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begin today in the Democratic Republic
of Congo, where an Ebola outbreak has
crossed a grim milestone. It is
officially the deadliest Ebola outbreak
in the country's history. More than
2,300 people have died. Nearly 5,000
cases have been confirmed, surpassing
the death toll from Congo's devastating
2018 to 2020 outbreak. This outbreak is
being driven by the Bundi Buujo strain
of Ebola, a rare form of the virus which
there is no currently approved vaccine
or proven treatment for. Its fatality
ratio is nearly one in every two cases.
Clinical trials are underway for a
strain specific vaccine as well as two
antiviral therapies. The outbreak was
officially declared in May, but
officials believe it may have started as
early as February. Ebola spreads through
direct contact with bodily fluids of
infected people and can cause fever,
vomiting, diarrhea, and in severe cases,
internal and external bleeding. Much of
the outbreak is occurring in areas
already dealing with weak health care
systems, community resistance, and
political instability.
Now to Hawaii, where Hurricane La has
moved on, but for much of the Big
Island, the cleanup is just beginning.
The governor says at least 100 homes
have been damaged. Check out this video
from the Hawaii National Guard. The
sheer force of the water at the height
of the storm pushed a truck off the
road. over 30 inches, that's two and a
half feet of rain falling in some areas
of the Big Island. But weather
forecasters are hopeful that the rest of
the Atlantic hurricane season, which
ends in November, will remain quieter
than normal. One reason, something
happening thousands of miles away in the
Pacific Ocean, El Nino. It occurs when
waters in the central and eastern
tropical Pacific become unusually warm.
And while the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration or Noah says
that there's a strong chance this super
El Nino will become the strongest on
record, aka lots of rain. That could
mean fewer hurricanes. Our meteorologist
Derek Vanam is here to explain. Strong
Elnos like the one that's building right
now have an outsized influence on the
Atlantic hurricane season, reducing both
the number and the strength of tropical
systems. Now, El Nino isn't just about
the warmer waters here in the Pacific.
It's also a change in global circulation
patterns. These altered patterns shift
sinking air across the tropical
Atlantic, stabilizing the atmosphere,
reducing thunderstorm development that's
needed to create a hurricane.
Additionally, these circulation changes,
they help displace the jetream across
the tropical Atlantic. These strong
upper level winds create wind shear,
which is a hostile environment for
tropical development and can deliver a
death blow to an emerging hurricane. In
the early stages of a tropical storm's
life, it needs a calm environment at all
levels of the atmosphere to grow. When
wind shear is introduced, it disrupts
this vertical alignment, making it
harder for thunderstorms to organize
into a tropical system and get stronger.
Now, think of a hurricane as a spinning
top. Wind shear would be like pushing
this top and altering its spin. This is
particularly disruptive when the top is
spinning slowly, just like the early
formative stages of a tropical system.
With more wind shear around, it's harder
for budding hurricanes to get over that
hump. Now, while wind shear and sinking
air can put a big dent in tropical
activity throughout the Atlantic, it
doesn't eliminate it altogether.
Previous El Nino seasons, like the
destruction brought on by Hurricane
Andrew in 1992, have proven that it only
takes one landfall to make this a
catastrophic season. So, be hurricane
ready this year by downloading the
allnew CNN weather app. From storms
influenced by the ocean to storms
literally made by fire, and scientists
are calling in a cold war legend to help
understand them. NASA is using a
modified version of a U2 spy plane to
study how wildfires help generate
storms. The U2, nicknamed the Dragon
Lady, is capable of flying at extreme
altitudes of up to 80,000 ft, more than
twice as high as a typical commercial
flight. It served as a crucial eye in
the sky for the United States during the
Cold War and has played a pivotal role
in aerial surveillance ever since. This
version, dubbed the ER2, is like a
flying laboratory. Instead of spying on
adversaries, though, it's spying on
fire. Scientists are getting a bird's
eyee view of pyrouumulo nimbus clouds or
fire clouds as they form. They're some
of Earth's least understood weather
phenomena. A wildfire can become so hot
that it forces massive amounts of heated
air, smoke, and moisture upward and
essentially builds its own thunderstorm.
