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what's up lovely people hope you had an
awesome weekend let's start this week
strong with some motivation Monday
remember complacency is the constant
enemy so let's learn one thing or do
something that'll make us a little
better today than we were yesterday I'm
Coy wire this is CNN 10 and we start
with doctors protesting thousand
thousands of doctors taking to the
streets in Soul South Korea expressing
support for the many more thousands of
doctors who've been on strike for nearly
2 weeks this all because of the
government's plan to increase medical
school admissions the plan includes
increasing the country's Medical School
enrollment by 2000 starting in the 2025
Academic Year that would bring the total
to about 5,000 per year the government
says this plan is to help meet the
challenging healthc care demands as
South Korea faces one of the lowest
doctor to population ratios for a
developed country but doctors disagree
with the government's method and
believes their medical school system
cannot handle a vast increase of
educating and training new medical
students also they are concerned that
the proposed plan does not include
Staffing in specific fields that have
already been seeing a shortage such as
Pediatrics and the emergency departments
doctors are also worried that the
addition of new doctors would lead to an
increase of public medical expenses but
these protests have not really won
public support a recent survey showed a
majority of the South Koreans are siding
with the government's plan with some
critics saying doctors are just worried
about receiving a lower income now with
more competition in the field with the
strike ongoing the country's Health
Ministry says the government has already
allowed military doctors and nurses to
perform some medical procedures normally
performed by these striking doctors all
right let's turn now to weather as we
first head to the Sierra Nevada mountain
region where blizzard conditions
continue to slam the area dangerous
Fierce Winds of more than 75 mph as well
as heavy snowfall threatened to dump up
to 10 ft of snow in the mountains has
forced officials to close down roads and
impact travel many resorts on the
California Nevada border are also shut
down and about 6 million people in that
region are in a winter weather alert and
let's head to another region the Texas
panh continuing to be ravaged by
extremely hot and dry conditions as the
biggest Inferno in Texas history rages
on The Smokehouse Creek Fire has been
burning for nearly a week now and has
destroyed more than 1 million acres in
the state of Texas alone it's a scary
and devastating reality many Texans are
dealing with let's turn to our Camila
Bernal for more it's been windy it is
hot a lot hotter than it's been over the
last couple of days and it's dry
conditions that are making it extremely
difficult for firefighters in this area
that are still battling the largest
wildfire in Texas history containment is
still very low so there's a lot of work
to be done and in the meantime you have
that grieving process beginning for a
lot of the families that have lost
everything the cleanup process like
you're seeing here behind me at the
Johnson house and it's been difficult to
do that cleanup because the winds have
been so high but nonetheless you're
seeing them right now as they're trying
to sift through that debris trying to
look for any jewelry anything they can
find of what was left of their home the
home that they've built for 20 years I
want you to listen to what Ronnie
Johnson told me when he first got here
to his home after the fire we came back
about 10:30 that night we kind of snuck
through some
ranches to drive up here and see it
gone this was that was pretty tough and
you can hear the emotion it's been so
difficult for members of this community
it's also had a huge impact on the
cattle industry here because 85% of the
state's cattle is raised here in the
Panhandle and so a lot of these ranchers
are also having to start from zero and
have shared their struggle both
emotionally and financially they know
it's going to take a long time to get
back to where they were before those
fires Pop Quiz hot shot while not
constant the speed of sound is typically
how fast 10,000 mph 760 86 or 186,000 m
per
second air temperature affects the
precise Mark but the sound barrier can
typically be broken at around 760 mes
hour well done all right you might
remember we were talking about the speed
of sound about a month ago when we
mentioned the development of a new
supersonic plane we're taking a closer
look today at what Aerospace and defense
company Lockheed Martin has built built
and debuted for NASA the experimental
plane is called the x59 and it's a quiet
supersonic aircraft NASA is looking to
possibly revolutionize the air travel
industry and by that I mean go really
fast so fast that it could travel faster
than the speed of sound take a look at
this piece profiling the
x59 this is the x59 quest a new plane
built by Lockheed Martin for NASA NASA
is hoping it will be able to solve a
problem that has stopped commercial
airplanes from flying really really fast
that's because when an aircraft goes
supersonic faster than the speed of
sound it creates shock
waves when I heard of Sonic Boom for the
first time I finally understood why it
was such a big deal if something's
traveling super sonically you can see it
coming but you won't hear it at all
until it's already past
you as you can imagine Sonic booms can
be disruptive to life on the
ground so disruptive that in 1973 the
United States government along with much
of the world banned all civilian
aircraft from supersonic flight over
land for the US it's a speed
limit the only civilian jet to fer
passengers faster than the speed of
sound was the Concord but it was only
able to fly over the ocean supersonic so
you could do London to New York but you
had to slow down before you got to New
York and be subsonic so the routes were
very limited the Concord was a
celebrated technical achievement and an
exclusive luxury for its passengers
limited routs and heavy fuel consumption
meant that operating the Concord was not
good business however it stopped flying
in
2003 but if supersonic airplanes could
fly over land they can fly anywhere and
the business proposition changes NASA
and Lockheed Martin are hoping this
crazy looking airplane is a step in that
direction it's designed to go supersonic
without making the loud sonic boom that
that we've been accustomed to hearing
for decades now to understand how this
might work it's important to understand
how a sonic boom
happens just like a boat when the boat
is moving you get the weight coming off
of of it and it is with it the entire a
time it's traveling um similarly for a
supersonic aircraft the shock waves come
off the aircraft and travel to the
ground the entire time it's flying
supersonic so when Engineers designed
the x59 they used smooth and long
aerodynamic lines to limit those shock
waves from reaching the ground the
engine is above the wing and that's so
that the shock wave from the engine
isn't able to go down to the ground it
just goes up it is still audible like a
quiet thump and most people if they hear
it won't even notice it NASA is aiming
for a first test flight of the x-59 in
the spring of
2024 poetically over the same patch of
California desert where Chuck Jager
first broke the sound barrier in the X1
NASA can take that data and then be able
to present that to the regulatory
authorities to actually repeal the
Overland supersonic limitations or laws
that we have
a change in regulation could lead to a
surge of investment in the next
generation of commercial supersonic
aircraft making travel faster than the
speed of sound more accessible to
everyone and that could send massive
shock waves through the air travel
industry shock waves that NASA and
Lockheed Martin hope will sound more
like a
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thump mad props for today's story
getting a 10 out of 10 and Obi-Wan of a
Kind c3po's head the iconic movie prop
from the 1983 Star Wars movie Return of
the Jedi up for auction by actor Anthony
Daniels who played the jittery Droid at
last check the bid was
$350,000 but it's expected to sell for
up to 1 million bucks so if you have
some extra money in your penny jar jar
you can snag it who'd have thought that
you can buy Star Wars Good Guys gear at
auction I hear the villain stuff is sold
at the Darth Mall but lookie here I also
heard that Jedi Masters Drive cars made
by Toyota May the 4th be with you today
March 4th that is before I go we're
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