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CNN 10_20191010

Turkish Military Operation; History of A Famous Award; Utility`s Decision to Cut Power; A "Loop" of Reusable Containers

Aired October 10, 2019 - 04:00:00 ET

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to CNN 10 on this 10th day of the 10th month of 2019. It`s like a perfect 10. I`m Carl Azuz, happy as always to have you watching. We`re starting with an update from the Middle East. The nation of Turkey has begun a military operation in neighboring Syria. The two countries share a border. Syria`s been torn apart by a civil war that started in 2011 and Turkey says terrorists have been trying to establish control along the border and that its military offensive is intended to destroy that and bring peace to the region. Witnesses say Turkish war planes have started launching air strikes in some areas. Syria`s government opposes the attacks. It says Turkey has hostile intentions and that it`s trying to expand its territory into Syria.

But other nations factor into this too. A few days ago the United States announced it would move its troops out of northern Syria as Turkey prepared for its attacks. About 1,000 American forces were there to keep stability and help U.S. allies hunt down terrorists. Now, international observers are concerned that those U.S. allies might be threatened. Turkey sees them as terrorists who`ve launched attacks against the Turkish government for decades. One group that America supports says it will fight Turkish forces along the Syrian border and U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that if Turkey goes too far in harming America`s allies in the region, the U.S. will wreck Turkey`s economy.

Several other nations including the Netherlands, Germany and Egypt have all spoken out against Turkey`s military actions in Syria. One possible side effect they`re concerned about is that the Turkish operation will cause civilians in the area to leave their homes leading to a new wave of refugees in an already war torn country. Turkey says its mission is to establish safe zones near the border where refugees can be resettled.

10 Second Trivia. Which of these scientists invented dynamite in the 1860`s? Albert Einstein, Alfred Nobel, Nickola Tesla or Thomas Edison. It was Alfred Nobel, namesake of the Nobel Peace Prize who invented dynamite.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At the age of 28, the young Marie (inaudible) married a French scientist named Pierre Curie. Together in their laboratory in Paris, they shared in the research that isolated (inaudible).

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AZUZ: Eight hundred thousand homes, businesses and other buildings have lost electricity in Northern California. Stores have sold out of back-up generators. Several school districts have cancelled classes. Some traffic lights are dark and though this could last for a week in some places, no single event has caused it. This is a safety measure. Pacific Gas and Electric, the largest utility company in America`s most populated state is responding to a weather forecast. Northern California is said to be under extreme danger because of high winds and dry conditions. Those are key ingredients in wildfires and PG&E is trying to prevent them from flaring up by cutting off electricity.

The company`s equipment has been blamed for causing a number of wildfires in the past and it`s agreed to pay billions of dollars in damages. It says its probable that the Campfire, California`s deadliest blaze that struck last year, started when PG&E equipment made contact with nearby trees. It says this power outage is a last resort to prevent wildfires. But critics say the company ought to improve its equipment so that it won`t have to shutdown electricity whenever conditions are dangerous. Even after the winds die down, PG&E says it will take several days to make sure nothing is damaged before it turns the lights back on.

A reusable packaging company is trying to change grocery shopping. Instead of buying ice cream, for example, and later tossing out the cheap carton, the so-called milkman model would deliver dessert in a nicer container like the milk bottles used by your great grandparents, and that container would be returned, cleaned and reused. There are down sides. You can`t pick up your products immediately and it takes a lot of shipping so what`s environmentally friendly in terms of packaging isn`t in terms of the effort required to get it to and from your home. But if it takes off, it could help close the loop on trash.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tom Szaky is on a mission to eliminate the concept of waste.

TOM SZAKY, CEO OF TERRACYCLE: The act of throwing something away in itself isn`t bad. It`s actually incredibly convenient. The problem is where it ends up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And it`s a big problem. About 91 percent of plastic waste ever created has never been recycled so Szaky decided to go to the source, to target the companies making the kind of single use plastic containers that constantly end up in the trash. And he started with the four largest consumer goods companies in the world, combined their sales totaled almost $285 billion in 2018.

