away from being able to vote but a 6-year-old stole the show at the scripps national spelling bee. here she is, lori ann madison, the youngest contestant in the history of the spelling bee. she made it to round three but she couldn t spell the word ingluvies. she got her own press conference this morning. i wasn t nervous at all. i mean it was exciting until the point when i spelled that word. i was stressed out, and after i got eliminated, i mean all the other kids were stressed out, too, and they were tired after the long wait, and so was i. that s the same thing. the long wait was so boring and then i got stressed out and i misspelled. she said she actually knew the word but she was tired and bored. in case you re wondering, ingluvies is the anatomical name for a bird s crup. wake up!
to do in syria by china and russia, which says it will block any move to action. western and arab league countries maintain russia is in the best position to put pressure on the syrian government by discontinuing trade with syria. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends that trade between syria and russia jumped 58% last year. with the two-way trade number climbing to $1.97 billion. 97% of that money comes from russian exports into syria. enough of the real news, let s huddle up around the water cooler to watch 6-year-old, 6-year-old lori ann madison of woodbridge, virginia, the youngest contestant in the history of the scripps national spelling bee. this is her star turn. let s watch little lori anne attempting her first word in the competition. dirigible.
national spelling bee did get the first word right. but the second? ingluvies. e-n-g-l-u-v-i-e-s. engluvies. that is incorrect. just that face. i mean seriously, i m glad i didn t have to say it, let alone spell it. 6-year-old lori ann madison started with an e instead of an i but the director of the spelling bee said it was one of the toughest competitions they ve ever had. it s time for the first look at entertainment news. jessica simpson is going on weight watchers for $4 million. after a seemingly endless pregnancy through which she started about cravings for salted cantalope and buttered pop tarts. she signed a deal to lose all of her baby weight as a weight
american of thing. the national spelling bee is the big kahuna of spelling bees. 278 spellers, all under the age of 16, competed in the first rounds of the national spelling bee today in maryland. the finals are tomorrow. you may have heard about the speller this year who is 6. a 6-year-old girl named lori ann madison. she s the youngest participant ever. she made it through round two today. she stumbled in round three. seriously. ingluvies. i think probably wrong. even though it s called the national spelling bee, interesting note, it s not only for american kids. every year there are a handful of kids from other countries participating in the bee. and this year that handful includes this young man, 13-year-old ryan mcclellan.
homs on day one of the cea cease-fi cease-fire, hours after bashar al assad toured that city. and even about hula, even diplomats speak bluntly. what is clear, government forces were involved, they were shelling using tanks and artillery, appears to be militia entering houses and slaughtering people in what is really an abominable crime. that took place throughout the day on friday. so the assad regime is flatout lying about the cease fire and more evidence in the complicity in the hula massacre and so many others. yet, they re being protected by a pair of superpowers. that would be russia and china. they re blocking the tougher measures. in the u.n. security counsel, the chinacy foreign ministry today saying china opposes military intervention and does not support forced regime change. a russian diplomat saying decisions on military operations in syria can t be guided only by emotions. now recall that his boss this week tried to spread the blame around by equating the ca