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(CNN) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reversed her opposition to a vote on offshore drilling on "Larry King Live" on Monday night, saying she would consider a vote if it were part of a larger energy package.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urges the release of oil from strategic reserves as a way to bring down gas prices.

Pelosi and fellow House Democrats have staunchly opposed Republicans' request for a vote on the drilling. Some Republicans stayed in chambers after Congress adjourned for the session, making speeches on energy policies, in an attempt to get Democrats to come back for a vote.

Reacting to Pelosi's remarks, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the speaker should call the House of Representatives back from its summer recess immediately if she is sincere about a vote on off-shore drilling.

"Our message to Speaker Pelosi is very simple: We are ready to vote on more energy production and lower gas prices right now, and we should not wait one more day to begin giving the American people the relief they expect and deserve," Boehner said. "If you meant what you said last night, we welcome you and your Democratic colleagues to join us in our historic call to action on American energy."

On Monday night, Pelosi said the vote would need to be part of a larger discussion that would include investing in renewable energy resources and releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Those options would help bring both immediate and long-lasting solutions to the energy crisis, she said.

In her interview with King, Pelosi talked about what the government and country needs to do to avert the energy crisis and quickly bring down gas prices. The following is an edited version of the interview:

Larry King: OK, Madam Speaker, author of "Know Your Power," why don't you bring [Congress] back?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Well, it's interesting to hear Sen. [John] McCain talk about bringing Congress back. He wasn't even in Congress this last session when we really had two very important bills on energy -- one to give tax credit for wind, solar and other renewable resources, and another about hybrid cars and the rest. So he wasn't in to vote when were in session and now he's saying call it back in.

And then one of the others said to the president, call Congress back in. And the president said no. The president said no. But the point is this: The American people are suffering. We have to do what is best for them.

How do we bring down the prices at the pump? We have said to the president, the fastest way to do this if in 10 days the price can come down if you will free our oil. Over 700 million barrels of oil the president is sitting on of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

No. 1, free our oil.

No. 2, they want to drill. If they want to drill, we have 68 million acres in the Lower 48 that they can drill in that are permitted and all the rest.

Three, stop the speculation.

Four, renew -- invest in renewable energy resources, which will bring a faster return than drilling offshore, which will take 10 years and produce 2 cents' reduction in 10 years off the price at the pump.

And then use natural gas. Natural gas is so plentiful. It's better for the environment, and it is cheaper.

So there are things that Congress can do, and we have voted on this over and over again. But the Republicans and the president have resisted. Instead, they have this thing that says drill offshore in the protected areas. Well, we can do that. We can have a vote on that. But it has to be part of something that says we want to bring immediate relief to the public and not just a hoax on them.

King: Would you vote yes on a package that includes drilling?

Pelosi: I would not. It depends how the drilling is put forth. But I don't -- that is not excluded, let me say it that way. It depends how that is proposed, if the safeguards are there. Now, mind you, 68 million acres -- 10 million more acres in Alaska where they can drill.

But if there's -- if we can get some great things, in terms of renewable energy resources: a renewable electricity standard, wind, solar, biofuels and the rest in that context, because if you make a decision only to go with the offshore drilling, you are increasing our dependence on fossil fuels, and you will never free yourself of that addiction unless you invest in the renewable energy resources that are good for the environment, cheaper for the consumer and will reverse global warming.

And the consumer is our first responsibility. The American taxpayer owns this oil offshore, by the way. Let me make this one final point. This oil is owned by the American taxpayers. The oil companies drill. We give them money to drill there. But we get very little in return.

So I think as we have this debate, which is a very healthy one to have and I welcome it; we have to review and realign the relationship between our oil, Big Oil's profits and what it means to the consumer and the taxpayer.

King: Do you expect -- do you suspect the oil companies of having a lot of clout here, influence over the Republicans?

Pelosi: Of course. Yes, they rule. And that's what we'll find out.

King: They rule?

