hello sunshine I'm Ky Wire Welcome to
CNN 10 It's Thursday April 24th Happy
Friday Eve We are cruising through the
week with lots of news for you today Not
a lot of time to do it so let's get to
it We're going to jump right in
Beginning with something that could
bring major changes to our cereal to our
candies and more The US Food and Drug
Administration or FDA just announced it
plans to quote phase out some artificial
dyes used in foods Foods like cereals
candy beverages and even some medicines
The reason concerns about the dyes
impact on our health These synthetic
dyes are a group of chemicals derived
from petroleum Yes as in the fossil fuel
that's also used in the gas in many of
our cars They're there for cosmetic
reasons They have no actual function in
the cereal other than to make it
attractive And there's research that
shows that people like brightly colored
foods They think they taste better Um
and they much prefer them When cereal
companies have taken the dyes out of the
cereals and put in natural dyes instead
people don't buy them The Consumer
Brands Association a group that
represents the companies that make a lot
of packaged food says that the
ingredients have been rigorously studied
and were demonstrated to be safe But
research in animals has shown otherwise
Now the FDA says it will work with these
companies to remove the dyes rather than
going through Congress to make laws
restricting them We are simply asking
American food companies to replace
petroleum based food dyes with natural
ingredients for American children just
as they already do for children in other
countries All right our chief medical
correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta is here to
break it all down Well first of all
these petroleumbased dyes are exactly
what they sound like They are dyes
typically of colors that you're not
going to find in nature And they're
based in petroleum which is a really
stable chemical So that allows these
colors to stay very stable over time
which is what the food industry wanted
out of these Uh some of these you'll
probably recognize you know So this is
red dye 3 that is not a normal color
you'd see in nature Or this is red dye
number 40 uh which is another dye again
based in petroleum So that is really
what the concern is here What we've
known is that when it came to red dye 3
even 30 years ago there was a
correlation between that dye and certain
cancers in animals Uh and that has been
sort of a a concern for a long time
three decades It just got banned under
the previous administration And now
obviously the sights are set on these
other dyes as well There's a concern as
I mentioned about cancer in animals
There's a concern that there may be
carcinogens There's also a concern that
they may lead to these behavioral
problems when it comes to children who
have been eating these types of dyes for
most of their lives Whereas if you're an
adult many of these dyes weren't present
in your diet before that So we don't
know the specific links When you have
something that's as ubiquitous as these
dyes out there it's hard to really know
Is it the dye or is it something else in
the environment is it social media is it
phones that are causing some of these
problems but there is enough of a
concern And there's also something known
as the precautionary principle We're not
sure Let's just be cautious Uh this
cereal for example is is a good example
of that Uh many dyes in here as you can
see from the brightly colored uh Froot
Loops The concern though is that in many
countries around the world such as
Europe um in Europe and Canada they make
these same products without those
petroleum based dyes They use natural
food coloring So watermelon juice carrot
juice blueberry juice to create some of
that coloring may not be as vibrant may
not be as stable but that's that's what
they do Sort of using this precautionary
principle That is I think what we're
going to see in the United States as
well a phasing out and eventually
eliminating of nine of these
petroleumbased dyes in the months and
years to come All right Thank you Doc
Did you know that in addition to being a
sterling journalist he's also a
practicing neurosurgeon and the host of
Chasing Life podcast you can find it
anywhere you download your podcast
Smartest guy I know But does he know
which planet has the most volcanoes pop
quiz Hot shot Which planet in our solar
system is home to the most volcanoes
earth Venus Jupiter or
Mars if you said Venus you're correct
It's home to 85,000 volcanoes While
scientists are still studying how many
of those are active data from NASA's
Mellin mission points to two of the
planet's volcanoes erupting in the early
'90s One of the world's most active
volcanoes is erupting again but this
time it's reaching new heights Hawaii's
