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lovely people welcome to CNN 10 I'm Coy
wire it's Friday September 29th and
we're going to finish this week's strong
with some of the top stories from around
the world from The Plains of Kazakhstan
to the South China Sea but today's lead
story starts 250 miles above the Earth's
surface aboard the International Space
Station this large craft is the size of
a football field end to end in the
living space is about the size of a
six-bedroom house with two bathrooms and
a gym women and men from the United
States Canada Japan Russia and Europe
live and work there while traveling at
the speed of 5 miles per second This
research and science lab orbits the
earth once every 90 minutes for the past
year the ISS has been the home of NASA
astronaut Frank Rubio he was supposed to
only spend six months there but he had
to stay a longer when his spacecraft
sprung a leak he ended up logging 371
days that's the longest any U.S
astronaut has ever spent in microgravity
the world record is held by a Russian
cosmonaut who spent 437 days in orbit
back in the 90s Rubio who has a wife and
four children returned to Earth on
Wednesday alongside two Russian
colleagues they dropped into Kazakhstan
by Parachute using this capsule after
such a long space flight Rubio needs to
adjust to life and gravity back on Earth
let's go from above the Earth to below
the sea specifically the South China Sea
which is a major shipping route
surrounded by countries including China
Vietnam and the Philippines earlier this
week the Philippine Coast Guard released
footage of bleached and crushed Coral
along two reefs near the island nation
the Philippines claimed China was behind
the destruction and blamed the country's
Maritime militia but China denied the
allegation moreover China has claimed
ownership over most of the South China
Sea in defiance of an international
ruling and competing claims by other
countries it's the latest in a long list
of disputes about the South China Sea
let's check in with Stephen Zhang CNN's
bureau chief in Beijing for more
China actually claims almost the
entirety of the South China Sea which is
about 1.3 million square miles based on
what they call quote-unquote historical
proof even though an international
tribunal has rejected that nonetheless
they have maintained this Sovereign
claim and they have been able to do what
none of the other claimants have been
able to do that is in the past few years
through land reclamation and massive
construction turning many of this uh
previously uninhabited reefs and atolls
and islets into man-made Islands
equipped with a sophisticated Radars
airstrips and other equipment that is
really the basis of why they have been
able to increasingly project a military
power in this region not only through
their Navy and Coast Guard but also
through nominally civilian Maritime
militia now we have been following the
story for years but in recent weeks and
months we have seen this flare-up of
publicized incidents between China and
other claimants especially the
Philippines we have seen the Chinese
coast guard for example using water
cannons and what Manila says are
dangerous Maneuvers to chase away to
drive away Philippine boats the
Philippines of course also accusing
China of destroying the ring ecosystem
in waters near its borders but based on
very deliberate actions but Beijing of
course pushing back all these
allegations and saying the only thing
that's changed recently is the
government in Manila now they have a new
president president Marcos who is doing
the U.S bidding to instigate tensions
and to create political force and they
are also very angry at the Philippines
decision to bring International media
along to witness those encounters and
saying this is increasingly a a stage
performance to create more favorable
International opinion for the
Philippines but the underlying question
of all this if nothing changes if the
Chinese military is not going to pull
out what's going to happen if people try
to change the dynamic or the Chinese
Behavior short of a war
in second two
contribute did you know tarantulas can
have pets that's right but do they keep
mice lizards frogs or smaller spiders
tarantulas can have a symbiotic
relationship with frogs in exchange for
protection the frogs eat insects that
threaten the spiders eggs
the tarantula in our next story blew my
mind check out a newly discovered
species researchers on an expedition to
Southern Thailand found this electric
blue arachnid hanging out in a mangrove
forest they described the spider as
mesmerizing with its blue violet Hue
that looks like Sparks of electricity
tarantulas are native to Thailand and
the researchers had set out to document
their diversity and distribution
throughout the country to catch this
species they had to climb trees to lure
the spider out of Hollows they say the
rare blue color comes from the structure
of hair on different parts of the
spider's body speaking of blue our next
story is about blue zones have you ever
heard of these blue zones are areas of
the world where people live longer than
the average lifespan CNN chief medical
correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta has more
Okinawa Japan Sardinia Italy the nikoya
peninsula of Costa Rica icaria Greece
and Loma Linda California they are the
blue zones five places where people live
the longest and are the healthiest but
the question is why let me pick one of
these places and I'll just pick nikoya
peninsula of Costa Rica what is it about
this environment you know there is no
Silver Bullet in any of these blue zones
I call it silver Buckshot well what are
they doing well first of all they're
eating a
Mesoamerican staple diet or they have
for most of their life which consists of
three foods I argue it's the best diets
humans have ever invented corn beans and
squash anybody can afford them high in
complex carbohydrates high in niacin
high in full weight that was about 80
percent of their diet so that's part of
it like all blue zones they were remote
from the rest of Costa Rica they have a
30 or 40 year delay at you know the
onset of fast food restaurants chips and
sodas and and cars you know none of
these centenarians have driven and
they've walked their whole lives it's
the additive of the right diet the right
social environment the right physical
environment that is producing these
extraordinary outsized life expectancy
numbers can that what you just described
in nicoya Peninsula can that be adapted
not only can but it does you know take
Fort Worth Texas we worked there for
five years and after five years against
Texas controls we saw a drop in obesity
by about three percent life satisfaction
went up vegetable consumption went up
physical activity went up not because we
went in and tried to convince beef
crazed Fort Worth to eat more beans but
because we went to all the restaurants
and the schools and the grocery stores
and convince them to make the healthy
foods cheaper and more accessible we got
the city to adopt policies to make that
City more walkable and more bikeable and
it worked now is it a full Blue Zone
like Sardinia no but we got them 10 to
15 percent of the way towards a Blue
Zone
today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
about a family whose picnic got put on
pause Bear Paws check out this Black
Bear crash in this family's picnic in
Mexico the bear wandered over and
started chowing down on enchiladas and
tacos that is nacho food bear the family
sat Frozen just inches away black bears
usually aren't aggressive to humans and
thankfully the only thing this bear was
after was the people's lunch the
National Park Service says that wild
animals can come to Crave human food
once they've had a taste of it one
interesting fact about black bears their
sense of smell is very good they can
catch scents from more than a mile away
that's why the National Park Service
recommends storing food in your vehicle
with the windows shut or keeping it in
sealed containers and if you're camping
never keep food in your tent makes sense
right we don't need any of us to come in
a burrito shout out time now there is a
red storm brewing Mr cabana's class in
Scarborough Middle School in Scarborough
Maine rise up I hope you and everyone
watching around the world have a
wonderful weekend remember you are more
powerful than you know I'm koi it's been
a blessing to spend this week with you
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