Hello and rise up.
One of you helped uswrite today's show with a vocab word yousubmitted on the socials.
We had so manycompelling words, tough to choose justone.
I'd like to defenistrate myselffrom the position of picker.
Shout outto Mr.
Westbrook's class, LakeidgeJunior High in Oram, Utah.
A littlebonus word to start our day.
GoLeopards.
We begin with an update onsome wicked weather that is batteringmuch of the central US.
The week ofsevere storms started on Monday withmultiple tornadoes demolishing buildingsin Kansas.
Heavy rain stranding vehicleson flooded streets in Wisconsin andbaseball-sized hail slamming into partsof three states.
In total, at least adozen tornadoes were reported across thecentral region of the country.
Three ofthem touching down in Minnesota,including this one that was caught onvideo.
Parts of the Midwest are dealingwith severe flooding spurred by heavyrainfall.
>> Our water treatment guy told us we had 4and 1/2 in in roughly 3 hours orsomething like that.
>> Have you ever seen the water this highlike this before?>> No.
I've talked to people that havelived here their whole lives and we'venever seen the water this high.
Forecasters fear the worst could stillbe on the way with heavy rains, strongwinds, hail, and flooding that couldlast through Friday.
The storms couldimpact a huge area stretching from theTexas Mexico border to the Great Lakesregion.
So, make sure to listen to yourlocal weather officials for the latestupdates.
Next up, the WNBA draft earlierthis week was historic thanks to the newcollective bargaining agreement betweenthe league and the players.
This draftclass is cashing in.
The top pickpulling in half a million dollars inyear one alone.
That's seven times whatlast year's number one pick, PaigeBeckers earned.
Same dream, samespotlight.
Very different paycheck.
Asign of progress.
Ay Fud, Yukon's sharpshooter.
Taken number one overall by theDallas Wings.
Fud reunited with herformer Yukon teammate, last year's toppick, Paige Beckers in Dallas.
Our timeat Yukon felt like it I mean it was justfull of injury, full of like either Iwas playing, she wasn't, she wasplaying, I wasn't.
It wasn't until lastyear um that we really got a chance toactually play together.
Just so muchpotential um with not just her, but theentire uh Dallas Wings roster.
So, I Ican't wait obviously to play with heragain, but to play with every single oneof them.
>> Now, record books, a $2.
2 $22 milliondeal, richest rookie contract in WNBAhistory.
An update now for one of themost popular gaming platforms foryoungsters, Roblox.
After months ofdiscussions and research, the app ischanging how players access it.
Startingin June, accounts will be divided by ageusing age check technology.
To completethe process, users have to follow aseries of onscreen instructions forfacial verification.
Kids ages 5 toeight will have chat turned off andaccess to games will be strictly limitedby the contents rating.
The company saysolder kids will have a bit more access,but they say safety controls will stillbe in place, allowing them only to chatwith age checked users in similar agegroups.
Why? Roblox has faced pressureto better protect children frominappropriate content and preventinteractions with others that are notage appropriate.
Now to a moment caughton camera that has conservationistssaying, "Was it a cat I saw?" Thatphrase, by the way, is a palendrome.
Camera traps photographed a rare cloudjaguar high up in the Marandon MountainRange of Honduras.
First time it's beendetected there in a decade.
A positivesign for the Central American nationattempting an environmental turnaround.
The elusive feline is struggling tothrive due to poaching and habitat lossfrom deforestation and humandevelopment.
Pop quiz hot shot.
Which US state hasthe highest number of recorded fossilfinds? Texas, California, Colorado, orMontana?If you said California, put your handsup and show those pits.
Home to theLabraatar pits, California clocked themost fossils.
Montana, though, shows thehighest diversity of discoveries,including more T-Rex bones than anyother state.
A pair of snorkelingscientists found an undergroundfossil-filled cave leading tounprecedented paleontologicaldiscoveries in central Texas.
Accordingto the University of Texas at Austin,the scientists gained access to apreviously unmapped cave on privateproperty and snorkeled throughunderwater streams leading to an areabrimming with undisturbed fossils.
Itwas there, according to a studypublished in the journal QuadinaryResearch, that co-authors John Morettiand John Young discovered among dozensof fossils, the remains of a gianttortoise and a relative of the armadillothe size of a lion.
