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hello everyone terrific Tuesday to you
welcome back to CNN 10 I'm your host Koy
wire we've got a lot to get to not a lot
of time to do it so let's get right to
it we start today talking about the
current housing market in the United
States the dream of buying a home in
America is becoming more expensive High
mortgage rates Rising home pric prices
in low home Inventory are pushing home
ownership further Out Of Reach for
firsttime buyers a new bank rate
analysis says Americans wanting to buy a
medium-priced home need to make at least
$110,000 a year that's almost a 50%
increase in the last four years this
changes the calculation for potential
home buyers who are torn between buying
or renting a home here's redfin.com
Chief Economist darl Fairweather with
more right now it is more affordable to
rent than it is to pay for a mortgage
and historically that hasn't been true
but if the mortgage payment that you
would have to pay is less than 30% of
your monthly income then that means that
you can afford that mortgage pretty
comfortably how long are you going to
stay in the home if it's for more than 5
years there is a good chance that you
will build enough equity such that when
you go to sell your home you will make a
return on your investment but if you
sell too soon you might end up losing
money so it's a risk and a reward we're
expecting this next year to be a bit
better for buyers than it was last year
that's because mortgage rates have
started to fall and also more listings
of homes are coming on the market which
means there are more options for buyers
we are forecasting a slight correction
in prices this year down 1% but it's
just not enough to really make Make It
or Break It for a home buyer it's
probably going to keep getting less
affordable
unfortunately there's a trade-off that a
lot of young people have where the
places where they can earn the most
money are the places that have the most
expensive housing so I think it's
completely valid to say like I want to
live in New York City for example and
I'm going to have access to all these
jobs that are going to improve my career
prospects and then one day when I am
more established in my career I'm going
to say move to a suburb where it's more
affordable and I'm going to be a
homeowner then focus on your entire life
and not just like re reaching this one
goal that isn't as attainable as it used
to
be Pop Quiz Hot Shot inside what
European country would you find Vatican
City the smallest independent state in
the world England France Germany or
Italy located inside Italy Vatican City
is officially the smallest country in
the world and roughly the size of 82
football
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fields
move over Pisa there's another Leaning
Tower in
Italy built in the 12th century the
garisenda tower in bolognia Italy
started tilting just two centuries later
it now leans at a 4° angle slightly more
than the Tower of Pisa currently
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tilts in 2023 scientists concluded the
garisenda was at high risk of collapsing
and authori temporarily closed off the
streets around it the city plans to use
the same equipment used to save the
Tower of Pisa for this $2 million
multi-year restoration
project that's one Tower I would not
want to get caught taking a selfie under
now this next story is a bizarre one
that could have broader consequences
there's an unusual phenomenon happening
with some fish off the coast of Florida
that'll make your head spin CNN's Bill
Weir has
more started diving when I was eight
years old with my mom so I've been in
the water for a very long time Greg
fenworth has seen a lot in his life
spent underwater around the Florida keys
but he'd never seen anything like this I
noticed the fish were spinning and so I
started taking video of that that I
really had no idea what I was looking at
since last fall he's seen stingrays
moving upside down Goliath groupers
flailing on their sides and do dozens of
other species swimming in tortured
flailing Loops well I mean i' I've said
that you know it's like I'm in the
middle of a disaster movie and I'm that
guy yelling from you know the
Mountaintop trying to get people to pay
attention state fish and wildlife
officials and Florida's Bone Fish and
Tarpon trust have logged nearly 200
incidents with over 30 species acting
this way mostly in the lower Keys but as
far north as Miami yeah this is crazy I
I I was out on a six-hour charter I had
had two people on the boat and we were
down off a ligman VY bank and we
happened to see a fish floundering on
the flats and then so we got close to
him we wanted to see if there was a
problem and we could obviously tell that
he was in distress it turned out to be a
sawfish a critically endangered species
that might lose four or five mature
adults a year but in just a few months
at least 27 have beached themselves or
died after intense episodes of what
Anglers are calling the spins so
typically when we think of fish acting
strangely or dying we either think of
low oxygen conditions in the water or
red tide and so we saw neither at the
water school at Florida gulf course
University my Parson team is part of a
Statewide effort to solve the mystery of
the spinning fish and while tests for
most toxins have turned up empty the
most promising suspect is found living
off seaweed at the bottom a tiny Critter
named gambir discus this is the highest
we've seen of the Gambier cells in the
keys um we don't know if it's the main
cause the Single Cell algae can produce
various neurotoxins and is showing up at
record high levels but it's just one
more stressor on marine life already
reeling from pollution over fishing and
off the-charts ocean heat waves brought
by climate change so there's uh concern
and curiosity I guess on could the hot
hot temperatures in the summer cause
some changes that maybe led to the fish
uh Behavior now and we just don't really
have all the pieces together to try to
link one to the other they really have
no idea what is happening I mean there
is no concrete conclusive proof of what
is happening yet and that is still to be
determined which is quite terrifying it
is scary isn't it it is because if it
continues it's going to be the end of
this ecosystem as we know
it off the charts ocean temperatures are
of course just one of the massive
stressors on marine life down here these
days there was a three-year study
recently in which 100% of the bone fish
that were tested in the keys turned up
at least seven different Pharmaceuticals
from opioids to
anti-depressants and so this Behavior
has not been seen before but it is sort
of an attack from a thousand different
angles for the creatures living down
here and may be a warning for the rest
of
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
positively Pome who's ready to potty
this special dog just turned two years
old and his grateful Police Department
threw him an awesome birthday bash Jimmy
has been a comfort dog for the Las Vegas
PD for a year spreading love and joy to
the department in such a short amount of
time though he's traveled to hundreds of
cities comforting people who face
traumatic events good boy Jimmy enjoyed
this celebration with cool hats colorful
balloons and even his own cake all right
Superstars we want to throw a party of
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