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Hello everyone. Welcome to CNN 10.
What's up, Don?
>> What's up, man?
>> I'm Ky Wire with your daily 10 minutes
of worldwide news here on this
Wednesday, August 27th. Hi, Sabrina. Oh,
breaking news. Congrats, Tay and Travis
Kelce. Today is your word Wednesday,
meaning one of you helped us write
today's show. and you all really brought
it with those words you submitted on my
social accounts. Let's get educated.
Let's get those mental muscles working
and get this show on the road. We start
with a weather phenomenon that caused a
surreal scene over the one of the
biggest cities in the US, Phoenix,
Arizona. A towering wall of dust known
as a haboo briefly encapsulated parts of
the city on Monday, plunging the city
into near zero visibility.
>> And can't
see anything. We are in the middle of
the haboo.
>> The winds were anything but zepherean.
Gust reach up to 70 mph. Cameras across
the city captured scenes that looked
like they were straight out of the movie
Dune. The massive dust storm blotted out
the sun. My mother-in-law lives in
Phoenix. I woke up to a text from her
saying it was a doozy. The storm in
Phoenix comes just days after a similar
situation in nearby Nevada. A weekend
dust storm blew through the annual
Burning Man Arts Festival, leaving
attendees scrambling to secure their
tents. It really packed a punch. Now,
I'm going to turn this into a one-two
punch. I'm going to bring in our
meteorologist extraordinaire, Allison
Chenchar. Good to see you, Ally.
>> Good to see you, too, Coy.
>> Now, you've been on the show before, but
I think this is your first time at our
wall of friends. What do you think?
>> I have. I am very impressed. This is
very creative. I like it.
>> Best viewers in the world. Best
meteorologists in the world. Tell us
what causes this type of storm. Right.
So, a habou is very interesting because
even though it's a dust storm, it's
actually caused by a thunderstorm. So,
you have the thunderstorm and what's
called outflow. It's the very strong
winds that come from the front of the
thunderstorm and they push down to the
surface and they're so strong they'll
pick up dirt, dust, anything from the
ground throwing it thousands of feet up
into the air. And then once the dust
settles, then you can have the rest of
the thunderstorms. Sometimes very
intense rain showers right behind it.
>> Say you're in a place like Phoenix, you
see one of these things coming. What do
you do? How dangerous can they be?
>> Right? So, if you happen to be in a car,
the best thing to do is to pull over
because often times they make the
visibility down to zero, meaning you
couldn't see your hand if it was this
far in front of you. So, best to just
pull over and wait for the storm to die
down.
>> Knowledge. All right. Arizona and Nevada
aren't the only states dealing with
wicked weather out west. Firefighters in
Oregon are continuing to battle the flat
fire burning across 34 acres of rugged
wilderness.
>> That's right. The,200 firefighters
battling the blaze did finally get a
much welcomed assist from mother nature
in form of cooler temperatures and even
some rain. The blaze was initially
turbocharged with a stint of dry and
very hot weather over the weekend. And
in California, the picket fire was
nearly 20% contained at the time of this
taping. That blaze charred about 10
square miles of Napa County in the
state's central region. And while the c
county is expected to remain vulnerable
this week, the fire has so far spared
its world famous wineries.
>> Now to a story at the intersection of
extreme weather and cuttingedge
technology. The National Hurricane
Center is partnering with Google this
hurricane season in a bid to develop
nextgen forecasts.
>> That's right. So Koi, the goal is to
further leverage AI to help provide
forecasters with better realtime data as
the storms develop. This in turn could
help officials make quicker calls on
things like evacuation orders,
potentially saving lives. Now, Google
says it's using Deep Mind AI and machine
learning to make predictions about the
storm's path, the size, the intensity at
unprecedented speeds. You can even take
a look for yourself at Google's weather
lab website. So far, the model has sewn
shown some promise, but humans still get
the final say. A team of experts is
comparing the results from this
hurricane season in real time to see how
they stack up.
>> Thank you so much for stopping by.
Before you go, as we're in front of our
wall of friends here, is there a school
you would like to shout out, Miss
Chinchar?
>> Perhaps my alma mater, the Ohio State
University.
