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into the news with an update on
Hurricane Milton the storm reached a
massive Category 5 strength earlier this
week as it passed north of the Yucatan
Peninsula in Mexico that's the highest
level of strength we currently have to
record hurricanes with winds maxing out
at 180 mph it's the biggest and most
powerful storm on record this year in
the entire world Milton is thankfully
expected to weaken as it heads East over
the gulf on its way to Florida's West
Coast but it's also expected to double
in size that means disastrous impacts
will more likely be felt over a much
larger area Milton storm surge is also
expected to be much larger than
hurricane Helen estimated to reach
between 10 and 15 ft above ground level
residents in the state well they've been
racing to prepare we've seen lines at
sandbag filling sites supplies like
plywood to board up buildings are
running low and interstate highways have
been in gridlock traffic going North as
many are evacuating from the storm's
path and many who are trying to evacuate
they're facing a fuel shortage with an
estimated 1,000 Florida gas stations
completely out of gas as of Monday Night
another issue some people are having
trouble finding hotels with many already
being fully booked While others aren't
able to afford a hotel even if they
could find one available with rooms
officials have open shelters that can
hold thousands of people who are in need
of a safer place it's been less than 2
weeks since her Helen walloped Florida's
Big Bend as a category 4 storm and
residents are scrambling to clean up as
much of that destruction before Milton
enters the state the debris Left Behind
could become dangerous projectiles when
Milton's high winds hit soon exactly
where Milton will make landfall well
that's a key factor to how much it will
impact the Gulf Coast CNN's Alisa Rafa
explains Milton has already proven to be
a powerful hurricane rapidly
intensifying and explod in in strength
while the entire Florida Peninsula will
see impacts of damaging winds and heavy
rain from Milton the exact location of
landfall will be crucial for where the
life-threatening storm surge will occur
storm surge is the push of ocean water
inland from the strong hurricane winds
the highest storm surge is at the
location of the strongest winds in the
eye wall Tampa Bay is one of the most
vulnerable spots on our Coast to storm
surge because of the huge population and
the shape of the bay the track of Milton
could be one Tampa Bay hasn't seen in
100 years meaning unprecedented storm
surge if Milton's eye goes just to the
north of the bay that would mean a worst
case scenario for the storm surge in
Tampa Bay the onshore wind direction
will send the ocean waters funneling
into the bay with nowhere to go creating
devastating
impacts if Milton's eye lands just south
of the Bay Winds will be offshore out of
the bay possibly even receding Waters
like seen during Hurricane Ian in this
scenario the worst of the storm surge
would go just south of
Tampa even just a few miles wobble in
Milton's track could greatly impact the
storm surge forecast for Better or For
Worse so all warnings should be taken
seriously 10c trivia to prepare for long
seasonal migrations many bird species
enter what state of being to bulk up for
their Journey brumation pretty found
ation hypas or hyper
phasia your answer here is hyper phasia
just like Bears who eat large amounts of
food before hibernation migrating birds
overeat to gain weight and store fat for
their long Journeys man versus nature
it's a tale almost as old as time humans
and animals sometimes compete for land
and resources well that's the case in
one town in Argentina where thousands of
parrots have moved in normally these
feathery friends would p pass right
through the town as they migrated but as
the bird's natural habitats have been
destroyed through deforestation they've
been staying longer and longer CNN's
Alisa Rafa has the perspicacity to
further explain how residents are
putting up with their pesky parrot
problem the town of Eladio osubi is
facing a parot Invasion thousands of the
multicolor birds have increasingly
occupied this Argentinian
City in a site similar to that of Alfred
Hitchcock's 19 63 Thriller the
birds in recent years the parrots have
arrived in pursuit of shelter through
the fall and winter months but now it's
spring in Argentina a biologist at the
National University of the South says
the parrots have come due to
disappearing trees along the
hillsides estimates say that 4% of the
forest is lost annually in the south of
the province of Bueno ctis it is causing
the parrots to have no food available
and they are increasingly moving closer
to the cities where they find food
shelter and
water the parrots however have become
pests residents citing a whole range of
annoyances with the birds continuous
shrieking harming electric cables and
leaving deposits of bird droppings
everywhere despite the various tactics
residents have used to scare them away
nothing has worked they bite and damage
the cables water can then get into the
wires when it rains and transmission is
cut off these parrots create daily costs
and problems for us it goes without
saying that when the power goes out
there is no
radio Argentina's Forest land has been
gradually lost over the years but
biologist Lara believes there are
proactive steps the residents can take
to both restore the environment and
allow them to live in peace with the
pesky
parrots while humans and animals might
sometimes find themselves at odds there
are ways we can benefit from working
together in Colombia an Innovative
project to combat the growing problem of
trash buildup IS enlisting the help of
the enormous rhinoceros beetle their
larvae eat through piles of organic
garbage diverting it from landfills
CNN's Raphael Romo shows us how it's
done in the Colombian Highlands a new
solution has been found to tackle an
escalating trash problem these are the
unlikely Heroes of the story The larv of
rhinoceros beetles which feed on organic
waste this isn't the only thing these
beetles have to offer once the Beetles
reach adulthood they can be sold as pets
to buyers as far away as
Japan The Beetles have the answer but we
haven't seen the full potential of the
function they have every week 15 Tons of
waste are collected at this facility in
tunka a city about 130 km Northeast of
bota once it's piled up the larv which
can grow as long as a human hand dig in
other larv are placed in tanks where
they consume liquid organic waste that
can be harmful to the environment with
the Landfill close to capacity the
larvey provide an ingenious solution the
UN estimates that around 11.2 billion
tons of trash are generated globally
each year Colombia produces around
32,000 tons of waste daily about half of
which is organic
we should aim to preserve beetles
because they are responsible for
breaking down all the organic waste
produced by Humanity today the lar start
to become beetles after about 4 months
when they develop hard shells rhinoceros
beetles can live up to 3 years some are
exported to other countries While others
stay in Colombia where they are seen as
good luck charms
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10
looks a lot like human Jenga in
northeastern Spain the Catalonia region
it's home to the revered tradition of
forming castels or human towers and
they've been doing this for hundreds of
years passing the knowledge down from
generation to generation take a look at
these Daredevils in
action this wasn't the only tumble at
the largest human Tower contest in
Catalonia
Spain known as castel's human Towers
play a big part heart in Catalin culture
and are known for an expression of
national
optimism the tradition dates back to the
1800s and this biannual competition
began in
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1970 according to Reuters this year
about 11,000 Spectators filled the
stadium they watched 42 teams fight for
the prize of just over
$115,000 all right thank you to everyone
who submitted some prodigious words for
your word Wednesday today's winner is Mr
Taylor's class at autism Solutions
Academy in West Jordan Utah for
perspicacity a noun meaning the quality
of having a ready insight into things or
shrewdness thank you for making us
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Flex those vocab skills and our shout
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