WEBVTT 00:11.280 --> 00:13.040 Hello everyone and welcome to another 00:13.040 --> 00:15.759 episode of CNN 10. I'm Don Redellin for 00:15.759 --> 00:18.160 my buddy Koi Wire. I'm so excited to be 00:18.160 --> 00:20.720 here and I promise I'll try not to break 00:20.720 --> 00:23.760 anything. Today is Thursday, January 00:23.760 --> 00:26.160 22nd. Ready for some news? Let's get 00:26.160 --> 00:27.920 started. We'll kick off in Davos, 00:27.920 --> 00:30.000 Switzerland, where world leaders are 00:30.000 --> 00:32.480 gathered this week for the annual World 00:32.480 --> 00:34.480 Economic Forum. It's a summit that 00:34.480 --> 00:36.559 brings together many of the world's most 00:36.559 --> 00:38.719 powerful minds to discuss global issues, 00:38.719 --> 00:41.040 including trade, climate change, and 00:41.040 --> 00:43.280 geopolitical instability. But this 00:43.280 --> 00:45.360 year's event is something that your kids 00:45.360 --> 00:47.360 might be reading about one day in the 00:47.360 --> 00:49.680 history books because it's taking place 00:49.680 --> 00:52.079 against the most turbulent global 00:52.079 --> 00:54.879 backdrop in decades. US President Donald 00:54.879 --> 00:57.199 Trump still wants to acquire Greenland. 00:57.199 --> 00:59.280 He took the stage Wednesday and whilst 00:59.280 --> 01:01.680 he ruled out using force to acquire the 01:01.680 --> 01:04.159 Danish territory, he doubled down on his 01:04.159 --> 01:06.560 claims that only the US can keep it 01:06.560 --> 01:08.720 safe. It's been said that through all of 01:08.720 --> 01:11.520 this, Trump could gain an island but 01:11.520 --> 01:13.680 lose a continent. What happens next 01:13.680 --> 01:15.280 could not only threaten the United 01:15.280 --> 01:17.280 States standing with many of its most 01:17.280 --> 01:20.159 vital allies, but could entirely disrupt 01:20.159 --> 01:22.720 the current status of NATO, the North 01:22.720 --> 01:24.960 Atlantic Treaty Organization. 01:24.960 --> 01:27.040 >> It's the United States alone that can 01:27.040 --> 01:29.600 protect this giant mass of land, this 01:29.600 --> 01:32.320 giant piece of ice, develop it, and 01:32.320 --> 01:35.040 improve it and make it so that it's good 01:35.040 --> 01:37.040 for Europe and safe for Europe and good 01:37.040 --> 01:40.320 for us. They have a choice. You can say 01:40.320 --> 01:44.400 yes and we will be very appreciative or 01:44.400 --> 01:48.399 you can say no and we will remember. 01:48.399 --> 01:50.399 >> Trump's speech comes less than a week 01:50.399 --> 01:52.240 after he threatened other allies with 01:52.240 --> 01:54.960 tariffs or trade taxes as part of his 01:54.960 --> 01:57.119 efforts to force control of Greenland. 01:57.119 --> 01:59.600 But even as European leaders sought to 01:59.600 --> 02:01.840 cool rising tensions on the sidelines of 02:01.840 --> 02:04.159 the summit, ripple effects from the 02:04.159 --> 02:07.200 unprecedented dispute have already begun 02:07.200 --> 02:09.360 to appear. European Parliament members 02:09.360 --> 02:12.239 voted the same day to block parts of a 02:12.239 --> 02:14.720 landmark trade deal between the US and 02:14.720 --> 02:18.319 the European Union indefinitely. Now to 02:18.319 --> 02:20.640 some big baby news back in Washington 02:20.640 --> 02:22.800 DC. You might have heard of a bump in 02:22.800 --> 02:24.720 the polls. Well, this is more like a 02:24.720 --> 02:26.879 bump in the office. Second Lady Usha 02:26.879 --> 02:29.360 Vance and Vice President JD Vance have 02:29.360 --> 02:31.040 announced they're expecting a baby this 02:31.040 --> 02:33.840 summer. The baby boy is due in July and 02:33.840 --> 02:35.599 will be the couple's fourth child 02:35.599 --> 02:38.160 joining brothers Euan and VC and sister 02:38.160 --> 02:40.640 Mirabel. This marks the first time that 02:40.640 --> 02:42.879 a sitting second lady will have a baby 02:42.879 --> 02:44.400 while in office. But it's not without 02:44.400 --> 02:46.879 some presidential president. First 02:46.879 --> 02:48.959 ladies Francis Cleveland and Jackie 02:48.959 --> 02:51.599 Kennedy both gave birth while their 02:51.599 --> 02:53.440 husbands were serving as 02:53.440 --> 02:55.280 commanderin-chief. 