Pelosi: When we have this vote, when we really define it and where the choice is clear to the American people -- I mean, do you know what -- Exxon Mobil, their last quarter, their profits were historic. Last year, they were historic. They outdid themselves this year already in this second quarter. And they insist that we pay them to drill. They need an incentive to drill in order to make over $11 billion in one quarter. And it just doesn't make sense. We should be using that money to invest in renewable resources, tax credit for wind and solar, etc. and invest in the technologies that will develop the battery and the rest, instead of giving Big Oil more profits.

King: Do you expect to get a big enough majority in the Senate and House for the Democrats to overcome anything and get through your proposals?

Pelosi: Well, I hope we can do some of it before we even leave this session. I think we can -- hopefully, we can do something before December. I will not subscribe to a hoax on the American people that if you drill offshore, you're going to bring down the price at the pump. Even the president says that's not true.

Ten years, two cents -- we're saying 10 days, bring down the price, if the president would free our oil from the Strategic Petroleum [Reserve] -- from our stockpile -- owned by the taxpayers, purchased by the taxpayers.

In the next election, I know that we will strengthen our majorities, increase their numbers, and we will have a Democratic president in the White House, and we will be able to address more fully really what I think is the challenge to our generation -- energy security and global warming.

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text: consumer

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text: taxpayer

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text: the

text: Senate

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text: House

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text: proposals

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text: American

text: people

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text: if

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text: price

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text: we

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text: energy

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question: who says we should invest?

answer: U.S.

text: U.S.

question: where is the money invested

answer: renewable energy resources

text: renewable energy resources

question: what are they voting on

answer: offshore drilling

text: offshore drilling

question: what would cut gas prices

answer: release of oil from strategic reserves

text: release of oil from strategic reserves

question: who calls for vote?

answer: Republicans'

text: Republicans'

question: who says she will be open?

answer: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- An Army staff sergeant will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor after he sacrificed his own life in an effort to save another soldier in Afghanistan, the White House said Friday.

By acts of "immeasurable courage," Staff Sgt. Jared Monti earned the Medal of Honor, the White House said.

Staff Sgt. Jared Monti will receive the medal, the nation's highest military honor, on September 17 for his actions in combat, the White House said in a statement. His parents, Paul and Janet Monti, "will join the president at the White House to commemorate their son's example of selfless service and sacrifice."

Monti, of Raynham, Massachusetts, died June 21, 2006, while deployed with the 10th Mountain Division, according to a Web site set up by family and friends to announce a scholarship in his honor. He was 31 when he died.

Monti's reconnaissance team occupied a surveillance position when they were attacked near Gowardesh, Afghanistan, and he was killed by enemy fire, the Web site says.

The White House statement said Monti "displayed immeasurable courage and uncommon valor -- eventually sacrificing his own life in an effort to save his comrade," but did not provide details of his actions.

Monti's military decorations already included the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, five Army Commendation Medals, four Army Achievement Medals, three Good Conduct Medals and three National Defense Service Medals, the White House statement said. He is survived by his parents, his sister and brother and a niece.

Monti was posthumously promoted to sergeant first class.

The Medal of Honor is awarded to U.S. soldiers who distinguish themselves with "gallantry above and beyond the call of duty," the White House said. "The meritorious conduct must involve great personal bravery or self-sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his or her comrades and must have involved risk of life."

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(CNN)  -- A huge water main burst under a road in the suburban Baltimore community of Dundalk, Maryland, Friday, sending muddy water erupting over neighborhood streets and down highway ramps, officials said.

Muddy water envelops the community of Dundalk, Maryland, on Friday. Many were left without power.

The 72-inch main was shut about two hours after it ruptured, Baltimore County Chief Executive Jim Smith told CNN.

No injuries were reported, Smith said, but he urged residents to "shelter in place" and not to go into the knee- to chest-high water under any circumstances.

"This is not a game," Smith warned.

Authorities set up a command center near the site of the break and swift-water boat rescue teams were standing by, he added.  See water main break damage Â»

Resident David Johnson said he felt helpless as he stood outside his house and watched the dirty brown water creep up his lawn and approach his front door. It stopped inches away and his basement stayed dry. The worst part now, Johnson said, is the smell.

