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COY WIRE: Hey, everyone.
Terrific Tuesday to you.
I'm Coy.
This is "CNN 10," and we've got a rendezvous with the news.
We're going to start this show by taking a trip to the United
Kingdom, where there's a new prime minister
taking office this week.
Rishi Sunak represents the Conservative Party in England,
and he becomes Britain's third leader in seven weeks.
His pathway to number 10, as in 10
Downing Street, where the prime minister lives,
was cleared when other members of his party,
including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
pulled out of the race Sunday night.
Sunak was the only candidate able to secure the support
of 100 conservative members of PARLIAMENT the necessary
threshold.
Rishi Sunak, the son of Indian immigrants
and the first prime minister of color in the country's history,
and at 42 years old, he's also the youngest
in more than 200 years.
But his new position won't be easy.
Mr. Sunak replaces Liz Truss, the former prime minister
of England who resigned after only six weeks, roughly 45,
days in office.
Sunak takes over at a time of widespread economic turmoil
throughout the country.
The financial markets have been extremely volatile,
and the value of the United Kingdom's currency, the pound,
has tumbled downward.
This is a difficult time for any leader of Britain,
especially because the country is
suffering from high inflation.
The new prime minister will also have
to unify the country as calls from across the nation
for another general election to select
a new prime minister continue.
Next steps for the newly elected prime minister
include a meeting with the monarch,
and for the first time, that's the new king, King Charles III.
He ascended the throne last month
after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The queen appointed 15 prime ministers
during her 70-year reign on the throne.
10-second trivia.
What is considered the most dangerous animal
in the world Black mamba, Nile crocodile,
mosquito, or great white shark?
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While the Nile crocodile is considered the most aggressive,
mosquitoes, with over 100 trillion on the planet,
can carry lethal diseases affecting
up to a million people a year.
If you're like me, you can't stand mosquitoes.
They buzz up on you, take a bite without invite.
They suck your blood like a vampire.
Not cool.
But have you ever noticed that some people aren't
bothered by mosquitoes at all?
Well, scientists are discovering why
some people are indeed mosquito magnets, while others aren't.
Over the course of three years, researchers
asked a group of 64 volunteers to wear nylon stockings on
their arms for six hours a day.
The research team then placed two people's stockings
inside a chamber filled with mosquitoes,
giving them their choice of human-scented stockings,
and that helped determine which people were mosquito magnets
and which were, quote, "low attractors."
Now, the study found that 50 molecular compounds were
higher in mosquito magnets, especially
carboxylic acid on the skin.
That's found in the oily substance that helps
to keep our skin moisturized.
The study found that certain odors play a role, too,
and research had already previously found
that body heat and the carbon dioxide
we release when we breathe attracts mosquitoes as well.
Scientists say that, with better understanding,
new and improved repellents could
be developed in the future.
Question, lovely people-- how would
you like to be hired by NASA to hunt aliens?
If so, maybe someday you will.
The space agency just announced that a team of researchers
has been formed to study UFOs.
These professors, scientists, and others are on a mission
to explain the unexplainable.
For more, let's meet up with CNN space and defense
correspondent Kristin Fisher.
KRISTIN FISHER: NASA has announced the team of people
that will participate in its study
of unidentified aerial phenomena,
or UAPs, or more commonly referred to as UFOs,
and these people consist of astronomers, astrophysicists,
biologists, former Pentagon, NASA, former Federal Aviation
Administration officials, and one very famous
former NASA astronaut, Scott Kelly, who, of course,
spent a year in space.
And these 16 people are going to spend the next nine months
or so really studying all of the unclassified data on UAPs,
and they're also going to be analyzing how the agency can
better analyze and handle and catalog all of the data that's
coming in on this from civilian and commercial entities
as well.
And, you know, there are quite a few government entities
looking into the issue of UAPs.
Congress has been looking into it.
The Pentagon as well.
So why NASA?
Well, NASA says its job since its creation, really,
has been to, you know, try to explain the unexplainable
and look at these very complicated things
up in our skies, in space and try to figure out exactly what
they are and how they work.
So NASA's leadership believes that this fits squarely
in their wheelhouse, and so this is something
that they-- this study is something that they
announced back in July.
And they have just now announced the team members, which
are getting ready to meet.
And this study set to begin officially on Monday,
and then that team is expected to release its finding
publicly sometime in mid-2023.
COY WIRE: Next up, we want to introduce you to one of our CNN
Heroes, Kim Calichio.
The former restaurant chef and her husband
founded the connected chef.
They purchase fresh groceries wholesale and food
from local farms to pack in grocery
boxes for people in need.
Let's meet Kim and hear about how the COVID-19 pandemic
inspired her organization.
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KIM CALICHIO: When you're a restaurant chef,
everybody in your life also works
in the restaurant, because it's an industry
where it becomes your life.
So in the beginning of the pandemic,
we thought, what is happening to our people?
As a restaurant worker, you were put out
of work because your restaurant shut down.
There was a community of individuals
who did not qualify for unemployment
benefits or stimulus funding.
My business, doing cooking and gardening classes,
completely halted, and so I had no income at all myself.
All right.
We are ready.
Do you guys want to set the table?
My husband and I were like, at least
I can get unemployment, where there
are 5 to 15 people that we know that aren't going to have that.
Is it good?
Yeah?
I had a choice to either sit here in my house
and be overwhelmed because I was in the same situation,
or I can do whatever it is that I could possibly do.
There was nothing to lose, almost.
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We're going to do two apples, the bunch of bananas.
Two tomatoes, one pepper.
And then for the greens, we're just going to do one of each.
We started a GoFundMe to direct-deliver groceries
to families across Queens.
And then these guys.
And within a week, we raised $10,000.
We thought the pandemic was going to be over into weeks,
so we were like, we'll spend this 10 grand,
and then we'll go back to work.
And that never happened.
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We knew we were onto something.
We were very efficient, and I think
that's our restaurant chefness.
Everybody who started working with us, they were line cooks,
so they knew how to do things quickly and efficiently.
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The first week, we delivered 25 grocery
packages to 25 families.
And within a month's time, we were
delivering 400 to 500 groceries to families every single week.
All right.
We source 80% of the produce from local farms
in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
That's super nice.
Those are beautiful.
They deliver food at our distribution center.
And then we direct-deliver those ingredients
and packages out to families.
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For us, a measure of success is that a little
over 126 households have come off
of our free grocery program.
Even if the pandemic completely goes away,
these people are still left in a really hard place.
They weren't making enough money two years ago.
So until we're able to create something that
can be replicated in multiple communities,
this work will continue.
My hope is that we are working with our community.
They feel happy to be a part of something that is collective.
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And for today's 10 out of 10, there's a lot of anticipation
around this brilliant photo.
Believe it or not, this is what an ant looks like up close.
Pretty terrifying, right?
This image was captured by a Lithuanian photographer who
previously photographed birds.
He used reflected light to capture
this super-close-up image of the ant.
Sorry if this haunts any of your dreams tonight.
You can't spell "haunt" without the "ant."
All right, did you know that today is
National I Care About You Day?
And on this day, I want you to know that I and my team,
we genuinely care about you.
We aim to inform, inspire, and uplift you every day.
Special shout-out now to New Mission High School
in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
I'm @CoyWire on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat.
Be sure to let folks know that you care about them today.
I'm Coy.
This is "CNN 10."
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