AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-02

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1. Hurricane Gustav is quickly losing its punch after plowing¹ through south Louisiana's fishing and oil industry.The National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a Category 1 with 90-mile-an-hour winds.

2. Hurricane Gustav is sending water rushing up and over New Orleans' Industrial Canal's floodwall.But city officials and the Army Corps² of Engineers say they expect the levees will hold. Half of the streets closest to the canal are flooded,some places knee-deep.

3.The McCain campaign says Vice³ Presidential candidate Sarah Paliln's unmarried daughter is five-month pregnant.A campagin statement says Bristol Palin will keep her baby due in late December and marry the child's father.(这里的v和p也可以小写）

4. And Vladimir Putin paid a visit to a Russian wildlife preserve. The tough-talking prime minister shot a female tiger with a tranquilizer gun after it had freed itself from a restraint. But it's all for a good cause.The program tracks rare tigers like this one.

WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online

1.rush vi.
To flow or surge rapidly, often with noise: Tons of water rushed over the falls.

2.due adj.
Expected to give birth.