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what's up lovely people hope you had an
awesome three-day weekend and a great
slaver day AKA Labor Day the federal
holiday traditionally considered the
official end of summer and it's a day
that honors and recognizes U.S workers
contributions and achievements now it's
time for us to put in that work right
here on CNN 10. first up thousands of
people were trapped at The Burning Man
festival the enormous week-long desert
campout Festival is set to focus on art
community and self-expression it's held
annually in a remote location called
Black Rock City a temporary Community
about 100 miles north of Reno Nevada an
event already known for testing
attendees self-reliance took on a whole
new meaning this week when more than 70
thousand people were left stranded due
to harsh conditions in the desert the
event was essentially shut down and
attendees were told to shelter in place
and can serve supplies the area received
two to three months of rain in just a
24-hour span and the conditions created
this impossible terrain for festival
goers to navigate CNN National
correspondent Camila Bernal has more
the decades-old Gathering in the Black
Rock Desert is no stranger to extreme
heat
but rarely like this there's interesting
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barefoot's the way to go
two to three months worth of rain
falling in just 24 hours turning the
desert ground into thick cement-like
paste
Festival goer Dean Zeller from Santa
Monica California shot this video with
his ankle deep into the mud and from the
air you can see the standing water muddy
roads and countless RVs Vans trucks and
other vehicles parked and helpless when
it was really wet you couldn't do
anything you just lived here there's
really no way to walk miles you know to
get out of it we couldn't leave like we
were stuck basically people couldn't
could barely walk let alone ride their
bikes or drive out of here and so that
started getting a little scary many of
those who tried to drive away were stuck
the situation so concerning that even
President Joe Biden was briefed on the
matter while organizers have often
described the festival as a
self-expression event where harshness
meets creativity few expected it to be
this bad
but why how did just .8 inches of rain
lead to tens of thousands of Festival
goers getting trapped our CNN
meteorologist Derek Van Damme will break
down the science to help us understand
why this became such a sticky situation
what you're looking at here with our 3D
visualization tool is the difference
between desert topsoil and our earthy
topsoil that you and I might use to
plant our vegetables in our garden for
instance so we call that loam right and
water as it rains easily absorbs into
that loam or that earthy topsoil but
when you're talking about rain that
continuously Falls within the desert it
doesn't take much to start pooling up
and then mixing in with that clay
creating that very muddy cement-like
mixture that ultimately costs so many
thousands of people to get stuck and
stranded in the desert of Nevada I mean
just take a look at some of these
visuals the aerial visuals really speak
for themselves I mean look at these cars
you can see the muddy tracks and you can
see completely abandoned vehicles
because they simply cannot drive it as
too thick it is too difficult to
navigate that type of cement like
mixture that is a combination of the
water not absorbing back into the ground
we call that an impermeable surface and
the simply the amount of rain that fell
in such a short period of time here's
the radar and uh you can see there are
no flood watches in effect for the
BlackRock Basin this is known as a Playa
in fact we're going to dry things out
rather quickly here over the next 24
hours so as soon as we get the sun to
rise this morning we'll get that typical
evaporation that would happen within
this Playa that you see just north of
Empire that shading of white that is a
dry Basin across the desert and it
normally evaporates the water when we
get that break in the rain but that
simply didn't happen because the rain
continuously fell over the same areas
for a period of time on Friday and
Saturday 10 second trivia the
International Space Station and many
other satellites orbit within what layer
of the Earth's atmosphere troposphere
Stratosphere mesosphere or thermosphere
thermospherians put your hands up this
layer extending from about 53 to 375
miles above Earth is home to the ISS
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outside of this past weekend's college
football season openers on Monday we had
a different type of touchdown four
astronauts returning from space after a
six-month stay on the International
Space Station members of the crew 6
Mission aboard the SpaceX crew Dragon
capsule actually made Splashdown when
they landed off the coast of
Jacksonville Florida the astronaut's
mission was run as a joint operation
between NASA and SpaceX and they were
coming in hot literally the spacecraft
traveled at a speed of more than 17 000
miles per hour on its way back to Earth
and the exterior of the capsule heated
to about 3 500 degrees Fahrenheit I'm
sorry what wouldn't they be burning up
inside uh good question yes the crew was
protected at a comfortable temperature
well below 100 degrees Fahrenheit next
up a project that I am pumped to share
with you this Friday at 9 Eastern on CNN
I have an hour-long documentary coming
out it's on the whole story with
Anderson Cooper and it's called hard
hits can football be safe I played nine
years in the NFL I have a titanium plate
and four screws in my neck so I know how
dangerous the game can be but I was
blown away learning about the technology
and Innovation being used to make the
game safer now and for future
Generations could advancements in the
game one day help keep players safer by
predicting injuries before they happen
and your data potentially predict when a
player might get an injury absolutely
Christina Mack is an engineer and
epidemiologist she presents data to the
NFL's competition committee
the group that reviews League rules and
any potential changes every year
you rank teams over five years where the
Super Bowl trophies are
it's a winning strategy your players are
more available they're performing where
they want to be performing and they're
not getting reinjured
that's just some of the NFL's Big Data
crunching
from high-tech body scanning that's
being used at the NFL combine
to tracking body movements to optimize
performance and detect imbalances that
could potentially lead to injuries
to sensors on the bodies inside helmets
and mouth guards
turning me into a video game
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we're having you go through a set of
drills where we've tracked all your
motions that's biomechanical engineer
and lab CEO Jeff Crandall and his bio
core research team
all right I'm all censoring up and the
idea is that they will be able to see am
I favoring any part of my body are there
any anomalies imbalances
stadiums in the League this year will
have dozens of these cameras that will
be able to track players movements that
way if there is an injury on game day
they can go back and look at the data
before that
bottom line is with all the information
that's available to us camera angles or
sensors or injury data we're going to
get to the place where we'll understand
risk and maybe someday be able to
predict with some degree of certainty
which players are more likely to be
injured than others we can intervene
before it happens
as for me how did I do more than a dozen
years after I left the NFL
we see both knees and the left hip it's
causing too much load to go through your
knees I didn't tell you anything on me
that was bothering me but each day when
I wake up neither knee feels great and
my left hip is off the good news is if
we look at you overall we've normed all
the players relative to the NFL
population you're right in the middle so
you've sort of still got it still got it
still got it okay
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our final story of the day is a little
cheesy actually very cheesy 80 workers
in a tiny Mexican Town of pihyapan
breaking the Guinness World Record for
world's largest string cheese ball it
weighs 1 230 pounds and it took more
than 1500 gallons of milk to make this
monster it's actually made out of Oaxaca
cheese the look on the people's faces is
so sweet I can't even bear it well I
hate to be cheesy but Life's good to
y'all and today is actually National
cheese pizza day and a lot of shops out
there actually have some pretty good
deals so take advantage if that's your
thing our special shout out today goes
to
North Hartford High School in pilesville
Maryland you have a piece of my heart
I'm Coy wire and I'll see you tomorrow
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