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what's up sunshine rise up I'm KY wire
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Mr Blue all right let's get you your
headlines starting in Grand Canyon
National Park where FL flooding prompted
the rescues of more than 100 people
Monsoon storms turned waterways into
Raging Rivers of dangerous debris
endangering hikers tourists and tribes
in the area search and rescue operations
began after local authorities shut down
the area to tourists Arizona's National
Guard used a Blackhawk helicopter to
evacuate 104 tourists and tribal members
from a canyon on the lands of the
Havasupai tribe sadly the body of a
missing hiker was recovered along the
Colorado River over the weekend the park
service and the Coconino County of
medical examiner are conducting an
investigation CNN meteorologists say no
rain is in the forecast in the area in
the coming days and you may have spotted
in a city near you security robots that
are patrolling communities and buildings
from New York to Hawai these oblong Bots
are using a suite of sensors to help out
human security security guards in their
duties experts and manufacturers say
their strength lies in their Advanced
Technologies working alongside security
officials but they've also sparked
concerns about privacy issues and
potential job losses for humans in the
security field critics are also raising
questions about their effectiveness in
keeping the public safe right now there
is a lack of public data to prove just
how effective these robots are so we'll
still have yet to see whether they can
be a reliable security solution next in
Princeton New Jersey a high school
reunion unlike any other a group of
former students athletes and coaches
from Princeton High School have been
rallying together over the last 16
months that's how long their former
classmate Evan gersich was wrongfully
detained in Russia The 32-year-old Wall
Street Journal reporter was convicted of
Espionage there in a sham trial and
sentenced to 16 years in a harsh penal
colony despite the circumstances gers
kovic's family colleagues and community
of former classmates back at home kept
hope alive for 491 days they all kept
his story in the public Consciousness
and on August 1st their efforts paid off
gershkovich was among 24 detainees
released as part of a complex prisoner
swap between Russia the Us and other
Western Nations here's how they kept the
fight for his release and are now
finally welcoming him home
that's right well it's Evans former High
School soccer coaches some of his former
teammates who gathered here and they're
all breathing a sigh of relief to learn
that Evan is finally home you see this
is the community that saw Evan grow up
he went to Princeton High School where
he played soccer won the state
championship when he was a senior so
this is a community of people that have
watched him grow up followed his career
and when they found out that he had been
taken into custody and put into a
Russian prison they jumped right into
action they try to figure out what they
could do as a community to support him
they partnered with the Wall Street
Journal and held a series of events to
keep evans's name and his story in
people's minds they worried that as time
went on that somehow people would forget
about Evan's story so they've been
holding these types of events in fact
the event that was held here was
originally scheduled to be another one
of these uh awareness type of events but
when they learned the good news on
August 1st that Evan was coming home
they quickly pivoted and changed this
into a welcoming party they have
gathered here the same place where they
gathered as young students this is where
they gathered to celebrate their
victories they say they want to welcome
him home and celebrate that he's finally
free
Pop Quiz Hot Shot which African nation
has not one but three capital cities
Zimbabwe South Africa Tanzania or
Algeria South Africa has an executive
legislative and judicial capital in
Petoria Cape Town and Bloom Fontaine
respectively South Africa's biodiversity
is unmatched it's known for being home
to the largest land mammals the African
elephant and r
and it's also home to marine life like
great white sharks penguins and fur
seals Wildlife teams in Cape Town have
come up with a clever way to protect the
endangered seals from challenges they
face from their contact with humans and
plastic waste all while showing them off
to
visitors it's an early and quiet morning
at one of South Africa's most visited
tourist destinations Cape Town's iconic
VNA Waterfront which attracts around 24
million people annually situated in the
oldest working Harbor in the southern
hemisphere it's also a welcoming host to
an entirely different breed of
mammal over the past 20 years we've had
a population of wild cap Fels making use
of our Harbor as acting as an extension
of our oceans and to them I really think
they believe this to be their home it's
a stop of point or safe space they're
not habituated but they move in and out
as they please
aside from playing the part of
Waterfront
attraction they also play a vital role
within the Marine
ecosystem they help balance everything
out from being a prey source to being a
predator themselves they indicate how
the health of the ocean is doing and
they give us a valuable Insight how the
bigger picture of our ocean
helps once heavily hunted Cape fur seals
are now a protected species in South
Africa and it's estimated that around 2
million I inhabit the coasts of southern
Africa still they face significant
challenges with climate change human
Wildlife conflict and more recently
rabies all areas of
concern here on the waterfront a team
from the nearby two oceans aquarium
looks after them the program that we run
here the Marine Wildlife Management
program is unique it's the first of its
kind in the world where we are
essentially reducing conflict between
humans and animals Within the space of a
working Harbor SL tourist destination we
are the
buffer but one of the most widespread
and tangible threats facing these
curious creatures is plastic
pollution we are actually on our second
patrol of the day looking for any seals
that have plastic around the neck and
the hope that we can actually get them
disentangled this morning removing the
plastic items which is most often
commercial fishing debris can be a
challenge so they have to get creative
so we gave them the dedicated seal
platform you're going to see behind me
there with all the seals resting on it
the added benefit to the seal platform
is that we've made the gaps between the
wooden slats very wide and for a very
specific reason we have around 100 seals
a year that come in Waterfront with
plastic entanglements just like these
around their necks but if they come and
rest on our platform here with the wide
slats we get to climb into wet suits
swim below them and disentangle them and
we use a very special tool for that this
is our cutter and it is a hooked blade
on the
inside very thin to fit through the
wooden slats and the idea is that we'll
swimm a wet suit underneath the platform
we poke this through the slat hook it
onto the entanglement and give it a
really good tug and that'll snap it off
the Seal's neck from the Seal's point of
view he's resting in the sun he'll feel
a tug on his neck he'll stand up he'll
bark at the seal next to him and lie
down again he doesn't even know there
was a human involved in removing this
plastic off his neck Brett glazby says
in 2023 they disentangled 124 seals at
the VNA Waterfront alone a statistic
that is increasing year after
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year today's story getting a 10 out of
10 it's a home run baby in a real life
sand lot in Kansas complete with a dog
on the other side of the fence a group
of neighborhood kids got the surprise of
their lives when an MLB star asked if he
could join their whiffle ball game
Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador
Perez played a couple of innings with
these young Sluggers and he even hit a
home run absolutely epic all right
Superstars today's shout out goes to
Union Colony Preparatory School in gy
Colorado let them hear you how
Timberwolves we're keeping it moving
this week and making it one to be proud
of there are going to be hurdles on your
way to the finish line but no matter
what it is just keep going see you
tomorrow everyone I'm Ki wire and we are
CNN 10
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