Hello and welcome to CNN 10. I'm Allison
Chinchar filling in for Koi just for
today. He's actually out on the West
Coast shooting some special content for
later this summer. So if you're in Los
Cusus, New Mexico today, you might see
his bald head out and about. I'm excited
to be here with you. We've got a great
show for you today. So, let's go ahead
and get started. We begin today with
severe storms that battered a large area
of the US and triggered dozens of
tornado reports over the last week. Now,
late last week, an EF3 tornado rocked
the St. Louis area, damaging or
destroying thousands of buildings, and a
powerful EF4 tornado tore across
southern Kentucky. The National Weather
Service officials say it was the
deadliest tornado in the history of
their area with London, Kentucky hit
particularly hard. Now, another storm
hit parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, and
Colorado late on Sunday where homes were
severely damaged. Roads were blocked and
cars were overturned. The storms were
powerful enough to toss semitrs into a
field in Kansas. A powerful EF1 tornado
tore apart homes and brought down trees
in Nebraska. We went into the bathtub
and then put pillows and blankets and I
just laid on top of my daughter so that
if anything came through I would
hopefully get me and her. It sounded
like a train basically and just really
windy and then you could hear stuff
hitting against like the house. More
tornadoes touched down as the severe
weather pattern continued earlier in the
week battering homes and power lines in
the small city of Plena, Kansas. Now,
thankfully, no one was injured there.
And as the severe weather moved east,
millions of people in parts of the
Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee valleys
braced for new rounds of storms as they
were still cleaning up debris from the
previous storms. It is simply unsafe to
be around that much debris with this
level of of wind. Now, further east,
tornadoes touch down in parts of
Alabama. Let's head to the weather
center to show you what meteorologists
like myself look for when these storms
form. This is a two-dimensional look at
a storm on radar, but meteorologists see
a tornado. But what is it exactly that
meteorologists see? Well, let's take a
look. The yellow and green colors you
see here are going to be your very heavy
rain in the storm. The red color
indicates your hail core. And then all
the way down there, the purple circle,
that's where your tornado is going to
be. Meteorologists often refer to it as
the hook echo because of the hook shape
that it ends up taking. But these aren't
the only features we look for. We also
have to take a look at the winds inside
the storm. Imagine this flag pole was
inside of our storm and the flags going
all the way up to the very top of the
cloud. The thing is the wind changes
direction as you go up. So this
naturally creates that rotation
necessary for funnel clouds and also
even tornadoes. So now let's take a look
at the base of that storm. What you have
is you have very warm inflow, warm air
coming into the storm and rising because
that's what warm air does. It goes up.
But you also have cold air coming down
from the tops of the clouds and sinking
all the way down towards the base. Now
together, these help to create wind
shear down near the perimeter. And that
is what helps create some of the more
violent tornadoes. Now, what if your
tornado has been on the ground for at
least a little bit? Then you start to
get this, the debris cloud, which is
essentially a collection of all of the
stuff the tornado has been able to pick
up. Everything from dust to trees to
even homes. Now, tornadoes can happen
almost anywhere. So, it's important to
know the differences between the three
key alerts for these storms. you have a
tornado watch, a tornado warning, or a
tornado emergency. And the National
Weather Service has come up with a
pretty clever analogy to help us all
remember tacos. So, a taco watch is we
have all of the ingredients, but we
haven't yet assembled the tacos. Simply
meaning we have all the ingredients for
a tornado and they're present, but you
need to make sure you know your
emergency plans and can be ready to go
to a safe place when the taco is made.
Now you have a taco warning. This means
the taco is made or in other words, a
tornado has either been seen or
indicated by weather radar. So the
threat of danger is imminent. You want
to move to an interior room on the
lowest floor of a sturdy building and
avoid all windows. Also, anyone in a
mobile home should safely move to a more
substantial shelter. And the third and
highest alert level is a tornado
emergency. Now, no tacos here, but this
alert is reserved for rare situations.
It's issued when a confirmed and violent
tornado poses a substantial risk to life
and property, and it means it's time to
take shelter immediately, preferably
underground. 10-second trivia. Now, what
country has the highest density of robot
workers? Is it Japan, China, Germany, or
South
Korea? Your answer here is South Korea.
Currently home to over 1,000 industrial
robots per 10,000 employees in the
manufacturing
industry. Engineers at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, better known as
MIT, have just created a tiny robot the
size of an AirPod. Kind of like an
insect. It moves by hopping and weighs
less than a paperclip with a
spring-loaded leg and four flapping
wings. Here's how it works.
The passive leg, just like a tiny pogo
stick, make sure the robot can bounce
back efficiently from the
ground. On the other hand, the flapping
wing modules ensure the robot stay
upright for stability. So why does the
world need such a small cyborg? The
creators say the robot could be used in
search and rescue operations because it
can navigate confined spaces and
withstand rough terrain. It's official.
Flag football will be making its debut
in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. And
you may be seeing some of the biggest
names in the NFL, representing the US in
the sport. Flag football is the no
contact version of American football
that swaps tackles for grabbing flags
the opponents are wearing. While the
International Olympic Committee approved
the inclusion of the sport back in 2023,
the NFL just voted to allow a maximum of
one player per NFL team to go for the
flag football gold. Plus, each club's
designated international athlete will be
able to play for his country. And the
Olympic flag football competition will
also include women's teams. Now to South
Korea, where a trip to the nation's
largest fish market can be an
overwhelming sensory experience. There
are rows of hundreds of vendors, a wide
variety of live seafood, and a whole lot
of smells. Luckily, our elite Marcus
went there to give us some tips on
making the most of a visit.
We are in Noranin, which is the oldest
and biggest fish market in Seoul. Think
of it as like a giant mall, but the only
thing you can buy is live fish and
shellfish.
It's just bigger. It's way bigger. Uh
there's much more variety to that. It's
fresher, I believe.
Norian originally was opened in 1927,
but it moved here to this location in
the 1970s, which is where it's been ever
since. Okay, it's chewier than I
expected.
in my mouth.
A couple things that you should know if
you come here. First of all, all the
fish is live. So that means you can pick
it out and then take it upstairs and
have someone cook it right there so that
you can eat it. It's about as fresh as
it gets. You're also totally welcome to
haggle. In fact, they kind of expect it.
Another important thing if you visit,
make sure that you wear good footwear.
The floors are wet and I'm an idiot who
showed up in ballet flats. So, you want
to take a cue from all the other people
who are here. Try a pair of tennis shoes
or some rain
boots. Today's story of getting a 10 out
of 10 goes to a school resource officer
doing a good deed for a student in need.
Officer Brett Berer noticed one of his
high school seniors was due for an
upgrade. Shawn Merritt was born with
cerebral pausy and relies on an electric
wheelchair to get around. But that chair
had seen better days and Ber decided to
take action. I went out and talked to
some of my good friends and people of
the neighborhood and the community and
explain the situation and before I could
get past Shawn Merritt, which is Shawn's
name, they were all in. The community
rallied to raise money and buy senior
scholarship night. Ber surprised the
graduating senior with a new wheelchair
complete with upgraded features and even
Bluetooth speakers. A gift Merritt says
will remind him of home as it helps him
transition to college life in the fall.
All right, superstars. It's time to send
out a shout out to Mr. O and all of the
Patriots at Colonia Middle School in
Colonia, New Jersey. Thanks for spending
part of your day with us and thank you
all for letting me spend the day with
you. Koi will be back tomorrow to finish
out the rest of the week. It's been a
blast getting to fill in and host the
best 10 minutes in news. Have a great
day, everyone.