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New York (CNN) -- Today's bipartisan health care meeting is being called a summit, a term that brings to mind diplomatic missions during wartime. That's a fitting description for the atmosphere in Washington. Political opponents are considered enemies.

Health care is just the latest example of government dysfunction; it's been derailed by hyper-partisanship, over-spending and the disproportionate influence of special interests.

Independent voters, the largest and fastest growing segment of the electorate, hold the balance of power in American politics, but they have once again been shut out of the debate. The professional partisans in Washington ignore them at their peril.

Many Americans associate broken government with the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina and the anxieties that accompany the current manic recession. But the roots of independent voters' frustration go deeper.

For them, the first modern evidence of failure from the federal government came during the late 1960s, when the social spending of Democratic President Johnson's Great Society failed to stop urban blight by throwing taxpayer money at the problem. One presidency later, the country confronted the corruption of Watergate from Republican President Nixon. Washington grew more harshly partisan, with political opponents determined to delegitimize any president from day one of his term.

As the two parties grew more polarized, power shifted from the center to the margins, and special interests increased their influence. In reaction, the ranks of independent voters grew from 20 percent of the electorate at the start of the 1960s to 30 percent after Watergate.

When Ross Perot ran for president as an Independent in 1992, the self-made businessman presented himself as a nonideological problem solver. His campaign gained traction because both parties had lost credibility as stewards of fiscal responsibility, with overspending and then-record deficits.

Perot briefly led in the polls, and independents spiked to 36 percent of the electorate. The divided government of President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich ultimately produced hard-won budget surpluses. But when President Bush and the Tom DeLay-led Republican Congress ruled Washington during the last decade, surpluses again turned to deficits and independents turned against the GOP.

Independents listed the economy as their No. 1 issue back in 2007, when Democrats said health care and Republicans said terrorism. Moderates and the middle class -- the people who determine who wins elections -- felt squeezed even before the fiscal crisis, with rising health care and energy costs absorbing whatever benefit they might have received from tax cuts.

After watching the jet set excess of the Bernie Madoff class from afar, they were left with less and still asked to clean up the mess. Now, as they try to balance their own budgets at home, they see big government and big business --Washington and Wall Street -- piling up huge debts and passing the buck to the taxpayer.

It was in this environment that independents began to break with President Obama last spring, after voting for him in 2008 by an eight-point margin. The change they voted for was rooted in candidate Obama's calls for an end to politics that "played to the base" and a restoration of fiscal responsibility.

The liberal House leadership's private negotiations over the $787 billion stimulus bill seemed to contradict those promises. And the subsequent health care debate was derailed in part because it was seen as adding additional spending and leading to the growth of government.

In reaction, independents reasserted themselves, their numbers growing quickly and reaching 43 percent by September 2009, according to a monthly Washington Post/ABC News poll. In Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts' elections, independents voted by at least a 2-to-1 margin for Republican candidates. Exit polls showed they were voting to send a message to Washington, not necessarily endorsing the Congressional Republicans' agenda.

Independents' anger today is focused on familiar targets: hypocritical politicians, over-spending and a lack of agreement on solutions from Washington. Independents feel they are paying more and getting less. They believe the system has been rigged to benefit special interests at the expense of the national interest. As bitter partisanship increases government's dysfunction, more voters are declaring their independence from politics as usual.

Today's bipartisan health care summit is a step in the right direction. Independent voters want to see the warring parties in Washington speaking to each other in the presence of television cameras, ensuring at least a degree of civility and accountability. It's more difficult to demonize the opposition when talking with them.

But photo-op centrism is, of course, not enough. It must be followed by substance. To really change the culture of Washington, we need to change the rules that reinforce this predictable partisanship.

The quickest policy cure would be to change the rigged system of redistricting that creates congressional 'safe seats' and replaces competitive general elections with closed primaries, where party activists reign supreme. Nonpartisan redistricting and open primaries would reward politicians who reach across the aisle, and would empower independent voters.

Americans' sense that government is broken didn't happen overnight, and it won't be solved overnight. It will take time to restore trust in Washington. But substantive efforts to depolarize our politics will lead to the politics of problem solving.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Avlon.

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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- At least five people were killed in Yemen when pro-government gunmen shot at anti-government protesters in the capital, medics in Sanaa's Change Square told CNN Thursday.

The violence came a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down from power after months of protests against his 33-year rule. He became the fourth leader to leave office as a result of the Arab Spring unrest that has roiled much of the Middle East and North Africa this year.

Protests against the Yemeni government Thursday were bigger than some expected given Saleh's agreement to transfer power, with youth saying their demands have not yet been met.