"Like sewage," he said.

Shannon Woerner was at home in nearby Essex, Maryland, when he heard the news about the water main break -- and the call for boats.

He loaded his kayak in his truck and headed to the scene.

"I just wanted to see if I could help," he said. Woerner said he assisted by ferrying car keys and other items across flooded streets to people who were cut off from their homes by the water.

Standing at the corner of Court and McShane streets, Mike Pell, 34, watched the water slowly recede after the main was shut.

Water covered the wheels of his pickup truck.

"My basement's done," he said, pointing to his shoulder to show the height of the water inside, where he and his fiancÃ©e had their bedroom. "All of our clothes are ruined," he said.

He managed to get his two children, ages 2 and 3, to a dry area on the first floor of the house. "Now I wonder who's going to pay for this. We don't have flood insurance -- this area doesn't flood," Pell said, shaking his head.

Samantha Hansley, 21, could only watch from a dry hill and wonder if her truck would survive the deluge. It sat a block away in 2 feet of water. Hansley and her boyfriend had been driving out of the floodwaters when they stopped to try to help some stranded drivers. "Our truck just died," she said.

A manager at the Box and Save grocery store not far from the break site said the entire parking lot was flooded.

Cathy Geisler said customers were still in the store Friday afternoon when police came to tell everyone to evacuate, except for essential personnel.

"We had customers, we were still doing business, then the electricity went out and we escorted everyone out of the store," Geisler said.

She and another manager stayed behind in a building with no power. As she spoke on the phone with CNN, Geisler said police had come back to tell them to leave immediately and she abruptly hung up the phone.

Aerial video from CNN affiliates WMAR and WBAL showed a collapsed roadway with massive amounts of water exploding over the area. Entire neighborhoods had flooded streets, and many residents were evacuated, authorities said.

Eric Braughman, who lives on one of the flooded streets, told CNN he had "thought something was up" with the water Thursday when his faucets discharged brownish-orange water.

"My wife didn't give the baby a bath because it didn't look safe," Braughman said.

Nearly 1,000 customers were without power, according to Baltimore Gas and Electric Company's Web site.

The main break is part of a larger issue with failing infrastructure in many U.S. cities, said Kurt Kocher, a spokesman for Baltimore's Department of Public Works.

Kocher cited two other huge main breaks in the Maryland and Washington D.C. area that were started from the same type of pipe that burst in Friday's incident.

"This is a national infrastructure crisis," Kocher said.

CNN's Alec Miran in Dundalk, Maryland, contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Every week, Jackie Kaminer of Roswell, Georgia, buys fish for dinner at the local market. Although she knows it's full of nutrients -- including good-for-your-heart omega-3 fatty acids -- she's careful of the types of fish she brings home.

Jackie Kaminer contemplates fish choices; she  buys only "safe" fish, like salmon, haddock and tilapia.

Her concern? Mercury and the dangers it poses to her children. So, she sticks to certain varieties: salmon, cod, tilapia and haddock are "safe fish," but she stays away from swordfish, sea bass and tuna.

As a mother of three, Kaminer should be concerned. Released into the atmosphere by industrial pollution, mercury contaminates water systems (and soil) when it rains. As fish feed on one another, the mercury stores up in their bodies.

The toxic metal affects the nervous system. And although studies have shown large amounts of mercury can also affect fertility and blood pressure, and possibly cause memory loss in adults, it's particularly dangerous to young children and fetuses.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, during the first several years of life, a child's brain is still developing and absorbing nutrients. Prenatal and infant mercury exposure can cause poor mental development, cerebral palsy, deafness and blindness. Even in low doses, mercury may affect a child's development, delaying walking and talking, shortening attention span and causing learning disabilities.

Having mercury levels that are too high isn't someone else's problem. In a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of 17 women of childbearing age in the United States has mercury in her blood above the level that could pose a risk to a developing fetus (5.8 micrograms per liter). So the federal government advises pregnant women and those thinking of becoming pregnant to avoid certain fish, such as shark, swordfish and fresh tuna, usually found in fish markets and sushi. Canned tuna seems to be less of a threat, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says consumption should be limited.

