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U.S. Pauses Tariffs on Canada and Mexico for 30 Days; Cleaning Up After A Wildfire; New Technology Being Used to Reach People in Humanitarian Disasters. Aired 4-4:10a ET
Aired February 05, 2025 - 04:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hello everyone, welcome to CNN 10 and welcome to New Orleans. I am Coy Wire coming to you from the iconic Jackson Square, renamed in the year 1815 to honor General Andrew Jackson, who won the Battle of New Orleans for America as the British Army attempted to take over the city in the War of 1812.
All right, we have made it to #YourWordWednesday, the day of the week one of you helped us write the show. Stay tuned to see if your vocab word is the winner.
All right, we start today with news out of North America where the leaders of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada announced a deal to pause U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from two of America's closest trading partners for at least 30 days.
On Monday, President Trump signed two new executive orders that put a pause to a planned 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico that were set to take effect on Tuesday. There were also 10% tariffs levied against China over the weekend, but those still went into effect on Tuesday.
Tariffs are essentially taxes on imported goods and part of the Trump administration's goal in levying the tariffs on Mexico and Canada was to convince those countries to do more to stop the flow of drugs and undocumented immigrants from coming into the U.S. And it seems both Mexico and Canada are setting out to conciliate President Trump.
Both U.S. neighbors stood down on retaliatory tariffs of their own while agreeing to boost border security and increase efforts to combat drug trafficking. In Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum committed to deploying 10,000 of Mexico's National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border. And in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that in exchange for the tariff pause, the country will invest in border security, create a joint strike force with the U.S. to combat organized crime, appoint a fentanyl czar, and join the U.S. enlisting cartels as terrorist groups.
The fallout from the tariff threat was swift. U.S. stock markets were shaky on Monday. Businesses braced for tough periods of higher prices. With the tariffs now paused for the U.S. and its neighbors, all three of the nation's economies could be avoiding the worst impacts like boosted inflation, a recession, and an expanding trade war.
Over the weekend, the Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California were fully contained nearly a month after the blazes broke out. The two fires are the second and third most destructive wildfires in California history, according to Cal Fire. Over 37,000 acres were burned, with homes and businesses destroyed and dozens of people losing their lives.
Now officials are focusing on the cleanup, what will be a months-long process to remove toxic ash, hazardous waste, and charred debris from everyday items is already underway. CNN's Julia Vargas Jones is on the ground in a burn zone in Altadena to show us how teams from the Environmental Protection Agency are working to clear the hazardous waste the fires have left behind.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sifting through Altadena's ashes, what were once homes now piles of toxic waste. The cleanup after the deadly Eaton Fire is just beginning.
HARRY ALLEN, ON-SCENE COORDINATOR, EPA: So we put a white x to mark that we've checked it, and it doesn't have anything dangerous in it.
JONES: Weeks after flames decimated thousands of homes and businesses, crews in hazmat suits roam the ruins, the Environmental Protection Agency carrying out what they call phase one, a painstaking process, removing all that is hazardous in the fire's aftermath.
ALLEN: They're common goods from your house, paints from your shop. They may be oils from your garage, propane from your grill. These are the kinds of materials we're looking for and will remove if they're if they haven't been burned.
JONES: Harry Allen has been with the EPA for more than 20 years and helped in the recovery after major wildfires.
ALLEN: Napa Sonoma, Woolsey Fire here in L.A., Lahaina, yes, this one is larger than those.
JONES: But this time around, another danger lurking amidst the rubble -- partially damaged batteries.
ALLEN: Inside that battery, it can get hot and the gas can ignite and cause a fire.
JONES (on camera): Just on its own?
ALLEN: On its own. And if you watch videos of this, they look like little roman candles, if you're familiar with that firework, and the fire comes out like a jet from the battery, and it can be very harmful.
JONES (voice-over): Once EPA crews remove these dangerous items and dispose of them safely, phase one is complete.