SZAKY: We went to all these major companies saying, here`s this new big idea, come take a risk on it and lets ideally change the world in the process.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He called the big idea, Loop. His pitch to consumers, buy the same household products you already love plus a small deposit and we`ll send them to you in durable, reusable packaging. When you`re done, return them to be cleaned, refilled and reused by someone else. How hard of a sell was this to, you know, manufacturers and companies?

SZAKY: The Loop is a gargantuan (inaudible), because we`re going into Proctor and Gamble and saying, reinvent the packaging of these world famous products completely. Build production lines to fill this reinvented package. Oh, and by the way I have no proof that anyone`s going to buy it at all but they said yes because they know that there`s a garbage crisis and they really don`t want to contribute to it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And Nestle didn`t need much convincing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`ve invested so much time, energy, people, resources and dollars because as we think forward to the future. We know consumers will demand more recyclable products or reusable products and so project Loop is a way for us to tip our toe into this territory and really learn a lot.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In the end, Nestle along with Proctor and Gamble, Pepsico, Unilever, Clorox and others took the leap.

SZAKY: Loop is an ecosystem. If it was just one company making a few products, it wouldn`t work. You need everyone coming together and it sort of became a certain, you know, snowball effect where as it got bigger the more and more companies joined even faster and faster.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Loop launched in early 2019 in a few cities with about 300 products. Since then Szaky says more than 10,000 people have signed up. It`s expanding to more cities as well and soon the products will be available in major retailers like Walgreens and Kroger.

SZAKY: What`s neat is you can buy it at one retailer and return it to another and so it really creates this nice network effect. We`re adding a brand every day and so, you know, things you`ll see are from eggs products to automotive products, not just one type of shampoo but, you know, in dozen different types of shampoo. And everything really growing and pushing each other.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We still don`t know if Loop will catch on. What do you think has to change in regards to the - - the consumer`s mindset in order for them to adopt this new model you`re proposing?

SZAKY: I`m believe that asking the consumer to change anything is an uphill battle. I think its much easier to ask the model what it can do to match the convenience the consumer wants. Loop is not the first refill idea out there, at all. But none of them have really taken off and I would argue it`s because it`s less convenient for the consumer than throw it away and buy a new one. The more we make if feel like a disposable lifestyle, the easier it will be to get mass adoption.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That mass adoption, that`s really key here.

SZAKY: It`s - - it`s everything. I think a lot of people are going to think about whether there`s a future in reuse by whether we succeed or not.

Because all the world`s major manufacturers are saying, we`re going to give it a shot and Loop is their shot.

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AZUZ: We`ve heard of turbo chargers, super chargers, nitrous oxide, but what this car has under the hood, is nuts, walnuts. After hearing noises and smelling burning, the woman who owns this SUV looked under the hood and found that squirrels apparently stored 200 walnuts right there along with some grass. It took about an hour to clean everything out but the car was fine. Of course it could probably "cashewse" a tune-up. It maybe "pistashioverdue" for an oil change. You should always check the "filbert" and make sure you can see that everything else is "pine".

You don`t need to be a master "macadamiac" to make sure your engine is running like "butternut". I`m Carl Azuz, driven to make puns on CNN.

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CNN 10_20191011

Super Typhoon Spins Toward Japan; U.S. Auto Worker Strike Continues; Kites are Explored as Conduits for Wind Energy; CNN Hero Series

Aired October 11, 2019 - 04:00:00 ET

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: They say life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent Friday`s are awesome, something like that. Welcome to CNN 10, I`m Carl Azuz. It`s great to have you watching. As we put this show together a super typhoon was whirling toward the nation of Japan. It`s name is Typhoon Hagisbis. It`s called a super typhoon because it`s especially powerful. On Thursday, Hagisbis was the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, the strongest classification. If it shifts direction as forecasters expect it to, this storm could come very close to the Japanese capital of Tokyo on Saturday.

