CNN 10 - February 9, 2017

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: This is CNN 10, where 10 minutes of global news explained for a global audience. And I`m your host, Carl Azuz. Thank you

for watching.

We are officially one year away from the next Olympics, the 2018 Winter Olympics. They kick off next February in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The

city is east of Seoul, in the northern part of the country.

Though South Korea has hosted the games before, there had been four new events added for the 2018 Olympics. Alpine skiing will have a mixed team

event. Curling will have a mixed doubles event. Speed skating will have what`s being called a mass start event. And for snowboarders, a big air

event makes its debut.

There are a number of challenges that any city faces when hosting the Olympics. For one thing, it`s incredibly expensive. Billions and billions

are spent. Venues have to be built. Security has to be arranged.

Host countries are under the international media microscope for everything, from their weather, to how they manage housing changes, to their political

conditions.

South Korea`s president, Park Geun-hye was impeached in December and a court is deciding whether to permanently remove her from a power, as a

major investigation is made concerning the nation`s political scandal.

But on the other side of those challenges is the chance for Pyeongchang to shine as the backdrop of a beloved international sporting event, one that

brings together athletes, families, fans and photographs from all corners of the globe.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We are less than one year until the 2018 Winter Games begin in Pyeongchang. You know, as far as how

things are going, no major issues so far. Organizers say they are largely happy with the progress that has been made. The majority of the

infrastructure needed for this event has been built already.

And, frankly, that kind of progress stands out after what we`ve seen from the last two Olympic Games. Of course, I`m talking about the Winter

Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in 2014, and the Summer Olympics last year in Rio de Janeiro, 2016. Both of those events were plagued by things like

construction delays overspending accusations of corruption. And so, organizers of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics are trying to do their best,

in their words, to not repeat those kind of mistakes.

But there are certainly challenges that remain, including the fact that Pyeongchang is one of the smaller cities to host these Winter Olympics, and

the fact that there are still infrastructure projects that need to be completed. But they still have sometime. They are a little less than a

year now.

And, of course, they have experience. It`s the second time that South Korea has held the Olympics. It was back in 1988, here in Seoul, that the

Summer Olympics were held, and so, now, South Korea gets a second chance to welcome the best athletes in the world to show off their best stuff. One

year away.

Matt Rivers, CNN, Seoul.

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

The Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale is used to measure the intensity of what? Tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes?

The Enhanced Fujita scale rates tornadoes from EF-0, the less damaging, to EF-5, the most destructive.

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AZUZ: In U.S., weather officials say it was at least an EF-2 tornado, with wind speeds between 111 and 135 miles per hour, that touched down in New

Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday. Dozens of people were hurt, some seriously. But Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says his state was

blessed because no deaths were reported. He declared a state of emergency, though.

A wide portion of southeastern Louisiana was affected by the storm system. About 60 homes and businesses were damaged. Power was cut off for

thousands of people. And Governor Edward says it wasn`t just North Orleans that was affected. Seven tornadoes were recorded in at least six different

Louisiana parishes.

How do forecasters track these storms?

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ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: This is a two-dimensional look at a storm on radar. But meteorologists see a tornado. But what is it exactly

that meteorologists see?

Well, let`s take a look.

The yellow and green colors you see here are going to be your very heavy rain a storm. The red color indicates your hail core. And then all the

way down there, the purple circle, that`s where tornado is going to be. Meteorologists often refer to it as the hook echo, because of the hook

shape that ends up taking.

But these aren`t the only features we look for. We also have to take a look at the winds inside the storm. Imagine this flagpole was inside of

our storm, and the flag is going all the way up to the very top of the cloud. The thing is, the wind changes direction as you go up. So, this

naturally creates that rotation necessary for funnel clouds and also even tornadoes.

So, now, let`s take a look at the base of that storm. What you have is you have very warm inflow, warm air coming into the storm and rising because

that`s what warm air does, it goes up. But you also have cold air coming down from the tops of the clouds and sinking all the way down towards the

base.

Now, together, this helped to create wind shear, down near the perimeter, and that is what helps create some of the more violent tornadoes.

Now, what if your tornado has been on the ground for at least a little bit? Then, you start to get this, the debris cloud, which is essentially a

collection of all of the stuff that tornado has been able to pick up, everything from dusts, to trees, to even homes.