(On camera): What happens after that?
ALLEN: Once that phase one is fully completed, phase two can start, which is either public or private contractors will come in and remove the debris from each property.
JONES (voice-over): The scope of the disaster and the magnitude of the work ahead now coming into focus. On these blocks gas and power just starting to come back online. Beyond them, thousands more residences await.
(On camera): How long to complete all of the Eaton Fire area? I mean, this is a whole community.
ALLEN: We don't know how long it's going to take, but we've gotten a lot of pressures and direction to complete the work faster than we normally would.
And so were ramping up our staffing to try to meet those goals.
JONES (voice-over): For those displaced and who are ready to start rebuilding, those goals can come soon enough.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WIRE: Pop quiz hot shot.
Which of the following is the largest humanitarian aid network in the world?
International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Food Program, Doctors Without Borders, or International Rescue Committee?
If you said International Committee of the Red Cross, you are correct. Almost every country in the world has a Red Cross National Society made up of professional and volunteer humanitarians who help during times of crisis.
The way humanitarian workers are able to respond to disasters is improving as technology advances. Now unmanned aerial vehicles or drones have become a helpful tool for delivering humanitarian aid and health supplies, especially during disasters like floods, droughts, storms, or earthquakes that make getting to those in need extremely difficult.
Our Nick Valencia gives us a look at the latest technology being used to deliver humanitarian aid to people who are out of reach.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There's a new vehicle to deliver aid and relief to areas previously beyond reach, and its name is Ultra Mark II.
It's the newest version of the Windracers Company's self-flying cargo drones.
SIMON MUDERACK, CEO OF WINDRACERS: So what you see is a platform that probably looks similar to the previous incarnation, but with double the power, double the payload, 80 plus changes that increases usability, its dependability.
VALENCIA: Also included in the upgrade is its ability to remain overhead for up to nine hours with a range of up to 621 miles or 1,000 kilometers.
The drone can take off and land on almost any terrain and can operate day or night without the aid of a remote pilot and with minimal ground operator oversight. Created to cut down the costs associated with delivering humanitarian aid to remote communities, the Ultra Mark II will accomplish just that in a partnership with the French NGO Aviation Sans Frontieres.
BENOIT GOBORIT: The daily job for ASF is going where the others cannot go anymore for the normal airlines, the regular airlines.
VALENCIA: Humanitarian aid groups like the World Food Program are also among many organizations on board with the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs. While they don't believe the drones will replace the traditional method of delivering aid, they do believe the drones will help alleviate humanitarian challenges by delivering time-critical items to hard-to-reach areas.
GOBORIT: That's why we want to use the drone because the access of the population and the risk of the aid worker is increasing every day.
VALENCIA: In addition to providing humanitarian aid, the Ultra MKII will be used to hold radar systems for the Norwegian Research Center in an effort to detect Antarctic climate changes.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WIRE: Today's story getting a 10 out of 10, is a fluffy baby penguin who's now all grown up. Pesto the penguin just celebrated his first birthday in style. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium threw him a party fit for a king penguin complete with bubbles and a jelly cake full of fish.
The giant puffy penguin that stole our hearts and broke records for his size last year has shed the baby brown feathery fluff since he went viral, but he's still penguin-ing our hearts in his big boy classic penguin tux.
All right, I have to admit, you all keep the meritorious vocab words coming each week, and we love it. Thank you for submitting all the exemplary words for your word Wednesday.
Today's winner is Mr. Frondorst's class at North Cobb High School in Georgia for conciliate, a verb meaning to make peace with or to stop someone from being angry or discontented. Well done.
And our special shout-out today is going to Ms. Baumgardner's social studies class at St. Mary's Academy in Englewood, Colorado. Thank you for watching, Wildcats, and rise up.
Extra gratitude to all of you for subscribing and commenting on our CNN10 YouTube channel for your shout-out requests. You all rock. We will see you right back here tomorrow on CNN 10.
