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What's up, sunshine? I'm Koi Wire. Thank
you for joining me for your 10-minute
daily dose of news on this Tuesday,
November 11th. Today is Veterans Day, a
federal holiday in the United States, a
time to thank military members for their
service and recognize their courage and
sacrifices. The holiday originated as
Armmesus Day, which commemorated the end
of World War I in 1918. The government
decided to rename the federal holiday in
1954 to honor all veterans. So, tell a
family member or friend or even a
stranger you may see today who has
served or is serving, I see you, and
thank them for their commitment to all
of us. All right, the weather over the
last few days may have caused some of us
to double check our calendars. That's
because we're just halfway into fall,
but an arctic blast or massive frigid
air from the North Pole is moving across
much of the country, making it feel like
the middle of winter.
Not just your average cold front, we're
talking a full-blown polar plunge. Tens
of millions of people as far south as
Florida woke up to bone chilling cold on
Monday. Here in Atlanta, we went from
shorts weather to nearly freezing in
just 12 hours. The Great Lakes region
has seen some seriously early snowfall
with more than a foot of accumulation in
some areas. Intense lake effect snow
caused dangerous travel conditions
throughout the region. It does appear
though that warmer weather is on its
way. Temperatures are expected to begin
to rise across much of the country
tonight and tomorrow.
Turning now to the Philippines where
another powerful typhoon has struck the
archipelago nation just one week after
it took a direct hit from Typhoon
Calmei. Typhoon Fun Wong brought high
winds, flooding, and landslides as it
moved across the country. The government
is still reeling from the aftermath of
Calmegi, which left at least 200 people
dead. Our Ne Kennedy has a look at the
storm's devastating impacts and why
their rapid intensification has climate
scientists concerned.
Two typhoons in one week.
>> Nearly a million people told to flee.
>> It's typhoon season in Southeast Asia,
but scientists say global climate change
is causing more intense storms.
>> Warmer ocean waters uh will also power
uh potentially more powerful storms and
typhoons. There is a increasing rapid
intensification events of these typhoons
that are rather difficult to predict by
current models.
>> And that's what's on full display now.
Typhoon Fun Wong is barreling towards
the Philippines with sustained winds
near 185 km an hour and a massive 1,500
km circulation that could drench the
entire country. It comes just a week
after Typhoon KGI tore through the
Philippines, killing around 200 people
and flattening neighborhoods across Cebu
Province.
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Back-to-back storms like this leave
communities no time to recover. And
scientists say it's a pattern that's
likely to keep repeating as oceans warm.
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10sec trivia. What was the first food
ever eaten in space? Peanut butter,
applesauce, a ham, Sammy, or Tang?
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How about them apples? Applesauce is
your answer here. In 1962, astronaut
John Glenn became the first American to
eat in space. And his applesauce was
packed in an aluminum tube that looked
like toothpaste. This experiment proved
that humans could swallow and process
food normally in microgravity, it was a
big breakthrough, showing that longer
missions with regular meals were
possible. Have you seen the recent
culinary accomplishment by some
astronauts from China? Move over
dehydrated meals. This crew aboard
China's Chiang Gong Space Station just
threw down some chicken wings, y'all. A
new specialized hot air oven allowed
them to pull off a barbecue in space.
They even sizzled some zeroravity
steaks. And this was not just a medium
rare achievement. This had never been
done before. They pulled it off to
celebrate their latest crew changeover.
And it may be coming at the perfect
time. The departing crew found out
they'll be extending their six-month
stay indefinitely after China's space
agency said a piece of space debris hit
their return ship. Let's hope it wasn't
a stray rib or a drumstick. Now to a
story of perseverance, vulnerability,
and learning from our failures. I sat
down with Team USA freestyle skier Nick
Ger, a three-time Olympic medalist. He's
gearing up for his third winter games at
35 years old. We talked about some of
the struggles he's faced with mental
health and how they have actually
strengthened him and helped him forge a
better path forward both on and off the
snow. So, I've looked up to people uh my
entire life and you know that that that
I I'm going through something. Okay, I
need to find someone else that's going
through something and might have told a
story about it because I can relate to
them and I know that I'm not alone. And
that's the biggest part about struggling
with anything, particularly mental
health, depression, anxiety, is that if
you know that you're not alone, it makes
it easier to to recover from and to
find, you know, that therapeutic help.
One thing that I know about elite
athletes is they fail, they fall, they
stumble just like everyone else, but
they find a way to to push through. So,
what is your message to youngsters out
there who are going through a tough time
and they're facing adversity or they're
facing a failure?
What is it about those things that in
the end they could be better than they
were before it happened? I would say
this moment does not define you. how you
how you react to hardship is important
and that that is a defining part of your
character, but being so young and having
so much life ahead of you. You know,
when you're young, you don't realize
that. You don't realize like how much
time you really have to recover, to
reinvent yourself, to to pivot. Um, and
I've had so many moments throughout my
life where I was like, "Oh my oh my god,
dude, I'm screwed." Like, forever I'm
screwed. I might as well just, you know,
jump off a bridge or something. Um, and
that's never the solution, you know,
just it won't last forever and you're
not the only one.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
The most recognizable Christmas tree in
the US and it's backstory that is
warming hearts. The 2025 Rockefeller
Center Christmas tree has officially
arrived at its new home in New York
City, kicking off the holiday season.
And this year's tree didn't come from
just some cookie cutter tree farm. It
came from a family in upstate New York
looking to honor a loved one. The Russ
family donated their prized Norway
spruce as a tribute to late hubby and
dad Dan Russ who passed away in 2020.
Dan's widow, Judy Russ, says they always
talked about how the tree would look
right at home in Rockefeller's Center.
And now it's becoming a reality.
>> Christmas is really special to us and
our family. It's our favorite time of
the year. I took my son down to the tree
last year with some family and friends.
So now we get to do that on a much
grander scale this year. And I'm just
really excited that we get to share our
family tree with the world.
>> Over the summer, a mutual friend
connected Judy with Rockefeller Center's
head gardener. And what began as a joke
quickly became a very real way for the
family to share Dan's memory with the
world.
>> Back in July, I got a picture of a a
tree from one of my buddies who uh
retired. He was a Rockefeller Center
security supervisor. And he sent me a
picture. It had snow on it. It was a
beautiful Christmy picture. Uh, I said,
"Wow, where's that? Give me the address.
I'll go visit it tomorrow." That was in
July, and here we are now in November.
>> The entire community turned out to bid
farewell to the 75 ft tree, which served
as a backdrop at the Rust family home
for more than seven decades. It will be
officially lit in NYC on December 3rd
and on display until mid January. After
that, it will be milled into lumber,
which Habitat for Humanity will use to
build homes for those in need. Awesome
stuff. All right, I have some shout outs
to you. This first one goes to Sterling
Heights, Michigan, Mr. Zalooki, and
friends at the GLK Academy for
International Studies. Good luck with
your midterms, friends. And this shout
out goes to Mrs. Swanson and crew at
Fred Mudri Intermediate School in
Anaconda, Montana. You are unbelievable.
Thank you very much for this. And thanks
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make someone smile today. Remember, you
are more powerful than you know. I'm Koi
Wire and we are CNN 10.
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