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AZUZ: Debate in the U.S. Congress over the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is nothing new. It`s been going on since the overhaul of the

U.S. healthcare system was proposed in 2009. What is new is that Republican lawmakers are moving forward with a new plan to repeal large

parts of the law. Repealing Obamacare was a campaign promise of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The law as it stands is controversial. It was considered former President Barack Obama`s signature achievement, and it contributed a record number of

Americans having health insurance. But it became increasingly expensive for the federal government to support and a growing number of insurance

companies dropped Obamacare as an option.

Because the debate about the law itself and about how to replace is ongoing, CNN hosted a town hall on Tuesday night to explore both sides of

the U.S. healthcare divide. On the left is Bernie Sanders, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont, who recently sought the Democratic nomination

for president. On the right is Ted Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas who recently sought the Republican nomination for president.

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SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS: It was built on the edifice of lies.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Senator Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz facing off over President Trump`s promise to repeal

and replace Obamacare.

CRUZ: Should Congress move swiftly to repeal Obamacare? Absolutely.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VERMONT: The absolute repeal of Obamacare without improvements in it, without a plan to make it better, would be an absolute

disaster.

MALVEAUX: The two senators laying out sharply contrasting views of health care in America.

CRUZ: What is a right is access to health care. What is a right is choosing your own doctor.

SANDERS: Go out and get a really great health insurance program. Oh, you can`t do it, because you can`t afford it. All right? That`s what he`s

saying.

Access to what? You want to buy one of Donald Trump`s mansions? You have access to do that, as well. Oh, you can`t afford $5 million per house?

Sorry.

MALVEAUX: The duo finding common ground on problems in American health care.

CRUZ: You know who`s making out like gangbusters? The insurance companies and those in government whose solution is let`s have even more government

control. This thing isn`t working.

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SANDERS: I find myself in agreement with Ted. He`s right.

MALVEAUX: But disagreeing on solutions.

SANDERS: Let`s work together on a Medicare for all, single payer program so we`re finally going to get insurance companies -- private insurance

companies out of our life.

CRUZ: The answer is, empower you, give you choices, lower prices, lower premiums, lower deductibles.

MALVEAUX: Cruz arguing that proposals to replace Obamacare will continue to protect people with pre-existing conditions, a key tenant of the law.

CRUZ: All of them prohibit insurance companies from cancelling someone because they got sick. They prohibit insurance companies from jacking up

the insurance rates because they got sick or injured.

SANDERS: I cannot believe what you just said. It`s a direct contradiction to everything you ran for president on.

MALVEAUX: Sanders also giving tough advice for this salon owner feeling restricted by the law.

LARONDA HUNTER, SMALL BUSINESS OWNER: How do I grow my business? How do I employ more Americans without either raising the prices to my customers or

lowering wages to my employees?

SANDERS: I`m sorry. I think that in America today everybody should have health care. If you have more than 50 people, yes, you should be providing

health insurance.

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AZUZ: In the history of bear hugs, this one truly gets "10 Out of 10".

In the "don`t try this at home" category, a 23-year-old bear who was rescued and the man who rescued him. The animal`s named Jimbo. He lives

at the orphan wildlife center in New York state. And the nine-foot tall, 1,500-pound Kodiak has, as you can see, an unusually close bond with Jim

Kowalczik, a retired corrections officer who rehabilitates bear cubs that can`t survive in the wild.

If you find it hard to believe that Kodiak-tually happen, there are certainly is claws for concern. Bears in the wild are well-known to Kodi-

attack people, but that one doesn`t Jimbow to peer pressure. While it might seem un-bear-livable, Jimbo gives all her signs of furnliness.

That puts today`s show in the roar view. I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10.

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CNN 10 Februaey 8 2017

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: You found our Wednesday broadcast of CNN 10, and we`re glad you`re watching. I`m Carl Azuz at CNN Center in Atlanta.

First story involves oceans, arguments over territory, and disputed islands. The Senkaku islands are in the East China Sea. China calls them

the Diaoyu Islands. China and Japan have claimed and argued over them for decades.

And China recently sailed three of its coast guard ships near the islands. The country did this dozen of times last year and Japan, which provided

these photographs, says the Chinese ships sailed into Japanese territory.

