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COY WIRE: Hey, everyone.
Welcome back.
I hope you had a great weekend.
I'm Coy and I'm here to help you start your week off right,
fuel your mind with important thought provoking
news, while having a little bit of fun too right here
on CNN 10.
Let's start with a quick look at the news out of Saudi Arabia.
Tensions between the Middle Eastern nation and the United
States increased last week.
This comes after the Saudi led OPEC, the organization
responsible for exporting petroleum,
announced that they would cut the output of oil
by two million barrels per day.
And that would, of course, increase the price per gallon,
ultimately hurting our pockets.
The US had been pressuring Saudi Arabia to postpone that move.
The timing is difficult for President Biden
because the midterm elections in the US are only weeks away,
and inflation and the price at the gas pump,
will be at the top of many voters' minds.
The Biden administration asked Saudi Arabia
to postpone the decision to cut gas production
until after the mid-terms, a decision for which
many are criticizing Biden.
The US has suggested that the increased prices could help
Russian President Vladimir Putin continue
to fund his war in Ukraine.
In response, Saudi officials have said the decision
to cut production was designed to stabilize the markets,
not for political reasons.
The White House has now said that it would look
for additional ways to reduce Saudi Arabia's
control over energy prices.
The US Saudi relationship is viewed
as a key pillar for regional stability in the Middle East.
10 second trivia.
While not constant, the speed of sound is typically how fast?
10,000 miles per hour?
760 miles per hour?
86 miles per hour?
Or 186,000 miles per second?
Air temperature changes this, but the sound barrier
can typically be broken at around 760 miles per hour.
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Next, we introduce you to Felix Baumgartner.
He's celebrating the 10 year anniversary
of his record breaking skydive.
He was on top of the world, an unbelievable 135,000
feet, that's 4 and 1/2 Mount Everests high.
And he became the first person ever to skydive
at a supersonic speed.
That's a long way since the inventor of the parachute,
Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin,
used a canvas canopy in a small basket
to drop from beneath a hot air balloon in 1797.
Meet Felix Baumgartner speaking with CNN world
sport anchor Patrick Snell.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER: On the 14th of October, 2012,
I was all the way up in a capsule,
135,000 feet above the ground, not knowing where
this journey is going to go.
But it was such a breathtaking moment
once I opened that capsule door and stepped outside.
And then I looked around.
And I could see black sky.
And I also saw the curvature of the Earth,
knowing now I have to do this big leap into the unknown.
Because nobody ever did a skydive at supersonic speed.
I was the first one.
And it brings back a lot of good memories.
PATRICK SNELL: Let's get to that special moment,
that historic moment.
We see that jaw dropping image, Felix.
We see when the door slides open, that amazing view.
You say-- at one point, I think you
say you wish you could have actually
had more time up there before you jumped on reflection.
I mean, to those of us who can only ever dream
of being in that place where you were,
can you even begin to describe what it's like?
FELIX BAUMGARTNER: First of all, believe it or not,
I was super happy that the door opened because it could also
be that the door is freezing.
So I cannot open that door.
And once I was outside, I was really
trying to Inhale that moment because we
have been working so hard.
Just think about it.
When I started skydiving at the age of 16,
this is where my journey already started
without knowing where it goes.
But 35 years later, I'm standing there
on top of the world outside of a capsule in the stratosphere.
And I said what I had to say.
Sometimes, you have to go up to understand how small you are.
And then I said, I'm coming home now.
Then I was on my way, accelerating
to 890 miles an hour in just a little
bit more than 50 seconds.
It was a very breathtaking moment.
PATRICK SNELL: Look, it wasn't all smooth, was it though?
Because despite breaking the sound barrier,
you're then spinning out of control.
At that point, how alarming was it all?
And how helpless did you feel?
FELIX BAUMGARTNER: That was a very alarming moment.
Because there is no protocol.
There is nothing that they teach you,
even if we did a perfect preparation
for all those years.
So I had to find out on myself.
How did I do this?
By try and error.
I was moving my arms and legs around trying to figure
out what will stop that spin.
