What's up, sunshine? Welcome to the
show. I'm Cody Wire with your 10 minutes
of news for Thursday, May 21st. We are
going from Google giving search a
futuristic glowup to a storm in Hawaii
waking up prehistoric dinosaur shrimp
that honestly look like they're straight
out of Jurassic Park. Plus, one fearless
driver chasing one of racing's toughest
challenges. CNN 10 starts now. And we
start with the highstakes health
emergency in Africa, where officials are
racing to contain a fast-spreading Ebola
virus outbreak. As of this taping, more
than 130 people have died. Nearly 600
suspected cases have been linked to the
outbreak across parts of the Democratic
Republic of Congo and Uganda. The public
health crisis is further complicated by
the fact that this strain of the virus,
the Bundy BUJO strain, has no specific
treatment or vaccine. It's a race
against the clock to track these cases
and slow the spread. Our Larry Mado has
more on how officials are working to
curb the growing problem. The concern
from public health experts in the region
is that there's a likelihood that many
people could be have could have been
exposed to Ebola. They're just not
showing symptoms yet. It might take
until 3 weeks before that begins to
happen. This area in it, northeast and
DRC, which is the epicenter of the
outbreak, has a lot of insecurity. About
100,000 people are displaced. It's a
mining town. There's a lot of border
traffic between this area in Bonia to
Uganda across the border. The people
move back and forth. Some may be
asymptomatic right now, but in a few
days or a few weeks, they might begin to
show symptoms and they might have come
into contact with a lot of people. So as
they do more lab lab testing, contact
tracing and surveillance, the numbers
might as well skyrocket and that affects
a huge number of people within these
countries, Uganda, the Democratic
Republic of Congo and possibly South
Sudan as well. And you've seen these
reported even in Kala, which is a few
hundred kilometers away. So that is why
the WHO and many other experts say this
could be much deeper of an outbreak than
they currently know and it could have
already been spreading for a few weeks
in the community before it was detected
and confirmed.
For the first time in more than two
decades, Google is giving its famous
search bar a major AI makeover. Users
can now search with images, videos, and
even more natural conversational
questions. Kind of like talking to your
smartest friend if your smartest friend
knew literally everything. The company
is also rolling out AI agents that can
research and track topics for users
automatically. It's all part of the tech
giant's push to keep pace with the AI
race against competitors like Open AI.
Now to Hawaii where some rare weather
led to a shrimply incredible discovery.
Back in March, a Kona low storm drenched
the state's driest island of Caho Alave
just off the coast of Maui. The record
rainfall transformed the usual dry
landscape into a temporary wetland,
awakening a long dormant prehistoric
species known as dinosaur shrimp. These
tiny three-eyed crustaceations look like
a mashup between a horseshoe crab and a
tadpole in something your science
teacher might keep in a secret lab. And
get this, they're literally living
fossils. They've remained largely
unchanged for roughly 70 million years.
That means these little dudes were
around before the Himalayas were formed.
Their eggs can stay dormant in dried
lake beds for years, waiting until the
perfect rainy day wakeup call arrives.
Officials with the island's Reserve
Commission say this is a jaw-dropping
reminder that ecosystems can change fast
when mother nature decides to flip the
script. What came first, the chicken or
the egg? We may see soon a new twist on
this excellent question thanks to a
biotech company working to revive
extinct species and help save endangered
birds by developing 3D printed eggshells
designed to protect fragile embryos.
Here's our Giana Asterito with more.
Could these chicks be the key to
bringing back extinct birds such as the
giant moa? These chickens were hatched
using artificial eggs. That's according
to the scientists at Coloss Biosciences.
The Dallas-based biotech company says
its 3D printed shell and siliconebased
membrane can grow an embryo without
supplemental oxygen. The company says it
has hatched 26 chicks using this
technology, ranging from 2 weeks to 4
months in age. The next step is now
seeing if they develop normally. The
company is known for working towards
deextinction of species like the
resurrection of the direwolf using
ancient DNA to alter the genes of a
greywolf. It is also working towards
resurrecting the dodo, the woolly
mammoth, and the Tasmanian tiger.
