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	• NEWS >> ATW May 18, 2006 Yearly Script Program Index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPEN/WELCOME Hi and welcome to Assignment: The World for the week of May 18th, I’m Teej Jenkins. Our top story this week…the President offers a new plan for illegal immigrants. 1—IMMIGRATION SPEECH UNITED STATES 30 degrees, 16 minutes north 97 degrees, 45 minutes west President Bush spoke to the nation Monday night, calling for a more secure border between the US and Mexico. His plan calls for sending as many as 6-thousand National Guard troops to backup the border patrol. He backed a controversial proposal to provide a path toward citizenship for the many millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States. Added together with more technology and border guards, tamper proof identity cards, and security fences and barriers, the President called his plan a rational middle ground. Some members of the President’s own party were quickly critical of the plan. Among them, Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo says the only real answer is in targeting businesses that employ illegal aliens. He says once illegal aliens cannot find jobs, they will go home. Other critics focused on the use of the National Guard which they say is already stretched too thin. Rational (adj) based on reason, logical ATW Fact There are an estimated 15-hundred active volcanoes in the world and perhaps as many as 10-thousand below the surface of planet’s oceans. At least one volcano, Stromboli in Italy, has been erupting for more than 2000 years. INTRO REST OF THE NEWS In the rest of the news this week… --states of emergency are declared in New England… --Iran finds some friends in southeast Asia… --and an old menace is threatening to blow its top. #2—VOLCANO INDONESIA 6 DEGREES, 10 MINUTES SOUTH 106 DEGREES, 48 MINUTES EAST Thousands of residents have been evacuated from the area around Indonesia’s Mount Merapi. Experts say the volcano’s growing lava dome could soon collapse with disastrous consequences. Clouds of deadly, hot ash, rock fragments and volcanic gas have been spewing from the mountain for days. One eruption sent an avalanche of debris and ash more than two miles down Merapi’s western slope. Scientists have raised the alert status for Merapi to the highest level, an act that convinced some of the final holdouts in the area to evacuate to emergency camps. Merapi is one of 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia. Its last eruption in 1994 sent out a searing cloud of gas that killed 60 people. An eruption in 1930 claimed 13-hundred lives. Avalanche (n) fall or slide of a large mass of a material down a mountainside #3—NEW ENGLAND UNITED STATES 42 degrees, 32 minutes north 70 degrees, 56 minutes west States of emergency have been declared throughout New England. 15 inches of rain had fallen on the region by Monday afternoon, triggering the worst flooding in 70 years. The Merrimack River in New Hampshire was 8 feet over flood stage while the Charles and other large rivers also are threatening to go over their banks. A dam in Milton, New Hampshire was in danger of failing. That would send a 10 foot wall of water through the middle of that town. At least a dozen other dams are also being watched. More than 600 roads in New Hampshire have been reported damaged, destroyed or under water. Bank (n) Slope of land adjoining a body of water #4— —INDONESIA SUMMIT INDONESIA 2 DEGREES, 20 MINUTES NORTH 99 DEGREES, 04 MINUTES EAST Iran’s president has the backing of at least seven other nations. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with leaders from Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Malaysia, Egypt and Bangladesh Saturday. The meeting on the Indonesian resort island of Bali was to have focused on economic and political cooperation but was overshadowed by iran’s continuing standoff with the west over its nuclear program. Iran says there is no reason for any nation to be nervous about its nuclear ambitions. The US and its allies claim Iran is trying to develop its own nuclear weapon. The leaders of the other Islamic nations joined in releasing a statement backing Iran and other nations who want to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Standoff (n) a tie, draw, an effect that neutralizes or counterbalances POP QUIZ #1 In our story about Mount Merapi, how many other active volcanoes did we tell you are in Indonesia? Is it 1. 29 2. 129 3. 1,029 And the answer is number 2. Indonesia has 129 active volcanoes, the most of any country in the world. OLD CLUE # 1—AZERBAIJAN RE-VOTE It’s now time for the answer to our Clues in the News. Our first clue was the location of Baku, the capitol of Azerbaijan. International inspectors there are being cautious in their view of voting Saturday. 10 parliamentary seats were at stake, all of them up in the air since early last November when an initial vote was ruled invalid. Voting irregularities reportedly gave the party of President Ilham Aliyev a majority of seats. A leader in the opposition Musavat party says this latest round of voting is also full of violations. International monitors say that while there were some problems, Saturday’s vote was a step forward from last November. OLD CLUE # 2—HAITIAN PRESIDENT Unscramble the letters of our second clue and you got Haitian President. Rene Preval was sworn in on Sunday for another term as president. His job now will be to try to restore democracy after decades of violent uprisings, lawlessness and foreign intervention. Preval has vowed to unite the country, restore the economy and root out corruption at all levels of government. OLD CLUE # 3—LATIN AMERICA SUMMIT And finally, fill in the blanks of our third clue and you got Latin America Summit. Leaders from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the European Union ended three days of talks in Vienna, Austria Saturday. The summit also featured a meeting between the leaders of Brazil and Bolivia which have been at odds lately over Bolivia’s natural gas industry. THIS WEEK IN WORLD HISTORY This week in world history… May 19th, 1830, British inventor Edwin Budding wins a patent for his newest machine which has cogs, a large roller and two sharp helical blades. Other than being made of cast iron, it is still recognizable as the first lawn mower. ATW FEATURE It is our last show for this season so we thought we would give you a look behind the scenes of ATW and meet some of the people responsible for bringing you the news each week. Check it out! ATW FEATURE (Beki) Although Assignment: The World only lasts 15 minutes, there is a whole weeks worth of work that goes into each program, starting with head honcho, John Overlan. Although he has a team of helpers, he is essentially responsible for the whole show. He supervises all of the scripts. Here is where John's helpers come into play. Did you ever wonder, who is that