02:55.280 --> 02:57.599 Some news now from my home country, the 02:57.599 --> 02:59.440 UK, where the British government is 02:59.440 --> 03:02.319 exploring a possible social media ban 03:02.319 --> 03:04.159 aimed at better protecting children 03:04.159 --> 03:06.480 online. Ministers say they'll visit 03:06.480 --> 03:08.959 Australia to learn more about its ban on 03:08.959 --> 03:11.440 Social Media Down Under for those under 03:11.440 --> 03:13.519 16, which took effect last month. 03:13.519 --> 03:15.840 They're also considering stronger age 03:15.840 --> 03:18.640 verification checks and tougher rules on 03:18.640 --> 03:22.640 students using phones in schools. 03:22.640 --> 03:25.360 10-second trivia. Which desert is the 03:25.360 --> 03:28.319 largest hot desert on earth? Is it 03:28.319 --> 03:34.840 Kalahari, Sahara, Sonuran or Atakama? 03:35.840 --> 03:38.080 Well, the answer here is Sahara, which 03:38.080 --> 03:40.319 spans parts of 11 countries in North 03:40.319 --> 03:43.040 Africa, the world's largest cold desert. 03:43.040 --> 03:45.200 Well, that would be the Antarctic, which 03:45.200 --> 03:48.640 covers almost all 5.4 million square 03:48.640 --> 03:51.519 miles of Antarctica. 03:51.519 --> 03:53.840 All right, the skies above Libya have 03:53.840 --> 03:55.599 been transformed this week, turning 03:55.599 --> 03:58.480 bright orange as a result of a seasonal 03:58.480 --> 04:00.879 phenomenon. What you are seeing here is 04:00.879 --> 04:03.439 a powerful dust storm sweeping through 04:03.439 --> 04:05.920 the city of Benghazi. It looks pretty 04:05.920 --> 04:08.400 cool, but it causes real problems. Thick 04:08.400 --> 04:11.599 clouds of dry sand and soil blowing in 04:11.599 --> 04:13.040 from the desert, swallowing the 04:13.040 --> 04:15.439 coastline, and cutting visibility 04:15.439 --> 04:18.160 drastically across the city. This storm 04:18.160 --> 04:20.160 was so intense that flights were 04:20.160 --> 04:22.560 temporarily suspended at the country's 04:22.560 --> 04:25.120 two main international airports. Scenes 04:25.120 --> 04:28.479 like this are not unusual here. About 90 04:28.479 --> 04:31.919 to 95% of Libya is covered by the Sahara 04:31.919 --> 04:33.440 Desert. That's according to the United 04:33.440 --> 04:35.520 Nations Development Program, making it 04:35.520 --> 04:38.800 especially vulnerable to these seasonal 04:38.800 --> 04:42.560 storms. Okay, have you seen the movie 04:42.560 --> 04:45.040 Marty Supreme yet? I can tell you it's 04:45.040 --> 04:46.720 highly entertaining. It might land 04:46.720 --> 04:49.120 Timothy Shalamé and Oscar in March. And 04:49.120 --> 04:50.800 it's sparked some interest in the sport 04:50.800 --> 04:53.120 of table tennis in the United States, a 04:53.120 --> 04:55.360 sport which is usually much more popular 04:55.360 --> 04:58.240 in China, Korea, and Japan. But ping 04:58.240 --> 05:01.040 pong is gaining popularity in the United 05:01.040 --> 05:02.880 States with its first ever professional 05:02.880 --> 05:05.280 league, Major League Table tennis, now 05:05.280 --> 05:07.440 in its third season. And just a few 05:07.440 --> 05:09.440 weeks ago, the league's power rankings 05:09.440 --> 05:12.240 were topped for the very first time by a 05:12.240 --> 05:14.639 female player, Lily Jang. I've been 05:14.639 --> 05:16.320 chatting with Lily about her journey in 05:16.320 --> 05:18.880 the sport which began, get this, while 05:18.880 --> 05:21.440 her family was doing the laundry. 