At least 41 people were injured, including 27 from gunshot wounds and the others from baton beatings, medics said. Three of the wounded are currently in critical condition.

A senior Interior Ministry official denied that the government was responsible for the attacks.

"The protesters were attacked but they were not attacked by government forces. We will investigate this," said the official, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

The official conceded that many people were "angry that Saleh signed the power transfer proposal."

"Such attacks were expected, though we tried to prevent them," said the official. "The opposition is trying to damage (the) reputation of the current government. Anything that happens is always blamed against the ruling family without them even investigating the case."

Heavy gunfire continued for more than 30 minutes on Zubairy Street, when youth marched to condemn the immunity given to Saleh. They vowed to continue their revolution until Saleh is tried for his crimes.

"He is the reason for the deaths of more than a thousand innocent youth in Yemen this year and now the opposition wants to give him immunity," said Mohammed Mosleh, a youth activist who participated in Thursday's march.

"The government planned today's attacks," he charged. "We will not stay quiet..."

He said the opposition does not represent all Yemenis and should not have agreed to give Saleh immunity.

Protesters in Sanaa said they saw the gunmen escape the scene of the attack using government security vehicles.

Protests continued, meanwhile, in 15 provinces throughout the country.

Government forces also attacked protesters in Taiz province Thursday, eyewitnesses said, injuring three as they were marching calling for Saleh to face justice in the International Criminal Court.

"The killer must not be forgiven," youth protesters said in Taiz.

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Editor's Note: Drew Westen, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, founder of Westen Strategies, and author of "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation." He has been a consultant or adviser to several candidates and organizations, including the AFL-CIO, and has informally advised the Obama campaign.

Drew Westen says Democrats realized you need more than position papers to sway the voters.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A single factor never produces a complex event like the historic election of Barack Obama. But when the final post-mortem on the election of 2008 is someday written, it will no doubt include at least three.

First, John McCain started with three strikes against him. Those strikes happen to be the three strongest predictors that enter into the equations used by political scientists to predict who will win an election: an unpopular incumbent president (in this case, the most unpopular in the history of polling), an economic downturn (in this case an understatement), and an unpopular war.

In some ways, McCain lost the presidency twice to George W. Bush. In the 2000 South Carolina primary, McCain was defeated by what have been generously referred to as "dirty tricks;" and in the two-year run-up to the 2008 election, he allied himself with Bush and his policies to win his party's nomination (even referring to Bush as "one of our greatest presidents"), which was his undoing with independent voters in the general election.

Second, whether McCain rues the day he chose Sarah Palin (who moved from the asset to the liability column around the same time Lehman Brothers did), Palin no doubt rues the day she chose to become a small-town mayor instead of a community organizer.

It was precisely the extraordinary capacity to organize people that allowed Obama and his chief advisers to bring such unprecedented numbers of people to the polls.

Not only was this the first election in recent memory in which Democrats outgunned Republicans with their get-out-the-vote efforts, but it was the first time since Eisenhower recognized the potential value of television as a medium for advertising over 50 years ago that Democrats have led Republicans in technology.

From the moment I met Obama's media wizard, Scott Goodstein, 18 months ago, I realized Obama would have a tremendous advantage on that front, but I didn't realize by how much.

But then there's that other major factor: For the first time since Bill Clinton, the Democrats chose a candidate with both the general intelligence to govern and the emotional and political intelligence to win.

And they finally abandoned the approach to campaigning that has been their downfall for generations: peppering voters with facts, figures, and policy positions and assuming they will see what a rational choice the candidate is.

We don't choose any of the important people in our lives that way, whether spouses or presidents. Obama beat McCain the same way he beat Hillary Clinton: by out-inspiring them, boxing them into the role of the candidate against hope, and defining himself as the candidate who represents change.

And in the last few weeks of the campaign, Obama finally began to control the four stories that matter in an election:

1. the story you tell about your yourself (that he was the candidate of change, fleshing out what he meant by change);

2. the story you tell about your opponent (that McCain was four more years of Bush);

3. the story the other candidate is telling about himself (McCain the maverick, which Obama countered by citing McCain's proud proclamation that he had voted with Bush over 90 percent of the time and parrying, "That's not a maverick, that's a sidekick"); and

4. the story McCain was telling about Obama (that he lacked the experience and judgment to lead, which Obama countered with his steadiness in the face of the Wall Street meltdown and his strong, steady performances in the debates).

Elections are won by candidates who control those four stories and in so doing inspire the electorate and channel their fears (in this case, fears about the economy trumping all else).

