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hello and welcome to CNN 10 the best 10
minutes in news I'm KY wire happy Friday
Eve it's Thursday March 21st and we're
going to start today with the latest on
the border security battle Brewing
between the Biden Administration and the
state of Texas you may remember that
back in December Texas governor Greg
Abbott signed into Senate Bill four more
often referred to as sb4 this made
entering Texas illegally a state crime
and gave state judges the authority to
issue deportation orders border security
and immigration enforcement are areas
the federal government handles so the
law has been paused as the US court
system determines if this state law is
constitutional or not already there have
been multiple rulings and appeals about
whether the law should take effect while
those legal decisions are decided and
those arguments made their way to the
Supreme Court earlier this week those
justices allowed Texas to start
enforcing this law even as some legal
cases were waiting to take place but
just hours later a federal appeals court
placed this measure back on hold while
their hearing gets
underway that's quite the rig roll
lengthy complicated procedure right so
to simplify things a bit let's go to our
Rosa Flores who explains more on what
both sides are arguing with this measure
and after watching her report take a
minute consider discuss do you think our
immigration laws here in the United
States need reconsideration and what are
the pros and cons to this bill s sp4
creates a State Crime for the illegal
entry into Texas or an individual's
quote illegal presence in the state and
gives local law enforcement the power to
arrest and judges the power to remove
violators it's going to cause a drop in
illegal immigration through the state of
Texas and that's going going to be a
huge benefit to border patrol agents
it's going to be a huge benefit to those
individuals that want border security
human rights groups warn it will lead to
the racial profiling of Latinos who make
up 40% of the state's population we're
fighting Against Racism xenophobia and
white supremacy this new State Crime
will mostly be adjudicated in County
courts it will clog our courts Adam
Haynes from the Texas Conference of
urban counties lobbied against s sp4 on
behalf of these 34 Democratic and
Republican Leed counties and says that
the 6 to 7,000 County Jail beds across
the state could fill up in days C Bill 4
is finally passed the law which was
passed by the Republican Le Texas
legislature and signed by Republican
Governor Greg Abbott last year did not
include funding going to be lots of
negative impacts lots more racial
profiling El Paso County Commissioner
David Stout estimates a new jail in his
County could cost 250 million to build
and 40 to 50 million annually to operate
this will be the single largest unfunded
mandate that we have seen Stout let the
charge in his County to sue Texas over
sb4 and says he's in talks with the
district attorney and local law
enforcement about interpreting the law
narrowly to lessen its impact on County
resources are you hoping that local
police and the Sheriff's Office focus on
violent crime and not on targeting
migrants I mean that's I think what what
what they typically do s Bill four
Abbott maintains Texas has
constitutional Authority to enforce sp4
and that it will not lead to racial
profiling officers understand uh and
that is is wrong to profile all right
let's head to Japan now which has the
fourth largest economy in the world and
the island nation just did something
that it hasn't done in 17 years raised
interest rates according to the bank of
Japan the short-term rates will now
increase from minus .1% to around 0 to
.1% this move will shift away from the
country negative interest rate policy
which was initiated years ago to help
stimulate a struggling economy with more
on this move in the future of Japan's
economy let's turn now to our Hano
Montgomery who's in Tokyo a bit of
background as to why Japan has finally
ended negative interest rates there are
really two key components the first
we're finally seeing inflation the
second wages are finally going up so
right now the rate of inflation in Japan
is hovering at about 2% for its core
cons consumer prices that includes
everything besides food and fuel now 2%
is that magic number you want to see
that indicates the economy is healthy
and growing in the right direction this
is historic for Japan which has seen
years and years of deflation so at the
same time we are also seeing wages
increase significantly on Friday rengo
Japan's largest labor union comprised of
the country's biggest companies agreed
to raise wages by
5.28%
the largest pay hike in 33 years now
this is historic for Japanese workers in
the country because they haven't seen
their wages increase that much in
comparison to the United States the UK
Germany other oecd countries for example
it's seen a lot of stagnant growth now
these two key components are what
indicated to the bank of Japan Governor
kazua Ida that it was finally time to
end negative interest rates which will
now set the economic agenda for the
months to come in Japan now in terms of
a stronger Yen though we did see the
price of the Yen fall today experts did
tell me that we might see a stronger yen
in the months to come riding on the back
of higher interest rates now if we do
see that it would mean input prices do
go down now this is hugely significant
for the country because Japan is a
resource poor Nation it Imports more
than 90% of its fuel of its gas and
about 60% of its food so if input prices
do go down that means the cost of living
in Japan will also go down now for
foreign tourists however it might mean
that their next vacation to the country
is just a bit more expensive but again
this is a gradual change that we might
be seeing uh many many months in the
future all right spring officially
sprung this week but Mother Nature said
not so fast warm weather many states
especially in the eastern part of the
country experienced this dip in
temperatures making it feel like we were
still full throttle winter time so if
you are anyone you know we're ready to
LEAP into Spring by maybe freshening up
the garden there might be some worry
over how to protect those precious
flowers and veggies well we've got you
covered our meteorologist Alisa Rafa has
some tips from some of the pros some
seasoned Farmers we're at that time of
year where cold snaps can still happen
but things are blooming winter is our
fastest warming season spring winds up
springing sooner so that means that
growing season in some places is as much
as 2 to 4 weeks long longer so you might
have to protect those plants in the cold
just like these Farmers we're at a
strawberry farm where you can see the
farmers here have covered these
strawberries with row covers to keep
those strawberries protected from frost
forming on their leaves and the blankets
also help trap some of that heat now
while you might not have acres and Acres
of strawberry farms at home you can
still use some of the same practices to
protect your own plants you can use
things like bed sheets blankets burlap
and cheesecloth oil to protect your own
flowers and vegetables in your own
garden 10 sick in trivia which of these
iconic movies is based on a book Raiders
of the last dark The Wizard of Oz
Singing in the Rain or Toy
Story if you said The Wizard of Oz you
are correct the book is actually called
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and it's
written by American Author El Frank bom
the fairy tale published in the year
1900 nearly 40 years before the movie
starring Judy Garland Prem
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Toto we are not in Kansas anymore
today's story getting a 10 out of 10
takes us to Minnesota where FBI agents
closed the loop on a stolen collector's
item that was from the set of mgm's
iconic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz
remember those ruby red slippers that
Dorothy clicks three times well those
shimmery shoes were swiped from their
home the Judy Garland Museum and Grand
Rapids all the way back in 2005 the US
District Attorney's Office of North
Dakota says they were finally recovered
during a sting operation in 2018 but the
items owner collector Michael Shaw
wasn't reunited with the shoes until now
when Shaw finally saw the shoes he
compared it to a reunion with a
long-lost friend they're one of only
four pairs known to be left from the
historic film set and the North Dakota
da estimates these slippers are worth
around 3.5 million bucks all right
Superstars we're at the end of The
Yellow Brick Road the end of the show
but it is time to recognize some of you
first we want to pay some homage to the
concept of think it see it and believe
it if you want to achieve it every day
dating back weeks and weeks and weeks Mr
Bosh's social studies class in
Stewartville Minnesota wrote that on
March 21st they would get a shout out
and their persistence has manifested
their Destiny Stewartville Middle School
rise up and thank you for your
dedication to CNN 10 my team team loves
your passion and this shout out goes to
my Firebird friends at chapparo High
School in Scottdale Arizona keep blazing
that trail and flying high maybe I'll
see you when I'm out there during the
final four oh yeah see you tomorrow
everyone let's finish this week's
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