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hello sunshine I'm Koy this is CNN 10
and we are pumped for your word
Wednesday one of your words helped us
write Today's Show we've got a lot to
get to not a lot of time to do it so
let's get to it we start today in
Southern California where millions of
people continue to be under Fire threat
more than two weeks after dangerous
fires broke out there the good news
winds across the area are calmer than
their Peak and firefighters are making
progress but the Santa Ana winds are
expected to continue this week meaning
conditions like low humidity and strong
winds will increase the risk of fire
fire weather watches remain in effect
for San Diego County as well as Los
Angeles and Ventura counties until at
least Thursday night the National
Weather Service says wind gusts in the
San Diego mountains reached peaks of 77
mph early in the week in Los Angeles
mayor Karen bass told residents to stay
alert and be prepared to evacuate if
needed making matters worse nearly all
of Southern California is in severe
drought the toll of the fires there has
been devastating officials say thousands
of homes and buildings have been
destroyed while at least 27 people have
lost their lives fire Crews have made
strides containing the two most destru
destructive fires the Palisades fire is
more than 60% contained and the eaten
fire is nearly 90% contained fire crews
are wasting no time mobilizing all forms
of firefighting teams on the ground and
in the air ahead of the continued fire
risk CNN got a tour of one of those
planes with unique firefighting ability
called the super scooper take a
look these CL 215 TS hold 14 112 gallons
of water they can fill their tanks in
roughly 10 to 12 seconds on an open body
of water they're reinforced holes to hit
the water at you know roughly 100 mph to
fill those tanks these CL 215 TS or CL
415 eafs are among the fleet of planes
fighting fires now in California these
so-called super scoopers are built
specifically for aerial firefighting and
they're designed to pound fires over and
over with water replenishing their
massive tanks while still in motion they
can continuously scoop and drop water
for roughly 4 to 5 hours on a tank of
fuel and so they can drop few hundred
th000 gallons of water a day per scooper
um depending on how far the water
sources we can go you know hundreds of
miles into the back country to fight
fires where you just can't get to in a
matter of minutes Montana based company
Bridger Aerospace gave CNN a tour inside
one of their firefighting aircrafts
currently in Southern Cali California
battling the most destructive wildfires
in the area's history so when we come
inside uh people will see it for the
first time they'll often say oh there's
so much room inside and what they need
to remember is that the airplane was
designed around these water tanks this
is all 6 tons of water right here and
this is what the airplane was designed
around and this is exactly how much
airplane it takes to move that something
prominent here is the uh life raft you
have to remember we are a boat we're
equipped as such with uh life rafts
jackets anchors lines all the usual boat
pieces as well Bridger is the the
largest private owner operator of
scoopers in the world we have six of the
10 here in the US um we can and have
operated in the in Canada they have a
lot of provincial fleets there and
they're a lot based in Europe in the US
they never have been in California
specifically I think with all the
publicity we're getting a lot of
interest as people see what they can do
you know scooping water off the ocean
and in kind of tight
places company reps say their mission is
to provide aerial support to
Firefighters on the ground with the hope
that the super scoopers become a more
accessible tool across the us against an
increasing number of wildfires we're
looking for kind of that unmet need and
something that we think is is best
position for that having the opportunity
to show what we're capable of and put
these things um to the test has been
very critical and as multiple fires
continue to rage on in the Los Angeles
area the super scoopers have become a
welcome sight to Residents and
firefighters alike if this happened in
in July or August it would still be
catastrophic and unprecedented we've
never seen this in a heavily populated
area like LA to have it happen in
January is just absolutely you know
shocking a wakeup call I think to us to
the whole country that fire season is
isn't really a thing anymore it's year
round and the devastation is just
terrible
10-second trivia the rockets that put
man on the moon were developed in what
US city nicknamed Rocket City Vandenburg
California Houston Texas Huntsville
Alabama or Cape canaval
Florida your answer here is Huntsville
Alabama the city is home to the Redstone
Arsenal the main site for the Saturn
launch vehicle research design and
testing into the 1960s before Army
research was transferred to NASA
news now on developments in the new
space race after blue origin just
successfully launched its new Glenn
rocket into orbit the company founded by
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is
celebrating the launch of their first
rocket powerful enough to launch
satellites into space the goal here make
rockets that can return to launchpads to
be reused later and while that didn't
quite work out for the first launch uh
take a look at how blue origin is making
strides to get
there lift up in a first for the company
an uncrewed blue origin rocket blasted
off into space on January 16th it's the
company's first launch into orbit
following numerous ones by its
competitor
SpaceX the rocket Newen is roughly the
height of a 30-story tall building and
Carries experimental
technology however it appeared to have
missed one of its goals of catching new
gland's first stage rocket booster on a
seaf fairing
platform new Glenn is part of blue
origin's most ambitious goals
potentially being able to power National
Security launches or help construct a
space
station oh my God end of roll St now
level chamber press continue to look
good all seven engines continue to look
good on the first stage data quality is
good coming down from the vehicle body
rate response are nomenal
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10 the
hardworking disciplined and dedicated
football players that went toe totoe in
the national championship game this week
they are big they are tough but it turns
out they are quite convivial ahead of
Monday's title game I spoke to The
Talented players from Notre Dame and
Ohio State I asked them about their
dreams their fears even got them to sing
a few bars I also asked them to give all
of you some advice by asking what they'd
tell their younger
yourselves something that you would say
to your younger self think about the
Next Generation out there which one bit
of advice you give your younger self uh
keep pushing sky's the limit and if you
stick to your work and um humble during
the process good things will happen the
respect all but fear none uh when I was
younger I was always timid uh didn't
really want to put myself out there but
now I mean I kind of live by that phrase
and something that coach Bron always
says so definitely tell myself that be
humble in everything you do and take in
every single experience is possible as a
kid you know you want to go hang out
with friends you want to go you know
parties or you know have some sort of
activity you want to do but you know in
all reality you know you're your biggest
competitor and you know you got to
sacrifice to get to where you want it's
never going to go as you anticipated but
just roll with the
punches uh and then when your time comes
just be ready for it definitely stay
grounded and uh be true to who you are
don't quit just keep going continue to
learn your cup up because every single
day you need some some type of knowledge
man when you look back on it you know it
it only have so much time you know
especially whether it's college or high
school you know just um you know just
take advantage every day and every
moment and just just stay in the moment
and try to maximize every moment you
have
Elevate congrats to the Ohio State bucke
guys on winning the national title and
respect to both teams for showing
incredible Focus heart and determination
all season long also congrats to our
your word Wednesday winners Mr we's
class at St Elizabeth an Sean in Fort
Wayne Indiana for convivial and
adjective meaning cheerful friendly and
jovial nice one thanks to all of you for
following me at kwire on social and
submitting an abundance of excellent
words mad vocab skills our shout out
today is going to Karen Crow High School
in Lafayette Louisiana we see you be
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