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hello and welcome to your word Wednesday
I'm KY wire this is CNN 10 the best 10
minutes in news because of you we're
going to zip you through some of the top
news stories of the day there's not a
lot of time to do it so let's get to it
we start with your headlines starting
with a firstof its kind liftoff to outer
space spacex's latest mission Polaris
Dawn launched on Tuesday after a series
of delays the four-person civilian crew
is on a bold and risky Trek beyond
Earth's low orbit and into outer space
they'll have to quickly pass the Van
Allen radiation belts which hasn't been
done by humans since the Apollo space
program in the
1970s then they plan to one up that feat
by conducting the first commercial
spacewalk timing is absolutely critical
here the Polaris Dawn Mission only has
enough life support for five or six days
in space because of the major drain on
oxygen supplies that comes with carrying
out a spacewalk next back here on Earth
the Gulf Coast is bracing for tropical
storm Francine the storm is quickly
nearing hurricane status and could
strengthen to a category 2 storm by
landfall today a hurricane of that
strength can do a lot of damage to homes
and cause widespread power outages
earlier in the week communities in
Louisiana and Texas took preparations
for the storm's predicted flooding
powerful winds and storm surge
Louisiana's governor even issued a
Statewide emergency declaration ahead of
Francine's arrival and in the western us
officials say more than 60 active large
wildfires have burned more than 2
million acres of land there blazes in
California Idaho and Nevada are
especially alarming where flames and
record Heat have prompted evacuations
and caused the destruction of several
homes and businesses those who haven't
had to evacuate are dealing with power
outages and closed schools as
firefighters in the air and on the
ground work to contain the
blazes this Justin you were looking at
obviously a very disturbing live shot
there that is the World Trade Center and
we have unconfirmed reports this morning
that a plane has crashed into one of the
towers of the World Trade Center CNN
Center right now is just beginning to
work on this story obviously calling our
sources and trying to figure out exactly
what happened but clearly something
relatively devastating happening this
morning there on the south end of the
island of Manhattan that is once again a
picture of one of the towers of the
World Trade
Center today is Wednesday September 11th
and it marks the 23rd anniversary of the
attacks on American soil the day caused
chaos Terror and death when the alqaeda
terrorist group carried out coordinated
attacks against America nearly 3,000
people were killed when terrorists flew
commercial airplanes into the World
Trade Center in New York City the
Pentagon in Washington DC and a field in
Shanksville Pennsylvania now Wednesday
on the anniversary of the worst
terrorist attack on us soil President
Joe Biden and vice president kamla
Harris are scheduled to visit three
sites of those attacks now considered a
national day of service and Remembrance
September 11th Memorial ceremonies and
volunteer events will be held in
communities across the country as the
nation pauses to reflect and remember
those who lost their lives on that
tragic day in New York a 911 memorial
and Museum now sit in the original
location of the World Trade Center
towers CNN went inside that museum as it
was opening the museum is built almost
entirely underground some 70 ft down it
sits in the precise footprint of the
World Trade Center so this is exactly
where the south tower started and went
up 1350 ft a striking display of the
sheer scale of the destruction with
poignant reminders of the tragedy at
every turn visitors will also walk
alongside the Survivor stairs used by
hundreds of people as the buildings are
crumbling um running from the dust cloud
to escape to safety and uh it's for all
our visitors to understand the Story of
Survival and likely one of the most
emotional stops in the museum this art
installation mimics the blue sky on that
fateful morning behind it the still
unidentified remains of 9/11 victims the
move met with mixed emotion from their
families right next door a room
dedicated to the lives of those lost
exactly that room um is an area called
in memorium and it's a photographic
portrait of each and every one of the
2,983 victims you see pictures a a
father coaching his son's Little League
team a wedding you see the lives that
were that were lost that day and not
just about how they died it's who these
people were throughout the museum
chilling reminders of the day handmade
flyers for the missing a cross emerging
from the wreckage everyday items simply
left behind we help through these
artifacts and images tell that story of
just it was panic and while the museum
is vast one small exhibit has been the
biggest source of controversy its focus
the terrorists themselves including a
film criticized for not making a clear
enough distinction between Islam and
Al-Qaeda there's been a lot of criticism
why give any time to the terrorists you
know it's it's one way to look at it is
you don't build a holocaust museum and
not be very clear uh that the Nazis were
the ones who committed those atrocities
Al-Qaeda was an extremist terrorist
group um but no one will come through
this exhibit and in any way think that
we are indicting um an entire religion
which we in no way are it seems very
appropriate that you end here at the
last column and it's again goes right
back to resiliency seeing those messages
of Hope and Remembrance on this very
tall column that's still standing
strong that's powerful stuff now
September did you know is also National
literacy month there is power in
knowledge it's why we aim to learn so we
can be a little better each day than we
were the day before and the strength
behind that power starts with reading
and writing which is why September is
dedicated to recognizing the importance
of literacy to celebrate National
literacy month a few of my CNN
colleagues are sharing the books that
made a huge impact on their
lives well I had two favorite books one
was a collection of poetry Where the
Sidewalk Ends by shell Silverstein I had
a bit of a speech impediment when I grew
up and so it helped me to perfect my
addiction a lot and it was just fun
tales and gave you encouragement and I
loved it the other one was a book called
The out alist by Pao quo it translates
at every stage in your life looking for
meaning in your personal Journey well my
favorite book growing up uh is a pretty
obvious one for me it was sedara by
Herman Hessa the big takeaway was that
knowledge is something that can be
taught but wisdom is something that has
to be experienced I give this book to a
lot of high school students even today
when they're graduating from high school
or even earlier because it had such a
profound impact on me the first time I
ever cried in front of all my middle
school classmates uh was thanks to a
novel called Where the Red Fern Grows by
Wilson rolls and to be fair everybody
was crying it is a beautiful story of a
boy and his two redbone [ __ ] hounds
growing up in the Ozarks it shaped the
way I think about Wildlife our
relationship with nature and each other
this book really changed my life it's
called the sense of where you are by
John MC the best writer in my view
biased uh of all time and the writing in
this book was quite literally what made
me want to be a writer yes it was a
sports book about a famous basketball
player Hall of Famer Bill Bradley but
how John MC wrote and how he was able to
almost force a picture into your brain
it felt like you almost watching TV
while you were reading the book what is
my favorite ya
book Rick Riordan I mean come on you
cannot
read ya today without looking at Percy
Jackson and anything that Rick rordon do
so I really love the Chalice of the Gods
even though this is a story written for
the teens you know twins I found it to
be truly one of those books that even
adults can truly truly
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love our story today getting a 10 out of
10 is a ballon full site if you were
passing through or over Reno over the
weekend you may have been flumix by what
you saw if you didn't know what was
happening the great Reno balloon race
had up to about a 100 hot air balloons
rising to the occasion one of the
biggest hot air balloon festivals in the
country more than 150,000 Spectators
were on Cloud9 watching these durables
take off congrats to Lola High School in
Kansas for submitting our vocabulary
word of the day flx an adjective mean
bewildered or perplexed I see you
Madison thanks for all the submission
and thanks for all the shout out
requests on our cnn1 YouTube page
today's shout out goes to environmental
Charter School in Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania go Hawks rise up everyone
I'll see you right back here tomorrow on
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