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COY WIRE: What's up, everyone?
It's Wednesday.
Are you hanging in there?
Let's smell the flowers and cool the soup.
I'm Coy Wire.
This is "CNN 10."
Just a few more days.
And we are on to Thanksgiving break so let's rock.
We're going to start today, though, with news out of India,
where air quality is an ongoing issue.
New Delhi, India is the world's most polluted capital
according to IQ Air, a Swiss company
that measures air quality.
It's blanketed in smog every winter
as the cold air traps dust in the atmosphere above the city.
In March of this year firefighters,
battled a blaze in New Delhi at a landfill site.
The fire cloaked the area in a toxic haze
and smoke choked residents for days.
Factories, construction sites and primary schools
were ordered to shut down, and Delhi authorities
urged people to work from home.
There's currently a debate in India over how to handle waste.
There's no processing of waste in most Indian cities,
according to the government's central pollution board.
And in some cases, trash is simply burned in open dump
yards on the roads.
Delhi's 24-hour air quality index
measures the concentration of harmful pollutants.
Anything over 300 is considered hazardous
and new Delhi's levels are as high as 470.
The government is attempting to take stricter measures
to tackle air quality as there are major health
concerns for citizens in India.
We'll hear more now from Vedika Sud
a CNN reporter based at the New Delhi bureau, who
will introduce us to some of the people impacted
by the poor air quality and explain the science
behind the toxic air.
VEDIKA SUD: 72-year-old shopkeeper Narayan Chaudhary
suffers from chronic asthma.
He says he almost died in April this year
after the landfill behind his house,
which is the size of a village, caught fire.
NARAYAN CHOUDHARY: [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
TRANSLATOR: It was a massive blaze.
It was difficult to survive.
My face and nose started swelling.
I was gasping for breath.
I could barely drink or eat.
VEDIKA SUD: Chaudhary says had it not
been for his friend who rushed him to hospital,
he wouldn't be here today.
It was a dangerous combination of methane
and segregated garbage, and record high temperatures
earlier this year, that sparked massive fires, not only
at the Balasore landfill, but also here,
at one of Asia's biggest dump sites.
Government data from 2019 says this Ghazipur
landfill is almost 15 stories tall and the size
of 70 soccer fields.
Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas,
and one company, GHG Sack, found on a single day in March
as trash decomposed more than two metric tons of methane gas
leaked every hour from the Ghazipur landfill.
STEPHANE GERMAIN: When we take all the measurements that we
took over a period of about a year,
we found that the total emissions were
equivalent to emissions from approximately 350,000 US
passenger vehicles per year.
VEDIKA SUD: And methane emissions
aren't the only hazard.
Dangerous toxins from landfills seep into the ground,
polluting the water supply for thousands
of residents living nearby.
That's the color of the water, a pale dirty yellow.
And we're barely 100 meters away from the foothill
of the landfill.
In May, CNN commissioned two accredited labs
to test the groundwater around the Velisha landfill.
The result, the groundwater within at least
a 500-meter radius around the waste site is contaminated.
According to the labs, that's unfit for drinking.
In the first lab report, the total dissolved
solids from all three samples were off the charts.
Amid other parameters, levels of ammonia and sulfate
were significantly higher than acceptable limits mandated
by the Indian government.
Results from the second lab report were equally worrying.
Also were in traces in the first sample from both lab
reports were at least eight times more
than the permissible limit.
And while authorities bring in a supply of clean water,
residents say there's simply not enough for this densely
populated neighborhood.
And that they must buy and consume purified water.
As part of his clean India initiative,
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
has said efforts are being made to remove
these mountains of garbage and convert them into green zones.
That goal, if achieved, could stem the suffering
of those residents living in the shadows of these dump sites,
and go a long way to curb the massive amounts
of methane being released into the atmosphere.
With more than 3,100 landfills, , the task is monumental,
and so far unrealised.
