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>> What's up, sunshine? I'm Coy Wire. This

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is CNN 10, and here is something worth

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remembering today. You don't have to

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know everything, just stay curious

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enough to keep learning something. Let's

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get smarter. 10 minutes, big world,

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let's rise up. We begin in the

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Northeast, where an early season

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nor'easter spent the weekend reminding

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everybody Mother Nature does not need an

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invitation. Powerful winds, soaking

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rain, coastal flooding, enormous waves

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battering parts of the region. At one

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point, more than 100,000 customers were

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without electricity. And New York City

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saw flooded streets and subway stations

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again. Conditions are now improving as

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the storm weakens. Here's your knowledge

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bomb. A nor'easter isn't named for where

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the storm goes, it's named for where its

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strongest winds come from. These storms

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typically spin counterclockwise,

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bringing powerful winds from the

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Northeast along the coast. As for New

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York, much of the city's drainage

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infrastructure is roughly a century old,

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built for a totally different looking

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city and different climate. CNN's Gloria

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Pasquino takes us underground to see why

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a storm above the city can become a

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problem below it.

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>> It's become a common sight in New York

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City.

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Stranded cars,

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waterfalls inside train stations,

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and pedestrians wading through flooded

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streets.

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The Big Apple was soaked by more than 8

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inches of rain in August, a record for

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the past 5 years.

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>> Why is that happening?

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>> Yeah. Uh

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it has been a bit of a crazy summer. We

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had to kind of activate our emergency

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flash flood plan almost like 30% more

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this summer than any other year. And

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what we believe is happening is it's

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climate change. It's the intensity of

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the rainstorm.

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>> A massive amount of rain in a short

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amount of time, and America's largest

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city can barely keep up. The city's

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sewer system is designed to handle up to

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1.75 in of rain per hour.

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>> If you think about New York City system

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built over 100 years ago, we're seeing

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storms that are at 2 in,

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2 and 1/2 in, 3 in. So, it's really

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overwhelming the system.

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>> It's crazy.

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>> That means water is going up into the

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streets and down into the subways.

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New York City's annual precipitation has

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increased about 20% since 1960.

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And as the planet warms, the atmosphere

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holds more moisture, fueling heavier,

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more frequent downpours.

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Five years after the remnants of

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Hurricane Ida dropped a record amount of

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rain flooding basements and killing more

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than a dozen people, some New Yorkers

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are still dealing with constant

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flooding.

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>> I thought, oh, this is just a great

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city, you know, a concrete jungle. We

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don't we don't have flooding here.

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>> We've been trying to make sure we have

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everything we need off the floor, but

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also all the supplies to make sure we

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can barricade the doors.

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>> Since Ida, the city has invested

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billions in flood protection, upgraded

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sewers, expanded stormwater systems, and

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improved emergency alerts. But officials

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say fully addressing the city's flood

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risk could take decades.

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>> You're doing good work.

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>> In a race against the clock, the city

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continues to upgrade stormwater

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infrastructure and protections against

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coastal flooding.

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>> New York, we're [music] readying our

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coastlines.

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>> This $43 million investment will help

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oversight of more than 100 floodgates

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along South Street in Lower Manhattan.

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>> When a major storm is on the way,

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floodgates [music] will flip up into

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place, creating one continuous barrier

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that helps keep water out.

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>> And there's green infrastructure,

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thousands of rain gardens to collect

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stormwater runoff.

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And massive underground tanks to capture

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millions of gallons of stormwater and

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sewage during heavy rains.

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>> This is helping to capture the water.

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>> As the city tries to make progress,

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more extreme weather is likely on its

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way.

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>> All right, Atlanta, time to get

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bamboozled because after nearly 2 years

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without them, giant pandas are back.

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Meet Ping Ping and Fu Shuang. The pair

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arrived from China aboard the, and I

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promise, this is really what they called

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it, the FedEx Panda Express. The two

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6-year-olds traveled with plenty of

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bamboo and snacks, and they will spend

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about a month in quarantine before

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meeting the public at Zoo Atlanta.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping announced

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the loan during his recent US visit,

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calling giant pandas envoys of

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friendship. And Atlanta now becomes just

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one of three US zoos with giant pandas.

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I'd keep going with the panda puns, but

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I'd hate to bury the lead. Here's our

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David Culver with more.

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>> So, it might have felt like a

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last-minute overnight operation, but the

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arrival of this giant panda pair was

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months in the making. Officially, these

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are envoys of friendship. That's the

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phrase both governments tend to use.

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But neither side tends to highlight that

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these pandas are on loan. China owns

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them, any cubs born here eventually go

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back. And zoos pay about a million

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dollars a year. Obviously, part of this

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is part of the science. They help with

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conservation, and that's what some of

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the money goes towards, but there's also

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politics here. Pandas are one of the few

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things that China can actually insert

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into a tense relationship, and it tends

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to generate usually a warmer response.

