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Well, it’s the first of June, the first day of hurricane season and right on schedule, Tropical storm Barry is bearing down on 급습하다 the Gulf Coast of Florida. Top winds are 45 miles an hour. Forecasters do not expect it to become a hurricane as it crosses Florida and heads up to eastern seaboard 해안지대, 연안, but it should dump 떨어뜨리다 several inches of rain on drought-stricken 가뭄에 고통 받는 parts of Florida and Georgia. Meanwhile, much of New York City was paralyzed 마비시키다 by grid lock 교통방해 this morning. It wasn’t a flipped-over 뒤집힌 tractor trailer 트레일러가 달린 트랙터 this time, but a life and death struggle, 50 stories above the Hudson River. Here’s Michelle Miller.

 

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At the height of ~이 한창일 때에 morning rush hour on one of New York City’s main routes into Manhattan, tens of thousands of drivers sat frozen in traffic. “It’s like a parking lot out here.” Authorities had shut down the famous George Washington Bridge. One man had climbed the cables 500 feet above the Hudson River putting rescue workers and commuters below in danger.

 

The nightmare stretched for miles. Cars became couches. Commuters stalled 꼼짝 못하다 for two hours or more as a dozen emergency workers inched 조금씩 움직이다 along the suspension 매다는 지주 cable in an efforts to rescue him. "Our main goal was to isolate and contain 억누르다, 억제하다 him and get him in conversation and find out exactly what his problem was."

 

But they never did find out why he was up there when they spoke to him. “They said, don’t worry about it, get down away from me.” The man held crews at bay 저지하다 with a box cutter 종이상자를 자르는 칼 when he finally dropped it, rescuers moved in. he was taken to a hospital for evaluation <의학상의> 평가, 감정. “This guy wanted attention. He certainly got it.” A troubled man who put the lives of everyone around him in jeopardy ~를 위험에 노출시키다. Michelle Miller, CBS News, New York.

 

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We have an update now on that bizarre 이상한 Dutch Reality Show offering a kidney as first prize. Well, it turns out it was a hoax 조작. The show did air tonight, but just as the winner was to be announced, the host came clean 사실을 말하다. The woman who was supposed to donate 기증하다 the kidney was really an actress and three so-called contestants apparently ~인 것 같은 do need kidneys, but were in on the hoax. The host said he did it to dramatize 극적으로 표현하다 the need for organ donors 기증자.

 

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