hello sunshine happy Friday friday fry
yay i'm Koi Wire this is CNN 10 we've
made it to the best day of the week and
I have some tips for all you future
journalists out there you see these
indentations on my head don't ever wear
a hat backwards before you're supposed
to go on camera well there you go all
right all right we've made it to the
best day of the week but before we dive
into the weekend let's get one more
session of downloading some knowledge
and information and finish this week
strong let's go we begin today with an
early heat wave in India and Pakistan
where temperatures are expected to climb
to dangerous levels it's not uncommon
for both countries to experience heat
waves during the warmer months of May
and June but this year's heat wave
season is starting much earlier than
usual and is being forecast to last
longer now hundreds of millions of
people in the region are facing
scorching heat that's beginning to test
human survivability limits while putting
an enormous strain on energy
infrastructure farming and everyday
livelihoods the forecast in some parts
of Pakistan are blistering areas in the
southwest part of the country which
could see temperatures reach 49° C
that's 120 Fahrenheit india's capital
Delhi home to more than 16 million
people has already seen temperatures
above 40° C or 104 Fahrenheit multiple
times this month that's nearly 10°
Fahrenheit above the seasonal average
temperatures like these are serious they
can disrupt the human body's ability to
regulate temperature animals too leading
to potentially very serious health
issues like heat exhaustion or heat
stroke and worsening existing medical
conditions in India and Pakistan past
heat waves have increased demand for
electricity and that's led to blackouts
and coal shortages at times trains have
been cancelled to conserve energy
schools have been forced to close now
climate experts are warning India could
be among the first places where
temperatures might cross the point that
humans can survive in the heat by 2050
our meteorologist Derek Vanam has
more testing human limits pushing the
boundaries of what's quote
survivable india and Pakistan are
expected to be the countries worst
affected by the climate crisis in the
coming years experts say in many ways
they already are
it is severely hot hot winds keep
blowing it has become difficult to step
out of the home the sunlight is too
harsh summers in these regions aren't
just getting hotter but starting earlier
and are predicted to last longer
temperatures climbing to dangerous
levels this week in South Asia western
India crossed the 45 degree threshold
Tuesday and southwestern Pakistan
threatens to reach 49 degrees C numbers
that rival summer temperatures in North
America's Death Valley infamously the
hottest place on Earth
the heat is unbearable we have applied
sunscreen and we are taking halts
wherever we see shade the Syrian heat
causes farmers and other outdoor workers
to fall ill and babies to be born
prematurely leaving workers mothers
children virtually everyone vulnerable
power outages caused by the increased
demand for electricity during the heat
wave only make matters worse it's a
vicious cycle in Jaipur locals reverting
to traditional cooling techniques to
combat a compounding problem as
temperatures in India and Pakistan rise
scarves and umbrellas help but they can
only do so much and the summer season
has hardly begotten if it is so hot
already in April what will happen in May
June and July a burning question that
for more than 1 billion people will test
their limits even
further pop quiz hot shot the oldest
bookstore in the world is located in
what country england Portugal Germany or
France
answer is Portugal home of the Liveria
Bertrand in Lisbon it opened in 1732 and
has been in continuous operation since
then giving it an official Guinness
World Records title the biggest
bookstore chain in the US Barnes & Noble
is making a big-time comeback thanks to
a surge in voracious readers like
yourselves and stores focused on locally
curated book selections barnes & Noble
is getting some of their paperback and
they're planning to open dozens of new
locations it's come a long way since the
early 2000s when many bookstores were in
a bind closing thanks to a boom in
competition from online book sellers
like Amazon our Richard Quest met up
with Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt to
help us read between the lines and find
out how they've been able to turn their
page and rejuvenate the brand
what we're finding is we have this
extraordinary strength amongst young
people reading and they are reading
really good books so they're reading the
classics they're also reading the book
of the moment a fantasy book a romantic
book a whatever but they are not
abandoning these books either they are
reading
Middle March they're reading the great
classics we all thought Barnes & Noble
was done you were out or it was out for
the count it was never going to compete
with Amazon blah blah blah turn off the
lights well the reason it had got there
I think it had lost sight of the fact
that it needed to run really compelling
bookstores um and had drifted away from
that core principle had started selling
too many things that weren't books had
uh tried to cut costs as it got into a
certain amount of difficulty and that
that created a vicious cycle of of ever
less attractive stores ever less
compelling stores and declining sales um
we were able to relatively quickly just
simply reverse that process concentrate
on books create better bookstores uh
invest in our people allow them the
freedom to uh to curate their stores and
our sales went up so what are they doing
these local stores that you're finding
fascinating about how they're doing it
what are they doing a book is a book is
a book on the shelf a book is a book is
a book and it's the same book whether
you buy it from Amazon or where you buy
it in a bookstore whether you buy it
from Barnes & Noble or from an
independent bookstore but it's the
alchemy that you put around within the
store how you juxtaposition the
friendliness of the space the welcome
that you get um but also how we how we
choose and what we choose to sell how we
curate a table how we put a display
where we put a recommend and that is
very very local i can read a book review
in the newspaper or uh online and I want
to read the book tomorrow and Amazon is
already in my phone and will deliver it
to me tomorrow and Amazon is wonderful
and you have to compete with that well
we have to compete with that a bit but
but also if you want to come and look at
the book if you want to see what else
there is you will be much better off
doing that in a bookstore when you
simply want to come in and have the
serendipity of discovering and embracing
books and also doing it with people so
both doing it with our book sellers but
also doing with other customers it's a
very very social spaces
today's story getting a 10 out of 10
goes to the advancement in brain
research once thought impossible
scientists have created the first 3D map
of a mammal's brain by using specialized
microscopes to record the brain activity
of a lab mouse on a treadmill while it
watched the movie The Matrix not Neo the
result is a stunning map of a piece of
brain matter the size of a grain of sand
that reveals the form function and
activity of 84,000 neurons and half a
billion synapses oh snap lined up the
tiny spec contains 3.4 miles of neural
wiring that's nearly one and a half
times the length of New York City's
Central Park all right we've got a
Central Park size shout out going to
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to Miss Woodward and all my friends at
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especially you Aiden rise up not air cue
that Friday music remember to go out
make someone smile this weekend you
never know when or how but you may be
the spark of joy someone needs you are
more powerful than you know i'm Koi Wire
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