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to the news we start in Brazil where a
record drought is drastically affecting
waterways in the Amazon jungle on Monday
researchers recorded water levels where
the Rio negro and the Amazon River meet
and found the water had dropped to its
lowest levels ever recorded these rivers
in tributaries which means they flow in
and out of lakes and streams creating
the normally lush jungle ecosystem We've
Come To Love hundreds of thousands of
people depend on these tributaries for
fishing and transportation and to get
key supplies into their remote Villages
many boats and floating houses are now
left Stranded the region is in its dry
season but the Brazilian government says
the Amazon has seen the least rain from
July to September in more than 40 years
they say the El Nino weather pattern
which we learned about here on CNN 10
earlier along with global warmings
intensifying heat are to blame Wildlife
is also feeling the pain earlier this
month researchers found over 100 dead
dolphins suggesting water temperatures
were the cause the low river levels in
high heat brought the water temperature
up to nearly 100° fah that's how hot hot
tubs are these Bou or pink river
dolphins they're so cute right well they
only live in fresh water throughout
South America researchers and activists
have been trying to move the Dolphins to
cooler Waters but say the continued
drought will only make things worse 10c
trivia which of these was the last
mission to have people on the moon
Apollo 11 Apollo 13 Apollo 17 or Apollo
19 Apollo 17 is your answer here and as
part of that mission in 1972 astronaut
Jean kernin was the last person to walk
on the Moon the Moon has been Earth's
constant companion for more than 4
billion years and it's been a constant
source of Discovery for science a new
study suggests that the Moon is even
older than we'd originally thought about
35 million years older and a crystal
called ziron is at the heart of this
discovery to take a step back we know
that scientists believe the moon formed
when our solar system was in its early
chaotic days where rocks were colliding
and our Earth was forming a protoplanet
called Thea crashed into Earth flinging
off a large Rocky p which became the
moon the energy from that impact created
a molten lunar magma ocean that
eventually became the moon's surface 2
years ago scientists used modeling to
understand how that ocean cooled and
thought the moon was 85 million years
younger than we'd believed but in comes
new technology geophysicists who study
natural resources like oil gas and
minerals used atom probe tomography that
takes a moon material sharpens off
samples and like a pencil sharpener then
work works like an hourglass to push
those samples through a spectrometer to
see how fast they move that speed showed
that the samples were made of ziron and
ziron is one of the oldest known solids
meaning the moon must be the same age
4.46 billion years old those lunar
samples were collected way back in the
1970s by the Apollo 17 astronauts and
they still teach us things today here's
more now on those incredible Apollo
missions 600 million people watched Neil
Armstrong take those famous first steps
on the moon that's one small step for
man but after the Apollo 11 astronauts
returned to Earth public interest in
later Apollo missions began to
fade but the people who contined to tune
in were treated to some pretty special
moments astronauts took advantage of
their unique surroundings to have a bit
of fun during the Apollo 17 Mission
Eugene cernon and Harrison Schmidt sang
their own rendition of the fountain in
the park I was rolling on the moon one
day the classic jumping photo it may
have been attempted at the last wedding
you attended come on out of here give me
a salute well during the Apollo 16
Mission astronaut Charlie Juke captured
John Young in midair while saluting to
the flag okay here we go a big
one off the
ground there we go it's since gone down
as one of the most famous Apollo photos
ever
taken when they weren't taking epic
pictures Duke and young got to drive
around in a lunar rover the electric
buggies were used on the last Apollo
missions 15 16 and 17 and provided
astronauts a fast way to cover large
distances helping them make more
scientific discoveries than they could
on foot or just to do a bit joy riding I
thought the ride was real sporty it
bounced a lot sometimes both front
wheels were off the surface the back end
is like driving on ice and breaking
loose occasionally but it was a lot of
fun back in the 16th century Galileo
taught his students that objects fall at
the same rate regardless of their size
or mass that is if they're not
restricted by any resistance from the
air well in my left hand I have a a
feather in my right hand a Hammer well
since the moon has virtually no air to
breathe Apollo 15 Commander David Scott
decided to test this experiment by
dropping a feather and a hammer from the
same height lo and behold they did in
fact hit the ground at the same time
about that and just for a little fun
Alan Shephard brought the head of a six
iron and a couple of golf balls aboard
Apollo 14 the head was modified so he
could attach it to an instrument that
collected Rock samples
try little sand trap shot here it should
have gone probably on the earth maybe 30
35 yards but that little rascal went
over 200 yds with a one hand shot like
that and it was in the air the time of
flight was almost 35 seconds perhaps the
most enduring images are the ones when
the astronauts actually looked back at
Earth this one taken on Apollo 17 the
last time man was on the moon it's known
simply as the Blue
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Marble today's story getting a 10 out of
10 if you still got pumpkins to carve
don't reach for that kitchen knife just
yet did you know that around half of all
Halloween related injuries come from our
creativity gone wrong since pumpkin
carving catastrophes can be a quotidian
experience this time of year we have a
couple of tips just for you check it out
probably the most surprising stat around
Halloween related injuries is that
almost half of the injuries are related
to pumpkin
carving so now I'm going to show you how
to carve a pumpkin safely first tip we
want to make sure you're carving your
pumpkin on a firm flat surface so we're
just going to make sure this table is
nice and firm which it is a lot of
people carve their pumpkins at home on
kitchen tables if your kitchen table's
wobbly for any reason you don't feel
like fixing your kitchen table which I
totally get try to workbench or really a
kitchen island now a lot of people think
oh this is a great pumpkin carving tool
because it's serrated it's short it's
easy to hold in your hand hand the
problem is as you're stabbing it into
the pumpkin your hand can slip and we do
see a lot of injuries happening in that
way so this is an actual
saw probably not the best thing to use
if you're carving a pumpkin with kids
then we start getting into some of what
I like to refer to as the death or
danger zone of pumpkin carving and we're
not going to recommend you ever use
scissors to carve a pumpkin you should
never be carving a pumpkin with a razor
blade you should definitely never be
carving a pumpkin with a giant carving
knife use the proper carving tool so
here we have our carving kit this is the
exact type of tool we want to see people
using you run it across your fingers
nothing's going to happen to you but
look how well it cuts a pumpkin doesn't
get any better or easier than that we're
going to keep it classic today cuz my
skill level is 4 out of 10 so we will be
doing the classic Jackal Lantern on the
safety pumpkin carving scale I'm out of
10 100% out of 10 you always want to
make sure you're carving away from
yourself as opposed to towards yourself
and that way no matter where anyone is
standing you're cutting in a safe
Direction with a safe blade no one's
going to go to the emergency room you're
going to save yourself like a th000
bucks or something the ER is so
expensive these days we never want to
see people using real fire real candles
in their pumpkins we won't start a fire
here at CNN either pets can knock them
off of tables kids can bump into them
somebody's costume can get a little bit
too close this is perfect it blinks so
make sure you use an LED light in your
pumpkin and everybody will have a great
safe happy Halloween all right thanks to
the Patriots and miss Ryan's class at
Hazel Park in Michigan you subm the
winner of #y word Wednesday qudian an
adjective meaning occurring daily or
ordinary and everyday well done our
special shout out today is going to the
Wolves of lak Ridge Middle School in
Woodbridge Virginia rise up thanks for
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