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hello lovely people it's Wednesday
October 18th I'm KY wire this is cnn1
coming to you from San Diego today where
I'm interviewing an absolute Legend I
have to be enigmatic about it so I can't
tell you who it is just yet but here's a
clue this person had a video game
created about them all right let's start
this show today with an update on the
conflict in Israel and Gaza I know it's
been a lot to take in so we'll have a
special show tomorrow to talk about how
this war has affected people on the
ground as well as people like you and me
who are watching this all unfold more
than 4,000 people have died since Hamas
attacked Israel nearly two weeks ago
many of those deaths have been in Gaza
which is still under siege by Israel
following hamas's attack Israel
announced last week that it would cut
off off electricity food water and fuel
to the Palestinian Enclave tens of
thousands of Palestinians are trying to
flee the violence and many are calling
for a ceasefire as of Tuesday that
hadn't happened today President Joe
Biden is in Israel to show his support
but also to look for ways to ease the
humanitarian crisis in Gaza he'll meet
with regional leaders in the neighboring
country of Jordan including Palestinian
president Mahmud abas King Abdullah II
of Jordan and Egyptian president Abdul
fat Eli here's CNN's John Lawrence with
more as the war between Israel and Hamas
escalates President Joe Biden will meet
with Israeli officials including prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday
according to Secretary of State Anthony
blinkin the United States and Israel
have agreed to develop a plan that will
enable humanitarian aid from donor
Nations and multilateral organizations
to reach civilians in Gaza and them
alone including the possibility of
creating areas to help keep civilians
out of Harm's Way Blinn adds that Biden
will quote reaffirm the United States's
solidarity with Israel that's a stance
agreed upon by the Senate's majority and
minority leaders I will be working with
the
administration on putting together an
emergency supplemental that will give
Israel the tools it needs to defend
itself the shest way to stop violence
against Israelis and oppression of
Palestinians is to wipe terrorists like
Hamas from the face of the Earth the 26
Marine Expeditionary Unit is headed to
the waters off the coast of Israel and
the Pentagon is preparing US troops for
a potential deployment to the country
for medical and logistical support but
the Biden White House is still looking
for a diplomatic solution the president
still believes even for all this
conflict he still believes in the
promise of a two-state solution that the
Palestinians deserve their own state
place where they can call home I'm John
lawence
reporting 10c trivia what planet is
closest to Earth when it passes by
Mercury Venus Mars or
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Jupiter it might not be the closest on
average but Venus's orbit brings it
closer to Earth than any other planet
our next story though is about
Mars take a flight over a section of
Mars known as the Labyrinth of
night noctis labyrinthus is a vast
system of steep intersecting valleys
that is at its deepest more than three
times deeper than the Grand
Canyon since 2003 the European space
agency's Mars Express Mission has been
closely Imaging mars' terrain with
highresolution stereo
cameras the cameras have revealed
information on Mars's landscape
including mapping it subsurface and even
its
atmosphere noctis labyrinthus is the
length of Italy and was formed due to
volcanism that stretched and cracked the
surface to create the
valley well it's time for an uplifting
tail a tale about a tail a whale's taale
scientists have developed a new way to
track these Marine mammoths whales are
mammals just like humans they nurse
they're young and need air to breathe to
do that they use blo holes on their back
producing those famous spouts that we
see and without those spouts we wouldn't
have our next story as we're about to
find out it all started with a cloud of
whales snut unlike Jurassic Park if we
lose these animals they're gone
forever for years scientists have been
attaching GPS tags to Wales in order to
monitor the population's movements and
well-being they had these incredibly
talented groups of people in a small
inflatable with a long pole the tag at
the end of the pole and they get close
to the whale the problem is the whale
didn't know what was going on it was
potentially loud and even frightening
for the animal the act of collecting the
data we often felt could change the data
now this team is trying something new
drones but how could tagging whales with
drones
work ocean Alliance is a Marine Mammal
research and conservation group led by
Dr Ian Kerr working out of an old
converted paint factory in glaster
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Massachusetts one day I got covered in a
cloud of whales snot that was smelly and
sticky and I'm like wait a minute I
smell an idea we started our drones for
whale research program with a drone we
called snotbot snotbot was partly funded
by a Kickstarter campaign featuring a
harassed Sir Patrick
Stewart Ian what the heck is that we're
really looking for ways to collect
biological data without harassing the
animals and here comes our
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drones we get that exhalation and then
we just drop the tag and with these
suction cups it sticks under the back of
and the whale never knows it's been to
the doctor when we look at whale snot
first of all we've got DNA is it male is
it female many species of whales were
hunted to near Extinction have we
reached a genetic bottleneck or you know
are we okay and then the tag is saying
how deep does it go where does it feed
how does it feed it's been incredibly
exciting because we've tagged a whale
and then 5 seconds later it's Fed so
clearly the act of putting the tag on
the whale hasn't affected the animals
Behavior I was looking for a tool that
perhaps could democratize ocean
science thanks to 3D printing ocean
Alliance has been able to quickly
iterate on their designs and make them
easily accessible we're just one group
we can't go all over the world and work
with every single population of whales
the more we could reduce this down into
its simplest form that would make it
sort of the easiest for other
researchers to
adopt when you get out in the field
sometimes I just have to stop and take a
breath what an experience by being able
to tag and study whales without
affecting their behavior ocean Alliance
says we can truly see how humans affect
the animals and ecosystem in ways we
couldn't before fishing pollution noise
if we don't understand the impacts on
these animals how can we mitigate
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them we're literally in love with
today's story getting a 10 out of 10
from here the nearby San Diego Zoo a
baby tiger debut times two happy belated
birthday to two somatron tiger cubs who
explored their new Habitat For the First
Time last week these siblings are
looking good feeling good the little
tiger boy huton and the tig girl put are
about 3 months old and news of their
recent births is posum the population of
Sumatran Tigers is nearing catastrophic
levels listed as a critically endangered
species only an estimated 400 to 600
Sumatran tigers remain on Earth all
right meow congrats to the winners of
hashy word Wednesday Mr D class at
Weston Middle School in Weston
Connecticut submitted enigmatic to my
atoy wire social accounts it's an
adjective meaning mysterious and
difficult to interpret or understand
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an awesome day everyone and I'll see you
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tomorrow
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