>> Go Buckeyes. Look out. Pop quiz hot
shot. In the original book, The Wizard
of Oz, Dorothy's shoes were silver. Why
were they changed to ruby red for the
movie? To better match Judy Garland's
dress to look more magical. to showcase
technicolor or to make them easier to
see on the film.
If you said Technicolor, you should be
glowing with pride. Wizard of Oz was the
first film to popularize three strip
technicolor. It used a special camera
that split light into red, green, and
blue components. These were later
combined with dyes to produce bright,
saturated colors.
>> Toto,
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas
anymore.
>> You can say that again, Dorothy. It's
more like we're in Las Vegas. Hold on to
your ruby red slippers, Wizard of Oz
fans. Starting tomorrow, you can follow
the yellow brick road like never before
when the cinematic classic debuts at the
city's iconic sphere. A team of more
than 2,000 visual artists, AI
researchers, and academics work with
CNN's parent company, Warner Brothers
Discovery, to enhance the 1939 film to
fill the sphere's massive wall of
screens. AI was used to fill in the gaps
in the original footage and enhance
clarity. And there is no place like
home. Parts of the film score were even
re-recorded on the original soundstages.
In a sense, that meant that we had to
reimagine the cinematography. We had to
reimagine the editing and we had to do
all of this without changing the
experience because if you touch anything
about that sacred piece of cinema,
you're toast. Viewers will get a wicked
cool experience, including fully
immersive sound via 160,000 speakers,
simulated tornado winds, fog,
firebursts, even vibrating seats. And
while AI's use in Hollywood is a hotly
debated topic, the creators insist their
goal is to help enhance, not remake, the
iconic film.
>> I hope that we were invisible. I hope
that our technology disappears. And I
hope that people are just inside the
story and happy the way that that movie
has made Happy happen for 85 years.
>> We've all probably heard the phrase,
"You can't teach old dogs new tricks."
But what if a robot dog could teach you
new tricks? At this EV manufacturing
plant, human engineers are getting an
assist from a high-tech four-legged
friend when it comes to quality control.
Our Christy Lou Stout has more.
This is Spot, a robotic quality control
dog. It's in charge of inspecting this
engineer's work here at the Hyundai
Motor Group Innovation Center in
Singapore.
>> So, what you're seeing here is an
example of innovation in action. So,
we're we're using Boston Dynamic Spot
robots to assist our uh technician with
inspection work. And what spot is doing
here is following our technician in his
footsteps and control specific
activities that are typically highly
errorprone. Spot will take a picture,
send it to our command center where our
algorithm will run and compare it with
good and bad assembly and then return an
answer whether the assembly has been
done correctly or not. Before the job is
done, the technician will know whether
he needs to do any any correction.
Opened in 2023, the factory can produce
up to 30,000 electric vehicles annually.
Hyundai says almost 70% of their
assembly and inspection processes are
automated with around 200 robots on the
factory floor.
>> The value of using robots assisted
inspection rather than human inspection
is the consistency. So you really need
to have that type of accuracy there if
you don't want to have quality issues
down the road.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. 10
out of 10 is a special pot of merolk in
Northern Virginia. These mermaids and
one mer man in a club dubbed Metro
Murfolk have taken their love for the
sea to the swimming pool. For some, it's
an alternative workout. Others, a way to
escape reality. The pod is among the
growing number of adults diving into
cosplay with these shimmering tales.
>> People want to bring a little bit of
happiness, a little bit of joy, a little
bit of whimsy into their life.
>> The Metro Murf folk remind us that life
can be about more than just convention
or routine. It can be about inclusivity,
authenticity, and adding a touch of
whimsy to your everyday life. All right,
congrats to Mrs. Dumo and all our
friends at Manion Middle School in
Henderson, Nevada for submitting
Zepharan, an adjective meaning of the
character of, resembling or suggesting a
light breeze. Thank you for boosting our
vocab today. And I got a shout out Mr.
Fenton and Mrs. Hackash at Canyon
Springs STEM Academy in Anthem, Arizona.
Thank you. You put the cool in school
swag. And from our YouTube subscribers,
Coach Pford at Pinewood Preparatory
School in Somerville, South Carolina.
Happy birthday, coach. Show them some
love, Panthers. Thank you all for
spending part of your day with us. We'll
see you right back here tomorrow and do
it again. I'm Koi Wire and we are CNN
10.
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