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COY WIRE: Hello, lovely people.
Terrific Tuesday to you.
I'm still here in Houston, after watching
a great NCAA Men's National Championship
basketball game last night.
It has been awesome running into some of you
while I've been here.
Thanks for all the love.
All right.
Let's get this show started, shall we?
Let's start among the stars with some news from outer space,
as it's looking likely that we'll be
seeing some history being made.
NASA's Frank Rubio on track to become
the first American astronaut to spend a full year in space.
Rubio traveled to the International Space Station
back on September 21, thinking it would
be just a six-month mission.
He was expected to land back on Earth this spring,
but the Russian spacecraft that carried Rubio and two
of his Russian colleagues actually
had a coolant leak in December.
Russia's Space Agency later announced that it wouldn't
have been safe for the spacecraft to bring
all the astronauts home.
This means Rubio has to stay even longer in space.
NASA's announced the earliest he can return to Earth
now will be on September 27.
And that would mean he'd be logging
at least 371 days in orbit.
Rubio's tour of duty would be historic,
as it would surpass the previous American record, which is
355 days, set just last year.
The world record still belongs to a Russian cosmonaut
who logged 437 continuous days in orbit
aboard Russia's Mir Space Station back in 1994 and '95.
Now, this is all really a unique situation, particularly,
because even though the US and Russia have
intense geopolitical tensions here on Earth,
both superpowers are working hand in hand
when it comes to space exploration.
Our Michael Holmes has more.
- The hatch is open.
MICHAEL HOLMES: A collaboration in space
when relations between Russia and the US on Earth
are at their worst in decades.
NASA and Russia's Space Agency Roscosmos
say they've signed a long-sought seat-swapping agreement which
would allow astronauts and cosmonauts
to exchange places on missions.
- And liftoff.
MICHAEL HOLMES: NASA says the first of these cross flights
is expected when US astronaut Frank Rubio blasts off
to the International Space Station
on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
And cosmonaut Anna Kikina joins the fifth SpaceX Crew
Dragon launch the same month.
Historic rivals' space exploration has always
been a point of highs and lows for Russia and the US,
both trying to outdo each other in the 1960s space race,
the Soviet Union sending the first man into outer space,
the US landing the first crew on the moon.
- --giant leap for mankind.
MICHAEL HOLMES: But in recent decades,
space has been more of a joint effort between the two nations,
especially after the creation of the ISS,
which is operated by NASA, Roscosmos,
and several other space agencies.
- We have managed to start.
MICHAEL HOLMES: Both the US and Russia have
hitched rides with each other.
Russian cosmonauts flew on the US Space shuttle
before the fleet was retired in 2011.
after that, American astronauts traveled to the ISS
on Soyuz spacecraft--
- Ignition.
MICHAEL HOLMES: --until NASA resumed its own launches
in 2020 by partnering with the commercial space
company SpaceX.
DEREK VAN DAM: Wynne, Arkansas, home of the Yellow Jackets,
we are currently standing on what
was the home football field for the Wynne High School.
Look at this.
This is one of the light structures that were supposed
to illuminate this field.
You can see some of the broken lights here below us.
But what's most astounding to this meteorologist
is just the true force of this powerful twister that tore
of this path of devastation.
Hard to get the perspective, but I'll show you an aerial.
What you're looking at is the peeled-back artificial turf
that was sucked up by the powerful updraft
of this tornado.
There it is, still in place in the distance,
and then look at what's behind me here.
Like a skin of an orange being peeled back,
this is what's left, leaving the rock exposed below it.
And behind me, Wynne Yellow Jackets proudly
displayed on the water tower.
This area has received significant
to catastrophic damage.
COY WIRE: 10 Second Trivia.
In which of these countries would you
find the world's tallest waterfall, Venezuela,
Canada, Peru, or Zimbabwe?
Located in the South American country of Venezuela,
the 3,200 foot Angel Falls is the tallest fall of them all.
Now, some people don't go chasing waterfalls.
They stick to the rivers and lakes that they're used to.
But in Venezuela, some things just aren't what they
used to be, like news anchors.
