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lovely people and welcome to a brand new
season I'm Coy wire this is CNN 10 and
we are back hope you all had an awesome
summer thanks to all of you kept in
touch on social media I am pumped up
ready to rock this new season with all
of you we are right here for you to
break down the most important news as it
happens from social studies to science
on and on and we have some brand new
segments lined up up these sleeves for
you this season as well so let's get
this show on the road shall we with all
of us being back together again let's
take a theme for the day how about
returning and as students across the
country head back to school this year
did you know that a growing number are
going to be returning to a four day
school week in fact 24 States 850
districts in the United States will have
a shorter School week this year why you
ask well schools are adopting this
method to help deal with budgetary
constraints and Staffing shortages
they're also hoping a four-day school
week will help students feel less burned
out and more focused but there are
downsides as well including studies
showing lower test scores worse academic
comprehension and lower graduation rates
let's break down this debate with a
little more specific data
could a four-day school week become the
norm well more school districts are
trying it out 24 states have at least
one school district using a shortened
week some 850 districts in all that's a
31 increase since 2019. shorter weeks
can help schools with budgetary
constraints staff shortages and student
attendance that flexibility can increase
teacher morale and decrease burnout in
the classroom four day weeks have
traditionally been more common in rural
areas now they're gaining steam in Metro
areas like Denver Phoenix and San
Antonio as well but research shows there
are drawbacks to a shortened school week
one study found lower math achievement
in some districts with four day weeks
but the ill effects vanished in
districts with longer school days a
second study found higher absenteeism
and lower on-time graduation rates
compared with five-day students shorter
School weeks can also be headed for
parents costing families an extra five
thousand dollars to nine thousand
dollars a year in child care as more
School District shorten the week you can
expect to hear more about this debate
in trivia which of these web patterns is
a warm phase signaled by weaker trade
winds and warmer ocean water Nor'easter
El Nino La Nina or derecho
El Nino Spanish for the little boy is
this irregular weather pattern that
occurs in the Pacific Ocean
sticking to our returning theme this
summer brought back some really warm
temperatures in many parts of the
country the summer of 2023 and parts of
the nation has seen record high
temperatures at times and some
projections say we could see a new
record for the warmest year ever
recorded a big reason weather models are
showing one of the strongest El ninos in
decades the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration or NOAA
announced the presence of those El Nino
conditions on June 8th years where El
ninos are present tend to be hotter as
warm ocean waters that originate in the
Pacific Ocean can influence global
weather patterns these events happen
every two to seven years and they vary
in intensity scientists are still
searching for why this happens but the
pattern can last for weeks or months
more now from meteorologist Jennifer
Gray mom of one of our very own CNN
Tenors Kaden we see you Caden
we've heard so much talk about El Nino
but what is it in fact it's a weather
phenomenon that happens between the
Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere it can
have an influence on the temperature and
the weather all over the world
in the springtime the trade winds start
to relax and in a normal year they come
back during the Asia monsoon in the
summer during an El Nino year they don't
in fact some years the trade winds can
even reverse that has a huge impact on
the Pacific Ocean during a normal year
warm water is pooled on the west side of
the ocean cooler water on the east side
that results in cooler Waters off the
coast of California and warmer Waters in
the Western Pacific during an El Nino
year that thermocline tilt goes away and
so warm water is spilled all the way
over to the east side of the Pacific
that increases convection it also brings
thunderstorms to the coast of California
and droughts to the western side of the
Pacific
we all know that El Nino will impact the
world the only question is how will it
affect you
this fall will be a big test for another
type of return the return of workers to
the workplace major companies are asking
remote workers to come on back as many
as one million U.S workers are facing
return orders even Zoom the company that
powered remote working for Millions is
asking its employees to get on back to
the cubicle but even with all these
changing mandates the traditional office
space isn't what it used to be once
these buildings and skyscrapers were
full of busy workers now after the
pandemic less than 50 percent of office
workers are going back in person and
that's a problem for the people that own
these buildings as you can imagine
without as many tenants to pay rent many
of these landlords are having to get
creative our CNN business and politics
correspondent Vanessa yerkovic has more
their statuesque vast and staggering and
they're empty skyscrapers and Office
Buildings once stacked high with
businesses are experiencing High vacancy
rates in the U.S nearly 19 percent five
and a half percent higher than before
the pandemic
the pandemic emptied offices around the
country today the number of people
returning to in-person work is less than
50 percent in 10 major Metro areas
forcing companies to rethink physical
office space half of the biggest global
companies say they'll need less real
estate in the next three years leaving
landlords with loans to pay in a bind
Stephen durrells runs the leasing at SL
Green New York City's largest commercial
landlord with more than 30 million
square feet of space to rent the
collapsing demand for office space means
their tenant vacancy rate shot up from
three percent pre-pandemic to 10 percent
today that calls for some creativity you
can build the set in here you can have a
fight scene in here SL green is now
working with Backlot a company that
connects landlords at 332 buildings
across New York and New Jersey with film
and TV companies this episode of Law and
Order was filmed in this vacant office
in Midtown Manhattan The Watcher on
Netflix and these East Side offices I
think people are starting to look
holistically at how they can support a
revenue stream this year SL green says
it will earn 3 million dollars from film
and TV shoots it's really helped
mitigate the loss of income during the
downtime periods
buildings could turn into residential a
big need
this project in Washington DC once an
office building is being turned into
Apartments but that's not an easy quick
fix process less than one percent of
Apartments Nationwide are converted from
commercial properties
and across the river in Arlington
Virginia the city is trying to get ahead
of its empty office space problem at 22
percent I'm sitting right today in
northeastern's D.C campus last year
university was not allowed to take up
space in a in an office building thanks
to New City zoning laws that's now
possible along with seven new types of
commercial businesses like animal
boarding hydroponic farms and
pickleball Vanessa urkovich CNN Egg
Harbor Township New Jersey
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getting a 10 out of 10 is about some
puppy Pals named Brenda and Linda two
stray pups who are the best of friends
at the Minneapolis Animal Shelter well
when they got separated something
doggone adorable happened Brenda took
matters into her own Paws climbing a
five-foot concrete wall to join her
buddy that's the type of puppy love that
lasts forever and get this the shelter
they're only going to let people adopt
them if they're a package deal all right
that's about all we have time for for
today it's so good to be back with all
of you and I can't wait until you see
some of our new segments this year one
of them has to do with all the teachers
out there so teachers stay on your toes
and keep on Shining now it's time for my
favorite part of the day my first shout
out of the school year goes to Austin
Texas Canyon Vista Middle School rise up
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