Wednesday, May 15, 2013

doctors sued for surgicllaty choosing childs gender

The parents that adopted a child that had both male an female parts are suing he doctors that preformed the surgery to remove on of the parts.This surgery happened when the baby was only 16 months old. The baby was adopted because his mother was unfit and the father left him. The adoptive parents didn't make the decision the doctors did. They chose to remove the male parts. Now the child is 8 years old and wants to be a boy. He acts like a boy and appears to be a boy. His parents let him be what he wants to be. So now they are suing the doctors because they choose to remove the male parts and there was no medical reason that one of the parts either male or female had to be removed at the time.

Monday, May 6, 2013

limo on fire kills bride

A bride to be was having a bachlorette party and her a 8 of her friends were tacking a limo to the party. On their way there the limo caught fire while they were crossing the San Francisco bridge. The driver and and 4 of the friends got out and lived and the bride and the other 4 friends died in the fire. People that were on the bridge that seen this said the flames were huge and people that were in their cars could feel the heat from the fire. They say the driver wasn't injured but the 4 girl that go out were treated for smoke inhalation. They don't know what caused the fire yet. they say in will take two days to examine and determine the cause. the limo company are 'very saddened' and trying to help as much as they can. 

Friday, April 26, 2013

50 people found and a baby born in rubble

In Savar, Bangladesh a building collapsed on Wednesday. On Friday the rescuers were going through the rubble and found 50 people trapped. The building was 8 stories and they found the people on what would have been the 3rd floor. Since if would take a little while form them to get all the people out they sent food an water down to the people. Also along with finding 50 people they also fond out that a woman have given birth while under the rubble. The news agencies said there had been 2 women that had given birth. They still think more people are still trapped. They say 307 people have died in this collapse so far. They are trying to get all the people out alive before the bring in he heavy equipment to remove the rubble.  

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Children in Greece going hungry

In Athens they have a hunger problem. An elementary principal never thought something this would happen to them he thought it was 'impossible'. He says he used to seeing kids laugh and play and now he sees them digging through the trash for food. Little young ones  asking each other for leftovers. They are so hungry some are in some much pain it makes them bend over in pain of hunger. The principal asked the family's and they were embarrassed and ashamed but they said the truth.  The truth was they haven't been able to find jobs in a while like months. They say the Greek economy is down by 20% in the past 5 years. The unemployment rate is more then 27%. 6 in 10 people looking for jobs say they haven't had a job in a year. Their savings is gone and they are fighting for survival on very little food. Also Greek schools don't offer school lunches like we get here. These kids aren't getting the food and nourishment them need to survive. This is very sad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/world/europe/more-children-in-greece-start-to-go-hungry.html?ref=world

Thursday, April 11, 2013

app could hijack a plane

I think technology has gone to far. There is now a smart phone app the could hijack a plane. A German security consultant said a Android app could be used to hijack a plane remotely.  Wednesday the Netherlands, Hugo Teso said that he spent 3 years making this 'SIMON' thing that could be used to 'attack and exploit airline security software' and then this app takes over controlling the  plane. The man calls this PlaneSploit. They tested it using a flight-simulator to show what it can do by sending radio waves to it.  It can change the speed and the altitude and the direction of the plane. The security systems  right now aren't strong enough to detect this and know its wrong. This is scary.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/11/tech/mobile/phone-hijack-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Storms in Colorado

Colorado is experiencing all kinds of weather. In Denver they are supposed to get a sever storm and in the southern part of the state is sunny and warm. In Denver they had to cancel  465 flights because of the snow. they winds for this coming storm bought them a few inches of snow.  This storm is supposed to bring tornadoes and high winds. 2.6 million people live in the path that this storm is said to take.  A meteorologist  says "Blinding snow and 40 degrees below average does not sound like spring in Denver. On the flip side, the 20 degrees above average forecast for New York City feels more like early summer," he said. "But the unexpected is what we expect in spring."  Emergency people in Colorado  had calls to a wildfire, with a tornado and blizzard warning in a 50 miles radius.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/us/spring-storms/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

adopted boy killed

A three year old boy that was adopted from Russia is now dead. Laura and Alan Shatto from Texas were the adoptive parents to Max. When they autopsy was done they had found more then 30 bruises on this little boy. Also the autopsy showed the cause of death was accidental. They said the boy had small bowel mesentery artery because of blunt trauma to the abdomen. The parents said max had a history of "banging his head on the bathtub, throwing himself down, holding his breath and clawing himself" . The jury declined to indict the parents. They say they found no evidence to charge them with. But the Russian officials accused the parents of killing the boy. Also the Russian government passed a law so now american can't adopted children form Russia.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

7 Marines Killed

On Tuesday there was an explosion at Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada that killed seven marines. They don't know the actual cause of it yet. They sent four medical helicopters to transport injured people. There was a traffic accident that was related to the blast they say but they don't know how it affected it yet. Hawthorne is used for storing weapons and ammunition and they do high training  in the desert.