Why avoid these kinds of fish? According to Andrew Heyes, a scientist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, the older and larger the fish, the more mercury it has stored. "As it grows older, it can't eliminate mercury as fast as it takes it in," he says. "So there's an accumulation in the fish."  Watch more on fish and mercury Â»

Because mercury is a growing threat to us and our environment, companies have started to take mercury out of thermometers, switches and even batteries to prevent it from entering our soil. Now, many regions, like the Chesapeake Bay states of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, have instituted new rules to limit mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, one of the largest sources of mercury pollution in the region.

Researcher Cindy Gilmour, also with the SERC, says that is a positive development because mercury contamination is getting out of hand. "We've opened Pandora's Box and we've let that mercury out from where it was buried underground, into the atmosphere and into our soils and waterways," she says. "All that excess mercury causes problems, not just in people."

In an effort to make sure these new regulations on mercury emissions are effective, scientists like Heyes and Gilmour are measuring levels of the toxic metal in watersheds near the bay.

Gilmour says the research is needed. "All those rules are starting to go into place, and we are starting to put those controls on our power plants. So what we want to find out here is whether those rules work and if the money we are investing in these technologies is really going to help," she says.

As they monitor mercury, scientists are also learning more about how it behaves in nature. Gilmour says mercury contaminates more than just the soil and water. "Mercury has a large impact on all kinds of animals -- loons, amphibians, songbirds, are all affected," she says.

It will be several years before researchers know if the regulations are making a difference. Until then, health experts say enjoy fish -- it's good for you -- but be like Jackie Kaminer and pick your fish wisely.

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question: what are the effects of mercury

answer: affect fertility and blood pressure,

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question: where are the fish found

answer: local market.

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question: what fish contain mercury

answer: swordfish, sea bass

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question: what New rules near Chesapeake Bay limit emissions from coal-fired?

answer: power plants,

text: power plants,

question: who released mercury into air?

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Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- A second typhoon in a week pounded the Philippines over the weekend, weakening Sunday only after prompting evacuations, causing severe flooding and contributing to one death.

Typhoon Nalgae, known locally as Quiel, had lost some strength by Sunday morning. But it still had maximum sustained winds of 130 kph (80 mph), with gusts recorded 30 kph stronger, according to a 4 a.m. Sunday advisory from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Administration. At that point, its center was 200 kilometers (124 miles) west of Baguio City.

The storm follows Typhoon Nesat, which left at least 52 people dead and caused damage in 34 provinces since it hit Tuesday, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council.

The two typhoons will or have already affected about 3 million Filipinos, the nonprofit World Vision group estimated in a news release Saturday.

The second typhoon -- Nalgae -- made landfall in Dinapigue, in Isabela province, on Saturday morning, the disaster council said. It is expected to have moved past the east Asian island nation by Sunday, forecasters said, after having brought rain of 15-25 millimeters per hour (0.6-1 inch) in many locales.

Over the course of the weekend, the storm had made several roads impassable in the cities of Calasiao and Dagupan on Luzon island, according to the state-run Philippines News Agency. Affected residents are being evacuated from those communities and others, including Santa Barbara.

The disaster council, in a Sunday morning update, said that a 35-year-old man was killed and a 22-year-old woman injured in landslides triggered by the storm the previous day. At least 850 families, or roughly 3,500 people, in the provinces of La Union and Pangasinan have been directly affected by flooding, according to the council.

Also Saturday, the San Roque Power Corporation opened two gates at one of its dams along the Agno River in north Luzon, due to high waters there related to the storm, the news agency said.

Presidential spokesman Abigail Valte earlier Saturday urged residents of low-lying and mountainous areas that could be hit hard by the storm to evacuate, the state news agency said, citing an interview conducted on a government radio station.

