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in news because of you. Happy 4th of
July. Today is America's 249th birthday.
That means next year it's going to be a
quarter of millennia old. Hope you had
an awesome week. Let's get you your
news, knowledge bombs, and scintillating
storylines before we head into the
weekend. We begin with a whole new world
for college sports where schools will
soon be allowed to start cutting checks
directly to athletes. And this is in
addition to the scholarships many of the
athletes may be already receiving. At
the end of June, a federal judge
formally approved a deal between the
NCAA's big conferences and lawyers
representing all division 1 athletes.
So, as of July 1st, schools can pay
their athletes directly. As part of the
deal, the NCAA is going to pay $2.8
billion in back damages over the next 10
years to athletes who have competed in
college at any time from 2016 to present
day. Moving forward, the Power
Conference schools can now directly pay
athletes, which has always been an
absolute no. There will be a cap that's
expected to start at $20.5 million per
school and it's expected to increase
each year and that money has to be
spread through all sports programs. Now,
this is separate from the money that
some athletes may be able to secure
through name, image, and likeness deals.
NIL deals are where brands or companies
pay athletes for endorsing their
products or services through things like
commercials, advertisements, autograph
signings, or appearances. But those NIL
deals will now have to be approved by a
new middleman, so to speak. Over the
past few years, college sports has
become like the Wild Wild West when it
came to athletes committing to a school
or transferring to another school
strictly due to NIL money that was being
offered. What's not debatable is that
this new model does bring stability and
fairness to uh student athletes in
college sports. and we've we've been in
an unregulated environment with no rules
and no enforcement. We're now going to
have a foundation and structure laying
out those rules.
The new structure provides our student
athletes with more opportunities and
benefits than ever before to make sure
that NIL deals are fair moving forward
and not strictly pay for play. The power
conferences have set up a settlement
enforcement committee called the college
sports commission to enforce these new
rules and guidelines. The NCAA is not
going to be in charge of this new world.
This new framework will finally help to
put some guidelines in place for all of
that. But lots of questions remain like,
are college athletes now employees of
the school? Can you put a salary cap on
athletes that aren't unionized? Well,
the NCAA and its schools are hoping that
federal lawmakers will step in to help
solve the remaining problems with these
issues. What do you think? Do you think
colleges and universities should pay
their student athletes? Why or why not?
How do you think this might affect the
universities and all of their sports
programs, especially the smaller sports
programs like tennis, field hockey,
wrestling, and how might this impact
student athletes decisions on where they
should go to pursue a degree? What types
of problems could potentially arise for
schools andor athletes? Discuss. This
past spring in New Jersey, months of
communication failures at Newark
International Airport highlighted aging
and insufficient equipment at air
traffic control towers across the US. It
also led to some controllers walking off
the job and staffing shortages. The
transportation secretary just announced
some upgrades that should drastically
improve some of the radiotoradio
communications, but nationwide he says
there is more to be done. I mean this is
I mean this is real and you've actually
lost controllers because they were so
stressed when that happened. And so what
I would tell you is what you saw in
Newark, you will see variations of that
through the airspace in the coming years
unless unless we undertake this uh this
mission. In the meantime, airline pilots
need to be able to react instantly if or
when they lose contact with a control
tower. Our Pete Montene got an exclusive
look at how this all works. Ready to go.
I'm at the controls of a Boeing 737 Max
simulator here at United Airlines Flight
Training Center in Denver to see what
pilots experience when air traffic
control goes dark. It's the latest
challenge for them after flights in and
out of Newark faced repeat failures of
radar and radio earlier this month. And
we don't have a radar, so I don't know
where you are. Along with me is Captain
Miles Morgan, who heads training for
United. Would you say that these issues
at Newark have caused any sort of
degradation of safety? Not at all. Um,
safety for us, if you've got pilots that
are operating into the airspace, it is
safe for us to do so. We are 100%
confident in that. This is some of the
busiest airspace in the country. If air
traffic controllers lose their radar
scopes, traffic, Morgan says pilots can
fall back on the plane's traffic
collision avoidance system or TCAST. It
calls out collisions in the making and
can even issue instructions to climb or
descend.
So now, okay, I've stopped doing what
I'm doing. I look, I see it on the
screen, 700 ft above. I acquire it
visually. Y and now I'm monitoring. I'm
making sure, hey, I'm this is good. I'm
we're we're at a good airspace. We're
safe. The reason you're showing it this
is to show that there are other layers
here. There are other systems. Exactly.
Correct. We have a lot of different
layers and a lot of them rely on the
external world, but we all have this
internal system uh that our airplanes
will talk to each other. But when
controllers can't reach flights via
radio, Morgan says pilots would try a
previously used radio frequency. Push
this button. The previous frequency pops
back up. Try the emergency backup
frequency. This would be a backup if we
couldn't raise it any other way. Use
data link text messaging to communicate
with the airline. And I could say need
frequency and I and dial in a
transponder code that signals that
communication has been lost. Decades old
redundancies that air traffic
controllers are trained for, too. We
were always prepared for it. The pilots
are always prepared for it.
