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it's Tuesday and that's our last teacher
time Tuesday shout out of the Year much
respect to all of you who are uplifting
informing and inspiring the Next
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Coy wire this is cnn10 so grateful to be
here with you let's start today with a
quick zip through some of the headlines
making the news first up a devastating
Cyclone has rocked the Southeast Asian
country of Myanmar Cyclone mocha a
category 5 storm with Winds of up to 195
miles per hour battered the nation
leaving entire Villages wiped out
shelters destroyed and piles of debris
stretching for miles is considered one
of the strongest storms to ever hit
Myanmar and authorities say more than
400 people have died according to un's
humanitarian office Clean Water Supplies
and fuel are running low and there is
critical need for shelters food medicine
and health care services thoughts and
prayers for the people there next we go
to Europe where the European Union
Regulators have fined social media giant
meta a record-breaking 1.3 billion
dollars for transferring the personal
data of Facebook's EU users to servers
in the U.S meta which also owns
Instagram and WhatsApp said it would
appeal the ruling including the fine and
it also says there would be no immediate
disruption of the Facebook app in Europe
meta says the root of this issue comes
from a quote conflict of law between U.S
rules on access to data and the Privacy
rights of Europeans next up we head to
Florida where we had a successful rocket
launch check out this SpaceX rocket
taking off on Sunday as the crew embarks
on a week-long stay aboard the
International Space Station the dragon
Freedom spacecraft crew is led by former
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson who's now
the first woman to command a private
space flight she's joined by three
paying customers stem cell researcher
Rihanna barnawi is making history as the
first woman from Saudi Arabia to ever
travel to space this marks the second
all-private mission to the International
Space Station houston-based company
Axiom space is in charge of the journey
called ax2
all right let's stay out of this world
and head to the red planet or Mars back
in the summer of 2020 NASA launched a
space rover called Mars 2020
perseverance this small mobile robot
eventually landed on Mars seven months
later the main goal of this mission was
for the Rover to look for signs of past
microbial life snag some rock and soil
samples and best of all prepare for
human exploration in the future remember
no human has ever been to Mars our
Ashley Strickland sat down with a NASA
scientist who gives us exciting updates
on the mission and the possible history
of water on one of Mars's craters
where is perseverance Rover currently
and what is it up to these days so
perseverance is still in Jezreel crater
it is on this fan that is in Jezreel
crater and we've now climbed up on top
of this fan and are exploring the
sedimentary rocks on the top surface of
the fan what can we hope to learn from
this area we have recorded different
depositional environments that could be
Lake environments Delta environments
River environments that really capture
the history of water in Jezreel crater
so what are some of the different types
of rock that perseverance has
encountered since it landed two years
ago we had a lot of debates early on
before we landed sedimentary or igneous
formed by volcanoes or formed deposited
by water or wind and as it turned out
these were igneous rocks which was of
surprise to us but a really pleasant
surprise because igneous rocks contain
different kinds of information that
we're interested in for return sample
science and so we have things like
volcanic salt rocks that likely formed
deep in the interior of Mars from magma
then we transitioned from that crater
floor into the sedimentary deposits and
now we're here in sandstones
conglomerates mud Stones the kinds of
rocks that are deposited by flowing
water what could we hope to learn from
this diverse array of samples when they
come back to earth the fact that we have
a diverse set of rocks means we have
different types of potential habitable
environments recorded within these rocks
surface watery environments we know from
here on Earth is a good place to record
signs of ancient life but there's also
the potential that life could find
habitable niches in igneous rocks when
water flows through those rocks
underground you've been wanting to get
outside of the crater so what does that
look like there are a lot of mysteries
outside the crater this is some of the
oldest crust in the solar system and
we're going to have a chance to explore
that with the Rover but this is a part
of solar system history that's not well
preserved here on Earth so we're going
to get to see rocks of this age for the
first time on Mars it's unclear what
these rocks are to look like
10 second trivia name the island country
off the coast of Africa whose capital is
Port Louis Mauritius Seychelles
Madagascar or Gambia
Mauritius is your answer here the island
nation gained independence from the UK
in 1968.
now Mauritius is an island nation that's
closely linked to its vast ebony Forest
historically these durable black
hardwood trees were used for building
Furniture cabinets even piano keys but
now conservationists are doing
reservation initiatives looking to save
the forest along with its exotic bird
species our Zane Asher has more
some 12 000 miles of the Southeastern
coast of Africa in the middle of the
Indian Ocean lies the island where the
iconic dodo bird once roamed
centuries after its Extinction the
flightless bird is still inextricably
linked with the African nation of
Mauritius
you can find it on banknotes coins and
the country's coat of arms
today Dr Nicholas zuel and his team of
conservationists are working hard to
ensure other endemic species don't go
the way of the dodo before human beings
came to Mauritius the forest would look
like what you see around us
rest remains on the island
depart to poaching pollution and logging
historically one of the most sought
after resources the ebony tree is
Coveted for its durable black hardwood
which is used to build Furniture
cabinets piano keys and more
now the global trade of ebony wood is
controlled and most species have been
protected to prevent Extinction
the history of Mauritius is closely
linked to ebony trees because when the
Dutch colonized the island
one of the reason the main reason we
wanted to colonize the island is to be
able to exploit the ebony trees
the journey to restore this patch of
forest located on the Southwest part of
the island began in 2006.
the work started with weeding planting
and growing native plant species
it also involved the reintroduction of
locally extinct species like the pink
pigeon and the echo parakeet both
considered vulnerable and globally
threatened
it's important to have Birds because
Forest restoration and the animal battle
live in it goes hand in hand so without
seeing this person the forest will not
survive
so yes we are linked to extinction of
species with the dodo but we're also an
example of what can be done to save our
bird species
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restoration
the ebony Forest Park officially opened
to the public in 2017.
visitors can Bird Watch hike or
volunteer and contribute to the
conservation efforts on this tropical
island paradise
so it's really important for a ceremony
Forest to raise awareness about species
about conservation so that's something
which is really important for us to just
work together with people share the
knowledge and also learn from others
to date the conservationists say they've
planted more than 140 000 endemic plants
while also weeding and planting 16
additional hectares of forest
with the dodo's Legacy in mind the
ultimate goal is to safeguard the
Island's natural glory for generations
to come and ultimately osmosis as lots
of endemic species it's a narrative but
for the old world what we are preserving
here
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we are shaking things up with some
researchers from the University of
California San Diego for today's story
getting a 10 out of 10. a group of
Engineers built and tested the tallest
full-scale building ever on an
earthquake simulator or Shake table 10
stories high shaken like a salt shaker
in simulations of two of the strongest
Quakes in recent history a 6.7 and a 7.7
magnitude and the historic tests were a
success the building was damage free the
data is going to be used to help design
safer buildings and bridges I try to
come up with some good puns for that
story but they were all shaky at best
sorry my fault hope it doesn't cause a
rift between us Tiffin Iowa you get our
special shout out today Clear Creek
Amana Middle School you rock and Mr
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