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COY WIRE: Hello, lovely people.
Wonderful Wednesday to you.
It's your boy, Coy, grateful to be spending part of our day
right here with you on CNN 10.
You know, sometimes when tragedy strikes,
it can serve as a reminder that we
should never take any of the moments
we're given for granted.
We're starting with an update on the earthquake
that has shattered families in Turkey and Syria.
The 7.8 magnitude quake has taken
the lives of more than 36,000 people
as of the time of this show's recording.
Tens of thousands more are injured.
The latest report from Turkey's Health Ministry
said more than 19,000 people were hospitalized with injuries
sustained from the disaster, and more
than 1,000 children in Turkey were
separated from their parents.
More than a week now after the earthquake
struck, and rescuers are still working around the clock
in hopes of saving lives.
Seven more people were rescued from the rubble yesterday,
but hopes of finding further survivors
dwindle with every second that passes.
The reality is that survival stories are becoming few
and far between as rescue operations start
to shift to recovery efforts.
And for many in Syria, the earthquake
is just the latest in a decade long series of tragedies.
In recent years, the country has been torn apart,
and 1.7 million people are living
in tents and refugee camps.
CNN's Nada Bashir is in Istanbul where a massive effort to send
aid is currently underway.
NADA BASHIR: Well, a week on since Turkey
was struck by a devastating earthquake on Monday.
And aid centers like this one here
are still being filled with volunteers with donations
to be distributed to those impacted by the earthquake.
And as you can see here, boxes and boxes
are being filled up with life-saving humanitarian
assistance, and crucial donations for those impacted
by the earthquake, from clothes, blankets,
to toiletries, anything that someone who has been made
homeless displaced by the devastation
could need in order to survive over the next few weeks.
And there are aid centers like this one-- you can see
the sheer scale of this hanger where the aid donations are
coming in-- there are centers like this across the country,
because of course, as we are still seeing the death toll
rising, and we are still seeing miraculously,
survivors being pulled out of the rubble,
this is now becoming more of a recovery effort
than a rescue effort.
And there are of course, thousands and thousands
of people, of families extremely vulnerable
now, desperately in need, hugely dependent on
that humanitarian assistance.
We've seen aid groups from across the globe
traveling into Turkey to support in that effort.
And here in Istanbul, it's not just the international aid
that's coming in.
It is Turks.
It's people from this country piling
into centers like this one to provide those donations.
There is a real sense of unity here.
People really want to help.
And of course, there are so many in need.
The question of course also now relating to Northwest Syria,
getting aid across the border there through the Bab al-Hawa
crossing, there has been some logistical challenges,
as well as diplomatic challenges in getting
the aid across to Syria.
But that now seems to be coming through.
And of course, we are also now beginning
to see evacuations, people and families being evacuated
from the impacted Southeast region of Turkey
to even here in Istanbul where they will be sheltered
over the next few weeks, many of them of course, now displaced,
homeless, with nowhere else to go.
COY WIRE: 10 second trivia, "Girl With a Pearl Earring"
is a famous painting by what artist?
Johannes Vermeer, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh,
or Michelangelo.
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Often compared to the Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer
painted "Girl With a Pearl Earring" in around 1665.
That painting is now part of an unprecedented show at
the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
The museum is putting on the largest showcase of Vermeer
paintings in our lifetime.
28 of the artist's 37 attributed works are on display.
Even Vermeer himself did not see that many of his paintings
together all at one time.
Tickets for the event are sold out, but lucky us,
CNN's Nick Glass is taking us inside the exhibit
to check it out.
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For a glorious 90 minutes, we had the place to ourselves.
Vermeer's paintings, their beauty, their size
demand intimacy and quiet.
And here was an opportunity to spend quality time
with his most famous creation.
NICK GLASS: This is rare.
I've been an art correspondent for something like 20 years,
and to be alone with a painting like this,
"Girl With a Pearl Earring," it's extraordinary.
And she's not alone.
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The Rijksmuseum has pulled off an astonishing artistic coup,
the greatest Vermeer show of this or any other lifetime,
28 of the 34 to 37 attributed works.
Vermeer himself would never have seen so many of his paintings
altogether in one place.
TACO DIBBITS: It's very exciting.
I've kind of had this dream of having
all the paintings together.
Obviously, there are only about 37 paintings by Vermeer,
but having 28 here is just something we would
have never thought possible.
NICK GLASS: "The Lace Maker," from the Louver in Paris.
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"Girl with the Red Hat" from the National Gallery in Washington.
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"Girl Reading a Letter At An Open Window,"
from the Gemaldegalerie in Dresden, Germany.
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GREGOR WEBER: I remember that I saw for the first time
two paintings by Vermeer at the National Gallery London,
and I think I fainted a little bit.
There's such a glowing light in the paintings.
And since then, I've been busy Vermeer.
NICK GLASS: Vermeer has been under intense scrutiny
in another way in the lab.
Under infrared and other light, they've
adapted specialist techniques first used by NASA to map
minerals on Mars and the moon.
It amounts to non-invasive fine art archeology.
IGE VERSLYPE: It's as if you're looking over his shoulder
and seeing what he's doing.
NICK GLASS: We didn't know it, but Vermeer
never stopped experimenting.
ANNA KREKELER: If you see the underlying paint layers,
for example, the underpaint, he really
put on fast and rough brushstrokes
to define light and shadow.
For example, in the tablecloth, you
have areas where there's black underpaint like here and here
at the darkest shadows.
And then on top where the light hits the table,
he used a white underpaint.
NICK GLASS: And behind her on the wall--
ANNA KREKELER: Here, was a fire basket, a large element
to dry your clothes.
And then here was a duck rack with ducks hanging on it.
NICK GLASS: We've known for a long time
that Vermeer was a genius with paints and a brush,
but only now are we beginning to understand
how precisely he did it.
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COY WIRE: Well, the Super Bowl is behind us,
and I got to meet some pretty cool people
in Arizona, like Ms. Lovrens.
Shout out to Cocopah Middle School.
I also got to see Super Bowl traditions.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10, the Puppy Bowl.
Year 19 of the clash of canines took place on Sunday
featuring Team Ruff versus Team Fluff,
122 pumped up pups from rescues and shelters
across the country.
This year's game was intense.
Penalty flags thrown for unnecessary ruffness
and for excessive cuteness.
For the first time ever, the Puppy Bowl went into overtime
this year, and it was Team Fluff wagging
their way to the win 87-83.
Today is your #yourword Wednesday.
Follow me @CoyWire on Insta, Snapchat, and TikTok,
and put your challenge words in the comment
section of my most recent post.
And we're going to choose one fun one
to work into tomorrow's show.
The last word was floxinoxinihilipilification,
which is the action of deeming something as worthless.
One thing that's not an exercise in floxinoxinihilipilification
is shout out time.
Woodward Middle School in Woodward, Oklahoma, we see you.
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See you tomorrow lovely people.
I'm Coy Wire, and we are CNN 10.
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