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The redemption here. you finished third the last two years. this was your last chance. and you nailed it. how much pressure did you feel going into the finals last night? well, actually i i didn t feel any pressure. because i didn t think about any of that when i was going to the finals. what were you thinking about? tell me about your training for the big day. well, actually, before the finals, i had a good time, relaxed, enjoyed with the other finalists, and during the finals, i was just calm. and then when i got my word, i focused on spelling that word correctly and making it to the next round. when they said knaidel to you, what was the first thing that went through your mind? ....
Now, college student will join president obama at the white house as he presses kongs to stop student loan rates from doubling, without action, interest rates on federally subsidized stafford rates will jump on june 1st. house republicans want loan rates to fluctuate with the market. capped at 8.5%. the white house wants fixed rates, no cap. every photographer has been laid off at the chicago-sun times. every single photographer, according to the chicago tribune. the sun times will use freelancers and have reporters shoot photos and video as well. a new national spelling bee winner, 13-year-old arvind mahankali, from new york, and won by spelling knaidel, a german derived yiddish word for document bling. knaidel, k-n-a-i-d-e-l, ....
Knaidel. and he might have been a little nervous, get this, took third place at the spelling bee twice and eliminated on german words both times. price package includes 32,000 in cash and savings bonds. a 33-year-old flint, michigan, woman dead. killed fighting alongside syrian rebels. nicole mansfield. her passport and driver s license shown on tv, along with the identification of a british woman. mansfield s family confirmed her identity last night. both victims were found with weapons. nick payton walsh joins us now. what else are syrians saying about mansfield s death? reporter: they were killed in ....
Certainly became a star. amber borne cracked up the audience. she wants to be a comedy writer and definitely has the vocab down. trending on twitter. john, diana. lana, thank you. so awesome. caught last 15 minutes purely by accident. riveting. glad it ended when it did or would have been late for the show. wow, one of the things, must watch tv. watching the kids sweat it out. asking all the entomology of the word. derived from greek, hawaiian, french. start to root for them. were you rooting for i was watching as the last three went down. thinking, are they sore losers. seem like the nicest kids. you know, patting each other on the back. just, pretty special stuff. knaidel, the word he got correct is, let me see here, small mass of leavened dough, german/yiddish never heard of before. his nemesis i think the year before when he was out made it close to the finals was germanic derived word. ....
No one claimed the cash. could evetch ventually go back to the family. wow. another kid with a whole lot of cash in his hands. an eighth grader from queens, new york, is $30,000 richer this morning. but he earned every penny of it. sure did. 13-year-old, arvind mahankali. mahankali. say that ten times fast. the new spelling bee champion, clinched the scripps on his fourth trip to the competition. lana zach, good morning. reporter: with $30,000 on the line, best spellers, age 8 to 14 took to the stage nervous and confident tackling words most of us have never even heard. d-e-l, knaidel. with that one word there was a new king of the bee. hours of struggling with the most obscure word in the english language is surprisingly compelling. the scripps spelling bee is really a drama of intense emotions. ....