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cnn news 2013-10-29

Today's edition of cnn Student News begins with 2 tragedies involving school violence. There are 7 schools in Danvers, Massachusetts. Yesterday, officials closed all of them. That happened after the body of Cling Rester, a math teacher at Danvers High School was found in the woods behind the school. A 14-year-old has been shot with the murder. Students described Rester as an excellent teacher who wanna to help anyone in any way she could. The school said Danvers woul feel this loss for many years. The news from Massachusetts came 2 days after a shooting in a middle school in Neveda. Authorities said a 12-year-old wounded. 2 students and shot and killed a teacher before killing himself. Police official said the teacher, Mike L., appeared to be trying to stop this accident when he was shot. They described what he did as heroic, walking toward the shooter and giving other students the chance to get away. Many of your schools have plans of dealing with violence. You might have practiced lockdown drills. Stories like these aren't easy to talk about. If you do wanna talk about school violence, there's a post on your blog for you to do that. Students 13 and older can go to cnnstudentnews.com. Teachers, we've also included questions in today's daily curriculum to help you address top topic like this in your classrooms.

"Is this legit? The US surgeon general runs the health and human services department? No, not true. The surgeon general is in the department but it's run by the health and human services secretary." 

That position is part of the president's cabinet. Right now, it's filled by Kathleen Sebilius. She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate. But now, Secretary Sebilius is facing some tough criticism. As the head of the HHS department, she helps create an implement the president's health policies that includes the affordable care act, also known as Obamacare. In Monday show, we talked about some of the problems with the Obamacare website. cnn asked Secretary Sebilius about the plans to get it fixed.

"What can we tell people because I mean there's a ... there's a little bit loss of confidence in this. So, if you say as quickly as possible, that meant Oct 1st."

"Well, what we call tell you is that it isn't where it needs to be. We are 3 weeks into a 26th week open enrollment period. People are enrolling everyday. Not as many as we would like, not at the volume we like and we would keep working on it until it is working as efficiently as possible."

"The president's legacy is part of this whole issue as well. I mean has it been tarnished by what has happened?"

"I think that what we need to do is... is see the enrollment figures at the end of Mar 2014. That's when open enrollment ends and what I know from what we see in not only states that are run by federal website but states around the country is that the interest is huge that people are eager to have this affordable product and that the product is there. Insurance companies have to compete for one another for people's business, for the first time."