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What's up superstars, superior studio
sages? Terrific Tuesday to you. I'm Koi
Wire. If it's been a bit 67, time to
turn it up to a CNN 10. Thank you for
spending part of your day with me here
on the best 10 minutes in news because
of you. Lots to get to, not a lot of
time to do it. So, let's get to it. We
begin in the US territory of Puerto
Rico, where a homegrown superstar has
single-handedly supercharged the
island's economy. We're talking about
genrebending rapper, singer, actor, and
occasional pro wrestler Bonito Antonio
Martinez Okasio, aka Bad Bunny.
The native Puerto Rican just wrapped up
a 30 show residency at the island's
biggest venue to promote his latest
album. Bad Bunny's decision to stay home
for the first leg of the tour as the
tourism economy hopping during a
normally slow hurricane season. The tour
is also making headlines for Bad Bunny's
decision to skip the US mainland. A
decision he says is rooted in concerns
over immigration enforcement. Our
Isabelle Rosales is there with more from
the island of enchantment.
>> I'm here.
>> Bad bunny mania has taken over the
island of enchantment. The rapper who
has previously been critical of ICE
operations said in an interview with ID
magazine he didn't include the US in his
concert tour because of fear that ICE
would raid the concert venues.
In a normally slow time for tourism on
the island, the Puerto Rican superstars
30 concert residency is sold out. Has
Puerto Rico ever seen something of this
scale?
>> Never. In the 20-year history of Kiso
itself, or in the entertainment history
of Puerto Rico, nothing of this
magnitude. Not even close.
>> Tourism agency Discover Puerto Rico
estimates the island will earn at least
$196 million from the residency. Do you
think that this stimulus will last
beyond his residency at all or is this a
temporary?
>> I think it's one of the most valuable
lessons that that will come out of the
residency.
>> Even the merch around this historic
residency has gone viral. The rapper's
version of Labu featuring the album's
Toad mascot and Sapo Kono sold out.
Lurking from a corner of his
grandparents living room in Pon. The
graphic designer, Sebastian Munice
Morales, is stunned by the hype.
>> Do you ever go, "Hey, that shirt you're
wearing, I designed that."
>> When I feel like very confident to do
it, I do it. But I get a little shy
telling people that I was the one who
created
>> Bad Bunny's music has long reflected the
struggles of life on the island.
>> You see the but once you go out, you see
the different problems we fight for.
Something's wrong here.
>> A legacy of US colonialism and
gentrification confronted head-on in his
song, What Happened to Hawaii.
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>> The island facing a crushing debt
crisis, crumbling infrastructure, and
frequent power outages spotlighted in
his song, The Blackout.
The reality has driven young Puerto
Ricans to leave the island in search of
a better opportunity. Something Munis
Morales once considered.
>> Some people like don't see their future
here.
>> And after Bad Bunny wraps up his
residency here in Puerto Rico, he moves
on to a world tour, kickstarting that in
the Dominican Republic. Let me set you
in with a little bit of the mood here.
You can see these massive crowds. Coy,
this is like the Super Bowl, right? And
what you're witnessing here is people
tailgating ahead of that, filling up
this venue of over 19,000 seats. Boy,
pop quiz hot shot. What lies at the
center of the Milky Way? Supernova,
white dwarf, black hole, or caramel?
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If you said caramel because of the candy
bar, correct. If you said black hole in
regard to the Milky Way galaxy, also
correct. The super massive black hole
Sagittarius A star lies at the center of
our galaxy about 26,000 lighty years
from Earth and more than 4 million times
bigger than our sun.
Did you know black holes aren't actually
holes? They're actually incredibly dense
concentrations of matter acting as
cosmic traps. Pockets of gravity so
strong anything that gets pulled in
cannot escape. including light. Talk
about dense subject matter.
One new study is giving us the clearest
look yet at a collision between two
black holes. The dueling giants were
discovered orbiting each other about a
billion lighty years from Earth. Their
collision created a black hole 60 times
greater than our sun, spinning at 100
revolutions per second. So, how did
scientists pull this off? Turns out
black holes ring. Astronomers used a
specialized observatory known as LIGO to
detect gravitational waves. Those are
ripples in spaceime that occur when
black holes slam into each other.
They're seriously small. Think 1,000
times smaller than the nucleus of an
atom. A Nobel Prize winning team was
finally able to document vibrations from
the waves back in 2015, 100 years after
Albert Einstein predicted their
existence. Scientists say this landmark
achievement has given them a totally new
view into the dynamics of space and time
and will help them learn more about
these cosmic oddities. E-waste,
electronic waste, you know, discarded
computers, phones, TVs, etc. It's become
increasingly growing concern in recent
years. And while some of us may have
heard the three Rs, reduce, reuse,
recycle, there's now a fourth R that
could be key to curbing the epidemic.
Repair. A group in London has a repair
cafe where volunteers are helping to
breathe new life into bin bound
electronics, keeping them in use and out
of the dump.
>> There is so many people who don't like
to throw things away.
>> We fixed about 91% of things that come
through the door. Anything you can carry
in, we're able to fix.
>> Electronics, textiles, lamps, vacuum
cleaners, furniture, not too big. Some
are just normal thing but with this
sentimental value. Some are just like
expensive things which you don't want to
throw away because they were expensive
and they are not that old. Every month
this community venue in London hosts a
repair cafe, a pop-up space where anyone
can bring their broken items to be fixed
by one of a team of volunteers for free.
It's part of a global movement that
started in the Netherlands in 2007,
which has now expanded to thousands of
similar spaces around the world.
>> Our lovely and very skilled volunteers
try to find the problem and fix it.
>> The eth is to save the planet to make
sure that we can use machines instead of
throwing them away and filling landfill
sites, we can actually reuse things and
make sure they last longer.
A lot of the items people bring in are
electronic. In 2022, an estimated 62
million tons of e-waste was created
globally, and that figure is rising
sharply, expected to reach 82 million
tons by 2030.
>> Some volunteers, that's their full-time
job repairing stuff or being engineers.
Some of them just like tinkering. Some
of them like helping people and hate
waste.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
all about paying it forward or shall we
say slaying it forward. Eli Derswitz
started fencing at 9 years old, went on
to become an NCAA champ at Harvard, an
Olympian and a world champ in 2023 in
individual men's saber. Now he's the
owner and coach at Zeta Fencing in
Ashlin, Massachusetts, the place that
inspired and molded him as a child.
>> To see that kind of joy on their face as
they learn that, you know, overcoming
obstacles and paying attention that that
will lead to this moment where things
start to come together. Um, when I see
that, like it really just um it feels
like magic to me. Sometimes I have to
take a step back and realize that having
fun at practice, having enjoyment here,
having friends and community to surround
them is the precursor to everything and
that I have to foster that environment
where they want to come in, where they
want to have fun, where they want to run
around with their friends. Slay all day,
as they say. All right, superstars, time
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