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Thank you for taking 10 minutes to watch CNN STUDENT NEWS.
I'm Carl Azuz at the CNN Center.
It's good to see you Thursday.
First up, a recognition for Germany's leader.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named "TIME Magazine's" 2015 Person of the Year.
She's led Germany since 2005 and is serving her third time.
TIME Magazine gave a number of reasons why it chose Merkel, from how she's handled Europe's economic crisis, to how she's responded to terrorist attacks in the region, to how she's addressed the continent's ongoing refugee crisis.
Her high approval rating in Germany has slipped recently because many Germans don't agree with her response to that crisis.
So, the reaction in her home country was mixed.
TIME has named a person of a year since 1927.
The recipient is someone or some group that fore better or worse is considered to have had a major impact on world events.
We're taking to Brazil now.
It's the site of the 2016 Olympic Summer Games.
Officials in Rio de Janeiro say the events will be safe and secure.
They're pointing out their experience in protecting international events like last year's World Cup tournament in Brazil, and a 2013 visit by Pope Francis.
But there are always concerns about security at the Olympics.
One major reason, a terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, when eight Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes and a West German policeman.
Increased security since then has kept the competition safer.
But critics say it's taken away from the celebratory atmosphere that the Olympics used to have.
Shasta Darlington is in Rio to have a look at how they planned to secure the games.
Rio de Janeiro Olympic venues back on track.
But the question many asking now: will they be safe?
Central command for the 65,000 police and troops charged with securing the games right here.
There are 4,000 cameras across the city and come August 2016, they're going to be focused on the main Olympic sites.
Right up here for example, that's the Olympic Park and you can see the cameras all around it.
Rio's security chief says they've been coordinating with international intelligence agencies all along.
Because terrorism was always treated as a priority, our infrastructure is very strong, he says.
At this point, our understanding of the level of risk hasn't changed.
But for security expert Paolo Storani, Brazil hasn't taken the risk of terrorism seriously.
There's no doubt that if somebody's been plotting against the Olympic Games, they're already in Brazilian territory, he says.
Part of the problem, the country's porous borders.
More than 23,000 kilometers of sea and land borders shared with 10 countries and a very few controls.
Ahead of the World Cup and Olympic Games, Rio's police focused on cleaning up violent favelas, long the stronghold of drug traffickers.
And on protests, most recently in a joint exercise with French police.
But the Paris attacks very present.
We talk to them, all difficulties, to handle these attacks.
Don't panic-don't panic.
Officials insist they're ready with the contingency force that would boost the security operation to 85,000 troops, more than double the London Games.
Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
From yesterday's transcript page at CNNStudentNews.com, the roll is calling.
And we're calling on South Carolina today.
It's where we're happy to be included at Therapeutic Learning Center.
It's in the eastern city of Conway.
Up next, can you hear the Lions roar?
From Monroe, Louisiana, a warm welcome to everyone at Ouachita Parish High School.
And in Gwangju, a city in the southwestern part of South Korea, hello to our viewers at Speer High School.
Up next, the controversial method of getting oil and natural gas out of the earth.
We're talking about hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.
Search for that online and you'll see page after page of criticism and praise of the practice.
Fracking is blamed for increasing people's dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels.
It's also credited with generating billions of dollars for the U.S. economy.
Part of the reason why gas prices are so low is because oil prices have plunged.
And part of the reason for that is the fact that U.S. oil production has increased so dramatically from fracking.
Richard Quest goes underground to explore how it's down, why it's controversial and why it's contributing to an oil boom.
It's hot. And the big sky of Texas seems to go on forever as these oil and natural gas rigs keep pumping out the black gold.
It's a huge industry, devoted to cracking the shale rock thousands of feet beneath the ground and freeing the precious fossil fuels inside.
There's nothing pretty about the art or science of fracking.
It's loud, it's dirty and if you look at the array of equipment, it's extremely complicated.