Going forward, Obama needs to find his way as a leader between the excesses of the "permanent campaign," in which a president remains in campaign mode throughout his presidency -- taken to its extreme under George W. Bush, who allowed his political strategist, Karl Rove, an inordinate role in crafting policies rather than just figuring out how to talk with the public about them -- and Obama's more natural predilection to talk like a law professor.

What Democrats learned from this election is that if their candidate thinks like a professor but inspires like a preacher, they can have their cake and eat it, too.

President-elect Obama faces enormous mountains to climb that will require enormous public support. He will no doubt pursue the policies he considers best for digging our nation out of some deep ditches, both domestically and internationally.

But the best policies don't sell themselves, whether the date is November 3 or January 21, and the style that led him to the White House -- a calm, thoughtful, steady approach to policy combined with an extraordinary capacity to inspire -- is the same style that will make him an extraordinary leader.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Drew Westen.

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text: Obama

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text: will

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text: public

text: support

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text: doubt

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text: policies

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text: our

text: nation

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text: internationally

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text: best

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text: Drew

text: Westen

question: Who had the technological edge?

answer: Barack Obama.

text: Barack Obama.

question: What did Westen say about Democrats?

answer: realized you need more than position papers to sway the voters.

text: realized you need more than position papers to sway the voters.

question: What were people's fears mostly about?

answer: the economy

text: the economy

question: Which former or current president was described as unpopular?

answer: George W. Bush.

text: George W. Bush.

question: What organization, etc., is Drew Westen with?

answer: Emory University,

text: Emory University,

question: What did Drew Westen say about McCain?

answer: started with three strikes against him.

text: started with three strikes against him.

question: Which party was associated with position papers and statistics?

answer: Democrats

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(CNN) -- The long list for the job that has been described as "the best in the world" has been announced.

The successful applicant will based on Hamilton Island, center, off Australia's northeastern coast.

A chef, a dance instructor and a scientist are among the final 50 applicants for the six-month post of "caretaker" on Hamilton Island, part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia  The successful candidate will enjoy a salary of $100,000, free home and generous perks on the island.

"Key responsibilities" will include sending weekly reports via blogs and video on what is happening on the island, as well as cleaning the pool -- which comes with the free home -- and feeding the fish.

Queensland Tourism Minister Desley Boyle revealed Tuesday that the authority had received 34,684 applications from around the world for the position.  "Yesterday, a team of Tourism Queensland marketing and international staff along with a professional recruitment company made the very tough decisions necessary to cut the short-list to the Top 50," Boyle said.

"I understand it was a robust discussion but what it boiled down to was the motivation and professionalism of the applicants and their 'fit' with the job and Tourism Queensland."

The 50 hopefuls come from 22 countries including the U.S., the UK, Russia, Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, India, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Kenya as well as Australia itself.

The shortlisted 50 will now be cut down to a final 11 -- 10 chosen by Tourism Queensland and an 11th by popular vote from videos submitted by the applicants.

The videos show the 50 candidates employing a variety of attempts to woo their prospective employer, from wandering round a chilly city center in bikini with surfboard to making their application in the form of a street musical, complete with chorus singers.

The successful applicant will also enjoy free return airfares from their nearest capital city, transport on the island, travel insurance, computer and camera gear and travel to other islands in the Great Barrier Reef.

The appointment requires no academic qualifications -- the "caretaker" will just need to have strong communication skills, be a good swimmer and enjoy snorkeling.

The final selection process will take place on Hamilton Island in early May, with the successful applicant announced on May 6 and beginning work on July 1.

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question: When will the job begin?

answer: July 1.

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question: What is Tourism Queensland advertising?

answer: six-month post of "caretaker" on Hamilton Island, part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia

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question: How long is the stint?

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(CNN) -- Germany striker Miroslav Klose struck just four minutes from time to give Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich a 1-0 win at Karlsruhe -- their first victory in four league games.

Klose scored a vital goal for Bayern as they claimed a 1-0 Bundesliga victory at Karlsruhe.

Klose converted Massimo Oddo's cross on 86 minutes to give Jurgen Klinsmann's side three league points for the first time this month despite another unimpressive performance.

Bayern last picked up three points in a Bundesliga game on September 13 when they hammered Cologne 3-0.

Since then the gloss on Jurgen Klinsmann's first season in charge has faded badly after Werder Bremen hammered his side 5-2 at home on September 20 and then slumped to a 1-0 defeat at minnows Hanover the following week.

Cries of "Klinsmann out!" were first heard around Munich's Allianz Arena in their previous league game on October 4 when a poor Bochum side were allowed to score two goals in the last 10 minutes to poach a 3-3 draw.

