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hello sunshine I'm back home in the city
of our CNN World Headquarters Atlanta
Georgia rise up it's Thursday February
15th happy Friday Eve let's get this
show started with something that has not
happened in our nation in nearly 150
years the resolution is adopted that's
house speaker Mike Johnson officially
announcing the impeachment of Homeland
Security secretary Alejandro maoris he's
only the second cabinet official ever in
US history to be impeached the other was
Secretary of War William belnap way back
in
1876 now the final count came down to
just one vote and this comes one week
after House Republicans previous
impeachment effort fell short at that
time House Majority Leader Steve scalise
was absent during the vote due to cancer
treatment but his return this time
helped push House Republicans to approve
the measure not every GOP member
supported this decision though including
representative Ken Buck you can try to
put lipstick on this pig it is still a
pig and this is a a terrible impeachment
it sets a terrible precedent now those
Republicans who were in favor of
impeachment accuse my orcus of
committing High crimes and misdemeanors
for his handling of the Southern border
by failing to enforce border laws during
a crisis over immigration this guy
essentially subverted the laws passed by
this body and and that can't stand a
cabinet secretary doesn't get to pick
and choose which laws they're going to
enforce okay so what's next we do know
that it is very unlikely that mayorcas
will be removed by the Democrat
controlled Senate and we're going to
make sure to give you the latest as
House Republicans now work to build
their case before the Senate next we
head up to the International Space
Station where a surgical robot did
something that has never been done
before our Kristen Fischer got an
exclusive behind the scenes look at how
a Nebraska based team performed a
simulated operation using this
space-based
robot go sitting on top of this SpaceX
rocket when it launched in January was
the first surgical robot Bound for outer
space so mea is a a small surgical robot
Mira made by a company called virtual
incision arrived at the International
Space Station in February and on
Saturday it did something that's never
been done before Saturday was the first
time that a surgical robot in space was
controlled by surgeons on Earth to
perform simulated surgical activities
virtual incision provided CNN with
exclusive video has six surgeons at the
company's headquarters in Lincoln
Nebraska took turns operating the robot
after it was powered up by NASA
astronauts roughly 250 miles above the
adrenaline was pumping and you know I
could feel my my heart pounding
um it was uh it was really exhilarating
but at the same time once I saw that you
know robotic device doing the things
that I'm used to it doing uh settled
down Dr Michael jopes says he's already
performed 15 surgeries with Meera during
clinical trials on human patients here
on Earth but he's never had to contend
with zero gravity or a time delay of
about half a second a split second or
you know a half a second uh is going to
be significant so uh this was a big
challenge see a left hand with a grasper
and a right hand with a pair of scissors
and we use rubber bands here to simulate
surgical tissue so you could think of
those rubber bands as perhaps you know
blood vessels or tendons or other
connective tissue that has elasticity so
we're able to you know grab hold of uh
the rubber bands and then take the
scissors and just basically to cut them
all right I'm going for
it
that was one small rubber
band but I
greatly Pop Quiz Hot Shot which two
colors make up the Chinese flag blue and
white red and yellow black and green or
white and
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red if you said red and yellow put your
hands up red is a popular color in China
symbolizing happiness luck and
Prosperity while yellow expresses power
and represents the Earth in traditional
Chinese culture last week we mentioned
the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year
and the holiday celebrations are still
going strong one of those Traditions is
lion dancing a vibrant art form rooted
in southern China during the tong
Dynasty over 1,000 years ago let's meet
a group of young Chinese Americans who
are learning to become the next
generation of lion dancers keeping this
tradition
alive
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this may be true decades ago but you
know many tourists will come down here
and assumed that uh none of us spoke
English they would always ask you I
guess it may be out of courtesy you know
do you speak English I'll just look at
them I say I'll try up down up down up
down up down coming up here is like it's
a bonding with uh the younger guys and
the older guys I think that's important
for guys that asian-americans outside
that don't have anywhere to belong you
kind of come here and then you find your
own family up
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here but lion dancing came to the United
States as the Chinese immigrants came to
the United States back in the
1800s you know CU you're in a foreign
land so you had to have hang on to
something from your culture I always
thought it's important to for us Chinese
to embrace our own Heritage and our
culture and we're Chinese we're American
there's nothing to be embarrassed about
you know some of the old traditions
there nothing to be embarrassed about
right so you
go in our line dance group they practice
all year round because the line head
weighs
between 15 to 20 lbs sometimes line
dancing during transin new to bring in
good luck and scare away the bad spirits
and uh and bringing wealth and
prosperity to the New Years each
successive generation of American
Chinese that are born here you wander
further and further away from your own
Heritage you know on New Year's Eve you
know the whole family extended family
gets together for meal and a lot of
people you know younger people at the
time would say oh man that's so
oldfashioned but you know since the
pandemic I think a lot of people came
back here and started embracing a their
their own culture and
Heritage you know everybody expects uh
Chinese Americans to to be smartest the
best in their class and everybody's
comparing you to other people's kids and
it's basically a it's a competition with
uh Chinese
Americans line dancing is a very big
part of my identity because it's kind of
to stay in touch with my Chinese culture
and you know it gives me reasons to like
speak the language and talk to Chinese
people and you know stay more involved
with my own Chinese uh Heritage when I
go out there every year with you know I
I feel the same way as I did 50 years
ago you know when I was doing it the
feeling doesn't go away you know it's
hard to describe but it's more like
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Pride today's story getting a 10 out of
10 Dwayne The Rock Johnson I caught up
with DJ as he was hyping up the upcoming
WrestleMania in Philadelphia and thanks
to all of you who submitted questions to
my Atco wire social accounts The Rock
was delighted to answer some questions
from you our CNN 10 fans
Rocco Gordon in South oo Middle School
what is your favorite movie to be in and
then what's your favorite wrestling
match of your career from Jordan in
geyser middle in Michigan favorite movie
that I've been in uh let's see it's kind
of tough I got a few of them number one
would be the Scorpion King because it
was my very first movie and I was
learning in the business baptism by fire
just thrown into it it's my first
starring role I felt like man I just
don't want to suck and I'd like to have
a career you did all right I did all
right and I enjoyed the jamanji movie
movies and I would say the most fun that
I had was probably jungle Cru with Emily
Blunt and Jama colet Sarah our director
my favorite match was a match that was
non-televised no pay-per-view it was in
Hawaii and it was in the same Arena that
my grandparents had struggled in because
they were wrestling promoters in the 80s
and I used to go to this Arena that's
still there the blazedale and we draw no
money it was always paycheck to paycheck
and it was once a month and I was able
to go back man and I'll share this with
you awesome when it was announced hey
rock is coming back home uh it's sold
out thank you God and I was able to
enjoy that arena in that way and give
back to my family well played good to
see you brother you too man like looking
in the mirror I know he's the rock I'm
the pebble the rock rocks and so do you
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rise up let's do this again tomorrow
shall we and finish this week's strong
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