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cnn news 2014-10-22

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Thank you for starting your week with commercial free cnn Student News. I`m Carl Azuz. We are eight years from the 2022

Olympics, and another country is saying don`t consider us anymore for those winter games. Norway has joined Sweden, Poland, and Ukraine in dropping

out of the process to host them. Germany put its bid to a vote, and its citizens said no. Why? One reason, money. It costs billions. Host

countries have to build stadiums, hotels, competition venues, and keep them all safe. Some nations don`t think they`ll see enough return on their

investment.

Another reason could be political. Not everyone likes the way the International Olympic Committee runs its business and coordinates the

games. Norway`s withdrawal leaves only two countries, Kazakhstan and China, as possible 2022 Olympic hosts. Effects of this year`s games on

Sochi, Russia, a mixed bag.

AMANDA DAVIES, cnn CORRESPONDENT: The scene of the most expensive Olympic Games in history, yet 8 months on and with the athletes long gone, it`s

turned from the home of gold medal winning glories to a ghost town.

There is no such thing as Olympic fever here. Many of these hotel rooms in Gorki Gorod up in the mountains weren`t even ready for the games and are

still unfinished. That`s over 1,000 hotel rooms still lying empty and waiting for one of the shortest ski seasons in Europe.

And while those businesses haven`t even got off the ground, there is many that have already gone bust.

What went wrong?

KALINA KONYOV, FORMER RESTAURANT OWNER: After Olympic Games, there was no people. There were no people at all. So we decided to close.

DAVIES: It`s a sad tale for the town at one end of the world`s most expensive railroad. The once hourly trains from the mountains now run just

a handful a day.

But at the other end, 31 miles away, on the coast, one chain with 5 hotels in Sochi, has taken advantage.

BRIAN GLEESON, MANAGER, RADISSON PARADISE, SOCHI: The number of visitors has really over our expectations, so we`re very happy with the season.

It`s been fantastic, the interest from domestic Russia post-games.

SERGEY EKSUZYAN, RESTAURANT OWNER: The people that were unhappy because of the Olympics, I don`t think that those people are very smart. Because it`s

an honor for any city, for any country to have the Olympic Games. It`s a real honor.

DAVIES: There is plenty of reasons for those on the coast to be positive, but the question now is whether the mountain region can emulate the

success. The Olympics sold itself as the games of contrasts, the challenge is to ensure its legacy won`t follow suit.

Amanda Davies, cnn, Sochi.

AZUZ: The Obama administration has been criticized for its response to the Ebola virus, that it hasn`t done enough to prepare U.S. hospitals or health

care workers to deal with the disease. It announced some changes over the weekend. One, President Obama`s appointing an Ebola response coordinator.

Ron Klain will oversee efforts to prevent the spread of Ebola in the U.S. He is the former chief of staff of two vice presidents, but some Republican

lawmakers say the president should have chosen someone with a medical background.

Two, the U.S. military is assembling a 30-person quick strike team. Five doctors, 20 nurses, and five trainers who can quickly get direct treatment

to potential Ebola patients in the U.S. Some people are calling for the government to ban travel from Ebola-stricken countries. The administration

says that wouldn`t eliminate the threat.

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SEN. TED CRUZ, R-TEXAS: We`ve got upwards of 150 people a day coming from countries with live, active Ebola outbreaks. For over two weeks, I`ve been

calling on the administration to take the common sense stand of suspending commercial air travel out of these countries until we get the air travel

under control.

DR. THOMAS FRIEDEN, CDC DIRECTOR: Right now, we know who`s coming in. If we try to eliminate travel, the possibility that some will travel over

land, will come from other places. We won`t be able to check them for fever when they leave, we won`t be able to check them for fever when they arrive.

We won`t be able, as we do currently, to take a detailed history to see if they were exposed.