Quick Guide & Transcript: Bush visits Southern storm victims, Democratic hopefuls stump in Selma
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(CNN Student News) -- March 5, 2007

Quick Guide
A Helping Hand - Get a student body president's perspective on a tornado-torn school.

Dueling Democrats - Learn how two candidates looked to the past in seeking support for the future.

Copenhagen Clashes - Find out how a Danish youth hangout factored into some violent protests.

Transcript
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THOMAS ROBERTS, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Welcome to the start of a new week! I'm Thomas Roberts, and this is CNN Student News. After the storm, President Bush says the damage is hard to describe. But the government is doing what it can to help the victims, of last week's tornadoes. Eyes on Selma: On the anniversary of a civil rights milestone, two presidential hopefuls look for votes in Alabama. And an astronomical event. What kind of occurrence shadows the man in the moon, and turns his face to a reddish hue?

First Up: A Helping Hand

ROBERTS: Teachers, you may want to preview our first story today. It's about the tornadoes that tore through the southeast late last week, killing 20 people in Missouri, Georgia and Alabama. President Bush says he had a heavy heart when he visited two of those states over the weekend. Particularly hard-hit was a school in Enterprise, Alabama where a state representative says it'll take $60 million to rebuild. Susan Roesgen followed the president to the site of the damage.

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MEGAN PARKS, STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT, ENTERPRISE HIGH SCHOOL: (Pointing) Like, this right here is the ROTC building and it's fairly new and it didn't get that much damage as this over here.

SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN REPORTER: Student Body President Megan Parks is looking at a school she can barely recognize. Thursday's tornado struck the high school dead on, with 150 mile an hour winds, collapsing part of the roof and one of the walls. When President Bush walked through, he said the destruction was indescribable, but he knew the students were suffering.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I met with the president of the student body, who recognizes that the end of her senior year is going to be difficult. But as a student leader, she will have the opportunity to help people rebuild, and that she will learn that out of the devastation, and her classmates will learn, that out of the devastation can come hope and a better tomorrow.

ROESGEN: The president made a big impression on Megan Parks, especially since she's grieving for the classmates who were killed.

PARKS: You know, to think they had their whole life ahead of them. But you know, they'll never be forgotten. They'll always be be loved and always in our thoughts and in our prayers, hoping that they're with God and happy right now.

ROESGEN: Some of the students gathered at a local park to talk about what happened. Megan hopes that even though their school is destroyed, the seniors might still find a way to go back for graduation. Susan Roesgen, CNN, Enterprise, Alabama.

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Spoken Word

MEGAN PARKS, ENTERPRISE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT: I just want to say to everybody in the country who is praying for us, I really appreciate it, thank you so much for all your prayers. That's probably the best thing we can ask everyone to do for us right now, is to just to pray for our town and our city.

Bush Visits Americus

ROBERTS: The storm moved east from Enterprise... eventually tearing through Americus, a town in western Georgia. That was President Bush's second stop Saturday. He saw some of the places where a twister struck, killing two people, damaging more than 500 homes... and destroying much of a hospital. The president says Americans can help storm victims by donating to relief agencies like the Red Cross. He also opened the door for federal help, declaring the county a disaster area. That means government money will be available to help people rebuild.

Promo

ROBERTS: Do you think you know the best ways to stay safe during a tornado? What you think is right may be more fiction than fact. See how you do by taking the "Testing Tornado Myths" quiz on our Web site! You can find it at CNN.com/Education

I.D. Me

CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can ID Me! I was admitted to the union in 1819. I'm known as the Yellowhammer State, named for my state bird. I'm the home state of celebrities like Courteney Cox, Paula Poundstone and Jimmy Buffett. I'm Alabama! Montgomery was chosen as my state capital in 1846.

