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CARL AZUZ: Thank you for catching up on world events
with CNN 10, your objective explanation of news.
My name is Carl Azuz.
US President Joe Biden traveled to New Jersey on Tuesday
to have a look at the damage caused by Hurricane Ida.
The President had visited Louisiana late last week.
The storm made landfall in Louisiana on August 29th.
It was a powerful category 4 hurricane at the time
and Hurricane Ida has been blamed for at least 22 deaths
in that state and neighboring Mississippi
along with extensive damage and widespread power
outages in the region.
In the days that followed its landfall,
what was left of the storm carried
tremendous amounts of rain inland eventually
reaching the US Northeast.
In states from Virginia to Connecticut,
Ida has been cited as a factor in at least 50 deaths.
Many of those lives were lost when homes flooded
or when people's cars got trapped in floodwaters.
In New Jersey, President Biden pushed
for Congress to pass new legislation in response
to the storm.
JOE BIDEN: For decades, scientists
have warned of extreme weather and would be more extreme,
and climate change was here, and we're living through it now,
we don't have any more time.
CARL AZUZ: But critics have said the president
and his supporters are trying to take advantage
of severe weather to promote policies
that would harm the country.
Hurricane Ida is not the strongest storm ever
to strike the US, but it is one of the three
strongest to hit Louisiana.
And as people there assess the damage to their homes,
some are grappling with a tough decision
about whether to stay and rebuild
or look to live somewhere else.
JOE BIDEN: The piles lining the road
of Somerset Street in Laplace, Louisiana are growing higher.
Without power and sweltering heat,
Louisianans are clearing their homes from Hurricane Ida.
The Smith family are going through the House
of their mother Cheryl Roger Smith
who died during Hurricane Ida.
Down the block, the Bolden family
is mopping up the remnants of the home
they've lived in for 21 years.
ELDORA BOLDEN: I might need some of this stuff.
I'm going to let it dry.
WILLIE BOLDEN: Still water in here.
You still got water in there.
JON SARLIN: This is the second time they're gutting
their home after a hurricane.
Nine years ago, Hurricane Isaac also ravaged this neighborhood.
WILLIE BOLDEN: But we're just trying to get everything
out before the mold set in.
Because once the mold set in, it's a total loss.
This is my son's room.
JON SARLIN: Eldora and Willie Bolden
are now hoping to fix and sell this house.
WILLIE BOLDEN: OK, and this is our master bedroom.
JON SARLIN: Their plan is to build another more
storm proof home nearby.
But for their daughter, another home in Louisiana
isn't the answer.
- I want my parents to leave Louisiana.
Being a young adult, and my sister as well,
it's like when people ask us, do you want to have children?
And leave them where.
Leave them to what?
This?
I want to leave my children to this?
MICHELLE SMITH: There's some of our tribe.
- Yeah.
MICHELLE SMITH: Woo, it stinks.
- Yeah.
And all the current pictures were lost in Isaac.
I don't know if they're going to make it through this one.
We may have to take pictures of what we can.
And then we may have to just--
because if they're that rank, I don't know which one of us
would really want that.
JON SARLIN: Despite all they've lost,
the Smith family aren't considering leaving Louisiana.
- Every place has something.
You're not going to be tragedy, disaster free.
You're going to have earthquakes,
and wildfires, and tornado season,
and it's just it's what it is.
You just have to pick where you love, where you feel loved,
and where you feel like family.
And then that's it.
It's home.
CARL AZUZ: 10 second trivia.
Which of these car companies was founded first, Toyota,
Ford, Volkswagen, or Fiat?
Italian carmaker Fiat was formed in 1899, making it the oldest
company on this list.
For carmakers, this is not how things were supposed to happen.
Toyota, the world's largest vehicle manufacturer,
just reduced its production by 40% in Japan.
General Motors says it's stopping production at most
of its plants in North America.
Volkswagen is considering shutdowns.
