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COY WIRE: You made it, Happy Friday, everyone.
I'm Coy, and we are pumped to be here
with you to help you kick your weekend off
right right here on "CNN 10."
Awesome show today, so hop on board and let's go.
Some news surrounding the US railroad industry.
Freight railroad carriers and union representatives
are on track to reach a potential deal after fears
that there might be a strike.
The negotiations had been ongoing for 20 hours
and came days after the train companies chose
to cancel their long-distance trains
so that passengers wouldn't be stranded
if the strike happened.
The employees want better pay, improved working conditions,
and the ability to attend medical appointments
without losing pay.
The new contract they've agreed to
also gives them a 24% pay increase
over the next five years.
After reaching an agreement this week,
workers need to vote in order to seal the deal.
The strike may be averted for now,
but if no official deal is reached,
a national railroad strike could have serious economic effects.
A walkout of 60,000 workers could
derail industries across the country
and impact the supply chain.
According to the Association of American Railroads,
this could cost the economy $2 billion a day.
We also could see higher gas and food prices and more
expensive consumer goods.
But analysts say that even if a deal is signed,
the railroad industry still faces a number of issues,
including labor shortages and competition
from trucking companies.
We'll hear now from CNN chief business correspondent
Christine Romans about the potential economic impact
a strike like this could have.
CHRISTINE ROMANS: The rail system,
an artery for the American economy here, no question.
Here are some of the other ways a nationwide freight rail
strike could affect you, the consumer.
Higher gas prices.
About 300,000 barrels of crude oil move by rail every day.
That's enough to supply two midsize refineries.
If the refineries can't get the crude,
they'll be forced to cut production,
and they won't be able to ship already-refined fuel either.
Higher food prices as well here, and shortages, potentially
on shelves.
Just harvested crops like corn, soybeans, and wheat,
they won't get to food processors.
And not just here in the US.
You know, US corn exports to China, a huge amount of grain,
move out of the Pacific Northwest-- a long way
by rail from the Midwest.
Right now, meatpackers are also very concerned.
They can't have their fresh meat packed into rail cars,
only to be stranded on the tracks, right?
Beyond food, you're looking at higher prices
and potential shortages of other goods you buy in stores
and online, like housewares and hardware and clothes,
you name it.
If distributors and stores can't get them, you can't buy them.
And the holiday shopping season, by the way,
is right around the corner.
And the manufacturing.
Same logic here.
If factories can't get parts, if factories can't
get raw materials, then assembly lines grind to a halt,
and they can't ship what they've already made either.
A rail strike would put the brakes on delivering
new cars, new trucks, SUVs.
Automakers already struggling to rev up
production due to a parts shortage
left over from the pandemic.
New car supplies already limited, and prices
are at record highs there.
Pausing factory production would only make it worse.
COY WIRE: 10-second Trivia time.
Tegucigalpa is the capital of what Central American country?
Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, or Belize?
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Home to more than a million people,
Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras.
Our next story takes us to the nation of Honduras,
where, off the coast, we go underwater to explore a rarely
seen part of the ocean.
It's called the ocean's twilight zone.
It's the area between the shallow part
of the ocean that gets the sunlight
and the dark ocean floor.
Scuba-diving scientist Luis Rocha is studying ocean life
in this area, where few scientists have gone before,
and he's already discovered 30 new species of fish.
Rocha feels that the more we understand these habitats,
the better we can protect them.
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LUIS ROCHA: So the shallow reefs that everybody
is used to seeing, they're a very diverse ecosystem.
There are many, many species occurring
together, living together in very close proximity.
The deeper you go, the less energy the ecosystem
has, so the less sunlight reaches the deeper reefs.
Because of that, there's a lot less species.
When you get up close, it's still
a very colorful ecosystem.
There's many, many different kinds of fish.
And many of them are unknown.
In the past 10 years, I think I discovered
about 30 new species.
My name is Luis Rocha.
I'm curator of ichthyology and co-director
of the Hope for Reefs initiative at the California
Academy of Sciences.
"Ichthyology" is the study of fish.
I've always been fascinated by fish,
always had aquariums in my house growing up.
Almost everything we know about coral reefs
comes from the top 30 meters or so.
That's the limit of recreational diving.
The ocean's twilight zone, the portion that I study,
it's the coral reef between 200 and 500 feet.
The technical term for it is "mesophotic coral ecosystem."
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Diving at those depths is very different.
And that requires a lot of training.
Because very few scientists do it,
a lot of things about this region
are unknown, so every dive we do to those depths
is a new discovery.
It's very demanding to dive at those levels for a human.
It's lots and lots of preparation, concentration.
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And then going down, the anxiety is really great
because everything gets dark, and then
everything gets calmer, colder.
And then when we get there, we know why we're there.
When we see something that nobody has ever seen before,
it's absolutely amazing.
Coral reefs are under tremendous threats.
They're suffering because of overfishing, pollution--
fishing pollution, plastic pollution--
even at places that nobody has ever seen before.
So that was one of our first discoveries,
that those deeper reefs are really not a refuge
for shallow-reef organisms.
And then at the global level, the biggest
threat today is climate change.
So the waters are warming.
They're warming everywhere in the planet.
And the warmer they get, the worse it is for coral reefs.
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I don't think it's enough just to do the science.
I will take many, many photographs.
We bring those stories back up to the surface.
Then we share it with as many people as possible.
I think it's extremely important to engage local communities
about their own reefs.
We're using local names to name the fish because it gives
ownership to the local people, and we also always engage
with policymakers, everywhere we go,
to try to increase protection on shallow reefs
and on deep reefs.
And for the most part, when people
realize that those reefs are there,
they move towards protecting them.
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COY WIRE: For today's 10 out of 10,
we're heading to the Minnesota State Fair for this.
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Look out-- a good ol' fashion rooster crowing contest.
What, you've never been to one?
Well, here's how it works.
The feathery contestants get 30 minutes to try
to be the squawk of the town.
Rooster with the most crows wins.
On this day, a bird named Buster took the top spot.
32 crows.
Last place went to a dude named Silent Bob.
Zero crows.
Way to stay true to yourself, Bob.
You do you.
We want to give a special shout out Now to Mililani Middle
School in Mililani, Hawaii.
Did you know, fun fact Friday, that the state fish of Hawaii
is the humuhumunukunukuapuaa?
uh-huh.
Try saying that 10 times real fast.
Or just try saying "toy boat" 10 times real fast.
Good luck.
Aloha and happy Friday, y'all.
We hope you and everyone watching around the world
have a wonderful weekend.
I'm Coy.
Thanks for watching "CNN 10."
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