( CNN Student News ) -- October 29 , 2010 . Download PDF maps related to today 's show : . • Indonesia • Haiti . Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT . THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED . CARMEN SMITH ( DOROTHY ) : The city of Leeds , Alabama . CARSYN WHITEHEAD ( TIN MAN ) : Home of the Mighty GreenWave . CARMEN SMITH ( DOROTHY ) : I 'm Dorothy ! CARSYN WHITEHEAD ( TIN MAN ) : I 'm the Tin Man ! ALLYSON BROWN ( COWARDLY LION ) : I 'm the Cowardly Lion ! STEPHANI PAYNE ( SCARECROW ) : And I 'm the Scarecrow ! ALL : And you are about to enter the wonderful world of the wizard Carl Azuz and CNN Student News ! CARL AZUZ , CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR : All right , forget Fridays . That was awesome ! Thank you guys so much for submitting that ! We 've got 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines before we hit the yellow brick road , so let 's go ahead and get rolling ! First Up : Midterm Elections . AZUZ : Four days ! That 's all the time that midterm candidates have left to convince Americans to vote for them . Win or lose in next Tuesday 's midterm elections , running for office comes at a price . You 've got to produce TV ads , you 've got to make signs , pay a staff . All of that adds up . Dana Bash takes us out on the campaign trail to look at the money trail and see how much is being spent and where it 's all coming from . ( BEGIN VIDEO ) DANA BASH , CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT : Sure , there 's a lot of money flowing in this year 's election . But exactly how much being spent is mind blowing : $ 4 billion dollars . To put $ 4 billion in context , that 's enough to send about 80,000 students to Princeton for a year . It could buy every person in America three Big Macs with fries at McDonald 's . Four billion is far more than the $ 2.85 billion spent in the last midterm election in 2006 , and dwarfs the $ 1.61 billion spent little more than a decade ago in 1998 . OpenSecrets.org compiled the figures in a new report . SHEILA KRUMHOLZ , CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS : The stakes are so high this cycle that it 's not surprising that there 's an intensity to this cycle that was perhaps reduced or missing in the last cycles . BASH : Though much of the four billion is spent by candidates themselves , an eyepopping amount is coming from outside candidates ' campaigns ; political parties and independent groups . $ 430 million dollars in overall outside spending . Only $ 31 million was spent in 2002 , less than a decade ago . And despite Democrats ' complaints about being outspent , when it comes to political parties , Democrats are winning . All told , the Democratic Party has raised $ 782 million dollars . A lot more than the Republican Party , at $ 515 million . But GOP outside groups , with ads like this , are making up for that gap and then some . Although Democratic groups are catching up , they 're being outspent by GOP counterparts 2-1 . Another fascinating 2010 trend : key industries moving campaign cash from Democrats to Republicans . Take the health care sector . When the president took office , two thirds of its dollars were going to Democrats . Since health care passed , the industry is giving 60 % to Republicans . The same goes for money from Wall Street and the energy sector . Just last year , both gave mostly to Democrats . Now , 67 % of Wall Street money goes to Republicans . The energy sector : 74 % to Republicans . KRUMHOLZ : I think they 've got their finger in the air . I think they 're looking at the changing poll numbers and seeing that the Republicans have a clear shot at taking the majority , particularly in the House . ( END VIDEO ) Indonesia Disasters . AZUZ : Following up on some international headlines for you now , beginning in Indonesia . Earlier this week , the nation suffered through an earthquake , a tsunami -- a giant ocean wave caused by the earthquake -- and a volcanic eruption . Officials are trying to get help to the victims of these natural disasters , but that 's been tough with all the disasters they 've had to deal with . Plus , Indonesia is made up of thousands of islands , and some of those are hard to reach . Here , you can see a plane dropping aid in one of the areas that was affected . Other groups are using boats , but those deliveries can take hours . Some of the most immediate needs : clean water , food , blankets and medical attention . Cholera Outbreak . AZUZ : In Haiti , officials are trying to figure out what started an outbreak of cholera . They 're testing waste and sewage water for the bacteria that causes the disease . The outbreak , meanwhile , is getting worse . Workers are trying to fight it . One of the problems in that fight is that a lot of people in Haiti are living in tents after January 's earthquake . They need medical supplies to survive , but some people ca n't get them . Dr. Sanjay Gupta is in Haiti trying to find out why . ( BEGIN VIDEO ) DR. SANJAY GUPTA , CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT : How could this have happened ? That 's what Julie Santos wants to know . JULIE SANTOS , MEDICAL RELIEF WORKER : You have someone there , someone here . Let 's connect the dots . GUPTA : She 's talking about trying to contain the outbreak of cholera . Hundreds have died , thousands still in