World Vision, the Christian humanitarian organization, said Saturday that it had to postpone some of its relief efforts due to Nalgae, with two of three emergency teams set to deploy once the storm passes. Another team is in Bulcan province, most of which is "still submerged" because of Nesat.

The group is focusing its post-Nesat efforts on two communities in Manila and three in the northern Isabela and Zambales provinces. Vouchers are being distributed so people can buy needed items, some emergency supplies are being given out directly to citizens and 3,000 Manila children will receive school supplies.

Sherbien Dacalanio, a CNN iReporter in the Philippines, described one area of Manila as being devastated by Nesat.

"The damage is shocking. It's like a damage brought by earthquake and tsunami," Dacalanio said.

CNN's Ivan Cabrera and journalist Arlene Samson-Espiritu contributed to this report.

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answer: 130 kph (80 mph),

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answer: Nesat,

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question: What was the windspeed once the typhoon weakened?

answer: 130 kph (80 mph),

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question: Whats  the typhoons name?

answer: Nalgae,

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question: How many people were killed by Typhoon Nesat?

answer: at least 52

text: at least 52

question: What is the number of people killed by the landslide?

answer: one

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question: Whar speed did the rain fall?

answer: 15-25 millimeters per hour

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question: How many people were affected?

answer: about 3 million

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George had finally been realized.

The Telectroscope lets Londoners and New Yorkers see each other in real time.

In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th-century Webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)

And all the credit goes to British artist Paul St. George. If he had not been rummaging through great-grandpa Alexander's personal effects a few years ago, the Telectroscope might still exist only on paper, hidden away deep inside some old box.

But fortunately, St. George could not bear that thought and thus decided he should be the one to finish what his great-grandfather had started. It was quite simply the right thing to do. Plus, it would make a pretty cool public art exhibit. Send us your videos, images or stories

During the twilight hours Tuesday, massive dirt-covered metal drill bits miraculously emerged -- one by the Thames near the Tower Bridge and the other on Fulton Ferry Landing by the Brooklyn Bridge in New York -- completing the final sections of great-grandfather Alexander's transatlantic tunnel.

The drills were removed Wednesday night and replaced with identical Telectroscopes at both ends, allowing Londoners and New Yorkers to wake up Thursday, look over to the far and distant shore and stare at each other for a while (the telescope-like contraption permits visual but not vocal communication).

Of course, only part of this story is true.

St. George is an artist in Britain who does have a grandfather -- minus the great prefix -- named Alexander.

And the trans-Atlantic tunnel is really a trans-Atlantic broadband network rounded off on each end with HD cameras, according to Tiscali, an Italian Internet provider handling the technical side of the project.

As for the Telectroscope, well, it was a fanciful idea that, according to St. George, came about from a typo made by a 19th-century reporter who misspelled Electroscope, a device used to measure electrostatic charges - as Telectroscope.

"The journalist also misunderstood what it was about and wrote in the article that it was a device for the suppression of absence," St. George said. "The accidental hope captured their imagination, and lots of people at the end of the 19th century thought it was a great idea."

The Telectroscope captured St. George's imagination five years ago, when he began pondering how to do a project on the childhood fantasy of digging a hole to the opposite side of the Earth. And because the artist also happens to have an expertise in Victorian chronophotography -- a precursor to cinematography -- he had a slight idea of where to look for the proper equipment.

"We all have that idea in our head if we could make a tunnel to the other side of the Earth," St. George said."But we are not all crazy enough to actually try and do it."

St. George was crazy enough to actually try and do it, but he realized he could not do the digging alone. So about two years ago, he pitched the idea to Artichoke, the British arts group responsible for taking the Sultan's Elephant -- a 42-ton mechanical creature -- for a stroll through central London in 2006. The company was immediately taken by St. George's idea.

"The whole thing is about seeing what is real and what isn't real and how the world is," said Nicki Webb, a co-founder of Artichoke. "Is it nighttime when we are in daytime, and does it look familiar to us or not?"

When the sun illuminated the lens of the Telectroscope next to the Thames, it was, of course, still nighttime in New York. So the screen inside the scope broadcast back only an empty sidewalk silently framed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.

