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welcome back to CNN 10 from Time Square
in New York this place is buzzing I'm KY
wire happy Friday Eve it's Thursday
April 18th we've got an actionpack show
to fuel your mind with knowledge and
information we start on the Arabian
peninsula where two countries were hit
by severe weather in Oman flooding
ravaged the country the government says
it is conducting rescue operations to
save people throughout Oman and that
they have closed schools and sent public
and private sector employees home in
most parts of the country sadly at least
18 people have died because of the
severe weather that same weather system
also hit the neighboring nation of the
United Arab Emirates or UAE where 4 in
of rain fell in some areas of the
country in just 12 hours for a desert
country like the UAE that's a year worth
of rain in just a very short period of
time this is a place that isn't used to
dealing with that kind of weather the
heavy rainfall led to massive flooding
impacting homes and businesses and in
the nation's capital it caused massive
delays and disruptions at Dubai
International Airport which was recently
dubbed the second busiest airport in the
world aircraft had to make their way
through water and several flights were
delayed or canceled our Chad Meers has
more it was just round after round of
thunderstorms here in Dubai four
separate rounds it would come and it
would go and it come back again and then
it would go again and look at the wind
here not just heavy rainfall but 99 mm
in 12 hours created this not only here
on the roadways but also at the airport
the world's second busiest airport with
87 million passengers every year so
there's the cloud cover thunderstorm
another thunderstorm Rolling On by and
now this weather is actually into parts
of Southern Iran and even into Pakistan
but here's here are the numbers as we go
99 millimeters in 12 hours the annual
average is less than that which means
for the entire year they should have
picked only up about 94 millim and we
got this in in 12 hours next up let's
talk inflation the way we measure how
prices go up over time and lately
inflation has been rising for example if
you bought groceries in 20120 for $100
today those same groceries will cost you
around
$125 due to en
and that's happening with rent prices
clothing you name it and as CNN's
Veronica Miracle shows us in California
which is one of the most expensive
places to live in the country it can be
especially tough right now to make ends
meet for math teacher Bert Dixon it's
the start of a very long
day Dixon lives three miles from his
school in California's Bay Area one of
the most expensive places to live in the
world to live so close to where he
teaches he works three jobs right now
did you think at this point in your
career you would be working three jobs
not really I thought you know by this
point in my career I'd be a little bit
more uh financially stable we had the
highest teacher salaries in the area and
then slowly over time the salaries
didn't really keep up with with the cost
of living do your students know how much
you work they know that I work at the
community college I think most of them
do but um I don't know if they realize
that I'm also comping in the
evenings Dixon bought his home over 20
years ago with his current teacher
salary he says he could never afford the
area today where redin says the average
home sold for about $1.4 Million last
month so this is all Parish offices like
on the entrance area finding affordable
housing is even tougher for those new to
the profession six teachers live in this
former Parish that's been converted to a
communal living space complete with a
chapel CL McMan pays just $1,000 a month
for her room for a studio apartment in
the area she'd be paying more than
double that all of our rooms come with a
bed and then most of them come with
chairs this I'm I'm getting the sense of
like a dorm room mhm but like a little
bit bigger and more privacy for you guys
to be able to afford a place around here
is that a struggle absolutely one
potential solution to this housing
crisis affordable housing financed with
government assistance specifically for
teachers and school staff cities like
Miami Chicago and Los Angeles are also
building developments like these so
we're going to take a look at a brand
new unit under construction insulation
the light the quiet so this is the foyer
uh this is a two-bedroom one bath unit
so this will be dining and living big
Windows it'll be transformative nearly
80% of public schools struggle to fill
teaching positions for the current
school year with low salaries being a
key issue we're in the middle of a
national and state teaching shortage we
started this year with 21% of our
vacancies unfilled What do teachers tell
you you know teachers talk about either
the struggle to find housing or then the
long commutes that they have to be able
to get to their uh their job so this is
a key strategy for us to be able to
recruit and retain teachers and other
staff in San Francisco Pop Quiz Hot Shot
where was the first recorded Olympics
held Britain Egypt Germany or Greece
if you said Greece you get the gold
medal the first recorded Olympic games
were held in Olympia Greece in 776 BC
the games were also a religious Festival
held every four years to honor the Greek
God Zeus all right when you think of the
Summer Olympics maybe you think of a
gymnast leaping through the air Landing
a fantastic Flip or a speed demon on the
track or in the pool well this summer in
Paris for the first time ever we're
going to see Brak dancing as an Olympic
sport I caught up with sunny Choy who
will be be popping and locking
representing the red white and blue at
the Paris games the 35-year-old stepped
away from a job earning six figures a
year to pursue her passion and she's
proven it's never too late to chase your
dreams did you ever imagine that one day
you'd be an Olympian
breaking I always wanted to be an
Olympian never in my wildest dreams did
I imagine that I'd be Olympian breaking
would you say that breaking has helped
you evolve and help you find more of
yourself
honestly like I was going through life
just like a robot doing everything I was
supposed to be doing for so long and it
was breaking that really turned that all
upside down and made me figure out who I
am what makes me tick why am I doing
what I do made me face like my fear
failure my lack of self-belief so I
attribute a lot of my personal growth
and like who I am today to Breaking tell
me about the job and career that you
left to pursue this dream yeah um so I
was previously a director of global
creative operations at Estee Lauder um I
was comfortable I mean I was working
long hours so I don't know how
comfortable that is but like financially
stable and I thought you know I'm set
setting myself up to have a home and a
family and all these things and then
breaking in the Olympics got announced
and I had to make a choice cuz I was
working such long hours in my job and it
just I wouldn't be able to pursue this
path the way that I wanted keeping that
job I just like wasn't allowing myself
to dream so I was like you know what I'm
going to allow myself to like have this
childhood dream and see it to fruition
I'm just going to give it a shot and
whatever happens happens and um I
qualified all right real quick just
teach me a quick pop and lock or
something give uh you know I feel like
one of the things that we always do is
like hand on the head and hand here and
then like you cross the leg oh tight
pants okay never mind then maybe maybe
just like like this can you do that yeah
I can do that yeah okay if I do that
people will recognize
game uh work on you might need a little
this but you're getting close yeah yeah
give it like another five minutes you'll
be fine yeah yeah
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pants for today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 the Memphis Zoo's new baby draft
named Fitz who has an affinity for
napping who can relate there he goes
look at that neck bend that head making
that long long slow drop into Dreamland
now baby drafts can stand and walk
within 30 minutes of being born but fit
he's often spotted just dozing off and
keeping his eyes open is a tall order
must be stretching his bedtime next time
you see someone dozing off like this
just wake him up and tell them you fits
in all right powerful people I want to
give a shout out today to all our
homeschoolers out there because we don't
do that often enough we want you to know
we see you and we appreciate you and how
about Coach Hood's class at at South
Haven High School thank you for joining
us from Mississippi Go chargers and
Coach we hope you have an awesome season
and we're sending some love to the
Panthers at John Adams Middle School in
Albuquerque New Mexico rise up everyone
thank you for joining us today let's
make this an awesome day we'll see you
right back here tomorrow
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