All this is related to a global shortage in semiconductors,
computer chips that run different car
systems from touch screens, to automatic transmissions,
to airbags.
If manufacturers can't get these chips,
and there are supply problems around the world,
they either have to sell cars with fewer features,
or stop production entirely until they can get more chips.
A recent international increase in COVID cases
has only made things more complicated.
KRISTIE LU STOUT: It's so easy to take them for granted,
the tiny silicon based semiconductors that
fuel our modern lives, our smartphones,
our laptops, and our cars.
Now the average car has between 50 to 150 chips
that are used to monitor important engine and safety
systems along with GPS navigation or driver assistance
when you try to parallel park.
But when the pandemic hammered auto sales last year,
top chipmakers shifted capacity away from carmakers
to gadget makers, resulting in a critical shortage of car chips
that's been called chipageddon.
- One million cars could actually
be lost in the coming months.
So that's quite a lot.
If you take the average value of a car, which might be say,
what, $20,000, $30,000 maybe dollars,
it would actually lead to about $20 to $30 billions
in lost revenue.
KRISTIE LU STOUT: There is a growing
list of automakers cutting production
because of the chip crunch.
In Japan, you have Subaru, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan.
And in the US, Ford and GM.
In a statement, GM says this.
Quote, "despite our mitigation efforts,
the semiconductor shortage will impact GM production in 2021.
We're currently assessing the overall impact.
But our focus is to keep producing
our most in-demand products."
As the chip crunch disrupts production,
analysts say it may delay a global recovery
in the auto sector.
US senators are urging the White House to take action.
In a letter sent earlier this month,
15 US senators from auto producing states
warned that the shortage threatens
their post-pandemic economic recovery.
It's also a diplomatic issue.
To resolve the shortage, the US is working
with Taiwan, home of TSMC, the world's
largest contract chipmaker.
The Taiwan chip giant says the auto chip shortage
is its top priority, saying this, quote, "TSMC is currently
expediting these critical automotive products
through our wafer fabs.
While our capacity is fully utilized with demand
from every sector, TSMC is reallocating
our wafer capacity to support the
worldwide automotive industry."
Unquote.
As Taiwan pledges help, a warning
from the other chipmaking giant in Asia.
Samsung Electronics says the auto chip
shortage could hit smartphones.
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SCOTT HOCKNULL: Australotitan was
as long as a basketball court and as tall as a B-double.
This is an enormous animal.
It's Australia's largest dinosaur species.
Australotitan means Southern tighten.
And Cooperansis means from the Cooper Creek of Queensland,
in South West Queensland.
And this is where this gigantic dinosaur was discovered.
The study took a long time to actually come
together because each dinosaur bone
can weigh hundreds of kilos.
But we use digital scanning technology
to actually create three dimensional models
of each of these bones.
So I could take thousands of kilos of dinosaur bones
in my 7 kilo laptop.
Our study looked at dinosaurs from not just Australia,
but across the world.
We compared Australotitan's bones to all
of these gigantic sauropods.
And it's in the top 10 to 15 largest in the world.
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CARL AZUZ: On the list of stunts that
have little margin for error, flying a plane through a tunnel
is probably near the top.
The pilot who recently did this in Turkey
said it had never been done before.
We can't verify that.
But Guinness World Records did issue
the award of longest tunnel flown
through with an airplane, the distance
being more than a mile.
This would normally carry a don't
try this at home disclaimer.
But most people don't have a race plane, a pilot's
license, a tunnel, a film crew, and a year
to make preparations.
So many copycats would be grounded.
Oh sure, they may make a flap about that.
But it's plane to see that the props you'd need
exceed what's free to take off at speed
and land a record for flying solo
through a tube that is so low.
Orono is where we go to say hello where they use our show.
Orono high school is in Orono, Maine.
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That is the only place we look for the schools we mention.
I'm Carl Azuz for CNN.
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