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hello everyone hope you had a wonderful
weekend I am pumped to be back with you
here and so pumped I was able to meet
some of you when I drove up to South
Carolina this weekend to see my Stanford
Cardinal play the Clemson Tigers didn't
go well for my Cardinal but big shout
out to Mr Marshall's class at RC Edwards
Middle in Central South Carolina I see
you John I'm Ki wire this is CNN 10 the
best 10 minutes in news because of you
let's start with some of your headlines
first in Lebanon Hezbollah has confirmed
that its leader Hassan nazala was killed
in an Israeli air strike in Beirut on
Friday his death is a major escalation
in the long running conflict between
Israel and Hezbollah and it's adding to
Growing concerns of a wider Regional war
nasala was one of the founders of
Hezbollah in the 1970s he oversaw its
transformation over the years into one
of the most powerful paramilitary forces
in the Middle East the Israeli air
strikes that killed nazala targeted
densely populated areas and destroyed
residential buildings strikes continued
over the weekend on more sites that
Israel says are Hezbollah Targets in
Lebanon government officials in Lebanon
say an estimated 1 million people have
already been displaced by recent
fighting in southern Lebanon next the
southeastern United States is reeling in
the aftermath of hurricane Helen the
storm made landfall as the strongest
hurricane on record to hit Florida's Big
Bend region a category 4 storm it
weakened once on land to a tropical
storm and then a post-tropical cyclone
but it continued to level communities
knock out power and cause dangerous
flood waters that stranded many across
several States now massive search and
rescue operations took took place in
North Carolina where more than 60 people
were unaccounted for in just one County
the storm has killed dozens of people
overall we've lost everything in this
building a common refrain along much of
Florida's West Coast now there's nothing
just some sticks this is the worst
probably we've seen in our area in a
hundred years I know I've been in
Sarasota for 22 years and I've never
seen anything like
this heavy rain bringing historic
flooding forcing water rescues holy cow
that storm surge uh the whole lower
level of my home is filled with water I
ended up hopping on to one of my little
kayaks to float around in my living room
this has been just a heck of a storm
surge it's wiped out all my neighbors I
I see just the destruction going all
down the road boats thrown about power
lines down homes and businesses
destroyed some of it's outside some of
it's in here this is by far the worst
I've ever had and even amidst the
flooding massive fires Rescuers pass a
burning home anybody in your house using
their resources instead to search for
survivors boy it's devastating I've
never seen something like this i' I've
known people that lived here 20 years I
said they've never seen anything like it
after slashing Florida Helen pushed
North battering Georgia and the
Carolinas also leaving life-threatening
flooding in Atlanta communities left
underwater as Helen held its strength as
a hurricane until halfway through the
state of Georgia this is the worst I've
ever seen I've seen the seen the
creek high like right up to the bottom
of the bridge but nothing like
this but it wasn't finished yet Pen's
massive size spread the rain and misery
into North Carolina where a Relentless
Deluge caused historic flooding in
Asheville just one day after a one in
1,000-year rainfall saturated the region
this is one of the worst storms in
modern history for parts of Western
North
Carolina and Helen continues to move now
into Tennessee bringing Rising water and
dangerous flooding in Irwin Tennessee
more than 50 people were stranded on the
roof of a hospital surrounded by raging
floods helicopters were sent to save
them they're currently taking um
patients and staff off of the roof of
the hospital um and then transporting
them back into the city of irn this is a
serious situation I would dare to say
this is um a life and death situation
back here in pelis County the National
Guard has been deployed they're the ones
that are going to be organizing the
safety and recovery effort moving
forward and one of the things they have
to figure out is how they're going to
remove the nearly half a dozen sailboats
that crashed into several structures
including the one right here behind me
10-second trivia who was the first
female scientist to be awarded a Nobel
Prize for physics Katherine Johnson
Marie C Grace Hopper or Marie mayor
Daly your answer here is Marie C the
Polish and French scientist was the
first woman to receive the Nobel Prize
in 1903 and played a major role in the
discovery of
radioactivity now our next story is
about a young woman who when studying at
MIT noticed there weren't a lot of women
of color in her mechanical engineering
classes then she realized the same was
the case for the number of people
working careers in stem science
technology engineering and math so she
decided to do something about it
combining her passions for stem and
dance to Intrigue and Inspire the Next
Generation and help them literally light
up the stage yamay tousant is one of our
CNN
Heroes when I was at MIT studying
mechanical engineering I found that in
most my classes I was the only or one of
a few black
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women less than 5% of the stem Workforce
consist of women of color one of the
reasons is that from a young age many
girls start to believe that they can't
do well in math this is strip one and
that is strip two mhm exactly we have to
change how girls see themselves and
their potential in fields like
math 2 3 and I just started to wonder
about a world where the benefits that
you get from dance can lead to the
outcomes that we're looking for in
when my mom first told me about their
program I didn't even hear the stem I
just went straight to dance I was like
okay dance okay I'm
in and she was like okay there's stem to
it too like you know be excited about
that part can I hear about what you're
working on basically our story is like
it's the last day of school like
happiness we bring stem and dance
together by allowing the girls to create
dance performances that combine the two
so they can work on costumes that light
up as they move and they're learning how
to program the circuit so that when they
press a button on the circuit the lights
turn blue or whatever effect that they
want to be able to convey a message love
it this is going to be so fly we're
normalizing that girls of color can do
computer science and create something
together can I see your code it's a
really good Community to have other
girls that look like me encourage each
other and push each other to be better
and to do stem and to do stuff that we
may tell oursel that we can't do and to
have other people like tell us that we
can actually do
it they have the opportunity to show off
all that they learned in stem and dance
through
performing and have the affirmation of
hundreds of people is cheering them
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on that feeling that they get we want
them to remember that and cherish it and
as they go off in life that they
remember that they are celebrated for
doing things in stem so when they face
that hard math problem they're reminded
I could do hard things
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10
there is nothing like a catnet
especially when it's literally a cat
napping and that cat's actually a
rescued mountain lion cub named Brier
feeline fine all cozy and dozing off on
a stuffy you've got to be kidding me the
Oakland Zoo shared his this post saying
the perfect plushy Just Hits different
Brier is napping on a repurpose stuffy
and the zoo is reminding folks to donate
their used stuffies to be upside ccle to
repurpose and uh so far so good for
Brier thank you to all of you who have
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you have an awesome day today no matter
what comes your way see you right back
here tomorrow I'm KY wire and we are CNN
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