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what's up sunshine welcome to CNN 10 I'm
KY wire grateful to be here with you
this Thursday April 4th you know
sometimes adversity and really tough
times can force us to reflect on things
we can be thankful for so let's keep
that in mind as we start today with
tough news out of Taiwan where a 7.4
magnitude earthquake struck the east
coast of the island it's the most
powerful Quake there in a quarter
Century at least nine people have died
nearly 1,000 more have been injured and
more than 100 buildings have been
damaged the earthquake struck a little
before 8:00 a.m. local time just outside
of hauen County where around 300,000 of
taiwan's 23 million people live in a
5-hour span after the earthquake Taiwan
experienced 76 aftershocks including a
6.5 magnitude Tremor un fortunately
Taiwan isn't out of the woods just yet
more strong aftershocks are expected in
the coming days with some potentially
reaching a magnitude of seven but
thankfully Taiwan Japan and the
Philippines have all cancelled the
tsunami warnings they issued after the
Quake Taiwan is a self-ruled democracy
that has a complicated relationship with
its neighbor China China says Taiwan is
part of China while Taiwan says it's
independent this has led to tension in
the region as the US tries to support a
democratic government in Taiwan while
not upsetting China the world's second
largest economy and the only other
so-called superpower in the world Taiwan
also holds an outside importance in the
world economy just on Monday we took you
inside taiwan's semiconductor
Manufacturing Company where over 90% of
the world's micr chips are produced
these chips provide the computing power
for everything from smartphones to cars
making them vital to the global
Marketplace next up Mill ions of
Americans are preparing to travel next
week to witness the solar eclipse and
that means big business for the
communities hosting them the eclipse's
path of totality where people can get
the best view of the eclipse stretches
from Mexico across the US and into
Canada the head of tourism in Indiana
one of the states along the path of
totality said they're expecting around
half a million visitors a record for the
state and more than seven times the size
of the crowd that traveled there for the
Super Bowl in 2012 Texas is is likely to
get the largest number of visitors and
local economists predict it could lead
to a windfall of more than $400 million
for the state on the Canadian side of
the Niagara Falls crowds are expected to
be so large that the local government
has declared a state of emergency CNN's
Paula Newton has
more Niagara Falls is known for its
stunning
views the number of people expected to
visit the famous waterfalls May soon
become a spectacle in itself it's a
prime viewing site for the solar eclipse
on April 8th as it crosses North America
passing over Mexico the United States
and Canada even though we get 14 million
people every year it's over the year
it's not all at one time to get 1
million at one time would be by far the
biggest crowd that we've ever had
Canada's Niagara region has declared a
state of emergency so that emergency
services can prepare for the influx of
people hotels stores and restaurants are
gearing up for the visitors which are
estimated to outnumber the locals
Ontario's Niagara region has a
population of nearly half a million
people but some business owners say
they're looking forward to some extra
company we're expecting to have a full
house for the first time in a long time
right we're coming up for the winter
season so it's an exciting time by the
time the eclipse is fully visible over
Niagara Falls at approximately 3:18 p.m.
eastern time it will be nearing the end
of its Trek across the continent which
happens when it passes over the coast of
New Finland and Labrador it will be the
first total eclipse in Canada since
1979 and the last time the contiguous us
will see one until
2044 so it's a site many people say they
don't want to miss having that
Collective feeling of oh the sun's gone
and you know seeing something that's
that's so rare and so beautiful to see
the stars come out in the day yeah it's
something that that my kids will
remember their whole lives Paula Newton
CN
it 10c trivia which of these is the
biggest shark in the ocean great white
shark whale shark mega mouth shark or
tiger
shark if you said whale shark well done
these Behemoth sharks s can grow up to
40 ft long the size of a school bus but
they're gentle giants that are migratory
living in warm and tropical Seas now
we're going to take you out onto a boat
in the Bahamas where a conservation
group beneath the waves is tagging and
collecting data on sharks and other sea
life to better understand and preserve
our
oceans following an epic day getting up
close in personal with sharks the team
from beneath the waves is Ed to get back
out in the
field today they're setting out to the
Exumas a chain of 365 largely
uninhabited islands no no no we're going
to get set up a little bit closer kind
of like the first one in the channel
mouth and then we're going to here they
hope to tag some sharks an essential
part of their mission in helping protect
the animal and their
habitat in order to get these sharks
close to the boat to get the data we
need on their movements on their habitat
use what their diet is is we actually
need to catch the sharks so we need to
put out these apparatus we've designed
they're called drum lines and they're
actually really good for shark taging
because it doesn't harm them and they
can still be you know swimming and
breathing the workup includes taking
measurements Blood and Tissue samples
and ID tagging the sharks there are very
strict rules on the capture sample
collection and tagging of animals set
forth by numerous institutional Animal
Care and use committees this is a TI be
putting into the animal in addition to
following those procedures beneath the
waves has also obtained all of the
required permits for this
Expedition it's a black noosed
shark it's a beautiful shark and total
length is 116 now we're going to take a
little sample here for genetics we're
going to be able to trace the DNA the
heritage of this animal just from this
sample so now we're putting in an
identification spaghetti tag right into
the dorsal fin
one two three just like that now we're
going to take a muscle biopsy you can
see we move really fast okay I'll take a
blood sample then we're going to let it
go 1 two
3 good the
work very quick work up nice little
black nose shark but we want something
bigger so let's go to the next one
Trey that's a big nurse the larger
sharks are kept off the side of the boat
right now I'm putting in all the
information so fin Clips muscle Clips
blood and all the different pieces that
we're getting we're jotting down the pit
tags and the spaghetti tags so that when
we look up the data they'll be able to
retract where we got the information
from on this trip the team is also
hoping to expand their research to a
different kind of tropical sea dweller I
really want to embrace a partnership
with sea turtles similarly to what we
did with tiger sharks so on this
Expedition we're trying to apply tags to
sea turtle
to see if they can serve as Sentinels uh
for seagrass health on this Expedition
uh we're going to start some of that
work for the first
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time today's story getting at 10 out of
10 we head to the Netherlands for a hold
up am I reading this right that can't be
right a fish doorbell
yes okay well apparently four years ago
when an ecologist walked by a canal
which are all over the Netherlands he
knows noticed a bunch of fish swimming
there trying to get Upstream the one
issue there was a lock in the way so to
fix the problem the sci to set up an
underwater live stream that allows
viewers to hit this fish doorbell to
alert the local lock operator that
there's some fish wanting to get through
once the doorbell is rung the operator
opens the lock and the fish continue
Upstream that is something alrighty then
hey happy Friday Eve everyone can't wait
to finish this week strong with you but
first let's show some love today this
shout out goes to Mr pel's US government
class at Sky View High School in
Billings Montana rise up Falcons and
this shout out goes to Mrs Montgomery we
see you and all the Wildcats at Hamilton
Middle School in parkerburg West
Virginia thank you to all of you for
spending part of your day with us I'll
see you right back here tomorrow so we
can finish this week
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