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what's up sunshine it's Thursday October
17th happy Friday Eve one more day till
we rock into the weekend I'm KY wire
this is CNN 10 where I tell you the what
letting you decide what to think now
many of us are starting to see the fall
come into full effect so maybe cooler
temperatures maybe a changing of the
leaves but today we're starting off with
a look ahead to the winter because we're
learning that this one might feel a lot
different than the last few years that's
because a week linia is expected to
develop before winter and influence
everything from temperatures
precipitation even snowfall across the
US what is linia it's a natural climate
pattern that influences global weather
with cooler than average ocean
temperatures coming from the equatorial
Pacific we see its effects the most
during the winter months in the northern
hemisphere if last winter felt warmer
than usual where you are that may be
because it was dominated by Lenin's
counterpart El Nino it was the warmest
winter on record for the lower 48 in a
world that's warming due to fossil fuel
pollution that winter warmth prevented
many heavy snow events in the Northeast
and Midwest creating a winter snow
drought that saw feet of missing snow
this winter current forecasts are
favoring a weaker linia which means
it'll have a less consistent impact on
the weather because other weather
patterns can influence it this winter
the climate prediction Center's forecast
shows the jet stream a river of air that
storms flow through shifting North this
December through February typical for
linia winter that shift moves Stormy
Weather out of the South and into parts
of the northern us the northern part of
the US is expected to end up wetter than
normal compared to last winter the south
on the other hand is looking at a drier
than normal winter which means drought
conditions could worsen throughout the
season linia isn't here yet but once it
arrives it'll stick around all winter
and likely persist into early spring of
next year 10 second trivia in the US how
many electoral votes must a presidential
candidate win in order to win the
election 300 270 538 or
200 answer is 270 a majority of 270
electoral votes is required to elect the
president over half of the Electoral
colleges 538 electors this is the 2020
map completely filled in but on Election
night it starts empty and that is the
real magic the votes come in from state
to state county to County and we count
them you probably wish you could have
one of these at home actually you do
take out your phone take out your tablet
make sure you download our latest CNN
app pop on in come down here you'll see
a little icon match wall you got your
own step on that think about election
night starts off blank right so does my
night and that's the magic the results
come in you try to interpret them follow
along with me pick it up at home and
come through it and if you're thinking
wait a minute is that state the same as
it was in 2020 or 2016 well you can find
out all the states fill in red and blue
and then you think I live in
Pennsylvania right that's a Battleground
State maybe you live here if you live
here that's Delaware County that's one
of the Swing counties one of the suburbs
of Philadelphia one of the places that's
going to decide who wins Trump or Harris
so you can look where you live see his
the votes come in go back and look at a
little history or you can go to Michigan
same thing how are young people voting
are they sticking with Harris are they
looking at Trump are they staying home
well stretch out the Michigan map
where's the University of Michigan it's
right here it's in Washington our County
you can look as the results come in live
on Election night you can go back and
look is Harris in 2024 doing as well as
Biden did in 2020 let's go out to
Arizona so what are you going to look
for here that's Maricopa County right
there the big one it's blue for Biden in
2020 it was red for Trump in 2016 I got
a bigger one but this is just as
powerful and you got it at home a lot of
people that put a lot of time into
making this work might put me out of
work but it should be fun for you no one
does election day excitement like our
magic wall Maestro John King and there's
no group of Voters that energizes an
election quite like young voters
pollsters are keeping their eyes on that
demographics enthusiasm especially after
President Joe Biden dropped out of of
the race and endorsed vice president
kamla Harris All Eyes are on whether
young voters will repeat their record
turnout from 2020 CNN's Phil mattingley
has a look at just how crucial 18 to 29y
Old voters are to changing the tides of
an election what's the deal with young
voters that is a question that without
fail pops up in almost every
conversation I have with political
operatives at this point in any campaign
cycle why simple Jen Z has JS Jen z may
decide the next president
if Jen Z shows up because when they show
