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COY WIRE: Happy Monday and welcome back.
If you're still waking up, stretching, and yawning
because daylight savings stole an hour of your sleep,
I feel you.
But I'm going to jab back at that sleepy voice in my head
because somebody has to dominate this day.
So why not us?
I'm Coy Wire, thankful to be here
to start this week strong with you right here on "CNN 10."
Parts of California faced persistent flooding
over the weekend after rounds of deadly storms.
34 of California's 58 counties have
been under a state of emergency issued by the governor's office
due to the storms, and there's still a threat of more
severe weather this week.
More than 41,000 homes and businesses across the state
were without power this weekend, and about 15 million people
throughout the state were under flood watches,
including parts of northwest Nevada.
Local emergency crews are having to rescue
people from their homes.
Roads have been washed away.
Bridges have collapsed.
The impacts from this week's storms
have only compounded problems created in some areas
by the severe rain and snowfall over the past two weeks.
President Biden approved a state of emergency declaration
for California to help aid the millions of residents affected,
who are being urged to stay clear of waterways
and avoid all unnecessary travel.
Here's CNN national correspondent
Nick Watt with more.
NICK WATT: Water everywhere, causing chaos
across Central California.
Some 25 million are under flood warnings.
The Kern River usually runs at about 6 feet.
It's up over 17.
Snow is the issue up at altitude.
In SoCal, they're rushing to rebuild some sort of road
for 450 households.
This is their only way out.
Springville's Pleasant Valley Road, now anything but.
In my 40 years, never seen it like that,
said the man who shot these images.
A major artery in Oakland closed at rush hour.
Nearby, a Peet's Coffee warehouse roof
collapsed, killing one.
Around 25 times the volume of water
that flows in the Mississippi is flowing through the air,
and this is the 10th so-called atmospheric river
to hit California this winter.
Low pressure from the north meets moist air near Hawaii.
They call it a Pineapple Express.
Sounds fun?
It's not, essentially a fire hose aimed at the state
usually famed for its sunshine.
Throw in a couple of other winter storms
that dumped a couple of years worth of snow
on some upland areas and this is the result.
Today's storm is a warm one.
So along with all this rain, some of that snow is melting.
The residents of Felton, flooded in January,
once more told to evacuate.
Here and elsewhere, yet more upheaval.
- Now we have to go home, pack our stuff,
and leave once again when we were just able to come
back a couple of weeks ago.
NICK WATT: Good news, all the water
this winter is significantly rolling
back the years-long drought suffered in the West.
Bad news, yet another atmospheric river
is forecast to hit this state early next week.
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COY WIRE: 10-second trivia, which of these European cities
is known as the City of Light, Madrid, Paris, Rome, or London?
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It's been called the capital of fashion and the city of love,
but Paris is also well known as the City of Light.
And up next, we're traveling to France, where over 1 million
people have been protesting against the government's plans
to raise the retirement age for most workers in the country
from the age of 62 to 64.
The protests have happened in major French cities,
and the impact has been felt across the country.
It's brought many transportation services
to a standstill-- trains shut down,
flights canceled, schools and businesses closed
as trash piles up on streets.
Even the Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors.
The French government has said that raising the retirement age
is necessary to keep their pension system viable.
All French retirees receive a pension
from the government on average around $1,500 a month.
But this planned reform angers workers
at a time when living costs, food costs, and energy bills
are rising in France and elsewhere.
Many of the protesters are young people, some who haven't
even entered the workforce yet.
They say, though, that for a generation already concerned
about inflation and job prospects,
the government moving the finish line on retirement
is depressing.
We'll hear now from CNN's Jim Bittermann
from the streets of Paris.
JIM BITTERMANN: French President Emmanuel Macron,
like his predecessors, has run into fierce opposition
from the streets trying to raise the retirement
age from 62 to 64.
Strikes are growing by transportation, energy,
and even garbage workers.
In a country where the average life expectancy has now
increased to the age of 82 years old,
it seems reasonable to expect that with
France's pay-as-you-go Retirement System,
that, in fact, the retirement age
would have to increase as well.
After all, as it stands now, if you retire at 62,
it means collecting pension benefits for, on average,
20 years.
And the money has got to come from somewhere.
But it's not that reasonable to everyone.
TAYEB KHOUIRA: [SPEAKING FRENCH]
INTERPRETER: We are going on an unlimited renewable strike
as long as this reform has not been withdrawn.
JIM BITTERMANN: Economists here will explain that while people
are not especially happy with the present system,
any further meddling with it is viewed
with suspicion and anger.
COY WIRE: All right, up next.
We are traveling to the Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom,
where they have some of the rarest animals on the planet.
They've welcomed the birth of the Endangered Malayan tapir,
three of the threatened fossa pups, triplets they had,
and the world's rarest chimp, the Critically
Endangered Western chimpanzee.
This zoo's mission is to prevent animal extinction
through conservation.
Let's hear more about this zoo's 10-year plan
in the next episode of CNN series "Call to Earth."
- The small northern English city of Chester
might seem like an unlikely place
to find some of the world's most endangered animals.
But since the 1930s, Chester Zoo has grown a reputation
as one of the best in the world for conservation,
with a targeted aim of preventing species extinction.
MARK BRAYSHAW: There's a huge biodiversity crisis
at the moment, I mean, with losing
species at a phenomenal rate.
And some of these species, we're not even aware of them.
We don't know their role.
And so by taking species out here now,
we don't know the long term impact on that.
- While the gold standard for Chester Zoo
is to breed species to reintroduce
to their natural habitat, in many cases now,
the urgent focus is on creating a safety
net population in captivity.
MARK BRAYSHAW: We're almost into the zoo acting as an ark,
and we might be in a situation where actually
the species' habitat has gone.
They're not going to go back into their natural habitat.
So we have to sort of look at other places
we could put them back into, balancing up, you know,
any sort of impact that might have.
- Luckily for the preservation of some of these critically
endangered species, the zoo is in the midst of a baby boom,
a birth for the world's rarest chimpanzee,
triplets for the Madagascan fossa,
a greater one-horned rhino, a Malayan tapir,
and finally an addition to the zoo's family of marsupials.
- Morning, Kitawa.
- Increased mining and deforestation in Papua New
Guinea have seen the wild population of Goodfellow's tree
kangaroos more than halved over the past 30 years.
So the birth of a new joey in Chester
provides a glimmer of hope for the future of the species.
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COY WIRE: And for today's story getting a 10 out
of 10, the family whose house was mistaken
for Spider-Man's for decades.
Hundreds of letters have been sent
to 20 Ingram Street in Queens, New York addressed
to Peter Parker, a.k.a.
Spider-Man.
The address appeared in a comic book in 1989,
and it just so happens that the real-life family who lived
there is the Parker family.
They thought they were being pranked at first,
receiving letters from kids all over the world telling
Spider-Man how awesome he is.
Now, these superhero letters are now
on display at the City Reliquary museum in New York City,
showing hope, optimism, and belief in a better tomorrow.
Now, your letters make us feel super.
Thanks to the senior government class at Cascade High School
in Montana, inspiring us to keep working to create a better
tomorrow, and also Ms. Stahl's class at North Harford High
School in Maryland, determined to make this world
a bit of a better place.
Now, I do have a special shout-out today as well
for Heathwood Hall Episcopal School
in Columbia, South Carolina.
You rock.
It was great to meet you, Mary.
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I'm Coy Wire, and we are "CNN 10."