But then something miraculous occurred.

A police officer and a street cleaner walked into the frame. Stopped. And waved.

The Telectroscope will be on display and open to the public 24 hours a day in London and New York until June 15. Artichoke is arranging requests to synchronize special reunions between friends and family or, the company hopes, maybe even a marriage proposal.

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text: into

text: its

text: person

text: size

text: lens

text: and

text: in

text: real

text: time

text: see

text: those

text: on

text: the

text: other

text: side

text: via

text: a

text: recently

text: completed

text: tunnel

text: running

text: under

text: the

text: ocean

text: Think

text: century

text: Webcam

text: Or

text: maybe

text: Victorian

text: age

text: video

text: phone

text: And

text: all

text: the

text: credit

text: goes

text: to

text: British

text: artist

text: Paul

text: St.

text: George

text: If

text: he

text: had

text: not

text: been

text: rummaging

text: through

text: great

text: grandpa

text: Alexander

text: 's

text: personal

text: effects

text: a

text: few

text: years

text: ago

text: the

text: Telectroscope

text: might

text: still

text: exist

text: only

text: on

text: paper

text: hidden

text: away

text: deep

text: inside

text: some

text: old

text: box

text: But

text: fortunately

text: St.

text: George

text: could

text: not

text: bear

text: that

text: thought

text: and

text: thus

text: decided

text: he

text: should

text: be

text: the

text: one

text: to

text: finish

text: what

text: his

text: great

text: grandfather

text: had

text: started

text: It

text: was

text: quite

text: simply

text: the

text: right

text: thing

text: to

text: do

text: Plus

text: it

text: would

text: make

text: a

text: pretty

text: cool

text: public

text: art

text: exhibit

text: Send

text: us

text: your

text: videos

text: images

text: or

text: stories

text: During

text: the

text: twilight

text: hours

text: Tuesday

text: massive

text: dirt

text: covered

text: metal

text: drill

text: bits

text: miraculously

text: emerged

text: one

text: by

text: the

text: Thames

text: near

text: the

text: Tower

text: Bridge

text: and

text: the

text: other

text: on

text: Fulton

text: Ferry

text: Landing

text: by

text: the

text: Brooklyn

text: Bridge

text: in

text: New

text: York

text: completing

text: the

text: final

text: sections

text: of

text: great

text: grandfather

text: Alexander

text: 's

text: transatlantic

text: tunnel

text: The

text: drills

text: were

text: removed

text: Wednesday

text: night

text: and

text: replaced

text: with

text: identical

text: Telectroscopes

text: at

text: both

text: ends

text: allowing

text: Londoners

text: and

text: New

text: Yorkers

text: to

text: wake

text: up

text: Thursday

text: look

text: over

text: to

text: the

text: far

text: and

text: distant

text: shore

text: and

text: stare

text: at

text: each

text: other

text: for

text: a

text: while

text: the

text: telescope

text: like

text: contraption

text: permits

text: visual

text: but

text: not

text: vocal

text: communication

text: Of

text: course

text: only

text: part

text: of

text: this

text: story

text: is

text: true

text: St.

text: George

text: is

text: an

text: artist

text: in

text: Britain

text: who

text: does

text: have

text: a

text: grandfather

text: minus

text: the

text: great

text: prefix

text: named

text: Alexander

text: And

text: the

text: trans

text: Atlantic

text: tunnel

text: is

text: really

text: a

text: trans

text: Atlantic

text: broadband

text: network

text: rounded

text: off

text: on

text: each

text: end

text: with

text: HD

text: cameras

text: according

text: to

text: Tiscali

text: an

text: Italian

text: Internet

text: provider

text: handling

text: the

text: technical

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: project

text: As

text: for

text: the

text: Telectroscope

text: well

text: it

text: was

text: a

text: fanciful

text: idea

text: that

text: according

text: to

text: St.

