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thank you
hello everyone so good to be with you
hope you had an awesome weekend
highlight of mine was meeting one of you
when I was on a daddy daughter's date at
a ramen restaurant super cool you said
hey it really remained a lot to me I'm
Coy this is CNN 10 let's start this week
off strong first up we're talking
student loans for years the cost of
college has steadily increased and today
more than half of students leave school
with debt tackling the growing amount of
student loans in the U.S has been a
difficult challenge one that's been a
Hot Topic in politics for years and with
good reason Americans have 1.6 trillion
dollars in student loan debt that's more
than they owe in credit card debt or car
loans in August President Biden unrolled
a new plan that his administration says
will help those borrowers under Biden's
plan if you make less than 125 thousand
dollars a year or two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars for married couples the
government will forgive ten thousand
dollars of your previous student loan
debt meaning the government won't make
you pay back the money they gave you for
school now the plan doesn't apply to
everyone and those who oppose it have
said it'll be a burden on taxpayers and
that it doesn't solve the root problems
of why Americans have so much student
loan debt others feel like it's not fair
for those who never went to college in
the first place the Department of
Education on the other hand estimates
that 90 percent of the loans being
forgiven will be for lower or middle
income families making less than seventy
five thousand dollars and supporters of
the plan say if more people could be
freed from paying off their debt that
money could go back into the economy
instead now last week the White House
Began officially accepting applications
for the student debt cancellation
program but on Friday a federal court of
appeals put a temporary hold on the
program after six republican-led states
filed a lawsuit saying the president
doesn't have the authority to cancel
debt it's a tricky subject so I'm going
to toss it over to Camila Bernal in Los
Angeles who weighs the pros and cons of
forgiving student loan debt
it may take a little longer but Cody
hunanian is still expecting a third of
his student loan to be forgiven it's a
light at the end of the tunnel he's
referring to President Joe Biden's
student loan forgiveness program that
would cover ten thousand dollars of his
student debt because while he's been out
of college for nine years he still owes
thirty thousand dollars
I recently married me and my wife are
going to be thinking about purchasing a
home so it's all of a sudden kind of
right in front of me again because I'm
thinking about the kind of debt I have
and I need to finance my future and get
a home but while the administration was
expected to start granting loan
discharges as early as Sunday a federal
appeals court put a temporary
administrative holds on the program a
move being argued in and out of the
courtroom USC economics professor Robert
diekel says that while all his students
support the program he asked them to
consider different perspectives relative
to defense spending and the overall
government budget the annual cost is is
not huge but it there is it's going to
be a burden on current taxpayers he also
says if the goal is to help low-income
families the government should instead
invest in say early childhood education
as an economist decal says he thinks
short-term loan forgiveness will only
make inflation worse but as a professor
he believes long term this will make the
U.S more competitive we need people with
skills and the way to get it is in
higher education and it's that education
that hunanian says got him to where he
is today now the executive director of
the student debt crisis center a
non-profit focused on ending the student
debt crisis for me the only way to open
the door was to take on student loan
debt even though it's created really
unnecessary challenges and you know
we've had to be stressed and all that
but my future is brighter nonetheless
now he's not only waiting for his loan
forgiveness but also fighting so that
others can also get the relief my dream
my vision for a better America in the
future is one where my kids don't even
have to consider student loan debt
10 second trivia in which of these
African nations would you find chobi
National Park Sudan South Africa
Cameroon or Botswana
Toby National Park is located in
Northern Botswana and is home to herds
of elephants and Cape buffalo
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next up we're going on Safari and we're
not alone but swanis chobi national park
has people flocking like a herd of
elephants a tower of giraffes a
confusion of wildebeest or a crash of
rhinoceroses what a collective noun for
your teachers be anyhow all the people
are excited about the incredible
wildlife in the region and that's good
for the local economy but it's
challenging the environment my colleague
Bill Weir is learning how Park Rangers
there are using more environmentally
friendly equipment to help preserve the
ecosystem
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tourism is big business in Botswana a
landlocked country in southern Africa
where Wilderness and game reserves are
the main attractions of its
approximately 2.3 million people nearly
nine percent work in the industry with
the majority of visitors coming to
Basque in the Jewel of the Kalahari the
okavango Delta and its neighbor chobi
National Park tourists they're traveling
from very far places from their
countries to come and see our beautiful
country but while all that traffic can
be good for the economy it can come in a
huge environmental cost as waste
pollution and an increasing number of
vehicles damage the health of the
Region's ecosystem this is the lion Trek
it's heading to the West Side so it
could be the lions that we saw down by
the liver side yesterday
here in Shelby National Park home to
Africa's largest elephant population
bellami works as a guide for chobi Game
Lodge the only permanent property inside
its borders and the first in Africa to
use in electric Safari vehicle and
electric powered boat
all this electricity that used to power
the boats and the vehicles are generated
in-house from the solar panel even when
we are driving the boats the solar
charges from the sun it's such a magical
experience on electric boats because
they are much more quiet than you can
even hear birds calls and the animal
colds like alarm calls for those who are
bed Watchers is a great moment and you
can easily approach most potentially
dangerous animal like elephants and
hippos without even disturbing them
according to the lodge the electric
vehicles have helped them save over 2500
gallons of diesel reduce their carbon
emissions by nearly 28 tons
and drastically cut back on an invisible
but highly important issue in the
natural world noise pollution we can
hear the noise from the other boats you
know obviously the diesel powered or
petrol power they make a lot of noise
and then ours are So Silent of course
being driven in the water they produce
zero emissions so they're so nice to
maneuver around especially when
elephants were swimming across going to
the other side we can actually be close
you know a few meters away just to watch
them
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earlier this year the fully eco-tourism
certified Lodge took another step to
ensure their credentials by appointing
sepiso as their first environmentalist
and she says their sustainable practices
extend across the entire property and
Beyond from guest laundry services to
upcycling waste products
for a population so reliant on the
income that tourism brings Eagle lodges
like chobi are vital in forging a path
that can maintain and even boost visit
numbers without damaging the very
ecosystem that makes Botswana such an
attractive destination
it's all about conserving and preserving
what we have you know taking care of our
environment making sure we take good
care of our flora and fauna that's what
matters most
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okay for today's 10 out of 10 if you
love playing cornhole or bags as some
people call it you'll like this one big
time Matt Brokaw from Missouri made a be
enormous cornhole board it's so big that
you need a giant slingshot to toss the
bean bags it's 10 times larger than a
standard board and it even lights up at
night Matt said he'd been dreaming of it
for a while and it took several months
to build and now it's getting a whole
lot of attention he thinks cornhole will
be an Olympic sport one day do you think
you could be a cornhole Olympian
well it's been a blast and this show is
almost in the bag lovely people and I
can't wait to hang with all of you and
see what's in the news for us tomorrow
but before I go I want to give a big
shout out to Green Mountain Union High
School in Chester Vermont let's all go
out today and do the little things that
make this world a better place even if
it's just a friendly smile I'm koi and
this is CNN 10.
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