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to another episode of CNN 10 the best 10
minutes in news and it's the best
because of you bonus shout out to start
Today's show Mr Nevis and the history
class at Cumberland High School in
Cumberland Rhode Island you rock let's
get this show rocking and rolling shall
we we start with an update on Hurricane
Hillary by the time Hillary made
landfall early Sunday it had downgraded
to a tropical storm that means the
maximum winds drop below 74 miles per
hour this tropical storm tore into the
Mexican peninsula of Baja California
killing at least one person before
crossing the border to California there
Hillary continued a destructive path
setting records along the way Sunday
morning Death Valley received a month's
worth of rain in one hour Downtown Los
Angeles was hit with nearly two and a
half inches of rain breaking a record
for rainiest summer day that goes back
nearly 150 years Palm Springs saw about
half a Year's worth of rain all in just
a six hours time as of Monday morning
Hillary had lost its tropical status and
was reclassed to a post-tropical cyclone
a rotating storm that can still carry
heavy rain and strong winds and it did
Hillary traveled North hitting Central
Nevada with 35 mile per hour winds
triggering multiple warnings of
life-threatening floods across Southern
California and Nevada more than 25
million people were placed under flood
watches as a result if you're joining us
from out west we hope you your families
and friends are safe and well
trees are going
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second trivia American educator Frank
sear is best known for contributions to
what mathematics physical fitness school
buses or whiteboards
Frank sear is known as the father of
the yellow school bus for helping to set
its standards
fun fact about those yellow buses did
you know that about 25 million students
riding the bus to school each year but
this year there's an added challenge
there's a nationwide shortage of bus
drivers and that is making it tough for
some students to get back to school
CNN's Athena Jones has more
driver short from North Carolina to
Louisiana a rough start to the school
year as districts across the country
face a shortage of bus drivers
each year about half a million buses
transport some 25 million children but
low pay odd hours and increased
competition from companies like FedEx
and Amazon are some of the factors
making it harder to find drivers
Albemarle County Virginia getting rid of
some bus stops it breaks my heart that
we had to do that right now it is a
driver's shortage Jefferson County
Colorado creating what it calls bus hubs
combining stops in a central location
some districts using staggered schedules
we have four start times an early start
school is paired with a later start
school facing a driver's shortage
Kentucky's largest school district
contracted with a company to map out new
routes but the plan failed leading to a
disastrous first day of kindergarten for
Bethany and Ryan Bauman's daughter and
forcing officials to cancel school for
more than a week it's like they couldn't
get a hold of any of the bus drivers
that morning Bethany says they waited 40
minutes for the bus before she gave up
and made the 10-minute Drive herself
that evening they waited more than two
hours for the bus before calling the
police frantic the superintendent vowing
to do better when school restarts we
made mistakes but we've owned up to them
and we're going to fix them but any
long-term solution may have to address
drivers paychecks one of the key
components of this shortage is
compensation for drivers and that is in
salaries and fringe benefits it's in the
work day that they're having it's in
training and assistance that they get to
do their jobs it's trying to expand Out
hours so that they have a full-time job
from buses to Jeeps we're about to meet
Stacey Buckner who modified her Jeep
Wrangler to take community outreach
off-roading talk about a sweet ride
Stacy supports homeless veterans in
North Carolina with showers laundry and
fresh meals all from her souped up Jeep
our CNN Hero has helped more than one
thousand veterans
there should be no homeless vets period
none
right now there's over 30 000 homeless
veterans in the United States
the number is probably greater than that
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a lot of these veterans they're deep in
the woods we're going down to one of our
homeless encampments I have several
veterans that I've actually been looking
for that got displaced
it's not that they don't want to be
found they don't want to be in the
public eye hey what's up baby how you
doing
gaining trust is really really important
now y'all got
y'all got its sizes so some of them we
didn't have the half sizes so we got the
next full size it takes boots on the
ground to get back there find them and
meet their needs thank you you're
welcome we'll get the shower set up on
that side if you guys need a shower
today I am to a lot of them their only
family
here in Fayetteville
Fayetteville is home to Fort Liberty
formerly Fort Bragg home of the Special
Operations Command 82nd Airborne
I think that having a base right next to
your town the passion for veterans runs
really really deep
my stepdad is a staff sergeant him being
military I saw you know things that he
struggled with
I saw a gap in services for homeless
veterans and I just thought you know I
can do something about that and then it
just kind of went on from there I wanted
to fill that Gap in Services out and
that's why I created off-road Outreach
these are for Sam too he's 34 short we
provide clothing food there's a full
kitchen in the back we also do laundry
your pants are almost done spinning baby
for our veterans we do wrap around
Services I like this establishment
this is my brick and mortar but
obviously our services are offered to
anyone at the encampment it's just
filling a basic human need you need a
widely we also like to do pop-up events
Outreach events where we will actually
bring in our homeless vets give them new
socks new shoes
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let's get a brigade line y'all man I get
vegetables from different veteran-owned
Farms
and we deliver fresh produce to our
veterans hey man thanks for today thank
you for your service those boxes are
going to go a long way guys so thank you
you have my number my name is Stacy what
are you guys in need of it's important
to show veterans that there are
organizations out there that want to be
your family want to help you get through
life's trials and tribulations and
really Provide support to you
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
totally awesome dude it's a turtle
a gopher tortoise rolled into a gym in
Florida to get it swole on or maybe it
was just looking for some shelter the
gym manager though not having it she
thought the turtle might try to snap at
her so she didn't want to grab it
instead she's just it with a towel we
sped the video up but as you can see she
got quite the workout before finally
getting the little fella out of there
celebration time and now on to my
favorite part of the day special shout
out to Lava Heights Academy in
tokerville Utah rise up did you know
tokerville is named for the black lava
rock found on the top of a nearby
mountain and it's derived from the
language of the Native American Paiute
Tribe that lived in the region before
settlers arrived so follow me at koi
wire and submit your unique vocabulary
word into the comments section of my
most recent post and we're going to
choose one fun one to work into
tomorrow's show bring it I'm koi wire
and we are CNN 10.
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thank you