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Quick Guide & Transcript: Alito nomination, Frozen airman mystery
RELATEDSPECIAL REPORTCNN STUDENT NEWS(CNN Student News) -- November 1, 2005 Teachers: We suggest that you preview today's first segment, as it contains content about a controversial subject. Quick GuideAlito Nomination - Learn about Judge Samuel Alito, the man whom President Bush has nominated to sit on the Supreme Court. Honoring Rosa Parks - View the services taking place for a civil rights leader who helped change a country. Frozen Airman Mystery - Uncover the mystery surrounding a body believed to be that of a World War II airman. TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. SHANON COOK, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: We hope you had a happy Halloween and we're happy to have you along for today's edition of CNN Student News! I'm Shannon Cook. A new nominee: we'll introduce you to the man whom President Bush hopes will take an open seat at the Supreme Court. A leader remembered: we'll show you the services taking place for a woman who helped change a country. And a mystery unearthed: we'll tell you what clues have thawed from a body found frozen in the Sierra Nevada mountains. First Up: Alito Nomination COOK: The president hopes that Circuit Judge Samuel Alito will be confirmed to the Supreme Court by year's end. Alito was nominated on Monday, four days after Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for the position of associate justice. You'll remember that some senators opposed Miers' nomination, because she had no prior judicial experience; Brian toss takes a look at Alito's background, including an example of how he ruled on a highly controversial issue. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BRIAN TODD, CNN PRESENTS REPORTER: 55-year-old Samuel A. Alito is held in high regard by many conservatives... he has history with the president's family.. and is often compared to Justice Antonin Scalia. In fact, he's been nicknamed "Scalito", or "Little-Nino" for his Italian background and ideological likeness to Scalia. In a 1991 case, Alito was the only dissenting voice on the third circuit court of appeals when it struck down a Pennsylvania law requiring women to notify their husbands if they planned to get an abortion. Alito is New Jersey native, a 1975 Yale Law School graduate, and rose through the assistant attorney ranks of the U.S. Department of Justice, before being nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, to be a U.S. attorney in New Jersey. In 1990, he was named by President Bush's father to the third U.S. circuit court of appeals-- and has been there ever since. Now, the nominee selected to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recalls a connection to her as well: From 1982, when he argued his first case before the Supreme Court. JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO, SUPREME COURT NOMINEE: I argued my first case... I remember the awe that I felt, the first question that I was asked came from Justice O'Connor... she realized I was a rookie.. it was a 'kind' question. TODD: Alito has earned exemplary reviews from the legal community, but his conservatism may spark an ideological battle for confirmation, and for that, Alito says he draws great strength from his wife Martha, and their two children. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington. (END VIDEO CLIP) Word to the Wise CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS REPORTER: A Word to the Wise... ideology - the body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture source: www.dictionary.com Honoring Rosa Parks COOK: Senator Sam Brownback says Rosa Parks saw the evil in segregation, and fought it on common ground. And talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she wouldn't be standing where she does every day, if Rosa Parks hadn't had the courage to stay seated 50 years ago. Tara Mergener shows us how Americans who've benefited from Parks' work, are remembering her today. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TARA MERGENER, CNN REPORTER: Thousands filed in one by one to pay their respects to the seamstress who so inspired the civil rights movement. VOICE OF SPEAKER AT CEREMONY: May her noble spirit remind us of the power of fateful small acts. MERGENER: Parks is the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda. 50 years ago, she changed history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. WOMAN PAYING RESPECTS: We now have the rights to do some of the things she couldn't do and my parents couldn't do. So we have equal rights now. REP. JOHN LEWIS, (D) GEORGIA: Rosa Parks inspired me, by sitting down she inspired many of us to stand up, she inspired us to sit in at lunch counters, to stand in at theaters, to kneel in at churches to march for the right to vote. MERGENER: Parks' casket was transferred to another part of Washington for a memorial service at the Metropolitan AME church. Her funeral and final resting place will take place in Detroit on Wednesday. The president has ordered that flags by flown at half staff that day. In Washington, I'm Tara Mergener. (END VIDEO CLIP) Promo COOK: Our in-house educators have put together a free learning activity on the civil rights movement, at CNN.com/EDUCATION. It helps your students better understand the impact that Parks had on the country, and write tributes in her honor. Check it out today! Shoutout AZUZ: Time for the Shoutout! Who called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy"? If you think you know it, shout it out! Was it: A) Winston Churchill B) Franklin D. Roosevelt C) Harry S Truman D) Douglas MacArthur You've got three seconds--GO! President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke those words following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. into World War II. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout! Frozen Airman Mystery COOK: A mystery that could date back to that war is unfurling in Hawaii where a forensics laboratory is examining a body found last month in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It was mostly encased in a glacier, wearing an army uniform and unopened parachute. Researchers don't know whether this will lead to answers about a training plane that disappeared in 1942, but Thelma Gutierrez tells us what is known about a man frozen in time. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN REPORTER: An address book, a plastic comb, a vintage penny...you're looking at the last things a young airman put into his pockets on the day he died. Clues to a World War Two cold case, that you're about to see for the very first time. The search for clues takes us to Honolulu, Hawaii, to the largest forensic crime lab in the world, to the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command or JPAC. The mystery of the frozen airman is just one of more than a thousand unsolved cases that scientists here at JPAC are trying to solve. In this laboratory alone, I'm surrounded by the remains of at least 20 different service members who are in the process of being identified so that they too can go home. The investigation begins with a team of forensic specialists, who probe and study the airman's, bones, teeth and his belongings to piece together who he is, and almost immediately clues begin to surface. Dr. Robert Mann, a forensic anthropologist has determined that the airman was Caucasian and had fair hair. And the airman's collar bones and pelvic bones prove that he was in his 20's and died in an airplane crash. So this is a person who likely died on impact versus perhaps freezing to death in the mountains? DR. ROBERT MANN, FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST: I think that the injuries were so substantial and severe that he wouldn't have felt anything. He would have died immediately. GUTIERREZ: Then there are the material clues... the things he had on him when he died. In his uniform breast pocket, Dr. Paul Emanovski found this vintage Schaffer pen and three small leather-bound address books. After hours of meticulous examination of each address book, they yield no personal information - clues that could have faded with time. And in the weeks and months ahead, scientists are convinced they will identify this airman and return him home to his family -- wherever they might be. Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Honolulu, Hawaii. (END VIDEO CLIP) Shoutout AZUZ: Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit! How do you spell...? You know what to do! Is it: A) Holoween B) Halloween C) Holloween D) Haloween You've got three seconds -- GO! You had to look closely at this one! B is the answer -- that's H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit! Before We Go COOK: Before we go... Some of you have managed to stay awake today, only by eating the sweet treats you gathered last night! But in Germany, some kids may still be awake with fear, following this Halloween celebration at Frankenstein's Castle! The locale reportedly dates back to the 13th century, when there were no home alarms or telephones, and the only night lights were made of fire! But the festival's focus is firmly fixed on frightening fun! Goodbye COOK: And that scares up all our stories for the day! For CNN Student News, I'm Shanon Cook. 
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