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what's up sunshine welcome to CNN 10 I'm
KY wire it's Thursday March 27th happy
Friday Eve I want to throw this question
out there do any of you know anyone
named Elvis or Oprah I was talking with
some friends and we thought as popular
as those two celebrities are we can't
think of anyone we've ever met named
Elvis or Oprah so if you know let us
know all right let's get you your 10
minutes of news starting now we start
today with an early spring heat wave in
the southwestern United States we're
only 8 days into spring but it's
starting to feel more like summer for
some cities that are reaching record
temperatures for this time of year
Phoenix Arizona came just shy of hitting
the 100 degree Mark reaching 99 this
week if they had reached the forecasted
triple digit temperature it would have
been their earliest 100° day on record
based on National Weather Service data
normally the city averages its first
100° Day on May 11th in California
cities like Bakersfield and Sacramento
City broke high temperature records that
were set in 1997 reaching 91 and 88
deges respectively the unusual warmth is
also reaching the Pacific Northwest
where record high temperatures in
Portlands in Seattle are creating a rare
thunderstorm threat that hasn't been
seen this early in the year for at least
three decades our Derek vanam is in the
weather center with more the calendar
says it's spring but it certainly feels
like summer over the Western 2third of
the country in fact in the coming days
over 75 potential tied or broken record
high temperatures are possible and then
when we talk about one of the hottest
cities in America Phoenix Arizona this
is not what residents want to hear the
potential exists for the earliest 100°
day on record to occur late today so
that's really saying something about the
heat that these people are facing
especially coming off of a summer where
they
had3 consecutive days the longest
stretch ever Where the mercury and the
thermometer climbed above 100° now it's
not just Phoenix Arizona other locations
here potentially setting record high
temperatures you can see them from Palm
Springs all the way to Seattle
Washington so much of the West Coast and
you can imagine just where this heat is
traversing it'll first impact uh the
Rockies for the day tomorrow and then
shift a little bit further to the east
you can see the temperature Trend going
forward uh so you'll see those daytime
highs cooling from the West Coast but
warming as we look towards the central
parts of the US and will be the
benefactors here across the southeast
look at these temperatures uh from New
Orleans to Orlando and Atlanta uh V very
much like the middle to end of spring 10
second trivia what international
organization was created during the cold
War United Nations European Union North
Atlantic Treaty Organization or the
World Trade
Organization your answer here is North
Atlantic Treaty Organization the
military Alliance was formed in 1949 by
32 North American and European countries
as a response to tensions with the
Soviet Union now to a rare firsthand
account of what life was like for those
living and working at a military base
dub the city under the ice it's where
one Young American doctor was sent after
being drafted into the military as
tensions between the US and the Soviet
Union simmered during the Cold War in
the 1960s the US operated a remote
Arctic research base in Greenland called
Camp Century the unprecedented feat of
engineering was dug about 26 fet beneath
the surface of Greenland's ice sheet at
times Camp Century had a population of
nearly 200 people living in a network of
dozens of tunnels that connected the
prefa fabricated buildings where they
lived and worked in the underground
Caverns that included sleeping quarters
bathrooms Laboratories a mes hul laundry
room and a gym it was all powered by a
nuclear reactor carefully transported
and installed beneath the ice while
cuttingedge scientific work was
conducted there the US Declassified
documents in the 1990s revealing Camp
sentury was part of a top secret attempt
by the US to hide launch sites from
missiles in the Arctic a strategic
location much closer to Russia Dr Robert
Weiss tells us about his time serving at
the camp and how he felt when he learned
about the facility's secret purpose
decades later Camp century is buried
below the surface of this ice C this was
a cold war they were afraid that Russia
might come across and they needed to
have military up there this is Dr Robert
Weiss in 1962 he was drafted into the US
mil
where he began his career as a physician
working under the ice at a remote Arctic
research base cam centy Greenland which
is 800 mil from the North Pole I said
you're kidding all I saw was a lot of
snow just a few years earlier the US
military took unprecedented engineering
efforts to build the nuclear powered
base calling it a city under the ice a
system of 23 trenches would be dug into
the ice cap and then covered with steel
arches and snow except for the fact that
they have no windows the men of Camp
Century live exactly as do other
soldiers I never went outside I was very
happy I read a lot of Science and in
medicine uh played chess in 1967 the
camp closed decades later information
about the Camp's secret purpose was
Declassified revealing it was part of a
Top Secret Pentagon plan to hide launch
sites or missiles in the Arctic I mean
I'm not totally surprised we knew they
were digging tunnels and the whole idea
was to have a Subway under the snow but
they didn't get very far on this base I
mean I was totally surprised about the
idea of uh nuclear weapons uh being
placed which had never occurred now to
Greece where the country's famous
Instagram Island Santorini is reopening
to visitors for the first time since
earthquakes prompted a state of
emergency and evacuations on the tourist
hotspot between January 26 then February
22nd the Quake rattled island of
Santorini and the area around it
experienced tens of thousands of minor
earthquakes recorded at a magnitude of
one or higher on the RoR scale our Linda
concade shows us how one month later the
first cruise ship of the season is
Reviving hope for the Island's tourism
industry the popular Greek island of
santarini experienced waves of
earthquakes in January and February
causing tourists and many residents to
evacuate
but just over a month later the first
cruise ship of the Season arrived at the
island it's a sign of Hope the tourism
could bounce back after the earthquakes
triggered a state of emergency that
lasted until March 3rd it's exciting
yeah to know that the Island's open
again and we get to visit first it's
safe the pitus island sits near the
boundary of the African and Eurasian
tectonic plates because of its proximity
to the geographic fault lines Sant en
often experiences seismic activity but
the most recent wave of earthquakes was
not typical data from the national
Observatory of Athens indicated that
over 1,200 earthquakes ranging from 1 to
5.2 in magnitude occurred over a 2 we
period schools closed and construction
work was halted but now that the Quakes
have died down tourists Express
excitement about returning to Santorini
after the government's safety assurances
we love being the first cruise ship that
got the chance to come to Santorini we
feel really blessed we trust the tourism
board here and so if they said it was
safe to come we came with open arms the
island which attracts around 3.4 million
visitors each year is also home to
around 200,000 residents and tourism
makes up a large majority of the
Island's
income we all hope that things will
return to normal that people will come
back the cloud seem to be lifting so
things should improve for everyone at
least that's what we
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hope today's story getting a 10 out of
10 a skunk that you won't want to run
away from this skunk is bringing Smiles
not smells to the people he meets his
name is Mr Sushi and he's fully
domesticated
desentedents Iowa one of 17 states where
you can legally own a domesticated skunk
it's clear he's brought out quite a Pew
Sensational Smiles how much money do
skunks have one cent what's their
favorite kind of music Funk and I had
one more bad skunk joke but um I won't
tell it because it stinks all right
let's head up to Winston Salem North
Carolina big old shout out and lots of
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a great day remember happiness isn't
some ideal we have to chase or create
it's right here right now and all we
have to do is embrace it I'm Coy wire
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