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10 the best 10 minutes in news where we
tell you the what letting you decide
what to think I'm your boy Koy we're
going to start with a f f f remix Pop
Quiz hot shot if a social media company
prevents you from voicing your opinion
because it doesn't approve of what
you're saying has it violated your right
to free speech Yes Yes No Maybe So all
right this one's tricky so tricky in
fact it's currently a question in front
of the Supreme Court see after former
president Donald Trump and other
prominent conservatives have accused
social media Giants of censoring
conservatives online Texas and Florida
both passed laws that prohibit these
companies from removing or demoting
content that expresses certain
viewpoints this week the Supreme Court
heard oral arguments to determine if
those laws are legal the Florida
solicitor general argued that the social
media companies became as successful as
they have because they Market themselves
as platforms for free speech listen now
that they host the communications of
billions of users they sing a very
different tune they now say that they
are in fact editors of their user speech
rather like a newspaper they contend
that they possess a broad First
Amendment right to censor anything they
host on their sites even when doing so
contradicts their own representations to
Consumers now the social media companies
argue that the laws violate their own
First Amendment speech rights it
interferes with editorial discretion it
compels speech it discriminates on the
basis of content speaker and View and
Viewpoint and it does all this in the
name of promoting Free Speech but loses
sight of the first principle of the
First Amendment which is it only applies
to State action the justices expressed
skepticism of the Florida and Texas laws
and seem to be divided along
non-ideological lines as they tried to
determine whether social media Giants
have created a Public Square if you will
that would allow them to be treated
differently under the law than other
private companies and I wonder since
we're talking about the First Amendment
whether our first concern should be uh
uh with the state regulating uh what you
know we have called the modern uh Public
Square but not all the justices appeared
skeptical of the laws check out this one
question from Justice Samuel Alo to an
attorney for the social media companies
content moderation could you define that
for me is it anything more than a
euphemism for censorship now for the
moment several of the justices seem to
be looking for a possible way to keep
the laws on hold to allow the lower
courts to look more deeply at the
impacts of them on a wide range of
social media sites so as for that pop
quiz as for now nobody seems to have the
right answer so if you have a minute or
two go on pause and discuss now we're
going to take an in-depth look at a new
program in Los Angeles aimed at helping
to provide shelter for people
experiencing homelessness our Jake
Tapper recently traveled to La the
second largest city in the US to meet
with the mayor and some of the folks
utilizing this temporary housing to
learn more about the
program this is the sound of someone's
entire life essentially being thrown in
the
trash in the middle of recent
record-breaking rain in Los Angeles the
city is today clearing an encampment for
un housed people Los Angeles mayor Karen
bass campaigned on fixing the city's
homeless crisis this is theoretically
part of that fix this is exactly why I
ran for mayor this is the reason why
mayor bass took me to see the cleanup
firsthand getting people out of tents
and onto buses and into temporary
housing they leave behind anything they
cannot carry I I was recently stabbed
about 2 weeks ago this is this like a
godsend right now like getting indoors
and being away from this inside safe is
the name of Mayor bass's Flagship
program to tear down these encampments
and bring LA's unhoused indoors so when
I spoke to you um about a year ago you
talked about your goal for
homelessness uh and the end of
homelessness in Los Angeles by the end
of your your first term well I think the
progress is going well we destroyed the
myth that people do not want to leave
the tents people don't want to leave the
cars and their RVs we've had the
opposite problem we have more people
willing to leave than we have rooms for
in a remarkable new study researchers at
the University of California San
Francisco surveyed thousands of the
homeless in California nearly 90% of
participants said High housing costs
were a barrier to their moving into
permanent housing and the majority of
those surveyed did want to get off the
streets there are people on the street
that don't want to be housed but most of
them do you know it's just uh finding
the right housing for in the right
situation major factors to finding
housing are high rents and low income
then of course there's also
discrimination and bad credit some
people don't even have ID some have been
evicted before many are dealing with
addiction or struggling with physical or
mental health problems the number of
people experiencing homelessness in a
single night went up 12% in the United
States in 2023 in part because covid
programs preventing EV s and housing
losses came to an end a quarter of those
people were unhoused for the first time
in their lives how many people fell into
homelessness during Co before Co there
were probably about 20 or 30,000 people
now it's 46,000 today this man Mark the
father of four is getting out of his
tent and into temporary housing nearby
Mark's new housing is in these former
shipping containers used to build
interim housing quickly thank you there
is a misunderstanding about homelessness
in this country exactly a lot of people
think it's just people with
psychological problems or just people
with addiction we have about 9,000
children who are homeless in Los Angeles
some of them are in and out of school
some of them attend school but many are
living in cars and RVs the short-term
solution get people out of the tents off
the street out of the cars into these
containers but this isn't the long-term
solution for the problem it takes a
while to build housing unfortunately the
policy de facto had been you stay on the
street while we build something I think
that is completely unacceptable so what
is the solution just putting somebody in
a house is not enough there needs to be
health care and other social services
support and then they need to go into
permanent housing 10 second trivia what
is the name given to the World War II
German air force campaign that bombed
Britain relentlessly for H straight
months donor Blitz Shri or
foyer if you said Blitz you are the bomb
the name Blitz comes from the German
term Blitz c meaning lightning War
according to the Imperial War Museum
Institute more than 80 years have passed
since England was devastated by German
air force explosives but some of the
detrius can still be found across the
country and for some folks really close
to home in the seaside city of Plymouth
on England's Southern Shore remnants of
a World War II era bomb have been found
unexploded in one person's garden
prompting a city-wide
response this unexploded World War II
bomb was found buried in a residential
Garden in the English city of Plymouth
the discovery prompted the city council
to declare a major incident some 10,000
people were evacuated from the area in
what the UK government calls one of the
largest evacuation operations since the
end of World War II if you could leave
your properties like you have been
advised by the police that would be
brilliant bomb disposal experts
transported the 500 kg device to the Sea
where it was eventually
detonated today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 martians in the making if you have
dreams of someday visiting Mars NASA is
accepting applications for a chance to
participate in a simulated mission that
could bring you one small step closer to
your dream check out the 3D printed
habitats built in Houston that will
house volunteer martians who will test
out what it might be like to live and
work on our neighboring planet for one
year a crew of four people will live and
work inside this space the Mars Dune
Alpha at NASA's Johnson Space Center in
Houston the 3D printed habitat is
designed to resemble the living
conditions of a crew of astronauts that
will hopefully land on the Martian
surface in the future all right time to
give some thanks to all the linguists
out there who submitted words on my at
Coy wire social accounts for hashy your
word Wednesday today's winner is the
current events class at Cory rosson
local schools in rosson Ohio for detrus
a noun meaning debris or the portion of
something left behind after it had been
destroyed thanks for teaching us a new
word today everybody for today's shout
out we want to show some love to the
Falcons up at Mrs pharoh's class at
minog Regional High School in Wilbraham
Mass Massachusetts thanks for my new
t-shirt and this shout out goes to
Milford High School in Milford Delaware
rise up keep shining bright lovely
people I'm Coy wire and I'll see you
right back here tomorrow on CNN