Dueling Democrats

ROBERTS: About 50 miles west of Montgomery, and 42 years ago, some 525 people began marching from Selma in favor of African-American voting rights. But violence broke out when police attacked the demonstrators crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event became known as "Bloody Sunday." What followed was an even bigger march from Selma to Montgomery that eventually led to the Voting Rights Act -- thus, the goal was peacefully achieved. John Lorinc reports on two Democratic presidential candidates who hoped to achieve some support in Selma.

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JOHN LORINC, CNN REPORTER: Forty-two years after civil rights marchers were beaten by police while demanding the right for blacks to vote...a fight for those votes brought Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Selma Sunday. In dueling speeches at two historically African-American churches, both laid out a message of equality.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: God has made us in his image and that we reject the notion that we will for the rest of our lives have to be confined to a station of inferiority.

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Our future matters and it is up to us to take it back, put it in to our hands start marching towards a better tomorrow.

LORINC: The early front-runners for the Democratic nomination in 2008 both hope to gain the edge among black voters. Former president Bill Clinton - traditionally popular among African-American voters - joined his wife on the campaign trail for the first time since she announced her intention to win the White House. But the polls this time around aren't necessarily painting a clear picture of support for either Clinton or Obama: An ABC News - Washington Post poll conducted last week gave Obama an 11 point lead over Clinton among black Democratic voters. The same survey, however, gave Clinton an 80 percent "favorable" rating among the same group, compared to 70 percent for Obama. I'm John Lorinc, reporting from Atlanta.

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Shoutout

AZUZ: Time for the Shoutout! You just heard about some top Democratic candidates for president...Who are two Republican candidates for president? If you think you know the answer, shout it out! Your options: A) Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jeb Bush, B) Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, C) Robert Gates and Condoleezza Rice or D) Dick Cheney and Colin Powell. You've got three seconds -- GO! Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have said they're running for president. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

Copenhagen Clashes

ROBERTS: Maybe you have a place where you meet up with your friends after school, like a courtyard or a gym. Well, in Denmark's capital, a popular youth hangout is at the center of some violent protests. It's essentially an abandoned building that everyone from punk rockers to people with nowhere to go, made their own. But Paula Hancocks explains why the government is reclaiming control of it.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN REPORTER: An unfamiliar sight on the streets of Copenhagen..sadly becoming more familiar over the past three nights. Protestors clashed once again with hundreds of riot police. Some threw petrol bombs and stones at vehicles. Police responded with tear gas, and around 700 arrests since the troubles began. Miraculously the injuries so far have been few and minor.

The last few nights of violence have basically been about one piece of real estate. A four storey building behind me was being used as a youth center and had been for some time. But then the government wanted to repossess it -- they say there had been trouble in the area caused by that particular youth center. Now the police are still cordoning off the area, but on Thursday morning, a helicopter hovered over the roof. Police officers then descended by rope ladders landing on the roof, and then swept down through the building, evicting all the inhabitants and arresting many of them. The mayor of Copenhagen had originally allowed the building to be used as a youth center back in 1982. It was used by activists, musicians...even concerts were held here.

MUHAMMED REDA SENHAJI: I am born and raised on this street. So this has always been a place for young people and people a little outside from the society and who have no place to go and no place to live. So this has always been like a stronghold where people can come, they can sleep.

HANCOCKS: The violence in the early hours of Sunday was certainly tamer than previous nights...Demonstrators had set fire to cars, ransacked local shops and even a school. Police say some activists had come from neighboring Sweden, Norway and Germany. But they believe they do have the main ringleaders behind bars. The violence is certainly easing, but the cause behind it remains unsolved. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Before We Go

ROBERTS: Before we go... You've seen your shadow in the sunlight before... Saturday night, stargazers got to see the Earth's shadow, cloaking the face of the moon! That's when our planet was directly between the sun and the moon in the first total lunar eclipse in almost three years. The best views were in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. At one point, it looked like the moon turned red, thanks to sunlight refracted by the Earth.

Goodbye

ROBERTS: And if you missed it, you'll have another chance this summer, on August 28th. Meanwhile, don't miss tomorrow's edition of CNN Student News... Same time, same place.