Despite their first-half domination in Karlsruhe, Bayern could not break down the home defense and lost striker Luca Toni, the league's top scorer last season, who limped off after 40 minutes to be replaced by Lukas Podolski.

And another of Munich top attacking options from last season was substituted on 59 minutes when Klinsmann switched France midfielder Franck Ribery for Germany's Tim Borowski.

With Karlsruhe unable to create any chances and Bayern unable to convert theirs, it looked like the game was heading towards a 0-0 draw until Klose struck.

But Klinsmann's side will need to do much better against Fiorentina in Tuesday night's Champions League game in Munich.

Promoted Hoffenheim went top of the table with a flurry of late goals to seal a 5-2 victory at 10-man Hanover which put them level with Hamburg but leading the table on goal difference.

Two goals from Hoffenheim's Vedad Ibisevic led the charge and made the Bosnian and Herzegovina striker the league's top scorer with nine so far this season. However, Hamburg have the chance to recapture top spot when they host Schalke on Sunday.

Also on Saturday, Bayer Leverkusen moved up one place to third place thanks to their 2-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt. Striker Patrick Helmes scored his eighth league goal of the season when he converted a penalty after just six minutes and a 61st minute header from Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal sealed the win.

Stuttgart drop from third to sixth in the table after losing 2-1 at Hertha Berlin while Wolfsburg picked up their first league win for nearly a month as midfielder Zvjezdan Misimovic netted first-half goals in a 4-1 win over Arminia Bielefeld to put Felix Magath's side fifth in the table.

Ten-man Energie Cottbus lost 1-0 at Cologne to stay in the bottom three while Dortmund scored in injury time to seal a 3-3 draw at Werder Bremen.

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question: Who scored the only goal?

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question: What was the final score between Hoffenheim and Hanover?

answer: 5-2

question: What happened at Hanover?

answer: Werder Bremen hammered his side 5-2

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question: What country are these teams from?

answer: Germany

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answer: Miroslav Klose

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question: What was the score of the game?

answer: 1-0

question: How many minutes into the game did Klose score?

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question: When did Klose score a goal in the match?

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question: When was Klose's strike?

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(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ana threatened the Caribbean on Saturday, but it was too early to know how much trouble the first named storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season might cause.

Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Ana to hit the Leeward Islands on Monday.

Ana formed overnight and was expected to gain strength as it moved west toward the Leeward Islands, where forecasters expect it to hit on Monday.

The Dutch Antilles issued a storm watch for St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius, meaning tropical storm conditions are expected in the islands within 36 hours, according to the Miami, Florida-based National Hurricane Center.

For now, the center has advised the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to monitor the storm's progress.

As of 8 p.m. ET, Ana was about 730 miles (1,180 km) east-southeast of the Leeward Islands, according to the hurricane center.

Ana, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), was moving west at about 17 mph (28 kph), the center reported.

The storm is expected to turn west-northwest over the next few days, the center said.

Ana may eventually hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but forecasters can't say whether Ana will strike the continental U.S.

Further east in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bill has developed and is expected to become a hurricane Wednesday.

Forecasters say Bill could evolve into a Category 3 hurricane as it approaches the Leeward Islands by Wednesday or Thursday. Bill was about 820 miles (1,320 km) west-southwest of the Cape Verde islands at 5 p.m. ET.

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question: How far away is Hurricane Ana from the Leeward Islands?

answer: 730 miles (1,180 km)

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question: Which countries are advised to monitor storm's progress?

answer: Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

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question: What are the storm's max sustainable wind speeds

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answer: 730 miles (1,180 km) east-southeast

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question: Where is Ana located?

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question: What are the maximum sustained winds of the storm?

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(CNN) -- Deep-sea explorers say they have solved "one of the greatest mysteries in naval history" with the discovery of what was "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship" when it sank in 1744.

The HMS Victory sank in 1744.

The HMS Victory -- the predecessor to a historic British flagship of the same name -- was found "far from where history says it was lost," Odyssey Marine Exploration said in a news release Monday.

The find in the English Channel exonerates Adm. Sir John Balchin, one of "the greatest admirals in English history," because it shows that the ship went down in a violent storm, not due to any mistakes he made, Odyssey said.

It did not specify the ship's exact location. Maritime lore said the ship went down in the northern part of the Channel Islands, south of England near the coast of France.

Stories about treasures -- including gold -- that may have been on the ship have existed ever since its disappearance.

