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MONICA LLOYD, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: We're happy to have you with us for CNN Student News. I'm Monica Lloyd. The devastation of a powerful storm: Recovery efforts are underway in two border towns after a powerful tornado ripped through parts of Texas and Mexico. The discovery of a new world: Scientists think they may have found a planet that could support life, but it's located in a solar system far, far away. And the downfall of a superhero: Researchers say a new mineral is made up of the same elements as a famous fictional substance that made Superman keep his distance.

First Up:Texas Twister

LLOYD: First up today, the destruction caused by a deadly storm. Two sister cities on the Texas-Mexico border are recovering today after a powerful tornado ripped through an area along the Rio Grande river. The twister destroyed homes and buildings and drove hundreds of people into shelters. Seven people in Texas and three others in Mexico were killed. Bill Caiaccio has more on the damage.

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PERSON ON THE STREET: It was just so quick, it just happened so quick.

BILL CAIACCIO, CNN REPORTER: Just 15 minutes after a tornado warning was issued...

PERSON ON THE STREET: I jumped fences and everything to get to my kids because I didn't know if they were OK.

CAIACCIO: The National Weather Service confirms a deadly storm struck Eagle Pass, Texas, Tuesday evening. A city official says a family of five died when the storm picked up their trailer home and tossed it at a school building.

RAMSEY ENGLISH, CANTU EAGLE PASS CITY COUNCIL: That house trailer was lifted of course with the high winds of the tornado and was slammed against a side of an elementary school located right there in the same vicinity.

CAIACCIO: Straight line winds dragged cars into the streets, tore down power lines and utility poles and crushed at least six mobile homes. More than 80 people were taken to hospitals.

JOSE ARANDA, MAVERICK COUNTY JUDGE: From the beginning I can tell you it was rather chaotic - so many people trying to find out what was going on. It was brought under control very quickly with the help of all the agents that are here today.

CAIACCIO: Three hundred residents are staying in shelters. The National Guard and border patrol agents are helping look for people trapped under debris. Some are still missing.

PERSON ON THE STREET: The good thing is that we're alive, that's what matters.

CAIACCIO: I'm Bill Caiaccio, reporting from Atlanta.

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Promo

LLOYD: Teachers, if you want to have your students learn more about tornadoes, including how geography and climate play roles in their formation, we've put together a Learning Activity that'll get you started. You can check it out at CNN.com/EDUCATION.

Dow Surge

LLOYD: The Dow Jones industrial average soared to new heights yesterday, breaking 13,000. That's the highest level it has ever reached. So what does that actually mean? Carl Azuz breaks it down for us.

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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS: There are batting averages, grade point averages, and stock market averages. And while the Dow is not the only one of those out there, it is probably the most famous. It's named for Charles Henry Dow and Edward David Jones, who first published their report in the late 1800s. Today, the Dow average is a complicated formula measuring the performance of 30 top American companies. These currently include General Electric, Microsoft and the Home Depot, to name a few.

You can think of the Dow as a class average: If grades are high, it's a good indicator to the teacher that students are understanding the material. If the Dow is high, it's a good indicator to analysts that the economy is in decent shape.

Why? Because rising stock prices -- what it costs to buy shares of a company's stock -- usually indicate that companies are making profits. Good business generally means that folks are spending money, and that's a sign of a healthy economy. Adding it all up for CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.

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Word to the Wise

RACHAEL RICHARDSON, CNN STUDENT NEWS: A Word to the Wise...

orbit: (noun) the curved path that a satellite or planet follows around a celestial object, like the Earth or the sun

Source: www.dictionary.com

Anybody Out There?

LLOYD: If you look up at the stars, do you ever find yourself asking: Is there anybody out there? In science fiction books and movies, characters visit other planets all the time. And while scientists have been searching the skies, they've had no luck finding worlds with the right conditions to support life. But as Phil Black explains, the search may have finally paid off.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN REPORTER: It's a solar system far, far away that astronomers believe may answer one of the universe's great questions: Are we alone? This new planet is more like Earth than anything previously discovered. It's orbiting a distant sun, a red dwarf star, smaller and cooler than our own.

