Azia: Hey guys, it is Monday, December 7. I am Azia Celestino, and Channel One News starts right now.
Last nightPresident Obama made a rare prime-time address from the Oval Office, where he laid out his plans to keep Americans safe and defeat the terror group ISIS.His speech comes just days after 14 people were shot dead in California. Keith Kocinski has the wrap-up.
President Obama: The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us.
Keith: Last week in San Bernardino we saw the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9/11. Fourteen people were killed as two shooters opened fire at people attending a holiday party.The FBI says one of the attackers pledged support to the terror group ISIS on Facebook.
Yesterday President Obama outlined his plan to fight terrorism and defeat ISIS, also known as ISIL, in a rare address from the Oval Office.
President Obama: First,our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plottersin any country where it is necessary. Second, we will continue to provide training and equipment to tens of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian forces fighting ISIL on the ground.Third, we are working with friends and allies to stop ISIL's operations,to disrupt plots, cut off their financing and prevent them from recruiting more fighters.
Keith: It is only the third time in his presidency that he has used the Oval Office to address the nation, and the last time was about pulling troops out of Iraq in 2010. Speeches given there are often more serious.
The president also made a push for stronger restrictions and gun laws in the United States.
President Obama: To begin with, Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semiautomatic weapon? This is a matter of national security. We also need to make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons, like the ones that were used in San Bernardino. I know there are some who reject any gun-safety measures.
Keith: This latest shooting has once again placed the debate about gun violence in the spotlight. The New York Times ran an editorial on its front page, the first time in nearly 100 years, calling for greater regulation on guns.
And the topic has fired up the campaign trail as well, with Republicans arguing that it is not about guns but about the people behind the guns
Senator Cruz: You don't stop the bad guys by taking away our guns. You stop the bad guys by using our guns.
Keith: And some Democrats are calling for more restrictions.
Hillary Clinton: I've got to tell you, if you are too dangerous to fly in America, you are too dangerous to buy a gun in America, in my opinion.
Keith: Regardless, Congress is slated to leave for the holidays next week. So even if there was an agreement on what to do now, it wouldn't happen until January at the earliest. Keith Kocinski, Channel One News.
Azia: Thanks, Keith. Allright,after the break, a burrito chain in trouble.
Azia: We are checking back in on those talks going on in Paris,France over climate change. Over the weekend, negotiators from 195 countries agreed to a rough draft aimed at reducing global warming. It is an important step, but not the final step just yet.
On Saturday the group, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, posted a copy of the rough agreement on its website. It addresses deforestation, shrinking food supplies,poverty, and a big chunk of it talks about what developed countries can do to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, but just by how much? That still needs to be worked out.
CO2, which is emitted from things like cars and factories, accounts for three-quarters of the gases that are heating the planet, causing the climate to change. Now officials will spend this week trying to craft the complete final agreement.
A food poisoning outbreak linked to Chipotle has now spread to nine states. And as the outbreak continues to widen, sales at the restaurant chain are slowing down.
More than 50 cases of people infected with E. coli, a bacterium, have been reported in California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. All became ill between October 19 and November 13. So far, 20 people have been hospitalized. No one has died.
Weeks into the investigation, no ingredient or supplier has been identified, but
the Centers for Disease Control say all the cases have a unique DNA signature.
Matt Wise: I think the pattern of this outbreak is highly suggestive that there is a single contaminated ingredient that went to all of those restaurant locations.
Azia: Officials at Chipotle said the ingredients that were in the restaurants during the initial outbreak are now out of all of the restaurants.
It is the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics, where athletes from all over the world will converge to the city of Rio de Janeiro in the South American country of Brazil.But there is one problem, and that is with the city's water.
Rio de Janeiro's Olympic waterways are teeming with dangerous pathogens, where you can see raw sewage seeping into the water. The results come from an investigation done by the Associated Press. Waters were first examined by the AP back in July, and both high levels of viruses and bacteria showed up in the results.
But those tests were only done on water close to the land.But now a new round of tests conducted on water offshore shows the problem is just as bad, and that is where most athletes will be competing this summer in sports like rowing, sailing and swimming.
Officials say the levels of bacteria are so highthat if we saw those levels in the U.S., beaches would be closed.
And now an update on President Jimmy Carter's health. The former president said yesterday that he is responding to treatment well and currently has no signs of cancer.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been battling cancer in his liver and brain. Yesterday he said in a statement that his most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots or any new ones and that he will continue his treatment.
The 91-year-old has spoken about his health battle publicly since August. Throughout, he has remained positive.
Jimmy Carter: I've had an exciting, adventurous, gratifyingexistence.
Azia: President Carter was a peanut farmer in Georgia when he rose to the political national level in the 1970s. He was the governor of Georgia before he served one term as U.S. president.
All right, coming up after the break: think you know the Constitution? We are putting you to the test.
Azia: Time for a pop quiz: 150 years ago, our nation was still recovering from a brutal civil war where more than 600,000 men lost their lives. The war, which lasted four years, was fought over the issue of slavery. The North wanted to outlaw slavery in the U.S., and the South wanted to keep it legal.
Yesterday was the anniversary of when all the states finally agreed to outlaw slavery with an amendment to our Constitution. So here is your pop quiz question: which amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery?
Was it
a.the FirstAmendment
b.the Fifth Amendment
c.the 13th Amendment or
d.the 18th Amendment?
Take 10 seconds.
Time is up. The answer is c, the 13th Amendment, which officially freed all 4 million slaves and ended legal slavery in America.
The 13th Amendment says that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."The amendment was officially ratified, meaning approved by all the states, on December 6, 1865, eight months after the end of the Civil War.
And for more cool, interesting facts about the Constitution, just head to Channelone.com.
All right, guys, that is all for now, but before we head out, we asked what you were doing to give back this season, and you guys really delivered. Take a look!
In Columbus,Ohio,12-year-old Katie Caleodis is organizing her own holiday food drive for the Hilliard Food Pantry.
In North Carolina, the Youth Career Connect STEMAcademy in Wadesboro collected more than 100 toys for a Toys for Tots drive.
General Sherman Junior High School in Lancaster, Ohio is involved in four different giving projects for the holiday season, including collecting change to buy gifts and dinners for families in need.
And at Eagle Wings Academy in Jacksontown, Ohio, Mr. Crabtree and Mrs. Shane's class have raised more than $445 to support the organization Bikers against Child Abuse.
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