what's up sunshine I'm Ky Wire Welcome
to CNN 10 I'm excited to be here kicking
off another week of growth and
opportunity with all of you Did you know
that April 14th is look up at the sky
day So be sure to take a moment to slow
down take a deep breath or smell the
flowers cool the soup
Calling all the noise maybe do some
cloud gazing and just be grateful for
all those simple things in life we
sometimes might take for granted For now
let's get you your news We start with an
historic launch by the private space
flight company Blue Origin planning to
launch the first all female crew in over
60 years to the edge of space and back
from its launch site in Texas Among the
sixperson crew are notable names like
journalist Gail King singer Katie Perry
and Lauren Sanchez pilot journalist and
vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund She's
engaged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Joining them are film producer Kerannne
Flynn former NASA rocket scientist Aisha
Bo and bioastronautics research
scientist Amanda Nuin The suborbital
space tourism mission will be fully
autonomous with no pilots on board and
it'll last about 10 minutes The crew
will travel just past the Carman line a
widely recognized demarcation of where
space begins It is at 100 kilometers or
62 miles above sea level That's where
the crew will experience a few minutes
of microgravity not to mention
tremendous views of Earth before
returning home Our Isabelle Rosales has
more on this historic 31st flight of the
New Shepard rocket
Liftoff For the first time in more than
60 years an all female crew is set to
blast off into space Blue Origin
star-studded NS-31 mission is scheduled
to launch from West Texas on April 14th
on board the New Shepard vehicle Among
the sixperson crew are singer Katy Perry
journalist Gale King and Lauren Sanchez
pilot and fiance of Blue Origin founder
Jeff Bezos The crew is set to travel
just past the Carmon line the point
widely recognized as where outer space
begins and will experience a few minutes
of microgravity before descending back
to Earth Crew member and former NASA
rocket scientist Aisha Bo spoke to CNN
about her hope that this landmark voyage
will inspire more women to shoot for the
stars To see six women who are all
incredibly unique who are very inspiring
in their own right come together and
globally on a campaign I think what
you're going to see is not only more
women but more people know that they can
too become one of us and that they also
can reach and work in these fields This
will mark the first all female space
mission since Soviet cosminaut Valentina
Terishova's solo mission back in
1963 But the historic mission has also
faced criticism including from actress
Olivia Mun While co-hosting on NBC's
Today Show with Jenna Bush Hager Mun
questioned the purpose of the mission
and its cost What What are they doing
Like why You know what I mean Like I I'm
just saying this okay I know this is
probably not the the cool thing to say
but like there are so many other things
that are so important in the world right
now Like what like this it's not they
aren't asked I mean there's one
astronaut one astronaut but like what
are you guys going to do up in space
What are you doing up there One crew
member researcher and civil rights
activist Amanda Wyn will conduct
experiments about women's health during
the 11-minute flight Wyn will make
history becoming the first woman of
Vietnamese or Southeast Asian descent in
space Since their first successful crude
space flight in 2021 Blue Origin has had
10 crude missions bringing more than 50
people to the edge of space including
Star Trek actor William Shatner who was
brought to tears by the experience I
hope I never recover from this
Pop quiz hot shot What famous mascot
received so much fan mail that the post
office assigned him his own zip code in
1964 Michelin man Smokey the Bear Tony
the Tiger or Pillsbury
Doughboy If you said smoky bear smoking
In 1950 a bear cub rescued from a forest
fire in New Mexico took over for Bambi
as a symbol of forest fire prevention
And you can still send mail at Smokeoky
Bear Washington DC
20252 Smokey Bear has historically used
his bear charm to inspire generations to
help prevent fires And now researchers
are using artificial intelligence to
help predict fires and stop them before
they start The European Center for
Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is now
using an AI powered model to boost the
accuracy of fire forecasts incorporating
data like fire patterns potential fuel
sources and human activity into machine
learning programs to improve on
traditional weather models Our Derek
Vanam shows us how scientists hope this
technology will save lives and homes
from wildfires in the future
Researchers in Europe are using the
power of AI to predict where wildfires
will break out before the first ember
even ignites Using machine learning the
European Center for Medium Range Weather
Forecasts has developed a new model that
takes into account a variety of factors
to determine areas at risk of wildfires
So historically for fire forecasting we
use what's called the fire weather index
And this is a simple physicsbased model
where we use four weather variables
temperature wind precipitation and
humidity to forecast the chance that if
a fire does occur how intense it will be
So what we know from that is that it
doesn't account for a lot of things It
doesn't account for fuel It doesn't
account for ignition sources and things
like that So what we try to do here is
we try to incorporate more data into a
machine learning framework
For example in the recent LA wildfires
unusual wet weather conditions leading
up to the fires caused ample vegetation
growth that was then made flammable by
exceptionally dry weather in winter So
you see this new model would be able to
take those factors into account and find
the specific areas most at risk This new
method the probability of fire having
the memory of the the fuel abundance in
their formulation allow to really
identifies those region that could be
much more affected compared to simpler
method they only consider weather and
this is why our prediction in this case
was much more precise and pinpointed
exact location when very close to Los
Angeles where fire really occurred
The danger wildfires pose is growing
Just last year wildfires forced the
displacement of 800,000 people the
highest numbers since records began back
in
2008 Researchers hope the model can be
used by fire officials to identify areas
at the most risk of fires and prevent
them before they start saving lives and
homes in the process
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 A
motheraughter duo going viral for one
small act of kindness They had an
enormous impact Taylor Denelli and her
four-year-old daughter were shopping at
a Barnes & Noble They saw a firsttime
author set up with his stack of books
hoping to sign some for people Only
problem was nobody came up to him He was
sitting there all alone Like I always
say you are more powerful than you know
Take a look at how one powerful moment
had an impact greater than they could
have ever imagined Taylor Denelli was
shopping at a Barnes & Noble with her
four-year-old daughter when they saw an
author sitting alone at a book signing
event We were there for probably half an
hour and I didn't really see anybody
else going over to his table or or
anything like that And I thought "Yeah
that would be really nice You know I'm
sure he would really appreciate if we
went over and talked to him as well."
this amazing four-year-old girl came
marching up to me and she bravely said
"I want to be an author when I grow up."
And I just created my first book And in
that moment it was such a special moment
She touched my heart Delli posted The
Encounters to Tik Tok where it
eventually got nearly 80 million views
Now Stanley's book is listed as one of
Amazon's best sellers You know I
explained to her as much as you can
explain to a four-year-old that we what
we did really will change Mr Stanley's
life and make his life a lot better And
her first like without a second thought
she's like "Mommy we could help
everybody Like we should keep helping
people." The video made an impact
because she came into the moment with
kindness and empathy And it shown the
world that kindness matters It can
change someone's life It changed mine
Make someone smile today y'all You never
know when You never know how but you may
just be the spark of joy that someone
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