Meteorologists think it will have weakened by then but Hagisbis is on track to make landfall right near where Typhoon Faxai hit in September. That storm reportedly killed three people and caused more than $7 billion in damage. Super Typhoon Hagibis is expected to bring heavy rain to much of south central Japan. Near the coast forecasters are concerned about a potentially large storm surge, a rise in seawater levels pushed ashore by a storm and Hagibis has already had an impact on the Rugby World Cup. It`s being held in Japan this year and some matches have been cancelled as the storm approaches.

On the other side of the Pacific, General Motors, the automotive company that makes Buick, Cadillac, Chevy, it`s in the midst of the car industry`s longest strike in decades. The union representing almost 50,000 workers is negotiating with GM over issues like wages and profit sharing and a big hand up between the two sides is over production in Mexico. GM has four factories there and 33 in the United States but the company`s planning to close four U.S. plants and the union wants production in Mexico shifted back to the U.S. One industry expert says that would come at a heavy cost to GM. The strike has been going on for 25 days.

10 Second Trivia. The first known kites have been traced back to what country? China, India, Egypt or Australia. Though the exact origin of the kite isn`t known, historians believe they were first used in China.

They fly like the wind but can kites be used to gather electricity from it. There are a number of companies experimenting with this idea. It requires huge kites that fly high enough to catch the steady winds in our atmosphere and then transfer that energy back to earth. There are concerns about the amount of maintenance they`d need. The threat they could pose if they crash and what would happen in bad weather. But if everything goes right -

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Some of the world`s strongest winds are found here, out on the ocean where water is too deep for most off shore wind turbines.

But a company called Makani believes it has a solution with a new wind technology inspired by a familiar child`s toy, the kite. To me it almost looks like an airplane, what makes it a kite?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know when you fly a kite in the park, it`s being lifted by the wind and you`re holding on to it with a tether and so our kite is the same way.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Once airborne, Makani`s 85 foot long energy kite flies around autonomously, guided by computers. Crosswinds spin eight rotors producing electricity that sent back to the ground through a tether and its carbon fiber frame makes the kite extremely lightweight.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our energy kites are so lightweight we can install them in deep water on floating platforms.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And that means they can capture winds much further offshore where other turbines can`t. Last month in Norway, Makani successfully completed its first deep water offshore flight but their kites won`t be ready for market for several years. If your system is widely adopted, what kind of impact do you think it can potentially make?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are many areas around the world that really don`t have a good resource for renewable power but do have offshore wind resource. And so our lightweight kites create the possibility that we could tap that resource very economically and bring renewable power to hundreds of millions of people.

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AZUZ: Whether it`s flying a blimp, driving an 18 wheeler or jumping out of a plane, a CNN Hero is helping senior citizens seek the thrills they`ve always dreamed of. His name is Webb Weiman. His non-profit organization is Jump. He says it`s all about taking seniors from darkness to light.

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WEBB WEIMAN, CNN HERO: I tell seniors, live by two rules. There are no bad bucket list wishes and everyone should have a bucket list wish. For every bucket list fulfilled, there is a sense of accomplishment. A story that they get to take back to their community. It lifts their spirits. My name is Webb and I help seniors achieve their dreams.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My dad is a piece of work. He`s - - he`s a 95 year old veteran. He was in World War II, participated in the invasion of Normandy at D-Day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And that`s our crew, I`m on the right.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He worked hard all his life, was always kind, always had friends and would do anything for anybody. Give them the shirt off his back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right. So the last number was B-15.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: With dad aging, he`s slowing down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got that. (ph)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: His body`s not keeping up with his mind.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bingo.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He wants to be the energizer bunny.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can`t believe it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It aggravates him that he can`t do what he used to be able to do.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re going to clear it out. Begin a new game.