text: George

text: came

text: about

text: from

text: a

text: typo

text: made

text: by

text: a

text: century

text: reporter

text: who

text: misspelled

text: Electroscope

text: a

text: device

text: used

text: to

text: measure

text: electrostatic

text: charges

text: as

text: Telectroscope

text: The

text: journalist

text: also

text: misunderstood

text: what

text: it

text: was

text: about

text: and

text: wrote

text: in

text: the

text: article

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: a

text: device

text: for

text: the

text: suppression

text: of

text: absence

text: St.

text: George

text: said

text: The

text: accidental

text: hope

text: captured

text: their

text: imagination

text: and

text: lots

text: of

text: people

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: century

text: thought

text: it

text: was

text: a

text: great

text: idea

text: The

text: Telectroscope

text: captured

text: St.

text: George

text: 's

text: imagination

text: five

text: years

text: ago

text: when

text: he

text: began

text: pondering

text: how

text: to

text: do

text: a

text: project

text: on

text: the

text: childhood

text: fantasy

text: of

text: digging

text: a

text: hole

text: to

text: the

text: opposite

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: Earth

text: And

text: because

text: the

text: artist

text: also

text: happens

text: to

text: have

text: an

text: expertise

text: in

text: Victorian

text: chronophotography

text: a

text: precursor

text: to

text: cinematography

text: he

text: had

text: a

text: slight

text: idea

text: of

text: where

text: to

text: look

text: for

text: the

text: proper

text: equipment

text: We

text: all

text: have

text: that

text: idea

text: in

text: our

text: head

text: if

text: we

text: could

text: make

text: a

text: tunnel

text: to

text: the

text: other

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: Earth

text: St.

text: George

text: said."But

text: we

text: are

text: not

text: all

text: crazy

text: enough

text: to

text: actually

text: try

text: and

text: do

text: it

text: St.

text: George

text: was

text: crazy

text: enough

text: to

text: actually

text: try

text: and

text: do

text: it

text: but

text: he

text: realized

text: he

text: could

text: not

text: do

text: the

text: digging

text: alone

text: So

text: about

text: two

text: years

text: ago

text: he

text: pitched

text: the

text: idea

text: to

text: Artichoke

text: the

text: British

text: arts

text: group

text: responsible

text: for

text: taking

text: the

text: Sultan

text: 's

text: Elephant

text: a

text: mechanical

text: creature

text: for

text: a

text: stroll

text: through

text: central

text: London

text: in

text: The

text: company

text: was

text: immediately

text: taken

text: by

text: St.

text: George

text: 's

text: idea

text: The

text: whole

text: thing

text: is

text: about

text: seeing

text: what

text: is

text: real

text: and

text: what

text: is

text: n't

text: real

text: and

text: how

text: the

text: world

text: is

text: said

text: Nicki

text: Webb

text: a

text: co

text: founder

text: of

text: Artichoke

text: Is

text: it

text: nighttime

text: when

text: we

text: are

text: in

text: daytime

text: and

text: does

text: it

text: look

text: familiar

text: to

text: us

text: or

text: not

text: When

text: the

text: sun

text: illuminated

text: the

text: lens

text: of

text: the

text: Telectroscope

text: next

text: to

text: the

text: Thames

text: it

text: was

text: of

text: course

text: still

text: nighttime

text: in

text: New

text: York

text: So

text: the

text: screen

text: inside

text: the

text: scope

text: broadcast

text: back

text: only

text: an

text: empty

text: sidewalk

text: silently

text: framed

text: by

text: the

text: Brooklyn

text: Bridge

text: and

text: the

text: Manhattan

text: skyline

text: But

text: then

text: something

text: miraculous

text: occurred

text: A

text: police

text: officer

text: and

text: a

text: street

text: cleaner

text: walked

text: into

text: the

text: frame

text: Stopped

text: And

text: waved

text: The

text: Telectroscope

text: will

text: be

text: on

text: display

text: and

text: open

text: to

text: the

text: public

text: hours

text: a

text: day

text: in

text: London

text: and

text: New

text: York

text: until

text: June

text: Artichoke

text: is

text: arranging

text: requests

text: to

text: synchronize

text: special

text: reunions

text: between

text: friends

text: and

text: family

text: or

text: the

text: company

text: hopes

text: maybe

text: even

text: a

text: marriage

text: proposal

question: What was the name of the man who created it?

