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COY WIRE: Happy Monday, everyone.
Welcome to "CNN 10."
I'm Coy, and I'm so grateful to be right here with you.
Powerful show today, so let's get right to it.
We start by taking you to the country of Iran.
Last week, protests and rallies began in the Middle Eastern
nation after a young woman died in the custody
of the government.
Her name was Mahsa Amini.
She was visiting the country from Kurdistan.
Iranian authorities have said Amini died of natural causes,
but some reports suggested that Amini's death
was a result of poor treatment.
Amini was arrested for allegedly violating
Iran's strict Islamic dress code requiring women
to wear headscarves, or hijabs.
That requirement became mandatory
in public for Iranian women after the 1979
Islamic Revolution.
But a new order this year by the Iranian president
added new restrictions to that dress code.
That order and the questions around Amini's death
have resulted in anti-government protests in at least 40 cities.
On Friday, though, thousands of Iranian counterprotesters
in support of the government also
gathered in the capital of Tehran
in a show of support for authorities.
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The Iranian government is calling
for peace in the country and says
they'll restrict the internet until calm is restored.
More now from CNN's international correspondent,
Jomana Karadsheh, who's on the ground,
covering the latest across Iran.
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JOMANA KARADSHEH: Fury and defiance
on the streets of dozens of Iranian cities, protests raging
on a scale not seen in years.
At least 50 people have been killed, according
to Iran Human Rights, amid signs a heavy-handed crackdown is
coming.
The protests were sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman
in the custody of the notorious morality police, who
say they detained her for not abiding
by their strict Islamic dress code.
The government says it's launched an investigation.
They claim Mahsa Amini died of a heart attack.
Her family blame her death on police brutality.
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Calls for accountability have turned
into cries for freedoms this generation of Iranians
have never known.
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Young women are rising up, leading protests
in unprecedented acts of defiance,
burning the headscarves they've been
forced to wear for decades.
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On Friday, more ominous warnings from authorities.
The Iranian army, they say, is ready to step
in and deal with conspiracies of so-called enemies.
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As the country descends into darkness
with internet disruptions not seen since the 2019 protests,
many now bracing for what the coming hours
and days may bring.
COY WIRE: Next up, hundreds of thousands
of people on Canada's eastern coastline
are feeling the effects of Hurricane Fiona,
the same storm that brought devastation
to parts of the Caribbean, then made landfall in the province
of Nova Scotia on Saturday.
More than 400,000 Canadians were without power Saturday night.
The storm brought devastating wind and storm surge
throughout Canada's coastline, violent waves
sweeping homes away to sea while others were
destroyed by electrical fires.
Authorities declared a state of emergency
for some parts of the province of Newfoundland,
the easternmost part of the country.
Some families fled to shelter while others
sheltered in place.
The Canadian Armed forces deployed to the region
to help with the cleanup.
But look at this.
The video you're looking at now was captured
from inside of Hurricane Fiona as it moved
toward the Canadian coast.
CNN's Rachel Crane takes us now to the company that's
trying to better understand hurricanes by sailing right
into the eye of the storm.
RACHEL CRANE: Traditionally, scientists capture hurricane
data by flying planes directly through them,
dropping probes into the sky along the way.
But in order to completely understand a storm,
scientists say more data needs to be collected
from the surface of the ocean.
RICHARD JENKINS: What drives a hurricane's strength is
a transfer of heat and moisture from the ocean
to the atmosphere.
We don't quite understand the dynamics of how that works.
RACHEL CRANE: In order to find out,
Saildrone deployed five ships into the Atlantic Ocean
and Caribbean, areas where lots of hurricanes
develop and are likely to hit land.
They're powered by the sun and wind,
can stay out at sea for months at a time,
and are built to take a beating.
RICHARD JENKINS: And it's really designed to get hit by a wave,
tumbled, submerged, and come back up and carry on sailing.
RACHEL CRANE: And I see a camera up top.
RICHARD JENKINS: This hurricane mission
is key to understand the spray, the foam on the water.
So we're hoping that we can see with a camera
what the water looks like.
RACHEL CRANE: The drone's sensors and cameras
can send data and images in real time back
to Saildrone's headquarters.
CHRIS MEINIG: These are measurements
of wind, temperature, humidity, right
at that interface level that may help
the modelers understand the fundamentals of hurricanes
better.
That's never been done before.
