AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-29

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1. The details are being finalized². But New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg says they've "worked out everything" . That is a new and improved financial bailout plan emerges in Washington. Congressional leaders hope to have a House vote on the measure tomorrow and vote in the Senate later on.

2. Four people are dead after a medical helicopter crashed in a suburban³ Washington park early Sunday. The chopper was carrying victims of a traffic accident. It was the deadliest medevac accident in Maryland in 40 years.

3. Powerful winds and heavy rain came down on Taiwan as another typhoon made landfall. It's the fourth and most powerful typhoon to hit the island this year. Areas in and around the capital of Taipei experience wind gust⁴ of up to 140 miles per hour.

4. And rescuers say it took seven hours but they managed to help get a whale untangled from a net off the coast of Australia. Rescuers think the whale had been dragging the net and its anchors for more than a week.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

If you finalize¹ something such as a plan or an agreement, you complete the arrangements for it, especially by discussing it with other people.

2. chopper: n.

A chopper is a helicopter. (INFORMAL)

3. medevac: n.

Air transport of persons to a place where they can receive medical or surgical⁵ care.

4. untangle: v.

If you untangle something that is knotted or has become twisted around something, you undo⁶ the knots in it or free it.