diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py
index cee78765b..4338bd180 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import determine_ext
 
+
 class CNNIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(edition\.)?cnn\.com/video/(data/.+?|\?)/(?P<path>.+?/(?P<title>[^/]+?)\.cnn)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)https?://(edition\.)?cnn\.com/video/(data/.+?|\?)/
+        (?P<path>.+?/(?P<title>[^/]+?)(?:\.cnn|(?=&)))'''
 
-    _TEST = {
+    _TESTS = [{
         u'url': u'http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/sports/2013/06/09/nadal-1-on-1.cnn',
         u'file': u'sports_2013_06_09_nadal-1-on-1.cnn.mp4',
         u'md5': u'3e6121ea48df7e2259fe73a0628605c4',
@@ -15,14 +17,24 @@ class CNNIE(InfoExtractor):
             u'title': u'Nadal wins 8th French Open title',
             u'description': u'World Sport\'s Amanda Davies chats with 2013 French Open champion Rafael Nadal.',
         },
-    }
+    },
+    {
+        u"url": u"http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/08/21/sot-student-gives-epic-speech.georgia-institute-of-technology&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29",
+        u"file": u"us_2013_08_21_sot-student-gives-epic-speech.georgia-institute-of-technology.mp4",
+        u"md5": u"b5cc60c60a3477d185af8f19a2a26f4e",
+        u"info_dict": {
+            u"title": "Student's epic speech stuns new freshmen",
+            u"description": "A Georgia Tech student welcomes the incoming freshmen with an epic speech backed by music from \"2001: A Space Odyssey.\""
+        }
+    }]
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         path = mobj.group('path')
         page_title = mobj.group('title')
-        info_xml = self._download_webpage(
-            'http://cnn.com/video/data/3.0/%s/index.xml' % path, page_title)
+        info_url = u'http://cnn.com/video/data/3.0/%s/index.xml' % path
+        print(info_url)
+        info_xml = self._download_webpage(info_url, page_title)
         info = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(info_xml.encode('utf-8'))
 
         formats = []