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/us/nevada-military-explosion/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Sunday, March 3, 2013

"Rape" on shirts

There were shirts that said " Keep Calm and Rape On" on Amazon. on Saturday people on twitter were very angry about this and were tweeting angry things. The company that makes them Solid Gold Bomb was informed about all this anger and how that slogan was  promoting rape and violence. They removed and they also removed another one that said "Keep Calm and Hit Her".They say all their slogans are made by computers they don't necessarily create them. They also apologized for this. People on Twitter were saying things like the statistics on how many people get raped and when will companies take responsibly for what  they make and promote to the world that is bad influentially. The shirts never got printed they get printed as they are order. They should look over what the computer is making more carefully so things like this don't happen.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/02/tech/amazon-rape-t-shirt/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

execution

A man by the name of Warren Lee Hill is going to be executed today(Tuesday). In 1990 he killed Joseph Handspike. He killed him while they were both in prison in Georgia. Warren is mentally disabled and the court denied his request for clemency. His execution isn't until 7 p.m. in Jackson, Georgia. This is really sad I don't care if he did something bad he is mentally disabled and he is being executed. There was a thing in 2002 that was passed/made that was mentally disabled people should be spared form execution. But they did go by that because in Georgia  they have to "prove mental impairment". "Georgia is the only sate with reasonable-doubt standard".
""The U.S. Supreme Court says we don't put mentally retarded people to death, but we'll let the states determine who's retarded and who's not," CNN legal analyst Paul Callan said Monday."

It seems as if a lot of people are against this and his execution. Handspike's family even is saying to call off the execution. They are asking that the man that killed their loved one not to be killed. They have now involved the U.S. Supreme Court because some people want it and some don't they can't decide. 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

plane crash

A plane crashed in the Ukraine. They say 4 people died. They had an emergency crash landing. they missed the run way and turned over. it was an AN-42, I think that's a small plane. There where 42 people on board. Also all the people where able to get off the plane before it started on fire. All  the people on the plane were soccer fans going to the UEFA champion game.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/13/world/europe/ukraine-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Monday, February 4, 2013

King Richard III found

King Richard the III was found on Monday. They were digging up a parking lot and they found a skeleton. they did DNA tests on it and it says it King Richard the III. This was in Leicester, England. They were doing an archaeological dig when they found these bones. they say his "remains will be reburied in Leicester Cathedral .  This is close to the site where he was buried when he died many years ago. They say they were lucky to find his bones in such good condition. He died 5 centuries ago and  with building built almost on top of his bones they are amazed they were still all there except his feet they were missing. This is interesting how they can identify hows bones they were just from DNA and the DNA form a few family members. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/03/world/europe/richard-iii-search-announcement/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

more than 150 baby bones found under house

Last week a guy found more than 150 bones under his house. He was re-doing his floor boards and he found little baby bones. The bones were looked at and they are said to be human baby bones. This house is the oldest in its county it was build in 1840. It is from during the Civil War. This house is famous because of the guy who lived there(James something).  They say the babies probably died from scarlet fever when they were little and put their when they died.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/us/2013/01/11/pkg-150-yr-old-bones.wmc

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Bad fire in Australia

There is a '"catastrophic'" fire in the southeastern part of Australia. Temperatures may rise to 109 degrees Fahrenheit near Sydney. There are high winds pushing the fire around (43 mph). The wind also brings the temperature down in some places so its not so hot there. 90% of the area is in a sever risk form this fire they could loose their homes or loose lives loved one form this. Because if this huge fire some people think the risk is as bad as 'black Saturday' that happened in 2009. Black Saturday killed 173 people and injured 500. Also destroying lots of homes.  There are 130 fires going on Tuesday and there were still a bunch  uncontrolled. They say no homes have been destroyed as of Tuesday. They have hot dry conditions witch doesn't help the fire can spread easily in these conditions. I would never want to live in a area where they have wildfires. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/07/world/asia/australia-heat-fires/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Thursday, January 3, 2013

cars sales go up

In five years they think car sales will go up. At the end of last year 2012 there was 14.5 million sales. It went up 13% form 2011 and its the largest sales increase since 1984. Jesse Toprak said "It certainly shows the demand is coming back". This really surprises me with such high gas prices and with the was our economy is. They say that improving employment and better financing is helping increase sales. Also people are buying used cars and trading in their old cars to get a new one. This is helping too and that is also included in the 14.5 million. So its not just brand new cars people are buying. Are things starting to turn around that people are spending money on new cars with the high gas prices?
 http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/03/news/companies/car-sales/index.html?hpt=hp_t3