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hey there and happy Thursday hope you're
rocking and rolling dominating the week
we're almost at the end of it it's
Friday so let's keep going strong I'm
Coy wire this is CNN 10 and our top
story today is the debt ceiling debate a
topic that continues to cause quite the
kerfuffle between Republicans and
Democrats on Capitol Hill quick recap
the debt ceiling is the limit the total
amount of money that the U.S government
is authorized to borrow to meet its
existing legal obligation paying for
things like military salaries Medicare
benefits Social Security interest on
national debt and even tax refunds that
credit limit currently sits at an
eye-popping figure of more than 31
trillion dollars the debt ceiling was
last raised in December of 2021 and that
ceiling is expected to last until at
least this summer treasury secretary
Janet Yellen even warned of a quote
economic catastrophe if the U.S fails to
raise its debt ceiling in the coming
weeks House Republicans recently passed
a bill to increase the debt limit by 1.5
trillion dollars but it's expected that
that proposal will get no love when it
gets to the democratic-controlled Senate
President Joe Biden hosted debt limit
talks with Congressional leaders at the
White House on Tuesday but did they
break any new ground on the debt ceiling
negotiations our Lauren Fox was in
Washington D.C and is reporting on the
ongoing struggle between the parties
folks
welcome the path to avoiding a
catastrophic default still unclear even
after yesterday's hour-long Oval Office
meeting I didn't see any new movement
the president said the staff should get
back together
but I was very clear with the president
we have now just two weeks to go
President Biden offering a different
assessment
everyone agreed that deficit
to Falling the debt is off the table I
know we have the time I mean we could do
it easily if what do we have the will
neither side appears to be bunging house
Speaker Kevin McCarthy once again
rejecting the president's call to pass a
clean bill to lift the debt limit
whatever goes forward is not just going
to be raising the debt ceiling it's
going to be just like we did in the
house we will raise the debt ceiling
with doing changes within our spending
House Republicans recently passed a bill
to increase the debt limit by 1.5
trillion dollars while cutting domestic
programs to trim the deficit it has no
path however of passing the
democratic-controlled Senate what's
really troubling about the speaker's
position is it's a it's a partisan bill
and he says take it or leave it
or we could default
President Biden contemplating a
workaround to raise the debt ceiling
without the help of Congress I have been
considering the 14th Amendment
and a man I have enormous respect for
Larry tribe who advised me for a long
time
thinks that it would be legitimate but
the problem is it would have to be
litigated
meanwhile Senate Republicans indicating
they'll be staying on the sidelines with
no plans to step in to try and broker a
deal it's time for the president of the
United States to take action to make
sure that we don't have a default in the
debt
next up here comes the sun scientists
say they've successfully produced a
nuclear fusion reaction which replicates
the processes that happen on the sun and
that they may have found the Holy Grail
of clean energy they aimed 192 powerful
laser beams at a point and it was at
that point that a star was born but is
it safe is it sustainable and can we
harness that energy in a way that we can
then use it and become less dependent on
burning fossil fuels and less reliant on
the current electrical grid our Bill
Weir has more
inside this building some very smart
people built a star on Earth
not the Hollywood kind that's easy no
the burning ball of gas in the sky kind
one of the hardest things humans have
ever tried I was at the airport when my
boss called me and I burst into tears
Tammy Maul is among the scientists who
have been chasing nuclear fusion for
generations
and in the middle of a December night
they didn't
and you only need a tiny little bit of
fuel that's right yeah because our
little pellet that sits right in the
middle you can't even see it on this
target is just two millimeters in
diameter that Target includes an
abundant isotope found in seawater and
goes into a chamber about the size of a
beach ball in the 60s but is now a round
room 30 feet across with 192 massive
lasers aimed at the center they're big
laser beams about 40 by 40 centimeters
each one alone is one of the most
energetic in the world every time we do
a shot it's a thousand times the power
of the entire U.S electrical grid
but your lights don't Flicker at home
when we take a shot so we're doing is
taking a huge amount of energy and
compressing it down just in 10
nanoseconds
so it's about 14 of electricity the
national ignition facility then
amplifies all that concentrated energy
on the Target and if they get it just
right more energy comes out than when in
with no risk of nuclear meltdown or
radioactive waste in a fusion power
plant you would shoot the same Target
over and over at about 10 times a second
dropping a Target in and shooting it
with laser so you'd need a Target loader
like a machine Target loader exactly so
there's still many many technology jumps
that we need to make but that's what
makes it so exciting
10 second trivia which of these NASA
missions launched in 1977 Skylab Galileo
Voyager or Viking
two unmanned spacecrafts were locked as
part of the Voyager missions in 1977.
speaking of those Voyager probes both
lifted off into the Galaxy on a mission
to observe and then transmit information
back to Earth info pertaining to the
planets in the farthest reaches of the
sun's sphere of influence now many
didn't expect it the twin spacecraft's
Mission would still be going on today
nearly 46 years later CNN sat down with
the Voyager project brain trusts as they
shared the steps they're taking to
ensure that this Mission keeps going as
long as possible
for aging spacecraft 46 years now
they're actually very healthy we have
liftoff of the Titan Centaur carrying
the first of two Voyager spacecraft to
extend man's senses farther into the
solar system than ever before from a
scientific standpoint what's critical
about Voyager today is the record of
data that it's taking from Earth right
out through the outer Helio sheath cross
a heliopause and is far into
Interstellar space as we can make that
data last because we can see the changes
in the data changes in the environment
as we travel further and further away
they were identical at launch different
things have failed on the spacecraft
differently so if you think of twins one
has lost its hearing and it needs some
hearing aids and another one has lost a
bit of some sense of touch but for aging
spacecraft 46 years now they're actually
very healthy Voyager has instruments
remaining on and operating that can
measure things like the magnetic field
the electrons protons and the particles
that are around the spacecraft a lot
going on in in a place where you can't
really see the particles but still a lot
that we can measure and learn about the
environment outside this bubble that's
generated by the solar wind slowly one
by one will turn off the science
instruments but even that last
instrument that stays on and continues
to take data will add to our knowledge
about a place that we've never been
before
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10 a
possible meteorite falling from outer
space into someone's bedroom Miss Susie
Kopp from New Jersey found this four by
six inch metallic rock in her dad's room
she said it blasted through the ceiling
and then appears to have bounced off the
floor back up to the ceiling before
settling beside the bed and it was warm
when she picked it up fortunately no one
was hurt Chief astronomer at the
Franklin Institute Derek Pitts says it
could be four to five billion years old
it's been running around in space all
that time and now it's come to Earth and
it fell right into their collapse police
in Hopewell Township are still
investigating but officials believe it
could be from the current meteor shower
going on the Ada Aquarius meteor shower
is an annual phenomenon that occurs when
the earth approaches a trail of dust and
debris left by the famous Haley's Comet
in the Celeste event is set to last
through May 27th now thanks to Reagan
and Stephen at Lincoln View High School
you submitted the winner of hashtag your
word Wednesday kerfuffle did you hear it
in the show it's a noun meaning a
commotion or fuss especially one caused
by conflicting views also Macy from
Lincoln view flim plan was pretty good
too Mill Creek Middle School in
Woodstock Georgia you rock we see you
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tomorrow I'll see you right back here to
finish this week's strong I'm Coy wire
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