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hello everyone terrific Tuesday to you
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I'm Coy wire this is CNN 10 and we start
today in New York Columbia University
has announced that all classes must be
held virtually on Monday this after Pro
Palestinian protests in and around the
New York City Campus have raised
tensions on the campus last week
Columbia president minui shafik sent a
letter to New York Police Department
requesting that they remove people who
had created an encampment on the south
lawn of the Manhattan campus more than
100 people were arrested the students
are protesting us involvement in
Israel's bombing of Gaza which has
killed more than 34,000 people according
to the enclaves Health Ministry Israel
says it is fighting to defeat Hamas a
Palestinian terrorist organization
located in Gaza that attacked Israel on
October 7th killing around 12200 people
the students at the ivy league
university distance themselves from more
extreme non-student protesters who have
tried to intimidate Jewish students the
White House New York Governor Kathy hok
and New York city mayor Eric Adams have
condemned any acts of anti-Semitism or
any calls for violence against Jews
additionally Monday was the first night
of passover one of the holiest days in
the Jewish calendar our Paulo Sandoval
has more all weekend long we have seen
demonstrations supporting the
Palestinian people both on and off the
Columbia University campus here in
Manhattan behind me the one that's
actually off campus these students able
to only make their way up to the fence
as the campus itself remains restricted
with access only allowed for students
and staff because of these ongoing
demonstrations on campus there is still
what's uh referred to as the Gaza
solidarity encampment that continues to
grow collection of people that have been
gathering on the campus South lawn uh
with that unified message with those
protesters on the outside of the campus
calling on Columbia University to divest
from companies with Israeli connections
uh the question now though is exactly
how long those protesters will be
allowed to remain on the Columbia
University given that it was just a few
days ago that University officials
called on the NYPD to make their way
onto campus to clear out that encampment
which resulted in well over a 100
arrests and some student suspensions the
question is are we bound to see that yet
again now over the weekend I I had an
opportunity to visit that encampment and
things were peaceful a security looked
on and and really University officials
not really intervening at this point uh
but also over the weekend a separate
vein in which there are now growing
concerns among Jewish students at some
Jewish students attending Columbia
University Unity uh many of them saying
that they feel unsafe coming to school
because of these ongoing Pro Palestinian
protests uh so much so that Rabbi Ellie
buckler with Columbia University's
Orthodox Union Jewish learning
initiative reached out on Sunday morning
to well over 300 Jewish students saying
that it is best that they simply stay
home until the Columbia University and
the ypd do more to make sure that they
feel safe now the university for its
part released a statement over the
weekend saying that they are acting on
these concerns they also added that
students do have the right to protest on
campus so long as those demonstrations
do not interfere with campus uh
operations and also that they do not
intimidate any of their fellow students
Polo sandal CNN New
York 10 second trivia which of the
following are not considered debris in
orbit around the Earth old spacecraft
pieces rocket fragments drop tools
working satellites
if you chose working satellites you're
cosmically correct space waste is any
debris left behind by humans like an
inactive satellite or tools dropped by
astronauts a working satellite not
considered
debris there are thousands of pieces of
space junk floating above our heads
right now up in outer space we're
talking rocket Parts broken down
satellites pieces of satellites that may
have collided and much much more in 2021
NASA threw out 5,800 lb of garbage from
the space station and the belief was
that it would burn up as it entered the
Earth's atmosphere but as CNN's Alex
marquart explains things have not gone
exactly as planned when it comes to
Earth's orbit scientists are saying that
Cosmic clutter as it's known is getting
worse Space trash broken satellites or
leftovers from rocket boosters as well
as junk from the space station that's
all a growing problem they say NASA
estimates about a 100 million pieces of
space junk or hovering over our heads as
we speak on Monday NASA confirmed that
this piece of space junk which
re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and
came crashing into a home in Florida
last month was trash from the
International Space Station joining me
now is Terry vers former at Nasa
astronaut and a retired US Air Force
colonel colonel thanks so much uh for
joining us isn't the expectation that
this trash is just going to burn up upon
re-entry so that it doesn't hurt
anyone well that's the hope and that's
had done analysis on this piece uh that
they thought it would burn up but if you
look at it I remember seeing it it's
basically the size of an SUV so I
remember thinking wow that's a pretty
big thing uh I bet you parts of it will
will make it through and a lot of space
debris does make it down to earth
usually it ends up in the mountains or
usually it's in the ocean and so um this
one was just so big and unfortunately it
landed in a house in Maples
Florida so I I I think that the the the
common sense uh the conventional wisdom
was that most of this stuff just does
does burn up are you saying that that is
not normally the the case why is the
best way then of getting rid of this
trash to to throw it overboard if so
much of it gets through well the best
way is not and NASA's plan was not to do
that but there was a Russian soyou uh
explosion a few years ago and that
really uh there was a snowball effect on
the schedule and so this giant battery
like I said the size of an SUV was
supposed to come back on one of our
ships and because the schedule got
reworked it was like the odd man so they
released it after analyzing hoping that
it would uh not make it back to Earth
and you know what luckily knock on wood
it didn't hurt anybody but it did
unfortunately go through uh the roof of
that house so if you're NASA or or
another space program even a private
space program I imagine it's it's in all
their interest to try to get this stuff
um cleaned up essentially so how do you
go about cleaning up a 100 million
pieces of of space trash well
unfortunately nobody's come up with that
solution if you could excuse me if you
could come up with that solution that
would be a pretty good business model
these pieces are going many miles per
second um they're all going in different
directions it's it's a tough problem the
what what we're doing is we're just
trying to avoid it so when I was on the
space station as commander in 2015 we
actually had to maneuver to avoid some
debris that the Chinese had created they
did a military demonstration they
exploded a satellite and that debris
still causes the space station to
maneuver usually once or twice a year so
uh military explosions in space are a
really really bad idea because that
debris will last for years or sometimes
centuries if it's high enough um and the
the the only thing you can really do is
track it and maneuver to avoid it next
up we take you to the capital of the
Netherlands Amsterdam where local
officials have a kind of weird request
they want fewer tourists to visit the
local government has stopped the
building of any new h hotels to
discourage what they call over tourism
why they say they want to make the city
more livable for residents and for
visiting Out of Towners now there are
some workarounds if you already had a
permit to build a hotel before the
government issued this announcement
you're good to go or if a hotel closes
or a new hotel has plans that maybe make
it substantially better for example more
eco-friendly then the government May
issue a permit to build a new hotel
officials say this plan is part of a
larger goal to keep the number of hotel
stays in the city below 20 million per
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which is constructing a wildlife
Crossing that will span 10 lanes of Los
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received more than 5,000 individual
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sometime time next year it'll provide
safe Crossing to coyotes Bobcats deer
snakes lizards toads even ants but
mountain lions will be among its Chief
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