[music] What's up, sunshine?
Why do we say sleep like a baby when babies wake up like every 3 hours?
And if two vegans get in an argument, do we still call it beef?
I'm Koi Wire.
Let's lock in and get you your news.
10 minutes of news right here, right now.
Rise up.
We begin in central Africa where scientists are testing a new strategy against what could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever recorded.
So far, the virus has sickened more than 8,000 people, killed at least 4,000 throughout central Africa.
Ebola spreads through contact with fluids from infected people or animals, and there's currently no vaccine or treatment specifically approved for this strain.
More than 250 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have enrolled in a trial of an experimental antiviral pill designed to prevent Ebola after someone has been exposed, but before they become sick.
If it works, this could be a gamecher for stopping transmission.
It's called Obesa.
Researchers give it within 5 days of exposure, then monitor participants for symptoms.
They're hoping to enroll nearly 1,000 people, including health workers, family members of Ebola patients.
About half will receive the medication.
The others will receive a placebo.
The World Health Organization warns this outbreak could surpass the devastating West African epidemic of 2014 to 2016, which killed more than 11,000 people.
Turning now from one of the world's deadliest diseases to the world's deadliest animal, not sharks, not snakes, mosquitoes.
These tiny pests spread diseases including malaria, deni, west nile, yellow fever, and Zika, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths every year.
And the creepy part, researchers say mosquitoes can actually adapt their behavior to the ways we humans try to stop them.
Our make Terrell visited a lab that's studying mosquitoes brains to find new ways to outsmart them.
[music] >> So, it turns out mosquitoes are a lot smarter than we've been giving them credit for.
There's also that that notion of mosquitoes adapting their behavior in response to the things we do.
[music] After many many years of using the bed nets, mosquitoes started shifting the time at which they look for the humans [music] to bite.
So we saw rebounds in malia transmission for that.
So there's a lot of plasticity in their behavior >> and they were also really gross.
>> Wo e.
[laughter] >> I really don't like bugs.
We've come down to the labs of a scientist here at Virginia Tech who's been studying the brains and behavior of the world's deadliest animal.
Let's go check it out.
>> When they bite you, they actually inject some saliva in your bloodstream and that saliva might contain [music] some pathogens.
>> They of course cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year from malaria, spreading viruses like deni, yellow fever, chicken ga, zika.
We're also off to an early and ominous West Nile virus season here in the United States.
So the news [music] is not good when it comes to mosquitoes.
>> For the past 150 years, we've had tools to fight back.
[music] We had insecticides.
The problem is that they've started developing some resistance.
>> They also will remember people who try to swat at them and potentially avoid them in the future.
>> So if they get whacked, >> swatted.
Yeah, exactly.
Like it.
>> Yeah.
We have a publication showing that they actually can learn uh you know mechanical perturbations like that that mimic u sweats.
They're doing work here to try to get ahead of the bugs.
Once again, they're doing this in some really incredibly fascinating ways.
>> So, we can sample people's body and using a technique that separates those, you know, hundreds of chemicals into individual ones.
And then the machine is going to separate all the chemicals from the blend and send them to the mosquito one at a time.
And if we recall from the antenna of the mosquito, you can tell which one is detected by the mosquito.
>> What could we do with that information?
So different things, you know, once you understand how they smell us, you can either use that information to create baits and lures to attract them towards traps, or you can start thinking about engineering some repellents.
>> All of this, the researchers [music] tell us, will help us better understand how to protect ourselves against a threat that's only growing in its geographic [music] distribution as climates form?
>> Pop quiz shot.
Which tiny particle can help scientists detect a supernova?
The explosive death of a massive star, isotope, nutrinos, quarks, or lepttons.
If you said nutrinos, I neutrino.
You had it in you.
As a star collapses in on itself, it expels a massive burst of energy in the form of nutrinos.
Incredibly tiny cosmic particles which can be detected all the way here on Earth.
Nutrinos, the mysterious ghost particles, as they're called, are at the center of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
Belgian-born physicist Francis Hen of the University of Wisconsin Madison won the prize for helping create the incredible ice cube nutrino observatory buried deep beneath the ice at the South Pole.
Here's how wild this is.
Trillions of nutrinos pass through your body every second and almost none of them hit anything.
They're nearly massless and can fly through nearly anything as if they were barely there.
Hence the name ghost particles.
So Hollson used an entire cubic kilometer of crystal clear Antarctic ice as a giant particle detector.
