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Thank you for downloading, streaming or just plain watching CNN 10. I`m Carl Azuz explaining
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world news from the CNN
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Center. First today, get away from the coast. That`s what a Americans in the U.S. Southeast
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are being told as a monster storm brews in the Atlantic
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Ocean. It`s name is Hurricane Florence. It`s already triggered mandatory evacuation orders
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for more than 1 million people in the states of North
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Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. And Florence is uniquely dangerous. For one thing
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it`s powerful. Its wind speeds hovered around 140 miles per
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hour Tuesday.
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That makes Florence a Category 4 hurricane. That makes Florence strong enough to blow
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the roofs off houses, knock down walls, snap most trees,
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take out power. The area it hits could be uninhabitable for months. For another it`s
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storm surge could be catastrophic. This is the abnormal rise
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in sea levels as a hurricane blows water ashore. A CNN meteorologist says Hurricane Florence
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could bring a 20 foot storm surge. That would make the
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tide 20 feet higher than it normally is as Florence blows in.
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The National Hurricane Center says anything more than a 12 foot storm surge is life threatening.
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Third, scientists tracking this storm predict it will
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slow down after it makes landfall. That`s a major problem as far as flooding is concerned.
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Last years Hurricane Harvey was a slow moving
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storm. It poured rain on Houston, Texas for more than a week and that caused scenes like
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this. Predicting exactly what storms like Florence will
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do is still like predicting the weather. There`s uncertainty about it. This hurricane`s wind
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speeds fluctuated Tuesday. Forecasters didn`t agree
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on whether it would still be a Category 4 storm at landfall, if it would get stronger
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or weaker before it blows ashore. But here`s how things
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looked yesterday afternoon.
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We now have Hurricane Watches along the coastal region of South Carolina all the way up to
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the border of Virginia and same goes
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for Storm Surge Watches that have been issued across the region but everything else remains
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the same. Still a Category 4, still 140 mile per
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hour sustained winds and the storm still pushes off to north and west northwest that are 15
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miles per hour. But here we go with this and we know
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water temperatures from here forward will just continue to get warmer. You need water
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temps of 82 degrees Fahrenheit to maintain a tropical system.
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We`ll go to about 85 eventually to about 88 before it makes landfall. That`s why there
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is that outside shot of this potentially even
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strengthening further up to a Category 5 as it approaches land. But, you take a look.
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That rapid intensification in place, 36 hour period from a
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Cat 1 to Category 4, remarkable system. And of course, we`ve looked very carefully at
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where it`s going to end up and consistency has been all the
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name of the game with this as far as pinpointing South Carolina on into North Carolina even
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including portions of Virginia. At this point, the
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latest models bring this in sometime into the overnight hours now of Thursday and potentially
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early Friday morning coming in as a Category 4,
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somewhere around the costal regions of North Carolina from Wilmington up towards Cape Hatteras.
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The spaghetti model guidance kind of shows the concentration of which right around areas
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around Wilmington as the best likelihood for landfall and
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Hatteras certainly in line as well. And when you take a look at the comparison of the most
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reliable models we typically go to the American and
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European, American in red. European coming in in blue. Very similar as far as where they`re
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lined up here going into the overnight hours of
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Thursday. But notice, once they make landfall both models kind of want to have it hover
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around for maybe a day or potentially more. That`s what
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really becomes a danger in scenario here with potential rainfall amounts as much as 20 or
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more inches on some of these costal communities.
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On the 17th Anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., memorial
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services were held across the country
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yesterday. Starting at 8:30 a.m. at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City a ceremony including
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a moment of silence was held in remembrance of the
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victims. Their names were read aloud and church bells rang throughout the city. At 8:45 a.m.,
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at the Pentagon, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence and
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Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis attended a ceremonial wreath laying and a reading of
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the victims names there.
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And at 9:45 a.m. in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady
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Melania Trump paid tribute to the victims of United Airlines
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Flight 93. The President called the field where terrorists crashed the plane a monument
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to American defiance and he called the new Tower of Voices
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Memorial a message that America would never submit to tyranny.
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10 Second Trivia. Which of these is not a requirement for a celestial body to be considered
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a planet? Must orbit the sun, must clear its path of
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orbit, must have a moon or must be round. A planet does not need a moon to meet the
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International Astronomical Unions definition of a planet.
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But as option B indicated, it does have to clear the neighborhood in its path of orbit.
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Meaning knock other space rocks out of the way if necessary
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and that`s why the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was no
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longer a planet. The Union said it was just too small to
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clear its path. But that decision caused a lot of controversy and not just among those
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who were taught there were nine planets in our solar system.
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New research published in the scientific journal Icarus argues that Pluto should be reinstated
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to planetary status. A University of Central Florida
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scientist says that, nobody actually uses the path clearing requirement in their research.
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He says his team looked at two centuries worth of materials and found only one study from
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the early 1800`s that used the path clearing requirement.
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He adds that the way a celestial body is formed and whether it`s big enough to have a spherical
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shape are more important factors for its
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classification. The IAU says it hasn`t received any formal requests to reevaluate Pluto but
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that it`s good to debate these topics.
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Up next, a report on the CNN Hero. In the mid-1990`s Alyssa Montantee (ph) found out
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about a boy in Southeast Europe who lost three of his limbs to a
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land mine. Within 24 hours, Montantee (ph) had contacted an airline, a hospital and a
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prosthetic company to help him. Since then, her non-profit
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group, The Global Medical Relief Fund has helped more than 300 children from 46 countries.
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I help children one at a time you could say. When I first started this 20 years ago, I
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didn`t have a clue. I was really
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struggling with panic attacks and I really didn`t know what was happening with me but
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there was something inside me that drove me to do this. We
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bring children that have no resources from all these different countries. They receive
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medical care. The children that we help have been injured
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through war and natural disasters, birth defects and injuries.
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We write the Visa and then we fly them here to JFK in New York. We follow up until they`re
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21 years old. So they come back every year. So, Arush
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(ph), her mother had sent me an email and said that her daughter was born without legs
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and an arm and could we help? I immediately knew we could.
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We`re going to do both feet and both arms.
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We partner with the Shriner`s Children Hospital who provide all the prosthetics, surgery,
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rehabilitation. We`re empowering them
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because we`re giving them back what they lost. A chance to stand on their own and write and
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go to school and to contribute to society. The Dare to
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Dream House is their home away from home. It`s six houses away from my house but it
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has to be because the charity is not 9 to 5, it`s 24/7.
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What`s so magical about the house is that you have all these families. They come from
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different corners of the world and they all heal together,
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laugh together. They don`t speak the same language but love is universal. See where
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those buildings are there. That`s Brooklyn. By helping other
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people, you`re healing yourself. I know I`m making such a difference. And that has made
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me feel a purpose.
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At some point, we`ve all wondered what it would be like to be a gigantic insect or not.
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But hey, here`s your chance to find out. It`s
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called "The Mantis". It was made by a British engineer who`s also worked on special effects
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for movies. It weighs almost 4,000 pounds. It stands
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over 9 feet tall and 16 feet wide and it`s the Guinness World Record holder for largest
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rideable hexapod robot. There can`t be a lot of competition.
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Maybe he "thoraxed" around first "pestering" his friends to find out what is "abdoment"
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by the category. And then set his compound eyes on something
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that would net a lot of "antention". Or maybe he just "winged" it by watching a "hexapod"
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cast. Either way, we thank you watching our pod cast
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of CNN 10 and hope you`ll "buzz" back our way tomorrow. I`m Carl Azuz.