Tensions between these two countries concerned the U.S. because America is an ally of Japan. The Trump administration says it`s committed to

defending Japan and its disputed islands and that the U.S. would be against any country that tries to disrupt Japanese control of the Senkaku Islands.

So, officials on both sides of the Pacific are watching to see if China tries to provoke a reaction from Japan and the U.S. by sailing here, and

what reaction might be.

We reported on island disputes in this region before. They`ve been focused on the ongoing international disagreements over territory in the South

China Sea.

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the South China Sea, and this may not look like much. But these small, sparsely populated

islands and reefs are at a center of a heated international dispute over land and water rights involving China, the United States and much of

Southeast Asia. Nearly third of the world`s trade passes through here on ships, and valuable gas and oil deposits are believed to lie below these

waters.

Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan all have competing claims of territory, but China is the most ambitious and the most

aggressive.

As you can see, China claims almost all of the sea, citing a historic boundary it calls the "Nine Dash" line. And over here, in the chain of

islands called the Spratlys, China, and to some extent Vietnam, are rapidly building artificial islands, installing infrastructure, all to justify

their territorial claims.

Now, let`s zoom in all the way in on a reef here known as the Fiery Cross. A satellite photos from the Asian Maritime Transparency Institute revealed

just how much China has transformed this reef into a fully pledged island, reclaiming over 2 million square meters, adding lighthouses, even an

airstrip.

And just a few steps away, zoom in to a different story, Sand Cay Island controlled by Vietnam. The AMTI says Vietnam expanded the island here by

more than 50 percent, adding defensive positions, gun emplacements and trenches.

And less than 12 kilometers from here, Taiwan controls Taiping Island. It`s a little more than a runway with a medical clinic, but it helps

justify Taiwan`s claim to the region.

The dispute also spills out into the seas themselves. Anyone crossing these waters might run into Chinese military ships on drills, U.S. Navy

boats conducting freedom of navigation operations, or fishermen from Vietnam, China, or the Philippines.

A lot of traffic intention that has raised fears that this contested body of water could become a flash point between competing nations.

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

When was the U.S. Constitution ratified? Was it in 1775, 1776, 1783, or 1788?

When New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution in 1788, the historic document became the law of the land.

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AZUZ: But it wasn`t until yesterday, the first time since 1788 that the Constitution`s Article I Section 3 Clause 4 played out for a president`s

cabinet nominee. The clause says that "The vice president of the United States shall be president of the Senate but shall have no vote, unless they

be equally divided." "They" meaning senators.

When it came time for them to vote on Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump`s nominee for education secretary, 50 senators voted to confirm her, 50 voted

against confirming her, that included two Republicans who hold a two-seat majority in the Senate. So, the tie breaking vote was cast by U.S. Vice

President Mike Pence.

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MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: On this vote, they yeas are 50, the nays are 50. The Senate being equally divided, the vice

president votes in the affirmative and the nomination is confirmed.

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AZUZ: Why was the Senate divided?

When he nominated DeVos, President Trump called her a brilliant education advocate, who`s leadership would help the government reform the education

system and give better education and school choice to families. DeVos favors charter schools and voucher programs, and some teachers unions say

those plans take money away from public schools that need it and DeVos` critics say she`s pushed for education programs that don`t work.

With Vice President Pence`s tie-breaking vote, Betsy DeVos becomes the 11th U.S. education secretary responsible for advising the president on

America`s education policies, activities and programs.

Speaking about virtual reality technology three years ago, the head of Facebook said, quote, "We believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality

will become a part of daily life for billions of people." Since then, he`s changed his tone a bit and there are concerns that this kind of tech could

go the way of 3D TV. Why?

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Too high.

MAGGIE LAKE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tech firms are trying to hit the bull`s eye in the challenging world of virtual reality.

At the New York offices of Framestore VR Studio, artists are hard at work crafting new VR experiences during an uncertain time for the industry.

Companies continue to seeing billions into development, but headset sales came in way below estimates last year.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s like I`m one the board with her, right?

LAKE: Some say the experience just doesn`t live up to the hype.

RACHEL METZ, MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: For a good experience, it`s still pretty expensive, might not be all that comfortable to wear this thing.

