what's up Superstar welcome to Monday
December 4th we're going to make this
the best day cuz it's the next day
there's no such thing as remaining the
same in life we're either getting a
little better each day or a little worse
so let's try to make this one better
shall we I'm KY wire this is cnn1 and we
start by paying homage to a trailblazer
the first woman to sit on the US Supreme
Court Sandra Day o' Conor she passed
away on December 1st at the age of 93
leaving behind a remarkable Legacy Miss
OK Conor graduated from Stanford law
school but was turned down by law firms
in large part because she was a woman so
she and her husband started their own
law firm and ok' Conor kept working she
would go on to become the first female
majority leader in the Arizona State
Senate a judge of the Maricopa County
Superior Court and the Arizona county
court of appeals then in 1981 President
Ronald Reagan nominated o'conor to the
Supreme Court current Chief Justice John
Roberts remembered o'conor as a quote
fiercely independent defender of the
rule of law President Joe Biden hailed
her as an American icon as the first
female Supreme Court Justice OK Conor
inspired generations of female lawyers
and paved the way for the five women who
have served on the high court since she
was first nominated let's go to Jessica
Schneider to learn more about Sandra de
Conor's Life and
Legacy Sandra de o Conor grew up a
cowgirl from Arizona 25 miles from the
nearest town I tend to be a bit of a
pragmatist probably because we had to
solve all our own problems out on the
ranch if the truck broke down we had to
fix it if some animal needed medical
attention we had to provide it there
wasn't much we didn't have to do
she had the toughness ranch life can
breed she was incredibly Fearless about
life and part of that was because her
early life was very hard her parents
died her grandmother died she was
shuttled back and forth between the
ranch and relatives in Texas to go to
school and she just became very
self-sufficient o' Conor went to
Stanford in the same Law class as future
chief justice William ranquist they
dated for a time and he even proposed
she turned him down down but they stayed
lifelong friends upon graduation no law
firm would hire o Conor so she
eventually helped start her own later
becoming a powerful State lawmaker then
judge President Reagan today settled the
question of when he would nominate a
woman to the nation's highest court she
is truly a person for All Seasons
possessing those unique qualities of
temperament fairness intellectual
capacity and Devotion to the public
good in 1981 President Ronald Reagan
nominated her to be the first woman on
the Supreme Court the Senate confirmed
OK Conor unanimously 99
to0 over time ok' Conor became known as
a moderate conservative on the court and
often the Swing Vote on hot button
social issues a reference she didn't
like we have an equal voice and I'm no
more powerful than anyone else on this
court that's for sure some criticized
her as a fence sitter waiting to see
which way the wind would blow those
would be the people who have never met
her anybody who's met her knows that she
makes up her own mind and she's not at
all concerned about where anybody else
is on the Spectrum in 2006 she stepped
down from the court to care for her
husband John who had Alzheimer's disease
she became a passionate advocate for
Alzheimer's research it does take a
staggering toll on the families and the
caregivers uh I can certainly attest to
that in 2018 okor revealed she too too
had been diagnosed with dementia and
withdrew from public
life the retired Justice was grateful
she wrote for her countless blessings
and experiences including helping to
break the glass ceiling it wasn't too
many years before I was born that women
in this country got the right to vote
for heaven's sakes and in my lifetime I
have seen unbelievable changes in the
opportunities for women I think it's
important women are well represented
that it is not an all male governance as
it once
was the 28th meeting of the conference
of the parties the annual International
climate Summit hosted by the United
Nations is underway in Dubai and at cop
28 this year tens of thousands of world
leaders climate Advocates and Industry
representatives are discussing how
countries should adapt to a rapidly
changing planet and for the first time
ever 123 countries have signed on to a
pledge that forly acknowledges a link
between climate change and health that's
according to the cop 28 president let's
go to David McKenzie who's in Dubai for
more the focus of these critical climate
talks in Dubai have shifted to the
health impact of the climate crisis
scientists say more than 7 million
people a year die from pollution from
Mostly fossil fuel emissions and plants
but they also the direct climate change
impacts like searing heat waves and the
expansion of pathogens like malaria
because of a warming Planet the World
Health Organization says that Health
needs to become a focus so they think
they've been negotiating about carbon
emissions the message we're bringing is
that you actually negotiating about
human lives and how many human lives you
can save both by preventing the health
risks of climate change but also saving
an awful lot of lives by climate action
through clean energy it's unclear if the
the delegates here will come up with a
concrete plan to phase out fossil fuel
use in the future that say health
experts would do a great deal towards
helping the health impact of the climate
crisis two filmmakers were producing a
documentary about the ecological damage
caused by invasive muscles in the Great
Lakes when they came across something
much larger they discovered what's
believed to be the Shipwreck of the
Africa a cargo ship that hadn't been
seen in nearly 130 years
in 1895 the steamship was carrying coal
from Ohio to Ontario Canada when it
disappeared during a Lake Huron
snowstorm none of the 11 crew members
survived an underwater drone captured
footage of the Shipwreck about 280 ft
below the surface of the lake and
noticed the ship was covered with
muscles 10-second trivia we live in a
galaxy called the Milky Way what's it
shaped like a globe a spiral a cloud a
candy bar
if you said spiral put your hands up if
you could look down on the Milky Way
galaxy it would look like a spinning pin
wheel type
spiral within our solar system we have
eight planets but did you know that
within our Milky Way galaxy there are
more than 5,000 known planets and now
astronomers have caught a glimpse of a
young star 160,000 light years away
outside of our Milky Galaxy that could
be forming a new planet scientists
believe that planets are formed when
small grains of dust which are circling
and swirling around a star Collide and
fuse together and grow kind of like a
rolling snowball eventually a planet can
be formed this massive star called HH
11177 is in a galaxy called large
melanic cloud and the star is surrounded
by a rotating ring where it's looking
like the conditions could be just right
this is the first time scientists have
witnessed a planet potentially being
formed outside of our Celestial
neighborhood for today's story getting a
10 out of 10 Ice Ice Baby a kayaker took
a frigid trip down a 65 foot tall
waterfall in the Arctic Circle setting a
new world record check it out this is
the biggest ever recorded drop of a
glacial waterfall according to Reuters
Catalan ADV venturer anniel Saras soles
descended the 20 M ice waterfall in the
salbar archipelago in Norway the
32-year-old and his crew had to climb up
the ice cap using a ladder and then walk
nearly 7 miles across the ice to reach
the waterfall Sarah soles said that
navigating the Rapids felt like kaying
in another
planet all right that's all for me I'll
see you tomorrow hope youall have an ice
day just kidding you didn't think I'd
give you the cold shoulder did you shout
out time go Tigers Troy High School in
Troy New York rise up remember let's
make this the best day because it's the
next day I'm Koy this is CNN