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what's up sunshine hope you're feeling
good this Friday Friday I'm pumped to
finish this week strong with you and
fuel our minds one more time before we
head into the weekend I'm Ki wire this
is CNN 10 let's go we begin today
talking about the rising threat of food
insecurity an issue that persists in the
US and and around the world food
insecurity is not having consistent
access to enough food to meet one's
basic needs and around the world the UN
estimates that to be the case for
868 million people with more than
onethird of those cases 342 million
people being severely food insecure
those numbers increased by a million
people since the un's last Global report
on food crises in 2023 conflicts in the
Gaza Strip accounted for most of those
facing imminent famine in addition to
conflicts in Mali Somalia South Sudan
and Burkina Faso the UN projects those
numbers will increase by another million
people being affected next year and in
the US a growing number of families are
struggling to put food on the table a
USDA report showed that more than 47
million people were food insecure last
year a slight rise from the year prior
the report attributes the Spike to
inflation and Rising food costs and the
roll back of relief programs during the
covid-19 pandemic which boosted support
for things like SNAP benefits and free
School meals for all students has left
families with fewer resources to help
put food on the table CNN's Natasha Chen
gives us an onth ground look at the
impact this growing need is having on
local food pantries here in the
US you have a Happy Thanksgiving this is
not video from the pandemic this is a
line of people waiting to receive food
at a church in time for Thanksgiving I
have to do it and that's the way it goes
Chris Merill has been coming to this
Pasadena California church every week
for several years my wife won't even
come because she'd be embarrassed he's a
retired mechanic living on less than
$700 Social Security per month he never
thought he need help from a food bank
and he's not alone never seen the line
that long before this time it was all
the way up up and down lines are getting
crazier we first met Anna Duran two
years ago when her home in Riverside
California saw inflation at almost 10%
even though inflation has cooled now to
about 2% where I have to get up at least
you know like I said before 6 to be
there by six Durant still goes to weekly
food distributions two years ago she
told us she was turning in recycling and
selling jewelry for extra cash while
working as a part-time caregiver she's
continued to do that selling what little
jewelry she has left I only have like
two or three more pieces that I have for
as a backup resource the Los Angeles
Regional Food Bank says they're tracking
about 10% ahead in the amount of food
distributed compared to last year
they're serving 900,000 people a month
right now near pandemic levels and we
can't turn nobody away in New York City
some days you don't know where your next
meal is coming from City Harvest says
visits to City food pantries and soup
kitchens are at the highest level on
record even higher than the pic peak in
Chicago common Pantry says they're
serving 26% more households per month
than last year across the country 85% of
food banks in a feeding America survey
reported similar or higher demand for
food assistance comparing this August
with last August why do you think that
is when inflation has actually cooled
quite a bit I think what we're seeing
here in Los Angeles is the cumulative
impact of inflation food prices are
about 25% higher than they were pre
pandemic now the unemployment rate has
come down we would expect the demand for
food assistance to decrease but that's
not what has
happened pqu Hot Shot which planets in
our solar system do not have a natural
satellite or astronomical body that
orbits them Mercury and Venus Venus and
Saturn Mars and Earth or Jupiter and
Neptune answer is Mercury and Venus the
only two planets without natural
satellites like
moons an astronaut recently captured
video of objects in space of what he
called Cosmic fireflies now scientists
have been making some fascinating
discoveries while studying space but
occasionally the Intriguing phenomena
they find have some less than Stellar
explanation CNN's Jeremy Roth shows it
that that was the case with these Cosmic
fireflies an astronaut aboard the
International Space Station recently
shared an out of this world site of what
he dubbed Cosmic fireflies but there's
more than meets the eye to this eye
popping celestial site astronaut Don
Pettit is no stranger to surreal scenes
spotted from his orbiting ISS perch and
shared to his socials this latest trippy
video could inspire all manner of astrop
philosophical and existential questions
if the true explanation wasn't so
vanilla Pettit explained that what looks
like Cosmic fireflies are actually
scores of starlink satellites glinting
and gleaming in the Sun as they hover
above the Earth SpaceX has sent
thousands of the internet communication
satellites into orbit with even more in
the works sparking a debate amongst some
astronomers on what their impact may be
on future Celestial studies in the
meantime though hey they sure are
pretty all right so you might have
noticed that a bunch of big movies were
released around Thanksgiving break you
may have gone to see one or two yourself
Wicked Moana 2 and Gladiator 2 those
were the top grossing movies last month
and they were all released just before
the holiday now it's no secret that
production companies released their hit
movies around on the holidays and in the
summer but it turns out there's an even
more design behind releasing multiple
Blockbusters at the same time CNN's Lisa
resers France lets us in on the movie
studio marketing strategy behind filling
up those seats in the theaters Glick
Itor 2 and wicked making it one of the
most successful pre- Thanksgiving box
office weekends in more than 10
years do we agree with this gck day like
day we like that now it's giving us
Echoes of the cultural phenomenon of
barbin Heimer companies releasing movies
on the same day as AAL company is
actually not new we've seen matching US
release dates in the past including the
Dark Knight and Mama Mia which was later
coined the dark Mama casino and Toy
Story and way back in the 1990s 10
Things I Hate About You And The Matrix
so why do they do this well in the movie
Biz it's called a counterprogramming
strategy that's when companies released
their film the same time as a film that
is tonally very different to Target on
paper two traditionally different
audiences but they can also feed off of
each other as we saw with barbin Heimer
allowing social media to do a lot of the
marketing for the studios making people
want to be a part of the conversation
and there's an economic aspect too in
the 1930s the double feature where you'd
get to see two selected films with one
ticket was created to attract movie
goers during the Great Depression
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draped over the top of his house he had
to shovel not only his driveway and
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is my favorite part of the day we're
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remember the power you possess to create
some positive change in this world you
never know when or how but you just
might be the light someone needs today
you are more powerful than you know I'm
koi wire this is CNN 10 it's been a
blessing to spend this week with you