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Hi I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to the show
first topic is inflation could be good
if you're trying to get swole at the gym
but is it good for the u.s economy
here's what this is all about
inflation simply put is when prices go
up and your money doesn't buy as much
furniture airplane tickets used cars
rentpersonal care items like soap all of
this stuff got more expensive last month
one reason is because gasoline prices
have been skyrocketing
they were 22 and a half percent higher
this march than they were last march
this is cutting into family budgets the
cost of living
and it makes it more expensive to ship
the items we buy
coronavirus played a role when more
people were staying home and businesses
were shut down
demand for gasoline dropped and so did
its price
with people getting back to the office
back to traveling and businesses
reopening
gas prices are shooting upward supply
and demand also factor in
many americans are in the market for new
homes new bicycles and many other goods
but the inventory of these things is
exceptionally low
so that's driving prices up but if they
go up too much
too fast people may pull back on
spending and buy less
and that can hurt the economy since last
yearamerica's bounce back from covid related
problems has been
faster than many economists expected
some are neither surprised nor concerned
that inflation would rise more than
usual in early 2021
but others are concerned by how much
it's rising by
many banking officials are comfortable
with an inflation rate of two percent
per year
they believe this is just the right
amount to keep price rises moderate
but also to keep the economy growing but
between march of last year
and march of this year consumer prices
rose by 2.6
more than half a percentage point higher
than banker's comfort zone
and the question is is this temporary
and likely to level out as the year goes
on or
is this a sign of sustained inflation on
the horizon
no one knows the answer to that yet one
thing economists do agree on
is that the cost of goods will probably
keep rising through the summer
ten-second trivia which of these
airlines
is oldest qantas aeroflot delta
or american
these are listed in order of oldest to
youngest with australia's qantas having
been founded in 1920
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we mentioned that plane tickets were on
the rise the aviation industry is
huge in a normal year it accounts for
more than 5 percent of america's gross
domestic product
it took a tremendous hit during covid in
2020experts say international travel
decreased more than 80 percent
from 2019 and a dramatic drop in
business bookings which typically make
more
money for airlines than leisure bookings
do were a major reason why the industry
lostbillions of dollars last year but there
are signs that things are getting off
the ground again
and that comes with challenges of its
own
the pressure is on at american airlines
tulsa maintenance base
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here crews are preparing planes to meet
the new surge in air travel
hundreds of commercial airliners sat
idle on taxiways ramps
even runways through much of the
pandemic
now american says all of its planes will
be flying again
by the end of the month no easy task
in many ways we touch the aircraft
actually have more maintenance
requirements on the aircraft
that has been in storage or is in
storage than we do with the aircraft
that's out actively flying
roger steele's team of mechanics are
spending one thousand hours to revive
just one plane here part of their work
includes federally mandated inspections
of the boeing 737
it is the world's most popular airliner
american alone
parked 300 of them because of the
pandemic
the faa said the plane sitting idle
could cause a critical
valve to fail risking catastrophic dual
engine power loss in flight all of the
things that
could have been negatively impacted by
the fact that it was parked
have been identified they've been
addressed and they've been resolved
and so i can assure you 110 percent that
these aircraft are safe
and they're ready to fly planes have
been stored exclusively outside for
months on end and crews came out here
about every 10 days
to check things like the engine uncover
them and fire them up also check the
landing gear the tires and the brakes
the crucial parts inside there
about 100 planes were stored out here at
the peak of the pandemic
but now there are only a few left the
latest data shows airline travel closing
in on a recovery industry groups say
flights are now
75 full up from 60 percent
just last month new demand means the
industry is bouncing back sooner than
expected
the newest jump in numbers means the
transportation security administration
needs more help screening passengers
it is hiring six thousand new officers
to staff
checkpoints holding hiring events
nationwide
i think the big thing is for us we want
to be prepared for the summer we're
clearly taking a lot of efforts to make
sure that happens
united airlines just said it will hire
new pilots for the first time in more
than a year
while thousands of existing pilots will
be coming back from pandemic time off
a cnn review of aviation safety records
from across the country
uncovered flight crews reporting rusty
skills
and in-flight errors after returning to
workamerican airlines says its pilots will
be thoroughly rechecked in classrooms
and simulators
before coming back on the job there's a
lot of pent up travel demand
and we really want to be there and be
ready to move our customers to wherever
they want to go
safely efficiently and make sure we're
putting out a good product
pete muntean cnn tulsa oklahoma
a proliferation of plastic waste is a
side effect of the coronavirus pandemic
when oil prices crashed last year it
became cheaper for manufacturers to make
new plastics than to recycle old ones
with to-go order increasing restaurants
had to resort to plastic takeout
containers instead of washable dishes
and then there's the issue of personal
protective equipment or ppe
in the early days of covid the dire
shortage of ppe
left many frontline healthcare workers
painfully vulnerable
but now so many masks are made each year
they could cover an area the size of
switzerland now
everybody is aware of ppe and
everybody in healthcare is being asked
to use more ppe
we now have almost 70 000 people to
potentially use a mask
every single day so the number of masks
that we needed went from 200 operating
theaters and some patient floors to
literally 70 000 a day
that's from one hospital adding to an
already staggering amount of plastic
waste
coming from our health care system we
estimate that
it's somewhere around a million tons per
year
of clean plastics and that's a million
tons per year in the u.s
we're estimating that's probably
equivalent in europe and probably about
the same amount
in asia unfortunately today i would say
probably the majority of it is still
going to landfill
landfills if we're lucky the ocean
conservancy collected more than a
hundred thousand pieces of ppe
during the second half of 2020 alone and
that is just a tiny tip
of a mountain of pandemic plastic waste
manufacturers went into overdrive to
produce billions of pieces of ppe
things like gloves things like garments
things like
masks beard nets hair covers shoe covers
personal protective equipment has always
been around but due to covid it's
it's now a monster waste stream programs
offered by private recycling companies
like terracycle
are taking aim at the discarded consumer
ppe but
contaminated materials like those coming
from hospitals
aren't as simple to process waste coming
from certain areas like hospitals
does qualify as hazardous waste in many
cases which means legally from a
regulatory standpoint we can't touch it
recyclers are afraid to take materials
from hospitals because
maybe there's a syringe in there
something came in that wasn't supposed
to and they didn't catch it in time and
they had to shut down their whole plant
and disinfect everything
recycling is really third on the
hierarchy when it comes to dealing with
waste the first is to reduce the use of
plastic second is to reuse and then the
third is to recycle
it's a situation that has forced the
cleveland clinic to rethink
and look for other ways to reduce their
plastic footprint
best possible outcome characterizes
today's 10 out of 10 segment
during a recent air show over the
eastern coast of florida
an engine failure caused a world war ii
era plane to go down
the pilot maneuvered it near a beach and
was somehow able to avoid people
softly ditch the aircraft into the water
and walk
or wade away without any major injuries
not the kind of finale you want to be in
but if you're flexing a texan jockeying
a mustang fighting fire in a spitfire
finding it hard to steer man
running out of air in a corsair or going
fishing in a swordfish
and you can be ginger with your avenger
there are worse things than beaching at
a beach within reach of their assistance
up Carl Azuz for CNN 10 hampshire high
school in romney west virginia
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