COY WIRE: 10-second trivia time.
Which of these space rocks is also
referred to as a minor planet?
Meteoroid, asteroid, comet, or meteorite?
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Asteroids are also called minor planets.
And today, NASA plans to crash a spacecraft right into one.
Last week, we took a detailed look at the $324 million
NASA spacecraft that's scheduled to deliberately
slam into an asteroid.
It's called DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test,
and the plan is to study whether it would
be able to possibly deflect a potential asteroid if one
were headed toward Earth.
The collision is scheduled to happen tonight,
and CNN's Kristin Fisher visited with the DART mission control
team ahead of the big moment.
ELENA ADAMS: It's kind of what we all fear, right?
What if there was an asteroid that was coming toward Earth?
Can you really stop it?
Can you really do something about it?
And for the first time, our technology
allows us to actually do something about it.
KRISTIN FISHER: NASA's planning to ram
a refrigerator-sized spacecraft called DART
into an asteroid named Dimorphos, which
is roughly the size of the pyramid of Giza
and poses no threat to planet Earth.
The goal is to see if the impact will push the Dimorphos
slightly off course.
If it works, it means that this technique could
be used to deflect a future killer asteroid
that is headed for Earth.
BOBBY BRAUN: This inaugural planetary defense
test mission marks a major moment in human history.
For the first time ever, we will measurably
change the orbit of a celestial body in the universe.
KRISTIN FISHER: Mission Control is
inside the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.
What is this place going to be like on impact day--
or impact night, I should say?
ELENA ADAMS: Oh, my goodness.
It's going to be filled to the brink with people.
There's going to be people in every single seat
in the whole Mission Operations Center, about 44 people in here
alone.
KRISTIN FISHER: And they'll be able to watch the impact live,
as will everyone on Earth, thanks to a camera that's
mounted on the spacecraft.
These are live images?
ELENA ADAMS: Live images from DART, right now.
KRISTIN FISHER: One of the most tense moments for the team
will happen at 50 minutes to impact, when the spacecraft
will switch its sights from a bigger asteroid it's
pointed at now to a smaller, second asteroid which
is the real target.
EVAN SMITH: That's a very, very sweaty time for us.
[LAUGHS] So we have a lot of contingencies
built right around that 50-minute transition.
We're going to be watching the telemetry like hawks,
very scared but excited.
ELENA ADAMS: Then they're going to have
it get close and closer, and it'll
fill the field of view of our imager,
and then we're going to hit it.
KRISTIN FISHER: It's a moment this team has
been training for for months.
But even the rehearsals have been tense.
ELENA ADAMS: We just all, one by one,
stood up with all of our headsets, and all of us
were intently watching the screens,
just watching the asteroid get bigger and bigger.
And my heart was actually palpitating
because I was like, this is not normal, right?
It's just a rehearsal, but yet, you really
felt like you were about to hit that asteroid
for the first time.
KRISTIN FISHER: You're really testing the--
ELENA ADAMS: We're testing.
KRISTIN FISHER: --technology that could potentially save
all of humankind down the road.
ELENA ADAMS: Down the road, right.
KRISTIN FISHER: Now, we should almost immediately on Monday
night if the DART spacecraft successfully hit its target.
But NASA says it's going to take a few weeks to determine
if DART was successfully able to move
that asteroid just a little bit off its current orbit.
Kristin Fisher, CNN, Washington.
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For today's 10 out of 10, it's a boat.
It's a plane.
It's an all-electric battery-powered boat-plane?
[CHUCKLES] The seaglider is designed
to float not just on water but also on a cushion of air,
gliding just above the water's surface.
The vehicle is meant to transport travelers and goods
between coasts and islands.
This is just a quarter-scale prototype,
but the co-founder of the company
called Regent says a full-sized ride gets a trial in 2024.
So if you were going to go somewhere, you can't go by car
and you'd rather not go by boat or plane,
maybe you'll be seagliding soon.
How "a boat" that?
[CHUCKLES] Speaking of going by cars and boats,
why is it that when we transport something by car,
it's called a shipment, but when we transport it by a ship,
it's called cargo?
I never got that one.
Time now for a special shoutout to Mr. Williams' class
at Tucker Middle School in Tucker, Georgia.
Thanks to you and everyone choosing to get your news
right here at "CNN 10."
I'm Coy Wire.
Have a wonderful Monday.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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