   
- UID
- 5353854
- 帖子
- 23
- 贡献值
- 608
- 普币
- 0
- 听力指数
- 541
- 阅读权限
- 90
- 在线时间
- 279 小时
- 注册时间
- 2018-5-7
- 最后登录
- 2019-12-15
|
3#
发表于 2019-6-2 18:12
| 只看该作者

[Homework]NPR 2019-06-01
本帖最后由 suowill2018 于 2019-6-2 18:17 编辑
on mrcaowei
Live from NPR news in Washington, I am Jack Spear.
A mass shooting event at a Virginia Beach Virginia municipal facility today has left at least eleven people dead and half a dozen more hurt. They have been taken to area hospitals. Virginia Beach police chief James Cervera says the suspected shooter apparently was a city worker, ‘we do know that shortly after 4PM this afternoon, the suspect entered a build two. He’s a long time employee of public utilities, I will not release his name at this time. And he immediately began to indiscriminately fire upon all the victims’. Police say in addition to the eleven killed, the gunman is also deceased. A police officer was among the wounded, it’s not clear what prompted the gunman to open fire.
The governor of Texas is taking issue with president Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico. As Huston public media’s Travis Bubanic reports republican Greg Abbet says the move would harm the state’s economy. Texas and Mexico have a more than 100 billion dollar trade relationship. So when trade tensions flare up between the two, businesses here get nervous. Abbet, a republican ally of Trump says he understands the president’s quote ‘deep frustration with what happening at the border’. Abbet calls it a crisis that’s added a breaking point, but the governor says he’s previously opposed tariffs for the economic damage they can do to a state and remains opposed to them. If Mexico decides to retaliate with tariffs of its own in the weeks ahead, Texas will be hit particularly hard. Texas is the nation’s largest exporting state and its biggest customer is Mexico. For NPR news, I am Travis Bubanic in Huston.
Attorneys representing migrant children say the federal government is violating a long standing court order by holding thousands of unaccompanied minors at shelter in Homestead Florida. NPR’s Greg Allen reports motion filed in federal court, lawyer said the children have been held to several months in quote ‘prison like conditions’. When lawyers and doctors visited the shelter in Homestead, it housed more than 2000 children ages 13 to 17, many had been there for months, attorneys say this violates the 1997 Florida’s agreement, which requires immigration authorities to properly children to sponsors or move them to licensed non secure shelters. The motion includes decorations from children about the harsh conditions in Homestead. Children say they are not allowed to hug or touch anyone, 144 children share a single dormitory, a former airplane hanger, and they are not allowed to leave. The motion says holding children in this conditions quote ‘can afflict long lasting psychological developmental and physical harm’. Greg Allen, NPR news, Miami.
Consumers are a bit more reluctant to open their wallets in April. The government reporting today consumer spending was up just three tenth of one percent(0.3%) last month.
A disappointing end of the month for wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial average was down 354 points today, that’s a 1.4 percent decline.
You are listening to NPR.
French auto maker Renault says its board will meet next week to vote on a possible merger with rival Fiat Chrysler. Fiat Chrysler’s proposed merging with Renault, creating the world’s third largest auto maker worth upward 40 billion dollars. The merger has been built as an effort by the companies to combine forces in order to better compete in the fast growing world of electric vehicles and self driving cars and trucks.
Much of the northern US has been ** in smoke from a huge complex of wildfires burning out of control in Alberta. The national oceanic atmosphere administration says the thick smoke can be seen as far south as Kansas. Montana public radio’s Eric Wednee. Many Montanans have been seeing brown skies the week, and health officials are recommending that people limit out door exertion in at least three cities here. Wild fire smoke is common in Montana in late summer, but unusual this time of year. Ben Smith with the Mizule city county house department, says climate change means smoke seasons are getting longer, ‘it’s that summers get longer that fires seasons expand, it’s just becoming, you know hard to predict when will exactly be going to get hit by smoke event. Meteorologists say the volume of smoke from Alberta and weather conditions means it will continue to stretch from ** and into Midwest states as far south as Nebraska through at least Saturday. For NPR news, I am Eric Wednee, in Halena.
Repeating this hour’s top story, at least eleven people were shot and killed by a gunman at Virginia Beach Virginia municipal facility today, six others were reportedly wounded, they have been taken to the area hospitals, a police officer among the wounded. The suspected shooter, a city employee is reported to be dead.
I am Jack Spear, NPR news.
This post was generated by put listening repetition system, Check the original dictation thread! |
-
1
评分次数
-
|