hello and welcome to CNN 10 I'm KY wire
happy Friday it is January 31st we've
already made it to the last day of the
first month of 2025 my goodness let's
rise up and finish this week's strong
with your quick 10 minutes of news now
first there is a developing story
happening near the nation's capital the
tragic plane crash that at the time of
this recording was believed to have
taken the lives of 67 people when an
American Airlines flight and a US
military Blackhawk helicopter collided
in midair Wednesday night because
information is still coming in we want
you to know that you can head to cnn.com
if you'd like to stay up toate on the
latest our next story takes us to Syria
which has just named a new transitional
president nearly two months after the
fall of dictator Bashar al-assad the
interm leader Ahmad al- sharra led the
militant group responsible for the
lightning offensive that took down the
Assad regime in a matter of weeks the
amount of work ahead of this new regime
to build the war torn nation is massive
the assads ruled Syria with an iron fist
for several decades and since 2011 the
UN says the brutal Civil War there
killed more than 300,000 people and
displaced Millions more the conflict
there was sparked by the Arab Spring
when the Assad regime suppressed
pro-democracy movements the heavy-handed
response plunged the country into
full-scale war the chaos enabled the
growth of the terrorist group Isis which
temporarily gained power in the country
now the interim president is starting a
new transitional phase of government
suspending the Constitution under the
Assad regime and dissolving the former
regime's Army and political party the
new government has been authorized by a
temporary legislative Council that will
work to draw up and enact a permanent
Constitution and as the new government
takes uh shape syrians are left to cope
with $250 billion worth of Destruction
that will take decades to rebuild CNN's
Clarissa a ward is on the ground in
Damascus Syria's Capital to show us
firsthand what that looks like we're
just about a 15minute drive here from
Central Damascus and these suburbs of
Damascus really were essentially the
heart of the uprising against Bashar
al-assad and you can see how they've
just been smashed to bits they've been
bombed they were besieged people were
starved they were forcibly displaced and
now being here on the ground you get a
sense of the full scale of the
devastation the kind of rebuild and
reconstruction that we're talking about
estimates had been around 250 billion
which once seemed like a figure no one
could get their head around but when
you're here on the ground and looking at
it it's clear that it is going to cost
hundreds of billions to rebuild what's
not clear is where those dollars will
come from Syria's economy has been
hollowed out by years of war corruption
and crippling
sanctions in the suburb of DEA life has
returned to the streets but making a
living is hard Imad Abu kham runs a
shawarma shop like most here he is
optimistic about the future but
realistic about the
challenges so he's saying that it's
going to take a lot of money and a lot
of time to start to really rebuild
that much harder to rebuild are the
broken lives daa is a town of widows and
orphans schools are starting to reopen
but few are paying
salaries okay cute ah thank you thank
you according to UNICEF 2 million
children are now not going to school
inside Syria these kids told us that
they actually just got out of school and
we're heading now to a place that's been
set up by a charity ENT eventually it's
a safe space where kids can come and
play it opened just weeks after the fall
of the regime of Bashar al- Assad and is
run by inara a charity whose work I
support that focuses on children
affected by War as the Euphoria of
Liberation begins to subside the hard
work ahead is becoming clear and
communities like daa will need all the
support they can get
NASA scientists say they have found the
building blocks of life on an asteroid
orbiting within our solar system the
discovery comes from Rock and dust
collected from the asteroid benu
researchers have discovered that this
rock and dust contains an array of
organic molecules including amino acids
and components found in DNA the samples
were captured in October of 2020 during
the Osiris Rex Mission NASA's first ever
mission to send a spacecraft to land on
and collect material from an asteroid
the spacecraft then dropped off a
capsule of the samples as it swung by
Earth in September of 20123 their
findings were revealed this week in the
journals nature and nature astronomy one
study found thousands of organic
molecular compounds including 33 amino
acids as well as compounds rich in
nitrogen and ammonia a different study
uncovered a quote soup of elements
including salts and minerals that are
crucial to the formation of life while
the findings do not show evidence of
life itself scientists say that the
ancient Space Rock reveals conditions in
the early solar system may have been
conducive to the formation of life on
other planets and
moons Pop Quiz Hot Shot what is the most
active volcano on Earth when it comes to
eruptions sakurajima Fuego yasur or
kilaa if you said kilaa you are correct
it is the youngest and most active
volcano and it's located on the big
island of Hawaii kilaa volcano is one of
the world's most active volcanoes and is
now in a period of eruption that began
on December 23rd the current inter
Interruption has had seven episodes of
activity with pauses in between each of
them but why is it so active well the
Hawaiian Islands were formed by a
volcanic Hotpot and kilaa sits above
that hot spot which is high in magma
Supply and feeds magma from within the
Earth's mantle this causes frequent
eruptions and explains why this volcano
has cyclic eruptions scientists warn
high levels of volcanic gas are being
released from the volcano and are
causing some concern for residents
downwind Gases such as sulfur dioxide
can react with the atmosphere and create
what's called vog a hazy air pollutant
that can irritate the skin and have
respiratory effects it's only when
eruptions are active that the gas
emissions are elevated this eruption
will stop when magma has enough time to
cool in the vent so it won't be able to
restart
again today's story getting a 10 out of
10 goes to a man on a record-breaking
Mission Ben melum is now the Guinness
World Record holder for most museums
visited in 24 hours but the Brit only
needed half that time shattering the
record with 42 London museums in just 12
hours he said reading about the world
record with his kids inspired him when
they challenged him to do it it was a
done deal and he's not done now he is
attempting to beat the world record for
most museums visited in a year he
already has 85 visits under his belt
since he started the challenge in
October now for the best part of our
show Friday shout out this one's going
to the Mustangs at JW Mitchell High
School in Port Richie Florida rise up I
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