This HMS Victory was a predecessor to the historic British ship that took the same name and which served as Admiral Nelson's flagship in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

In court papers seeking exclusive salvage rights, Odyssey says the wreck site "consists of cannons and other unidentified objects. Odyssey believes that potentially valuable cargo may be located at or near the site."

The papers were filed in U.S. District Court in Tampa, Florida, where Odyssey is based, seeking exclusive salvage rights.

There were nearly 1,000 people aboard -- "900 sailors, plus a complement of marines and 50 volunteers drawn from the noblest families of England," Odyssey said in information about the ship released together with the Discovery Channel, which chronicled the find.

Based on reports from the time, there may be as much as four tons of gold on the ship, Odyssey and the Discovery Channel said.

"Additional research indicates that there were large quantities of both silver and gold coins aboard. ... Research suggests that this prize money will also likely be located at the wreck site.

"... However, no coins have been located at the site to date, and no accurate assessment as to their value can be made prior to location, recovery and analysis."

The potential treasure also comes in another form -- bronze weaponry. "The site's anticipated ordnance collection" includes "the single largest collection of bronze cannon in the world" and "the largest consignment of bronze guns ever manufactured and preserved today," Odyssey said.

Two cannons have been recovered -- "a 12-pounder featuring the royal arms of George II" and a "42-pounder bearing the crest of George I," it said.

"The huge 42-pounder recovered is the only known example of a gun of this type and size currently in existence on dry land. The only other artifacts recovered to date were two small brick fragments that were brought into U.S. federal court in order to file an admiralty arrest of the site."

Admiralty arrest is a step mandated under international maritime law.

The discovery could set up a legal battle with the British government.

If it really is the HMS Victory, "her remains are sovereign immune," the British Ministry of Defense (MOD) said in a statement on its blog Monday.

"The wreck remains the property of the Crown. We have not waived our rights to it. This means that no intrusive action may be taken without the express consent of the United Kingdom."

In its statement, Odyssey said it "has been cooperating closely" with the ministry, and "all activities at the site have been conducted in accordance with protocols agreed with MOD and Royal Navy officials."

The ship has deteriorated to the point that recovering it is impossible, Odyssey said. "A plan is being developed for an archaeological excavation of the site, and artifacts will be recovered in accordance with a scientific project plan, which will be submitted to the UK MOD for review and approval."

The company has proposed that it be paid "with either ... a percentage of the value of the collection that has been recovered, conserved and presented to the UK government, or a percentage of the coins or other artifacts that the government decides to (sell)."

The ship was found nearly 100 km (62 miles) "from where the ship was historically believed to have been wrecked on a reef near the Channel Islands," Odyssey's statement said.

"Having discovered it in deep water far from where history says it was lost has served to exonerate Admiral Balchin and his officers from the accusation of having let the ship run aground on the Casquets due to faulty navigation," said Greg Stemm, Odyssey's chief executive officer, in the statement.

Odyssey said the "prevailing belief" about the ship's fate was that it had "smashed into the Casquets, a group of rocky islets" north of Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands.

But the evidence, Odyssey's statement said, suggests "the ship sank as the result of a violent storm and suggests that the design and construction of the ship contributed to her loss."

Odyssey released press materials about the ship in cooperation with the Discovery Channel, which chronicled the find and will be showing it in a program this week called Treasure Quest.

"The English Channel is a treacherous place to navigate," Discovery Channel President John Ford told CNN Radio.

"The ship was returning from Portugal and got caught up in a storm. And despite being judged unsinkable at the time, sort of like the Titanic was, this very, very large ship went down in a storm and vanished without a trace."

CNN Radio's April Williams contributed to this report

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text: of

text: Trafalgar

text: in

text: In

text: court

text: papers

text: seeking

text: exclusive

text: salvage

text: rights

text: Odyssey

text: says

text: the

text: wreck

text: site

text: consists

text: of

text: cannons

text: and

text: other

text: unidentified

text: objects

text: Odyssey

text: believes

text: that

text: potentially

text: valuable

text: cargo

text: may

text: be

text: located

text: at

text: or

text: near

text: the

text: site

text: The

text: papers

text: were

text: filed

text: in

text: U.S.

