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COY WIRE: Hello, lovely people, hope
you're having a great week.
But for those of us who are having a tough one,
they're unavoidable, they happen.
Remember, tough times make us tougher.
So just smell the flowers, [INHALES]
and cool the soup, [EXHALES] and know that you will be OK.
It's Thursday, happy Friday eve.
Welcome to CNN 10.
I'm Coy Wire.
Let's start with the latest on Ukraine.
As the country continues to fight Russia's invasion,
the United States and other countries around the world
are sending weapons to Ukraine to help
them defend their homeland.
The State Department said on Monday
that the US will send Ukraine $350 million
in weapons and equipment.
The latest aid includes rockets, fuel
tanker trucks, and riverboats.
The US will also deploy its Abrams
tanks, which has advanced capabilities and speed.
And did you know that at Fort Sill in Oklahoma,
the US has been instructing top Ukrainians
on US weapon systems?
So they'll be prepared to use the equipment
and training in the conflict.
The Ukrainian soldiers apparently
picked up the materials so quickly,
that they were given more instruction
than originally planned.
The individuals training in the US
were handpicked by Ukrainian military leaders.
This comes amid concerns from the United States
and its allies that China may plan
to send lethal aid to Russia, though China
denied it earlier this month.
CNN White House reporter, Natasha Bertrand,
traveled to Oklahoma to see the training
taking place at Fort Sill.
So let's hear more about what she's learned.
NATASHA BERTAND: The United States fast
tracking key weapons for Ukraine's fight against Russia,
heavy US tanks now set to be deployed to the country
faster than originally planned.
PATRICK RYDER: DOD, in close coordination with Ukraine,
has made the decision to provide the M1A1 variant of the Abrams
tank, which will enable us to significantly expedite delivery
timelines and deliver this important capability to Ukraine
by the fall of this year.
NATASHA BERTAND: Patriot Missile Defense Systems
also due to arrive in Ukraine in the coming weeks,
defense officials told CNN, much sooner than anticipated.
JOHN KIRBY: They're wrapping up training
on things like the Patriot Air Defense System.
I mean, we're doing everything we can to make sure
that they're ready as best they can be for these critical weeks
and months ahead.
NATASHA BERTAND: CNN was invited to observe the Patriot training
here in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where 65 Ukrainian soldiers,
ages 19 to 67, have been undergoing
an intensive 10-week training course on the Patriot systems.
Here you can see behind me a decommissioned system, much
like the one the Ukrainians will be using once they
get back to their home country.
SHANE MORGAN: Our assessment is that the Ukrainian soldiers are
impressive and absolutely a quick study,
due to their extensive air defense
knowledge and experience in a combat zone.
It was easier, though never easy,
for them to grasp the Patriot system operations
and maintenance concepts.
NATASHA BERTAND: But the stakes are so high that CNN was not
allowed to film or photograph the training, an effort
to protect the Ukrainians who will be back on the front lines
in just a matter of weeks and to shield the US from blowback
from Moscow, US officials emphasizing
that the Patriots are purely defensive
and not a threat to Russia.
MARK HERTLING: It's a point defense system.
It's got to be placed in a location that is defending
a target like a capital city, Kyiv,
or a port city like Odessa.
So this is not a weapon system that
can be moved around on the battlefield
based on changing threats.
NATASHA BERTAND: The systems will, however,
help defend Ukraine against near-daily missile.
barrages by Russia and will now likely
be on the battlefield in time to support
a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive.
MIKE QUIGLEY: What did Zelenskyy say when I met him in Kyiv?
He said help us win quickly.
that's exactly what he said when he
visited Washington, DC recently, and is even
what Secretary Austin said.
He said Ukraine doesn't have time.
The spring offensive is coming.
COY WIRE: Researchers at Columbia University set out
on a mission to create the perfect cheesecake
with 3D printing.
Now, while this concept of using a machine
to make a three dimensional, tangible solid object
from a digital file has been around for decades.
It wasn't until around 2005 that 3D printing started
to become more mainstream.
Let's see how these scientists fared
in their quest to create the perfect cheesecake using
a printer.
Something tells me that in the future, many of us
are gonna be reminiscent about the Halcyon days, when our food
was made with a human's touch.
