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Hello everyone, welcome to CNN 10. I'm
Koi Wire here with your daily 10-minute
rendevous with the news. It is your word
Wednesday. One of you helped us write
today's show. We saw some outstanding,
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We'll see who made it. You are halfway
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hopefully help you learn something new,
laugh a time or two. all in the next 10
minutes. A lot of news today, so let's
get started. We start in Pennsylvania
where officials are trying to understand
what caused a series of explosions at a
steel plant just outside of Pittsburgh
on Monday. Two people were killed and at
least 10 people were hurt in the blast,
including one person who was pulled from
the smoldering rubble after being
trapped for hours. It happened at US
Steel's Clarin Cokeworks, a massive
plant where another incident had
occurred just months earlier. The
facility converts raw coal into coke, a
key ingredient in the steel making
process. Special ovens are used to heat
coal at extreme temperatures for hours.
The process also creates a lethal gas
known as coke gas. Plant officials say
two of those ovens were involved in the
incident and the cause is still under
investigation. Listen,
>> obviously this is a tragedy that we want
to understand. We're under the
investigation and um we will continue to
work not only with uh the folks behind
me uh but the families uh of those that
have been affected.
>> Now, the family of one of the victims,
Timothy Quinn, says that's not the case.
They say they spent nearly 5 hours
calling area hospitals and only learned
the tragic news after visiting the
scene. My dad worked at the steel mill
for 42 years and he would be disgusted
in what this situation is right now.
Accidents happen, but families, that's
brothers and sisters, it's a strong
reunion. They need communication with
these families.
>> In the past 10 years, the state of
Pennsylvania had the highest amount of
steel plant injury reports in the
nation. A big development in those trade
taxes we've been telling you about. The
US and China say they have both agreed
to hold off on rising tariffs on each
other for another 90 days. The decision
came just hours before a Tuesday
deadline that would have led to a surge
in import fees between the world's two
largest economies. US levies on Chinese
goods were set to rise to 54% up from 30
and China's taxes on the US goods would
have risen to 34% up from 10. The two
countries said the extension was based
on negotiations that took place in
Sweden last month. Now to a story at the
intersection of artificial intelligence
and police investigations. Police
reports are a crucial step in law
enforcement, right? They help officers
detail incidents, explain why they took
the actions they did, and even perhaps
help them prepare to testify in court.
And now a new AI powered tool is helping
departments across the country
streamline this process, allowing them
to finish reports in as little as 10
minutes. But some legal experts are
sounding the alarm over what they say
are potential inaccuracies or biases in
those reports. Our Claire Duffy takes a
deeper look in her podcast, Terms of
Service.
>> Yeah, Koi, this is a really fascinating
new application of AI for law
enforcement. This software takes the
transcript of the audio from a
policeworn body camera and AI uses that
to create the first draft of a police
report. This is built as a way to let
police officers spend less time writing
reports, more time out in the field,
especially in light of hiring challenges
that police departments across the
country have faced. Now, I visited Fort
Collins, Colorado, which is one of at
least a handful of police departments
that are starting to pilot this new
technology, and they gave me a demo of
this software, which is called Draft
One. In that demo, we were able to see
some of the safeguards that are built
into this technology. Namely, these
fill-in-theblank prompts, these
bracketed prompts that are automatically
inserted into the AI draft report that
are meant to encourage officers to go
through, read the report, add
information, correct errors, and just
generally make sure that the report is
their own. Although, I will say that we
also saw it's fairly easy to just delete
those added prompts, and submit a report
as is. This is something that I, you
know, I didn't totally understand before
reporting this piece is just how
critical police reports are to the
criminal justice process. I spoke with
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. He's a law
professor at George Washington
University. Here's how he described it
to me.
>> Police reports are like the lifeblood of
the criminal justice system. Every day,
several times a day, police officers go
out on patrol. They're interacting with
people and their job is to memorialize
that interaction in a police report. The
police report might be the only
memorialization of a particular
incident. Uh it can be the reason and
and the way that a prosecutor uh decides
to sort of paper a case, take a case
forward and keep charging it. It can be
the document that a judge looks at to
decide whether or not an individual
should be uh held over. Now, that is why
both police officers say it's very
important for them to get their police
reports right, but also why experts are
raising some concerns about the use of
AI in this process. The ACLU is already
urging departments not to use AI to
draft police reports because of concerns
that biases could be encoded, trained
into these AI models or that there could
be errors. You could imagine that the
transcript gets something that somebody
said in an interaction with police wrong
and that could end up in these AI police
reports if an officer isn't reading
through carefully. Other experts are
just calling for more transparency
around this. Axon, which is the maker of
this draft one software, does give
police departments the option to add a
disclosure that these reports were
created with AI, but in most cases
that's optional. However, in Utah, there
was a law recently passed that requires
that disclosure on reports that were
created with AI so that everybody's on
the same page about what's happening
here. Back to you,
pop quiz, hot shot. More than 75% of all
coral species are living in which of the
world seas? Caribbean Sea, South China
Sea, Adriatic, or Caspian?
Answer is South China Sea. It is
estimated to harbor 571 known species of
reef building corals.
Now to some shocking new video into CNN
10. New footage of two Chinese military
ships crashing into each other.
>> This happened on Monday in the South
China Sea. The Chinese Coast Guard was
chasing down boats from the Philippines.
A Chinese warship then hit its own Coast
Guard boat and did heavy damage to its
bow. China isn't talking about the
incident. The South China Sea has been a
flash point for disputes between China,
the Philippines, and several other
nations. Next up, some never seen before
species that have been found during a
recent deep sea expedition. One with a
nickname that's hard to say without a
straight face, so we will take the video
full now. This guy named the Big Butt
starfish. Yep. Scientists at the Schmidt
Ocean Institute stumbled upon it while
live streaming their expedition at the
bottom of the Mardell Plata Submarine
Canyon, a biodiversity hot spot off the
coast of Argentina. Viewers were quick
to christen the critter with its new
nickname. They even pointed out that it
indubitably resembles Bikini Bottom's
most famous invertebrate, Patrick Star.
Full disclosure, I like big butt
starfish and I cannot lie. And we'll now
have more on this discovery in the
coming days when CNN will be speaking
with two of the scientists involved in
the discovery.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
new school year in full swing and one
Indiana educator is bringing the jams
and busting a move to help his students
succeed. Check it out. Everybody
rock that eagle pride
is back. All right. Superintendent Mike
Allen, also known as the parody
principal, produces these elaborate pop
music parody videos starring the
students and staff at Evansville
Christian School. The educational
earworms turn ordinary announcements
into full-blown dance parties and help
relay information about everything from
snow days to spring break. Allan says he
started the videos back in 2014 as a way
to spice up the school year and they
quickly became a fan favorite. Now 11
years and more than 50 videos later,
he's still at it parodying everyone from
the Beatles to the Fresh Prince of
Belair. He says the videos have been a
great way to get everyone from faculty
to family members excited for the school
day. Listen,
>> I can't believe that the thing that that
I get to do this as a part of my job as
a superintendent to have a way that I
can connect with families and kids in
the community of people that don't even
go here just to let them know, hey man,
let's not lose the joy of what's
happening in life and specifically
around the the really fun moments to
celebrate around the school year. What a
great example. It's not what we go
through, it's how we go through it. You
can turn even the mundane into something
mighty. Well done. All right,
superstars. Congrats to Mr. Delbin and
Miss Barton's class at Monroe County
Youth Center in Monroe, Michigan.
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