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now we start first in New Orleans where
US President Joe Biden and First Lady
Joe Biden traveled on Monday the bidens
visited with some families of the 14
people who were killed last week during
the New Year's Day terror attack the
bidens attended an Interfaith visual
with local clergy law enforcement and
community members New Orleans Mayor
Latoya Cantrell and Louisiana governor
Jeff Landry also met with the president
to discuss security efforts in the city
in times of national tragedies like this
one Americans often look to the
president for reassurance and in modern
times the president has publicly taken
on the role of consoler in Chief it's a
role President Biden has become known
for shaping much of his political
identity around empathy and his lifetime
struggles with loss other presidents too
have led the nation after difficult
events like when Ronald Reagan consult
Americans after the space shuttle
Challenger exploded in 1986 just after
launching from the Kennedy Space Center
in Cape Canaveral now to a major fiscal
deadline looming over the US Government
after the nation's debt ceiling was
reinstated at the very beginning of this
year reminder the debt ceiling is the
limit on the amount of money the US
federal government can borrow to pay its
bills and those bills will be coming due
pretty soon around mid January when the
US hits the debt limit it can't borrow
anymore that's when the treasury
Department will have to start taking
Extraordinary Measures to prevent a
default and those funds can last a few
months this has ramped up tensions
between GOP lawmakers and
president-elect Donald Trump who is
demanding Congress deals with the limit
before he takes office on January 20th
CNN's Vanessa yavich breaks down the
details of the debt limit showing us why
it's become such a politically charged
topic I think president uh Trump and I
are in agreement that I don't even know
why we continue to have the debt limit
drama the permanent repeal of the debt
ceiling what do you mean limit yes you
mean just say we don't have a debt limit
no debt li no I'd be responsible ah the
debt ceiling the Eternal Washington food
fight so what is it and why is it so
contentious the debt ceiling is the
legal limit set by Congress on how much
money America can borrow because the US
spends more than it takes in it borrows
to make up the difference the debt
ceiling caps how much the problem is
it's not enough so every once in a while
Congress needs to raise the limit if it
doesn't the treasury Department won't be
able to pay all the Count's bills in
full and on time now the treasury does
have a little wiggle room before it gets
to the that point what it calls
Extraordinary Measures to move money
around but eventually the accounting
tricks run out and there's no more
avoiding the debt ceiling that's usually
when the fireworks break out I want you
all to remember that it was just last
spring that the same Democrats berated
Republicans and said that it was
irresponsible to hold the the debt limit
the debt ceiling hostage what changed
the problem here is that they're asking
only to to get rid of the debt ceiling
for a short period of time to allow them
to do a massive new tax cut for
billionaires and millionaires there are
some Republicans who've never voted to
raise the debt limit and never will now
many say raising the debt ceiling is
just a license to spend more money and
grow the debt but it's not really
raising the debt ceiling just lets
treasury pay the bills America already
owes it's about prior debts incurred uh
and obviously we have to pay our debts
just as every American has to pay down
their credit card if Congress really
wants to clamp down on debt it has to do
it a lot earlier like before passing
spending bills or tax cuts both of which
can add to deficits failing to raise the
debt ceiling won't keep a lid on debt it
just risked the US defaulting on its
obligations something that could forever
stain America's Global
reputation Pop Quiz Hot Shot ethology is
the study of what natural material and
how it affects plants other organisms
and it's used by people for agricultural
needs water soil rocks or
sunlight if you said soil yes sir the
scientists who study soil health for
growing plants are called
ethologists now to laser shooting robots
have you heard about this AI technology
that just might become a GameChanger for
Farmers as they look to tackle one of
their biggest problems weeds with Farms
looking to replace toxic herbicide with
sustainable practices one company has
developed a Star Wars likee machine that
zaps weeds with lasers like an imperial
Stormtrooper they say it's eco-friendly
but with laser blasters costing upwards
of a million dollars how many already
struggling Farmers could actually use
this Force to help them turn a profit
take a
look I love onions meet Steve Gil he
grows onions in California and one of
the worst enemies on his farm are weeds
they're sucking up the same fertilizer
that the onions are using and if they
get out of control sometimes it does
happen you can lose the feel to weeds
and the days of spraying herbicides as a
form of weed control could be numbered
weeds are adapting in the long run
you're going to get a bunch of weeds
that you can't even spray because
they've become resistant to the chemical
tools that we have available enter the
laser weed
designed by the company carbon
robotics the company says the laser
weeder can kill up to 200,000 weeds per
hour it does it in an automated and
chemical-free way by zapping the weeds
with photon lasers equipped with
tracking cameras what we are doing is
finding and targeting the thing called
the merry stem and what happens is it
rips apart the cell walls of the plant
starting in the Mary stem once you
destroy those cell walls and all that
stuff leaks all over the place plant is
not able to grow anymore painted Vision
recognition software identifies what's a
weed and what's not and targets the
weeds with submillimeter accuracy
because it's powered by AI the laser
weeder is constantly learning how to
improve all of these machines are
uploading images from all over the world
and then we're training new AIS and
redeploying them to all those machines
and because the fields aren't being
sprayed with as many chemicals the soil
becomes is healthier which could help
farmers grow those bigger and tastier
vegetables we all crave the state ofal
farming is the direction that we have to
go to get better crops every little
piece of technology that we use to make
the crop better benefits the
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consumer today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 a boat for a buck can you believe
this boat cost just $1 but before you
celebrate thinking you could snag this
steal of a deal check the fine print the
boat is stuck on a beach and getting it
back in the water will cost a pretty
penny CNN's Jeremy Roth shows us how one
Captain found his sailboat in low tide
and is now feeling the peer pressure to
get it
sold sailboat stuck buy it for a buck
that's more or less the deal in Florida
from a sailboat Captain whose vessel ran
ground in New Smyrna Beach following an
attempted Voyage cut short by rough surf
Captain Allan escar's boat is now
marooned and needs to be removed within
30 days so he posted on Craigslist
offering the vessel for just $1 to
anyone willing to remove it I have to
talk to my wife to see if we're in the
market uh for a sail boo I have a dollar
I'll pay where is he at but before
interested parties start counting their
pennies Asar says there is a costly
catch to this seemingly too good to be
true deal it will be operation by land
at this point and it will cost like 20
$20,000 all together getting a sailboat
for a dollar may be Priceless but
getting it removed from the Soggy sand
is pretty pricey okay so what if nobody
buys it critical thinking exercise for
all of you creative minds out there if
you're the mayor of New Smyrna Beach
Florida and nobody buys the boat and
moves it what would you suggest the city
do with the abandoned boat all right
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