What's up, sunshine? Welcome to the
show. I'm Koi Wire. This is CNN 10 with
your 10 minutes of news. I simply tell
you the what, letting you decide what to
think. Teacher Time Tuesday this August
25th. Shout out to all the educators
inspiring and informing us. Go and give
your teachers some heart hands a high
five or a fist bump today. Let them know
I see you. Now, let's get you your news.
We begin in Nevada, where a fast-moving
wildfire has sent flames racing towards
neighborhoods and tens of thousands of
people fleeing their homes. The Hawk
Fire exploded to more than 15,000 acres
after igniting Saturday. As of this
taping, officials say the fire is still
0% contained. Nevada Governor Joe
Lombardo has declared a state of
emergency in Wo County, which includes
Reno and parts of Lake Tahoe and
activated the Nevada National Guard.
Schools throughout the region were
cancelled Monday, and around 90,000
residents have been urged to evacuate.
At least two medical centers have
evacuated patients as well.
>> When we came through, it looked like a
movie scene. Like, you don't expect to
see something like that in real life.
>> It's just really scary right now. We've
never had to do this before. There was
no hotel room at all.
>> Officials say the fire was human-caused,
though exactly how it started remains
under investigation. Around 1,000
firefighters are battling the blaze,
which has been fueled by gusty winds,
low humidity, and dry brush. Those
challenging conditions are expected to
worsen throughout the week, potentially
complicating efforts to contain the
fire. Now to northwest Indiana, where
thousands of families have spent nearly
two weeks living without something most
of us rarely think about twice,
electricity. Powerful storms knocked
down trees, power lines, and hundreds of
utility poles August 11th. Initially,
more than 300,000 customers lost
electricity. As of this taping, more
than 20,000 in Gary, Indiana alone were
still without power. That means spoiled
food, closed schools, and concerns over
refrigerated medicine. Some residents
have filed a proposed class action
lawsuit against utility company NIPCO,
alleging inadequate tree and vegetation
management worsened the outages. Nipkco
says it strongly disagrees, calling the
storm damage unprecedented and
widespread. The company says restoration
work in hard-hit Gary is expected to be
substantially completed by this evening.
Now overseas where Britain's new prime
minister is making a statement with the
destination of his first trip abroad.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham traveled to
Kev, Ukraine Monday, meeting President
Vladimir Zalinski and other European
leaders. Burnham also co-chared a
meeting of the coalition of the willing
countries working to strengthen
Ukraine's security and defense as its
war with Russia continues. The timing
carried extra significance. Monday was
Ukraine's Independence Day, exactly 35
years since the country declared
independence from the Soviet Union in
1991.
Pop quiz hot shot. Which river in Africa
is recognized as the longest in the
world? Congo, Nile, Zambzi, or Orange?
If you said Nile, correct. If you said
something else, you just might be in
denial. This river boasts 4,132
miles in length and crosses 11
countries, including Egypt, Ethiopia,
Sudan, and Kenya.
Imagine being one of just 35 girls
chosen from across an entire country,
not simply to attend a school, but to
challenge generations of expectations.
On Sagal's historic Gory Island, an
elite boarding school is educating some
of the country's brightest young women.
In a nation where fewer than one in five
girls finishes high school, they're
learning that where you begin doesn't
have to determine where you end.
>> At 12, Andawa Dop says she was too shy
to raise her hand in class.
>> Imagine it.
>> Imagine I didn't even dare speak in
class. I didn't look people in the eye.
At 19, she's now the president of the
student council. This is Marama Bar
School of Excellence, an elite girl
school on an island off the coast of
Sagal. Here, students are encouraged to
challenge traditional expectations of
women and prepare to become leaders. But
it's an opportunity only a small number
of girls get. While the majority of
girls in Sagal are enrolled in primary
school, less than 20% make it through
high school according to United Nations
estimates.
>> Sometimes you're in society.
>> We're in a society where there are a lot
of prejudices, a lot of obstacles to the
emancipation of women. And in fact, I
think that the first rule of life that
we teach these girls is that they must
get rid of all of these prejudices,
assert themselves, and show their
leadership wherever they are. Girls can
face pressure to leave school to help at
home, marry, or have children. And when
families can't afford to educate all
their children, boys are often
prioritized. Growing up in rural Senagal
and Deawa Dop experienced this
firsthand. That is until she started at
this boarding school. The Marama Bar
School has a 100% completion rate and
tuition is fully funded by the state.