text: District

text: Court

text: in

text: Tampa

text: Florida

text: where

text: Odyssey

text: is

text: based

text: seeking

text: exclusive

text: salvage

text: rights

text: There

text: were

text: nearly

text: people

text: aboard

text: sailors

text: plus

text: a

text: complement

text: of

text: marines

text: and

text: volunteers

text: drawn

text: from

text: the

text: noblest

text: families

text: of

text: England

text: Odyssey

text: said

text: in

text: information

text: about

text: the

text: ship

text: released

text: together

text: with

text: the

text: Discovery

text: Channel

text: which

text: chronicled

text: the

text: find

text: Based

text: on

text: reports

text: from

text: the

text: time

text: there

text: may

text: be

text: as

text: much

text: as

text: four

text: tons

text: of

text: gold

text: on

text: the

text: ship

text: Odyssey

text: and

text: the

text: Discovery

text: Channel

text: said

text: Additional

text: research

text: indicates

text: that

text: there

text: were

text: large

text: quantities

text: of

text: both

text: silver

text: and

text: gold

text: coins

text: aboard

text: Research

text: suggests

text: that

text: this

text: prize

text: money

text: will

text: also

text: likely

text: be

text: located

text: at

text: the

text: wreck

text: site

text: However

text: no

text: coins

text: have

text: been

text: located

text: at

text: the

text: site

text: to

text: date

text: and

text: no

text: accurate

text: assessment

text: as

text: to

text: their

text: value

text: can

text: be

text: made

text: prior

text: to

text: location

text: recovery

text: and

text: analysis

text: The

text: potential

text: treasure

text: also

text: comes

text: in

text: another

text: form

text: bronze

text: weaponry

text: The

text: site

text: 's

text: anticipated

text: ordnance

text: collection

text: includes

text: the

text: single

text: largest

text: collection

text: of

text: bronze

text: cannon

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: and

text: the

text: largest

text: consignment

text: of

text: bronze

text: guns

text: ever

text: manufactured

text: and

text: preserved

text: today

text: Odyssey

text: said

text: Two

text: cannons

text: have

text: been

text: recovered

text: a

text: featuring

text: the

text: royal

text: arms

text: of

text: George

text: II

text: and

text: a

text: bearing

text: the

text: crest

text: of

text: George

text: I

text: it

text: said

text: The

text: huge

text: recovered

text: is

text: the

text: only

text: known

text: example

text: of

text: a

text: gun

text: of

text: this

text: type

text: and

text: size

text: currently

text: in

text: existence

text: on

text: dry

text: land

text: The

text: only

text: other

text: artifacts

text: recovered

text: to

text: date

text: were

text: two

text: small

text: brick

text: fragments

text: that

text: were

text: brought

text: into

text: U.S.