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U.S. Pauses Tariffs on Canada and Mexico for 30 Days; Cleaning Up After A Wildfire; New Technology Being Used to Reach People in Humanitarian Disasters. Aired 4-4:10a ET
Aired February 05, 2025 - 04:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hello everyone, welcome to CNN 10 and welcome to New Orleans. I am Coy Wire coming to you from the iconic Jackson Square, renamed in the year 1815 to honor General Andrew Jackson, who won the Battle of New Orleans for America as the British Army attempted to take over the city in the War of 1812.
All right, we have made it to #YourWordWednesday, the day of the week one of you helped us write the show. Stay tuned to see if your vocab word is the winner.
All right, we start today with news out of North America where the leaders of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada announced a deal to pause U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from two of America's closest trading partners for at least 30 days.
On Monday, President Trump signed two new executive orders that put a pause to a planned 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico that were set to take effect on Tuesday. There were also 10% tariffs levied against China over the weekend, but those still went into effect on Tuesday.
Tariffs are essentially taxes on imported goods and part of the Trump administration's goal in levying the tariffs on Mexico and Canada was to convince those countries to do more to stop the flow of drugs and undocumented immigrants from coming into the U.S. And it seems both Mexico and Canada are setting out to conciliate President Trump.
Both U.S. neighbors stood down on retaliatory tariffs of their own while agreeing to boost border security and increase efforts to combat drug trafficking. In Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum committed to deploying 10,000 of Mexico's National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border. And in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that in exchange for the tariff pause, the country will invest in border security, create a joint strike force with the U.S. to combat organized crime, appoint a fentanyl czar, and join the U.S. enlisting cartels as terrorist groups.
The fallout from the tariff threat was swift. U.S. stock markets were shaky on Monday. Businesses braced for tough periods of higher prices. With the tariffs now paused for the U.S. and its neighbors, all three of the nation's economies could be avoiding the worst impacts like boosted inflation, a recession, and an expanding trade war.
Over the weekend, the Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California were fully contained nearly a month after the blazes broke out. The two fires are the second and third most destructive wildfires in California history, according to Cal Fire. Over 37,000 acres were burned, with homes and businesses destroyed and dozens of people losing their lives.
Now officials are focusing on the cleanup, what will be a months-long process to remove toxic ash, hazardous waste, and charred debris from everyday items is already underway. CNN's Julia Vargas Jones is on the ground in a burn zone in Altadena to show us how teams from the Environmental Protection Agency are working to clear the hazardous waste the fires have left behind.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sifting through Altadena's ashes, what were once homes now piles of toxic waste. The cleanup after the deadly Eaton Fire is just beginning.
HARRY ALLEN, ON-SCENE COORDINATOR, EPA: So we put a white x to mark that we've checked it, and it doesn't have anything dangerous in it.
JONES: Weeks after flames decimated thousands of homes and businesses, crews in hazmat suits roam the ruins, the Environmental Protection Agency carrying out what they call phase one, a painstaking process, removing all that is hazardous in the fire's aftermath.
ALLEN: They're common goods from your house, paints from your shop. They may be oils from your garage, propane from your grill. These are the kinds of materials we're looking for and will remove if they're if they haven't been burned.
JONES: Harry Allen has been with the EPA for more than 20 years and helped in the recovery after major wildfires.
ALLEN: Napa Sonoma, Woolsey Fire here in L.A., Lahaina, yes, this one is larger than those.
JONES: But this time around, another danger lurking amidst the rubble -- partially damaged batteries.
ALLEN: Inside that battery, it can get hot and the gas can ignite and cause a fire.
JONES (on camera): Just on its own?
ALLEN: On its own. And if you watch videos of this, they look like little roman candles, if you're familiar with that firework, and the fire comes out like a jet from the battery, and it can be very harmful.
JONES (voice-over): Once EPA crews remove these dangerous items and dispose of them safely, phase one is complete.
