CARL AZUZ,
CNN 10 ANCHOR: Fridays are awesome! Why? Because Super Bowl and Puppy Bowl.
Those reports are minutes away on CNN 10.
First,
though, tensions between the U.S. and the Middle Eastern nation of Iran. Earlier
this week, Iran tested out a medium range missile, a U.S. defense official said
the test failed and that there was no threat to America or its allies in the
Middle East.
But do
Iran's missile tests break international law? A U.N. Security Council resolution
passed in 2015 tells Iran not to have anything to do with missiles that can
carry nuclear weapons. Iran has tested several missiles since then, but it says
the resolution does not apply because its missile program is only for defensive
purposes.
The U.S.
doesn't agree. On Wednesday, America's national security adviser called Iran's
recent tests a provocative breach of the resolution and said the U.S. was
putting Iran on notice. Iran responded that it would vigorously continue its
missile activity and that it didn't need permission to do it.
Trump
administration officials say they're planning to impose additional sanctions,
penalties on certain people or businesses affiliated with Iran.
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VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ
(voice-over): Ten-second trivia:
What
location was struck in 1960 by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded?
Chile, San Francisco, Alaska, or China?
On May
22nd, 1960, a magnitude 9.5 earthquake struck near the South American nation of
Chile.
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CLIP)
AZUZ: The
1960 Chilean earthquake wasn't the most deadly ever recorded, but its affects
spread far and wide. In addition to the hundreds killed in Chile, the tsunami
generated by the quake killed dozens in Hawaii and as far as Japan. It also
left millions homeless.
Looking at
more recent seismic activity, here's a map of every quake on record, from 2001
through 2015. You can see a lot of them flashing all around or near the Pacific
Ring of Fire. Some devastating quakes occurred during this time period.
One
example, the 9.1 magnitude tremor that shook Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2004. More
than 220,000 died in that and the tsunami that followed.
And the
8.1 magnitude quake that hit Samoa in 2009. Also an 8.8 magnitude quake in
Chile in 2010, and a 9.1 jolt near Japan in 2011. That quake and tsunami killed
more than 22,000.
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VIDEOTAPE)
SUBTITLE:
Five things you should know about earthquakes.
CHAD
MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Number one, an earthquake occurs when two blocks of
the Earth slip fast each other. Now, for most of the time, those blocks are
together with friction. But they are building up energy because they are moving
in different directions. When one block decides to slip, all of a sudden, that
energy is released by seismic waves, kind of like ripples on a pond, creating
the earthquake.
Number
two, an earthquake can occur very near the surface of the Earth. Those
earthquakes are typically very destructive, or as deep as 400 miles down into
the crust. Now, where the shaking actually happens, that's called the
hypocenter. But directly above it, on the surface, that's called the epicenter.
Number
three, the power of an earthquake is called magnitude. Now, the intensity of he
shaking can vary depending on the geography, the typography, or even the depth
of the quake. Now, the USGS says there are 500,000 detectable quakes every
year. One hundred thousand can be felt and 100 will create damage.
Number
four, earthquake themselves actually don't kill that many people. It's the
natural and manmade structures that fall to the ground during the shaking that
injure and kill.
Number
five, the majority of all earthquakes and volcanoes happen along plate
boundaries. The largest is the Pacific plate and its series of boundaries all
along the Pacific Ocean known as the Ring of Fire.
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VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: Big
game this weekend in the U.S. Pro-football is the most popular sport in the
country and its championship game, the Super Bowl, kicks off at 6:30 p.m. on
Sunday. Why this gets so much attention? For one thing, it's routinely viewed
by more than one third of the entire country.
Nielsen
ratings indicated last year's game averaged almost 112 million viewers. That
only counts people who watched in a home, not restaurants. Advertisers paid $5
million for each 30-second spot. And this was for a game that came in at number
three in terms of viewership. The all-time TV record was set in 2015 when Super
Bowl 49 got more than 114 million viewers.
