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hi everyone I'm Natasha Chen filling in
for koi today I'm so grateful to be back
with all of you for another exciting day
of CNN 10 Coy will'll be back tomorrow
we're going to continue with our
coverage of the conflict in Israel and
Gaza the current situation can feel very
confusing at times the conflict dates
back many decades reminder that we have
a full explainer of what's going on in
Israel and Gaza from our show on Monday
but for now here's the latest news at
the time we recorded our show at least
1,200 people had been killed in Israel
and up to 150 hostages are believed to
be held in Gaza in a speech on Tuesday
President Biden called the Hamas attack
an act of sheer evil and confirmed 14
Americans were killed with others being
held captive Israel is also o hammering
Gaza with air strikes hitting hundreds
of targets reducing neighborhoods to
rubble and killing at least 1,55 people
according to Palestinian officials a
humanitarian crisis is swiftly unfolding
in Gaza with hundreds of thousands
displaced and many cut off from food and
electricity next we'll hear from CNN's
John sarin who will detail why hamas's
most recent attack is considered
unprecedented by many the scale of this
the brutality is truly precedented
completely unprecedented attack this is
completely unprecedented here the
conflict between Israel and the
Palestinians is not new in fact it's
been going on since before Israel's
founding in
1948 so why is hamas's latest attack on
Israel so
unprecedented first the surprise of the
attack on October 7th Hamas launched a
barrage of rockets towards Israel while
gunmen entered Israel from Gaza Israel
has not seen this kind of infiltration
of military bases towns and kibit in its
75-year
history the country is known for having
one of the world's most impressive Armed
Forces a premier intelligence agency and
sophisticated border security but this
attack seemed to cture them off guard
second the intensity of the attack
Israel Defense Forces have said that
more than 5,000 Rockets have been
launched from the Gaza Strip since
October 7th
to put that into context in 2021 during
the 11-day war with Hamas some 4,300
Rockets were fired following Saturday's
attack Israel has formally declared war
on Hamas the first such declaration in
50 years setting the stage for a major
military operation
Gaza Israeli forces are battling
militants in southern Israel and have
been pounding Gaza with air
strikes by the conflict's thirdd day
over 900 people were killed in Israel
while authorities in Gaza said over 680
people have been killed in the
Palestinian Enclave lastly the hostage
situation Hamas says it is holding more
than 100 hostages in Gaza the group
claims that this includes high ranking
army officers but it also includes women
the elderly and children Hamas says the
hostages are now being held in locations
across Gaza which could complicate
Israel's response to the militant
group's deadly attack
10-second trivia what is Africa's
largest river by volume Nile chobi Congo
or
Volta though the Nile River is much
longer the Congo River holds Africa's
record for amount of water flowing
through
it the casai river in Angola is Africa's
second largest river by volume and flows
directly into the largest which we just
mentioned the Congo supplying tens of
millions of people with fresh water but
until recent years huge portions of it
had never been documented by science as
part of rolex's Perpetual Planet
initiative Explorer Steve boy has
embarked on a series of expeditions to
discover and protect these river systems
and the wildlife that depends on
them the Eastern portion of the angolan
Highlands water T was previously known
as the Terra Mundo the land at the end
of the Earth by the first Portuguese
explorers it was the farthest place from
anywhere and it
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is all we have is satellite imagery to
look at and try and prepare ourselves
for what we're going to do that day but
we're the first people to document these
river systems and when I say document we
are establishing early 21st century
River baselines ecological and
hydrological
baselines I'm Dr Steve boy I'm a
National Geographic Explorer and the
project leader of the great spine of
Africa series of
expeditions I've never wanted to be
anything else other than an Explorer and
a
conservationist I gave up writing my
Master's dissertation and for the next
decade my entire world was the okavanga
doter uh I couldn't think of anything
else I never wanted to leave
so I went to all the universities and
the states around the world to advocate
for the okavango Delta to become a world
heritage site
UNESCO and that happened but within 3
months uh we were in Angola I kind of
broken out of that that uh you know it
has to become a UNESCO world heritage
site and we went up to the sourcers uh
we were the first group to do
so we were told by all of the top
scientists you know geologists
hydrologists that these were seasonally
flooded
wetlands and when we get there we find
an ancient Crystal Clear acidic Source
Lake uh we see that it's surrounded and
sustained by Petland now none of this is
known to science we crossed the entire
okavango River Basin all the way into
the Kalahari Desert beyond the okavango
Delta followed the water to its end
exploring this entire water tower
structure now a water tower in this
context uh is not a wooden structure on
top of a building in New York it is a
high
altitude forested Watershed High
rainfall with high water storage
capacity due to Petland it's like a
giant sponge now that sponge is
sustained by forests protecting water or
creating rainfall receiving rainfall and
flushing it down into the Petland that
hold that water for thousands of years
we've always wondered why Africa has the
megap forna why it is has these great
grand wildernesses these great
migrations um it's because of these
water towers Africa's managed to weather
these climatic oscillations that have
happened naturally in the past through
this water storage capacity that
naturally exists in these high altitude
sources so these water towers are
Keystone to our future they're
unexplored unsurveyed scientifically
misunderstood most of the time and that
is what we're urgently chasing after on
the great spine of Africa series of
expeditions this starts with ex
exploration Discovery and science we
need to understand the flows of these
Rivers we need to understand the
importance of and nature of those
sources and then we work with local
people who are already our guides uh
through all of our Expeditions uh to
protect those Landscapes into the future
this new center of endemism is emerging
a large scale water tower that wasn't
known Petland that weren't known sour
slakes that weren't known are being
documented for the first time in the
21st century this is early 21st century
exploration uh in reality
up next we're talking squash not the
vegetable but the sport the Los Angeles
Olympic and paralympic committee is
proposing to add five new sports in the
2028 games including baseball softball
Cricket lacrosse flag football and
squash if approved squash and flag
football would make their Olympic debut
the flag football you may know is a
non-con version of American football
which replaces tackling with defensive
players removing the flag of the ball
carrier and has been growing in
popularity over the years the proposal
to include these five sports into the
2028 Los Angeles games will be reviewed
by the Olympic committee's Executive
Board in Mumbai India on October 16th so
a lot could change before the Olympics
in the next 5 years the last time the
Olympics were held in the United States
was in 2002 when Salt Lake City Utah
hosted the Winter Games we'll keep you
updated on all things Olympics headed
into the 202 4 and 2028
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games and for today's 10 out of 10 we're
giving you pumpkin to talk about Travis
Ginger of Anoka Minnesota won the 50th
World Championship pumpkin way off in
Half Moon Bay California with an
enormous orange pumpkin that caused
quite the haloo the gorgeous gourd
weighed a whopping
2,749 lbs and appears to have set the
world record record for biggest gourd
Ginger grows his gourds in the pumpkin
patch in his backyard and he calls this
one Michael Jordan go big or gourd home
and now on to my favorite part of the
day I want to give a special shout out
to Mrs hair's seventh grade class at
Discovery Charter School in San Jose
California we see you and we hope you
and everyone watching around the world
has a wonderful day I'm Natasha Chen and
it's been a pleasure being here with you
these last couple of
days