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HiI'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to CNN 10 your 10
minute overview of world events
we begin this march 23rd in Australia
specifically its eastern state of new
south wales
it's the most populated state in the
country with more than 8 million people
many of them struggled with the record
bushfire season that struck in 2019 and
2020
now they're dealing with the opposite
problem record-breaking floods
more than 18 000 people have been
evacuated from their homes
thousands more could be told to leave in
the days ahead because
increasing rainfall is in the forecast
extreme weather like bush fires
floods droughts and storms that's common
in australia
what caused this problem according to
the australian bureau of meteorology was
the collision of
two weather systems that brought
tremendous amounts of rain to new south
wales
all along its eastern coast from its
northern border to its southern one
the state is under a flood watch homes
have been destroyed
roads are under water rivers have burst
their banks
an australian meteorologist says since
last thursday
some areas have seen more than three
feet of rain
that's five times what this region
normally gets in the entire month of
marchand another two to four inches of
rainfall was possible by tuesday night
the new south wales state emergency
service says it's responded to thousands
of calls for help
thousands of emergency workers and
volunteers are on the ground assisting
others
and the state's premier says the
australian military may be needed to
help with the recovery
the government expects it'll take a
massive effort to clean up once the
waters subside
i'm pete muntean in washington spring
break air travel continues to set
records of the pandemic
the tsa says it screened more than 1.3
million people at airports across the
country on saturday
that means more than a million people
have flown each day
for 10 straight days the record of the
pandemic said on friday when more than
1.4 million people flew and that number
could be even higher for sunday
that number will come out later on
monday all of this travel is happening
as health experts
are still warning against spring break
trips
i'm diane gallagher in charlotte vaccine
eligibility expansion is happening all
across the southeast starting today
monday in florida
anybody over the age of 50 can get a
vaccine
in alabama it's 55 and older as well as
those who have developmental or
intellectual disabilities
and anybody ages 16 to 64
who have underlying high-risk medical
conditions now
in louisiana and this is big all
essential workers over the age of 16
are eligible for the vaccine in
louisiana essential workers could be
a member of the clergy someone who works
in higher education
manufacturing transportation and those
who work in grocery stores and food
services
i'm bianna golodriga in new york for the
first time
in over a year all of new york city
public schools will be offering
in-person learning for k-12 students
nearly 500 high schools are welcoming
back some 55 000
students that's just a fraction of the
city's 326
000 high school students prior to the
pandemic the majority of families
continuing to opt for remote learning
high school students will be subjected
to the same safety measures as
elementary and middle school students
including randomized weekly testing
masking and social distancing according
to city officials the coronavirus
positivity rate of schools since october
is
0.57 percent indicating minimal spread
within classrooms
ten-second trivia what is the meaning of
the russian word
sputnik traveling companion new dawn
distant observer or next frontier
sputnik the name of a soviet satellite
and a russian vaccine
means traveling companion
since sputnik 1 launched in 1957 people
have been putting satellites rockets and
stations into space
and it's getting crowded up there with
the stuff we use and the stuff we don't
the european space agency estimates that
there are more than 9 000
tons of man-made materials in orbit
that's the weight of 720 school buses
driving around over our heads
and a new spacecraft launched over the
weekend along with its satellite
added about 423 pounds to that
but this mission's a little bit
different it's an attempt to demonstrate
a way to potentially clean up space junk
the plan is for the spacecraft and
satellite to separate then
reattach using magnets then head back
toward earth to burn up in its
atmospheresounds simple but it'll take months to
accomplish if it works though
the demo flight could set the stage for
a new space junk
cleanup the more we rock it into the
heavens three
two one the more junk and debris we
leave behind
making it more dangerous for our
spaceships and our satellites to move
around
the good news we can clean it up
in the heart of tokyo just a few miles
away from this park on a quiet street
one company is trying to make space a
little safer by making it a little
cleaner
imagine space for a second it looks
something like this right
not quite according to space whizzes
like this guy
hi tim this is more like it a world
surrounded by broken satellites
old rockets and spaceship fragments and
well just
junk you wouldn't believe there are
thousands and thousands and thousands of
pieces of space debris
up there over 170 million pieces
according to some estimates
some are big others small most are
really small
the small one is like a paint flex but
don't let size fool you
in space the smallest thing can have a
catastrophic impact
those flecks move at an average of 40
000 kilometers an hour
and when they hit they hit with the
force of a hand grenade
imagine that times 170 million
naoko yamazaki japan's second female
astronauthas seen the impact of this stuff first
hand if the space developed size
it's bigger than one centimeter less
than a dime it will
go through the structure so it is a risk
that means dime-sized debris could
destroy a spaceship
but junk isn't just a problem for
astronauts it impacts everyone on earth
too
intelligence gathering electric grids
just look at the gps on your phone
that's why mickey wants to make space
clean again
whatever
step one map the mess agencies like nasa
track the big trash
but right now no one's really looking
out for the small pieces
while satellite 1 maps the small stuff
satellite 2
nicknamed elsa d will sweep up the big
stuff
really just magnets mickey's team will
launch the satellite as close to the
selected piece of junk
as possible special cameras and sensors
will get even closer
and magnets will do the rest then it'll
be all programmed to come back to earth
where it will burn up on re-entry
if all goes according to plan astroscale
will send the first demo sweeper up in
2019
and from there companies can hire their
own elsa to sweep up whatever might be
in their way
big international agencies like the
european space agency
have also started developing ideas to
clean up space
but astroscale is the world's first
private company giving it a try
because it believes we will become ever
more dependent on space
someday you know people will probably go
to mars
or more further place and let's not
forget space tourism
but if you know you're going to go to
the farther
beyond the earth we have to clear
that crowded area to minimize the risk
good luck
a mask was recently discovered in
central china
you might be like some of us are wearing
masks now
well this one is worth more than its
weight in gold because it is gold and
it's believed to be
3 000 years old this is from a giant
trove of artifacts found at a chinese
archaeological site
scientists have uncovered tens of
thousands of buried relics here
since a farmer accidentally unearthed
some in the 1920s
researchers say ancient ceremonial pits
were dug hereand in recent decades they've yielded
artifacts made from bronze ivory jade
and bone
experts are hoping this will shed light
on china's ancient
shoe kingdom not a lot is known about it
except that it was conquered in the year
316
bc so there's no masking researchers
excitement they describe the gold mask
kind of like we described fridays
aurum what more could a you want it's
always fun for alchemy to report on and
while it's probably a lot heavier than
the plastic coved masks we wear these
days
it'd be fool's gold not to at least try it
I'm Carl Azuz
lehighton pennsylvania is where we're
going for today's shout out you could
say we have lee heightened interest in
lehighton area high school for their
comment on our youtube channel
have a great Tuesday y'all