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start with the soon to be most populated
nation in the world you know what it is
India India and China each actually have
more than 1.4 billion people making up
more than a third of the world's
population and while China currently
sits in the top spot population experts
predict that India will soon surpass
them if it hasn't already happened China
has been the most populous country since
at least 1950 the year that the United
Nations began collecting population data
but families in China have been having
fewer children and there have been more
deaths there each year than births That
Couldn't mean that in the coming years
China might face challenges supporting
its aging population due to a declining
working age population in India however
there is a younger population and there
are higher National fertility rates and
a decrease in infant mortality these are
some of the factors that have
contributed to population growth experts
are having a difficult time making a
clear projection on exactly when India's
population might overtake China's in
part because China had a recent census
in 2020 while India's last census was
2011. let's learn more India's birth
rate has slowed but the country is still
quickly adding to its 1.4 billion strong
population according to UNICEF more than
67 300 babies are born in India every
day that's 1 6 of the world's birth
counts daily
already more than half of all Indians
are under the age of 30. that means a
huge potential to grow the national
economy but education and investment
need to keep up if there are going to be
jobs for a new generation India's new
global Title will mean little if it
doesn't come with fresh opportunity
next we're headed to the West Coast
where Mother Nature has brought about
the return of a massive Lake which
hadn't existed for Generations
California's Central Valley has been
overwhelmed with rain which has flooded
hundreds of square miles of Farmland
ruining crops and livelihoods and the
scary part is it could get worse CNN's
Chief climate correspondent Bill Weir
reminds us that water never forgets
in California's Central Valley Farmers
have spent much of the last 20 years
praying for rain but then came this
winter of Relentless rivers in the sky
enough to bring a long Dead Lake back to
life and drown over 150 square miles of
farmland and Counting
so now they pray for the water to stop
it is mind-blowing to realize that if
you'd stood here for the last couple of
generations you'd be watching the sunset
over Dusty fields of cotton or Alfalfa
or pistachio trees
and now it is waterfront property
I had no idea to Larry Lake was once the
biggest freshwater body west of the
Mississippi but it was damned and diked
and drained to build a two billion
dollar agriculture industry
and now it's back it's proof that water
never forgets and this may just be the
beginning because behind those clouds
over there the Sierra Nevadas are so
packed with snow
260 percent above normal and sooner or
later that's going to melt which is only
going to make this flooding
worse
and last longer
the last time it flooded this
dramatically here was 1983 and it took
two years to dry out you were telling me
about the effects in 83 yes the town
hollowed out pretty much yes I was in a
school board at that time in 1983 and we
lost half our school population about
one-third of our city population and a
lot of the people that were fuel workers
lost their homes their cars and this
time in addition to the dripping time
bomb in the mountains Corcoran is many
feet lower in elevation after years of
over pumping groundwater to grow
thirstier crops made this one of the
fastest sinking areas in the nation the
Levee that we're standing on is called
the Corcoran Levy it's a 14.5 mile Levee
that protects the city of Corcoran the
two state prisons the residents here
there's about 22 000 residents and about
8 000 inmates and so the work behind us
that you'll see over here with the
tractor work in the distance they're
actually building the Levee up another
four to five feet God willing that'll
protect the city of Corcoran there's a
race against the Melt that's exactly
right right so we've been fortunate with
a very slow mild spring so far but we
know the Heat's coming
all of the crops are completely flooded
and ruined
so that's it takes a lot of jobs for
people that's a lot of food that provide
we provide for up and down California
and all around the nation
it's pretty scary and unfortunately this
is just the beginning right very
beginning the big melts hasn't even
really begun yes this is just from the
rain the snow melts there's nowhere for
it to go besides here yeah so Tulare
lake is back for a while it's back and
it may take over and put us out
all right
10 second trivia what planet is closest
to Earth when it passes by Mercury Venus
Mars or Jupiter
it might not be the closest on average
but Venus's orbit brings it closer to
Earth than any other planet
next up the launch of the most powerful
rocket ever built its name Starship
SpaceX is now targeting Thursday for the
next attempt to launch the rocket the
first launch attempt scheduled for
Monday was delayed due to a technical
issue SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starship
is key to his mission of getting the
first humans to Mars CNN senior National
correspondent Ed lavendera has more
the SpaceX Starship is the most powerful
rocket ever built it's 400 feet tall the
super heavy booster is packed with 33
engines and it will attempt to push the
uncrewed Starship spacecraft which sits
on top of the rocket booster into space
if the rocket launches properly the
spacecraft will separate less than three
minutes into the flight and travel east
from South Texas and go much of the way
around the earth before splashing into
the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii but hours
before this scheduled launch SpaceX
founder Elon Musk worked to lower
expectations to the point that he seemed
to be bracing for catastrophic failure
success is not what should be expected
that would be insane this vehicle could
make it all the way to orbit or or it
may blow up on the pad there's a million
ways this rocket could fail SpaceX has
waited more than a year for the final
government clearance to launch this
rocket the Starship rocket system is the
centerpiece of musk's goal of commercial
space travel to the Moon and Beyond to
Mars it comes two weeks after NASA
unveiled the four astronauts who will
fly around the Moon next year as part of
the space agency's Artemis mission NASA
has awarded SpaceX contracts and options
of more than three billion dollars to
use Starship to Ferry future Artemis
astronauts to the Moon
NASA Artemis 2 Commander Reed Wiseman
spoke with CNN about the importance of
this partnership for humans to
eventually reach Mars I think we will
get there the amount of private Public
Partnerships going on uh SpaceX is
building our our Lander for the moon
they're working on Starship right now we
have commercial space is is just doing
amazing things right now so to think
that humans will be walking on Mars in
20 years is completely reasonable
on this rocket system started several
years ago and it's resulted in many
breakthroughs ignition
abort but also some explosive setbacks
today's story getting a 10 out of 10
some creative students from the Colorado
School of Mines a research University
focused on science and engineering it's
the annual cardboard boat race in Golden
Colorado where these creative students
devise a master plan to build the
fastest baddest boat using only
cardboard and some duct tape it's wild
it's wacky it's slippery watch out lady
now some of these boats are tricked out
to check out the dragon head on this one
these students are competitive and as
one of them says we're nerds that like
to party
loads of Spectators cheering them on as
they race on their wrap and hope to make
it past the Rapids but when they don't
it's nothing to feel bad about this is
the best cardboard sport I've seen since
Boxing heyo time for my favorite part of
the day now I want to give a special
shout out to Wilmington Delaware
Delaware Military Academy we see you fun
fact Delaware is the second smallest
state but outranks five states in terms
of population including Alaska which is
the largest state in the United States
thanks for watching everyone we hope you
and everyone watching around the world
have a wonderful one I'm Coy wire and we
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