But you have to keep in mind at that altitude,
it's almost a vacuum.
So there's no air.
It's like sailing without wind means your skills do not work.
And at around 90,000 feet, there's a thicker layer
of air that helps you a lot.
I was able to use that thicker layer of air to control myself.
And once I turned around, I was stable as a rock.
And from that moment on, this was
actually the first moment where I started to enjoy my skydive.
And once I opened my parachute and my visor,
this was the first moment after seven hours where
I was breathing outside air.
So I was reconnected to the outside world.
And that was a very happy moment.
PATRICK SNELL: And then we see you make
this perfect, perfect landing.
And we know that was so important to you.
But of course, the realization at that moment
that your life changed forever as well at that point, right?
FELIX BAUMGARTNER: As a skydiver,
you never worry about your landing.
You just land.
But knowing that the whole world was watching,
you want to have a perfect landing.
And that's why I was so worried about my landing.
But I nailed it.
I was happy when I landed.
The only thing that I didn't know when I landed
is, did I break the speed of sound?
Because once you're in freefall, you know you're fast,
but you have absolutely no indication
of how fast you actually are.
So when I landed, the rocket verification guy showed up.
He took my chest tag off.
It was this big white box that I was
wearing in front of my chest.
And inside, there was the record verification device.
He took it, he disappeared in a tent,
he plugged it in in a computer.
It took about 10 minutes, I was waiting
outside, and after 10 minutes, he came out and said, hey.
Thumbs up.
You were even faster than the speed of sound.
And at that moment, I was really happy and satisfied.
Because to me, breaking the speed of sound
as the first human in history, that was definitely something.
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COY WIRE: Now for today's 10 out of 10.
A pup that deserves round of appaws.
A black lab named Maverick in South Texas
was stopped dead in his tracks for more than a minute
when he ran into some, wait for it, cats.
But not real cats.
We're talking Halloween decoration cats.
I'm not kitten.
The question is, was he frozen because he
was ready for the hunt or because he was afraid
that he was being hunted?
More now from CNN's Jeanne Moos.
JEANNE MOOS: This may look like a decorative dog standing
amid five Halloween decoration cats.
But the dog is real, a lab by the name of Maverick.
ADAM FLORES: He was just frozen.
I mean, it's like somebody just froze him in place.
JEANNE MOOS: Maverick's owner, Adam
Flores says it was the first time the dog saw the cats.
He stopped in his tracks in their South Texas front yard
as Adam, his wife, and even his five-year-old daughter
cracked up.
ADAM FLORES: Maverick.
JEANNE MOOS: "He looks like you paused him",
commented one TikToker.
Joked another, "I think your dog is broken.
To do a hard reset, refer to owner's manual."
And only after more than a minute of paralysis
did Adam manage to break the spell.
ADAM FLORES: Hey.
It's OK, dude.
JEANNE MOOS: His catatonic tail woke up first.
Someone pointed out, "lab thinks he's a pointer."
So we showed the video to Justin McGill
who breeds pointing labs at Hunters Point kennel in Iowa.
Was Maverick pointing?
Or was he petrified?
JUSTIN MCGILL: Oh no.
He was pointing.
He wasn't scared.
His body language, his tail was medium,
he wasn't tucked between his legs.
He didn't have any control over that.
That's just total instinct.
He walked out the door, saw that, and locked up.
JEANNE MOOS: Unlike an English pointer,
labs are not known as pretty pointers when they spot prey.
The point is, don't call Maverick a scaredy cat.
Jeanne Moos, CNN.
ADAM FLORES: It's OK, dude.
JEANNE MOOS: New York.
COY WIRE: Poor Maverick.
Had a rough day.
Hey, y'all.
Hey, we love your positive cattitudes
and all the love you're giving us in the comment
section of our YouTube page.
So we're showing you some love right back.
Special shout out to Priceville Junior High
School in Decatur, Alabama.
We see you and we thank you.
Now go on out and do the little things that make this world
a better place.
I'm Coy and this is CNN 10.
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