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what's up sunshine happy Friday make
that a good Friday I'm quy this is CNN
10 let's start today by talking about
inflation it's an economic situation
many countries have been confronting in
recent years but we want to specifically
focus on Turkey where that country is
witnessing particularly High inflation
according to the Turkish Statistical
Institute annual Consumer Price
inflation or CPI soared to 67% last
month compared to February of last year
but there are unofficial estimates that
believe inflation has skyrocketed to
more than 100% for some perspective
similar CPI numbers in the US were right
around 3% for February the value of the
Turkish currency called the L is falling
while gold and the US dollar are now in
high demand for Turkish market Traders
all of this economic uncertainty comes
as local elections are set to take place
this weekend and many are concerned
about how the government will fight this
High inflation our Scott mlan is in the
streets of Istanbul where locals are
struggling because of surging
prices the ottoman arches and domes of
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar are a good
reminder that Empires rise and fall when
it comes to the value of the Turkish L
lately it only
Falls right now now our money is almost
worthless he says because people haven't
seen inflation fall they don't trust the
Turkish Lera
anymore but this ancient city never lost
faith in a currency that's endured
Through the Ages gold coins bars even
tiny 1 G
chips people used to buy real estate or
land says this dealer right now because
the interest rates are so high they
either put money in the bank or buy gold
the Central Bank has hiked the interest
rate now to 45% in an effort to tame
inflation but so far it hasn't the
official inflation rate is now
67% and unofficial estimates suggest it
is much
higher in January to help the poorest
Turks cope the government doubled the
minimum wage from a year ago just ahead
of the coming local elections but some
economists believe that has only made
inflation worse in order to break uh
that cycle you have to do something uh
so we will see after the elections if
the government is serious about fighting
inflation or not Central Bank increased
the credit card rates last week and it
is monthly 5% monthly 5% means 80% on an
annualized rate and if you add up uh the
taxes uh is around
113% who can afford that nobody can
afford
death across the BOS forus on Istanbul's
Asian side people are stocking up on
ifar Essentials this Ramadan freshly
baked pday fish and
meat prices are crazy this year it's too
much this woman
says you can say you're young you can
work but I do work and I still can't
make a living and I have two jobs this
man tells me do you keep your money in
Turkish l or do you keep it in America I
can't keep
anything I can't save preschool teacher
melik alkez also has credit card debt at
Skyhigh interest rates how do you dig
yourself out of that hole
uh you see she's asking for the money
for
bread Pop Quiz out shot what nation
launched the first woman into space
Soviet Union China United States or
Germany
if you said the Soviet Union you're out
of this world cosmina Valentina terova
rocketed into the history book spending
three days alone in space in June of
1963 today we continue our women's
History Month Journey recognizing just a
few of the many remarkable female Chang
makers who have made a difference in our
world and as March draws to a close we
turn our lens toward Dr Peggy witson
this retired NASA astronaut has spent
more time in space than any other
American and she was the first woman to
command the International Space Station
we sat down for an inspiring talk about
chasing our dreams shooting for the moon
and walking Among the Stars
675 accumulated days in space what went
through your mind when you realized what
was happening and tell me about that
experience being in space is actually
just really special and off Peggy
Woodson rocketing towards the
International Space Station it's not
like anything we experience here on the
ground there's no gravity you don't sit
in a chair your papers don't stay on the
table it becomes a a real
adaptation to living in a completely
different environment where did your
dream begin to float Among the Stars
when I was 9 years old I was watching
the first lunar Landing or Neil
Armstrong and Buzz aldr and took those
first steps on the moon's surface okay
let's go there and when I graduated high
school NASA picked the first female
astronaut and for me that was like hey
maybe this is real maybe I can it's not
just a dream it's going to be my goal to
become an astronaut I applied to be an
astronaut for 10 years and every two
years I got soundly rejected until that
10th year what was it like for you in a
male-dominated world male-dominated
field to have to find a way to carve a
path for yourself there was definitely
challenges you know when I first started
working at Nasa I was a lot of times the
only female in a meeting Etc but I had
some great role models there were female
astronauts out there there were female
leaders at Nasa it was really powerful
for me to feel like I can do this too I
just have to be like these guys to and
be successful so basically prove your
skills remember your path isn't always a
straight line and learn from all those
stops along the
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way for today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 Aurora Borealis volcano style
videographers in the Icelandic town of
grindvik captured an incredible time-
lapse of a volcano eruption happening at
the same time as the Northern Lights
this Celestial display known as the
Northern Lights is is caused by a
geomagnetic storm so what causes these
geomagnetic storms check it
out this time-lapse video shows the
eruption of a volcano in Iceland with
the Northern Lights dancing in the
background the northern lights are more
visible than usual because of a
geomagnetic storm which disrupted the
Earth's magnetic
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field such storms happen when strong
surges of soul solar winds called
coronal mass ejections reach
Earth side effects of increased solar
activity are the auroras that dance
around Earth's
poles and the timing of this geomagnetic
storm with an erupting volcano in
Iceland puts nature on full
display all right we want to put some of
you on full display hey Sparkman Middle
School how y'all doing in Tony Alabama
go cougars and Mrs Bolan can we just say
thank you to you and all of your pudus
peeps at Farmington High School in
Farmington Arkansas keep flying high
Cardinals much love many blessings to
you hope you all have an awesome weekend
have a happy Easter weekend as well keep
shining y'all remember you are more
powerful than you know I'm Koy this is
cnn1 It's been a blessing to spend this
week with
you
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