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good morning good afternoon good evening
wherever you are in this world let's go
ahead and smell the
flowers and cool the
soup get our minds right so we can
dominate this day I'm Koy wire this is
cnn1 the best 10 minutes in news we
start today with news of the new Speaker
of the House Republic Congressman Mike
Johnson was voted in on Wednesday
becoming the 56th Speaker of the House
in US history he represents the fourth
district of Louisiana serves on the
Judiciary and armed services committee
he has a solidly conservative voting
record he also supported efforts to
overturn the 2020 election the House of
Representatives had effectively been on
pause for 22 straight days without a
speaker after Kevin McCarthy was
historically voted out of the position
there were three unsuccessful votes to
find a replacement but now the house can
get back to work one of speaker
Johnson's first big challenges will be
to pass a spending bill as without one
the government will run out of money on
November 17th speaker Mike Johnson is
now third in line for the presidency of
the United States behind President Joe
Biden and vice president Kamala Harris
our other top story of the day takes us
to aapco Mexico a major tourist
destination and home to some 800,000
people residents are now enduring
hurricane otus the strongest storm on
record to hit this area of southern
Mexico Wednesday morning hurricane Otis
began as a tropical storm but
accelerated to a category 5 in just 12
hours time the storm's rapid
intensification was among the fastest on
record that burst of power gave people a
little time to prepare when we produced
this show the impact of the storm was
not yet clear but reports had indicated
that the storm had knocked out all
communication for the latest on this
storm you can head to
cnn.com 10 second trivia yamas sukro and
abigan are two Capital sites of what
African nation Ivory Coast Ethiopia
Rwanda or
gabang officially the Republic of CIS
Ivory Coast is your answer
here we take you now to Ivory Coast a
country in West Africa between Ghana and
Liberia it is the world's top cocoa
producing Nation as well as the top
cashew producing nation and it has one
of the fastest growing economies in
subsaharan Africa but the southern city
of abigan is dealing with a problem
trash is piling up especially plastic
we're about to learn why and how some
locals and creative Business Leaders are
finding ways to use that trash to make
and save some cash CNN's Zay Asher has
more
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on the edge of Aban in the Ivory Coast
Waste is being dumped every
day most of it plastic hundreds of
workers in the country have long
collected waste to sell on the informal
Market but now informal workers like
Martin San say the process is being
formalized through industrialized
recycling circuits where she's
guaranteed around 16 cents per
kilogram
we used to collect waste without knowing
who we could sell it to there were no
real Outlets but since we've started
with this structure things are better we
are always paid within the week for what
we bring
back since we have this structure I earn
enough money to pay for my children's
school and to feed my family sometime I
even manage to save a little experts say
the move towards formalizing a circular
economy for Waste in the iory Coast
benefits the economy at
large according to UNICEF only 5% of ab
Jan's waste is currently
recycled in the last few years it's
developed to the point where we produce
fuel from recycled plastic there are
young startup that have launched this
and it's something to promote with
plastic we can also make furniture or
tables and benches for school children
the trash that used to cause us problems
must now be seen as an
opportunity from fuel to Furniture
entrepreneurs across the country are
finding the best ways to utilize plastic
trash one Colombian company conceptos
plasticos has bet big on building the
circular economy in the Ivory Coast
they've built entire schools out of
recycled plastic bricks saying the
bricks are 40% cheaper than traditional
building materials and are more solid 30
employees at the company's Aban plant
sort Crush mix and transform plastic
into these bricks selling them primarily
to programs run through NOS like UNICEF
our business is not to sell bricks our
business is to have innovative solutions
around circular economy even though
Africa only produces around 5% of the
world's plastic it's the continent
that's most affected by plastic
waste and until 2017 Asia was the
primary destination for the world's
plastic waste largely generated by
Western countries but many Asian
countries began taking action against
imported
plastic in the Ivory Coast the
production import and marketing of
plastic bags has been banned since 2013
though the application of the law has
been hard to enforce on Tuesday dozens
of States from California to Georgia to
Maine filed a lawsuit against meta the
parent company of Facebook and Instagram
and all of our students out there today
are at the heart of this case the State
Attorneys General say that meta is
contributing to an adolescent Mental
Health crisis arguing that the company
designed Facebook and Instagram to be
addictive they say these platforms give
the quote false promise that meaningful
social connection lies in the next story
image or video and that ignoring the
next piece of social content could lead
to social isolation quote now meta
issued a statement saying it has over 30
tools to support teens and their
families and that they're willing to
work with agencies to improve the user
experience but meta along with other
social media companies like Snapchat and
Tik Tok are in for more legal battles as
they face dozens of similar lawsuits
from States like Florida and hundreds
more from private individuals that's the
what will let you decide what to
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think
today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
emblematic of Teamwork Makes the Dream
Work exhibit a these are starlings
swarming each individual bird sinking
its movements with the others creating a
mesmerizing display of poetry in motion
ornithologists scientists who study
birds believe the patterns they create
help the birds confuse and elude
Predators well these patterns inspired
the Drone operating artists in our next
story to light up the night time sky
above Central Park this past
weekend we started our studio in 2007 we
were studying bird Behavior at the time
immediately we thought how cool would it
be if we would take that movement of
birds but have it tangible in the sky
and that merged into what you see behind
us so behind us you see a thousand
drones in their docking stations every
box has like six drones it looks kind of
like your basic drone but it's
specifically developed for this
application today we're flying a
thousand drones it's the biggest
performance that we have done so far and
we were so happy to secure the first
permit ever in Central Park to fly
drones this is one system it's thousand
drones that's that all are connected and
and with one press on the button they
come in the
air
it's really our goal to bring people
with lots of different backgrounds and
different moments in their life together
in this moment and that everyone relaxes
and gets tuned into the same
frequency the artpiece is called
franchise Freedom it's for us to
understand that in society we have to
make sacrifices to function together as
a social structure if you look at bird
swarms you know in our mind this is most
free flying beautiful organic shape but
in reality it's really like based on
very specific rules for me that is what
this swarm represents it's this
Collective body of individuals
functioning as a group to be the most
sufficient beautiful outcome of multiple
cultures and different people coming
together to be the best version of
itself shout out to all of our bright
shining lights out there you know
American poet Henry David throw once
said it's not what you look at that
matters it's what you see let's make it
a great Thursday or as we like to say
happy Friday Eve today's shout out is
going to the Jaguars at Blues Springs
South High School in Blue Springs
Missouri rise up I'm KY wire and we are
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