美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-11-24

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1. Shoppers get an early start this morning as they filled stores before dawn, hunting for deep discounts. Retailers¹ are hoping this shopping enthusiasm will hold through the entire holiday season. But analysts² start predicting this will be the weakest shopping season in years.

2. A judge in Aruba is ordering two brothers held in the disappearance³ of Natalee Holloway to stay behind bars. He wants them to remain in jail for at least another eight days while prosecutors⁴ continue the investigation⁵.

3. Tensions are rising in Lebanon where the president has announced the state of emergency and ordered the army to take over security powers. This comes just hours before he was supposed to step down. The prime minister is rejecting the move.

4. The man who created the five-category hurricane system has died. Herbert Saffir came up with his scale as a way to lay out what kind of damage an approaching storm would do. Before, storms were just labeled as major or minor⁶. Herbert Saffir was 90 years old.