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Hi I'm Carl Azuz. As we get started on
Tuesday's edition of CNN 10
members of the u.s house of
representatives are preparing for a vote
on a 1.9 trillion dollar bill
intended to stimulate the u.s economy
the house first approved the bill in
late february
and it passed in the senate last weekend
but that chamber made changes to the
legislation for one thing
it eliminated the bill's increase in the
federal minimum wage as political
experts expected
so now the house must vote on the
legislation again before it can be sent
to president joe biden's desk for his
signature
this week's house vote is expected to go
along party lines
like it did in the senate democrats are
likely to vote for the bill
republicans are likely to vote against
it because democrats control the house
with the majority of seats there the
chamber is expected to pass the
legislation
this would be the third major spending
bill that the u.s government has enacted
to counteract the economic problems
triggered by the coronavirus pandemic
ten-second trivia
the name of the taliban afghanistan's
former rulers comes from what word
students base supreme or task
in afghanistan's official language of
pashto taliban means
students the taliban gained power in
afghanistan in the 1990s they're a
muslim fundamentalist group that worked
to establish a strict interpretation of
islam in afghanistan
they didn't allow tv movies or music and
they limited the education that girls
could getor banned it all together after the
september 11th terrorist attacks in 2001
the united states led a group of other
countries in removing the taliban from
power
the taliban had allowed al-qaeda
terrorists to live and train in
afghanistan
and it refused to hand them over to
america following the attacks
twenty years later the taliban remained
a powerful force in the country
and scars remained from their rule in
the 1990s
a game of cricket underway with a few
onlookers resting on
rocky ground a peaceful scene at the
foot of a mountain
with towering cutouts where two buddha
statues once stood
now filled with scaffolding and rubble
this man says he was here 20 years ago
whentaliban forces who had taken control of
the province
over the course of a few weeks
obliterated the statues as part of its
campaign to destroy
pre-islamic artifacts they considered to
be an assault on islam
we were going to the bazaar when the
taliban picked us up on the way
and then took us to the buddhas there
were around 45 other people
and the taliban forced us all to carry
the explosives
they told us to leave when the task was
done and then they detonated the buddhas
and dust filled the entire valley
the monuments had been part of the
landscape of bamiyan for about
1500 years surviving genghis khan
and centuries of war in march 2001 the
taliban relentlessly
hacked away at them with tank fire and
explosives
until they were shattered
we realized that nothing was left but an
empty frame and an identity that had
been destroyed
my feeling was that we had a historical
artifact that had been turned into such
a miserable state
in the two decades since their
destruction some have tried to recreate
the likenesses through technology
but to the people of bamiyan it is a
towering loss of a piece of history
reduced to boulders dust and memories
we first reported on linda dowdy a year
ago she's a cnn hero who helps rescue
harbor seals in maine
she started her own conservation group
after others she worked with
closed down because they lost funding
despite the shutdowns made when the
coronavirus pandemic hit
dowdy's organization expanded and it was
allowed to stay open keeping up its good
work
releasing a seal is really bittersweet
andas much as i'm excited to see that
animal be released it's also
hard in the sense of seeing the animal
now gone
growing up on the coast of maine i was
exposed to
marine mammals and wildlife in general
since our local area is really
surrounded by water
we do a lot of things on the ocean it's
these seals
doing their thing and i just remember
being so amazed
what i love about seals is they really
look similar to dogs
and they also are really charismatic
it's really neat to see them in their
natural environment and they're very
curious in general
these animals are special to me so i
ended up becoming a marine biologist
i would say the biggest threat to these
animals is human
impacts we may have an animal that may
have beenentangled or hit by a boat or injured
from a prop wound
with the increase in human activity on
beaches
these animals don't get time to rest and
regain their energy
taking selfies with seals can actually
cause a lot of stress and harm for that
animal
when harbor seal pups are born they stay
with their mom for about four weeks
mom usually goes off to forage for food
and then come back again
if there's any human involvement if
there's people that are around that pup
or pick up and move that pup
the mom may not come back and once that
abandonment occurs that seal pup is not
going to survive
over the years non-profits and state
agencies
for marine mammal response and rescue
either closed down
or lost funding and that's where i
decided we're going to help
good morning miss 264. our organization
runs a 24-hour reporting hotline for
marine mammal strandings
184 is currently the one that's upside
down
we cover approximately 2 500 miles along
the coast of maine
most of the animals that we respond to
is about
90 seals
we only intervene if needed
when an animal comes into our center we
usually take blood start an iv
and get a whole kind of diagnostics of
what the animal is dealing with and then
come up with a
medical plan so he's on
food therapy for today to try to break
up some of this
pneumonia that he has
i have attended every release because
once you bring an animal into your
center
i feel 100 responsibility for that
animal
oh you're so adorable you want to see
that animal be released
because it's start to finish of that
animal's story i just want to welcome
you to our
seal release today we have two harbor
seals that we will be releasing
both these animals came in really
underweight and emaciated
they're feeling fat and happy today
which is what we like
five four three
two one
it's been now 20 years that i've been
doing this which seems like i just
started yesterday
and the feeling has not changed me i
love it now more than ever
i can't imagine there not being a place
in the state of maine
for these animals to have a chance to be
cared for
and i will do that as long as
i can
i feel this intense responsibility to
help these animals and really this is
what i was put on this earth to do
so back in the day like the 1600s
letters were sometimes locked they were
intricately folded and sealed to become
their own envelopes
hundreds of these locked letters that
couldn't be delivered between 1689
and 1706 were stored in a postmaster's
trunk in the netherlands
they were given to a museum in 1926 and
conservators didn't want to open and
potentially damage them
but x-ray scanners and computer
algorithms were recently used to extract
a letter's words
without actually unfolding the document
it revealed a request from one cousin to
another
for the death certificate of a relative
researchers don't know why it wasn't
delivered
but it's a new glimpse into the daily
lives of people who lived
ages ago makes you wonder what the
others contain maybe an unpatented
patent that's now a patent mystery maybe
an ungranted grant that would have
granted rights to the letter
how many documents remained locuments
how many settlements remained unsettled
did a pax get packed before it could
ever make an impact
did star-crossed lovers never get to
envelope these mysteries can now
unfold benton high school in benton
louisiana hello
and thank you for your comment on our
youtube channel I'm Carl Azuz for CNN.