WEIMAN: The reality of living in isolation is out there and it`s real. And that`s really one of the driving forces for us to keep going. Drag the bucket list out of them. When he saw the balloon being blown up and I looked at his face, his smile could have filled up the balloon but it`s in that moment that I know this is where I`m supposed to be.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey we`re moving.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s just heartwarming to see him going up in that balloon and I think he`s still smiling. Just so proud of him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You keep smiling. That`s - - that`s your only requirement.

WEIMAN: I looked at it like much more than a hot air balloon ride. Calm and beautiful. It was a moment in time to share a little space with two heroes had a good shot at the moon. It`s a feeling that`s indescribable. I could feel the joy in their heart. I could see the spark in their eye and feel the gratitude that fills the air. And I think knowing that they`re feeling the same way is really all I needed to know this was a successful mission.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you have a good time dad?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That was something.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He won`t believe he`s this old if he keeps doing adventurous things.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (inaudible) fly again.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was something he`d never experienced before and he`ll never forget it, ever.

WEIMAN: Even in your 90s`, you`re still flying high. (inaudible) I want to thank you. This was a great day.

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AZUZ: A Canadian fire department recently ordered 18 large pizzas for $300. They thought they`d called Alimo`s (ph) Pizzaria in Alberta, Canada where they`re based. But instead they`d ordered from Alamo`s Pizza in San Antonio, Texas. Oops. That`s 2,300 miles away so a bit far for delivery.

So what they decided to do was donate the pizzas to two local fire stations in Texas. Firefighters there shared some pictures of themselves enjoying the pies and now people from all over are donating pizzas to workers.

Who wouldn`t want a "pizzof" that effort? For anyone in "pepporoneed" of a pick me up, these pizzas are making the rounds where "slices" of good will abound and folks "dough" want to miss the chance to "dish" out a gesture who`s ingredients are kindness and generosity. And is never too "cheesy" to "pie" it forward. I`m Carl Azuz, hope your weekend is fresh.

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CNN 10 20191009

The NBA Faces Fallout in China Over a Controversial Tweet; Scientists Identify New Moons in Our Solar System; Conservation Efforts Help a Rare Butterfly

Aired October 9, 2019 - 04:00 ET

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Basketball was invented in the United States by a Canadian immigrant, but the National Basketball Association has more fans in China than anywhere else, and that country just announced it won`t show or stream any NBA preseason games played there. The reason why is our first topic today on CNN 10.

An international political storm involving the National Basketball Association started with a tweet. The subject of that tweet concerned recent protests in Hong Kong.

For months, demonstrators have been calling for more democracy and less influence by China. Some of the protests have been violent. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China and the communist country says it has ultimate control over what happens there.

So, there are two sides in the story of the protests. And the basketball manager`s tweet that picked a side is what led to the NBA controversy.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The National Basketball Association is risk of fouling out in China while also facing boos and backlash from fans back home.

It all began when the general manager of the NBA`s Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, posted this on Twitter over the weekend: Fight for freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.

But what may have seemed like simple tweet ignited a geopolitical fire storm. That is because Morey`s comment was a clear show of support for anti-China protesters who have been out in force on Hong Kong streets for months. Hong Kong is officially part of China. And to say the Chinese government was furious would be an understatement.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE TV ANCHOR (through translator): We want to warn people like Morey that it is not realistic for them to earn a large amount of money from China while hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.

TODD: Chinese state TV demanded an apology. The league, which has stood up for free speech by its players when it comes to U.S. politics backed down, saying Morey`s views have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China which is regrettable.

The Rockets owner and star players distanced themselves from their own general manager.

JAMES HARDEN, HOUSTON ROCKETS GUARD: We apologized, you know. You know, we love China. We love playing there.

TODD: Even Daryl Morey himself whose original tweet has since been deleted, said he didn`t intend to offend anyone in China, saying in a follow-up tweet: I have had a lot of opportunity since the tweet to hear and consider other perspectives.

CHRISTINE BRENNAN, SPORTS COLUMNIST, USA TODAY: The NBA has led the way in progressive thought, in ideology and speaking your mind. And to see the NBA cave in this manner is absolutely stunning.