Sometimes, it doesn`t feel like great if you`re a person who tends to get motion sickness.

MARK ZUCKERBERG, FACEBOOK FOUNDER: First live demo in VR.

LAKE: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who recently hired a new head of his Oculus VR unit says, quote, "I don`t think that good virtual reality is

fully there yet. It`s gong to take 5 or 10 more years of development."

Framestore is more than aware of the challenges. But it says VR`s unique ability to transport users will ultimately win over the public.

JON COLLINS, PRESIDENT OF INTEGRATED ADVERTISING, FRAMEST: For the first time, in a sense, you are the camera. You can create empathy in your

understanding of what it`s like to be inside the scene. We`re developing projects which will help that empathy, to put people in someone else`s

shoes.

LAKE (on camera): The question is, will people feel comfortable wearing these headsets, cutting off the real world and choosing virtual reality

over actual experiences.

(voice-over): Munster says, deep down, VR is a generational play.

GENE MUNSTER, LOOP VENTURES: Anybody who`s over 30 see this technology as evil and that ultimately, we`re just going to become more of a secluded

type of a society.

If you talk to people who are under 20 years old, they`re really excited about this. The younger people are solely going to take over and so, I

think it`s a function of time before we get more comfortable as a society with VR.

LAKE: But don`t give up on the adults just yet. At a recent gathering of European VR startups in New York City, those that did take the plunge were

quick converts.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was really freaky. I mean, I really did feel like I was submerged in another world.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a glimpse into the future.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It will change the way we, not only learn, but also how we`re enjoying entertainment.

LAKE (on camera): How would I go?

(voice-over): As more give VR a go, the virtual world is slowly becoming reality.

Maggie Lake, CNN Money, New York.

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AZUZ: Well, the U.S. football season is over, but you still might get a kick out of this. Adam Vinatieri is the kicker for the Indianapolis Colts.

He has four Super Bowl titles, the NFL record for most consecutive field goals, that`s 43.

And now, he`s got the Guinness World Record for most field goals made in a minute. He nailed 28 of them from 17 yards out. That won a donation of

$15,000 to a charity that helps military veterans and their spouses.

So, he can both walk up right and split the uprights and he was set up right with the pro placeholder holding the ball upright and plays for the

pro-plays kicker, allowing him to set records all over the place and get a leg up on the competition, #fieldgoals.

We hope to see you again tomorrow for more CNN 10.

CNN 10 February 7, 2017

ARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: With news explained and puns unashamed, this is CNN 10. I`m Carl Azuz. We`re happy to have you watching.

There`s been some significant legal back and forth related to a controversial executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump. Last Monday,

we told you about the order. It aims to tighten U.S. borders and temporarily keep certain immigrants and refugees from entering America.

On Friday, a federal appeals court judge temporarily suspended parts of the order itself. He said that the travel ban harms residents of the U.S. in

areas of employment, education, business, family relations and freedom to travel.

What this means? President Trump`s order is on hold and many of the refugees and immigrants who would have been kept out of the U.S. under the

order are being allowed in again. The Justice Department said the court decision harms the public and second guesses the president`s national

security judgment.

But though the government made an emergency request to put the travel ban back in place, a federal appeals court denied that request. The Ninth

Circuit Court of Appeals said it wanted to hear both sides of the arguments before it gives a final ruling. The appeals court isn`t ruling on where

the order is constitutional. It only decides whether the order will stay suspended. Legal analysts say this case is likely destined for the U.S.

Supreme Court.

President Trump is not the first American leader to temporarily suspend refugee admissions to the U.S. But his order is unusual in that it

mentions people from specific countries.

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REPORTER: The order bars entry for 90 days for seven predominantly Muslim countries, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. Refugees

are barred for 120 days and refugees from Syria are barred indefinitely, though those barriers can be lifted on a case by case.

Is that a Muslim ban?

All seven countries are majority Muslim nations, but there are many more Muslims in Indonesia alone, for example, than in all seven countries Trump

has singled out. There are more than 40 other Muslim nations not covered by the ban as it now stands. The vast majority of the world`s Muslims are

unaffected.

