dec.11,2007

Please log on to cnn.com, fox.com or msnbc.com and read one current event. Give a 2 paragraph summary and your interpretation of the events.


The current event that i had read was New outages, flight disruptions from ice storm. The schools had close for thousands of young kids, Iowa’s biggest airport shut down and thick layers of ice brought down more power lines. The International Airport and departure delays were averaging 15 to 30 minutes, said Karen Pride of the city’s Department of Aviation. But that same day at least 22 deaths had been blamed on the storm system since the waves of sleet and freezing rain started during the weekend. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity. President Bush declared an emergency in Oklahoma on Tuesday, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts.



Iowa’s largest school district closed for the day in Des Moines, telling its nearly 31,000 students to stay home, and kids across most of Oklahoma and in the Kansas City, Mo., area stayed home for a second day.
Schools also were closed in parts of Wisconsin, including Milwaukee Public Schools with 85,000 students. About an inch of ice was expected Tuesday over parts of Iowa, followed by up to 5 inches of sleet and snow. “It’s a pretty good ice-maker. Ice as much as an inch thick had accumulated on trees, power lines, streets and car windshields Monday in parts of Oklahoma and Missouri, with thinner layers elsewhere. Crews were sent from Texas, Louisiana, Indiana and Mississippi to help repair power lines, which snapped seemingly as quickly as they could be repaired. Utilities in Missouri reported more than 100,000 homes and business without power and Kansas utilities said 100,000 were blacked out Tuesday, with some in the dark since Sunday.