JONATHAN BLUTINGER: The general principle here
is as soon as you kind of touch software with an industry,
you don't really go back.
- Jonathan Blutinger and his team
at Columbia's Creative Machines Lab attempted over, and over,
and over to make that very satisfying
cheesecake using a 3D printer.
The results were terrible, until they
realized cheesecakes' creamy, soft texture
required some rethinking.
To back up, 3D-printed food has been around for years.
You can find companies working on candies, sugar
decorations, and pancakes.
One California company, Sugar Lab,
has treats you can purchase right now, for around $20.
But at Columbia University, the researchers
were dealing with something that's pretty, well, mushy.
JONATHAN BLUTINGER: We didn't really think
about the rheology of jelly and banana
being so soft and kind of mushy that it kind of just
crumbled as soon as the graham cracker paste kind of
created a ceiling on top of it.
So it was kind of a-- it was a sobering experience.
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- If they could figure it out, this technology
could give cooks greater control over nutrition
and calorie counts.
And 3D printing cuts down on human handling, which minimizes
potential contamination.
After a few more tries, they discovered
the tricks that worked.
JONATHAN BLUTINGER: Then we quickly started to think
and tried to create little walls and,
kind of, little pockets to hold some
of these softer ingredients.
We got to a point that was pretty exciting.
- The now well structured cheesecake
just needed a finishing touch.
In this case, the added flair was
one that separates Columbia from their 3D printing counterparts.
Blutinger used a touch of laser cooking
that toasted the top with exacting precision,
not found in any other cooking appliance.
And the taste?
JONATHAN BLUTINGER: Because the ingredients
were packed together, you can really
taste each ingredient in waves.
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COY WIRE: Now it's time for a story that's dynamite.
It is getting today's 10 out of 10.
The dad of two fur babies, two dogs,
played an epic prank on his pups by putting
on a puffed up T-Rex costume.
And then he prowled around in the backyard.
And what ensued was adorasaurable.
Our Gina Moos has more.
DINA MOOS: A mere glimpse of green, some sort of alien
being out in the backyard, and these two boxers,
brother and sister, go nuts.
[DOG BARKS]
T-Rex taunting them through the glass at their Las Vegas home.
[DOG BARKING]
So who was in that costume?
JENINE WALSH: Ooh, it was my husband.
DINA MOOS: Janine Walsh put her husband, Andrew, up to it.
Nico and Stella were wary at first,
but go bolder and bolder.
Janine could barely stifle her laughter.
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Jurassic Bark, quipped one commenter.
Though in that movie franchise, the dinosaurs
scared a dog to death.
[ROAR]
But Nico and Stella were fearless.
[STIFLING LAUGHTER]
You don't think they smelled your husband
and recognized him?
JENINE WALSH: At first, they didn't.
I could tell at first they had no idea what it was.
DINA MOOS: These are dogs not afraid to rumble with a Roomba.
JENINE WALSH: Nope.
DINA MOOS: Their pursuit of the T-Rex lasted about a minute,
before he went down for the count.
[GIGGLING]
Janine says her husband wasn't scared.
Andrew has rolled around with the dogs
before minus the dino suit.
[LAUGHTER]
Finally, Janine stopped laughing long enough to ask.
JANINE WALSH: Are you OK?
[LAUGHS]
DINA MOOS: The boxers didn't bite, but they made holes.
JANINE WALSH: This is where Nico,
then, decided he wanted to dive inside of it
and get my husband.
DINA MOOS: At least, unlike the dinosaurs,
her husband didn't go extinct.
JANINE WALSH: Are you alive?
COY WIRE: All right, everyone, we had so many great Your Word
Wednesday submissions yesterday, thanks to today's winners
from Mr. Charles' class at Dwight D. Eisenhower
in West Berlin, New Jersey.
Halcyon, did you hear it in the show?
It's an adjective denoting a time in the past that was
idiotically happy and peaceful.
For our special shoutout today, we're going to Columbus, Ohio.
Dominion Middle School, we see you.
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Let's make this day a masterpiece, baby.
See you tomorrow, lovely people.
I'm Coy Wire, and we are CNN 10.
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