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lovely people hope you had an awesome
weekend so good to be back with you
let's start this week strong remember
complacency is the constant enemy let's
learn one thing or do something today
that makes us a little better today than
we were yesterday it's Constitution week
here in the United States the document
that starts with the famous words we the
people was signed 236 years ago on
Sunday the Constitution created a
charter for the United States as we know
it today of course it hasn't stayed the
same since 1787 there have been various
changes or amendments Through The Years
in 1791 the first 10 amendments of the
Constitution were ratified forming what
is known as the Bill of Rights they list
specific prohibitions on the
government's power and guarantee certain
individual protections and Liberties in
the United States like freedom of speech
and that leads us to pop quiz Hotshot
since the Bill of Rights how many
additional Amendments have been added to
the Constitution 7 10 15 or 17.
put your hands up if you've said 17 the
most recent the 27th amendment was
passed in 1992.
more news now on the historic and
unprecedented United Auto Workers strike
against the big three American
automakers Ford General Motors and
stalantis it's unprecedented because
this is the first time in its history
that the union has struck all three of
America's unionized car makers union
workers are seeking increased wages
benefits and job protections the demands
come as all three automakers reported
record or near record profits the union
is trying to recapture many benefits
they had been forced to give up more
than a decade ago when the companies
were cash starved and on the brink of
bankruptcy union members say they had
reasonably productive talks with Ford on
Saturday but the union and the three
major companies still remain far apart
on wages and benefits Ford and General
Motors have responded to the strike by
threatening layoffs for non-striking
workers due to the lack of parts from
striking plants General Motors says they
will lay off up to 2 000 workers this
week if the strike continues but the
workers walking the picket line they say
that they're going to stick it out until
they get a deal that suits them
negotiations were ongoing at the time of
this recording here's our Rahel Solomon
with more
yeah this is going to come down to time
ultimately how economically costly this
ultimately is we'll really hinge on how
long the strike continues now if it is
an extended strike while analysts warn
the economic costs will add up one
estimate from the Anderson economic
group estimates that the strike could
cost the economy 5 billion dollars if it
lasts 10 days now one thing to consider
with that estimate is that that would
have been a full strike of UAW 143 000
workers at this point about a tenth of
that figure is actually striking so keep
that in mind but that estimate does
include things like lost pay losses to
manufacturers but also suppliers now
guys if it feels like there have been
more strikes than usual yeah it's not
just your imagination so what's behind
the increased strike activity both here
in the U.S and around the world to be
honest while I asked Art wheat in that
he runs the labor program at Cornell and
he says High inflation a tight labor
market which has workers feeling like
they have the upper hand they can ask
for the things that they want also
public support has steadily increased
four unions and also covid-19 as workers
continue to think about the type of work
life balance that they want now in terms
of wages Auto Workers fall behind the
average worker this is average according
to government data the average hourly
worker for an auto worker is about 27.99
whereas the average worker around the
country makes about 33.82 now we should
say for the automakers part you know
they say wait a minute we have to worry
about prices as well because we have to
compete with the non-union competitors
and so they have to be conscious of
prices as well I mean that's what the
automakers were saying clearly the two
sides are still pretty far apart it
seems at least from what we can tell but
ultimately the damage that could be
caused in terms of the economy will
really just depend on how long this
strike ultimately takes moving on now to
the latest about hurricane Lee which was
is reclassed as a post-tropical cyclone
before it made landfall over the weekend
Lee hit Canada's East Coast on Saturday
with strong wind heavy rain and flooding
tens of thousands of people lost power
in the storm it's the eighth time since
2016 that a storm in the North Atlantic
has reached Category 5 or the highest
category for hurricanes there have been
10 named storms in the Atlantic since
August 20th breaking the old record for
most named storms in the Atlantic
between August 20th and September 16th
experts say this kind of severe weather
could continue to happen more often as
oceans warm up and it's keeping
hurricane Hunters busy CNN's Gary
tuckman joined a team of these
scientists on a flight to document the
storm last week take a look
The Gulfstream 4 is typically a business
jet
but this one is reconfigured
and its business is to help protect
lives
these are the hurricane Hunters eight
scientists engineers Pilots they work
for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration known as NOAA Paul
Flaherty is the flight director and a
flight meteorologist we want to make
sure we're collecting data in data
sparse areas in which there's currently
no data available very little data
available for the weather models to use
to make forecasts for this Mission this
aircraft flies at altitude between 41
and 45 000 feet it travels around 500
miles per hour this is essentially a
flying weather station a weather station
that goes to the weather
for the next eight hours the men and
women of the NOAA Corps will fly in this
high altitude reconnaissance jet above
below around and in front of hurricane
Lee I think for now we'll be fine but
yeah looks like plenty of space to
maneuver around things
after the jet leaves Lakeland Florida
skies are clear at this high altitude
you can clearly see storm churned white
caps in the ocean it doesn't take long
though for the sunshine to disappear the
flight gets turbulent as hurricane Lee
lurks ominously below us all the while
signs has taken place this screen shows
34 locations where a tube known as a
drop sand or sand will be dropped out of
the plane so this is the next drop set
that's going to be dropped Rebecca
Keller NOAA engineer what is in the
drops
um so the Drop Zone consists of a sensor
and we have a circuit board inside as
well as a battery and the sensor is
picking up humidity air temperature
pressure wind direction and wind speed
and about every 10 minutes
another drop sound with a parachute that
is deployed is launched to the ground
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along with the signs the plane also has
radar in its nose Doppler radar on its
tail and two pilots up front flying with
a deep sense of purpose I joined the
noblecore as did all of my counterparts
because we love to serve our country we
care about
our the citizens and so it's really
rewarding to know that I am like right
at the front lines and risking up my
life in order to help the lives of
everyone else that are back home
the marathon flight is almost over all
right so that
as the plane heads back to Florida out
the window
a spectacular Sunset yeah so
and gets ready to land time for the
hurricane Hunters to decompress and get
mentally ready for more eight-hour trips
to come so yeah we kind of live up here
spend more time together than we do at
home go home sleep eat and repeat you
know and get back up here start
collecting the data again
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Arizona Saguaro National Park an
unidentified creature causing quite the
stink on a surveillance camera what is
this a spiky frizzed out hair is is this
thing stretching its arms for a hug
doing a dance believe it or not this is
actually a spotted skunk upside down
doing a handstand and apparently if you
ever see a skunk doing this it's time to
say smell you later dude because they do
handstands as a form of intimidation and
if that doesn't work their next move is
to spray you
our special shout out today is going to
Skyline High School in Scottsboro
Alabama go Vikings did you know that
Vikings had ice skates fun fact they
used animal bones for the blades see you
tomorrow my Vikings in Queens I'm koi
and we are CNN 10.
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