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Hi I'm Carl Azuz. It's great to have you
along for today's show which covers
everything from a space
splashdown to a suspended pool that's
making a splash
we'll start in washington dc though it's
traditional that after giving a state of
the union speech or an annual message as
we saw last week
a u.s president hits the road the leader
spends time at rallies and events to
meet with supporters
and to try to drum up support for the
proposals outlined in the speech
president joe biden is doing that now
he's released two major economic plans
one is titled the american family's plan
and the other is the american jobs plan
the first would include more child care
programs free preschool free community
collegethe second would include spending on
roads bridges and new climate-centered
programstogether the two plans would cost almost
four trillion dollars
and they've got to get through congress
first this branch of government controls
the purse strings
and even though the president's fellow
democrats have the majority of votes in
bothchambers it's a slim majority especially
in the senate with 50 democrats and 50
republicans
vice president kamala harris a democrat
would be the tie-breaking vote if
there's a 50-50 senate split
at this point it's not clear if the
president's proposals have enough
congressional support to pass
it's not clear if there's enough
agreement on how to pay for them
and it's not clear if they'll get any
support from republicans who've released
an infrastructure plan of their own
one thing lawmakers might do is break up
the president's large proposals
to pass smaller chunks that can get
support from both parties
the process is expected to take months
ten-second trivia nasa's apollo 8
mission was noteworthy for doing what
orbiting the earth orbiting the moon the
first space broadcast or a lunar module
landing
in 1968 three astronauts became the
first humans to orbit the moon
that was also the last time a spacecraft
carrying astronauts made a nighttime
splashdown a landing in the ocean until
sunday
four travelers aboard a spacex crew
dragon capsule arrived in the gulf of
mexico
after spending five months on the
international space station
the future of the iss is uncertain it's
the most expensive
object ever built the u.s spends three
to four billion dollars per year to run
and maintain it and nasa is looking for
more partners to help with that
at a time when at least one of them
russia says it's going to leave the
project in 2025
but work aboard the iss continues
is supposed to be vast unless you were
one of the 11 space explorers posing
elbow to elbow recently
on the international space station for
nasa and spacex it's one cruise starting
and another one ending and liftoff add
in two cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut
who arrived on a russian sawyers
spacecraft in april
and it was officially a full house in
the floating space lab
for over a week the 11 stellar roommates
bunked together
in a place nasa says is the size of a
six-room house
the record number of people aboard the
iss is 13
set back in the space shuttle era still
french astronaut tomar pesquet from crew
2
says it was a tight squeeze
six sleeping spots for 11 members of the
crew that means five
camp out there are people scattered
around the entire module
we try to be mindful people have been
trained on that
wiggle room will return to the iss with
the departure of spacex's crew one
astronaut shannon walker says she's
proud of what her team accomplished
since they arrived
last november i think about all the
science that we did
and the repairs that we made and why did
we make some good repairs on the space
station
we've got it rewired crew one's return
is the firstnight splashdown of the u.s crude
spacecraft since 1968.
but walker says her time aboard the
space station is something
she won't soon forget what really is
going to
remain with me is the camaraderie and
the friendship and the time that we've
spent together
the laughing that we do over dinners the
movie nights that we have had have
truly made this very special and if any
returning astronauts feel a little
nostalgic they need only check out the
images posted
by crew 2's shane kimbrough for a peek
at the earth
few earthlings get to see first hand
crew one's completed mission is the
first of six crew rotations to the iss
by nasa and spacex plans that should
keep the iss
a busy place for years to come
michael holmes cnn
fossil fuels like coal gas and oil are
used to produce electricity
heat our homes and power gasoline
engines but when they're burned to
create energy
they release carbon dioxide into the air
and it's that kind of co2 that
scientists blame for a number of
environmental problems
there are several organizations working
on ways to deal with co2 emissions
some focus on switching to other forms
of energy others focus on removing
existing co2 from the atmosphere you're
about to see one
there are concerns that ropes of kelp
could harm marine life
or passing ships and it's not known yet
what kind of impact these masses could
have on the ocean floor
when they're sunk down there but they
are believed to be a way to capture co2
from the airand bury it for centuries in the deep
blue sea
kelp is seaweed also called a macroalgae
and kelp is one of the fastest growing
things in the world it pulls carbon in
at the fastest rate
of any species in the world running tide
is a ocean-based climate solutions
companywe're trying to use kelp which is like a
natural way to pull carbon out of the
atmosphere
and sink it to the deep ocean trees are
fantastic but
land-based solutions for carbon removal
run into some sort of spatial
constraints we don't have those in the
ocean really
so it's a fantastic place to pursue
climate solutions
the process starts on land in a hatchery
in a controlled environment where you
can really accelerate the propagation of
the kelp seed and then we put it out
into the water
we have teams working on the
biodegradable buoys after the kelp grows
the biodegradable buoy will dissolve and
lose its buoyancy and by then the kelp
is so heavy
that it sinks to the ocean bottom
sequestering the carbon for
a thousand plus years
every chance we get we like to get out
on the boat and have a look
it's getting thick too huh do you see
the source tissue developing anywhere
three months ago we put this kelp in the
water and it's just like a single string
of kelp seeded lime and
three months later you have like a
thousand pounds there's nothing like
you know picking up the line and feeling
like a thousand pounds of weight on it
and just being like
all right like we're doing the job we're
getting the work done
wow whoa
growing up in a fishing family i've
always been interested in how things
want to grow in the ocean how productive
the ocean can be
being a surfer you become very aware of
how powerful the ocean is
so i think that i was just aware that
kelp could be a solution to the carbon
crisishow long is that rob not nine feet
in three months wow
how do we know that growing this much
kelp is not going to disrupt the ocean
ecosystems like that's a fantastic
question it's a question we ask
ourselves every day
and we're working with some of the best
scientists in the world to study
and model out what effects this would
have and if we're going to have any like
undo negative effects like we're not
going to do it right how do we know that
the kelp is not going to come back up
well if you sink kelp to the bottom
of the deep ocean say 12 000 feet that's
under 5000
pounds of pressure for instance just
carbon dioxide under that much pressure
is actually heavier than water
so gravity works everywhere all the time
so it stays down you know every industry
in the world
will have to change how it operates in
order toreduce its carbon emissions there are a
lot of really progressive companies out
there that want to minimize their carbon
footprint so they'll buy what's called a
carbon credit from us
and we'll go remove the carbon for them
to offset the carbon they're emitting to
run their business
hopefully this turns into like a revenue
generating machine for us because
you know if we can demonstrate that we
can make a profit doing this then we can
pull in more investment and grow the
business bigger where we're really
making an impact on the climate
well this is a new way to think about an
above ground pool
it's 115 feet above the ground a clear
plastic box that's 82 feet long
and would allow people to swim between
two apartment complexes in london
you'll have to live in one of the
buildings to enjoy the pool and the
cheapest two-bedroom unit costs 1.4
million dollars but moving through the
pool that opens later this month is said
to be like
swimming and flying at the same time
it might be private but it ain't private
you can see right through what they're
trying to doand while critics might say people there
have gone off the deep end
they've still got their heads in the
clouds where the air is a little more
thin when they get in the swim they just
can't be afraid of heights or depths to
take a plunge while hopefully not
taking a plunge if you know what i'm
saying rochester adams high school gets
today's shout out it's in rochester
hills michigan
and I'm Carl Azuz for CNN