Will this
year's Super Bowl 15 break that record? We'll know after the Atlanta Falcons
play the New England Patriots in Houston, Texas.
And while
all the players in this game are men, that's not the case across the sport.
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VIDEOTAPE)
PHOEBE
SCHECTER, BIRMINGHAM LIONS, LINEBACKER: I'll get shouts like, "Number 2,
you look like a girl." And I was like, well, I am a girl. If you can take
your helmet off around somebody who doesn't, is not expecting it, you can kind
of seem squint, the reaction is like, well, that was football. What do you
think I'm doing three days a week my entire life? Power fluff, you think we're
just prancing around? I think they picture like lingerie or whatever.
SUBTITLE:
Inside the world of women's tackle football.
ALLYSON
HAMLIN, DC DIVAS, QUARTERBACK & COACH: I'm a catcher at Maryland. And I had
a teammate who said, you know what? You probably be a good quarterback and I
kind of laugh at it and the league started and honestly, I didn't take it
seriously and I went out to a game and realize I was missing out. And it's all
she wrote, here I am.
SCHECHTER:
I've moved over to England for this job with horses and I'd seen an ad on
Facebook and thought, I needed to do it, I could get a bit of American culture
in, make friends that way. I haven't looked back since and that was four years
ago.
LAURA
BRADEN, PITTSBURGH PASSION, TIGHT END: Some girls that I played basketball back
in college, I saw it being posted on their Facebook, and said, well, that's
really cool. When I'm done with college sports, maybe I'll give it a shot.
HAMLIN:
Each player has to pay about $500 to $1,000 a season. That doesn't mean you
can't go out and get sponsorships, ticket sales help, things like that. Fields
alone, these days, it's $200 an hour. We all personally insured. So, you have
to have insurance to play in this league for obvious reasons. So, it's an
expensive sport.
BRADEN:
Every year, it's close to $1,000 just for fees. You're not counting equipment.
You're not counting accessories, medical bills, anything like that. So, it's
upwards to tens of thousands of dollars.
I'm an
athlete trainer.
HAMLIN:
I'm a homicide detective for the Prince Georges County Police Department in
Maryland.
SCHECHTER:
I'm a personal trainer.
HAMLIN:
It's three times, you know, a week for eight months.
SCHECHTER:
I play Saturdays. I coach Sundays. I've got Thursdays.
And then
you get your international games. And I actually play on a men's team as well.
I play middle linebacker and I'm actually quite small for that role. But I'm
very effective at what I do and I want to be look at as an athlete, just like
the other girls here.
BRADEN:
The chance to play football now that I have it is almost everything. It changed
in my life in more ways that you can imagine. And the people that you meet and
the avenues that it's opened for me, the places that it's taken me. I ended up
in Pittsburgh moving out of New York City because of Pittsburgh Passion. So,
it's like at some point, you have to consider those decisions were made because
of football.
HAMLIN:
When I started playing, we would literally find a patch of grass. We would use
our headlights for practice.
Hopefully,
you know, 10 years from now, this is, you know, just the started and the
mindsets changed. The best comment I ever had was I would never know you were a
woman until you took your helmet off, which tells me we're playing the sport
right, we're doing it right and we're building it.
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VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: So,
men, women, and some children play football. Who says it should limited to
humans? For the 13th year, puppies will be taking the field for the annual Puppy
Bowl. It's more a competition of cuteness. The game, which airs at 3:00 p.m. on
Super Bowl Sunday, helps some of these pups get adopted. They come from
shelters across the country. They're all between about 12 and 20 weeks old.
They are mixed of breeds, including mixed breeds and the ref says he's bitten,
chewed, scratched and needs to avoid stepping on tails.
So, there
are a couple of things to watch out for. The players are all scrappy and though
victory is pup for grabs, it's still a sport with fight, though its bark is
probably worse, at least the winning threats could make for a Super Bowl.
I'm Carl
Azuz, dogging you with puns for CNN 10.
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