The study says theremains of those ice age animals datingback some 100,000 years, had neverpreviously been found in central Texasbefore, and have raised new questionsabout what is known about the region'sgeological and climatic past.
Ever wish you could dinosaur back intotime? Well, now we can.
No time machinerequired.
Actually, you do use a virtualtime machine of sorts.
A new VRexperience called Age of Dinosaurs justlaunched, taking players 150 millionyears into the past.
Created inpartnership with the Natural HistoryMuseum London, dinosaur experts, andCalifornia-based Sandbox VR.
It's notyour average Jurassic Joyide.
It'sscience meets cinema.
>> It was wonderful.
very educational, verycinematic.
Um, I learned a lot and I'vereally enjoyed it.
Um, dinosaurs are upin your face.
They're all around you.
It's not like you're just walkingthrough some kind of static thing.
It's,uh, yeah, very immersive, veryeducational, a lot of fun.
>> We're talking razor sharp teeth,ultradetailed scales, even musclemovement under the skin, all vetted byreal life dino experts.
I get to workwith the team at Sandbox and tell themum what I know about, you know, what weshould uh make the animals look like,how they should behave, what kind ofinteresting ideas we can put into thatanimation.
Are there are thereparticularly interesting pieces ofbehavior that could involve interactionwith people that we might build in? Uhand not just the animals themselves, butwe had to build the environment.
We wentto an awful lot of trouble to umreconstruct the plants and theenvironments quite accurately to buildthis completely immersive prehistoricworld.
>> With full body tracking and hapticvests, you won't just see a T-Rex, youmight feel its footsteps.
Those of us who have a bank accountmight know that sometimes it can be apain in the kester to make time to gointo the bank, wait in line.
Well, whatif you had a bank right there in yourschool for the students, run by thestudents, all while teaching them aboutmanaging finances? That's exactly what'shappening at Blackman High School inMurphy'sboro, Tennessee.
Check it out.
>> Inside Blackman High School inMurphy'sboro.
>> 70 90 110 130>> you will find.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Have a great day.
>> A Redstone Federal Credit Union branch.
It's a real bank in a real school>> run entirely by students.
>> Like I'm actually handling people'smoney>> during lunch period.
We have membershere within the school, teachers andstudents.
They can make deposits uhwithdrawals, get change, uh pay certainloans if they have one through redstone.
>> This is the first branch inside aTennessee high school since thepartnership between the school and thebank launched around 5 years ago.
Morethan a hundred students have taken thecapstone course.
>> A really good quality job as a teenagerand we're getting class credit for it.
So, it's like a golden opportunity forus almost.
>> Supervised by teachers.
Students alsotrain and work with real bank employees.
>> The basic finances are really important.
Like when you swipe your debit card,they come out of your checking account.
And this is something they're learning.
And then they get to help their peers>> building their resumes while learningpersonal finance at the same time.
>> What does it look like for my ownpersonal finance? What does it look likefor my own banking decisions? Um, howdoes it look for me to interact with abusiness and a company? Um, and I justthink those are the real world kind ofexperiences that we're want to make surethat our students have.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Water fight.
Asia's largest water fightas crowds across Thailand celebratedSran, the Thai New Year festival onSunday.
Also known as the waterfestival, Sran takes place every Aprilwith locals, tourists, young and old,flooding the neighborhood squares tosplash each other with buckets, hoses,water balloons, and more.
Why, you ask?to symbolize the washing away of badluck and a fresh start for the yearahead.
The word scrron comes from aSanskrit term that roughly translates toastrological passage or movementsymbolizing the sun moving into a newposition in the zodiac.
But for mostfolks clearly it also symbolizes fun.
Big congrats to our your word Wednesdaywinners, Mr.
Hoffen friends at DixonPublic School in Dixon, Montana, whosubmitted palendrome, a noun meaning aword or phrase or sequence that readsthe same backward as forward, like nonerace car.
Uh, rise to vote, sir.
Thanksfor putting that on our radar.
Also apalenrome.
And shout out to Mr.
Wattsmathematicians at Lime Old Lime HighSchool in Old Lime, Connecticut.
Thisgift is for the birds.
And I mean thatin the best possible way.
I love birds.
You really nailed it.
Actually, theseare legit wood screws.
Well done andthank you.
Rise up everyone.
Go out.
Bethe spark of joy someone needs.
I'm KoiWire and we are CNN 10.