text: federal

text: court

text: in

text: order

text: to

text: file

text: an

text: admiralty

text: arrest

text: of

text: the

text: site

text: Admiralty

text: arrest

text: is

text: a

text: step

text: mandated

text: under

text: international

text: maritime

text: law

text: The

text: discovery

text: could

text: set

text: up

text: a

text: legal

text: battle

text: with

text: the

text: British

text: government

text: If

text: it

text: really

text: is

text: the

text: HMS

text: Victory

text: her

text: remains

text: are

text: sovereign

text: immune

text: the

text: British

text: Ministry

text: of

text: Defense

text: MOD

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: on

text: its

text: blog

text: Monday

text: The

text: wreck

text: remains

text: the

text: property

text: of

text: the

text: Crown

text: We

text: have

text: not

text: waived

text: our

text: rights

text: to

text: it

text: This

text: means

text: that

text: no

text: intrusive

text: action

text: may

text: be

text: taken

text: without

text: the

text: express

text: consent

text: of

text: the

text: United

text: Kingdom

text: In

text: its

text: statement

text: Odyssey

text: said

text: it

text: has

text: been

text: cooperating

text: closely

text: with

text: the

text: ministry

text: and

text: all

text: activities

text: at

text: the

text: site

text: have

text: been

text: conducted

text: in

text: accordance

text: with

text: protocols

text: agreed

text: with

text: MOD

text: and

text: Royal

text: Navy

text: officials

text: The

text: ship

text: has

text: deteriorated

text: to

text: the

text: point

text: that

text: recovering

text: it

text: is

text: impossible

text: Odyssey

text: said

text: A

text: plan

text: is

text: being

text: developed

text: for

text: an

text: archaeological

text: excavation

text: of

text: the

text: site

text: and

text: artifacts

text: will

text: be

text: recovered

text: in

text: accordance

text: with

text: a

text: scientific

text: project

text: plan

text: which

text: will

text: be

text: submitted

text: to

text: the

text: UK

text: MOD

text: for

text: review

text: and

text: approval

text: The

text: company

text: has

text: proposed

text: that

text: it

text: be

text: paid

text: with

text: either

text: a

text: percentage

text: of

text: the

text: value

text: of

text: the

text: collection

text: that

text: has

text: been

text: recovered

text: conserved

text: and

text: presented

text: to

text: the

text: UK

text: government

text: or

text: a

text: percentage

text: of

text: the

text: coins

text: or

text: other

text: artifacts

text: that

text: the

text: government

text: decides

text: to

text: sell

text: The

text: ship

text: was

text: found

text: nearly

text: km

text: miles

text: from

text: where

text: the

text: ship

text: was

text: historically

text: believed

text: to

text: have

text: been

text: wrecked

text: on

text: a

text: reef

text: near

text: the

text: Channel

text: Islands

text: Odyssey

text: 's

text: statement

text: said

text: Having

text: discovered

text: it

text: in

text: deep

text: water

text: far

text: from

text: where

text: history

text: says

text: it

text: was

text: lost

text: has

text: served

text: to

text: exonerate

text: Admiral

text: Balchin

text: and

text: his

text: officers

text: from

text: the

text: accusation

text: of

text: having

text: let

text: the

text: ship

text: run

text: aground

text: on

text: the

text: Casquets

text: due

text: to

text: faulty

text: navigation

text: said

text: Greg

text: Stemm

text: Odyssey

text: 's

text: chief

text: executive

text: officer

text: in

text: the

text: statement

text: Odyssey

text: said

text: the

text: prevailing

text: belief

text: about

text: the

text: ship

text: 's

text: fate

text: was

text: that

text: it

text: had

text: smashed

text: into

text: the

text: Casquets

text: a

text: group

text: of

text: rocky

text: islets

text: north

text: of

text: Guernsey

text: the

text: second

text: largest

text: of

text: the

text: Channel

text: Islands

text: But

text: the

text: evidence

text: Odyssey

text: 's

text: statement

text: said

text: suggests

text: the

text: ship

text: sank

text: as

text: the

text: result

text: of

text: a

text: violent

text: storm

text: and

text: suggests

text: that

text: the

text: design

text: and

text: construction

text: of

text: the

text: ship

text: contributed

text: to

text: her

text: loss

text: Odyssey

text: released

text: press

text: materials

text: about

text: the

text: ship

text: in

text: cooperation

text: with

text: the

text: Discovery

text: Channel

text: which

text: chronicled

text: the

text: find

text: and

text: will

text: be

text: showing

text: it

text: in

text: a

text: program

text: this

text: week

text: called

text: Treasure

text: Quest

text: The

text: English

text: Channel

text: is

text: a

text: treacherous

text: place

text: to

text: navigate

text: Discovery

text: Channel

text: President

text: John

text: Ford

text: told

text: CNN

text: Radio

text: The

text: ship

text: was

text: returning

text: from

text: Portugal

text: and

text: got

text: caught

text: up

text: in

text: a

text: storm

text: And

text: despite

text: being

text: judged

text: unsinkable

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: sort

text: of

text: like

text: the

text: Titanic

text: was

text: this

text: very

text: very

text: large

text: ship

text: went

text: down

text: in

text: a

text: storm

text: and

text: vanished

text: without

text: a

text: trace

text: CNN

text: Radio

text: 's

text: April

text: Williams

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What did the team discover?

answer: "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship" when it sank in 1744.

text: "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship" when it sank in 1744.

question: When did the HMS Victory sink?

answer: 1744.

question: In what year did the HMS Victory sink?

answer: 1744.

question: What served as the Nelson flagship?

answer: HMS Victory

text: HMS Victory

question: What has the team discovered?

answer: "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship"

text: "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship"

question: When did the ship sink?

answer: The HMS Victory sank in 1744.

text: The HMS Victory sank in 1744.

question: What did the replacement HMS Victory serve as in 1805?

answer: Admiral Nelson's flagship in the Battle of Trafalgar

text: Admiral Nelson's flagship in the Battle of Trafalgar

question: What could happen if the find is confirmed?

answer: solved "one of the greatest mysteries in naval history"

text: solved "one of the greatest mysteries in naval history"


text:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton had $6.4 million in presidential campaign debt at the end of November, according to a report filed Saturday with the Federal Election Commission.

Hillary Clinton says she hopes to have her campaign debt paid before her possible confirmation as secretary of state.

The amount, though still significant, represents the lowest level of debt the New York senator's failed presidential campaign has reported this year. Clinton's campaign debt reached its peak, $12 million, at the end of June and has gradually fallen since then.

Clinton said she hopes to pay off her debt before her possible confirmation as secretary of state.

Clinton has also officially forgiven the $13.2 million she personally loaned her campaign. Under the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, presidential candidates who loan their campaigns money from personal funds may only be paid back if they do so by the national party convention -- in this case, the Democratic National Convention held last August in Denver.

