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COY WIRE: Hey, everyone.
It's your boy Coy here starting with some Monday
motivation for you and me.
I challenge you to say the alphabet backwards,
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A, like that.
And I want you to challenge me to work
a unique word of your choice into tomorrow's show.
Follow me @coywire on Insta, Snapchat, and TikTok,
and put your challenge words in a comment,
and I'll choose one fun one to work in tomorrow's show.
All right, it's time for the best 10 minutes
in news for you.
CNN 10 starts right now.
We're going to start with the news out of Hawaii.
On Sunday, huge amounts of lava continued
to flow from the Mauna Loa volcano, the world's
largest active volcano, which has been
erupting for over a week now.
It turns out, the lava is creeping closer
to a key highway that connects the East and West sides
of the Big Island of Hawaii.
As of Saturday morning, the lava was just 2 and 1/2
miles from the DKI highway.
It had been moving around 40 feet per hour
over the last 24 hours.
For now, the highway remains open
and it's even attracted sightseers
who have flocked to the area to see the historic lava show.
The volcano is erupting for the first time
in almost four decades.
The flow of lava is unpredictable.
Its direction is expected to change hour to hour and day
to day, making it difficult to estimate
when or even if the lava flow will impact the highway.
In the meantime, Hawaiian officials
say they have a plan to shut the highway down
if the lava gets close enough to become dangerous.
Now while it may seem scary and potentially destructive,
some people see it as beautiful.
After all, the islands were formed as a result
of volcanic eruptions.
So without lava flow, there would be no Hawaii at all.
CNN's David Culver is on the scene with the latest.
DAVID CULVER: The nighttime glow of Mauna Loa's oozing lava,
well, you just have to pull over to properly admire it.
It's basically the middle of the night
and you guys are out here.
Why?
PIILANI ZYCH: Well, I mean, this is a once in a lifetime
opportunity to be able to experience this
and we decided to come early in the morning
so we didn't have to sit-in the traffic.
DAVID CULVER: Having hopped from Oahu to here,
the Big Island, this family, three generations,
came to respectfully honor the Hawaiian eruptions.
PIILANI ZYCH: It's all beautiful to us.
And so we pay huge reverence to this.
It's very culturally significant for us as well.
So, it's a big deal.
DAVID CULVER: A sight made even more alluring
with a side of sunrise, which brought
the crowds to Old Saddle Road.
Officials turning this stretch into a one-way street,
allowing passersby the chance to stop and let the views seep in.
And that keeps drivers from pulling over and stopping
on this, what is one of the main highways connecting one part
of the island to the other.
USGS and state officials warn the lava flow,
while slowed in recent days, is inching closer
to cutting off this highway.
It's within three miles now.
The other worry, not here on the ground but up in the air.
What looked like plumes of smoke,
experts say those are acid gases.
Officials monitoring the levels warning it
could become toxic for residents and visitors of the Big Island.
Mauna Loa is the second of the Big Island's five volcanoes
currently erupting.
Kilauea, still rumbling after destroying more
than 600 homes here in 2018.
But many Hawaiians see the potential path of destruction
as simultaneous creation surfacing
from this, the world's largest active volcano.
And with the eruption continuing at its current pacing,
officials feel like they should be able to give folks up
to two days' notice should the lava
make its way onto that major thoroughfare
cutting off that highway.
But they also warn, when it comes to the flow of lava,
there is no forecasting.
COY WIRE: 10 second trivia.
Who conducted the first spacewalk,
which took place in 1965?
Alan Shepard, Yuri Gagarin, Ed White, or Alexei Leonov?
While Ed White was the first American to spacewalk,
the first to ever do it was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
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On Saturday, the International Space Station got powered up.
NASA astronauts, Josh Quesada and Frank Rubio,
got suited up and floated outside the station
to install a solar array, or panel, on the outside
of the space lab.
Their mission lasted seven hours.
There were two solar arrays installed back in June of 2021,
but now the plan is to add a total of six more
to hopefully boost the space station's power
generation by more than 30%.
The original solar arrays were only designed to last 15 years,
but they've been supplying power for more than 20 years.
They still work, but they're definitely showing some signs
of wear and tear after that long-term exposure
to the environment.
When it comes to office views, though, this one
might be the best one in the world
or the best out of this world.
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For today's 10 out of 10, a fresh look at a game of golf
on the moon.
Astronaut Alan Shepard will forever
be remembered for becoming the first American
in space in 1961.
But in 1971, as commander of the Apollo 14 moon mission,
he left viewers, and even folks back at mission control,
stunned when he pulled out a club
and ball to take a celestial swing on a fairway
230,000 miles away.
His moon game is now being seen in a whole new light
after a NASA specialist dedicated
over 10,000 hours to restoring flight
film of the Apollo missions.
[INAUDIBLE] airs teeing up for us right now.
Roll it.
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- We have liftoff at 12:03, 3 minutes past the hour.
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BRIAN ODOM: I think it resonates with people, because it's
just a very human activity, a very cultural thing that's
taking place on the moon.
So I think that's why it really resonates with folks.
You can talk seismometers and all of this stuff all day
long really of what they're doing on the moon.
But you talk hitting a golf ball on the moon,
and people are like, Oh, yeah right.
Shepard, obviously, was the first American in space
and he'd been grounded for a long time.
So he thought he may never get to go back into space.
So when he finally gets this--
his health works out and he gets this opportunity
to go back, you can kind of see him thinking,
what's something fun and cool I can do to put
my own stamp on this program.
And, you know, sneaking things onto the capsule
and hitting a golf ball, that seems to be pretty well in line
with the Shepard we know.
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ANDY SAUNDERS: I wanted to see Neil Armstrong on the moon.
That was the first person on another world, this
monumental moment in history.
Since childhood, I was obsessed with anything
that could fly, really, from boomerangs and paper airplanes.
Rockets were the ultimate.
And it was also out of fascination with the moon.
At one stage, I was kind of a semi-professional photographer,
probably is about as serious as I got.
And it's kind of uniting those two things,
those two interests, that led me to take
on this particular project.
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They had TV footage of him swinging
the club, live TV footage that was beamed back
very, very, very low quality.
But you couldn't see.
I mean, the ball disappeared off screen.
In the lower res images, everything
just looks like small rocks.
But in a high resolution scan, I could zoom right in
and enhance it and find something which
looked very much like a ball.
When he said, Oh, it's gone miles, and miles, and miles,
I think he knew deep down that it didn't quite go that far.
[INAUDIBLE] 40 hours.
That's terrible, but they had these visors,
they built the spacesuit.
They could barely even see their feet.
So visibility wasn't very good.
Because of the restrictive suit, you had to hit it 100.
So to even make contact, I think was pretty impressive.
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BRIAN ODOM: It's the human side of this, that's
the thing we can't forget.
When it comes to a human activity, something that's
done just for the joy of being alive,
that's something that people can appreciate.
ANDY SAUNDERS: A lot of people know that someone
played golf on the moon.
But not a lot of those people would
know that it was on Apollo 14, that there
even was an Apollo 14.
So those human moments resonate forever
and that's one of the few.
COY WIRE: That's all we have time for now.
We hope that story helped to capture your i-moon-gination
on this marvelous Monday.
Our shoutout today goes to a school
of innovation, the Franklin School of Innovation
in Asheville, North Carolina.
Our goal is to shoutout all of your schools lunar than later.
We hope you and everyone watching around the world
have a wonderful one.
I'm Coy Wire and this is CNN 10.
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