What's up, sunshine? Rise up. I'm
Koiwire. Welcome back to CNN 10. Hope
you're having a wondrous, warm
Wednesday. It is a hump day, though, and
those can be rough. What do the trees
say to the Wednesday? Please leave me
alone. Today is also your word
Wednesday. So, make sure you stay tuned
and see if your word gets picked. Now,
we have some great stories for you
today. So, let's dive in. If you're
wondering why I'm so excited, not air,
the love it school from right here in
Atlanta, Georgia, here with Mr. Poston,
Mr. Webb, and Miss Turner. Yeah, Warner
Brothers Discovery colleague here
invited them in for a tour of our
Techwood studios. So, welcome Lions. We
hear you roar. Now, let's get your news.
We begin in France, which could become
the latest country to ban social media
for younger users. The country's
national assembly voted overwhelmingly
on Monday to pass a bill banning social
media for users under 15 years old amid
growing concerns about online bullying
and mental health risks. The bill will
now head to a series of votes in the
country's Senate and lower house. French
President Emanuel Mcronone previously
asked the government to fasttrack
efforts to pass the bill in order to
have it ready for the school year. He
told a CNN affiliate, quote, "The brains
of our children and adolescents are not
for sale." Now, France is looking to
follow in the footsteps of Australia,
where a firstofits-kind ban has led to
4.7 million accounts being deactivated
or removed since just December. Other
countries including Britain, Denmark,
Greece, and Spain are also studying
Australia's ban as they look to help
reduce social media's impact on the
mental health of younger users. Today
marks the 40th anniversary of the
Challenger disaster that changed space
flight forever. On January 28th, 1986,
the space shuttle Challenger broke apart
just 73 seconds after taking off from
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Households, workplaces, classrooms
across the country were watching live as
the historic launch suddenly became an
unimaginable tragedy. All seven crew
members were killed, including Christa
McAuliffe, a civilian who was set to
become the first teacher in space. The
director of the project behind the
booster rockets, had refused to sign off
on the launch the night before due to
concerns over how cold weather may
impact the tanks. Those cold conditions,
combined with a design flaw in seals on
the external tank, were later determined
to be the cause of the catastrophic
failure. The disaster grounded NASA's
space shuttle program for nearly 3
years. And it's just one of a series of
tragic milestones for NASA that happened
in that late January. Yesterday marked
the 59th anniversary of the Apollo 1
tragedy when the three-man crew set to
embark on NASA's first moon mission were
killed by a cockpit fire shortly before
takeoff. This weekend will mark the 23rd
anniversary of the space shuttle
Colombia disaster. The entire crew was
killed when the craft disintegrated on
re-entry due to damage sustained during
takeoff. All three tragedies are
commemorated by NASA's annual day of
remembrance celebrated on the fourth
Thursday in January. Decades later, the
lessons learned from these disasters
continue to shape how NASA as well as
private companies like SpaceX approach
space travel.
Pop quiz hot shot. How many miles can
monarch butterflies travel during their
migration to Mexico? 1,000, 2,000,
3,000, or 5,000?
If you said 30,000, you so fly. Monarch
butterflies can travel up to 3,000 miles
during their migration across North
America, sometimes traveling a 100 miles
a day.
Monarch butterflies are famous for
making the longest journey of the insect
world, spanning North America. Now,
scientists are using new technology to
track that migration in real time, so
they don't have to wing it when it comes
to accuracy. In Florida, researchers are
catching monarch butterflies, fitting
them with tiny tracking tags small
enough to sit on their backs. The goal
is to better understand monarchs from
takeoff to touchdown and what happens in
between.
>> Expertise was butterflies and Isa's
expertise was
>> tech
>> tech and drones and AI and things like
that. And we sort of thought, well, what
can we do together?
>> The tags are powered by tiny solar
panels and send out Bluetooth signals.
any nearby phone or receiver can pick up
the signal, allowing scientists to map
the butterflyy's movements as they fly.
>> I mean, monarchs are amazing in terms of
um they're really wellstudied, but
there's still a lot of open questions
about what they're doing when they're
migrating. And you've got resident and
migratory populations. Tagging monarchs
in places like Florida also helps
scientists compare migratory
butterflies, which travel from the
northern US and Canada to Mexico with
resident populations generally within
the Caribbean and South and Central
America that don't travel at all.
Researchers say this technology could
soon be used for other pragmatic
research, including studying dragonflies
and locusts and opening the door to new
discoveries about how animals move
through the world. It really is kind of
a gamecher in terms of what we're able
to do and how we're able to see the
world around us and what animals are
doing.