More than 5,000 sensors sit in that ice, waiting for the incredibly rare moment when a nutrino does collide with an atom.
It creates a tiny flash of light.
Here's why scientists care.
Nutrinos can escape some of the universe's most violent places, exploding stars, distant galaxies, the neighborhoods around black holes, remaining completely unchanged, carrying information with them.
It's like the universe has been sending us secret messages and Hollen helped build the inbox.
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic.
But imagine looking at bumper-to-bumper gridlock and thinking, "Forget this.
I'm going up.
Personal flying vehicles might be closer than you think." One company called Pivotal has developed an aircraft that takes off vertically.
No runway required.
And you don't even need a traditional pilot's license to operate one.
and our Nick Watt went to learn more about the chances of our commutes involving looking down at traffic someday.
>> You don't need a pilot's license.
You don't even need a runway.
>> There.
Can you see it?
It's just there.
>> If you've ever played a video game, you can fly this thing.
It's one joystick.
Seriously.
And there's a lever to release a parachute if it all goes horribly wrong.
>> It looks awesome from down here.
What's the feeling?
Such a great feeling and just the best view ever.
It's in normal aviation.
You don't get to fly this low to the ground that often.
So Oh, >> getting to do it in this point of view is spectacular.
>> I'm going to stop talking to you cuz I don't want you to crash.
>> Appreciate that.
>> Kittyhawk gave birth to the age of aviation.
And all this might be another massive milestone in the history of flight.
>> It looks wrong.
You know, my brain can't quite get a handle on the movement.
And I'm used to seeing how cars, motorbikes, airplanes move.
This just moves differently.
It's disconcerting.
It's weird.
I mean, it's awesome.
It's weird.
>> What are we calling this?
We call it like an aircraft.
We call it a flying car.
I mean, what is it?
>> So, technically, it's an EV tall, which stands for electric vertical takeoff and landing.
>> There is a catch.
You aren't allowed to fly over so-called congested areas with lots of people in buildings.
Couple of other downsides.
Starting price $190,000.
And for now, the battery life is only around 20 minutes.
The range only about 20 miles.
Pivotal says that will improve.
>> And whoa.
Jeez Louise.
>> Another issue.
>> They won't let me fly for real because I haven't practiced long enough in the VR simulator.
>> Let go.
Let go of the trigger.
>> Yep.
There you go.
>> Oh, wow.
[laughter] >> This is great.
>> That's cool, right?
>> Ignore my histrionics.
This is very easy.
>> I mean, this feels very cool.
Oh, and and I'm just pretending.
>> You have to pass a test in the simulator before you can buy a pivotal personal aircraft.
It isn't a legal requirement.
They say they're just being responsible and also looking into uses helpful to humanity.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Gourd big or gourd home.
>> Your pumpkin comes in at 2,598 lb.
>> 2598 lbs.
That is the insane new Massachusetts state record.
Heavier than some small cars.
Woody Lancaster carving out this massive win.
Enough for the grand prize at the 28th annual Topppsfield Fair Giant Pumpkin Contest.
After decades of pumpkin growing, Woody says this was his swan song, his last ever.
But don't call it giant pumpkin growing a dying art.
13-year-old Harold Harris says he's got next.
Harold has already grown a massive 535 pounder.
Pumped for you, Harris.
It'd be awesome if Mr.
Lancaster grabbed a chainsaw and carved out that 2500lb pumpkin in time for Halloween.
Either way, gorgeous 10 out of 10.
Now, before we go, a little housekeeping.
And by housekeeping, I mean teachers are about to have some fun.
The CNN 10 weekly news quiz is back.
Teachers, go ahead and unleash it.
Students, sorry, not sorry.
This thing is wildly popular, so we had to bring it back.
And besides, knowledge is power.
So, here's your chance to show what you know and show out.
And one big shout out today.
This one goes to Mrs.
Weinebar's second period class at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Indiana.
They celebrated National Bald is Beautiful Day, which happened just a few weeks ago.
And you did it in style.
A for effort or shall we say B for bald.
I love you too.
Thanks for letting us be part of your day because you, our students, teachers, our families are what make this the best 10 minutes in news.
Shine on sunshine.
And here's something to take with you today.
You don't have to know everything today.
Just learn one thing you didn't know yesterday.
Ask one question.
Help one person take one step forward.
And if you do that enough times, someday you're going to look back and realize this was a pretty awesome journey.
I'm Ky Wire.
We're CNN 10.