need of treatment . This is where you 're told to come get supplies . You arrive here , and if there 's patients waiting , what happens ? SANTOS : Well , there are patients waiting . GUPTA : There 's patients waiting for these supplies ? SANTOS : Yes , when we were sending them out to the hospitals out in Saint Marc . GUPTA : Where patients are literally begging for hydration , clean water , the cheapest of supplies . And yet medical relief worker Julie Santos still waits for hours for her paperwork to be approved before she can get the supplies . I wanted to try and understand myself . Promise warehouse , a World Health Organization facility , has the largest stockpile of supplies here in Haiti . What people have been waiting for , for hours outside and days in hospitals is this : pallets of I.V . fluids ; literally , life-saving stuff to treat these patients with cholera , thousands of them . But it 's not just that pallet . You take a look at this whole warehouse , full , despite what 's happening here in Haiti . CHRISTIAN MORALES , PAN AM HEALTH ORGANIZATION/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION : If we send everything that we have here today , tomorrow we can not answer for 800,000 cases in Port-au-Prince . GUPTA : Christian Morales has the enormous task of helping figure out who gets the supplies and when . Did it go fast enough ? MORALES : They , they , I think in every operation like this , you can do things better . And there 's a lot of lessons to be taken from this . And the country needs to be prepared for what is coming , because the likelihood of spreading of this epidemic is very high . GUPTA : That 's something we heard over and over . This epidemic is by no means over . ( END VIDEO ) Just the Facts . TOMEKA JONES , CNN STUDENT NEWS : Just the Facts ! The Great Depression was the longest and worst economic crisis in U.S. history . It started in 1929 and lasted around a decade . During this period , unemployment climbed to more than 25 % , thousands of American banks failed , and U.S. industrial production was cut almost in half . The Depression was felt around the world and led to significant changes in economic theories and policies . This Day in History . AZUZ : A major event that helped plunge the U.S. into the Great Depression happened on this very day in history : October 29th , 1929 . Or as a lot of people know it , Black Tuesday . Wall Street , the stock market crashed , and hard . More than 16 million shares of stock were traded . Stock tickers , the machines that people used to read stock prices , could n't keep up with all the trading . They fell hours behind . Billions of dollars were lost on Black Tuesday , and thousands of investors were completely wiped out . Shoutout . JOHN LISK , CNN STUDENT NEWS : Today 's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Gardner 's U.S. studies classes at Indian Valley High School in Gnadenhutten , Ohio ! The word `` tuition '' can be traced back to what language ? Is it : A ) Greek , B ) Roman , C ) Latin or D ) Aramaic ? You 've got three seconds -- GO ! Tuition , what you pay for instruction , comes from Latin . That 's your answer and that 's your Shoutout ! Cost of College . AZUZ : The word `` increase '' comes from latin , too . And that is what tuition is doing right now ; it 's going up . Probably not a big surprise . The cost of college has been increasing for years . What 's interesting is that tuition at public schools is going up faster than it is at private schools . A lot of that has to do with states struggling financially . The higher tuition costs help make up for money that schools are n't getting from their states . Look at the numbers here . In-state tuition at a four-year public school is around $ 7,600 per year . That 's up nearly 8 percent from last year . At a four-year private school , tuition is a little more than $ 27,000 per year . That 's up 4.5 percent from last year . Facebook Chat Promo . AZUZ : You see this guy ? He could be talking to me on Facebook ! So can this young lady right here . You all can ! On Monday , I will be live at Facebook.com/cnnstudentnews in the school year 's very first Facebook conversation we 're having ! You post your questions to our wall , I 'll answer as many as I can as fast as I can ! The date is Monday , November 1st , 6:30 p.m. Eastern . The address : Facebook.com/cnnstudentnews . Before We Go . AZUZ : Now , before we go today , you always want to try your best in any race . But you might want to give it a little something extra in this one . You 're gon na need to make sure to stay ahead of the rest of the contestants . Unless you want to be eaten by zombies ! These guys take that `` walking dead '' nickname pretty literally . More than 200 ghouls gathered for this zombie walk in Kentucky last week . Goodbye . AZUZ : Organizing that many zombies in one place takes a lot of brains . But no matter witch costume you wear or whether you 're just planning on goblin up candy , it ghost without saying that we wish you happy and safe Halloween . I 'm Carl Azuz , for CNN Student News ! ( laughs )
Examine the billions of dollars spent on the U.S. midterm elections . Explore the challenges of distributing medical supplies in Haiti . Learn about the Great Depression and one event that helped start it . Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News .