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hey everyone welcome to cnn1 I'm Coy
wire happy Friday Eve it's Thursday
October 24th we're exactly one week away
from Halloween and let's just say my
costume this year is something I have
been told by my four-year-old and
six-year-old daughters that I will be
the queen of hearts so please keep me in
your thoughts all right Big Show for you
today we're going to start with the
upcoming presidential election now just
12 days away and with early voting
already underway all eyes are on the
swing states that could decide the
winner so what's a swing state well in a
presidential election a swing state or
Battleground state is one that could be
won by either Republicans Or democrats
because the voters there don't regularly
lean to one party over the other and
with the Electoral College being a win
or take all system in most States the
candidate that wins a state can be
decided by margins as small as hundreds
of votes with all the power swing States
hold over deciding a presidential
election candidates end up spending a
lot of time and money campaigning in
them in an effort to sway voters off the
fence and win crucial Electoral College
votes this year both Donald Trump and
kamla Harris have invested time in
States like Arizona an historically
Republican leaning state that handed
Trump a victory in 2016 but swayed in
favor of the Democrats delivering Biden
a narrow win in 2020 in 2016
Pennsylvania broke a trend of voting
Democratic when it went to Donald Trump
but PA turned around to elect Joe Biden
for president four years later another
famous Battleground state Florida it was
crucial in deciding the contentious 2000
election but let's hear from CNN's Phil
mattingley on Florida's perceived
importance this time
around Florida Florida Florida nothing
solidified the Electoral importance of
the State of Florida like those three
words on late great Tim russer St race
board at about 1:00 a.m. the morning
after election day in 2000 nothing that
is except for the seismic events that
transpired in the state in the weeks
that followed a tenth of a percentage
Point 537 votes separated George W bush
from Al Gore in the state that for the
next 16 years became an intensely
contested presidential Battleground 2004
George W bush holding on to it 08 Barack
Obama putting in putting into Democratic
hands holding on to it just narrowly in
2012 what about today well Florida is a
swing state no more let's just look back
to the last election 2022 Marco Rubio
reelected to the US Senate by 16 points
Ronda santis reelected to the governor's
mansion by 19 points Republicans
captured a super majority in the state
legislature what happened well let's
start
here voter registration as far back as
the 1970s is the number of registered
Democrats in the state handily
outnumbered Republicans by 2021
Republicans caught up and then flip the
script entirely that's in part a
powerful and well-run state party
operation in full effect but it's also a
shift fueled by two groups older white
voters a Cornerstone of the GOP base
every you heard the term snowbo
snowbirds well the migration it's very
real Florida actually if you pull back
it is one of the oldest states in the
nation where you see dark purple that is
an older population 27% of the
population in Florida over the age of 60
second and this is critical as we go
into this cycle once considered a a
democratic pillar Hispanic voters
they're not monolithic and in Florida
more conservative Latino voters Cuban
Americans in particular have changed the
face of the southern part of the state
take 2020 When Donald Trump won the
state by 370,000 votes now compare the
exit polls when it comes to the Latino
votes
in Florida National 65% went to Biden in
Florida 53% yes Biden won a majority
that's a dramatic Divergence if you
really want to know whether or not a
swing state is a swing state anymore
what you really need to do is look at
where the campaigns are spending money
in the State of Florida this is what's
being spent right now Democrats about $2
million Republicans about $1 million
yeah let's tick up a little bit to the
neighbor to the north that's Georgia
yeah that's a battle ground what's the
spending there $133 million for
Democrats Republicans $18 million one
state is a Battleground one is not the
money makes clear that this year that
Battleground is Georgia Georgia
Georgia Pop Quiz Hot Shot located
between Zimbabwe and Zambia what
waterfall is the only one included in
the seven natural wonders of the world
Angel Falls Victoria Falls Colombo Falls
or lis
Falls Hail to the victors who said
Victoria Falls the falls in Africa are
twice as high and one and a half times
wider than Niagara
Falls this week on call to Earth we
embark on an epic Mission with South
African Explorer Steve boy as part of
the Rolex Perpetual Planet initiative
he's on a multi-year expedition across
Africa to scientifically document the
continent's massive Inland river basins
today Steve visits a remote region in
Zambia to meet up with a scientist who's
looking after one of the world's most
peculiar
creatures pengu means where the water
meets the sky in the local language and
beautiful reflections of the
water a vast Wetland that stretches for
almost 10,000 square kilm bangu is one
of Africa's most diverse ecosystems home
to some extraordinary
species I've never been here to the
bangu swamps before uh and I'm intrigued
abundant bird life thousands tens of
thousands of lewe uh you can hear the
hippos calling you have the hyenas
coming around this system has a lot to
teach
us call toe guest editor Steve boy and
his expedition team have been joined on
the Water by orthologist and
conservationist Maggie Hera who has been
living in the swamps for 3 years
studying and rehabilitating one of its
most iconic
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species standing up to 5T tall with an
8ot wingspan and a large clog shaped
beak that gives them their name the shoe
bill is one of the strangest looking
birds on the
planet listed as vulnerable by the
iucn bangu is the southernmost
population remaining in the world with
no more than
215 individuals surviving in these
Wetlands a lot of people say they look
quite prehistoric like dinosaurs they
have a really sharp massive hook on the
end of their beak and Raisor sharp edges
to both the top and bottom of of their
bills so they grab the these slippery
powerful fish and then Crush their
skulls with one or two Chomps I'm an
orthologist I meant to be an expert but
uh Shoals leave me lost for words they
do you just look at it and you go I
don't know um extraordinary here he
goes unlike many of the systems Steve
has explored in the past bangu also has
an abundance of people around 60,000
living in the swamps but shoe bills face
the threat of capture to be sold on the
illegal exotic pet market and much of
Maggie's job has been educating and
integrating the local fishing Community
into the bird's protection so the main
core underpinning of all of this program
is the community engagement we have a
nest Protection Program where fishermen
actually notify us when they find nests
and we then go into the swamps we verify
that nest and we get through those
reports the shoe bills typically lay two
eggs not always but typically and almost
always if they lay two eggs one of the
chicks kills the other it's just
competition we can capitalize on that
and we take one of the eggs or one of
the chicks off the nest we bring it into
our facility and we raise it without
human contact and then we release them
back into bangu ulu
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today's store getting a 10 out of 10 is
a museum that's the grill deal the
Museum of barbecue opening in Kansas
City Missouri next year might just give
you the meat sweats visitors can learn
about all the elements of a kick butt
barbecue types of meats the spices the
woods the smoke and the sauce Grill
Seekers can be treated to interactive
exhibits featuring different regions
Style afterwards you can butter your
briskets and Crush some brisket at a
barbecue restaurant downstairs I do hope
to visit that place and all of its
gustatory Glory if I don't it will be a
big Mist stake shout out time now this
one goes to crestwell Middle School in
opalis Louisiana we see you Tigers we
hope you and everyone watching around
the world have an awesome day let's rise
up and do it one more time tomorrow I'm
Coy wire and we are CNN 10