You are more powerful than you know.
Why do we say sleep like a baby when babies wake up like every 3 hours?
And if two vegans get in an argument, do we still call it beef?
I'm Koi Wire.
Let's lock in and get you your news.
10 minutes of news right here, right now.
Rise up.
We begin in central Africa where scientists are testing a new strategy against what could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever recorded.
So far, the virus has sickened more than 8,000 people, killed at least 4,000 throughout central Africa.
Ebola spreads through contact with fluids from infected people or animals, and there's currently no vaccine or treatment specifically approved for this strain.
More than 250 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have enrolled in a trial of an experimental antiviral pill designed to prevent Ebola after someone has been exposed, but before they become sick.
If it works, this could be a gamecher for stopping transmission.
It's called Obesa.
Researchers give it within 5 days of exposure, then monitor participants for symptoms.
They're hoping to enroll nearly 1,000 people, including health workers, family members of Ebola patients.
About half will receive the medication.
The others will receive a placebo.
The World Health Organization warns this outbreak could surpass the devastating West African epidemic of 2014 to 2016, which killed more than 11,000 people.
Turning now from one of the world's deadliest diseases to the world's deadliest animal, not sharks, not snakes, mosquitoes.
These tiny pests spread diseases including malaria, deni, west nile, yellow fever, and Zika, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths every year.
And the creepy part, researchers say mosquitoes can actually adapt their behavior to the ways we humans try to stop them.
Our make Terrell visited a lab that's studying mosquitoes brains to find new ways to outsmart them.
[music] >> So, it turns out mosquitoes are a lot smarter than we've been giving them credit for.
There's also that that notion of mosquitoes adapting their behavior in response to the things we do.
[music] After many many years of using the bed nets, mosquitoes started shifting the time at which they look for the humans [music] to bite.
So we saw rebounds in malia transmission for that.
So there's a lot of plasticity in their behavior >> and they were also really gross.
>> Wo e.
[laughter] >> I really don't like bugs.
We've come down to the labs of a scientist here at Virginia Tech who's been studying the brains and behavior of the world's deadliest animal.
Let's go check it out.
>> When they bite you, they actually inject some saliva in your bloodstream and that saliva might contain [music] some pathogens.
>> They of course cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year from malaria, spreading viruses like deni, yellow fever, chicken ga, zika.
We're also off to an early and ominous West Nile virus season here in the United States.
So the news [music] is not good when it comes to mosquitoes.
>> For the past 150 years, we've had tools to fight back.
[music] We had insecticides.
The problem is that they've started developing some resistance.
>> They also will remember people who try to swat at them and potentially avoid them in the future.
>> So if they get whacked, >> swatted.
Yeah, exactly.
Like it.
>> Yeah.
We have a publication showing that they actually can learn uh you know mechanical perturbations like that that mimic u sweats.
They're doing work here to try to get ahead of the bugs.
Once again, they're doing this in some really incredibly fascinating ways.
>> So, we can sample people's body and using a technique that separates those, you know, hundreds of chemicals into individual ones.
And then the machine is going to separate all the chemicals from the blend and send them to the mosquito one at a time.
And if we recall from the antenna of the mosquito, you can tell which one is detected by the mosquito.
>> What could we do with that information?
So different things, you know, once you understand how they smell us, you can either use that information to create baits and lures to attract them towards traps, or you can start thinking about engineering some repellents.
>> All of this, the researchers [music] tell us, will help us better understand how to protect ourselves against a threat that's only growing in its geographic [music] distribution as climates form?
>> Pop quiz shot.
Which tiny particle can help scientists detect a supernova?
The explosive death of a massive star, isotope, nutrinos, quarks, or lepttons.
If you said nutrinos, I neutrino.
You had it in you.
As a star collapses in on itself, it expels a massive burst of energy in the form of nutrinos.
Incredibly tiny cosmic particles which can be detected all the way here on Earth.
Nutrinos, the mysterious ghost particles, as they're called, are at the center of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
Belgian-born physicist Francis Hen of the University of Wisconsin Madison won the prize for helping create the incredible ice cube nutrino observatory buried deep beneath the ice at the South Pole.
Here's how wild this is.
Trillions of nutrinos pass through your body every second and almost none of them hit anything.
They're nearly massless and can fly through nearly anything as if they were barely there.
Hence the name ghost particles.
So Hollson used an entire cubic kilometer of crystal clear Antarctic ice as a giant particle detector.
