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cnn news 2015-03-10

CARL AZUZ, HOST: Know what`s awesome?

Fridays are awesome.

I`m Carl Azuz and I`m glad to bring you Friday`s edition of cnn STUDENT NEWS.

First up, as another winter storm iced its way from Texas to Massachusetts, Kentucky`s governor declared a state of emergency. It

allows the National Guard to help and lets state officials close roads. Some parts of Kentucky got more than 20 inches of snow in 15 hours,

stranded hundreds of cars. Road crews couldn`t keep up.

And Boston, Massachusetts is less than two inches of snow away from its snowiest winter ever recorded. Winter weather is also being blamed for

this -- Delta Flight 1086 skidded off the runway at New York`s LaGuardia Airport yesterday morning. The plane with 132 people aboard finally

stopped at a small embankment just feet away from the icy East River. Twenty-four people were hurt. No one was killed. One passenger thanked

the crew, first responders and God that it wasn`t worse.

LaGuardia Airport shut down most of the rest of the day.

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Roll Call

AZUZ: cnnstudentnews.com is your one stop shop for all things cnn STUDENT NEWS, including our Roll Call request page. We`ve called on a

school named Washington four times this school year, but never the middle school from Washington, Illinois. Great to have The Panthers watching

today.

We visited Pennsylvania five times this school year. This time, we`re stopping by Canton to shout out The Warriors of Canton Junior/Senior High

School.

And we`re rounding out today`s Roll Call in Georgia, but not the U.S. state, the republic. In the capital, welcome to The Panthers of QSI

International School in Tbilisi.

To Nigeria, the largest economy and wealthiest country in Africa, population, 177 million. But an estimated 70 percent of its people still

live in privacy and the nation is struggling against the Boko Haram terrorist group.

It`s gotten so violent in Northeastern Nigeria, that it`s having an impact on border countries.

The Islamic militants have been attacking parts of Cameroon. Its government is having to spend money to fight them and it`s losing money

from tourism.

Boko Haram and the ISIS terror groups have something in common.

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Boko Haram: What You Need to Know

NIMA ELBAGIR, cnn CORRESPONDENT: Boko Haram is an Islamic militant group operating out of Nigeria. Their name means Western Education is

Forbidden.

Boko Haram`s first known attack on multiple police stations happened in 2003. But they became better known around the world for the kidnapping

of over 200 schoolgirls in April, 2014.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are we asking?

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ELBAGIR: They want to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, a country that split into a majority Muslim north and a mostly Christian south. They

now control much of Northeastern Nigeria. That`s an area about the size of Belgium and almost as big as the U.S. state of Maryland.

We`re talking 30,000 square kilometers. According to Amnesty International, Boko Haram carried out one of their deadliest attacks just

this January.

AZUZ:

Some fear up to 2,000 people were massacred in Baga. And Amnesty released satellite images highlighting the shocking destruction. The

situation is so bad, Nigeria postponed its presidential election over security concerns.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Free, fair, credible and peaceful elections will (INAUDIBLE).

ELBAGIR: Nigeria has now formed a military coalition with neighboring countries and they`re carrying out air strikes against the militants. It`s

early days yet, but there has been some success. Beating the terror group, however, could be an uphill battle, because of low morale and corruption

allegations within the Nigerian Army.

Its soldiers are under resourced, poorly paid and often just outgunned by Boko Haram.