CNN Student News September 1

CNN Student News September 1

Brazil

· President Dilma Rousseff officially impeached on Tuesday; lawmakers voted to remove her from office.

· Elected in 2011 as first female leader in Brazil

· Problems: recession and corruption scandal involving many from Rousseff’s own political party

· Rousseff: insists she is innocent

· Brazilian Senate found her guilty of breaking laws regarding the budget.

Migrant Crisis

· Italy says it helped rescue 10,000 people this week alone.

· This is the largest migration since World War II.

· European countries struggling to keep up with people arriving and applying for permission to stay.

· Most have fled war, poverty, terrorism;

· most are from Syria

· 3 main paths:

o Eastern Mediterranean route, from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq headed toward Southeastern Europe

o Central Mediterranean route: from African countries of Nigeria, Eritrea, Gambia into southern Europe

o Western Mediterranean route: from Western Africa through NW Africa

Dangerous journey --- more than 3,000 people have died in the Mediterranean Sea this year alone.

Elephant Census

· Census: official count or survey of a population

· Large percentage of African savannah elephants is gone, mostly due to poaching for their ivory

· Poaching: when people illegally kill animals

· Between 2007 and 2014, elephant numbers dropped by almost one-third

· Mike Chase, a surveyor: “In some landscapes, we saw more dead elephants than live elephants.”

· Botswana: troops instructed to shoot to kill poachers at the northern border

· Satellite tracking shows the elephants intelligently avoided poaching “hot spots” and retreated to Botswana

Braille -- system of printing and writing to assist people who are blind read and navigate

· Challenge: making touch-screen worlds accessible

· Matt King, Facebook’s first blind engineer works to make site easier for visually impaired, such as programs to describe photos to people