>> Now, from Florida to Mexico, these
monarchs are not flying under the radar
thanks to the science that's helping
researchers follow every flap of the
way. All right. Here with our Lions from
Love It. I couldn't hear earlier. Are
you pumped TO BE HERE TODAY?
>> YEAH. ALL RIGHT. We have EMTT,
Stephanie, Kai, Emmy, and Arav. And
sitting beside me is the producer of CNN
10, Chelsea Cook. Round of applause for
Chelsea, everyone.
All right, we have some questions from
the Lions. Bring it.
>> How did your experience as an athlete
and a journalist shape your path to
becoming the host of CNN 10? And what
skills from those experiences do you use
most in your job today? I tell people
all the time that being in TV is just
like playing in the NFL because you have
this team of people around you from all
different walks of life. Um, and you
have to learn to be a good teammate
because we're all in this to win the
game, right? You may not love everyone
that's on your team or work with every
day, but you've got to find a bond and
something that makes you a good teammate
for them and they for you. Kai and Emmy,
I know your questions are similar, so
why don't you go ahead and both ask
them.
>> Um, how did you find new content for a
new day every day that you know will
intrigue a big crowd?
>> Do you find it challenging to make the
content on your show understandable for
kids and teens? And if so, what are some
challenges regarding this?
>> It's really not all that dissimilar
because as a journalist, as a TV writer,
you have to become a instant expert in
the topic that you're given. So you
start from scratch. You start thinking,
okay, uh, our show is from 13 to 18 is
the age demo. What might they not know
coming to this subject? What do we need
to start with?
>> We want stuff that's going to educate
the brain, the body, the mind, the
spirit. If it's helping people grow,
>> then we're all for it. That's a big part
of the stories we select.
>> What kind of impact do you want to have
on the world around you as you give your
10 minutes of news every day?
>> I didn't know that was going to hit me
like that.
When I look into your eyes and hear you
ask that, I'm reminded of why I do this
every day and why my team does this
every day.
I feel so fortunate to like have had so
many mentors and teachers in my life,
literal teachers,
coaches,
my parents, very fortunate. And um I
heard a quote a long time ago that says
uh what we have is not for us to
possess, is for us to pass on.
>> If we think we've accomplished anything
in and of ourselves, we're foolish.
We're nothing more than conduits of
knowledge and information.
And so
I want to be a spark of joy. I want to
be a conduit of knowledge and
information in an unbiased,
unopinionated, non-slanted way.
to help broaden perspective,
understanding, knowledge, and
information.
Tissues, please
>> rise up.
>> Get ready to turn up the volume cuz
today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
music to our ears. CNN's Victor
Blackwell brings us a Grammy nominated
fatherdaughter duo that are spreading
positivity one tune at a time.
this place would be.
>> My name is Harold Simmons aka Fuch and
I'm a music artist and educator in
Charles County, Maryland.
>> My name is Orura Valentina Simmons. I'm
the age eight and my artist name is Ora
V and I'm in White Plains, Maryland.
>> Wanted to make some songs for kids, some
songs for the parents and adults. And we
started with a song called I am love, I
am light. We recorded it when she was 4
years old. I love myself.
>> I love myself.
>> I love I love I love
>> I thought, okay, we need to do some more
Daddy Daughter songs, you know. So, that
kind of started the momentum and we just
kept going, kept releasing singles until
we had enough songs for a whole Daddy
Daughter album.
>> I am God's creation. Okay, so the day of
nominations, I turned on the the YouTube
live feed and I watched it and they
didn't announce the children's music
category because I didn't realize they
do that on the website, not on YouTube.
And my agent and other people texted me,
"You got it.
>> I'm about to go pick her up from school
and surprise her."
>> It was so so so exciting. It was super
fun. I was not really expecting it.
All right, congrats are in order for our
your word Wednesday winner, Mrs. Meyers
at Romik Middle School in Anchorage,
Alaska, submitting pragmatic, an
adjective, which means practical, moved
by facts rather than abstract ideas.
Well done. Way to make us smarter today.
And we have a shout out going to Mrs.
Zaker at Hill Middle School in
Neapville, Illinois. Thank you for your
kind YouTube comments. You rock. Also,
shout out to the Love It Lions. We see
you in this sweet new hat. I love it.
Hey, make someone smile today. We'll see
you tomorrow. I'm Koi Wire and we are
CNN 10.