And if decisive action isn't taken soon,
the consequences of the global climate fight
could be catastrophic, and the toll on human life
unimaginable.
COY WIRE: 10-second trivia in what US city
would you find the famous museum complex
nicknamed the nation's attic?
New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, or Raleigh?
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC
is home to 19 museums, 21 libraries,
and is home to over 154 million eclectic holdings.
Up next, we're traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina
to show you how big tech is making
that city one of the fastest growing in the United States.
Raleigh even gained the recognition
as the Smithsonian of the South because of its booming art
scene, and all the free museums you can choose from.
Let's check it out.
- If you were to list the great art
and educational centers of the US,
you might think of New York, or DC.
But you might be missing one.
Here, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Raleigh has long been a museum mecca,
with a vibrant art scene.
Now, big companies like Google and Apple
are moving into the area, helping
to make it one of the fastest-growing
cities in the US.
And as the city has grown, Raleigh
has gained more recognition as a cultural destination.
The area boasts more than 30 locally owned art galleries,
over 60 performing art spaces, , and 140 pieces of public
art in the downtown area.
Not to mention over 50 historic sites and 17 museums, most
of which are free, leading some people to call Raleigh
and its abundance of cultural institutions
the Smithsonian of the South.
VALERIE HILLIINGS: The state of North Carolina,
from the 20th century realized what
an important thing it was to offer to its citizens
free museums.
Giving everyone an opportunity to learn
about and experience different subjects,
we opened our doors in 1956.
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- The North Carolina Museum Of Art's collection
stretches across different cultures and eras.
It has dedicated galleries to Roan, Jewish ceremonial art.
It and even has an infinity mirror sculpture
by Yayoi Kusama, who's been nicknamed the most Instagrammed
artist in the world.
STEPHANE GERMAIN: As I like to say,
all art is once contemporary and all art becomes history.
We began to move single artworks around into other galleries,
unexpected galleries.
It really changed how people saw this collection.
One of the Wiley's has been a real fan favorite
as it's been paired with an earlier portrait of King Louis,
showing two young men having a great sense of swagger.
The museum also has the largest connected art
park in the country at a whopping 164 acres.
STEPHANE GERMAIN: It becomes like an outdoor art gallery.
- The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
is the largest of its kind in the Southeast
and home to millions of plants, animals, gems,
and to the second biggest Earth on Earth.
CHRIS SMITH: It's accurate down to the most minute detail.
There's a lot of great ways to get close to nature
here at the museum and a lot of great ways
to learn about what's going on in the state of North Carolina.
One of the main highlights, the reasons to come visit,
are the whale skeletons.
That whale, the Smithsonian tried to take it.
And we were like, no we want it.
These are dinosaurs that would have lived
in prehistoric North Carolina.
This is an Eastern glass lizard and very active this morning.
Good to see him out.
There are 50 states.
North Carolina is the best because North
Carolina has a little bit of everything
that everybody loves.
- Whether you're interested in history, Modern Art,
or even Harley-Davidson drag racing,
Raleigh's got you covered.
STEPHANE GERMAIN: Many of the things
you can see not only in New York, but at museums worldwide
you can see here in North Carolina.
But also you can see things you won't see anywhere else.
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COY WIRE: For today's 10 out of 10, Yo Adrian.
Over the weekend, thousands of runners in Philadelphia
channeled their inner Rocky Balboa,
participating in the Rocky run.
The Rocky movies, set in the city of brotherly love,
are a rags to riches sports story
about an underdog boxer who outworked
everyone and never gave up.
Runners on Saturday took to the streets
to have the chance to compete a 5K, 10 K, or the full
Italian Stallion half marathon.
And we know all of you are fighters
out there to never give up.
Never give in.
Outwork everyone every single day
and make those dreams come true, baby.
Shout out time now.
Penicuik Middle School in Nashua, New Hampshire,
go Raiders.
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We hope you and everyone watching around the world
have a wonderful one.
I'm Coy, and I'll see you next time on "CNN 10."
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