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hello and welcome to CNN 10 your 10
minutes of news where I simply tell you
the what letting you decide what to
think i'm Koi Wire happy to be with you
today and hope you had an awesome
weekend now it is Monday March 31st and
we do start with some heavy news today
rescuers are still finding survivors in
the ruins of buildings in the wake of a
7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit
Myanmar on Friday 1,700 people are
confirmed dead but it could take weeks
before we get a full picture of the
devastation the death toll continues to
rise as rescue crews are racing to free
thousands of people who are feared to be
trapped in the rubble especially in
Myanmar's second largest city Mandalay
this is the largest earthquake Myanmar
has seen in more than a century myanmar
one of Asia's poorest nations has
largely been shut off from the world by
its military government during four
years of civil war but now the world is
rushing to help international aid has
reached the most devastated parts of the
country but aid groups say they are
still facing major shortages of medical
supplies this earthquake was so powerful
that its effects were seen and felt
hundreds of miles away including in
places like Bangkok the capital of
Thailand our Will Ripley has more for us
on this devastating news
one of many devastating scenes across
the crippled city of Mandalay damage
stretches across entire neighborhoods
homes and historic buildings reduced to
rubble buddhist monasteries places of
peace and reflection now piles of debris
geologists say the massive 7.7
earthquake had the energy of hundreds of
atomic bombs myanmar's worst quake in
more than a century hitting right during
Friday prayers many mosques collapsed
trapping Muslim worshippers inside
after several years of brutal civil war
and largely self-imposed isolation the
leader of Myanmar's military huta
surveyed the devastation making a rare
plea for international aid now slowly
beginning to arrive from China Russia
India other countries have also pledged
support for this impoverished nation
help cannot come quickly enough the 7.7
magnitude earthquake and its powerful
aftershocks likely leaving parts of the
nation uninhabitable
with severe damage hundreds of miles
from the epicenter including in
Thailand's capital city of Bangkok
skyscrapers swaying so violently rooftop
pools briefly became
waterfalls and this 30story high-rise
under construction near a popular
weekend market collapsed without warning
likely trapping dozens inside here in
Bangkok heavy machinery is now sifting
through the rubble of that collapsed
skyscraper they do have the resources
and the manpower for a massive disaster
response but with each passing hour of
not finding anyone alive in all that
rubble hope for the families is fading
search and rescue teams are doing
everything they can sniffer dogs picking
up possible signs of life drone footage
captures the scale of the collapse a
tangled mass of steel and concrete where
rescuers continued searching all day
Saturday
10sec trivia which company holds the
record for largest monetary fine in a
federal food safety case chipotle Peanut
Corporation of America Konagra or Family
Dollar answer is Family Dollar stores
each of these companies have violated
product food safety standards but Family
Dollar faced a record fine of 41.6
million last year after selling items
that were stocked in a ratinfested
warehouse
messy stores high prices and
overexpansion have plagued the retail
chain Family Dollar according to
analysts and those are just some of the
factors that likely led to its sale at a
devastating loss dollar Tree purchased
Family Dollar back in 2015 for $9
billion but it's now offloading the
discount brand for1 billion pending
regulatory approval that's expected to
clear next quarter family Dollar has
around 8,000 stores in the United States
predominantly in cities with product
prices that typically range from$1 to10
dollars and a lot of families depend on
the store to help them stay within
budget but in recent years inflation
increased family dollars operating costs
squeezed its lower income customers and
now tariffs on imported goods imposed by
President Donald Trump's administration
have further put pressure on dollar
stores our Vanessa Yavich took to the
streets to ask some customers about the
role Family Dollar plays in their lives
and find out how store closings or price
hikes might affect them this is the most
affordable place you can find a lot of
things here and it's pretty cheap i'm
here at a Family Dollar in New Jersey
talking to people about the role that
this store plays in their lives family
Dollar is being sold to two private
equity companies as the brand struggles
last year it announced plans to close
more than 900 stores how important is
this family dollar to this community i
think it's very important really cuz
there's a lot of people that come here
it's very convenient and it's very
important that we have this otherwise
you know we would have to go very far
and I love it here it's just like family
prices are good uh the products are good
the shoppers we spoke to agree prices
are up across the board but here at
Family Dollar it's still the most
affordable option in town there's the
word dollar in the name can you get
something for a dollar here these days
sometimes yes sometimes yes it's gotten
more expensive than when I first started
coming here and everything has gotten
very very pricey you know have you
noticed in recent years prices going up
at all not really no not at Family
Dollar no overall everything has
increased not that much not as fast as
uh some of the other stores do you find
that in recent years you've had to
tighten your budget watch prices more
absolutely absolutely well on on what
particular things food like eggs i say
I'm not eating eggs no more they're too
too
expensive i'm not paying $132 for a
carton of eggs there's a supermarket u
less than a half a block away and their
price is eggs
$15 that's too much i think everybody
took a price height but these particular
dollar-like stores they they they
basically they represent the lesser side
of the market and and they're very
they're not that expensive at all always
get a deal at Family Dollar always get a
deal here some people charge you a lot
for a high price item in some of the
bigger stores you can come here and find
that same item for half half price what
would it mean if this store did not
exist in this community well for a
person such as myself I would have to go
to another supermarket that compare the
prices but I think this this store here
is very good for the community it's not
really clear what the future of Family
Dollar is but more store closures and
price hikes could be
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possible today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 the flower that's so much more
than just a flower sakura the Japanese
word for cherry blossom the trees pop
with their pink or white flowers right
around this time each spring and an
estimated 63 million people travel to
and within Japan to witness it they
represent renewal and the fleeting
nature of life in Japanese culture and
here in the United States in Washington
DC did you know you can get arrested for
removing a blossom or branch because
it's considered vandalism of federal
property our Ali Chenar has more
japan's cherry blossoms are once again
in bloom a fleeting fairyland lasting
only about two weeks uniting locals and
visitors in Tokyo under a canopy of pink
and white we were excited we had heard
that it was a big event everybody comes
out has a picnic spends the day and I
love being around a lot of people and
seeing everybody out just having a
wonderful time together the temperature
sensitive buds flowered 5 days earlier
than last year according to the Japan
Meteorological Agency an earlier season
that's raised some concerns in recent
years about the potential impact climate
change could have on the treasured trees
but some residents in Tokyo say the
weather has been unusual lately the
recent temperatures changed quite a lot
and my body can't adjust to it i think
the cherry blossoms probably can't keep
up with the changes either almost in
sync with the cherry blossoms in Japan
Washington DC is also pretty and pink
the US National Park Service declaring
peak bloom on Friday the trees were
gifts from Japan first arriving in
Washington in 1912 last year Japan
announced a new gift of 250 more trees
to the US once again sharing the joy
that people both in Tokyo and Washington
try to enjoy as long as it lasts all
right smell the flowers cool the soup
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