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people welcome to CNN 10 I'm Coy wire
it's Thursday October 5th happy Friday
Eve we have big news so we have to jump
right into historic news out of the
nation's capital for the first time ever
the speaker of the house has been voted
out of office speaker Kevin McCarthy the
Republican leader in the House of
Representatives was kicked out of his
position in the middle of a
congressional term speakers in the past
have stepped down after losing the
support of their party but McCarthy is
the first to be ousted through a vote
the ousting was orchestrated by
McCarthy's rival Republican Matt Gates
many members of the House were unhappy
with McCarthy's stances on issues like
spending cuts and the war in Ukraine and
Gates warned that he would file a motion
to vacate or a force a vote to remove
the speaker if McCarthy worked with
Democrats to fund the government over
the weekend keeping the government
running instead of risking it shutting
down but that's exactly what McCarthy
did over the weekend over a century ago
Republican speaker Joseph Cannon faced a
similar situation and basically dared
his critics to vote him out Canon
survived that Showdown marking the first
time the house even thought about
removing a speaker former house Speaker
John Boehner also faced a threat back in
2015 but he didn't wait for the vote he
decided to retire early instead
following Tuesday's vote against
McCarthy the ousted speaker made it
clear that he will not be running for
the speakership again and the race for a
potential successor is underway both
House Majority Leader Steve scalise of
Louisiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio have
already announced they will run to
replace McCarthy as house speaker and a
speaker election is expected to happen
next week clearly there are a lot of
layers to this historic situation here
CNN's Lauren Fox with more
former house Speaker Kevin McCarthy
vowing not to run for speaker again
after an unprecedented vote Tuesday
plunging the House of Representatives
into chaos the motion to vacate was
filed by representative Matt Gates who
along with seven other GOP members voted
to oust the speaker with Democrats votes
the motion passed
216-210 McCarthy's speakership was the
third shortest in history and was
plagued with GOP infighting over
spending cuts border security and
providing Aid to Ukraine now the race is
on for House Republicans to elect a new
speaker as another possible government
shutdown is 44 days away several names
have emerged as possible contenders for
speaker including House Majority Leader
Steve scalise no one really knows who
has the votes so now we're going to go
through that exercise right now and see
who has our our support one person not
interested in the job is Gates
yourself forward for the spaceship
absolutely not I have no desire to
experience McCarthy for his part says he
has no regrets about his tenure as
Speaker I don't regret standing up for
choosing government
over grievance
it is my responsibility it is my job
10 second trivia the Mississippi River
starts in Minnesota and ends in which
state Mississippi Louisiana Texas or
Alabama
the Mississippi River ends where it
starts flowing into the Gulf of Mexico
and that is in Louisiana where we're
headed next
CNN's Chief climate correspondent Bill
Weir is on the ground in Louisiana where
millions of residents are facing a
possible Clean Water Crisis as salt
water from the Gulf of Mexico is
creeping up the river threatening to
contaminate their fresh water supply we
told you about this a bit earlier now a
severe summer drought that lowered the
Mississippi River's water levels is to
blame for this let's take a look at the
infrastructure and possible solutions
for this issue along the fourth longest
river in the world in south Louisiana
folks are plenty familiar with salt
water that moves at the speed of a
hurricane but now they must also worry
about salt water that creeps steady and
invisible toward the crops machines and
drinking water systems of almost a
million people I happen to be one who
believes in the power of prayer I'm
going to ask for people to pray for rain
after a second straight year of
extraordinary drought the not so mighty
Mississippi is too weak to hold back the
Gulf of Mexico so the heavier salt water
is running downhill towards New Orleans
in the shape of a wedge with the toe
about 15 miles in front of the kind of
inundation that could threaten the
health of the vulnerable and destroy
everything from lead pipes to appliances
so the Army Corps of Engineers is
urgently racing against Thyme and salt
with a couple different tools this is
the first of what will be many barges
that can bring about a half million
gallons of fresh water at a time
Downstream they use it to dilute the
brackish stuff as it goes into a small
water plant here in Plaquemine Parish
the court says they can move 36 million
gallons a day but even that wouldn't be
enough to save the the New Orleans water
supply so they're already talking about
maybe building pipelines to prop up that
water system in the meantime the core is
also building a big a sill like an
underwater speed bump to try to slow the
wedge as it moves Inland but these are
all temporary fixes and the leader of
this Paris says if this is the new
normal that means parts of Louisiana
will need the same kind of desalination
that they use in Israel and Other Desert
communities you've had one trailer would
be the reverse osmosis and the other
would be the filtration system right
there Keith Hinckley is the president of
Plaquemine Parish a spread out County of
less than 25 thousand now spending a
fortune on desalination if we didn't
have help from the state and federal
government it could bankrupt the parish
here so yeah yeah because we're probably
right now about 33 million dollars in on
this situation and like I said we're
small Parish just this
yeah yeah just because of this wedge wow
yeah this is land that's familiar with
hurricanes oh this thing not droughts
and wildfires
well because like you say when you look
this way and you look that way you're
looking at Water we're in the middle of
water but we're in the middle of the
wrong kind of water and that's why we're
needing these uh these kind of machines
there is hope El Nino will bring rare
October rain but this battle could last
months with the latest forecast putting
the wedge close to New Orleans in the
next three weeks
next up some news about high-tech
helpers medical robots that can step
into risky or dangerous situations to
help Medics so that they are kept out of
Harm's Way this Tech has several
advantages like being able to work for
extended periods of time and reach
places doctors might struggle to get to
but there are also plenty of questions
how much will this Tech cost and at what
cost can or should these robots replace
a trained human take a look
spread out
Dave Handelman senior roboticist at the
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics lab we're
collaborating with the Army on medic
robot teaming
if we look to apply robots to perform
tests that are dull dirty or dangerous
Medics for example often have to deal
with multiple casualties and we want to
figure out ways in which robots can help
spot go find out of the casualty send me
his vital for example robots can carry
special sensors find casualties gather
Vital sign information and relay that
back to the medic and allow them to make
better decisions for triage pure spot
we're exploring tasks like bag valve
mask ventilation we're also looking at
how robots can pull casualties out of
Harm's Way foreign
spot the four-legged robot so there are
sensors all around it it also has a
manipulator to grab things voice
commands active stand come we use both
speech and gesture to communicate with
the robot in our teaming experiments
people wear augmented reality headsets
and they see information that's been
transferred from the robot to them these
Technologies artificial intelligence
augmented reality robotics they will
allow Medics to do more over longer
periods of time
yeah
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
positively amazing NASA shared this
image of pan Saturn's innermost Moon and
it's not big it's approximately 15 miles
across and is it just me or does this
moon look like a ravioli the new
technology allowed us to get a better
look at its features and honestly yeah
that might be a big piece of pillowy
pasta throw a little sauce on there ah
the past abilities hey this reminds me
what do you call a fake noodle an
impasta shout out is going to Chipley
Florida today they see me rolling at
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