These fire clouds can produce lightning,
strong winds, and in some cases, fire
tornadoes. Scientists hope that these
missions will allow them to better
understand and possibly predict these
erratic storms in the future.
Pop quiz hot shot. What color is a polar
bear's skin? White, pink, tan, or black?
If you said black, very good. Polar
bears have jet black skin to help them
absorb heat from the sun. And while
their fur coats appear white, they're
actually clear. Their transparent hairs
collect and scatter sunlight, making
them appear white. Our next story makes
one point perfectly clear. Let sleeping
bears lie. One man learned this the hard
way, disturbing a slumbering polar bear.
This happened in Norway's Spalbard
Archipelago, a remote chain of Arctic
islands roughly halfway between mainland
Norway and the North Pole. Last August,
a person aboard a vessel reportedly
sounded a fog horn near a sleeping polar
bear. Bear wakes up, bear moves away,
and on Thursday, human gets Bill.
Authorities issued a fine of 50,000
Norwegian croner. It's roughly $5,300 US
determining the horn was used to
deliberately disturb the animal.
Svalbard has strict protections for
polar bears, including rules prohibiting
people from unnecessarily disturbing,
luring, or pursuing them, and people
shouldn't wake them because they need
their rest. They're built to conserve
energy in an environment where their
next meal isn't guaranteed. If we think
we've achieved anything on our own,
we're foolish. We've all had people help
us become who we are. We're nothing more
than conduits of knowledge and energy
and what we have is not for us to
possess, it's for us to pass on.
Legendary coach Dusty Baker shared that
message with my football team and it
stuck with me throughout my NFL playing
days. We can gain great wisdom learning
from our elders. Right. Well, that's
something that teenager Luke Morrison
understood at a young age. At 13, he
took an old camper that his grandfather
was ready to throw away and transformed
it into a full-on military museum behind
his house in Vermont. He collects rare
items and stories to share with others.
Darren Parn from our affiliate WCAX has
the story.
>> I've been interested in military history
for a while.
>> Luke's just 15.
>> They could conceal like this,
>> but knows more about military
memorabilia than most people. It started
with an ammunition box,
>> and I saw it as the coolest thing in the
world,
>> but it's grown to include rare finds,
some prized possessions like his
grandfather's Air Force uniform.
>> He served in the States during Vietnam,
>> not only collecting military souvenirs,
but war stories, too.
>> Well, I might be a paratrooper.
>> I'm very grateful towards them and u and
patriotic. I always come away very
patriotic and a lot smarter than I was
before.
>> And his collection has grown so much
he's had to expand. Luke just got a
second mobile camper to take his museum
on the road. It appears Luke is the
youngest founder of a military museum in
the country.
>> I I feel like it's extremely important
to a remember history because there's a
saying I like if you don't remember
history, you're going to repeat it. And
B, we got to remember the sacrifice of
the veterans and who gave us our
freedom.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10
proves that sometimes your job stinks
until you strike gold. A construction
crew in Belgium was installing a sewer
line beneath a former brewery when their
drill hit something decidedly not
sewage, gold. And not just a little,
we're talking gold. bars and coins worth
an estimated 9 million euros. That's
about 10.5 million US bucks. Authorities
moved the treasure to a secure location
while investigators work to determine
where it came from and who legally owns
it. And my favorite part, one member of
the construction crew was a student
working a part-time job. That's worth
putting on a resume. Teamwork,
proficient in word, and in locating
buried treasures. It is shout out time
now. And first in line, all of the
access teachers at Klein Kain High
School in Spring, Texas. I see you. Keep
inspiring and helping people shine. We
so appreciate you. And this shout out
goes to Coach Bilbo and all of my
Jaguars at North Pike Junior High in
Summit, Mississippi. Rise up. Thank you
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