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welcome to february and to its very
first edition of cnn 10
I'm Carl Azuz. We hope you had a
great weekend or that you have a great
one coming up
let's get started there's a new rule in
the united states for people traveling
aboard planes trains and some
automobiles
the centers for disease control will
require masks to be worn on public
transportation
and not just in the vehicles themselves
the order applies to airports train and
subway stations
ferry terminals and ports places where
people wait to use public transportation
the cdc says the masks can be cloth
disposable or even homemade
and passengers can only take them off
for short periods of time to eat
drink or take medicine many companies
like airlines already had mask
requirements in place
but up until now it hasn't been the law
the new cdc requirement effectively
makes it one
and that means that people could face
criminal charges if they refuse to wear
a mask
this doesn't apply to kids under two
years old or people who have
disabilities and can't wear a mask
medical officials say the united states
has recorded the most
positive coronavirus tests in the world
more than 26 million of the 103 million
reported globally
and a cdc official says requiring masks
on transportation systems will protect
americans
and provide confidence in being able to
travel safely
last year at this time the agency did
not recommend that the public wear masks
and a medical professor told cnn this
was because there was only
quote thin and questionable scientific
evidence that wearing masks had any
benefit
the cdc's new requirement takes effect
monday night and it would apply to the
hyperloop concept we've told you about
in the past if that ever gets off the
ground
it's not known yet if hyperloop could be
practical or affordable
but proponents of it have a lot of
enthusiasm for the magnetic train with a
lot of speed
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i'd love to say that you'll be able to
to travel at 500 miles an hour without
spilling a drop
look we are using a proprietary
magnetic levitation system you're
literally floating
on a bed of air and it will be super
smooth we are able to achieve these
speeds
uh in a way that we've never seen before
one of the advantages
of what we're doing is that we control
the environment
the tube is is is completely uh
serene in the way that it is so if we
think about air travel and turbulence we
don't have
any of that that is taking place here
right now
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ten-second trivia felix bernard and
richard b smith teamed up in the 1930s
to write what hitsong white christmas with a song in my
heart white cliffs of dover or winter
wonderland
bernard wrote the tune and smith wrote
the lyrics to winter wonderland
that seasonal classic describes the
upside of winter weather but a lot of
americans are seeing it to the extreme a
cold front swept into the west coast
last week
it brought powerful winds and heavy
rains into central and northern
california
here's a look at what that rain did to
part of highway 1 the pacific coast
highwayas the system made its way east it put
more snow in the forecast for iowa
wisconsin and illinois
and as it swept over pennsylvania
meteorologists said it would intensify
the result of that
a nor'easter bringing possible blizzard
conditions to new york on monday
wind gusts nearing 50 miles per hour
more than a foot of snow in that region
and half a foot or more possible in
washington d.c
residents were warned of ice and sleet
from maryland down to north carolina
in all more than 110 million americans
or one third of the country's population
were set to feel the chill of winter
early this week
to explain some of the different types
of that weather here's cnn 10
contributor tyler mauldin
call a small change in temperature can
make a big difference in the type of
weather you see from late fall to early
spring
the period when the u.s gets impacted by
winter storms
these systems can bring a variety of
impacts rain
freezing rain sleet and snow the
temperature that determines whether you
receiveliquid or frozen precipitation is of
course 32 degrees fahrenheit
aka the freezing point but here's the
kicker
it's not all about the temperature we
can feel here on the ground
just as important is what's happening
thousands of feet in the air between the
groundand the clouds when particles of ice
fall from a cloud
and immediately encounter warm above
freezing
air all the way to the surface it will
melt and you'll need the umbrella
becauseall you'll get is plain old rain on the
flip side
if those same ice particles were
surrounded by cold
below freezing air all the way down it
stays
frozen and you'll need a shovel because
you're going to see all snow
things get interesting when these
particles fall through a mixture of
above and below freezing temperatures
when there's a deep
melting layer followed by a little
sliver of sub-freezing air at the
surface
you'll get freezing rain the warm air
completely melts the ice into rain
and then doesn't have time to re-freeze
back into snow
the rain becomes what we call super
cooled and immediately
freezes to the ground upon contact sleet
is similar except it falls through a
smaller layer of warm air
and has time to re-freeze just a bit
before reaching the ground
and that carl is the science behind
wintry precipitation
staten island chuck chattanooga chuck
woody the woodchuck
how much would woody chuck these are the
names of some lesser-known
groundhogs animals that once played a
part in ancient weather forecasting
and modern forecasting at least for
entertainment value
general beauregard lee and the famous
punxsutawney phil
also factor into this report by cnn's
alison chinchar
i'm cnn meteorologist alison chinchar on
tuesday punxsutawney phil the most
famous groundhog in all the land is
expected to make his prediction of what
the weather is going to be like
for the next several weeks the question
comes down to will he see his shadow
or not usually for the last many years
phil overwhelmingly has seen his shadow
meaning more winter will be expected
since 1887 he's seen his shadow
104 times he has only not seen his
shadow about
20 times now i will say in terms of
accuracy he has only been right about
50 percent of the time in just the last
10 years however year over year
his odds have been increasing and
improving in the last
few the forecast for tuesday in
punxsutawney pennsylvania calls for snow
a lot of it there will already likely be
at least four to six inches of snow on
the ground from the previous snowstorm
that will be moving through the couple
of days before
but additional snowfall may be coming
down when he's making his prediction
which means it might be a little
difficult to see his shadow temperatures
alsovery cold likely in the mid 20s with a
wind chill
only in the low to mid teens if that
works out
most likely phil will not see his shadow
predicting an
early spring the question becomes does
mother nature agree with that prediction
looking at noaa's long-term forecast
from march through may
it does look like the vast majority of
the country is looking at
much warmer than normal temperatures so
in theory
yes spring is more likely to come early
in terms of
temperatures we can expect wetter than
normal conditions across portions of the
great lakes
and drier than normal conditions across
portions of the southwest
but if you don't like phil's prediction
whatever it may be
the good news is there's a lot more
groundhogs who also make predictions
and chances are at least one of them
will give you the prediction that will
make you happy
groundhogs are also known as whistle
pigs and i bet they'd really
ham up the forecast they'd be baking it
up as they went along
now some might call that a pork choice
their friends might rib them about it or
bust their chops
but don't chuck the idea all together
because turning groundhog day into
whistle pig day would leave some
pickled pink up carl azuz for CNN 10.
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