TODD: So why would the NBA, which one senator derisively called the wokest professional sports league buckle to pressure from a foreign power?

Experts say it`s because China is a financial slam dunk for the NBA, worth billions.

The NBA has at least 25 marketing partnerships and more than 200 stores in China. More than 600 million people watched NBA games on Chinese TV during the 2017-2018 season.

BRENNAN: The fact is that the NBA ratings were actually higher in China. More people in China watched the NBA than watched the NBA in the United States. Extraordinary.

TODD: China, sports analysts say, knows its influence on and off the court and immediately started issuing threats.

The Chinese Basketball Association led by the iconic Yao Ming, a former Rockets star player himself, has said it would suspend cooperation with the Rockets.

The company, Tencent Spots, the NBA`s exclusive digital partner for China, is suspending live-streaming of Rockets games.

THOMAS WRIGHT, THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: China has a long track record of placing pressure on governments and companies that say things that offend the Chinese communist party.

TODD: The NBA`s response has led to a Rocket`s red glare with members of Congress and others going hard in the paint against the NBA.

Leaders on both side of the aisle from Republican Senators Ted Cruz to Mario Rubio to Democrats Chuck Schumer and Congresswoman Jackie Speier are calling the NBA hypocritical.

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AZUZ: So, the National Basketball Association is getting criticized on both sides of the Pacific. On one hand, it says it regrets that the tweet offended its fans in China, but on the other, the NBA`s commissioner says he still supports Daryl Morey`s right to speak out.

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ADAM SILVER, NBA COMMISSIONER: We are not apologizing for Daryl exercising his freedom of expression. I regret again having communicated directly with many friends in China, that so many people are upset, including millions and millions of our fans.

I understand that there are consequences from that exercise of, in essence, his freedom of speech and, you know, we will have to live with those consequences.

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AZUZ: Chinese media strongly disagreed with Commissioner Adam Silver on the issue of free speech, responding to his statement, China`s main government-run TV broadcaster said, quote: Any remarks that challenge national sovereignty and social stability do no belong to the category of free speech.

China`s constitution does give its citizens the right of freedom of speech, but human rights organization say, in practice, China`s communist government limits that right.

Commissioner Silver says he plans to travel to China this week for a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets. He`s hoping to meet with Chinese officials to talk about the issue but says it may not be going away anytime soon.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

Which planet has 82 known moons, the most in our solar system?

Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, or Neptune?

The record holder is no longer Jupiter. The planet with the most moons is Saturn.

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AZUZ: That`s because of a brand new discovery by the International Astronomical Union. It says it recently identified 20 previously unknown moons around the ringed planet, and that gives Saturn a total of 82 moons, surpassing Jupiter`s previous record of 79. Sorry, Jupiter, but hey, at least you`re still a planet.

Scientists say Saturn`s satellites, the newly identified ones, are all around the same size and that they were located using stronger computing power and better algorithms for keeping track of faint, distant objects. And now, you can help name them.

There`s a contest being held until December 6th. But there are guidelines. You can`t just submit something like Kimberly. The astronomer whose team found the moons says they have to be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology. So, good luck.

Up next today, Palos Verdes is a peninsula in Southern California. It`s known for its horse trails, ocean views, great schools, incredibly expensive homes and what just might be the rarest butterfly on the planet.

The Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly was thought to be lost forever after its habitat was developed in the early 1980s. Since then, it`s been rediscovered, reinvigorated and reintroduced to parts of the peninsula.

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NARRATOR: This butterfly was once thought to be extinct. Though rediscovered, it remains one of the world`s rarest and most elusive butterflies.

This is the Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly.

SUBTITLE: A Great Big Story. On the Brink: The Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly.

NARRATOR: This butterfly is as elusive as it is beautiful. And the brilliance of its blue wings are only visible when it opens them. The wings are distinctive with their brilliant silvery blue color.

The butterfly was thought to be extinct in the 1980s, when it seemed to disappear without a trace. It wasn`t until the 1990s that this visually striking butterfly was spotted again. Biologists were surprised and delighted in its existence, and a breeding program was begun to build up the species.

