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what's up sunshine so grateful to be
with you today I'm Koy wire welcome to
CNN 10 I lost my voice yep I was outside
in the cold yesterday not wearing my
jacket and here we are so bear with me
now I'm pumped to see your submissions
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winner to work into tomorrow's show all
right we start today uh with a story
about the war we haven't talked about
much recently it's been nearly two years
since the war between Russia and Ukraine
began back in February of 2022 just a
couple of days ago Russia launched its
largest drone attack against Ukraine's
capital of keev since the fullscale
invasion began according to local
officials Ukraine's Air Force says they
intercepted 71 iranian-made drones in
six regions of Ukraine with the vast
majority in the keev region 77
residential buildings were left without
power for several hours before Supply
was restored the next day Russian
officials reported they foiled more than
20 Ukrainian drone attacks over Russian
territory including the capital Moscow
Russian air defenses also intercepted 53
Ukrainian drones over Ukrainian areas
under Russian control that's according
to the ministry of Defense there is no
quick end in sight for the war between
Russia and Ukraine and both are
preparing for the Long Haul President
Vladimir zalinski is asking Western
allies for continued support with more
advanced arms ammunition and financing
Germany recently admitted that European
Target goals for providing ammunition
would fall short and the White House
made it clear that the money us has
available for Ukraine military aid is
quickly running out as Congress remains
divided over funding additional support
one of the problems that more funding
could possibly help solve is a shortage
of drones in Ukraine CNN's Anna Corin
explains on the outskirts of keave a
soldier puts on a pair of goggles
welcome to open
TX she's part of a unit testing the
latest batch of drones that have just
arrived some
work some
don't but this is the place to find out
before they're delivered to Ukrainian
troops on the Eastern and Southern
fronts some of these drones are from
civilians produced in homes on kitchen
tables they can be used for
reconnaissance or assault
missions drones have become a critical
component of this war and absolutely
essential to every single Ukrainian unit
on the front line and while civilians
are working with private companies and
the realit Tre to produce as many drones
as possible these soldiers say there are
not nearly
enough as Russia's fullscale Invasion
approaches a second year there is now a
critical shortage of drones China's
decision to shut down exports of Parts
citing National Security concerns is
part of the problem however the biggest
issue is Russian electronic
warfare a Ukrainian official tells CNN
the military us us es roughly 30 to
40,000 drones per month they're cheap
and Expendable but soldiers on the
ground say they need at least 10 times
more we live in a world where artificial
intelligence is becoming a bigger part
of our Lives potentially writing
messages creating images and art and if
it feels like AI is getting so good that
it's difficult for you to figure out
what's real or not real sometimes you're
not alone in that search many people are
looking for authenticity and in 2023
authentic is Miriam Webster's official
word of the year a synonym of real and
actual authentic has several meanings
including true to one's own personality
Spirit or character the dictionary
publisher says there have been a high
volume of searches this year using the
term driven by stories and conversations
around AI celebrity culture identity and
social media celebrities like Taylor
Swift Laney Wilson and Sam Smith made
headlines this year when they spoke
about seeking their auth authentic voice
and authentic self Elon Musk also loves
the term as he has previously said
people should be more authentic on
social media I hope that you always have
the strength to show your authentic self
to the world the moment we try to be
like someone else well that's when we
lose the magic that makes us special
there is no one in the world like you
you are more powerful than you
know 10 second trivia which of these
countries does the Amazon rainforest not
cover Peru Bolivia Paraguay or Brazil
Brazil Paraguay is your answer here the
Amazon rainforest the world's largest
tropical rainforest spans approximately
2.6 million square miles in South
America covering parts of eight
countries one territory but not
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Paraguay today is call to Earth day and
we're celebrating our shared home
shedding light on how our actions impact
distant natural spaces and what we can
do to protect and nurture them next
we're going to head to the tropical
Andes where biologist Ruth Mary pilco
who Araya is participating in the
National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual
Planet Amazon Expedition researching one
of the ecosystem's most iconic and
endangered
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species high above the Amazon rainforest
crossing the borders of Ecuador Colombia
and Peru is the andian cloud forest it
might sound like something plucked from
a fairy tale but it is very much real
and it's one of the most biodiverse
ecosystems on the
planet the cloud forest has its name
because it's most of the time is covered
by by Cloud here we have the the trees
with an aray of orchid Moses and many
other epifi that are covering the trees
and they act like sponge they capture
the mo sure and is helping to take back
the the water into the into the system
so play a key Ro on this
way alongside the thousands of species
of rare plants and song birds lives one
of South America's most iconic mammals
the andan bear is the only uh bear we
have here in South America they are
medium side H bears in comparison to
their cows in the North American bears
the main characteristic is the facial
marking so many of them have white
facial marking that look like like
spectacles that's why also they are
called spectacle Bears so these facial
markings are unique for each individual
is how we can identify different uh
individuals the andian bear is
classified as vulnerable by the iucn
with fewer than 10,000
remaining Ruth Mary has spent the past
two years studying the remaining
population in the cloud forest in order
to develop a conservation strategy for
the
species using camera traps and tracking
collars the andian bear project is
accumulating a database of the creatures
habits and the role they play in the
ecosystem we basically get a deep dive
into the life of an andian bear we
basically are able to see where it
spends most of its time so is it in like
Puna grasslands upper Montaine forests
um we can also see how it interacts for
example with the roads that we have that
go on here the communities rely on these
kind of cloud forests or habitats as as
much as the Bears do for us
understanding all of this information it
gives us the opportunity to be able to
work on where do we need to protect what
do we need to
protect for conservation to succeed we
need to work with people and in this
case we need to work with local
communities are the the neighbors of
Manu National Park or this Forest it's
like a chain of information our forest
forest is water and water is life not
only for plant animal but also for us
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humans today's story getting a 10 out of
10 is lit look at this delight F sight
shining at the world's largest Christmas
light maze the enchant experien is a
winter wonderland in Kansas City Kansas
it took more than a month to build it
and it's an immersive experience the
website says a mischievous little elf
named Eddie misplaced eight toys meant
for kids and the goal is to find them
before Santa's big night all while you
get your glow on amid more than four
million lights that looks amazing if you
love Christmas time that place will make
you love it a l more now it's shout out
time and we are showing lots of love to
Grace web High School in Hartford
Connecticut thank you for spending part
of your day with us and this shout out
goes to Redmond High School in Redmond
Oregon go Panthers keep shining bright
sunshine and I look forward to all of
the your word Wednesday submissions I'm
Coy wire I'll see you right back here
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