Students Tackle the Economy; Tornado Warning in Delaware
WHITFIELD: We're just getting some new information about a tornado warning. Let's check in with our Bonnie Schneider. Where?</s>SCHNEIDER: In Wilmington, Delaware, Fredricka. We have a tornado warning that spans across Pennsylvania and even New Jersey. It is in effect for the next 15 minutes. There has not been a tornado spotted. But we are getting reports that we're seeing some very strong thunderstorms near Kenneth Square. That's 10 miles south of Westchester and that's in Pennsylvania moving to the east at 55 miles per hour. So you can see where we're covering here parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, including the city of Wilmington, under a tornado warning and that is until 3:15 p.m. We'll monitor it for you. It's part of a larger area of severe weather rolling through the mid-Atlantic. I'll have more coming up, but once again, we're tracking tornadic activity in Delaware at Pennsylvania and New Jersey at this hour -- Fredricka.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, Bonnie, thanks so much. We'll check back with you. In the meantime, working and saving for college. That's usually what students are doing in the summer, but not the case this year. CNN's student news anchor Carl Azuz is here. You've been looking at tomorrow's most influential. First of all, who are they and how do they all come together?</s>CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: We recently spoke to a group of students who are in Atlanta for a leadership conference. You're looking at about 100 students from around the state of Georgia. And we took the opportunity to host this group, to go over things like media literacy with them and to talk to them about what makes CNN work. And from that, they got a good chance to develop their leadership skills, to work with CNN talent and executives. And while all this was going on, we took a couple of moments to speak with them about how things are impacting them, most notably the economy.</s>WHITFIELD: And how is it impacting them? What are they saying?</s>AZUZ: They've all been affected. That's one thing we found from those students we talked to. There were very few who said they were unscathed by this. It had had an impact. I'm going to go ahead and roll some sound now and let you hear what they had to say about how it's hitting them.</s>ZACK DRAKE, HILLGROVE HIGH SCHOOL: Looking for a summer job is actually a lot harder these days.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's hard to get a job right now, students driving and trying to get gas money. A lot of places aren't hiring. They set their standards to 18 and up only now especially where I live.</s>DRAKE: Adults have been being laid off from other position and they might have to take a job at McDonald's or a job up the street in order to keep their family afloat.</s>JANA FRENCH, MARIETTA HIGH SCHOOL: I'm not going to apply to a college that I don't know if I can afford until I can get like all of my financial aid lined up.</s>AZUZ: And those are the two main things they had to talk about, how it's affecting their college plans and also how they're having trouble finding jobs in an economy when they're competing with adults.</s>WHITFIELD: How do they stay upbeat about it, if at all?</s>AZUZ: That's what surprised us is that many of them are - they are positive. We didn't necessarily ask all of them, you know, how do you manage to find the silver lining? We didn't necessarily ask that, they volunteered it. And so I'd like you to hear how some of these students are saying they are finding the silver lining in everything that's going on.</s>SUMAR DEEN, DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL: It's a positive thing because it makes you think about, you know, you have to start considering these problems and knowing these problems are ours.</s>ALFONZO WASHINGTON, WOODLAND HIGH SCHOOL: It's going to teach me something. It's going to teach me how to budget different things and how to compare different things.</s>BRITTANY GRIFFIN, MCEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL: I think it's been a positive, because now we kind of know how to handle money more, now we know not to repeat that same problem.</s>TREY FLYNN, DEERFIELD-WINDSOR SCHOOL: I always go back to my family for everything. We don't have as much spending money, but whatever happens, we'll always have each other and that's what's important.</s>WHITFIELD: Very philosophical.</s>AZUZ: They are. These are some of the brightest high school students in the state. They're all rising juniors and seniors. So it was a joy for us to talk to them and hear their insight. Also, it gave us a great deal of optimism about the future when you hear from students how optimistic they are, and how they feel like some notion of we can fix this, we can work with this, despite things being tough now. We can help get through it when it's our turn. We heard that theme a lot and it makes us very optimistic.</s>WHITFIELD: Fantastic. In the meantime, you know, folks, stay in touch with CNN student news throughout the summer even as they're trying to find, you know, work. Well, there's only about a month left before they go off to school. How do they do that?</s>AZUZ: Well, CNN student news is off the air at the moment. We return on Monday, August 16th, but we're always keeping in touch with our audience. The main way we do that is at cnnstudentnews.com. We have a blog they can go to and talk to us on our blog. We have a place where they can e-mail us, so we welcome everybody out there, especially if you're a parent, you have a student who's going into middle or high school, come check us out on cnnstudentnews.com and keep in touch with us until we return on August 16th.</s>WHITFIELD: Fantastic. I love it that young people are being so forth right so honest about their thoughts and feelings and at the same time staying very optimistic about the future.</s>AZUZ: It's refreshing and it gives us hope.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, Carl Azuz, thanks so much.</s>AZUZ: Thank you, Fredricka. All right, the Americans with Disabilities Act. Well, it turns 20 tomorrow, so how is it doing?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think individuals with disabilities, you know, what everybody wants is they want a hand up, not a handout.