Venezuelans are seeing increased fake news
and widespread misinformation about their country
through avatars, fake anchors made of artificial intelligence
reporting the news.
Though the avatars may have been created as a faster way
to communicate information, these fake videos
are now being used to hide real problems
going on inside Venezuela, and many see it as propaganda.
Stefano Pozzebon is on the story.
STEFANO POZZEBON: This isn't actually a real person.
Take a closer look.
This fake avatar was created using artificial intelligence
to look like a real human.
In recent months, videos like these
have been shared across Venezuelan social media,
and even on state-run television to spread misinformation
about the country.
- Media from different countries have described
the event organized by Venezuela as
a total and unexpected success.
STEFANO POZZEBON: This year, Venezuelans
have been taking to the streets to demand
better living conditions.
The country's minimum wage is less than $10 a month
and last year, inflation was over 200%.
But these artificial news clips have
been trying to make the country look more prosperous.
Marivi Marín Vázquez, the executive director
at ProBox, a Venezuelan-based organization that monitors
for online misinformation, says that these AI-generated people
have been created and spread with a specific purpose.
MARIVI MARIN VAZQUEZ: To sell to the international community
a different reality about the country,
of success, happiness, and stability
that really doesn't exist.
- So how true is it that Venezuela
is such a poor country?
Has the media exaggerated things in that place?
STEFANO POZZEBON: And it's not just social media.
The Venezuelan government itself is helping
to spread these videos on social media,
and even on state-run television.
Even Nicolas Maduro, the country's embattled president,
has shared the videos.
NICOLAS MADURO: [SPEAKING SPANISH]
STEFANO POZZEBON: These fake videos
are often in English with Spanish subtitles
and are shared on social media, which is often a trusted source
of news for many Venezuelans because the government
imposes strict controls on the country's traditional media.
CRISTINA TARDAGUILA: You go from completely lack
of reliable information in the traditional media
in your region and then you go towards the other end.
You're suddenly, like, eating, drinking, smelling everything
that is on your WhatsApp or your Telegram or your social media.
- Start by selecting an AI avatar--
- Like me.
- --or me.
STEFANO POZZEBON: These AI avatars are advertised as a way
for companies to create easy-to-make instructional
videos, for example.
The company behind the technology
says that it's not intended to spread false narratives.
When asked for comment, the company
told CNN that it has since banned house of news
from using its AI software.
YouTube has also removed the channel from its platform.
It's still unclear who originally created
these videos, as well as if the Venezuelan government
was involved.
The government did not respond to CNN's request for comment.
- Hey there, . I'm Matt.
And I can--
STEFANO POZZEBON: If you're unsure about whether or not
a video that you're watching is done
by one of these fake avatars, pay
close attention to their speech and mouth movement.
- --has a dozen pavilions that occupy 23 hectares.
STEFANO POZZEBON: Do their words align with the movements
of their mouth?
Do these movements feel awkward or constricted?
- Security will be in charge of guards
from the general directory.
STEFANO POZZEBON: If that is the case
that you're watching a digital avatar, it's not a real person.
- In Venezuela, it is estimated that eight million people will
mobilize in the next vacation.
STEFANO POZZEBON: When your friends and your own government
are sharing this misinformation, it
demands a lot more vigilance to sift through the lies
and find the truth.
COY WIRE: All right.
We started this show way up high in the sky in space.
But now we're taking you way down underwater
for today's 10 out of 10.
Scientists filmed the deepest fish on record.
They released this footage of a young snail fish swimming deep
in the trenches off of Japan at a depth
of more than 27,000 feet.
That's almost as deep as the 29,000-foot
Mount Everest is high.
And this fish is about 2,000 feet deeper
than the previous record.
Marine biologist said that younger deep sea snail
fish like this one often stay as deep
as possible to avoid being eaten by bigger
predators swimming above.
Now, some other fish are swimming
down so low because they dropped out of school.
Hey, yo.
Dad jokes for you.
Let's finish this drawing with my favorite part of the show.
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School in Lincoln, Nebraska.
We see you representing the Cornhusker state.
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Go on out and make it an awesome day.
I'm Coy Wire, and we are CNN 10.