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what's up sunshine rise up I'm Ki wire
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tomorrow's show now it's time to fuel
our minds and get you your 10 minutes of
news first let's head to Florida where
folks are facing the task of cleaning up
the damage left by Hurricane Milton and
hurricane Helen which was two weeks
before that Milton was a major Category
3 when it made landfall on the Gulf
Coast of Florida the storm dumped 16
Ines of rain on some areas and areas far
from the storm's path experienced
powerful tornadoes that did major damage
gas and power shortages have severely
held back recovery efforts in this t
Tempa and St Petersburg area that's
where more than 3/4 of gas stations were
completely out folks waited in long
lines that stretched for blocks
officials open three public fuel sites
where customers can receive 10 gallons
of gas each for free power is gradually
being restored with hundreds of
thousands of homes without electricity
that's actually down from a peak of
nearly 3 million after the storm and
officials are working around the clock
to clear debris from both Milton and
Helen's aftermath the federal government
is covering the full cost of debris
removal for City and County governments
affected by the storms for 90 days
President Joe Biden visited Florida over
the weekend touring hardh hit St Pete
Beach and announcing $612 million in
funding for electric grid resilience
projects ongoing flooding issues after
Milton have been a major obstacle to
recovery as flood waters recede slowly
and some places continue to rise CNN's
Allison chinchar gives us a better look
at what some places there are
facing hurricane Milton may be over but
the State of Florida is still reeling
from some of the impacts when you look
at the scope of the video this shows all
of that water the concern here is that
that water takes time to recede so in a
lot of these instances that water has
nowhere to go this is a look at where
the heaviest rain was AC Ross the State
of Florida that white line indicating
where the storm itself Milton crossed
over the state the heaviest rain being
on the North side you can see that
widespread swath of pink color
indicating at least 10 Ines of rain
across a very wide swath of the state
now here's a look at River flooding all
of those purple squares and purple dots
that you see there on the screen those
are river gauges that are still at or
above major flood stage now two specific
rivers to talk about many of them on the
western coast of Florida have finally
crested and are going to start going
down in the coming days but it's quite a
different story for some of the rivers
on the eastern half of the state that
are still going up so here's a look at
one of those rivers on the western side
you can see again really starting to go
back down now and expected to finally
get below major flood stage very early
Monday morning on the eastern half of
the state though quite a different story
this specific River the St John's this
one is not expected to Crest reaching
its peak until very late in the day on
Wednesday so those rivers are still
going to continue to swell and cause
flooding in those local communities
until we reach that point part of the
problem that Florida has is that Florida
is an incredibly Flat state so the
rivers do not recede very quickly like
they would say in a mountainous
terrain now to an incredible feat of
engineering as SpaceX successfully
launched its latest Starship Test Flight
of the most powerful rocket system ever
constructed the demo Mission maneuvered
the
232t tall rocket booster called a super
heavy to a massive Landing structure
after it burned through most of its Fuel
and broke away from the upper Starship
spacecraft it was successfully caught
midair with a pair of massive metal
pincers that SpaceX calls Chopsticks
recovering and rapidly refly super heavy
boosters and Starship spacecraft craft
for future missions is a feat that
SpaceX is testing as the company
considers quickly reusing rocket Parts
essential to efficiently getting cargo
to
space Pop Quiz Hot Shot what is the
fastest animal found in the world
Pronghorn analou paragan Falcon cheetah
or
Marlin ding ding ding if you said
paragan Falcon you are correct which has
a diving speed of over 200 100
mph the paragen falcon can be found on
every continent except Antarctica and
they were commonly found in the US until
the apex predator became severely
endangered several decades ago now a
us-based conservation group has brought
the Falcon back from the brink of
Extinction take a look at how they were
able to save the species and the wild
steps they take to keep tabs on
them this is Bluff Country an area in
the midwest us along the Mississippi
River known for its steep Cliffs and
rugged
landscape part of the Mississippi Flyway
one of the largest North American bird
migration routes it's also where one
particular keystone species had almost
vanished monitoring Raptors and
specifically here paragan Falcons is
very important right now we've basically
succeeded in bringing back a population
of raptors that was near nearly gone
from the continental United States there
are other threats that are coming out
right now we've got climate change
that's creeping up monitoring I think is
key in making sure that is this
population that we successfully brought
back is it doing
well the widespread use of the pesticide
DDT during the mid 20th century was one
of the biggest culprits in the decline
of the apex predators population
DDT and its metabolite DDE led to the
thinning of the eggshells and crushing
of of eggs before they could even
hatch in 1970 the peragine Falcon was
one of the first to be listed as
endangered on the endangered species
conservation act and two years later DDT
was
banned in the 1980s conservationist Bob
Anderson established the wrapped a
resource project and began to
reintroduce the paragan Falcon to the
Midwest there was a a breeding project
where they released 18 Falcons down at
FG Mounds National Monument it was from
a rock lined hack boox so it was used to
simulate the Bluffs that they wanted the
Falcons to come back and find so they
did that
1998 and
1999 the project was deemed a success
and today the group is back to check on
them we're ready and hopefully Place ID
bands on the young Falcons which can be
a precarious
task so we're going down to find the
young get them put them in a kennel and
haul them up top to band them a little
bit more safely than we'd be able to do
on the
cliff all right
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yes pull the kettle R
over we put the the bird banding lab
Federal marker band on it which is like
a social security number for each each
bird individually and then we also put
an auxiliary marker on there it's just a
way of knowing who's where as this
population has been growing once Bandit
the babies are then returned back to
their nest
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while the paragan Falcon was removed
from the federal endangered species list
in
1999 continuing to monitor them helps to
keep a pulse on the surrounding
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ecosystem today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 one of the most gorgeous times of
the Year pumpkin season these zoo
animals at Brookfield Zoo Chicago got a
special Jacko Lantern treat to munch on
over the weekend and look at them go
lucky visitors got to see a pygmy hippo
a bear and a rangan chowing down on
delicious fall Delights it's all part of
a program to physically and mentally
stimulate the animals they care for all
right we have a special shout out today
for all our friends up atber Middle
School inberg Wisconsin rise up and I
also want to give a shout out to all
those wild cats those Wild wild cats at
East cob middle right here in Georgia
what's up Nora thank you for spending
part of your day with us here on CNN 10
remember tomorrow's hashy your word
Wednesday so bring it have an awesome
Tuesday everyone
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