Hello sunshine. Welcome to the show. I'm
Koi Wire. This is CNN 10, your 10
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what, letting you decide what to think.
Rise up. It is Friday. Happy Friday to
you. Let's get you your news. We begin
today in Alaska, where one of the most
significant airlifts in the state's
history has successfully moved hundreds
of people from coastal villages which
have been ravaged by high surf and
strong winds. More than 1,000 people
have been displaced by remnants of
typhoon last weekend, which brought
hurricane force winds topping 100 mph.
Meteorologists are now wondering if a
decrease in weather balloons due to a
lack of staffing at some National
Weather Service offices after the
government shutdown could have affected
their forecasts. Our Allison Chinchar
explains.
>> Looking at some of these numbers, 93,
81, 100 mileph wind gusts that were
reported along several communities in
western Alaska and even a few
communities that reported a roughly 6
feet of water inundation. Now, when a
lot of folks make these weather
forecasts, they get the data from
weather balloons. All of these blue dots
you see here indicate a weather service
location that has two daily weather
balloon launches every single day. And
that is standard practice for all
National Weather Service locations
across the country until earlier this
year. That's when we started to see the
transition to more of these yellow dots
indicating only one weather balloon
launch per day or even in some cases the
red dots indicating no weather balloon
launches anymore on any given day. Now
we also have this one lone orange dot
here. This means that location normally
would have had a weather balloon launch
but due to communications and technical
issues the data was just never received
by the weather service location as it
normally would. The concern here is we
use that data for these forecasts and it
is vital. Basically, those weather
balloons measure all of the weather in
the upper atmosphere. You're talking
winds, temperature, humidity, all of
those things that are vital to making
forecasts. It's kind of like baking a
cake without flour. Flower is one of the
basic ingredients needed to make a cake.
Well, weather balloon data is one of the
basic ingredients needed to make
forecasts. And unfortunately, the better
the output, the better the forecast. But
if we don't have the input because we
don't have the data, the question
becomes, how good is the actual
forecast?
>> Pop quiz hot shot. What snack was
co-created by a North Dakota State
University football player? Cheetos,
Cheeit, pretzel bites, or Uncrustables?
If you said Uncrustables, that's the
joint. That's the jam. Len Cretchman won
three division 2 national titles as a
receiver for the bison. He and friend
David Gesky's business and patent were
acquired by Smuckers in 1998 for a
reported $1 million.
Next up, a battle of peanut butter and
jellies. Smuckers is suing Trader Joe's
over its PB&J. Smucker says the grocery
chain's crustless peanut butter and jam
sandwiches are too similar to their
Uncrustables. In a lawsuit filed earlier
this week, Smuckers says both the design
of Trader Joe's PB&Js and packaging
violate its trademarks. Smuckers is
seeking restitution or payment for their
financial losses. And get this, the
company wants a judge to require Trader
Joe's to deliver all current PB&Js to
Smuckers headquarters to be destroyed.
What do you think? Packaging. Trader
Joe's. Smuckers. How about shape? Let's
see. Hm. And
how about taste?
This could take a minute.
I hope this all works out amicably.
They both are delicious. I'm going to
need a minute. The international
photography competition that showcases
nature's weird, wacky, and wonderful
moments. just announced its winners.
London's Natural History Museum
highlights a huge range of photos in its
wildlife photographer awards. From the
absurd, like this pic of an orphaned
anteater to the more startling, like
this shot of a room full of
rattlesnakes, the judges chose this
photograph of a rare hyena in an
abandoned mining town in Namibia as the
best image out of more than 60,000
submissions. Another standout though was
this captivating image of an orb weaver
spider in its web shot by 10-year-old
Jamie SM from Wales who won the 10 and
under category. Here she is explaining
how she pulled it off.
>> And I always check the weather forecast
to make sure it's going to be a good
morning. And I found that it was really
cold night and we got up early and the
garden was just full of water droplets.
So, we went out to look for bugs. Then,
I spotted this little funnel on the top
of a dead dockle leaf stem. And I didn't
even see the spider at first. I just saw
this funnel covered in dew droplets. But
when I looked closer, I spotted a teeny
tiny little spider tucked up trying to
keep warm because it'd been such a cold
night. I thought it made a really cute
image, so I tried to capture it. I had a
little bit of a struggle though trying
to get the light to penetrate into the
funnel so you could actually see the
spider. So I was changing my angles and
my settings to be able to have the light
to get in so you could see the spider.
And I did manage to capture this image.
>> In sports news, the Milwaukee Brewers
are facing the LA Dodgers in the
National League Championship Series. And
the Brewers have an in-game tradition
that changed the game. Five sausage
mascots. Yes, racing around the warning
track. And the fans love it. When they
started back in 1993, nobody was doing
such a thing. But now more than half of
MLB teams have some kind of mascot race.
During the sixth inning of every home
game, a broughtwurst, an Italian, a
Polish, ao, and a good old-fashioned hot
dog turn on the Jets. And CNN's Don
Redell was able to track the down the
man who came up with the idea and won
the very first race. You know, there was
already this cartoon of the sausages
running across the skyline of Milwaukee
and it ended up at the back door of what
was then County Stadium. And I think
everyone that went that went to a game
that saw that thought, "Yeah, it would
be really cool if they ran in." And I
just happened to go with the kid that
worked for me whose father was a vice
president of the Brewers and he sat with
us and I just talked him into it. I
mean, he was pretty reluctant at first.
It was the end of the season and he
didn't call me back till the next March
telling me that, "Okay, it's a good
idea."
And then now think about it. He's like,
"Okay, I guess it's a good idea." And
now what it is.
>> Can you remember the reaction when he
came through the gate?
>> Oh my god. You know, I'm in a tube of
foam rubber and you'd think the noise
would be have been just completely
muted, but the place went crazy. It was
a race to home plate, but we were to
race right through the center of the
field. And like I said, the the players
didn't know this was going to happen,
nor did the umpire, and he was quite
unhappy about it. He thought it
diminished the seriousness of the sport,
which, you know, I guess it did.
>> This was a first. Nobody was doing this,
right? And now, I think maybe more than
half the teams do some kind of mascot
race. Arguably, you've had an impact on
the way the game now looks in in the
United States. How do you feel about
that?
>> I mean, I really do think it had it it
changed the tone of baseball in a lot of
ways.
>> If you need a feel-good story or an
escape or just want to be able to tell
your friends you've read a tantalizing
tale about sausages, see Don's article
at cnn.com/sport.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Don't mean to be cheesy, but it's a
slice of ingenuity that'll float your
boat and lift a pizza your heart.
Floodwaters made roads in Little Egg
Harbor, New Jersey, impossible to drive.
But this pizza delivery driver decided
no pie would be left behind when his car
reached a foot of water. He got out with
a little pep baron in his step, but then
was offered a kayak by a neighbor.
>> It was just a pie. It was just a plain
pie. It was easy to carry. I had put on
my lap and started uh rowing. You got to
do it. That's the world we live in now.
You got to problem solve as quick as you
can as a fisherman as you can.
>> Paddling his way to the customer. The
pizza was delivered. It was dry,
delicious, and unflatable.
That's what I'm talking about. All
right, our Friday shout out of the day
is going to some of our homeschoolers
out there all the way from Tucson,
Arizona. The Stratton family and our
Sonoran Desert homeschool friends sent
me this. I look pretty darn good with a
beard. I must say you complete me. All
right, play that Friday music nodair.
Shine bright. Make someone smile. You
never know when or how, but you may be
the spark of joy someone needs. Make it
a fantastic weekend, everyone. I'm Ky
Wire and we are CNN 10.
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