One of you helped uswrite today's show with a vocab word yousubmitted on the socials.
We had so manycompelling words, tough to choose justone.
I'd like to defenistrate myselffrom the position of picker.
Shout outto Mr.
Westbrook's class, LakeidgeJunior High in Oram, Utah.
A littlebonus word to start our day.
GoLeopards.
We begin with an update onsome wicked weather that is batteringmuch of the central US.
The week ofsevere storms started on Monday withmultiple tornadoes demolishing buildingsin Kansas.
Heavy rain stranding vehicleson flooded streets in Wisconsin andbaseball-sized hail slamming into partsof three states.
In total, at least adozen tornadoes were reported across thecentral region of the country.
Three ofthem touching down in Minnesota,including this one that was caught onvideo.
Parts of the Midwest are dealingwith severe flooding spurred by heavyrainfall.
>> Our water treatment guy told us we had 4and 1/2 in in roughly 3 hours orsomething like that.
>> Have you ever seen the water this highlike this before?>> No.
I've talked to people that havelived here their whole lives and we'venever seen the water this high.
Forecasters fear the worst could stillbe on the way with heavy rains, strongwinds, hail, and flooding that couldlast through Friday.
The storms couldimpact a huge area stretching from theTexas Mexico border to the Great Lakesregion.
So, make sure to listen to yourlocal weather officials for the latestupdates.
Next up, the WNBA draft earlierthis week was historic thanks to the newcollective bargaining agreement betweenthe league and the players.
This draftclass is cashing in.
The top pickpulling in half a million dollars inyear one alone.
That's seven times whatlast year's number one pick, PaigeBeckers earned.
Same dream, samespotlight.
Very different paycheck.
Asign of progress.
Ay Fud, Yukon's sharpshooter.
Taken number one overall by theDallas Wings.
Fud reunited with herformer Yukon teammate, last year's toppick, Paige Beckers in Dallas.
Our timeat Yukon felt like it I mean it was justfull of injury, full of like either Iwas playing, she wasn't, she wasplaying, I wasn't.
It wasn't until lastyear um that we really got a chance toactually play together.
Just so muchpotential um with not just her, but theentire uh Dallas Wings roster.
So, I Ican't wait obviously to play with heragain, but to play with every single oneof them.
>> Now, record books, a $2.
2 $22 milliondeal, richest rookie contract in WNBAhistory.
An update now for one of themost popular gaming platforms foryoungsters, Roblox.
After months ofdiscussions and research, the app ischanging how players access it.
Startingin June, accounts will be divided by ageusing age check technology.
To completethe process, users have to follow aseries of onscreen instructions forfacial verification.
Kids ages 5 toeight will have chat turned off andaccess to games will be strictly limitedby the contents rating.
The company saysolder kids will have a bit more access,but they say safety controls will stillbe in place, allowing them only to chatwith age checked users in similar agegroups.
Why? Roblox has faced pressureto better protect children frominappropriate content and preventinteractions with others that are notage appropriate.
Now to a moment caughton camera that has conservationistssaying, "Was it a cat I saw?" Thatphrase, by the way, is a palendrome.
Camera traps photographed a rare cloudjaguar high up in the Marandon MountainRange of Honduras.
First time it's beendetected there in a decade.
A positivesign for the Central American nationattempting an environmental turnaround.
The elusive feline is struggling tothrive due to poaching and habitat lossfrom deforestation and humandevelopment.
Pop quiz hot shot.
Which US state hasthe highest number of recorded fossilfinds? Texas, California, Colorado, orMontana?If you said California, put your handsup and show those pits.
Home to theLabraatar pits, California clocked themost fossils.
Montana, though, shows thehighest diversity of discoveries,including more T-Rex bones than anyother state.
A pair of snorkelingscientists found an undergroundfossil-filled cave leading tounprecedented paleontologicaldiscoveries in central Texas.
Accordingto the University of Texas at Austin,the scientists gained access to apreviously unmapped cave on privateproperty and snorkeled throughunderwater streams leading to an areabrimming with undisturbed fossils.
Itwas there, according to a studypublished in the journal QuadinaryResearch, that co-authors John Morettiand John Young discovered among dozensof fossils, the remains of a gianttortoise and a relative of the armadillothe size of a lion.
