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hello what's up hey y'all how you doing
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for the show here we go first to an
update in the Middle East where tensions
continue to rise Israel Iran and
militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon have
been trading attacks and are showing no
sign of standing down the groups are
fminis with one another since the
October 7th attacks last year Hezbollah
and Israel have been engaged in back and
forth fire that ramped up last month
with escalating attacks from both sides
over the weekend a Hezbollah drone
entered Israel without setting off
warnings before carrying out an attack
that killed Four soldiers and injured
more than 60 people as a response
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu vowed to continue to strike
Hezbollah targets everywhere in Lebanon
including the capital Beirut at the same
time Israel continues to bombard Gaza
issuing evacuation orders to hospitals
and blocking Food Supplies as part of
its escalating offensive in the north
while the US is concerned about growing
regional conflict the Pentagon is
sending an advanced anti-missile system
to Israel to help bolster the country's
air defenses about 100 US troops will
travel there to operate the system
Israeli officials are currently telling
the us that they plan to strike Iranian
military targets as a retaliation for
Iran's strike on Israeli military
Targets on October 1st it's an important
detail because an Israeli retaliation
targeting other sites
like Iran's nuclear facilities could
spark a regional War while a strike on
oil fields could send Energy prices
soaring 10 second trivia according to
scientists what is the oldest planet in
our solar system Mars Neptune Jupiter or
Venus answer is Jupiter formed 4.6
billion years ago from dust and gas
remnants from the sun's formation let's
get to an intriguing new mission to
Jupiter NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft
launched aboard SpaceX Falcon heavy
rocket this week the Europa Clipper
Mission designed to explore its namesake
Jupiter's moon Europa will study one of
the solar systems most promising
environments in our solar system this is
NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to
studying the moon's ice covered ocean
world and it aims to determine whether
the Moon could be habitable for Life as
We Know It CNN's Michael Holmes has more
on this
Mission a vast ocean in a moon hundreds
of millions of miles away that's what
NASA's new and largest planetary
spacecraft is set to explore scientists
believe that Europa one of Jupiter's
many moons is one of the most promising
places to look for life beyond Earth the
moon about the same size as our own is
thought to have beneath its icy surface
an ocean of water perhaps encompassing
the entire Moon we scientists have been
dreaming about a mission like Europa
Clipper for more than 20 years we've
been working to build it for 10 years
it's going to be another 10 years
because jupitor so far away until we
have all the science in the bag the
mission is not looking for life on the
moon but rather an environment in which
life could survive the Europa Clipper
will gather information on the thickness
of that icy shell investigate the
possible ocean beneath it and study the
geology of the surface so how does an
icy Moon far away from the Sun have the
energy to sustain life well Jupiter's
strong gravity creates tides that
stretch and tug the moon producing heat
Clipper is going to tell us if Europa
has all of these ingredients for life so
what we learn with Clipper and the
habitability of Europa this is going to
pave the way for the future for future
missions to Europa and elsewhere in our
solar system where we can search more
directly for life this big Venture from
NASA requires very big equipment the
Europa Clipper is about 16 ft or nearly
5 m tall and more than 100 ft or about
30 m wide that's about the length of a
basketball court the scale of the
Clipper is primarily due to its massive
solar arrays another big feat for this
spacecraft is a poem still there are
Mysteries below our Sky us poet laurat
ad Leon wrote an original poem dedicated
to NASA's Europa Clipper Mission the
poem will be engraved on the spacecraft
as a way to connect the Two Worlds Earth
and Europa we point to the planets we
know we pin quick wishes on stars from
Earth we read the sky as if it is an
uniring book B of the universe expert
and
evident now to the National Zoo in
Washington DC which is set to be the new
home of two giant pandas a pair of
three-year-old Bears will leave the
Giant Panda Research base near the Bears
native habitat in Southwest China and
they'll board the Panda Express a
specially chartered cargo jet for a
highly anticipated Return of the Beloved
Bears to the US capital this Panda
diplomacy is a bright spot in the
relations between rival superpowers
often at odds over trade geopolitics and
other issues CNN's David Culver has more
on the first pandas that China has sent
to DC in 24 years and the steps they
took to prepare for the
journey we've traveled here to sishan
China for a rare look at preparing these
pandas for their very long journey we're
in and around the city of chungu it's
known for YY Hot Pot its mountainous
landscape and giant pandas we're
actually going to go meet now with some
of the folks from the smithsonia
National Zoo from DC who have flown here
and are part of the transition team to
bring B and Ching ba back to the
us so we can't go back there but that's
where bwii and Ching ba are they're in
quarantine and those you saw there were
the zuker from the National Zoo as well
as some caretakers from
China so they both have pretty different
personalities B has a huge personality
so he's very vocal he's very energetic
and he's always kind of like up doing
something Ching B is the polar opposite
she can be almost always found in a tree
or sleeping on her climbing
structure the panda pair will fill a
void at the smithsonian's National Zoo
in Washington DC for the past 11 months
the panda exhibit has sat empty now as
part of the terms of the Smithsonian
Exchange program with China late last
year the zoo's Three Pandas were sent
back here to
chungu I don't think people realize how
attached you
get when you're here I mean in this
setting what has stood out to you here
are the sheer number of pandas it's
crazy right it's crazy so you turn here
and you're like oh wait you can go there
you can go there nowhere else do we have
something like this nowhere else in the
scenery is obviously beautiful and the
commitment pandas were on the brink of
Extinction but in recent years they've
moved from endangered to vulnerable but
there's still more work to go the panda
exchange also called Panda diplomacy
dates back more than 50 years now when
China gifted two pandas to the US
following President Nixon's historic
visit today they're given on loan and
they are a strategic diplomatic tool
serving as ambassadors of Hope and
spreading Global Goodwill somehow pandas
able to unite Nations something we could
use about right
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now for today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 we're giving you pumpkin to talk
about a competition where it's all about
gourd big or go home the annual European
pumpkin Wing Championship 12 Growers
from across Europe competing to see
who's got the biggest heaviest pumpkin
around one of the biggest challenges
transporting the pumpkins some of them
can get squashed and to fix a broken
pumpkin you could always use a pumpkin
patch but not in this context gourd
Vibes for all of you out there today
we're carving out some time to send a
huge shout out to North Ashboro Middle
School in Ashboro North Carolina we see
you shining bright blue comets and much
appreciation to all of you who submitted
enticing outstanding commanding words
for your word Wednesday today's winners
are all the students at St Charles
School in Rochester New Hampshire for
frumin an adjective that means very
angry well done and thank you for
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