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I've seen folks on both sides of the

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Pacific stand in front of these

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creatures, and you look at their faces,

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and they sense the unhurriedness, they

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sense the quiet, the stillness, and in a

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relationship that's often defined by

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competition and tension, perhaps that's

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what still tends to be relevant. That

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folks are drawn towards the tranquility,

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maybe even the peace. That's rarer these

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days than even giant pandas.

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>> It's time for a did did did did you

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know? Even though giant pandas [music]

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eat a prolific amount of bamboo, they

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can only digest about 17% of it. That is

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because despite evolving to be

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herbivores, they've retained a short

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digestive tract normally seen [music]

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in carnivores. This combined with a

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fiber-rich diet means pandas are

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prodigious producers of excrement.

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>> An adult panda can go number two up to

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100 times a day producing dozens of

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pounds of waste. Talk about Kung Fu

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Panda. And that's not their only bizarre

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bathroom habit. Get [music] this, pandas

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are also known to urinate while doing a

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handstand. Yes, this is true. Scientists

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say the unusual act is actually [music]

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a technique to mark their territory. The

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higher the mark, the bigger the panda.

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Do not try this at home. Positively

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enlightening stuff. And teachers, I am

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sorry for [music] any pandemonium the

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potty talk have caused.

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>> Next up, sports and politics collide.

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Ireland beat Israel in the UEFA Nations

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League on Sunday after Ireland's players

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spent hours debating whether they should

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play at all. The match had faced boycott

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calls in Ireland over Israel's military

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actions in Gaza. Ireland's players wore

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black armbands which the federation said

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honored all lives lost in the conflict.

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Ireland's reserve goalkeeper chose not

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to play at all saying he believed

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participating would be wrong because of

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the killing of innocent people. He also

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stressed that his decision was not

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directed at Israeli people or the Jewish

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community. Israel's Football Association

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welcomed Ireland's decision to play

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saying that football and politics should

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remain separate. Ireland's federation

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says its players also intend to make a

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significant charitable contribution from

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their player earnings.

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>> Tick tick tick 10-second trivia. Why do

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some launchpads dump hundreds of

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thousands of gallons of water underneath

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a rocket during lift off? To make steam

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for extra thrust, to suppress sound, to

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wash away rocket fuel, or to cool the

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astronauts?

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If you said suppress the sound, you

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totally rocket. Rocket launches can

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create sound waves so powerful they can

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actually damage the rocket and launch

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pad. So, massive water deluge systems

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absorb some of that acoustic energy.

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History happened yesterday morning in

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Texas. SpaceX's Starship, the most

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powerful rocket system ever built,

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reached Earth's orbit for the first

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time. Starship blasted off from Starbase

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Texas on its 14th test flight. One

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engine shut down during the climb, but

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the spacecraft still successfully

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reached orbit. And this mission is a big

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step up from the previous tests. The

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rocket successfully deployed 26

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operational Starlink satellites, which

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they say will improve network capacity

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and internet speeds for Starlink users

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all over the world. SpaceX opted to cut

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this test flight short, bringing

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Starship home after about 3 hours rather

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than the planned 10-hour flight. Before

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a successful splashdown in the Pacific

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Ocean, the ship caused a massive ball of

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fire and did not land as softly as it

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had during the last mission in July, but

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it appeared to remain at least partially

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intact atop the water.

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is

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asking us to try something that in 2026

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might feel absolutely bonkers. Put the

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phone down. At Texas A&M University

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Central Texas, Professor Doctors

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Christine Alvarez Jones and Amber Denai

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created a going analog initiative,

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inviting students to step away from

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screens and make something with their

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hands. One workshop, bookbinding, the

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old-school art of putting together loose

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pages inside a cover. For some students,

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disconnecting from screen time is

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exactly what they needed, realizing

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there's a difference between consuming

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something and creating something.

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>> I want to be able to show this off to my

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friends, to my family, that look look

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what I can create without the influence

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of technology, but rather through my

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mind and my power of my brain.

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>> Sometimes the best way to recharge

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yourself is to unplug the charger. That

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is our 10, but before I go, shout out to

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Dr. Ajare Stadium View High School in

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Thank you for

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your kind email and thank you for

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allowing CNN 10 to create a bridge

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between the classroom and the wider

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world. Rise up. Also, this shout out

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goes to Miss Spell at the Vocational

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Transition Center in Lubbock, Texas.

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Student Sierra designed this really cool

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t-shirt, made one for her teddy, too,

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um and then she sent me one. How cool is

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this? High five to 10. You guys really

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are some busy bees. Thank you for making

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our day. Shine on, sunshine. You're more

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powerful than you know. I'm Coy Wire and

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we are CNN 10.