They admit 35 girls a year.
>> Through interacting with people, through
listening to advice, through reading as
well, through expressing myself, I
learned to be a leader if I can say so.
>> And DOP has 6 years after enrolling.
She's about to graduate. She hopes to
become an international business lawyer.
For 40 years, Yukon women's basketball
has been synonymous with one word,
winning. Hall of Fame coach Gino Ara has
spent decades bringing together
different personalities and perspectives
and convincing them to sacrifice for
something bigger than themselves. That's
at the heart of the new Apple TV docue
series, The Dynasty Yukon Huskys. I sat
down with Coach Arima and Emmy
award-winning filmmaker Matthew
Hamichek. Coach, when you were
approached about this opportunity to
tell the story of your career, of your
teams, of your program, what was most
important to you
>> to let everybody see how much people
sacrificed to make this work. How much
the players themselves gave of
themselves to make the team better gave
up individual goals sometimes for the
good of the team. How much time was
spent on the court? How much time was
spent off the court? That this didn't
happen by accident. You don't win this
much for this long without great people
doing amazing things. So, I want
everybody to see that.
>> Matthew, your previous series, The
Dynasty New England Patriots, covered a
20-year run over 10 episodes. Coach
Orama's Yukon Dynasty is twice as long.
It's still going. How painful was
deciding what not to put in this series?
>> Finding things that make these stories
universal. And if you focus on that, the
decisions on what to cut and what not to
to lead in and things like that become a
lot easier. But, you know, it really
helps when you have great characters
like Coach Orima and, you know, Diana
Terasi and Paige Beckers and all of them
to focus on because I think when people
watch these things, they can see
themselves in them. Even though those
characters are going through
extraordinary circumstances, the
emotions and the things that they're
grappling with are very ordinary and
universal to all of us.
>> How did you two work together in in the
film making process? Who was tougher
during this process? Gino the coach or
Matthew the filmmaker?
>> We both knew what we wanted. I wanted my
team to win. I wanted my team to look
and play like the best team in the
country and I needed to do what I needed
to do to make that happen. Matt wanted
this to be the best piece that it could
be, the best series that it could be,
and he knew what he wanted to make that
happen.
90% of the time, those two things were
in perfect harmony. The other 10%,
you know, that's just normal part for
the course stuff. But he is annoying and
and once you take that for grant, you
know, say, look, he's going to be
annoying. He's going to be annoying, so
just deal with it.
>> Coach, we saw some of the familiar faces
teased in the trailer. Sue Bird, Paige
Beckers, Ay Fud, Rebecca Lobo, Maya
Moore, Brianna Stewart, Sarah Strong, on
and on. You spent decades telling these
women what you thought of them. Now, you
had to sit here and hear what they
thought of you. How uncomfortable, how
heartwarming, how enlightening was that
for you.
>> You know, that's a good way to put it. I
think it was all those things. It was
heartwarming in the sense that the kind
of effect that we as coaches have had on
those players that have come through
here. You know, if you've played and you
know that that sacred place, that locker
room and that team bond
um that's real and and that has an
effect on us as coaches, them as players
and that doesn't go away. So, it was
great to hear that.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Passion, precision, and enough fancy
footwork to make your feet file for
overtime. We're heading to Buenos Sares
where it takes two to tango, but
apparently 800 couples from around the
globe to find the world's best. Only 60
couples remain in the final stage of the
24th Tango World Championship in
Argentina. The two-week festival
culminates with the finals on September
1st and 2nd. Tango teaches us something.
Sometimes you step forward, sometimes
you have to step back. The important
thing is to keep on moving. We have a
shout out today going to all of our math
wizzes and Mr. Anderson at Roby
Elementary in Indianapolis, Indiana. I
got to meet Mr. Anderson in Indie and
put him to the test with a math brain
teaser and I must say he crushed it.
Well done, sir. And Rockets, rise up.
And we're also showing some love to Miss
Nash at Newton Middle School in
Centennial, Colorado. Andrew, I see you.
Thank you for spending part of your day
with us. Tomorrow is Wednesday. Put a
unique vocabulary word and definition in
the comment section of our latest posts
on Instagram or Tik Tok at Koiwire CNN10
and we're going to choose a winner to
work into tomorrow's show. Put your
school name, city, and state in there,
too, so we can show you some love.
Remember, this world is full of
fascinating stories, amazing people, and
opportunities. There's something we can
learn each and every single day. Go find
it. I'm Ky Wire, and we are CNN 10.