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hello sunshine we're halfway through the
week but we're going to keep on grinding
and Shining because that's just what we
do it's Wednesday November 8th and the
holiday travel season is almost upon us
so in the spirit of that pack your bags
because we're going to be going around
the world for several stories today but
first let's talk specifically about
what's happening at some of the airports
heading into the holidays if you're
traveling through international airports
in Boston San Francisco Washington or
New York you may see extra security for
the tiniest of passengers bacteria and
viruses the US Centers for Disease
Control and prevention or CDC is
expanding a program that detects Co 19
to include more than 30 pathogens it's
called The Traveler based genomic
surveillance program it was first
introduced in 2021 during the Pand pmic
even though the US has relaxed a lot of
its pandemic related restrictions
thousands of people are still being
hospitalized with the disease as part of
the surveillance program International
Travelers can volunteer for nasal swaps
the CDC has also been testing airplane
Wastewater since 2022 did you know today
they've tested More Than 370,000 People
arriving from more than 135 countries at
seven participating US airports now four
those airports will also test for
bacteria and viruses behind infectious
diseases like the flu and RSV this
surveillance program is meant to help
health officials detect new variants of
Co 19 and other diseases before they
spread across the country now Pop Quiz
Hot Shot 10c trivia in Egyptian
mythology what creature has the head of
a human in the body of a lion Griffin
Sphinx Phoenix or
centaur
if you think Sphinx you think correctly
the Sphinx is an important figure in
Egyptian and Greek
art a giant carving of the mythical
creature the Sphinx lies in the sand
near giza's famous pyramids in Egypt the
Great Sphinx is thousands of years old
it stands 66 feet tall and it's thought
to be carved from a single piece of
limestone but how would such a huge
sculpture end up in the desert one
popular theory was put forward by
geologist faruko Elbas he believed that
the Desert Wind shaped a natural land
form to resemble a reclining Sphinx and
the ancient Egyptians simply added
surface details Elbas came up with his
theory about 40 years ago and a news
study suggests he may have been on to
something a team of scientists at nyu's
Applied Mathematics lab replicated windy
conditions the Great Sphinx likely faced
4,500 years ago instead of wind they
used a flat stream of water and when it
was washed over clay models of natural
landforms lo and behold a lion shape
took form all right from the Sands of
Giza we'll dive now into another big
Discovery spotted in the waters of
Hawaii this is a rarely seen whale shark
according to researchers from the Hawaii
Institute of Marine Biology shark
research lab who captured the footage
near the Hawaiian Islands
the whale shark is the world's largest
species of fish and is known to live in
Hawaiian Waters the researchers say
they're here more often than we think
but however they are probably hard to
come across I didn't see this animal
until I hopped in the water warya
observed the 30ft Shark Feeding on
Hawaiian anies known as nahu and
approaching their boat that was standing
idle in the water experts say that in
these situations it's important to be
mindful let the shark approach but don't
aggressively get get close and disturb
it that was wh cool one other fun fact
about whale sharks the largest fish on
the planet even though they're about as
big as a school bus with enormous mouths
they couldn't eat you even if they
wanted to their throat is only the size
of a quarter designed only to swallow
small tiny little fish all right our
next story takes us to the Hawaiian
Highlands where we're getting a glimpse
of an extremely rare bird the kind of
which only five are thought to be
remaining in the wild researchers though
they're working to help them make a
comeback high up on a plateau in the
middle of the Hawaiian island of kwaii a
team of researchers carefully transport
some extremely Precious Cargo got
it I have good footing here me
too you did
it
yes they've spent three days in this
remote and rain soaked expanse of jungle
looking for something very specific and
very
small the Egg of one of the world's most
critically endangered species a Hawaiian
Honey creeper known as the akikiki found
nowhere else on Earth but
here according to the Hawaiian
Department of land and natural resources
there are only five of the species left
in the wild the current state of akaiki
is pretty bad right now we do have about
50 akaiki in human Care at our two
centers in Hawaii and we do know that
this past breeding season there were no
surviving chicks in the wild Hannah
Bailey manages the kaha bird
Conservation Center on the island of
Hawaii the center serves as a Noah Arc
of sorts for the akikiki our mission is
to provide Safe Haven populations of the
species that are in Peril so that when
the environment is right for them to
survive long term we'll be able to
re-release them Hannah says the current
state of all of Hawaii's Forest Birds is
dire due in part to the usual culprits
like habitat loss but a newer and more
deadly Menace has emerged the biggest
threat right now to Hawaii's endangered
birds is mosquitoes because they carry
Aven malaria which the birds have no
resistance
to according to to the American bird
Conservancy climate change has enabled
non-native mosquitoes to find their way
to kawaii's highest elevations the akik
Kiki's last refuge in the wild this is a
portable Bruder box that we can also use
to incubate eggs and it helps us
transfer eggs from one location to
another that have been incubated safely
so that they will continue to grow and
develop we need to have landscape level
solutions to the mosquito
problems in the meantime keeping the
birds in centers like this one where
enclosures are designed to mimic their
natural habitat but protected from
mosquitoes and where human interaction
is strictly limited to discourage
imprinting a process where animals lose
their natural behavior these may very
well be an entire species last chance at
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survival all right from mythical beasts
in ancient Egypt to rare creatures in
modern day Hawaii we've been all around
the world today time for a grand finale
today's story getting a 10 out of 10
takes us to the Sleepy mountain town of
Hope in British Columbia Canada that
wasn't quite such a sleepy town after a
collision involving a trailer full of
fireworks it led to a light show that
was anything but
infinitesimal you expect to see
fireworks on a national holiday but not
just driving down a dark
Highway probably the most spectacular
firework show we'll ever see in our
lives it was quite a sight to behold
Ryan qan was driving with his wife on
the TransCanada Highway near a town
called
hope in British Colombia police say a
tractor trailer rear ended a pickup
parked at the side of the road with a
trailer full of fireworks in
toe traffic was stopped and how long did
the show last it was about an hour uh
the first half an hour was uh non-stop
fireworks so imagine the crescendo of
the best fireworks sh you've ever seen
it was just non-stop for 30 minutes some
dared to get out of their
cars still wary of flying
debris the driver of the pickup hit by
the truck had minor injuries wrote one
commenter dude that's better than
Disney's
fireworks now that's the way to end this
show with a bang congrats to Mr rhs and
the Mustangs in suar Nebraska you
submitted the winner for hash your word
Wednesday infinitesimal an adjective
meaning extremely small well done our
special shout outs today go to Verde
Middle School in Florida boka Ron rise
up thanks for the love and our second
shout out of the day goes to Campbell
County High School in Gillette Wyoming
let's go what do you say we make this an
awesome day y'all I'm KY wire and we are
CNN
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