Hey everyone and welcome to another
episode of CNN 10. I'm Mina Derson
filling in for Koi Wire from CNN New
York and I am so excited to be here.
Today is Wednesday, January 21st. Now
let's get you your news. We're going to
start in Australia where a series of
shark attacks has forced dozens of
beaches to close and triggered warnings
to stay out of the water. Four attacks
were reported in the span of just 2 days
at popular beaches in the state of New
South Wales, which is on the country's
eastern coast. The attacks have all been
attributed to bull sharks, a species
with the unique ability to live in both
salt and freshwater. Bull sharks
commonly hunt near rivermouths and other
murky bodies of water like Sydney
Harbor, which is where one of the
attacks occurred. CNN's Angus Young has
more on why experts are worried that
recent weather trends in the region may
fuel more encounters.
>> The family of a 12-year-old Australian
boy is fearing the worst after he was
attacked by a shark at a popular Sydney
harour beach. Niko Antich has been
hospitalized since Sunday when he became
the first victim in a rare spate of
shark attacks. Rangers have been
scouring this area of Sydney Harour
since Sunday night looking for a shark
that attacked a boy here. That boy is
now in a critical condition in hospital,
only alive because one of his friends
jumped into the water to save him.
Four shark attacks in 48 hours. three in
Sydney, another on the coast to the
north. All were attributed to bull
sharks, a stocky species with powerful
jaws that lurk in murky waters.
>> When there's certain types of events
like very heavy rainfall, we know that
bull sharks, which are tolerant of fresh
water, move around the harbor quite
actively to move to where the fish are
being pushed by the changes in salinity
from the freshwater inputs. A
25-year-old surfer is also in a critical
condition after he was attacked on
Monday at a beach in Manley, another
Sydney hot spot.
>> At the moment, there's just been more
sharks up and down the eastern coast of
Australia than anyone's ever seen. Just
it it's actually it's actually radical.
So, I don't really want to go out for a
while.
>> An 11year-old boy with a close call at
nearby Dy Beach. These bites taken from
his surfboard. He got away unheard. The
attacks are not the first in Sydney in
recent months. Here, temperatures are
expected to surge ahead of an upcoming
holiday weekend. Many will be judging
whether to risk a swim.
>> And it's time for 10 trivia. What is the
highest posted speed limit in the United
States? 70 mph, 85, 90, or 100?
The answer here is 85 mph. And those
signs are posted in Texas, the highest
posted in the world. That would be in
Abu Dhabi at about 99 mph.
Rome, Italy, has become the latest
European capital to reduce its speed
limit. The move aims to tackle pollution
and obiate the number of accidents in a
city where streets are packed with cars
and tourists. CNN's Barbie Latin Adau
has the details.
The streets of Rome can feel like an
obstacle course, a chaotic mix of cars,
scooters, and pedestrians buzzing
through the city's ancient narrow
streets. But Rome is trying to curb the
whirlwind pace of some of its drivers,
cutting the speed limit in the historic
center almost in half from 50 to 30 km
per hour. The slowdown is an effort to
reduce accidents and pollution and it's
dividing opinions in the eternal city.
>> In my opinion, it is wrong. 30 km hour
is too little. 50 was fine.
>> Some people drive extremely fast. I ride
a scooter and often risk being hit. For
pedestrians and bicycles safety, too,
it's better to go slowly. And just as
Rome wasn't built in a day, the city's
transport chief says drivers have about
a month to gear down. With the new rules
gradually being enforced over the next
30 days, other cities like London,
Brussels, and Paris have imposed similar
speed limits. Officials in the northern
Italian city of Bolognia say a similar
measure reduced road accidents by 13%
and fatalities by 50% in the year after
it was enacted. And besides the
expectation of saving lives, local
authorities say the lower speed limit is
also expected to reduce noise levels in
the city center by around 2 dB. A lot to
gain by slowing down. Though some people
say the need for speed could be a hard
habit to break. Now to a behavioral
breakthrough that has researchers
saying, "Holy cow." Meet Veronica, a pet
cow in Austria with a unique skill. The
clever cow has learned to use sticks and
other tools to scratch parts of her body
she can't otherwise reach. Her owner
says she's been doing it for a decade.
