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it is Monday and it's gonna be the best
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begin today with news on the Mississippi
River this video shows the river at
historically low levels from Illinois to
Louisiana experts say the record low
water levels are due to the worst
drought in the central part of the
United States in at least a decade and
that we can expect to see continued
decreasing levels in the months to come
lack of rain or snow over a period of
time and atmospheric conditions such as
temperature change and changes in the
jet stream are all factors that can
contribute to drought and low water
levels according to the U.S drought
monitor half of the United States is
covered by moderate drought conditions
or worse with more than 134 million
people affected that's the highest part
of the population since 2016. in the
midwest has seen the worst of it several
inches of rain are possible over the
next week week near the Mississippi
River which could provide some relief
but the drought is forecast to continue
through January and low water levels
have some serious consequences they
could impact crops at a crucial time for
Harvest and allow for salt water from
the Gulf of Mexico to travel up the
Mississippi River which could
potentially spoil Louisiana drinking
water with salt and while the Army Corps
of Engineers has been dredging or
Excavating portions of the river's Basin
to make a path for boat traffic to keep
flowing it's at such a slow pace
hundreds of barges and vessels carry in
goods are waiting for the all clear to
be able to pass through the shallow
River
to navigate this River in the Old South
a man would stand on the prowess steam
ship and bounce a lead weight on a
knotted string off the bottom if it was
a safe 12 feet deep he'd shout Mark
Twain
Samuel Clemens made that his pen name of
course but if he wrote about this River
today Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn would
spend a lot of time walking on the beach
because in too many places the not so
mighty Mississippi is a fraction of a
Twain we're going to look at a few old
steamboats Steamboat racks
Mark Twain era steamboats yeah and the
Relentless drought across the Heartland
is exposing all kinds of memories it may
have caught on fire or sank
50 miles upstream and floated here
during floods as far as water levels go
this is as worse if you've ever seen
this is about as low as I've seen it
from the Missouri down to New Orleans
accidental archaeologists are finding
Steamboat graveyards and human remains
Civil War ammo and forgotten shipwrecks
and one of the more striking yardsticks
is here in Baton Rouge this is the USS
kid a World War II destroyer and on a
good year the Mississippi comes to that
first Rush strike about 25 feet above my
head right now and these water levels
are so low creating such a catastrophic
shipping crisis that this is going to
affect your grocery bill is the price of
moving a bushel of soybeans went up 300
percent and there are thousands of
barges full of food
and all I can do is just wait and Pray
For Rain
and if they can't get rain they pray for
help we've got a a difficult stretch of
River from the Army Corps of Engineers
with billions of dollars on the line
they cut channels as fast as they can
with working antiques like the dredge
Potter built in 1932 but still a
Workhorse and an endless fight with the
river in every kind of weather you're a
professional riverbed redecorator kind
of yeah yeah I'll throw this over here
that's right over there as long as we
can keep barges moving and keep
commodities prices down we're all in
good shape that's your that's your
mission it's impressive to see up front
Andy you know the Ole Miss better than
most ah you've been doing this a while
34 years
and how would you characterize what's
going on these days it is a concern a
heightened concern
um I I don't know that I we call it a
panic yet but we are watching the water
levels very closely on an almost an
hourly basis is it the kind of thing
where if this goes on you can dredge
around the problem
uh to a point in 1989 and then again in
2012 we got to an area where the chant
to a level where the channel was almost
unsustainable
so we had numerous dredges working and
there was very little Commerce going
through and ultimately what saved the
day was ring and these days when you
wish for rain you have to specify not
all at once the Midwest is still
recovering from Summer flash floods and
if the water cycle whiplashes again hard
rain on parched Earth would be another
blow to Farmers already struggling to
move their Harvest
fewer and lighter barges on the river
means more expensive trains and trucks
putting more planet cooking pollution
into Earth's system and on a connected
planet where one in eight humans eat
something that was moved down the
Mississippi
those hearty Souls on the dredge Potter
we're gonna need a lot more help
Bill Weir CNN Baton Rouge
10 second trivia what's the name of
NASA's next mission to the Moon Apollo
Artemis Explorer or Juno
Artemis 1 is currently scheduled for an
uncrewed test flight on November 14th
NASA's Artemis program hopes to return
humans to the moon for the first time in
half a century and the Artemis One
mission hopes to test to see if it's
ready to take real astronauts to the
moon and back but everything from fuel
leaks to hurricanes have already stalled
the mission liftoff is now scheduled for
November 14th and Artemis is back on the
launch pad waiting for its big moment
but if you can't wait there may be a way
for you to get that moonwalking feeling
right here on Earth a new invention from
shift robotics aims to make walking
faster and more efficient but will they
revolutionize The Way We Walk That
Remains to be seen
instead of replacing walking what if we
can augmenting or enhancing walking
these are not roller skates they are
moonwalkers designed by shift robotics a
startup out of the robotics Lab at
Carnegie Mellon University I think the
biggest problem is just the walking is
too slow it's super inefficient to get
around by walking so instead of
replacing walking what if we can you
know augmenting or enhancing walking the
company says these battery powered shoes
can boost walking speeds up to seven
miles an hour using a machine learning
algorithm shift robotics says the shoes
can adapt to a user's walking pattern in
real time you know even though it has
some elements of roller skate you never
freeloading you just go they only move
when you want to move moonwalkers can
fit most shoes with flexible straps that
can be easily taken on and off with
Magnetic buckles with speed limitation
Tech and braking systems the company
claims the shoes are safe to use on on
sidewalks or in crowded areas outside
the personal commuting or running errand
scenes we think they're going to be
great on distribution centers
Supermarket stores like warehouses for
example where it's not fully automated
but that still require lots of people
walking around shift robotics also
claims that users can walk over six
miles after a single charge of an hour
and a half the company says it will
deliver the first batch of shoes to
consumers in March 2023 at nearly
fourteen hundred dollars I think at one
day you know once we achieve economy
scales we will be able to drop the price
we will be able to develop newer models
that will allow us ultimately to drive
the cost down
today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
a hoot a textbook example of parody by a
parrot TV reporter Nicholas Crum was in
Chile telling a story about Rising crime
rates when a parrot pulls off an
impeccable Heist stealing the headphone
right out of his ear he gone crumb he
needs to be more careful he had someone
else chase the thief for him so he could
continue his report apparently Crum
suspected Foul Play well the whole thing
was caught on camera and where it is he
did get his headphone back all right
without feather Ado my favorite parrot
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