Kilawea volcano spewing lava up to 650
ft in the air The US Geological Survey
says this is Kilawea's 18th eruption
since it became active again last
December Good news is the lava is no
longer a danger to Hawaiian who live
nearby And the volcano's active zone has
remained within the national park which
is protected land But bad news for
tourists who lava them some lava High
levels of sulfur dioxide have been
detected as well as volcanic glass
fragments that can drift through the air
Now to some major news in the state of
New Jersey where an explosive wildfire
quickly spread to scorch thousands of
acres this week The fastmoving fire
caused thousands of evacuations and
threatened more than 1300 structures
Even parts of the Garden State Parkway
the longest and one of the most traveled
highways in the state had to be closed
because of the fire danger Let's go to
our meteorologist Derek Vanam in our
weather center for a look at the extent
of these dangerous fires Hi Derek Yeah
Coy you don't really think about the
state of New Jersey experiencing
wildfires but when you get this type of
drought and of course the lack of rain
that's fallen over the past several
weeks you have the potential at least
for the dry vegetation to allow for fire
to spread And that's what happened in
Ocean County New Jersey This is in
southern New Jersey Look at the smoke
billowing into the air Look at the
flames how high they rose Uh just
incredible to see this footage because
we're talking over 8,000 acres that were
burned A serious firefighting effort uh
that was underway this week as uh part
of the state forest continued to burn
from the dry conditions There were
several hundred structures that were
actually threatened from this wildfire
which by the way you could see from
space koi This is an incredible image So
the white moving across the screen
that's the cloud cover in the upper
levels of the atmosphere That's actually
the flames as the as they erupted Uh and
you can see the smoke billowing into the
Atlantic Ocean This is what it looked
like on the ground This is again Ocean
County New Jersey Uh and that is some
serious fire Something more equivalent
to what we would experience on the
western parts of the country but this of
course is on the east coast And if you
get a closer look at this this is
actually an area that's under moderate
to severe drought That's southern
portions of New Jersey The winds here
help fan the flames And the good news is
Koi that there is an increase in
relative humidity So more moisture in
the atmosphere This is ahead of a cold
front that will bring some welcomed rain
to the area and should help douse the
flames and help get these fires under
control Ky back to you
Did you know that arguably one of the
most beautiful creatures on the planet
this loving thing right here the
butterfly does what we humans might
consider one of the most nasty things
when eating They taste food with their
feet Yes these interesting insects have
six legs and they have tiny sensors on
their feet with which they taste because
they can't taste with their mouths And
since they don't have mouth parts that
can chew they have long strawlike
structures to eat that food that they
just touched with their feet the more
you
know Today's story getting a 10 out of
10 An alluring story about some
fisherman teens making a life-saving
catch Their trip gone fishing turned
into a rescue mission when a driver had
a medical emergency lost control of
their car and got swept up into a
river's quick current The teens cast
themselves into the role of heroes I
jumped in and got like right around here
on the as as it was like 10 ft away from
the car He untied the rope threw it at
me I wrapped it around my arm I swam a
little bit tied it on the like rear
shock of the car and then that's when he
pulled it These youngsters grabbed a
rope tied it to the car and pulled the
driver to safety All of this before
police or fire officials arrived All
helped to save a man's life How did that
feel feels good Good I mean I didn't get
no fish
We didn't We didn't catch nothing We're
fishing We didn't catch nothing Well we
catch a car Not all heroes wear cape
Sometimes they wear fishing gear Those
four friends did a real good deed All
right rockstars We've reached the end of
the show but before we go let's send a
very special shout out to Mrs Schmidt
and all our friends the pirates at
Pathfinder School in Pikney Michigan We
understand Mrs Schmidt is retiring after
guiding inspiring and uplifting so many
people over an incredible 30 years of
teaching Much love and many blessings on
your next chapter Rise up everyone Thank
you for tuning in We'll do it again one
more time tomorrow Go out and make it an
awesome day I'm Koi Wire and we are CNN
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