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cnn news 2015-03-29

This is cnn Student News. I'm Carl Azuz at the cnn Center.

First up in today's commercial-free coverage, the U.S. Army has charged Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy when he left his post in Afghanistan. Sergeant Bergdahl's expected to be court-martialed, meaning he could be tried in a military court for his alleged crimes. If convicted, he could be dishonorably discharged and imprisoned. Bergdahl was the longest held U.S. prisoner of war since the conflict in Vietnam. Securing his release was a top priority for President Obama, who said the U.S. does not leave its soldiers behind. But the way the Obama administration secured Bergdahl's release was controversial. It didn't notify Congress about it 30 days in advance, as law requires. It exchanged five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl. U.S. intelligence reports have suggested that one of these former prisoners had since contacted the Taliban.

The night Bo Bergdahl disappeared from his post in the summer of 2009, he was 23 years old. The Army sergeant's gun, bullet-proof vest and his night vision goggles were all found in his bunk. From that moment, the U.S. military would spend almost five years looking for and negotiating for Bergdahl's release.

"Our commanders are sparing no effort to find this young soldier."

It's a saga that's still isn't over for the soldier who is now 28 years old. When Bowe Bergdahl disappeared, he was stationed at a U.S. military outpost in Paktika Province, in Southeastern Afghanistan. He was supposed to be on a guard shift that night. This was his first deployment as a U.S. soldier and he had been in Afghanistan less than two months.

Other soldiers in his unit have described Bergdahl as a deserter and a traitor to his country.

"I think he just wanted to go on an adventure without having anybody to answer to, without having anything to worry about. He wanted to be able to go out and see Afghanistan for himself without, you know, the Army stopping him."

Bergdahl would end up in the hands of the Taliban. Intensive efforts to find Bergdahl in those early days of his disappearance failed. And before long, Bergdahl's captors would start showing off their prized capture in propaganda videos.

"In the propaganda, that the Army grounded us in, in fact, this is exactly why we are hated not only by the afghans, but by many people in the world."

The U.S. government believed Bergdahl was then passed around between Taliban captors and members of what's called the Haqqani Network, which would have taken him into Pakistan at some point. For Bergdahl's mother and father in Idaho, these videos would be the only proof of life they'd see of their son.

"Get me to be released."

Frustrated by the slow progress in finding his son, Bob Bergdahl grew out his beard as a sign of solidarity with Bowe and started teaching himself to speak Pashtu, the language of his captors. Bob Bergdahl would later receive scathing criticism as a Taliban sympathizer for growing the beard.

"A father does not leave his son alone on the battlefield."

Then in May of last year, after several years of negotiating, the Obama administration agreed to release five Taliban prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay for Bowe Bergdahl. He was brought to this field in a remote area of Khost Province and handed over to a U.S. Special Forces unit. One of the soldiers told Bowe

Bergdahl on the chopper ride out, "We've been looking for you for a long time." Ed Lavandera, cnn, Dallas.

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A lot of you are dreaming of going to the beach this summer. The sea, sand, sun and swimming -- hopefully not with these. A massive school of sharks, likely black tips and spinners, was recently spotted near the Louisiana coast. Experts say it's normal. They typically migrate north as the weather and water warm up. It may be a little early this year, though. And while black tipped sharks aren't likely to eat you, they do account for about 16 percent of the shark attacks in Florida. They're relatively small sized. Black tips usually weigh between 40 and 55 pounds. That means the bite wounds people sometimes get from them are pretty minor.