The new planet is very close to its star -- one orbit takes just 13 days, compared to 365 days for Earth. Scientist's estimate the surface temperature ranges between zero and 40 degrees Celsius. That means it's likely there is water, and water could mean life as we know it.

About 200 planets have been discovered, but they're all too close or too far from their suns, or too gassy to support life. Astronomer Robert Massey says this one looks just right.

ROBERT MASSEY, ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY: The other big difference between this planet and others we have seen in the past, is it is in what we call the habitable zone. It's the right distance from the star, if you like the Goldilocks zone where it's not too hot, it's not too cold. It's the right temperature for liquid water and that's really the first object we have found like this.

BLACK: This planet is 20 light years away. Scientists say that's reasonably close when you're talking about the universe. But for earthlings the distance is staggering -- 120 million million miles, or 120 with 12 zeroes after it. It's so far away the astronomers who discovered it working out of this observatory in Chile haven't seen it. There's no telescope strong enough. Instead they studied the behavior of its sun.

STEVE MARAN, ASTRONOMER: The European Southern Observatory where this work was done, they have a new extremely powerful instrument that's able to detect a wobble in a star that's only about six miles an hour.

BLACK: Impressive technology, but not enough for humans to boldly go and visit their new sister planet anytime soon. Phil Black, CNN, London.

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Shoutout

RICHARDSON: Time for the Shoutout! What fictitious planet is Superman from? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Gotham, B) Paradise Island, C) Krypton or D) Bantam? You've got three seconds -- GO! Superman was born on Krypton. The story goes that his father sent him into space to protect him from his doomed home planet, and that Superman eventually landed on Earth. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

The Real "Kryptonite"

LLOYD: He may be faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive, but one thing makes the man of steel go weak in the knees. And while you may think Superman's elemental enemy only exists in comic books, Alphonso Van Marsh explains why a new discovery would have the last son of Krypton shaking in his boots.

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ALPHONSO VAN MARSH, CNN REPORTER: In the world of superheroes, it was the one thing that made Superman weak. Researchers say kryptonite, the mineral Superman desperately avoided, isn't quite science fiction after all.

MOVIE TRACK: Crystals. They're amazing. Aren't they?

VAN MARSH: Miners in Serbia pulled this rock out of the Earth, and soon realized it was like no other known mineral. Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London studied and identified the rock's chemical make up.

MIKE RUMSEY, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LONDON: After we got its chemistry, we thought, let's put it on the Internet and see if anybody's made this stuff artificially, because it isn't natural. And we were amazed to find that the first hit that we got back was an exact match was for kryptonite.

VAN MARSH: Confirmed in a scene from Superman Returns, when kryptonite is stolen from a museum, all that's left is a list of elements: sodium, lithium, boron, silicate, hydroxide - the only difference is there's no fluorine in the real thing.

RUMSEY: There's about 90 naturally occurring elements and to pick all five - and just those five - and put them into one strong sentence - you know - to have it be the same as this. It's just incredible really. You have to wonder about coincidences when it comes to that.

VAN MARSH: This small, white, powdery substance may share the same elements as Superman's kryptonite. But they won't share the same name. Let me introduce you to, jadarite. They're calling it jadarite after the Serbian mine from which it came.

RUMSEY: Jadarite itself is made up of lots and lots and lots of tiny little crystals.

VAN MARSH: The crystals may not be green. And researchers say its not clear what application jadarite may have in the future. But as this rock will be on display in London begging in mid-May, perhaps Superman better think twice before dropping in for a visit. Alphonso Van Marsh, CNN, London.

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Before We Go

LLOYD: Before we go, a houseguest who's climbing the walls. Most visitors would ring the doorbell or at least knock before coming into your home, right? But this ill-mannered raccoon didn't even wait for an invite! A woman in Ohio woke up to find the furry critter scampering across her floor and scrambling up her TV. Animal control came to the rescue, wrangling the unwelcome raccoon out the door and on to its next house call.

Goodbye

LLOYD: And that rascally raccoon rounds out our show. We'll see you tomorrow for more CNN Student News. Thanks for watching. I'm Monica Lloyd.