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good morning good afternoon good evening
wherever you are in this world let's
smell the flowers and cool the soup
let's get our minds right and take this
into Tuesday in an awesome way remember
tomorrow's hashy word Wednesday so
submit your vocab word and definition in
the comments section of my most recent
post at kwire on social put your school
mascot teachers name in there too if
you'd like and we're going to pick a
winner to work into tomorrow's show all
right we start today in Texas where
water is finally beginning to recede
after parts of the state experienced
extreme flooding as we told you
yesterday some areas are swamped with
two months worth of rain in just 5 days
search and rescue teams are scouring the
streets looking for people in distress
so far at least 200 people have been
rescued from homes and vehicles in
Harris County with which is home to
nearly 5 million people it's the most
populous county in the state officials
report that at least one person has died
in the flooding Rivers haven't swelled
to this level since hurricane Harvey in
2017 it appears to be uh potentially
even more uh devastating in in some
parts uh than than Harvey uh so we we
definitely got a lot of rain and a and a
and a quick amount of time and that's
one of the things in East Texas we we
don't get the runoff and and when you
have these flat flooding events many
times Unfortunately they they catch
people off guard now although the water
has started to recede in some areas
official say overall the water levels
are still dangerously high so to all of
our friends in Texas please stay safe
next up we head to New York City where
Colombia University is cancelling its
schoolwide commencement ceremony planned
for next week it instead will hold
smaller events due to security concerns
Colombia is where Pro Palestinian
encampments started a few weeks ago and
then spread to colleges and universities
all across the country before Polie shut
them down Pro Palestinian protests
already interrupted some graduation
ceremonies last weekend as we've
discussed many colleges and universities
have endowments which are basically big
sums of money acquired largely through
donations and pro Palestinian protesters
want their schools to divest those
endowments or take money away from
Israeli companies from companies that
work with Israel or create weapons for
Israel
next we head to Iran a country that is
currently sanctioned by the US and its
allies so what is a sanction it's when a
country punishes another country
financially in this case the United
States and several other countries don't
buy products from Iran or sell products
to them that's because Iran supports
Islamic terrorist organizations and has
violated nuclear agreements CNN's Fred
plen shows us how Iran is trying to work
around these sanctions working with
countries willing to defy the
US an International Trade Fair in one of
the most sanctioned countries in the
world it's called the Iran Expo and is
the Islamic Republic's attempt to Market
its products to businesses willing to
defy us-led sanctions Iran's leadership
has said that in order to try and beat
the sanctions what they want to do is
develop their own homegrown Industries
like the automobile industry and then
hopefully export items like these around
the
world te showcasing everything from
heavy machinery to food products hoping
for international buyers it seems like a
tall task but as large economies like
Russia and China increasingly find
themselves under Western economic
pressure the Iranians hope they'll be
more open to doing business with
tan we even met a parliamentarian from
Mali saying he' do an interview but only
in
Russian right now we have Dynamic growth
in the medic sector in the first place
he says and we're also interested in
widening cooperation in the oil sector
and also General
trade Iran's economy has been ravaged by
what the US called maximum pressure
designed to the US claims to compel it
to stop its support for extremism halt
its Crackdown on protesters and agree to
a tougher nuclear deal unemployment and
inflation are high while Iran's currency
continues to
devalue Iran is is working with other
adversaries of the West like
Russia the cooperation we have in the
energy sector and agriculture education
and development and the contexts between
our scientists in all these directions
we can take further steps Iran's
president said at a recent meeting with
Russian leader Vladimir
Putin and Iran wants to rely not only on
oil and gas but also on manufacturing
the country's Deputy Industries Minister
tells me same time I think you can see
the reality is that sanctions have two
faces he says the damaging side but the
other side is that it makes you believe
in your capabilities and become
independent but the Iranians acknowledge
Western sanctions are a major hurdle not
only when it comes to making their
products but also trying to sell them
abroad for plin CNN
tan Pop Quiz Hot Shots what do you call
a piece of sea ice formed in the ocean
flow ice B glacier ice
dam if you said flow you are correct an
ice flow forms from ocean water an
iceberg forms on land then breaks off
from a glacier into the ocean Arctic sea
ice has been shrinking for 46 straight
years in fact NASA says we've lost
enough arctic ice to fill the entire
state of Alaska one big question is can
anything be done well an ambitious group
of prob problem solvers have an idea
create new Ice by pumping water from
below check this out can you refreeze
melting Arctic Ice this startup says
it's developing a way to do so we were
in Alaska with our submersible pump we
made a hole in the ice we pumped water
within hours it was solid frozen it is
as simple as
that A study says the Arctic could be
free of sea ice during the month of
September by the 23rd about a decade
earlier than previous projections and
this would have dire Ripple effects
right around the world since the 1980s
the amount of sea ice that's more than a
year old has roughly Fallen by half
we're currently losing about 6 cm every
year so if you reiz you can add an extra
70 cm of
thickness it's as simple like pumping
water on top of existing ice basically
you expose the sea water to the cold
temperature of the atmosphere and it
will freeze very very quickly we know
that
works UK based company real life plans
to use automated underwater Vehicles
powered by Green hydrogen they use small
pumps to bring water from below the ice
to the top creating a lake that freezes
thickening the ice
sheet why would we do it from under the
water it seems complicated in reality
operating underwater is actually Mak
making many things simpler and more
controlled if you think the opposite
operating on top of the CIS in the
middle of the Arctic you're facing very
very cold temperatures high winds all
sorts of precipitations from the sky the
project is currently in the early
testing stages they aim to be working
with underwater prototypes in 2024 and
are planning to test the reising on an
Arctic Bay in
2027 this is a preservation of a habitat
exactly like a tropical forest or a
coral
reef all right this is something you
have to see look what happened to the US
team's boat during a practice race in
Bermuda the boat flipping over on its
side during the sale GP event on May 3rd
five of the six team members went into
the water thankfully there were no
serious injuries it turns out one of the
team members accidentally pressed the
wrong button in diting the wing and
causing the boat to capsize the US team
was unable to compete for the rest of
the race weekend due to damage to the
boat's
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Wing in today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 it's Italy versus France we're not
talking about a soccer match five years
ago Italy dethroned France as Baker of
the world's longest baguette but French
Bakers just said ready or not here we
Crum they came back with a bag at that's
longer than a football field it measures
461 ft that's 235 times longer than a
traditional baguette which is a long
thin crusty loaf of bread in case you
didn't know France has baked its way
back into the Guinness World Record Now
That's What I Call
Redemption all right powerful people
thank you for joining us today shout out
to Mrs Cunningham's class at Bell School
in Min not North Dakota go beaver and to
the rail Splitters at Lincoln Park
Middle School in Michigan keep on
chopping baby have a wonderful Tuesday
everyone see you tomorrow for your word
Wednesday and you better bring it
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