05:21.440 --> 05:24.639 >> I started playing because my parents uh 05:24.639 --> 05:27.680 they're both from China. So, uh it's 05:27.680 --> 05:29.440 kind of like the national sport there 05:29.440 --> 05:32.160 and everyone plays. So, um they would 05:32.160 --> 05:34.160 play for fun and then they kind of 05:34.160 --> 05:36.160 introduced the game to me when I was 7 05:36.160 --> 05:38.400 years old. And funnily enough, we 05:38.400 --> 05:41.120 actually started at the laundry room at 05:41.120 --> 05:43.199 Stamford campus because my dad was a 05:43.199 --> 05:44.880 professor there. So I would just play 05:44.880 --> 05:46.639 with them for fun to kill time while we 05:46.639 --> 05:48.479 waited for our laundry. 05:48.479 --> 05:50.479 >> Were you good at it straight off the 05:50.479 --> 05:52.639 bat, so to speak? Do you think you just 05:52.639 --> 05:54.800 kind of always have had a natural talent 05:54.800 --> 05:55.680 for it? 05:55.680 --> 05:58.720 >> I mean, I don't want to brag, but 05:58.720 --> 06:01.360 >> I do think I 06:01.360 --> 06:03.680 >> Yeah, I do think I I had maybe a natural 06:03.680 --> 06:05.600 affinity to the sport. You're a 06:05.600 --> 06:09.199 four-time Olympian uh already and when 06:09.199 --> 06:11.120 you went to the London Games in 2012, I 06:11.120 --> 06:13.120 believe you were the youngest in the 06:13.120 --> 06:13.680 team. 06:13.680 --> 06:15.840 >> For me, it was a dream come true to have 06:15.840 --> 06:18.080 actually made it and to be in that 06:18.080 --> 06:22.000 environment was so surreal. I mean, I 06:22.000 --> 06:24.240 remember multiple times in the games 06:24.240 --> 06:27.440 thinking like, why am I here? How am I 06:27.440 --> 06:30.639 here? And I remember like specifically a 06:30.639 --> 06:32.479 moment during the opening ceremonies. It 06:32.479 --> 06:35.280 was like Serena Williams to my right and 06:35.280 --> 06:37.360 then Kobe Bryant to my left and I was 06:37.360 --> 06:39.919 like this isn't like this is not real. 06:39.919 --> 06:42.560 >> Wow. What an experience. Uh at that 06:42.560 --> 06:44.560 point did you think you would go on to 06:44.560 --> 06:46.400 play in three more? 06:46.400 --> 06:50.400 >> Uh no definitely not. I, you know, had 06:50.400 --> 06:52.639 the Olympics as my dream, but once I 06:52.639 --> 06:55.120 made it, um, especially in the US, it's 06:55.120 --> 06:58.240 pretty customary for kids to stop 06:58.240 --> 07:00.800 playing when they reach university age. 07:00.800 --> 07:03.280 Um, so I think that was my initial plan 07:03.280 --> 07:05.599 or vision is just to make the Olympics, 07:05.599 --> 07:09.120 get that on my college resume, and then, 07:09.120 --> 07:10.880 you know, focus on education. But I 07:10.880 --> 07:12.560 think, you know, table tennis is 07:12.560 --> 07:14.160 something that I really, really love, 07:14.160 --> 07:16.400 and it feels like ingrained in my 07:16.400 --> 07:18.960 identity. So, I kept coming back 07:18.960 --> 07:20.400 somehow. You know, I always felt there 07:20.400 --> 07:22.240 was something missing in my life. 07:22.240 --> 07:24.479 >> And just literally a few weeks ago, you 07:24.479 --> 07:26.880 did something that no female player has 07:26.880 --> 07:30.800 ever done by topping the power rankings 07:30.800 --> 07:32.720 ahead of all the other men that play the 07:32.720 --> 07:33.280 game. 07:33.280 --> 07:35.599 >> Yeah. So, that's part of um Major League 07:35.599 --> 07:38.639 Table tennis, MLTT, which is the first 07:38.639 --> 07:40.800 ever professional table tennis league in 07:40.800 --> 07:43.520 the US. And it's the teams are a mixture 07:43.520 --> 07:46.639 of men and women. Somehow I found myself 07:46.639 --> 07:48.400 on the top of the power rankings which 07:48.400 --> 07:50.800 is crazy because at the time I think 07:50.800 --> 07:52.800 even in the top 10 there were no other 07:52.800 --> 07:55.120 women. I was really surprised and 07:55.120 --> 07:57.440 shocked but at the same time it's like 07:57.440 --> 08:01.120 such an amazing feeling because all 08:01.120 --> 08:04.080 those years of hard work and time and 08:04.080 --> 08:06.319 effort really did pay off in the end. 08:06.319 --> 08:08.560 And I think it's also a testament to how 08:08.560 --> 08:11.039 much I've I've put in over the years. 