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CARL AZUZ: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, welcoming viewers from
around the world to CNN 10.
We have a major story leading things off.
Yesterday, a major hurricane made landfall
in the US state of Louisiana.
Landfall is when a hurricane's eye, its center,
is halfway over a coast.
And the eye of Hurricane Ida arrived in Port Fourchon Sunday
afternoon.
When it hit, the storm's sustained wind
speeds were 150 miles per hour.
That made Ida an extremely dangerous
category four hurricane.
As it approached, Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards
said the storm could be a big challenge for his state
and a New Orleans Homeland Security official told
people to stock up on enough food and water
for at least three days.
Some Louisianans were ordered to leave their homes.
Schools were closed in that state and parts
of neighboring Mississippi.
Hundreds of thousands lost power.
Airlines canceled all flights at Louis Armstrong New
Orleans International Airport.
And a lot of officials were concerned
about the city of New Orleans.
It's 50 miles north of where Hurricane Ida made landfall,
and that occurred 16 years to the day
after Hurricane Katrina hit this region.
It caused catastrophic failure in the levees that protected
the city from flooding, contributing
to the deaths of 1,500 people.
A city officials said New Orleans was better protected
than it was when Katrina hit, but that flooding
there was still possible.
And as Hurricane Ida blew in, that city,
in addition to some other areas of Louisiana,
temporarily suspended their emergency response services
because it was too dangerous for rescuers
to go out in the Hurricane.
Ida wasn't even classified as a tropical storm
until last Thursday.
It strengthened quickly because of a process
called rapid intensification.
CHAD MYERS: Rapid intensification
is just like it sounds.
A, storm a tropical storm-- cyclone,
typhoon, hurricane-- that rapidly intensifies
now the definition is 35 miles per hour
or greater in 24 hours.
Now, take Maria.
Maria went from a category one to a category five in 15 hours.
For true RI, or rapid intensification,
you need a couple of things.
86 degree Fahrenheit water or greater and no shear.
So of course, the water down in the tropics is very warm.
What about this shear thing?
We hear about it in tornadic thunderstorms.
Those storms want a lot of shear.
Wind going in different directions in different speeds,
with height.
A hurricane wants no shear.
No wind direction change, no wind speed change with height.
It wants to be the only thing out there, making its own wind.
Not getting blown apart.
So why is rapid intensification important?
Well, you can go to bed one night
expecting a tropical storm and have a category two on
your doorstep the next morning.
CARL AZUZ: Up next, violence in the Asian country
of Afghanistan.
The United States is one day away from the Biden
administration's deadline to get all American combat
forces out of Afghanistan.
On Sunday, US central command said
it had launched an airstrike against
the ISIS-K terrorist group.
An American drone targeted a car that
was believed to be carrying at least one terrorist bomber
and explosives.
US officials said they stopped the threat,
though witnesses say several civilians
were also killed in the strike.
This was America's second attack against ISIS-K terrorists.
The first killed two fighters late last week
in another part of Afghanistan, according to US officials.
ISIS-K has been blamed for last Thursday's terrorist attack
at Hamid Karzai International Airport
in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
170 people were killed in the bombing, in addition
to 13 American service members.
Yesterday, US President Joe Biden
attended a somber event at Dover Air Force base in Delaware.
He met with the families of a US army soldier, a US Navy
corpsman, and 11 US Marines who were
killed in the terrorist attack.
With continued threats from terrorists and a quick takeover
by the Taliban, Afghanistan's militant Islamist rulers,
there have been urgent evacuations
and floods of refugees, as people
try to get out of Afghanistan.
10 second trivia.
"Mum", a product released in 1888
was the first trademark type of what?
Earplugs, deodorant, sleep aid, or fertilizer?
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"Mum" was a cream or paste designed to prevent
bacteria from causing odor.
And it's hygienic products like deodorant,
that an organization named Hope and Comfort distributes from
the Boston, Massachusetts area.
Its first major donation took place 11 years ago
when Hope and Comfort gave out 250 tubes of toothpaste
to people in need.