reading everything else on the show that we never get to see. (Wyatt) We are the voices (Beki) of Assignment: The World (Wyatt) but our responsibilities (Beki) go far beyond reading information (Wyatt) to our viewers Each week I pay close attention to important matters of the world. Mostly political, sometimes just plain interesting things. I then turn to some of those interesting news facts into writing the clues in the news. And I also write the pop quizzes, this week in world history and facts and figures which is also where you will hear my voice on the show. (Beki) I am in charge of the Check it out segments which means I go and find people with interesting careers or people doing interesting activities for kids your age and find out how they got into it, why they do it, and why they enjoy it. And then I go and film what they do. Well, I don't actually do the shooting, our station's videographer, Doug Steffer, does that. Oh, yeah. John Overlan, his responsibilities are far from over. He's approved my script and I'm off to the editing room. But so is John. You know all that footage while Teej is reading the news. John has to find all of that and make sure it matches the script so you are getting all the information correctly. But where is Teej? (Teej) I'm down in one of the audio bays recording my parts of the show so John can finish his editing. But they are not the only ones editing, Joanne Gordon is our senior editor at this station. She attaches all the cool intros to each segment and puts in all the identifiers and locations in each one. (Beki) With all our work done, it is show time. Here in studio, we have more helpers for ATW. Here is one of our camera guys, Kevin Justin paying close attention and keeping his camera steady. And here is Doug Steffer, not only does he do the check it out segments with me, he also runs camera in studio. Teej has a lot of reading and it would be impossible for here to memorize it all. So we give her a little help with our prompter. That is the big box hanging off the front of the cameras that feeds her the script as the show rolls. But who is running that? That would be Sandy Hey, she is responsible for loading the script into the computer and rolling it a pace that Teej can keep up with. So the show stays right on pace. We also have to make sure we hear Teej speaking during the show. Not to mention, hear all the different segments that we watch. This is Andrew Croucher, he runs the audio board which is connected to our computer system where all of our segments are loaded into. When Teej is sitting in front of the set, the background is all green until this guy, Kris Nestle, the assistant director comes to the computer and runs all the visuals you see behind Teej. That means the screen, the globe, the wording of Check it Out and every other computer graphic seen on the show. All put on live during the show. John is also the director,which means he runs this big switcher which is connected to computers. Basically, he puts the show together while it happens. He switches in between cameas while Teej is talking, and he lines up the next segments. And finally, the show is done and we get started on next week's work. But not this time, For all of us at Assignment: The World, have a great summer. I'm Beki Gibney. ISN’T IT COOL BRAZIL DISCOVERY They were found in a remote corner of the Amazon and Brazilian archeologists think they may have been an observatory or place of worship. The 127 blocks of stone, each weighing several tons, are being compared to the English site, Stonehenge. The Brazilian site predates European colonization proving, archeologists say, that ancient Amazon societies were more advanced than previously thought. MAILBAG We received over three hundred responses to our issue question, “Are the oil companies making too much money?” The majority of you, 78 percent, say yes the oil companies are making too much money. 14 percent say no, they are not. Just 8 percent are undecided. Many of you feel the oil companies are just making what the market will bear. Julia V. of York, New York writes, “They are getting money for a reason, and that reason is we need oil. Oil is not a renewable resource and we need a lot of it.” Faith B. of Scott Depot, West Virginia reminds us, “Keep in mind that they have to pay for the machinery and the land where they are drilling.” The majority of you, however, feel oil companies are taking advantage of a bad situation. Olivia K. of Walker, Michigan writes, “They shouldn’t make all that money and make us pay 3 dollars a gallon! The prices for gasoline should not be that high!” Ashley M. of Northport, New York adds, “We have to deal with not going on vacations because gas prices are so high. If they lower the price, more people will fill up and travel a lot of miles.” And finally, Mr. Rex’s 4th grade class of Oelwein, Iowa say there are alternatives, they write, “If people drive less and walk and bike more than gas prices will go down. If gas prices continue to rise than people will pay more attention to ethanol.” If you would like to receive an Assignment: The World Press card, please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. You may write to us here at Assignment: The World, Post Office Box three-zero-zero-twenty-one, Rochester, New York… one-4-6-zero-3… or you may contact us at the A-T-W website at http://atwonline.org. We also read e-mail at atw@wxxi.org. POP QUIZ #2 In our story about Iran, where did we tell you that Muslim leaders met to back Iran’s nuclear program? Was it 1. Burundi 2. Bali 3. Burma And the correct answer is number two. Leaders of 8 Muslim nations met on the Indonesian island of Bali. NEW CLUES And now it’s time for clues we think will be in the news in the weeks and months to follow… Iraq will continue to be in focus as Saddam Hussein’s trial goes on at the same time as the Iraqi government attempts to calm the growing violence. The G-8 Summit will draw controversy to St. Petersberg, Russia this July as leaders from the US, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Canada, and Italy meet there. Over the coming months, you’ll be able to follow presidential elections in Columbia, Peru, Mexico, Congo, Guyana, and Yemen. And here in the US, summertime will be the start of campaigning for Congressional races that will be decided this fall. There are two space shuttle missions scheduled, one in July, the other at the end of August. Hurricane season will arrive and with it, a test of what lessons may have been learned for last year’s disastrous events. And you’ll want to keep track of the dangerous standoffs with Iran and North Korea. These are stories we think you’ll want to follow on radio and television newscasts and in newspapers and newsmagazines. GOOD-BYE And that’s it for this week’s show. From all of us here at Assignment: The World, I’m Teej Jenkins. We’ll see you again next September. © 2006 WXXI-TV/ Assignment: The World. All Rights Reserved.