Hello and rise up. I'm Ky Wire here with
your 10 minutes of news on this your
word Wednesday. One of you helped us
write today's show with a vocab word you
submitted on the socials. We had so many
compelling words, tough to choose just
one. I'd like to defenistrate myself
from the position of picker. Shout out
to Mr. Westbrook's class, Lakeidge
Junior High in Oram, Utah. A little
bonus word to start our day. Go
Leopards. We begin with an update on
some wicked weather that is battering
much of the central US. The week of
severe storms started on Monday with
multiple tornadoes demolishing buildings
in Kansas. Heavy rain stranding vehicles
on flooded streets in Wisconsin and
baseball-sized hail slamming into parts
of three states. In total, at least a
dozen tornadoes were reported across the
central region of the country. Three of
them touching down in Minnesota,
including this one that was caught on
video. Parts of the Midwest are dealing
with severe flooding spurred by heavy
rainfall.
>> Our water treatment guy told us we had 4
and 1/2 in in roughly 3 hours or
something like that.
>> Have you ever seen the water this high
like this before?
>> No. I've talked to people that have
lived here their whole lives and we've
never seen the water this high.
Forecasters fear the worst could still
be on the way with heavy rains, strong
winds, hail, and flooding that could
last through Friday. The storms could
impact a huge area stretching from the
Texas Mexico border to the Great Lakes
region. So, make sure to listen to your
local weather officials for the latest
updates. Next up, the WNBA draft earlier
this week was historic thanks to the new
collective bargaining agreement between
the league and the players. This draft
class is cashing in. The top pick
pulling in half a million dollars in
year one alone. That's seven times what
last year's number one pick, Paige
Beckers earned. Same dream, same
spotlight. Very different paycheck. A
sign of progress. Ay Fud, Yukon's sharp
shooter. Taken number one overall by the
Dallas Wings. Fud reunited with her
former Yukon teammate, last year's top
pick, Paige Beckers in Dallas. Our time
at Yukon felt like it I mean it was just
full of injury, full of like either I
was playing, she wasn't, she was
playing, I wasn't. It wasn't until last
year um that we really got a chance to
actually play together. Just so much
potential um with not just her, but the
entire uh Dallas Wings roster. So, I I
can't wait obviously to play with her
again, but to play with every single one
of them.
>> Now, record books, a $2.2 $22 million
deal, richest rookie contract in WNBA
history. An update now for one of the
most popular gaming platforms for
youngsters, Roblox. After months of
discussions and research, the app is
changing how players access it. Starting
in June, accounts will be divided by age
using age check technology. To complete
the process, users have to follow a
series of onscreen instructions for
facial verification. Kids ages 5 to
eight will have chat turned off and
access to games will be strictly limited
by the contents rating. The company says
older kids will have a bit more access,
but they say safety controls will still
be in place, allowing them only to chat
with age checked users in similar age
groups. Why? Roblox has faced pressure
to better protect children from
inappropriate content and prevent
interactions with others that are not
age appropriate. Now to a moment caught
on camera that has conservationists
saying, "Was it a cat I saw?" That
phrase, by the way, is a palendrome.
Camera traps photographed a rare cloud
jaguar high up in the Marandon Mountain
Range of Honduras. First time it's been
detected there in a decade. A positive
sign for the Central American nation
attempting an environmental turnaround.
The elusive feline is struggling to
thrive due to poaching and habitat loss
from deforestation and human
development.
Pop quiz hot shot. Which US state has
the highest number of recorded fossil
finds? Texas, California, Colorado, or
Montana?
If you said California, put your hands
up and show those pits. Home to the
Labraatar pits, California clocked the
most fossils. Montana, though, shows the
highest diversity of discoveries,
including more T-Rex bones than any
other state. A pair of snorkeling
scientists found an underground
fossil-filled cave leading to
unprecedented paleontological
discoveries in central Texas. According
to the University of Texas at Austin,
the scientists gained access to a
previously unmapped cave on private
property and snorkeled through
underwater streams leading to an area
brimming with undisturbed fossils. It
was there, according to a study
published in the journal Quadinary
Research, that co-authors John Moretti
and John Young discovered among dozens
of fossils, the remains of a giant
tortoise and a relative of the armadillo
the size of a lion. The study says the
remains of those ice age animals dating
back some 100,000 years, had never
previously been found in central Texas
before, and have raised new questions
about what is known about the region's
geological and climatic past.