More than 5,000 sensors sit in that ice, waiting for the incredibly rare moment when a nutrino does collide with an atom.
It creates a tiny flash of light.
Here's why scientists care.
Nutrinos can escape some of the universe's most violent places, exploding stars, distant galaxies, the neighborhoods around black holes, remaining completely unchanged, carrying information with them.
It's like the universe has been sending us secret messages and Hollen helped build the inbox.
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic.
But imagine looking at bumper-to-bumper gridlock and thinking, "Forget this.
I'm going up.
Personal flying vehicles might be closer than you think." One company called Pivotal has developed an aircraft that takes off vertically.
No runway required.
And you don't even need a traditional pilot's license to operate one.
and our Nick Watt went to learn more about the chances of our commutes involving looking down at traffic someday.
>> You don't need a pilot's license.
You don't even need a runway.
>> There.
Can you see it?
It's just there.
>> If you've ever played a video game, you can fly this thing.
It's one joystick.
Seriously.
And there's a lever to release a parachute if it all goes horribly wrong.
>> It looks awesome from down here.
What's the feeling?
Such a great feeling and just the best view ever.
It's in normal aviation.
You don't get to fly this low to the ground that often.
So Oh, >> getting to do it in this point of view is spectacular.
>> I'm going to stop talking to you cuz I don't want you to crash.
>> Appreciate that.
>> Kittyhawk gave birth to the age of aviation.
And all this might be another massive milestone in the history of flight.
>> It looks wrong.
You know, my brain can't quite get a handle on the movement.
And I'm used to seeing how cars, motorbikes, airplanes move.
This just moves differently.
It's disconcerting.
It's weird.
I mean, it's awesome.
It's weird.
>> What are we calling this?
We call it like an aircraft.
We call it a flying car.
I mean, what is it?
>> So, technically, it's an EV tall, which stands for electric vertical takeoff and landing.
>> There is a catch.
You aren't allowed to fly over so-called congested areas with lots of people in buildings.
Couple of other downsides.
Starting price $190,000.
And for now, the battery life is only around 20 minutes.
The range only about 20 miles.
Pivotal says that will improve.
>> And whoa.
Jeez Louise.
>> Another issue.
>> They won't let me fly for real because I haven't practiced long enough in the VR simulator.
>> Let go.
Let go of the trigger.
>> Yep.
There you go.
>> Oh, wow.
[laughter] >> This is great.
>> That's cool, right?
>> Ignore my histrionics.
This is very easy.
>> I mean, this feels very cool.
Oh, and and I'm just pretending.
>> You have to pass a test in the simulator before you can buy a pivotal personal aircraft.
It isn't a legal requirement.
They say they're just being responsible and also looking into uses helpful to humanity.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Gourd big or gourd home.
>> Your pumpkin comes in at 2,598 lb.
>> 2598 lbs.
That is the insane new Massachusetts state record.
Heavier than some small cars.
Woody Lancaster carving out this massive win.
Enough for the grand prize at the 28th annual Topppsfield Fair Giant Pumpkin Contest.
After decades of pumpkin growing, Woody says this was his swan song, his last ever.
But don't call it giant pumpkin growing a dying art.
13-year-old Harold Harris says he's got next.
Harold has already grown a massive 535 pounder.
Pumped for you, Harris.
It'd be awesome if Mr.
Lancaster grabbed a chainsaw and carved out that 2500lb pumpkin in time for Halloween.
Either way, gorgeous 10 out of 10.
Now, before we go, a little housekeeping.
And by housekeeping, I mean teachers are about to have some fun.
The CNN 10 weekly news quiz is back.
Teachers, go ahead and unleash it.
Students, sorry, not sorry.
This thing is wildly popular, so we had to bring it back.
And besides, knowledge is power.
So, here's your chance to show what you know and show out.
And one big shout out today.
This one goes to Mrs.
Weinebar's second period class at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Indiana.
They celebrated National Bald is Beautiful Day, which happened just a few weeks ago.
And you did it in style.
A for effort or shall we say B for bald.
I love you too.
Thanks for letting us be part of your day because you, our students, teachers, our families are what make this the best 10 minutes in news.
Shine on sunshine.
And here's something to take with you today.
You don't have to know everything today.
Just learn one thing you didn't know yesterday.
Ask one question.
Help one person take one step forward.
And if you do that enough times, someday you're going to look back and realize this was a pretty awesome journey.
I'm Ky Wire.
We're CNN 10.
You are more powerful than you know.