answer: Alexander Stanhope St. George

text: Alexander Stanhope St. George

question: What allows New Yorkers and Londoners to see each other?

answer: The Telectroscope

text: The Telectroscope

question: What came about when the reporter made a typo?

answer: the Telectroscope,

text: the Telectroscope,

question: What artist was inspired?

answer: Paul St. George.

text: Paul St. George.

question: What caused it to be brought about?

answer: rummaging through great-grandpa Alexander's personal effects a few years ago,

text: rummaging through great-grandpa Alexander's personal effects a few years ago,

question: Who can see each other in real time?

answer: Londoners and New Yorkers

text: Londoners and New Yorkers


text:
MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN)  -- Gunmen attacked a convoy Sunday in Somalia and took several hostages, including two foreign aid workers from the group Doctors Without Borders.

Medecins San Frontieres workers, shown here, were abducted and released in March in Sudan.

Local staff said a three-car convoy was traveling from Rabbure to Hudur in southwestern Somalia, escorted by local bodyguards, when gunmen seized the group.

The district commissioner of Rabbure said the only people released were elders accompanying the staff, with the local and international staff kept as hostages.

Doctors Without Borders, widely known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres, did not immediately release the identities or nationalities of the hostages. MSF is an international medical group that works in more than 60 countries. It says it helps people "threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe."

Michel Peremans, international coordinator for operational communications for MSF Belgium, which operates in the region, confirmed that the organization had lost contact with two of its staff in Somalia.

Rabbure is in the Bakole region, which is under the control of the group al-Shabaab, considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

Al-Shabaab was once the armed wing of the Islamic Courts Union, which took over most of southern Somalia in the second half of 2006. The United States says the group is affiliated with the al Qaeda terrorist network, and the U.S. backed an Ethiopian invasion that drove the ICU from power in 2006.

The ICU's former leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, became president after Ethiopian troops withdrew in January. Al-Shabaab rejected the peace agreement that led to the Ethiopian withdrawal and is now fighting Sheikh Ahmed's government.

Attacks on aid workers in the region are common, and U.N. staff came under attack this year.

In Sudan, on the other side of Ethiopia, four workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres were abducted in March and released a few days later.

All four -- an Italian doctor, a Canadian nurse, a French coordinator and a Sudanese guard -- worked for the Belgian section of the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres.

Sudan last month ordered 13 major aid groups to leave the country after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

CNN's Mohammed Amin and Carol Jordan contributed to this report.

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text: convoy

text: Sunday

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text: Somalia

text: and

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text: hostages

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text: Hudur

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text: contact

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text: Islamic

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text: Union

text: which

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text: of

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text: Somalia

text: in

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text: second

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text: group

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text: troops

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text: in

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text: peace

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text: that

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text: Ethiopian

text: withdrawal

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text: region

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text: and

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text: staff

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text: this

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text: the

text: other

text: side

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text: Ethiopia

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text: days

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text: month

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text: country

text: after

text: the

text: International

text: Criminal

text: Court

text: issued

text: an

text: arrest

text: warrant

text: for

text: President

text: Omar

text: Hassan

text: al

text: Bashir

text: accusing

text: him

text: of

text: war

text: crimes

text: and

text: crimes

text: against

text: humanity

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Mohammed

text: Amin

text: and

text: Carol

text: Jordan

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: who has not released the names?

answer: Doctors Without Borders,

text: Doctors Without Borders,

question: Workers from which organization were abducted?

answer: Doctors Without Borders.

text: Doctors Without Borders.

question: who abducted the workers

answer: Gunmen

text: Gunmen

question: what is common in the region?

answer: Attacks on aid workers

text: Attacks on aid workers

question: Where did the gunmen seize the convoy?

answer: in southwestern Somalia,

text: in southwestern Somalia,

question: who seized convoy?

answer: Gunmen

text: Gunmen