Ever wish you could dinosaur back into
time? Well, now we can. No time machine
required. Actually, you do use a virtual
time machine of sorts. A new VR
experience called Age of Dinosaurs just
launched, taking players 150 million
years into the past. Created in
partnership with the Natural History
Museum London, dinosaur experts, and
California-based Sandbox VR. It's not
your average Jurassic Joyide. It's
science meets cinema.
>> It was wonderful. very educational, very
cinematic. Um, I learned a lot and I've
really enjoyed it. Um, dinosaurs are up
in your face. They're all around you.
It's not like you're just walking
through some kind of static thing. It's,
uh, yeah, very immersive, very
educational, a lot of fun.
>> We're talking razor sharp teeth,
ultradetailed scales, even muscle
movement under the skin, all vetted by
real life dino experts. I get to work
with the team at Sandbox and tell them
um what I know about, you know, what we
should uh make the animals look like,
how they should behave, what kind of
interesting ideas we can put into that
animation. Are there are there
particularly interesting pieces of
behavior that could involve interaction
with people that we might build in? Uh
and not just the animals themselves, but
we had to build the environment. We went
to an awful lot of trouble to um
reconstruct the plants and the
environments quite accurately to build
this completely immersive prehistoric
world.
>> With full body tracking and haptic
vests, you won't just see a T-Rex, you
might feel its footsteps.
Those of us who have a bank account
might know that sometimes it can be a
pain in the kester to make time to go
into the bank, wait in line. Well, what
if you had a bank right there in your
school for the students, run by the
students, all while teaching them about
managing finances? That's exactly what's
happening at Blackman High School in
Murphy'sboro, Tennessee. Check it out.
>> Inside Blackman High School in
Murphy'sboro.
>> 70 90 110 130
>> you will find.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Have a great day.
>> A Redstone Federal Credit Union branch.
It's a real bank in a real school
>> run entirely by students.
>> Like I'm actually handling people's
money
>> during lunch period. We have members
here within the school, teachers and
students. They can make deposits uh
withdrawals, get change, uh pay certain
loans if they have one through redstone.
>> This is the first branch inside a
Tennessee high school since the
partnership between the school and the
bank launched around 5 years ago. More
than a hundred students have taken the
capstone course.
>> A really good quality job as a teenager
and we're getting class credit for it.
So, it's like a golden opportunity for
us almost.
>> Supervised by teachers. Students also
train and work with real bank employees.
>> The basic finances are really important.
Like when you swipe your debit card,
they come out of your checking account.
And this is something they're learning.
And then they get to help their peers
>> building their resumes while learning
personal finance at the same time.
>> What does it look like for my own
personal finance? What does it look like
for my own banking decisions? Um, how
does it look for me to interact with a
business and a company? Um, and I just
think those are the real world kind of
experiences that we're want to make sure
that our students have.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Water fight. Asia's largest water fight
as crowds across Thailand celebrated
Sran, the Thai New Year festival on
Sunday. Also known as the water
festival, Sran takes place every April
with locals, tourists, young and old,
flooding the neighborhood squares to
splash each other with buckets, hoses,
water balloons, and more. Why, you ask?
to symbolize the washing away of bad
luck and a fresh start for the year
ahead. The word scrron comes from a
Sanskrit term that roughly translates to
astrological passage or movement
symbolizing the sun moving into a new
position in the zodiac. But for most
folks clearly it also symbolizes fun.
Big congrats to our your word Wednesday
winners, Mr. Hoffen friends at Dixon
Public School in Dixon, Montana, who
submitted palendrome, a noun meaning a
word or phrase or sequence that reads
the same backward as forward, like none
race car. Uh, rise to vote, sir. Thanks
for putting that on our radar. Also a
palenrome. And shout out to Mr. Watts
mathematicians at Lime Old Lime High
School in Old Lime, Connecticut. This
gift is for the birds. And I mean that
in the best possible way. I love birds.
You really nailed it. Actually, these
are legit wood screws. Well done and
thank you. Rise up everyone. Go out. Be
the spark of joy someone needs. I'm Koi
Wire and we are CNN 10.