Clinton began November with $985,000 in her campaign account and raised nearly $290,000 by the end of the month. Her campaign paid out $1.2 million, mainly to unpaid vendors, ending the month with $188,000 in the bank.

The $6.4 million in remaining debt is owed to a total of 16 creditors.

The largest unpaid amount is owed to Penn, Schoen & Berland, a political consulting and polling firm that advised Clinton during her presidential bid.

The firm's president, Mark Penn, served as chief strategist to Clinton for most of her campaign until he was forced out of his position in April after revelations that he lobbied for a U.S.-Colombia trade deal on behalf of the Colombian government despite Clinton's opposition to the measure. However, he never left the campaign entirely.

text: WASHINGTON

text: CNN

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: designate

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: had

text: million

text: in

text: presidential

text: campaign

text: debt

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: November

text: according

text: to

text: a

text: report

text: filed

text: Saturday

text: with

text: the

text: Federal

text: Election

text: Commission

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: says

text: she

text: hopes

text: to

text: have

text: her

text: campaign

text: debt

text: paid

text: before

text: her

text: possible

text: confirmation

text: as

text: secretary

text: of

text: state

text: The

text: amount

text: though

text: still

text: significant

text: represents

text: the

text: lowest

text: level

text: of

text: debt

text: the

text: New

text: York

text: senator

text: 's

text: failed

text: presidential

text: campaign

text: has

text: reported

text: this

text: year

text: Clinton

text: 's

text: campaign

text: debt

text: reached

text: its

text: peak

text: million

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: June

text: and

text: has

text: gradually

text: fallen

text: since

text: then

text: Clinton

text: said

text: she

text: hopes

text: to

text: pay

text: off

text: her

text: debt

text: before

text: her

text: possible

text: confirmation

text: as

text: secretary

text: of

text: state

text: Clinton

text: has

text: also

text: officially

text: forgiven

text: the

text: million

text: she

text: personally

text: loaned

text: her

text: campaign

text: Under

text: the

text: McCain

text: Feingold

text: campaign

text: finance

text: law

text: presidential

text: candidates

text: who

text: loan

text: their

text: campaigns

text: money

text: from

text: personal

text: funds

text: may

text: only

text: be

text: paid

text: back

text: if

text: they

text: do

text: so

text: by

text: the

text: national

text: party

text: convention

text: in

text: this

text: case

text: the

text: Democratic

text: National

text: Convention

text: held

text: last

text: August

text: in

text: Denver

text: Clinton

text: began

text: November

text: with

text: in

text: her

text: campaign

text: account

text: and

text: raised

text: nearly

text: by

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: month

text: Her

text: campaign

text: paid

text: out

text: million

text: mainly

text: to

text: unpaid

text: vendors

text: ending

text: the

text: month

text: with

text: in

text: the

text: bank

text: The

text: million

text: in

text: remaining

text: debt

text: is

text: owed

text: to

text: a

text: total

text: of

text: creditors

text: The

text: largest

text: unpaid

text: amount

text: is

text: owed

text: to

text: Penn

text: Schoen

text: Berland

text: a

text: political

text: consulting

text: and

text: polling

text: firm

text: that

text: advised

text: Clinton

text: during

text: her

text: presidential

text: bid

text: The

text: firm

text: 's

text: president

text: Mark

text: Penn

text: served

text: as

text: chief

text: strategist

text: to

text: Clinton

text: for

text: most

text: of

text: her

text: campaign

text: until

text: he

text: was

text: forced

text: out

text: of

text: his

text: position

text: in

text: April

text: after

text: revelations

text: that

text: he

text: lobbied

text: for

text: a

text: U.S

text: Colombia

text: trade

text: deal

text: on

text: behalf

text: of

text: the

text: Colombian

text: government

text: despite

text: Clinton

text: 's

text: opposition

text: to

text: the

text: measure

text: However

text: he

text: never

text: left

text: the

text: campaign

text: entirely

question: what does she hope for

answer: to have her campaign debt paid before her possible confirmation as secretary of state.

text: to have her campaign debt paid before her possible confirmation as secretary of state.

question: what does clinton owe

answer: $6.4 million in presidential campaign

text: $6.4 million in presidential campaign

question: When does she hope to pay the debt by?

answer: before her possible confirmation as secretary of state.

text: before her possible confirmation as secretary of state.

question: what did clinton forgive

answer: the $13.2 million she personally loaned her campaign.

text: the $13.2 million she personally loaned her campaign.

question: What does Hillary Clinton owe more than $6m for?

answer: presidential campaign

text: presidential campaign