Though captive breeding has helped bolster numbers, the population is still low enough to remain on the endangered list. Through careful nurturing and management, this small but mighty butterfly has a fighting chance.

This is the Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly.

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AZUZ: Ten out of 10 goes to the marching band and color guard of Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona, for illustrating how the show must

go on even when the sprinklers do. This happened when they were in the middle of their half-time show. But what won the crowd and national news coverage was their determination to soldier on until the sprinklers were finally turned off. After that, they took it from the top without missing a beat.

Well, that`s certainly not in the drill book. Those students could have easily disbanded, gotten brass off, had some drum major issues, faced plumes of problems or dropped their color guard and marched off on a bad note. But by sheer determ-instrumentation, they showed nothing could stop them even if it rained on their parade.

That`s all for CNN 10. I`m Carl Azuz.

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CNN 10 20190920

September 20, 2019

Remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda Soak Parts of Texas; U.S. Federal Reserve Lowers Key Interest Rate; Athlete Takes on Mountains with One Wheel

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: A state of disaster in the state of Texas is our first story this Friday. Thank you all for taking 10 for CNN 10. I`m Carl Azuz at the CNN Center. Imelda was the name of the storm system that is soaking parts of the Lone Star State. It formed as a tropical depression, strengthened to a tropical storm and made landfall all on the same day. That was Tuesday so there really wasn`t time for people near Texas` Gulf coast to make any major preparations. Still, Imelda wasn`t projected to have anywhere near the impact that Hurricane Dorian had on the Bahamas earlier this month but it did cause flooding, tremendous amounts of it in Texas. And even though Imelda is no longer a tropical storm or a weaker tropical depression for that matter, conditions were still worsening yesterday for many people in southeast Texas.

In the city of Beaumont, for example, where the average rainfall is about 60 inches per year police say the city got a third of that as much as 20 inches in one night. Beaumont is in one of the 13 Texas counties where Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster yesterday. That speeds up money and help to those in need and there are a lot of people in need. Police say they`ve gotten hundreds of calls for rescues. People have been trapped in homes and cars. Residents are being told not to drive because the roads are flooded and entire neighborhoods have become like lakes with houses and trees in the middle of them.

As what`s left of Imelda moves northeast, millions of people in eastern Texas and western Louisiana were told to keep an eye out for possible flash floods. Some victims are comparing this storm to Hurricane Harvey and it certainly caused the worst flooding in the region since Harvey did this in 2017. Though that storm was considered to be an even bigger rainmaker, Imelda`s threat continues with more rain in the forecast before it completely moves out of Texas.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: While this was Imelda, the storm that really was only a tropical storm didn`t really ever turn into a hurricane but that`s not the point. It has tropical moisture with it and that tropical moisture has just been sitting right from Houston and points eastward all the way toward Beaumont and I-10 is completely underwater. Completely shut down around Beaumont. We are going to see this now, this water, going to take a long time for it to run off. Even now toward Woodland and Houston getting in on a little bit more rainfall from the north here, coming down you`ll see heavier rainfall here. What the biggest story here is this white area here, from Winnie this over toward Beaumont there`s 350 square miles of 20 inches of rain or more. That`s 15 times the size of Manhattan covered with 20 inches of rain or more and some of these - - these gauges now are out of control. I mean we don`t know if we believe them any - - or not but up to 40 inches of rain in some spots there to the southwest of Beaumont.

