft drinks and desserts.
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But what about smoothies,
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barbeque sauce and crackers that don`t taste sweet?
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Most Americans are eating far more sugar
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than we should and most of us would be surprised
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to find out all the foods that have it.
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As much as you try and keep track of
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how much sugar you`re eating in any given day,
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because of added sugars in all these surprising places,
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it becomes almost an unfair game.
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The thing about added sugars is
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that it`s going to crop into a lot of foods that --
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where you might not expect it.
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So take ketchup, for example, something we all eat.
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Look at how much sugar is in that --
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four grams of sugar for every tablespoon of ketchup.
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Simply switching it out for mustard can make a huge difference.
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Or take something like salad dressing.
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I make this decision all the time.
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Should I have a sweet salad dressing
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like a raspberry vinaigrette versus a balsamic?
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Well, the sweet salad dressing is going to be about
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five to seven grams of sugar for every two tablespoon serving.
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And finally, pasta sauce.
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All right, you want a little bit of sauce on your pasta.
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You can understand that. But if you get up to about
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a half a cup of pasta sauce, for example,
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that`s going to be about 12 grams of sugar.
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That`s more than your daily allowance.
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That`s a much as a chocolate chip cookie in every single serving.
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We`re eating probably at least twice,
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if not three times, as much sugar as we should be or could be eating.
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The average for a woman should be about 100 calories per day of sugar.
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For a man, about 150 calories per day.
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It depends, obviously, on how much you weigh.
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But the average person is eating probably 200, 300 calories,
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a lot of that, again, coming from added sugars
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as opposed to the sugars that we know about.
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We know that sugar is associated with the things you might expect
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-- weight gain, diabetes, increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
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But I think you might be surprised to learn
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that it can also affect your immune system.
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Our human bodies simply didn`t evolve to be able to eat that much sugar.
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Now, the average American eats about 140 pounds a year
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and our bodies simply don`t know how to handle all that.
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Two words -- buried treasure.
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Silver coins showing the image of Alexander the Great,
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a conqueror in the 300s BC.
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Silver jewelry, from rings to bracelets to earrings.
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More than 2,000 years ago it was all likely hidden,
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maybe by people planning to return.
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They didn`t. And a stalactite cave in Northern Israel
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recently yielded its secret to a member of a caving club.
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The find could help archeologists better understand ancient Israel.
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Not sure yet how much cash the cache is worth
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or if the caver will cave to cashing in.
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But it`s more than a silver of how things work.
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Alexander, a truly great discovery.
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We`re always coining new puns on CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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I`m Carl Azuz.