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cnn news 2014-12-08

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: This December 5, cnn STUDENT NEWS would like to remind you that Fridays are awesome. I`m Carl Azuz at Atlanta, Georgia.

Our first story takes you to the Pacific Island nation of Philippines. People there are bracing for super-typhoon Hagupit. The word means "lush"

in Philippino (sic). Forecasters aren`t sure where exactly it`ll go. Something it will make a right turn and move north along the eastern

Philippines. Other think, it will hit the city of Tacloban over the weekend. We`ve mentioned that place before. When super typhoon Haiyan hit

Tacloban last year, it killed 6,000 people and wiped out entire neighborhoods. Evacuations have started ahead of Hagupit. It has

sustained winds of 178 miles per hour, it`s the equivalent of a category five hurricane.

Unrest in New York, it`s in response to events involving 43-year old Eric Garner. This summer police say he resisted arrest for illegally selling

cigarettes. He`d been arrested for that before. Officer Daniel Pantaleo put Garner in a chokehold, as others helped arrest him. Garner repeatedly

said he couldn`t breathe, he died later on the way to the hospital. Police union officials said Garner`s poor health caused his death, but a medical

examiner ruled that Officer Pantaleo`s chokehold contributed to it.

This came down to a grand jury. It had to decide whether the officer knew there was a substantial risk that Garner would die from the chokehold. It

decided not to charge Officer Pantaleo. And the protest heated up with demonstrators saying Pantaleo used excessive force.

MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO (D) NEW YORK: It`s a very painful day for so many of New Yorkers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Arrests made throughout the night as outrage pulls throughout the city streets for more than nine hours.

CROWD: Black lives matter! Black lives matter!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Most chanted Garner`s last words.

CROWD: I can`t breathe! I can`t breathe!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police, some in riot gear blocking intersections as protesters began shutting down the city`s most iconic landmarks, stopping

the flow of traffic into and out of the island of Manhattan for hours. Some lying down right in the middle of the road, the same inside Grand

Central Station.

CROWD: I can`t breathe! I can`t breathe!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where other protesters staged a massive dying as evening rush hour hit its peak. Police heavily guarding the Rockefeller

Tree Lighting Ceremony .

CROWD: Three, two, one!

(CHEERS)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As protesters tried to disrupt the show. The city`s public outcry reaching a fever pitch nationwide.

UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (INAUDIBLE) have got to go .

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From Los Angeles .

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m Eric Garner!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m Eric Garner!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To Philadelphia.

CROWD: Hands up, don`t shoot! Hands up, don`t shoot!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The demonstrations across the country disruptive, but peaceful, fulfilling Garner`s family wish.

GWEN CARR, ERIC GARNER`S MOTHER: Yeah, we wanted to rally. But rally in piece.

BENJAMIN CARR, ERIC GARNER`S FATHER: No violence. (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Officer Pantaleo said in the statement, it is never my intention to harm anyone, and I feel very bad about the death of Mr.

Garner.

AZUZ: Next story today, good news and good news good news concerning the flu. The good news, the Centers for Diseases Control says flu activity

across the U.S. is pretty low. The bad news, this year`s vaccine isn`t particularly effective. The CDC says it`s because the flu has mutated.

When the vaccine was made, the strains of flu circulating around the globe were different than they are now. So, why not just make a new vaccine?

Well, the CDC says it`s too late, because that takes about four months to do.

Officials are still recommending the vaccine, though. They say it can reduce the severity of the virus, if you get it.