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what's up lovely people we made it to
the best day of the week fry yay we are
here in the shy Chicago check out our at
cnn1 YouTube shorts for a fun little
nugget on one of the best tourist
destinations here in Chicago and no it
wasn't the pizza although that was
pretty darn good too all right we are
motoring along this week this year it's
already March 1st I swear it feels like
it was February just yesterday let's
keep right on marching along now we've
been talking a lot about the election
primary picture on the Republican side
right in recent weeks but today we shift
our Focus to the Democratic primary
specifically in Michigan President Joe
Biden won that primary earlier this week
with 81% of the vote and while that is a
massive Victory the vote revealed some
red flags with a warning from
progressives young voters and Arab
American Democrats as they issued a sort
of protest vote if you will in the form
of an uncommitted vote the Michigan
primary gives voters the option to
select uncommitted meaning they're
exercising a vote for their political
party but they're not yet willing to
commit to any of the candidates listed
on the ballot a coalition movement in
Michigan asked Democrats who were
unhappy with Biden's handling of
Israel's war in Gaza to select
uncommitted about 133% of primary voters
chose this option
this result highlights how the war in
Gaza is a divisive issue among Democrats
and that could hurt President Biden in
the general election he has publicly
backed Israel's right to defend itself
but has also pushed for a ceasefire to
bring relief in Gaza the result in the
Michigan primary reveals the battle
Biden's team faces as he works to build
a broad political Coalition that could
be strong enough to possibly beat the
likely Republican nominee former
president Donald Trump in no November we
are just about 8 months away now from
the presidential
election Pop Quiz Hot Shot what was the
dominant religion in Iran before Islam
Hinduism Buddhism Zoroastrianism or
taism prior to the Muslim Arab invasion
of Persia which is modern day Iran the
religion of Zoroastrianism had been the
primary religion of the Iranian
people okay from the US election we now
turn to another important election
that's actually taking place today in
Iran about 15,000 candidates are vying
for the 290 seat parliamentary elections
also 144 are competing for the 88 seats
of the Assembly of experts which has the
power to appoint the country's supreme
leader Iran's highest political
Authority currently Iranians are facing
an ailing economy as well as growing
political distrust our Fred plen reports
from tan as Iranian voter voters prepare
to cast their
votes Iranian conservatives with a show
of force ahead of what many say will be
a key election on Friday supporting
their leadership's tough stance against
both the US and Israel his son's isan
and Hussein dressed up in military
fatigues voter Muhammad kalantari says
he wants to show the US Iran
strength they know that Iran is a powder
cake he says it only takes a spark to
blow up the entire region Iranian youth
me and the children are wearing these
clothes to say that we are the soldiers
of this
country and this man says through this
election we will prove that we can stand
against the US not only economically but
militarily they are sanctioning us but
this will be solved soon and then we
will be a country sanctioning them
tension between the US and Iran has
reached a boiling point as Washington
accuses tan of supporting houthis in
Yemen firing missiles at cargo ships as
well as pro-iranian militias in Iraq and
Syria targeting us bases there including
the January 28th attack killing three US
service members and wounding dozens Iran
denies any involvement but has ripped
into the US for Washington support of
Israel and its campaign against Hamas in
Gaza at the conservative event disdain
for Israel on full display flags with a
star of David on the floor for people to
step on it certainly seems pretty clear
how most of the people at this rally are
going to vote in the upcoming
parliamentary elections but this event
is really about something else it's
about getting out the vote in fact the
supreme leader of this country has urged
people to head to the ballot boxes to
make sure there will be a high
turnout it's the first election since
massive protests erupted in Iran in late
2022 following the death of Masa amini
after she was detained for violating
hijab laws on the streets of tan get out
the vote posters nearly everywhere but
with many moderate candidates barred
from running inflation High and the
economy reeling from tough us-led
sanctions some say they feel
unenthusiastic when we ask if they will
vote no no no the country belongs to the
people this man says there should be
participation in the elections but it
should be Freer with the presence of all
groups and
minorities it's unclear if Iran's
leaders can persuade more people to vote
in an election deemed pivotal for the
country
future all right we do have to turn now
to The Smokehouse Creek Wildfire that's
devastating parts of Northern Texas the
fire has already burned more than 1
million Acres making it the largest fire
in the state's history and as of this
recording Crews have only been able to
contain 3% of it there are four
additional wildfires scorching across
the Texas Panhandle damaging scores of
homes farmlands and Public Utilities
like Power and Water officials are
battling for solutions to stop this
historic fire but they're also tasked
with figuring out how exactly this fire
may have started why it spread so
quickly and why more wildfires seem to
be spreading larger and faster than ever
to that last question CNN recently spoke
to a professor of fire Sciences at the
Imperial College of London to explain
how climate change might be adding fuel
to these wildfires in order to have a
wildfire you need the three sides of a
triangle the oxygen the fuel and the
ignition Source climate change has a
very strong effect in one of the sides
of this strangle the few K wavs are
drying vegetation we know that drier
vegetation is much more flammable once
it ignites the Flames are taller and
when it moves it moves
faster broadly speaking there are two
types of fires flaming wildfires these
are the ones that spread faster and
they're more concerning in terms of
damage to people and to property and to
the ecosystem and the other one is
smoldering they propagate it slowly but
they produce very toxic
smoke what is happening in Europe what
is happening in Australia United States
there are so many changes that is very
difficult to quantify what is the
climate what is not the top of the
Boreal and the Arctic that's Alaska
that's Canada uh that's Siberia we are
seeing an increase of bad wildfires that
is for us a clear sign of climate
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change all right today's story getting a
10 out of 10 a North Carolina Resident
was put on pause and is very lucky they
didn't unexpectedly meet a furry
neighbor face to face a huge black bear
crawling out of a tiny hole in their
Asheville house which it had been
calling home during the hibernating
season wakey wakey Mr bear video posted
by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources
Commission shows the squatter sneaking
snout first from a vent outside a home
in Asheville apparently the bulky bear
Turned that house into a winter home now
springing up as spring arrives squeezing
its way into the open air clearly a
tight fit for the trespasser as it's
taking some extra effort to wiggle free
the commission says the video is a
reminder to stay vigilant as warmer
weather arrives be wary of be dens and
do your best to not disturb their
Slumber from hibernating to biberna but
before we go the best part of the show
you this shout out goes to east sack
County Community School District in SA
County Iowa we see you Raiders and this
shout out goes to K's Middle School in
Knoxville Tennessee you better beaver
leave it beavers rise up go on out and
make it an awesome Friday Friday
remember you are more powerful than you
know I'm KY wire it's been a blessing to
spend this week with
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