Unfortunately, we're having to use those
safety nets. So, I'm going to start
putting some flaps in for you. Maybe to
prove that flying is safe. Morgan even
let me do the landing. A little flare.
Perfect. Boom. not by worst as airlines
insist the worst will not happen when
air traffic control fails. I don't
really worry when something um is a
little abnormal. We're we're trained for
all these abnormalities. It's not just
this. It's we're constantly uh training
for whatever could be going wrong and
how to make a decision to rectify that.
Pop quiz hot shot. Which country has the
largest estimated population of sharks
in its surrounding waters? United
States, Brazil, Australia, or Thailand.
If you said Australia or United States,
we're giving you two thumbs up as marine
biologists have tracked millions of
sharks on both countries borders.
Though, the city with the most
sharkinfested waters globally. That's
New Smyrna Beach in Florida. Now, to
some rare behavior between two shark
species caught on video. Observers
captured video of tiger sharks and
oceanic white tip sharks peacefully
feeding together on a carcass despite
conditions which pose the potential for
aggression. And now researchers are
wanting to know why. Check out this
fascinating report. Sharks feasting
together. A site rarely seen, but
observers witnessed this fascinating
gathering off the coast of Hawaii's Big
Island. To our knowledge, this is the
first study of its kind to document the
two of them um in a feeding aggregation
together. The study published in
Frontiers and Fish Science highlights
the surprisingly peaceful feeding of at
least 12 sharks from two distinct
species, tiger sharks and oceanic white
tip sharks. Sharks tend to be solitary
hunters. Um they generally feed alone.
We were really excited by the fact that
everybody seemed to be getting along
really well at the feeding aggregation.
These two species are very different.
Oceanic white tips are highly migratory
while tiger sharks inhabit coastal areas
year round. Yet the observer saw how
social dynamics among the sharks allowed
for this peacefully shared meal. The two
were rarely together in space and time.
there was kind of a um what you would
call a social hierarchy which was kind
of dominated by size.
The study suggests sharks are not
vicious and aggressive as often
portrayed in movies. There were three
people in the water documenting this
event on camera um over 8 and 1/2 hours
and at no point in time did any sharks
bother any of the photographers.
Researchers hope this provides a less
frightening perspective of sharks while
still reminding people to respect their
space and avoid provoking or
antagonizing them.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Bright young whippers snappers, wise and
witty elders and their pens. A pen pal
program connecting some of Minnesota's
youngest scribes with the state's
wisest. Third graders at Crooked Lake
Elementary spent the entire school year
exchanging letters with senior citizens
at nearby retirement communities. They
traded questions. They shared ideas and
created meaningful friendships, all
without meeting face to face until now.
I've looked forward to this all year
because I think that their letters have
been absolutely wonderful. It was really
fun to learn about her story and just I
couldn't wait to meet her and now it
finally came. It was like kind of
getting like a Christmas present, like
getting something like cuz I've never
had a pen pal before. So, this is my
first time having a pen pal. When you're
older, you don't have as many contacts,
so it's it's good to
receive
greetings from pen pals. In their final
week of school, students got to meet
their pen pals. They showed them around
their school. They ate lunch together.
Their teacher, Miss Norton, said the
year-long project was invaluable, and
she hopes to keep it going. Really great
opportunity for the kids to practice
their writing skills. You know,
organizing their thoughts in letters,
editing, publishing, revising. Um, great
opportunity for them to connect in the
community with somebody that they
wouldn't normally connect with. The
power of caring. Make someone smile
today. You never know when, but you
might be the light someone needs. Rise
up everyone. Follow me at Koiwire on the
socials for some updates and
announcements about the show. Play that
Friday music. Nadair. Our shoutouts for
the week are going to Miss McGertie and
Miss Mageno at Thornton High School in
Daily City. Check this stuff out. These
awesome greeting cards they made through
their recycled paper making class. The
detail, the precision, the creativity.
Stunning. Thank you. And this shout out
goes to all my Panthers at Pilgrim Park
Middle School in Elm Grove, Wisconsin. I
mean, this swag bag is elite. We have
some 3D printed models in here. We have
a t-shirt that is signed by all 300
sixth graders at the school. Thank you
for making us part of your day. Rise up,
Panthers. Finally, my last shout out
goes to all those wrestlers. Coach
Rabine at Mcmmin County High School.
Much respect. Now, I played football in
the NFL, but I must say wrestling was
the toughest thing I ever did. Keep
working hard, study harder. Cheers to
all of that.
Thank you, McMen. You are more powerful
than you know. I'm Koi Wire and we are
CNN 10.
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