But since then, it's grown tremendously
and its founder Jeff Feinberg is a CNN Hero.
JEFF FEINBERG: In many ways, hygiene insecurity is not
a word that most people know.
Most people know food insecurity, not
having regular access to food.
Hygiene insecurity is lacking regular access
to essential hygiene products, and that has an enormous effect
of course, on one's health, but when self-confidence
and one's dignity.
Come on, Yahtzee.
I consider myself very lucky.
My wife and I live in a nice community in Massachusetts.
We have a wonderful family and we have a lot of things
that people aren't able to have.
But to those who much is given, much is expected.
Back in 2010 my wife and I decided
to take donations in lieu of presents
for our kids' birthday parties.
And we got a lot of different things.
We got food, we got clothing, but we
also got basic hygiene products, like soap and toothpaste.
And a couple of weeks later I heard back from a social worker
who thanked me, and she told me that food stamps
didn't cover these things.
She let me know how important and how
unusual it was for her to get these basic hygiene products.
These things are so simple.
They're not always things that you think about.
And I decided to try to do something about it.
There's my number one employee at Hope and Comfort.
And he's sorting.
Back in 2010 to 2015, it was just
our garage and so the kids, they were sorting and packing items.
I started buying items online and helping out
local organizations, many food pantries.
And unfortunately, the demand was always there.
And so we grew and grew and we continue to grow.
And so today, we are well over 3 and 1/2 million items
and we're distributing two million items or so a year.
These are the products that we're going to pick later
to go out to our partner organizations
to help them feel good, clean, and healthy.
Our five core products at Hope and Comfort
our deodorant, soap, shampoo, toothpaste and toothbrushes.
Here's an example of the shampoo that we give out.
We want people on the other end to feel dignified,
to feel good about what we're giving.
And so we want to give them the same variety
and selection that I would get or my kids would get.
Let's see what we got.
Oh, this is fantastic.
We receive items either on an in-kind fashion or we go
out and purchase these items.
Toothpaste, toothbrushes.
We receive requests each and every day for the most part.
Yeah, beautiful.
Cradles just getting six pallets, about 28,000 items.
There you go.
We work with nearly 200 nonprofit partners each
and every year.
Soap, razors, body wash, lip balm.
- Great.
Thank you.
JEFF FEINBERG: We don't need to reinvent
the wheel at Hope and Comfort.
There are wonderful organizations
that we can work with.
Hi, guys.
Great to see you.
This pallet is for you.
- What do you like Mommy?
JEFF FEINBERG: We like to think that these items not only keep
one clean and healthy and safe, they also keep one
confident and feeling dignified, so that they can go out there
and be their best selves.
- Say thank you.
- Thank you.
JEFF FEINBERG: There is a lot to do.
We have shampoo, both general and the sulfate free.
Lots of deodorant.
And I'm inspired and motivated each and every day to think
that we can do more.
We don't kid ourselves that at the end of the day,
curing hygiene insecurity is going to fix and make
everyone's lives better, but it is certainly
a meaningful part of allowing someone to feel
better about themselves.
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CARL AZUZ: Every dog has its day, according to the TSA.
That's the Transportation Security Administration, which
helps keep travelers safe.
And this animal employee whose name is Ellona,
has just won the TSA Annual Cutest Canine Contest.
She works at McCarran International
Airport in Nevada.
And because the four-year-old golden retriever
was born in the nation of Colombia,
she knows commands in both English and Spanish.
Of course, the whole competition went to the dogs,
but this was a golden opportunity for the golden girl
to Goldilock in the gold and retrieve the championship
in the cutest way possible.
Yes, some dogs can sit, stay, and roll over,
but Ellona is working, guarding, and winning all day.
I'm Carl Azuz and that about wrap things up for us.
Want to give a shout out to Elmira High School, our viewers
watching in Elmira, Oregon.
I don't personally choose the schools we mention.
They're emailed to me daily by a producer
who looks in one place.
That's YouTube.com/CNN10.
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