According to the company, the artificial
egg technology will help to recreate
extinct bird species, particularly the
giant moa, which was so large there's no
suitable living surrogate. But some
scientists are skeptical. And though
Colossal claims the artificial egg is
scalable, the company would still need
to overcome significant challenges, such
as decoding the MOA's unique genetic
makeup to achieve its long-term goal of
bringing it back in some form. The
artificial egg technology, however,
could help conserve endangered birds.
>> Pop quiz hot shot. Which Indie 500
tradition started because a driver
wanted something refreshing to drink
after winning? Spraying champagne,
drinking milk, kissing the bricks, or
wearing goggles?
You are a mooing if you said drinking
milk. After winning in 1936, Lewis Meyer
asked for buttermilk cuz his mom said it
would cool him down. Dairy farmers saw
marketing opportunity faster than an
Indie pit crew changing tires and the
milk celebration continues to this day.
Our next story is about history in the
making. Actually, her story in the
making. Race car driver Katherine Leg is
attempting to become the first woman to
pull off the double, racing in the
legendary Indianapolis 500, then hopping
in a jet to compete in NASCAR's
Coca-Cola 600. All on the same day, 1100
miles of racing in whips that can hit
230 mph in addition to all the lightning
fast travel logistics. Here's our very
own Don Redell with Miss Katherine Le.
What do the people around you, the
people that are close to you who maybe
aren't involved in the motorsport
community like? What do they think about
what you're trying to do?
>> I don't think they quite get it. I don't
think they understand the enormity of it
and what it takes and the feet of
organization that it actually is and the
physical feat. I mean, it's like being
focused for a 3 to four hour Indie car
race, then a 5h hour NASCAR race. It's
the same as driving from New York to
Daytona Beach pretty much at gosh an
average of 200 miles an hour odd if you
average the two. And um like you cannot
lose focus for a second of any of that.
I don't think anybody can comprehend
that. I don't think I can comprehend
that until I've done it either.
>> We've spoken in the past and you've kind
of resisted the idea that you're out
there kind of setting an example for
women because you just want to be a
racing driver. That that's all you want
to be.
I get the sense you are perhaps now
perhaps embracing this a little bit more
maybe.
>> Uh yeah, I no
>> you just want to race.
>> I still want to be taken seriously and I
want to be seen as race car driver first
and foremost. I don't like the female
driver label, right? Because it should
be irrelevant. Um, however, it would be
a miss of me to not take the
responsibility of being the visible only
female in the race um to heart and to
make the most of it for the next
generations to come. Um, I don't claim
in any way, shape, or form to speak for
them. I hope that they're they're coming
up through. But there is a saying which
is to be it, you have to see it. And I'm
a believer of that in that if somebody
else sees me doing this and they think,
well, maybe I can do X, Y, or Z, it
doesn't necessarily need to be in
racing. It could be like, oh, I don't
see any women in my engineering class,
but I'm still going to go do it because
I could be the only one.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Beep beep. Barbie to the rescue. The
average cost to fill a gas tank is
anywhere from 60 to 90 bucks right now,
but if your ride happens to be a Power
Wheels Barbie dream camper, apparently
$3 might do the trick. This man from
Ellenwood, Georgia is showing us that
life in the plastic is truly fantastic.
Handyman Molly High Totower installed a
twogallon tank and an engine from a
power washer, proving pink horsepower is
still horsepower.
>> Do what I can. I can't do the uh my
regular cars. I got to do my little mini
cars. If I can get $1 on pump six,
that'll be great.
>> Molly had to think pink and says the
tiny cruiser is perfect for quick
errands, he's even upgraded it with
lights, music, and a tablet screen. So,
while gas prices have some drivers
feeling exhausted, Molly's rolling
through town looking delightful. It
might not be a ton of trunk space on
that thing, but according to him, his
cruiser is already enough. Okay,
speaking of dolls, I want to thank some
of our friends from all over the map.
Miss Brooks in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I
want to thank Mr. Bartlett in Kenton,
Ohio. Mr. Daling in Aurora, Illinois,
and Double Trouble, Mr. Asbury in
Sacramento, California. All of you
sending custom Pop figures, and I must
say, they are lovely. Kindred Kindness
from four different schools. We will
treasure these. Thank you for showing us
so much love. Some random thoughts
before I go. Why aren't iPhone chargers
called Apple juice? Clapping your hands
is just giving yourself a high five. And
if tomatoes are fruit, then ketchup is
jam. I'm Ky Wire and we are CNN 10.