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hello everyone I'm KY wire it's fry
thank you for taking some time to get
caught up on the news and current events
from around the world right here with me
on CNN 10 and I do hope all our viewers
in the southeast United States are safe
we've seen two awful storms hit that
region just in the past couple of weeks
and we will start with the latest on
Hurricane Milton's impact in Florida the
storm made landfall near Siesta Key on
the Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 3
storm with Winds of 120 mph before
weakening to a category 1 as it traveled
across the state Milton did a lot of
damage as it roared in from the Gulf of
Mexico dropping more than 18 Ines of
rain on St Petersburg alone about 3
months of the city's rainfall in just
one day the winds were so strong they
tore nor the roof of St Pete's Tropicana
Field where First Responders were
planning to shelter a crane there was
toppled onto nearby buildings as well
while Storm surges did not reach
predicted record Heights they still
Swept Away boats and cars while flooding
homes After the Storm passed water
rescues took place in Orange County
where Orlando is located people there
were trapped in their homes by several
feet of water in Hillsboro County
unprecedented flooding closed major
roadways and affected an assisted living
facility that had to be evacuated a
sinkhole there in the southern part of
the county cut off one Community after
it destroyed a main road some of the
major damage being assessed now is from
tornadoes that touch down even before
landfall due to Milton's strong outer
band winds there were reports of more
than a dozen tornadoes that ripped
through some areas those tornadoes led
to multiple fatalities in St Lucy County
millions of homes and businesses found
themselves without electricity in the
storm's wake and flash flooding
emergencies remained in place for
populated centers like Tampa and St
Petersburg officials warned that the
threat was not over strong winds along
the coast mean that water will be moving
back Inland continuing the flood threat
for many residents in the state our
thoughts are with all of you who've been
affected now Milton is the fifth
hurricane to make landfall in the US
this year CNN's Alisa Rafa is here now
to give us a look at some of the history
behind the naming of these
hurricanes what's in a name well for
hurricanes it can be a lot and there are
key reasons they're named in the first
place here's a list of 21 of them for
the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season it
goes through every letter of the
alphabet except quu X Y and Z because
how many names can you think of that
begin with the letter X a tropical wave
officially gets a name when its
organized Center of circulation packs
Winds of 39 mph making it a tropical
storm there are six lists of names in
rotation the names used this year will
be used again in 2030 if a storm is so
impactful that it will be remembered for
years to come the name is retired and no
longer used there will never be another
hurricane Katrina Irma Maria or Ian the
last time this current list was used was
in 2018 Florence had soaked the
Carolinas in Rucker rain and Michael
slammed the Florida Panhandle as one of
the strongest us landfalls on record
both names are retired and replaced with
Francine and Milton which make their
debut this year I names they're
notorious for being retired of 96 names
retired since 1954 14 begin with the
letter i that's more than any other
letter this year the forecast calls for
up to 25 name storms meaning we could
simply run out of names this only
happened twice once in 2005 and again in
2020 the World Meteorological
organization used to resort to using the
Greek alphabet but now there's a backup
list of names starting again at a the
World Meteorological organization
maintains and updates the naming system
that started in 1953 the practice of
naming started years before that to help
media report on Storms and to engage
public interest as warnings were issued
at first it was arbitrary names were
pegged for locations impacted when
meteorologists started to use more
organized alphabetical lists they only
used women's names it wasn't until 1979
that men's names were added to the
list 10c trivia the profile of General
George Washington appears on what United
States military medal of Distinction
Medal of Honor Purple Heart Bron star or
military
Valor answer is purple heart this medal
is awarded by the president to those
wounded or killed in
service the military members can go
through some extreme situations during
their service some that affect them for
the rest of their lives and there's no
question that many are in need of
support when they return home veteran
and CNN hero Gordon story knows those
struggles all too well and After
experiencing the mental health benefits
of volunteering he came up with a
meaningful way to uplift those around
him story founded the D Weare team
helping thousands of service members
connect to their communities through
service projects good morning every body
thank you for coming out and sacrificing
a little of your off duty time I am
Master Sergeant Gordon story and I am
the program director of the Das Weare
team we paint houses
and maybe a little bit of repair
work there are so many studies out there
that talk about what volunteering does
for the mind the body you know
everything a lot of times these young a
they're separated from their families
their friends so having some Outreach
into the community is very crucial to an
airman's overall mental health I like
this green I already had PTSD from my
time being in Afghanistan but after
losing my husband symptoms really
started popping up and honestly it is
this that helped me get through my
grief suicide has always been something
that the military has struggled with so
if you can get people into social
groupings it breaks that social
isolation when you deploy six times in
the military you develop a very certain
type of
mindset it becomes harder and harder to
turn that switch off and it got to the
point of what the heck am I doing here
the Weare team they're a big reason why
I'm still standing here today and I
think what I feel most proud about is
when I see the friendships and the
connectivity people that would have
never met each
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other today's store getting a 10 out of
10 of Vegas site that's Dynamite more
than 2,000 pounds of explosives took
down the 67-year old Tropicana Resort in
a planned implosion this week the
historic Casino closed in April and
demolition began shortly after leading
to this week's eye popping show CNN
Shannon Haj gives us a better look at
the farewell event and fills us in on
what'll take its place
watch after 67 years on the Las Vegas
Strip the historic Tropicana Hotel was
demolished the Tropicana Hotel first
opened its doors in 1957 as the most
expensive hotel ever built in Vegas so
tonight we bid farewell to this chapter
of the tropican of Las Vegas and let's
not think of it as an ending but as a
beginning of something even
greater The Landmark Hotel was imploded
to make room for a new Major League
Baseball Stadium for the Athletics the
team is relocating from
Oakland thank you Shannon all right
shout out today is going to all the
superstars at Charleston Charter School
for Math and Science in Charleston South
Carolina rise up thank you for sping
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that Friday music not a I hope your
weekend is filled with a whole bunch of
awesome go on out and make someone smile
remember you are more powerful than you
know I'm Koy it's been a blessing to
spend this week with
you Beau
beautiful yeah Friday