08:11.039 --> 08:14.720 And hopefully as well it shows, you 08:14.720 --> 08:16.240 know, another young girl out there 08:16.240 --> 08:18.960 watching that anything is possible and 08:18.960 --> 08:22.560 and she deserves to belong to be in the 08:22.560 --> 08:24.639 space. Um especially since, you know, 08:24.639 --> 08:27.039 sports itself is is more male-dominated. 08:27.039 --> 08:28.479 It just feels like a dream come true 08:28.479 --> 08:30.720 because again, I never had that example 08:30.720 --> 08:33.200 growing up as a little girl. So to even 08:33.200 --> 08:36.080 be in this position is such, you know, a 08:36.080 --> 08:38.000 privilege and an honor. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.560 >> What an inspirational story. Lily Jang 08:40.560 --> 08:42.640 started in the laundromat and then she 08:42.640 --> 08:46.760 took everyone to the cleaners. 08:49.680 --> 08:52.080 Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 08:52.080 --> 08:55.120 from us. A home renovation turning up an 08:55.120 --> 08:57.440 unexpected link to the past. And this 08:57.440 --> 09:00.240 story is just wild. When the Chapman 09:00.240 --> 09:02.720 family moved to Fargo, North Dakota, 09:02.720 --> 09:05.040 they settled on this century old 09:05.040 --> 09:07.360 fixerupper and they began making it 09:07.360 --> 09:09.600 their own. We looked at at a number of 09:09.600 --> 09:12.800 houses and when we walked in the door of 09:12.800 --> 09:15.279 this house, it was this is the one. 09:15.279 --> 09:17.200 >> During the renovations, contractors 09:17.200 --> 09:20.320 discovered an 80year-old newspaper 09:20.320 --> 09:22.160 underneath the floorboards. That's an 09:22.160 --> 09:24.399 old trick to level the floors. But when 09:24.399 --> 09:27.519 Casey Chapman took a closer look, he saw 09:27.519 --> 09:29.839 a very familiar face staring back at 09:29.839 --> 09:31.920 him. It was his own mom. 09:31.920 --> 09:33.920 >> Looked at the picture, and the picture 09:33.920 --> 09:36.000 just to the right of the terror is my 09:36.000 --> 09:38.399 mother. That's my mom right there. 09:38.399 --> 09:41.360 >> Turns out Casey's mother was homecoming 09:41.360 --> 09:44.000 queen at a local university eight 09:44.000 --> 09:46.480 decades earlier and she just so happened 09:46.480 --> 09:48.959 to grace that day's front page. The 09:48.959 --> 09:51.120 coincidence which Casey has called a 09:51.120 --> 09:53.839 quote godwink left him with goosebumps. 09:53.839 --> 09:56.160 The Chapmans are taking it as a sign 09:56.160 --> 09:58.480 that mom approves of their home choice 09:58.480 --> 10:01.279 and they are framing the treasured find 10:01.279 --> 10:04.080 so she can be a part of it forever. 10:04.080 --> 10:05.519 We've got just enough time for a couple 10:05.519 --> 10:09.040 of shoutouts today. First up, Mr. Dubar 10:09.040 --> 10:11.120 at Buouie High School in Buouie, 10:11.120 --> 10:13.519 Maryland. Thank you for watching us 10:13.519 --> 10:16.240 every day. And two from Roswell High 10:16.240 --> 10:18.959 School in Georgia, Mrs. Chilton keeping 10:18.959 --> 10:21.120 chemistry cool. And Mr. Burton in the 10:21.120 --> 10:24.640 math class who is always helpful, not 10:24.640 --> 10:26.800 hurtful. Thanks for spending part of 10:26.800 --> 10:28.560 your day with me. Koi will be back 10:28.560 --> 10:32.000 tomorrow. I'm Don Redell and this is CNN 10:32.000 --> 10:34.800 10.