8-30-2005

美南部救援工作加紧展开 (Rescue efforts underway in the south of the U.S.)

卡特里娜飓风横扫美国墨西哥湾沿岸地区以后，有关当局继续努力进行紧急救援。密西西比州州长黑利.巴伯说，仅在密西西比州的一个县就有可能有多达80人丧生。强大的飓风经过路易斯安那、阿拉巴马和密西西比各州时造成毁灭性破坏，把树木连根拔起并毁坏房屋和建筑。

救援人员用直升机把困在屋顶上的居民救起，房屋被水淹没。预计死亡人数还会增加。带电的电线滑落，天然气管道破裂，当局警告居民暂时不要返回住所。

卡特里娜飓风星期一早晨登陆，导致100多万居民失去供电。有关官员说，可能再过几个星期居民才会获准返回家园。气象预报说，风暴中心目前位于密西西比北部，正在向东北方向移动。

Reports of widespread flooding and property damage are coming in from the southern United States as Hurricane Katrina pounds the region with high winds and torrential rain.

The U.S. National Weather Service says Katrina has weakened to a category three hurricane but is still packing winds of 200 kilometers per hour. Flooding appears to be especially severe in low-lying New Orleans, where officials had warned Katrina would overwhelm the city's system of protective levees.

Winds from the storm have torn holes in the roof of New Orleans' Super dome, a football stadium where some 10-thousand people are waiting out the storm. Other cities where flooding is reported include Biloxi, Gulf port, Mississippi, and Mobile, Alabama.

美军空袭伊反叛分子击毙四十 (US Military Air Strikes Kill 40 Iraqi Rebels)

美军在伊拉克西部像它所说的3个反叛分子藏身处发动空中打击。一份美国声明说，人们所知的恐怖分子阿布.伊斯兰及其若干名助手在星期二对靠近叙利亚边界的两个镇的空袭中丧生。

早些时候，阿拉伯语的半岛电视台报导说，至少40人在这次空袭行动中丧生。在伊拉克其它地区，警方说，反叛分子在对巴格达和北部石油城市基尔库克的袭击中分别打死两名高级安全官员。

The U.S. military has carried out air strikes in western Iraq against what it describes as three terrorist safe houses. A U.S statement says a known terrorist, Abu Islam, and several of his associates were killed during the raids (today, Tuesday) in two towns near the Syrian border.

Earlier, Arabic television station al Jazeera reported at least 40 people were killed in the air strikes. Elsewhere in Iraq, police said insurgents killed two top security officials in separate attacks in Baghdad and the northern oil town of Kirkuk.