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cnn news 2014-10-06

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Fridays are awesome. So are jobs, chocolate and football. They are all featured today on cnn STUDENT NEWS. First up, the

U.S. will be getting a new Attorney General. Eric Holder announced yesterday he`ll resign from his job. The Attorney General leads the U.S.

Department of Justice. It`s the highest legal job in the land. Holder became the first African-American Attorney General in 2009. Opinions of

his work are strongly partisan. Democrats generally think he did a good job, saying he made achievements in civil rights. Republicans mostly

wanted him out saying he disregarded the U.S. Constitution. Holder`s strongly supported the same sex marriage, and he prioritized issues related

to voting rights. He also became the first U.S. cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress after he refused to turn over documents related to

a failed government program involving guns and Mexican drug cartels.

The latest targets in the U.S.-led war against the ISIS terrorist group, oil refineries in Syria. ISIS has been using these to pay for its

operations getting up to $2 million a day from them. The U.S. wants that stopped, even though the U.S. military official says the group has a

billion dollars in the bank.

ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The terrorist group wants its own country in the region, bases on its own interpretation of Islam.

ISIS has slaughtered civilians, soldiers, journalists, and an American defense official says the fight against ISIS will likely last for years.

It won`t be cheap.

CRISTINA ALESCI, cnn CORRESPONDENT: Expending military strikes into Syria come with an expending bill to pay for the effort. U.S. military forces

and its coalition partners launched air attacks in the country, with the blunt force of 47 tomahawk missiles across northern and eastern Syria.

Those weapons which carry thousand pound warheads and can be reprogrammed in flight, have a hefty price tag, $1.5 million apiece, and that`s just the

beginning. For the first assault, the Pentagon said four dozen fighter jets took off from both land and sea, loaded with 200 pieces of munition.

Now, between fuel and maintenance the cost for flying these jets on an hourly basis ranges from 22,000 to 62,000 with the air force`s newest and

most stealthy aircraft, the F-22 Raptor, topping the least.

As for these jets are carrying, outside military experts point to the JDAN, the joint direct attack munition, which can be launched miles away from the

target. Its manufacturer Boeing calls it the warfighter`s weapon of choice. It goes for about $29,000. And the SDB, the small diameter bomb,

which is dubbed the all-weather solution.

It goes for about $21,000. Now, it`s easy to see how the bill for these operations adds up. The last we hear from the Pentagon it said the costs

were averaging about $7.5 million a day. But the back of the envelope estimate for the Tomahawks alone is $70 million. Granted, these are

missiles the U.S. and its partners have in their arsenals. But those will likely need to be replenished.

Bottom line, the average daily cost has to be significantly higher today than it was just a few weeks ago.