up it matters like here in 2008 when
record-breaking young voter turnout
fueled Barack Obama's winning campaign
historic levels of black voter turnout
young voter turnout boosted that
campaign in critical swing States and
states that hadn't turned blue in a
generation like this state the state of
North Carolina with Obama flipping the
Tar Hill State for the first time
towards Democrats since Jimmy Carter the
success in no small part because of a
major push p on the campuses of 11
historically black colleges and
universities it's a Playbook the Harris
campaign now is hoping to utilize to
reassemble that Coalition in 2024 and
turn this state blue for the first time
since right here that first Obama
Victory is it possible well let's take a
look at more recent history how about
2020 last cycle Joe Biden Donald Trump
young voters essential to Biden's
success in 2020 when you look at the
swing states that mattered most well
young voters helped him deliver Arizona
Georgia Michigan Nevada Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin in all of these states many of
which came down to just a few thousand
votes Biden won the youth vote by double
digits and in each of those States the
youth vote makes up a significant
percentage of the electorate it's a
demographic that's growing this is
important to note nearly 8 million young
adult adults turned voting age since the
2022 midterms that's midterms not 2020
2022 let's take a little closer look at
Georgia a little bit south of North
Carolina another critical swing state
and it's a state that Joe Biden in 2020
won by just shy of 12,000 votes in an
electorate where one in every five
voters was under 30 young voters in that
state netted Biden around 187,000 votes
that is a lot more than the 12,000 vote
margin in the state Biden's strongest
cohort in that state well that would be
young black voters more than 500,000
young voters of color across the State
turning out for Biden in a 9:1 margin
but at the same time Donald Trump pulled
ahead nearly 20 points among young white
voters there and the point here is this
and it's a critical one this cycle too
jenz and Millennial voters they are not
monolithic despite the critical role
younger voters have played in landing
the past two democratic presidents in
the white house jenzy isn't exactly
flocking to the polls to vote blue up
and down the ballot in fact a through
line when you talk to younger voters and
a lot lot of pollsters do is that when
it comes to party preference there isn't
really one there's a negative view of
both parties and while young voters of
color were clearly a Cornerstone of Joe
Biden's 2020 success Trump's performance
among young white voters it wasn't an
anomaly in Georgia it was actually the
standard Trump LED among young white
voters nearly 10 points nationally and
this time around it's a generation that
is intensely intensely focused upon many
of the same issues the rest of the
country is watching chiefly the economy
is exactly what young voters are
watching as well and when it comes to
the economy well young voters match up
with where the rest of the country seems
to be a generation concerned with
housing cost student loan debt inflation
they view the Trump Administration as
having improved the economy more than
the Biden Administration but and yes
this is the caveat to end all caveats
the most important question for
campaigns is they Court young voters
remains this will they actually turn out
it is the question going into every and
it's the question that everybody's
trying to track right now Democrats are
hopefully the answer is yes especially
since Harris's Ascension to the top of
the ticket is boosting enthusiasm
Nationwide but especially among young
younger voters which is exactly why
you're seeing both campaigns focused so
hard on appealing to these voters hoping
to get them to turn out many for the
first time in their
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lives today's story getting a 10 out of
10 Europe isn't the only continent with
giant pumpkins these gargantuan gourds
from around the US are squash goals
competing in the 51st World Championship
pumpkin way off in California this year
a Minnesota teacher of horiculture took
the prize for the fourth time Travis
Ginger of Anoka named his pumpkin Rudy
because he didn't even think it would
qualify this year but maybe it could
make a great comeback and Rudy did
though it didn't squash the world record
Ginger set last year the prizewinning
pumpkin still took home more than 22,000
bucks the gourd grower and his family
drove a painstaking 35 hours across five
states to get this Behemoth to the scale
a pumpkin prize that could make a whole
lot of pumpkin pies all right Superstars
time for showing some love today shout
out to the sharks at Alfred G Waters
Middle School in Middletown Delaware
thins up rise up love learning something
new with you each day I look forward to
doing it again right here tomorrow on
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