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AZUZ: For the second time since July, the United States Federal Reserve cut interest rates this week. The Federal Funds Rate was reduced a quarter of a percentage point and it will now hover between 1.75 percent and 2 percent. Does that affect individual Americans? Yes, because lower interest rates make it cheaper to borrow money. Payments on mortgages, payments on credit card balances, what businesses have to pay back when they borrow, all of that can decrease when the Fed cuts interest rates. It`s a move the Central Bank can make to influence the U.S. economy and analysts think that economy will continue to grow in the months ahead and that the nation`s unemployment rate will stay near its lowest levels in 50 years. But there are concerns that global growth will slow down. This rate cut, according to the Fed chairman, was made to keep the U.S. economy strong.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let`s go all the way back to the late 19th century when people couldn`t trust that their money was safe in the bank and bank runs weren`t unusual. That led to the creation of the country`s Central Bank, the Federal Reserve in 1913. It was the first step toward adding safety and stability to America`s financial system. Today the Fed is essentially the architect of America`s money policy. It`s run by a board of governors based in Washington, D.C. and has 12 Federal Reserve banks around the country. Those bank presidents and the board meet eight times a year to make big policy decisions. Decisions that effect the Fed`s two main goals, to make sure prices are stable and that everyone who wants a job has a job.

So how exactly does the Fed do this? Mainly using three tools. First, by adjusting the discount rate. That`s the interest rate the Fed charges commercial banks for short term loans and it`s one of the most influential interest rates there is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Dow had it`s biggest points drop in history today.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For example, in 2008 when the economy was tanking - -

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some companies may not be able to make their payroll. Then they have to shut down a shift at a plant. That means people will lose their jobs, more people will lose their homes. People will have difficultly getting loans.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Fed in an unprecedented move cut interest rates to zero making it cheaper to borrow money.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This plan is an emergency plan to put out a fire, to resolve a serious crisis which has real main street implications.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Fed can`t force banks to lend or companies to hire but it can use its tools to create an environment for economic growth.

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AZUZ: 10 Second Trivia. Which of these contraptions was invented first? Vacuum cleaner, AM radio, Bakelite, or Penny Farthing. Penny Farthing "for your thoughts" was the only one of these inventions made before the 20th century.

And here is what a Penny Farthing looks like. It`s also known as a high- wheel bicycle for obvious reasons. It appeared on the scene around the year 1870 and historians believe it led to the invention of the unicycle because why not leave the relative safety of two wheels for just one. If keeping balance by mountain biking is more challenging than road biking, let`s turn 10 out of 10 up to 11 and go off roading on a mountain unicycle.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you are a unicyclist, you see the world really, really different. If I go to a city and I see a bench, for me it`s not a bench. It`s something saying can I jump on it so the world is an obstacle for me. I always think, is this too steep? Is it possible to jump on this rock. So it really changes my perspective on everything. (ph)

My name is Lutz Eischoltz (ph). I`m a professional mountain unicyclist. That means I unicycle through the mountains. I started unicycling at the age of nine. First I only unicycled on the street and over the years I got more and more experienced and now I unicycle mostly in the mountains. I really like to go down big mountains so I did a 5,600 meter mountain (inaudible) a couple of years ago and I want to go on even higher mountains.

I unicycled on five continents, saw many, many places in the world. The biggest challenge on a unicycle is to always stay balanced (ph).

Technically the most important movement are my legs because I always have to pedal so my legs are always moving. Then my right arm I use to balance so I move it up and down. My left arm maintains the (inaudible). If I go down on hard terrain (ph), I`m not thinking (ph) at all. I`m just in the moment. I`m 100 percent focused just on the (inaudible) on the movement because if I start to sink, for sure I would fall down.

I like to do stuff which has not been (ph) done by so many people and I think it`s a bigger challenge if you don`t have people you can copy and you have to rent (ph) a little bit by yourself. It`s really unique. It`s really special and (inaudible) a big part why I like it so much.

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AZUZ: Where (ph) he spoke of some "wheely" interesting points, if not "universal" ones, it`s hard to switch gears and can even grind your gears if you know you`ve only got one and not everyone would "pedal" the idea of taking a seat where a "wheely" is the only way to ride. You`re only keeping it half as "wheel" as a bicycle. Still, as we ride off into the sunset for the week we hope you`ll keep it in the road even if you go "off road" and we thank you for keeping CNN 10 your number one for news. I`m Carl Azuz.

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