The study says theremains of those ice age animals datingback some 100,000 years, had neverpreviously been found in central Texasbefore, and have raised new questionsabout what is known about the region'sgeological and climatic past.
Ever wish you could dinosaur back intotime? Well, now we can.
No time machinerequired.
Actually, you do use a virtualtime machine of sorts.
A new VRexperience called Age of Dinosaurs justlaunched, taking players 150 millionyears into the past.
Created inpartnership with the Natural HistoryMuseum London, dinosaur experts, andCalifornia-based Sandbox VR.
It's notyour average Jurassic Joyide.
It'sscience meets cinema.
>> It was wonderful.
very educational, verycinematic.
Um, I learned a lot and I'vereally enjoyed it.
Um, dinosaurs are upin your face.
They're all around you.
It's not like you're just walkingthrough some kind of static thing.
It's,uh, yeah, very immersive, veryeducational, a lot of fun.
>> We're talking razor sharp teeth,ultradetailed scales, even musclemovement under the skin, all vetted byreal life dino experts.
I get to workwith the team at Sandbox and tell themum what I know about, you know, what weshould uh make the animals look like,how they should behave, what kind ofinteresting ideas we can put into thatanimation.
Are there are thereparticularly interesting pieces ofbehavior that could involve interactionwith people that we might build in? Uhand not just the animals themselves, butwe had to build the environment.
We wentto an awful lot of trouble to umreconstruct the plants and theenvironments quite accurately to buildthis completely immersive prehistoricworld.
>> With full body tracking and hapticvests, you won't just see a T-Rex, youmight feel its footsteps.
Those of us who have a bank accountmight know that sometimes it can be apain in the kester to make time to gointo the bank, wait in line.
Well, whatif you had a bank right there in yourschool for the students, run by thestudents, all while teaching them aboutmanaging finances? That's exactly what'shappening at Blackman High School inMurphy'sboro, Tennessee.
Check it out.
>> Inside Blackman High School inMurphy'sboro.
>> 70 90 110 130>> you will find.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Have a great day.
>> A Redstone Federal Credit Union branch.
It's a real bank in a real school>> run entirely by students.
>> Like I'm actually handling people'smoney>> during lunch period.
We have membershere within the school, teachers andstudents.
They can make deposits uhwithdrawals, get change, uh pay certainloans if they have one through redstone.
>> This is the first branch inside aTennessee high school since thepartnership between the school and thebank launched around 5 years ago.
Morethan a hundred students have taken thecapstone course.
>> A really good quality job as a teenagerand we're getting class credit for it.
So, it's like a golden opportunity forus almost.
>> Supervised by teachers.
Students alsotrain and work with real bank employees.
>> The basic finances are really important.
Like when you swipe your debit card,they come out of your checking account.
And this is something they're learning.
And then they get to help their peers>> building their resumes while learningpersonal finance at the same time.
>> What does it look like for my ownpersonal finance? What does it look likefor my own banking decisions? Um, howdoes it look for me to interact with abusiness and a company? Um, and I justthink those are the real world kind ofexperiences that we're want to make surethat our students have.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Water fight.
Asia's largest water fightas crowds across Thailand celebratedSran, the Thai New Year festival onSunday.
Also known as the waterfestival, Sran takes place every Aprilwith locals, tourists, young and old,flooding the neighborhood squares tosplash each other with buckets, hoses,water balloons, and more.
Why, you ask?to symbolize the washing away of badluck and a fresh start for the yearahead.
The word scrron comes from aSanskrit term that roughly translates toastrological passage or movementsymbolizing the sun moving into a newposition in the zodiac.
But for mostfolks clearly it also symbolizes fun.
Big congrats to our your word Wednesdaywinners, Mr.
Hoffen friends at DixonPublic School in Dixon, Montana, whosubmitted palendrome, a noun meaning aword or phrase or sequence that readsthe same backward as forward, like nonerace car.
Uh, rise to vote, sir.
Thanksfor putting that on our radar.
Also apalenrome.
And shout out to Mr.
Wattsmathematicians at Lime Old Lime HighSchool in Old Lime, Connecticut.
Thisgift is for the birds.
And I mean thatin the best possible way.
I love birds.
You really nailed it.
Actually, theseare legit wood screws.
Well done andthank you.
Rise up everyone.
Go out.
Bethe spark of joy someone needs.
I'm KoiWire and we are CNN 10.