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hello everyone I'm KY wire welcome to
CNN 10 the best 10 minutes in news
because of you happy Friday it is Friday
December 13th and this is the last show
of 2024 we've got winter break coming up
we hope you get lots of friends and
family time over the holidays The Most
Wonderful Time of the Year we start our
final show of the year with some
peculiar happenings in New Jersey where
weeks of unexplained drone sightings
across the state have prompted a joint
federal and state investigation the
Federal Aviation Administration or FAA
says the citing started on November 18th
near Morris County New Jersey there
isn't a clear description of the
Airborne crafts they often appear in
clusters high in the sky when it's dark
but they've been reported to be about 6
feet diameter which is of course larger
than the typical size of a drone that
you might see someone flying as a hobby
so what are they who's flying them and
where are they coming from nobody seems
to know residents there are
understandably freaked out they
frequently seen the drones hovering
overhead and have noticed they seem to
be hanging over critical sites like US
military research facility or even over
president-elect Donald Trump's golf
course in Bedminster this has escalated
the security concerns of federal and
state officials and even prompted the
FAA to issue temporary flight
restrictions over the properties while
New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy has
said there is no known threat to the
public some State lawmakers briefed at
the New Jersey State Police Headquarters
this week are demanding more
transparency into the investigation
CNN's Josh Campbell has more on this
mystery that's baffling folks all across
the country all the one's over
here there's two behind here I think the
creepy part is not that it's just a
drone that they're so large growing
frustration and demands for answers from
New Jersey residents over a mystery in
the skies another drone weeks of
mysterious nighttime drone sightings
across the state including your military
sites and other critical infrastructure
has left some residents unsettled they
look uh like a small car to me their um
their wingspans are probably F feet
across eyewitness to say these spotted
drones are much larger than those used
by hobbyists law enforcement described
one encounter it was coming in our
Direction it spun around did 180° went
back out the other way then it kind of
looped around a task force of federal
state and local law enforcement is now
investigating briefing concerned
lawmakers Wednesday asked by CNN for
comment on these sightings the FBI said
in the statement Witnesses have spotted
the cluster of what looked to be drones
and a possible fixed wi aircraft they're
asking anyone with information on the
origin of these drones to call police
now authorities say there's no known
threat to the public but despite that
one congressman from New Jersey said
that he's been told by sources that
drones are being launched from an
Iranian ship that mother ship is off I'm
going to tell you the deal it's off the
east coast of the United States of
America the Pentagon quickly shutting
down those claims there is not any truth
to that uh there is no Iranian ship off
the coast of the United States and
there's no so-called Mother Ship
launching drones towards the United
States Pop Quiz Hot Shot through which
state are soundwaves unable to travel
solids liquids a vacuum or
gases if you said vacuum put your hands
up sound waves need to travel through a
medium and there are no particles of
matter present to vibrate or transmit
sound waves in a
vacuum all right if you could have any
superow what would it be teleportation
invisibility time travel might be a good
question to ask each other and give you
reasons why well if levitation is
something that you think would be
extraordinary it may soon become
ordinary scientists haven't quite
cracked the code on moving objects with
the mind but they may be on to the next
best thing moving objects with sound
waves our Nick Valencia shows us how a
london-based startup is using sound to
one day maybe Revolution everyday
practices in
science levitating liquids and objects
using just soundwaves sounds out of the
ordinary even magical but a london-based
startup says this could be revolutionary
we've been working on acoustic
levitation for the last decade or decade
and a half uh we um yeah we've always
been looking and exploring at ways in
which we can float objects in midair
using ultrasound and uh it was always uh
a blue Sky idea uh until about a year
ago when uh some of our my co-founders
were saying oh maybe there's a
commercial opportunity for this acoua
faab has perfected the ability to pick
up a droplet or a small particle adjust
it midair then move it to a specific
location doing all of this with only
using sound waves the new technology
uses a range of tiny speakers set at 40
khz to generate the sound waves outside
of the audible range for humans the
magic trick is we time the turning on
and off of each individual speaker
precisely so when we turn them on and
off at different time intervals they
create a pattern and we can
computationally using acoustic
holography shape the sound field in the
far field however you want so so for
example we can make them all come
together to a point uh and they can we
can make transducers from the bottom and
from the top come to two different
points that are half a wavelength apart
then if you put an object there it's
going to be held in place acaab has been
demonstrating their sound levitation kit
at Tech Fairs around the world they say
research Labs can buy a basic kit for
academic use starting at
$3,100 when you think of professions
that might require simulator training
maybe you'd think of airline pilots
special ops in the military maybe a
surgeon practicing critical skills in a
controlled environment without real
world risks has become a safe and
reliable Training Method across a number
of professions well did you know that
there is one city using simulator
training for snow plow drivers that's
right the city of Nashville feels it's
important that their snowplow drivers
down south are ready to roll even if
there isn't any snow to practice on CNN
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WSMV shows us why complete with power
steering plow control and assault
spreader it's just like you're driving a
snowplow but it's all a simulation I can
kind of control all aspects of what's
going on in the cab right there uh we
can control day night it has ways on
there we can make it the road Slicker
you know sung glare it's ot's new
technology that allows both new and
experienced snowplow drivers a safe way
to practice without wasting gas they can
uh get up here and train and not you
know not be burning fuel uh and then
also not be putting them at risk of
being on the road putting themselves at
risk and putting you know everybody else
in the
road safe enough that even we were
allowed to test it out and now this
controls your play right here scoring a
barely passing 72 out of
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100 today's story getting a 10 out of 10
all aboard the Most Wonderful Time of
the Year Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Jingle Bell rocking the rails on a
blinged out sixc car train in Chicago
helping to make a feliss Navidad with
the annual holiday train Santa will deck
the halls with more than 100,000 lights
to help you Have Yourself a Merry Little
Christmas and Rudolph the rednose
reindeer and Friends well they're along
for the ride helping to bring Joy to the
World you see CTA employees will deliver
around 400 holiday meal baskets to local
charitable organizations slay all day
all right Jolly Old Friends it is time
to close out this last show of 2024
we'll be back January 6 I'll miss you
during the winter break so follow me at
Koy wire on Instagram and Tik Tok I'll
be posting and replying looking to uh
share some holiday fun with all of you
now our last shout out of 2024 goes to
Elenor Roosevelt Middle School in debuk
Iowa debuk the best q that Friday music
n there my team we all wish you many
blessings and hope you finish this year
strong so we can take Boundless Energy
into 2025 rides up I'm Koy wire and we
are CNN 10
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