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It's Tuesday. My name is Carl Azuz, and we welcome you to CNN Student News. Ten minutes, no commercials, headlines from around the world, and we have a lot of them for you today.

First up, we're talking about winter weather. Now a large snowstorm in the northeastern U.S. is not that unusual. But when it happens near the end of April, that's a bit more unexpected, especially when it comes after the warmest March on record, and winter that didn't really have that much snow.

It was a different story on Monday. Parts of New York were expecting 10 inches of snow, anywhere from eight to 16 inches around Pennsylvania. One meteorologist said it won't last long. Temperatures are expected to go up this week.

Brian Todd was in Pennsylvania on Monday as the snow came down. He was looking at one particular challenge: when winter weather hits at this time of year.

As the heavy snow continues to fall here in north central Pennsylvania, this is what officials here are primarily worried about, the snow kind of building up on the foliage. The full foliage in a lot of the trees that has popped out, of course, since it's late April, when the snow really starts to build up in this and in other areas, it's going to make the trees very, very heavy.

Some of the trees are expected to collapse and fall onto power lines. That has already happened. We are told that more than 20,000 customers in this area of north central Pennsylvania are without power. They have about 200 crews from the power and electric company Penelec, fanning out all over this area. As for the roads here, the main roads in this general area still are passable, obviously.

A lot of truck traffic and car traffic coming through here. This is the corridor road leading to Interstate 80, which is a major east-west corridor for truck routes. But officials are concerned that those routes may be disrupted, may be slowed down a little bit by this snow.

Interestingly enough, a lot of the trucks that are out here to plow and salt roads had to have their plows and spreaders reattached to them, because they have taken all that equipment off, of course not anticipating this weather to hit.

In some of those states struggling with severe weather yesterday, voters are heading to the polls today. There are Republican presidential primaries in New York and Pennsylvania as well as in Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is now the presumptive Republican nominee. He's expected to win the party's nomination. But primary season isn't officially over, and Governor Romney isn't the only Republican candidate who's still in the race. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and U.S. Representative Ron Paul are on the ballot in all five states holding contests today.

President Obama spent part of the day Monday focused on human rights. He visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust was the systematic killing of millions of Jewish people by Nazi Germany during World War II.

During his visit to the museum, President Obama announced that he'll award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, who tried to warn the world about the Holocaust.

The president also announced a new executive order that aims to stop countries from using technology to abuse human rights. He specifically talked about cell phone monitoring in Syria, and he explained the importance of addressing global violence.

We need to be doing everything we can to prevent and respond to these kinds of atrocities, because national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.[qh]今天是星期二。我的名字是卡尔•阿祖兹，欢迎来到CNN学生新闻。十分钟,没有广告,来自世界各地的头条新闻,今天我们为你带来了很多新闻。
首先,我们正在谈论冬天的天气。现在美国东北部的大雪并不少见。但当它发生在4月底,就有点出人意料,而且是发生在有记录以来最热的三月,冬天真的没有那么多的雪。
这在星期一是一个不同的故事。纽约部分正期待10英寸的雪,在宾夕法尼亚附近任何地区都是8到16英寸。一位气象学家称这不会持续太久。气温这个星期预计将会升高。
下雪的时候布莱恩•托德周一正在宾夕凡尼亚州。他正在注视着一个特别的挑战:冬天的天气在每年的这个时候袭来。
当大雪继续在宾西法尼亚州的北部中央, 在树叶上的雪建筑成为了这里官员主要担心的问题。很多树的所有的叶子几乎已经长出来了,当然,因为这是四月末,雪真正以这种方式开始，而其他地方则不同,这将使树木非常沉重。
一些树将崩溃,砸塌电线。而这已经发生了。我们被告知宾西法尼亚州的北部中央这个地区超过20000名客户没有电力供应。来自Penelec电力公司的200名工作人员遍布在这个地区。至于这里的道路,主要道路在这一地区仍然明显的畅通无阻。
很多卡车和车辆行驶路过这里。这条走廊通向80号州际公路,这是一个主要的东西向卡车路线走廊。但官员们担心这些路线可能遭到破坏,雪会使行车速度减慢。
而有趣的是, 来开路和撒盐的很多卡车不得不重新安装犁和散步器,因为他们已经把所有的设备撤下,当然他们事先没有预料到这样的天气。
昨天一些州在恶劣的天气中挣扎,而选民们今天则前往投票站。在纽约和宾西法尼亚州以及在康乃狄克、德拉瓦州,罗得岛都在进行共和党总统初选。
前麻萨诸塞州州长米特•罗姆尼现在是暂定的共和党候选人。他要赢得党内提名。但初选不是正式结束,而罗姆尼州长并不是还在参与竞选的唯一共和党候选人。前参议院发言人纽特金•里奇和美国代表罗恩保罗正在今天五个州的初选举行的所有选举中争取选票。
奥巴马总统用了星期一的一部分关注人权。他在大屠杀纪念日拜访了大屠杀纪念博物馆。在第二次世界大战期间纳粹德国大屠杀杀害了成千上万的犹太人。
在他去参观博物馆的时候,总统奥巴马宣布他将“总统自由奖”奖章颁发给简•卡拉斯基,他曾试图警告世界大屠杀。
总统也宣布了一项新的行政命令,旨在制止国家使用技术滥用人权。他特别谈到叙利亚的手机监测,他解释了全球暴力的重要性。
我们必须尽一切可能预防和应对这一类型的暴行,因为国家主权决不是一个屠杀你的百姓的许可证。
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1. commercial a.商业的

Commercial television is an effective medium for advertising.
商业电视是有效的广告宣传工具。

2. meteorologist n.气象学家

The Meteorologist drew a picture of weather.
气象学者画了一张天气图。

3. corridor n.走廊

The thief crept along the corridor.
那贼偷偷地在走廊上潜行。

4. ballot n.投票，投票用纸

We should put it to a ballot.
我们应该对此进行无记名投票。

5. holocaust n.大屠杀;大破坏

A nuclear holocaust seemed a very real possibility in the '50s.
核灾难在20世纪50年代似乎真的非常可能发生。