(On camera): What happens after that?
ALLEN: Once that phase one is fully completed, phase two can start, which is either public or private contractors will come in and remove the debris from each property.
JONES (voice-over): The scope of the disaster and the magnitude of the work ahead now coming into focus. On these blocks gas and power just starting to come back online. Beyond them, thousands more residences await.
(On camera): How long to complete all of the Eaton Fire area? I mean, this is a whole community.
ALLEN: We don't know how long it's going to take, but we've gotten a lot of pressures and direction to complete the work faster than we normally would.
And so were ramping up our staffing to try to meet those goals.
JONES (voice-over): For those displaced and who are ready to start rebuilding, those goals can come soon enough.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WIRE: Pop quiz hot shot.
Which of the following is the largest humanitarian aid network in the world?
International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Food Program, Doctors Without Borders, or International Rescue Committee?
If you said International Committee of the Red Cross, you are correct. Almost every country in the world has a Red Cross National Society made up of professional and volunteer humanitarians who help during times of crisis.
The way humanitarian workers are able to respond to disasters is improving as technology advances. Now unmanned aerial vehicles or drones have become a helpful tool for delivering humanitarian aid and health supplies, especially during disasters like floods, droughts, storms, or earthquakes that make getting to those in need extremely difficult.
Our Nick Valencia gives us a look at the latest technology being used to deliver humanitarian aid to people who are out of reach.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There's a new vehicle to deliver aid and relief to areas previously beyond reach, and its name is Ultra Mark II.
It's the newest version of the Windracers Company's self-flying cargo drones.
SIMON MUDERACK, CEO OF WINDRACERS: So what you see is a platform that probably looks similar to the previous incarnation, but with double the power, double the payload, 80 plus changes that increases usability, its dependability.
VALENCIA: Also included in the upgrade is its ability to remain overhead for up to nine hours with a range of up to 621 miles or 1,000 kilometers.
The drone can take off and land on almost any terrain and can operate day or night without the aid of a remote pilot and with minimal ground operator oversight. Created to cut down the costs associated with delivering humanitarian aid to remote communities, the Ultra Mark II will accomplish just that in a partnership with the French NGO Aviation Sans Frontieres.
BENOIT GOBORIT: The daily job for ASF is going where the others cannot go anymore for the normal airlines, the regular airlines.
VALENCIA: Humanitarian aid groups like the World Food Program are also among many organizations on board with the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs. While they don't believe the drones will replace the traditional method of delivering aid, they do believe the drones will help alleviate humanitarian challenges by delivering time-critical items to hard-to-reach areas.
GOBORIT: That's why we want to use the drone because the access of the population and the risk of the aid worker is increasing every day.
VALENCIA: In addition to providing humanitarian aid, the Ultra MKII will be used to hold radar systems for the Norwegian Research Center in an effort to detect Antarctic climate changes.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WIRE: Today's story getting a 10 out of 10, is a fluffy baby penguin who's now all grown up. Pesto the penguin just celebrated his first birthday in style. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium threw him a party fit for a king penguin complete with bubbles and a jelly cake full of fish.
The giant puffy penguin that stole our hearts and broke records for his size last year has shed the baby brown feathery fluff since he went viral, but he's still penguin-ing our hearts in his big boy classic penguin tux.
All right, I have to admit, you all keep the meritorious vocab words coming each week, and we love it. Thank you for submitting all the exemplary words for your word Wednesday.
Today's winner is Mr. Frondorst's class at North Cobb High School in Georgia for conciliate, a verb meaning to make peace with or to stop someone from being angry or discontented. Well done.
And our special shout-out today is going to Ms. Baumgardner's social studies class at St. Mary's Academy in Englewood, Colorado. Thank you for watching, Wildcats, and rise up.
Extra gratitude to all of you for subscribing and commenting on our CNN10 YouTube channel for your shout-out requests. You all rock. We will see you right back here tomorrow on CNN 10.
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