Feels good to say it’s Friday. Thank you for closing out the week with CNN Student News. We’re diving in(拱进来) today with a premise(前提；提论): Public opinion can influence political leaders. Basically, the more people push for something, the better chance it has of happening, and vice versa. After December school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, there was a lot of talk about the possibility of new gun laws in America. Some people who want those laws declared yesterday a national day of action. That’s what President Obama is pushing for.

... two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in Newtown happens, and we’ve moved on other things? That’s not who we are. Shame on us if we forgot it.

Some ideas have been proposed like a ban on assault weapons, but those proposals haven’t gotten enough support in Congress to become law. Opponents argue that the proposals are not the most effective way to reduce gun violence. And recent polls suggest that public support for major new gun laws is dropping. We would head from Washington D.C to Washington State, next. Earlier Wednesday morning, officials near Seattle started getting calls about a noise that sounded like thunder.

I was pretty scared I got out there with a flashlight and then just kept hearing a rambling and watching more and more of a falling waves of ….

It’s a pushing avid. It was a roaring. But that much of it - no, no.

What happened was a landslide, a huge landslide. No one was injured, but at least one home was destroyed and more than a dozen others were threatened. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused it. But the CNN meteorologist said these houses are on the seismic fault(地震断层) that can shift on rare occasions.