But when researchers at a nearby
university saw a video of Veronica in
action, they knew they had to study her.
Turns out the backscratching bovine not
only uses tools like brooms
intentionally to get the itch, she even
prefers different ends for specific
parts of her body. It's the first time
this behavior has been documented in a
cow. And the team of experts says it
could be evidence that cows possess much
higher cognitive capabilities than
previously thought. They say Veronica's
special skill may even qualify as
multi-purpose tool use, a rare feat
that's only been documented otherwise in
chimpanzees.
And it may still be winter in the
Eastern Hemisphere, but over in the
Netherlands, spring is already making a
guest appearance. Look at this early
burst of color taking over Amsterdam. As
thousands celebrated National Tulip Day,
growers turned this square into a free
pick your own garden, giving away
200,000 tulips to kick off the selling
season.
>> We compare uh the flowers, they are in a
very excellent condition this year. Uh
also a little bit more better than last
year.
>> The Netherlands is the world's largest
producer of cut tulips, and events like
this signal the start of a busy season
ahead. Visitors were allowed to pick up
to 10 tulips each and for some it was a
first time experience.
>> We are happy to see tulips. It's our
first time. It's my first time seeing
tulips and it's like a big cultural
exchange for me.
>> I just love flowers and it's my first
time for me being here and uh nobody's
buying me flowers at the moment. So
yeah, I think it's a jackpot for me. Now
to a new record for one of the world's
most famous puzzles. Meet 95-year-old
Frank Zaminsky, who's now broken three
world records with a Rubik's Cube. Turns
out Frank has loved cubing since the
70s. So, he recently joined a local club
in upstate New York with school kids.
They encouraged him to enter a contest
this past Sunday where he set a World
Cube Association record in the senior
category by solving a Rubik's Cube in 5
minutes and 49 seconds. But he didn't
stop there. He also set two other
records for the 2 by two cube in his age
group, both for best single time and
best average time. His girlfriend was
even there to cheer him on. What'd you
tell him?
>> I told him, I said, "Pretend you're home
watching TV like you always and he
doesn't train two and a half."
>> I know.
>> Cuz I know he can do it.
>> It's different doing it by yourself and
under pressure like that against the
clock, you know. I get a little
flustered, you know.
>> Oh, you did great.
>> I was relieved.
>> The members of the Buffalo Speed Cube
Club were also there to celebrate his
wins. But even with his newfound fame,
the club members say they still plan to
meet every Tuesday night at the library
to get their cube on.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10
shows us that you're never too young to
be a hero. When a fire broke out in his
apartment building, 9-year-old Savage
knew exactly what to do. All because he
says he paid attention in school.
>> My mom was baking pizza and she yelled
that there's a fire. I told my dad to
pull the fire alarm and the call 911. I
made sure that everyone evacuated from
the building. The Mount Lebanon Fire
Department in Pennsylvania says Savage
participated in school fire safety
lessons and that his quick response kept
the fire from becoming catastrophic.
>> Being able to prevent that from
happening, knowing our kids know what to
do so that they can help themselves,
that's fantastic.
>> The partnership has been teaching fire
safety in elementary schools in the area
for 30 years. Savange says those lessons
can make a real difference.
>> You can be a hero if you listen class.
You can buy stuff at any time, but you
can't. Life is priceless.
>> All right, superstars. Congratulations
to today's Your Word Wednesday winner.
That's Miss Peterson at Nose Creek
School in Calgary, Canada, who submitted
obiate, a verb meaning to anticipate and
prevent something such as a situation or
make an action unnecessary. Thank you
for making us all a little bit smarter
today. I also have one shout out for you
today. Miss Janice at Rston High School
in Rston, Nebraska. Thank you for
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thank you so much to all of you for
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will be right back here tomorrow. I'm
Mina Derson and this is CNN 10.