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cnn news 2014-03-04

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Fridays are awesome! Welcome to cnn STUDENT NEWS with your last show of February. I`m Carl Azuz. Ukraine has seen a lot of changes in a short amount of time. It`s divided. Some Ukrainians want closer ties with the European Union, some like its ousted president, want closer ties with Russia. Ukraine`s parliament voted out President Viktor Yanukovych last weekend after violent protests in the capital. He`s taking refuge in Russia. Yesterday parliament voted on a temporary government to hold things together until elections in May. But then, there is Crimea. It`s a region of southern Ukraine where many people support the ousted president and want closer ties with Russia. Protesters there stormed the government building and raised the Russian flag yesterday. And Russia has started military exercises near its border with Ukraine. A Russian official says these were previously scheduled and not related to Ukraine`s unrest.

Ice jam. It almost sounds like something you`d want to see. You don`t, if you leave anywhere near one. You know, it`s been a brutally cold winter for the northern U.S. Some rivers in the region have frozen, then melted then refrozen and crusted over with large thick chunks of crushed ice. In the Kankakee River in Illinois, ice jam stretch for miles. Some people who live nearby are leaving their homes. One reason - how ice jams can affect areas near river. Say, there is a bridge with supports in the water. Drifting chunks of ice can get caught near them, clogging up the flow of water forming a dam. Water needs somewhere to go, so it floods the river banks. And that may not be the worst thing that can happen.

GARY TUCHMAN, cnn CORRESPONDENT: Everyone were talking who lives around here, says they`ve never seen this river looking like this. During the summer, this is a very popular place to go boating. But right now, it looks like a glacier landscape in Alaska.

CHAD MYERS, cnn METEOROLOGIST: Well, the water looks to be still, so nothing is moving. And that seems like a good thing. But in fact, there is still water piling up underneath, making the pressure high. So, all of a sudden, this is going to break free, break through, and you could see big pieces of ice in the people`s homes. You could see the ice dam up and big flooding go around it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There it goes! There it goes! There it goes!

TUCHMAN: This is what it looks like, when an ice jam finally breaks.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Suddenly, the entire river started moving. Extremely fast, like a freight train.

TUCHMAN: This was Ohio`s Rocky River last week.

AZUZ: Do you know there is nutrition labels on the sides of food you buy at the store? They`ve been around since the early 1990s. Now, the U.S. government wants to make changes to them. This is what the old label looks like: lists servings, calories, fat, vitamins. The Food and Drug Administration wants big bold labels for total calories. And it wants to change some dietary guidelines for things like sodium and vitamins. It`s hoping this will help Americans make healthier choices, but the changes could cost the food industry $2 billion to implement. That could mean higher prices. And the listed serving sizes could be higher, too.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, cnn CORRESPONDENT: I think the best way to put this. You know, maybe this would have been four servings in the past, and they say, look, what does a typical person really eat? Let`s give them that information. Maybe this is more like two servings now. And they`ll say that. So you`ll see the nutrition information for two servings.

Oh if you`re going to eat something likely in one single sitting. I don`t know - could you eat this in a single sitting?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

GUPTA: Then it`s just one, right?

GUPTA: They say. But they are going to say, look, OK, we know that this is typically considered four servings, but we know it`s likely people eat this in a single servings. So, let`s put that information on there as well. Or soda.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So, that will be more prominent. So it will say something like ten chips equal this amount of calories and has this much fat.

GUPTA: It will say that sort of stuff, but it`ll also say if you eat this whole bag, here`s what you`re going to get. So, you don`t sit there and do the math. It makes you think a little bit more - maybe if you - you know, keep eating.