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think I'm Ki wire it's Thursday October
3rd happy Friday Eve we've got an
action-packed show let's get right to it
we start on the eastern coast of the
United States where we have an update on
the potential Longshore Port workers
strike we told you about earlier this
week now it is official the workers went
on strike on Tuesday over two main
issues increasing their wages and
restricting automation as for pay the
long shoreman's Union is demanding a $5
per hour increase in pay for each year
of the next six-year contract as for
automation the workers want airtight
language that the ports will not
introduce automation or semi-automation
which could potentially put them out of
jobs if the port were to decide to use
automated cranes or driverless trucks to
shuttle goods from container ships in
place of humans for their part the
United States Maritime Alliance or usmx
said its latest offer would boost doc
workers wages by nearly 50% triple
employer contributions to Employee
Retirement plans and enhance HealthCare
coverage while also preserving existing
safeguards against automation now the
Port strike has major potential to
disrupt the economy no Dock Workers
means heavily imported goods like
bananas for instance are not shipped
that would in turn mean no profits for
the companies that produce and ship them
Longshore work can be grueling and the
people working at ports are vital to
getting some of the stuff we like to buy
onto shelves in stores our Brian Todd
has more on the potential impact of this
strike long shoremen at the Port of
Baltimore holding their ground and
possibly losing doing it once we exhaust
our savings I mean we don't know what
the next move is going to be a
potentially damaging Port strike in the
US has just begun thousands of Port
workers in Baltimore and at about three
dozen other facilities along the east
coast and Gulf Coast have walked off the
job the stakes are very high the
potential for disruption is significant
this strike the first at those ports in
almost 50 years could disrupt the flow
of almost half half the goods that come
into the US that could lead to shortages
then higher prices what's going to be in
short supply perishables obviously we
can't we can't bring those in in advance
so anything that's in the produce
categories that comes in Banana's been
talked about a lot cherries and other
fruits that come in from South America
and other places that'll be impacted
right away with any stoppage Furniture
household goods clothing Cars and auto
parts could also be in shorter Supply
and then get more expensive but a
officials and Retail analysts say we
should not rush to stores and stockpile
Goods like many did during the covid
pandemic we don't want to panic the
retailers and their Partners in the
shipping business and other importers
have done everything they can to
mitigate any disruption so they've tried
to bring things in they've got inventory
already here on the east coast and near
the population centers they've got
inventory rerouted to the West Coast
it'll come over by rail the workers from
the international long shoreman's
Association feel like they've fallen way
behind behind other sectors in wages the
workers are asking for more wages and
also are concerned about the
introduction of new technology which may
replace um some some of them the
industry led by the United States
Maritime Alliance says it's offered a
fair wage increase and accuses the port
Workers Union of negotiating in bad
faith corporate has got to go this
stoppage comes on the heels of
successful strikes by the United Auto
Workers Union and UPS employees workers
at Boeing have been on strike for more
than two weeks it's a mixed picture
overall workers are doing and unions are
doing better because the economy is
better but they're not always winning
next an update on the destruction and
loss in the wake of hurricane Helen in
the US Southeast search and rescue
efforts are still underway almost a week
after Helen dumped a devastating amount
of water on the region 40 trillion
gallons of rain that's like more than
all of the water in Lake Tahoe coming
down on the region in just a matter of
days that Unleashed unprecedented floods
and landslides that destroyed towns and
infrastructure what we're seeing there
is heartbreaking the death toll from the
storm continues to rise many people
remain missing perhaps unable to leave
their location or contact family as
Communications infrastructure in some
places are nearly non-existent officials
are working around the clock to clear
roads in debris one nonprofit World
Central Kitchen has been helping to feed
folks who've been affected in the area
even sending a helicopter to areas that
are only accessible by air CNN's Gary
tuckman takes us to see how and why it's
still so difficult to access some of the
areas that have been
hit this area is known as Green River
Cove it's right near Hendersonville
North Carolina southeast of Asheville
this road is treacherous even in the
best of times and it rains it's even
more treacherous but now it has been
devastated from the Run of the storm you
can see the guard rail is gone the drop
here off the side of the road which has
been so heavily damaged is about 100 ft
down cars are not supposed to be on here
anymore there are also houses below
we've talked to some people who live in
the area they say they were trying to
get down to the houses to see if people
they know are still there because they
haven't been able to find out what
happened to those people but they
weren't able to hike down and neither
are we we have been told that there have
been helicopter rescues of people who
live in the homes below but there's AB
no way to know for sure if there are
still people who are in those homes that
have been damaged below
us we decided to go down the hill
farther and what we saw is the literal
and figurative End of the Road the
devastation of the storm look what it
led to this is the street right here and
you can see that the street just comes
to an end before plunging down here
these Boulders that are right here the
locals here say these Bowlers actually
moved from the force of the storm all
the houses in front of mine on the
rivers side of the road are gone Brad
McMillan and Nick wolf both live in this
area their homes are okay but the
experience has been traumatic we moved
here because the Green River Narrows is
an iconic piece of class five white
water and we're Whitewater kayakers so
we moved our whole lives down here for
this area and these these riverbeds and
and they've all been completely
destroyed and
rearranged um so it's uh extremely
emotional on a lot of different
levels it took about 3 minutes to sink
but only about 5 minutes for a team to
stumble upon the sight of a shipwreck
albeit 130 years later a Duo of Maritime
experts got pretty lucky at the start of
what was supposed to be a three-day ship
Hunting Expedition in Lake Michigan
finding a sunken Tugboat that had been
missing since 1895 check check it out
take a look at how a Wisconsin shipwreck
missing for 130 years was found in 5
minutes by a very lucky pair of ship
hunting historians in 1895 the tugboat
John Evanson was lost after colliding
with a larger steamer in Wisconsin's
Sturgeon Bay Canal the wreck was widely
reported but search efforts didn't start
until the 1980s and with no success a
local dive Club even offered a cash
reward for the discovery but still no
luck then in September of 202 4 Maritime
historians Brendan bad and Bob Jake
combined historical records with modern
search Tech and headed out on a planned
3-day Expedition but a mere 5 minutes
after they started scanning this
happened I just screamed out boiler
there's a boiler down there we we just
couldn't believe it we actually hadn't
even started our search we're just
getting the equipment up and going I
mean this is crazy the pair immediately
marked and thoroughly documented the
discovery eventually using more than
2,000 photos to have a full 3d rendering
of the site
created Pop Quiz Hot Shot scientifically
known as vicy what physical trait do
house cats share with sea lions fur
teeth whiskers or
claws whiskers is your answer here Vibes
the long stiff hair around the mouth or
face of many mammals used to sense their
environment
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10 a
sea lion rescue worth quite the
celebration a curious sea lion wandered
up onto land in California miles from
the ocean and ended up stranded on the
side of a highway officials came to its
rescue and even got a police escort to a
rehabilitation facility no word on how
or why the mammal wandered so far from
home all right everyone I want to give a
special shout out today to Academy 1
Middle School in Jersey City New Jersey
rise up fun fact did you know that
Jersey City is actually closer to the
Statue of Liberty than New York City and
it's home to Ellis Island an historic
site where millions of people entered
the US in the late 18 and early 1900s
hope you're doing well up there and from
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