Why those seven countries? The seven were first identified as countries of concern under the Obama administration, though Trump`s order is much

broader. And while the administration says that Trump`s business interest played no role in drafting his executive order, Muslim majority countries

with ties to, for example, the 9/11 attacks are not on the list.

What`s clear is that five of the seven do have one crucial thing in common -- chaos.

Syria is in the midst of a brutal civil war still trying to rid its territory of ISIS.

Iraq, a struggle for stability and a fight against ISIS there, too.

Libya, civil war and ISIS as well.

Yemen, civil war and al Qaeda.

Somalia, perennially at war with itself and the terrorists al-Shabaab are based there.

Sudan, still fighting in Darfur.

Iran is the outlier. Washington has long considered it a state sponsor of terrorism.

But there are countless extremists waging jihad from other Muslim nations. Tunisia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, to name a few. There are radicalized

citizens in the countries of the West who can still travel easily into the U.S. And as America was reminded after the Orlando nightclub attack last

summer, there are U.S.-born extremists.

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AZUZ: Fighting has intensified in the eastern European nation of Ukraine. The country got its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Today,

Ukraine is a nation divided, between people who want to be aligned with Russia, and those who want to be aligned more closely with Europe.

Tensions over this led to the ouster of a former Ukrainian president in 2014. Violence flared up that same year. It`s become Europe`s most

violent crisis in decades.

And though a ceasefire was negotiated in 2015, violence and violations are on the rise.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is very messy because the ceasefire isn`t really holding.

SUBTITLE: Why is there conflict in Ukraine?

WALSH: To Russia, Ukraine is it`s vital near abroad. You couldn`t get more geopolitically, industrially important to Moscow.

But Ukraine itself has been vacillating between getting closer to the E.U., to the West, and retaining its longer term links to Russia. That started

back in uprising and revolution in 2004. And in 2014, they kicked out a pro-Russian leader.

And the Russians responded by sending a covert force and annexing the peninsula of Crimea. They then sent slightly more covert operations into

the eastern city of Donetsk, where government buildings were taken over and then militia, a lot of whom had some pretty serious Russian military

support started taking territory.

Since 2014, 2015, that territory has changed hands, gone back and forth, sometimes the violence escalating. But after a major ceasefire agreement

in early 2015, the violence hasn`t really stopped. It sort of bubbled along really a quite regular pace. Many see that Moscow have a longer term

objective of perhaps linking up those eastern territories with the peninsula of Crimea, so they have a land bridge between them too, and they

also want to subject Ukraine to broader political influence.

Ukraine itself, well, it needs to get that territory back, the basic reasons of national pride.

Why is this so important? Well, it`s a war happening right on Europe`s doorstep, on the European mainland. It pits the European Union against

Russia. And hanging in the balance is Ukraine where there are a millions of people suffering deeply now from a war that`s been going on for years.

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

Where would you find the island nation of Mauritius? The Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, or the Mediterranean Sea?

You`d find Mauritius to the east of southern Africa, in the Indian Ocean.

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AZUZ: The total area of Mauritius is less than 800 square miles. But a research team from a South African university says the island is actually

sitting over a lost continent. They`re calling it Mauritia. They believe it`s actually a chunk of a larger continent that was left behind by an

ancient land breakup.

Researchers say Mauritia was covered by volcanoes and is now invisible.

How did they get that? Scientists examine a mineral found in volcanic rock on Mauritius. They say the mineral is billions of years older than the

islands thought to be and that it must have come from an ancient continent.

Not all scientists agree with the findings. One who didn`t participate in the study says it might have detected a missing continent, or it could have

just identified tiny amounts of minerals on Mauritius.

From earth science to medical science. Flu season is hitting its peak in the U.S. People can catch the flu at anytime of year.

But the Centers for Disease Control says America`s epidemic of seasonal flu typically starts in the fall and can go until May. The virus is now

spreading rapidly in 40 states and health officials say it`s more widespread in states this year.

The CDC is encouraging Americans to get a flu shot if they haven`t already. It says that`s the best defense against the virus, even though it`s not

guaranteed to work.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Let me try and settle this flu shot thing, although I`m sure it`s going to keep coming up again

and again.

SUBTITLE: Debunking flu myths.

GUPTA: You can`t get the flu from the flu shot. It`s a dead virus, it can`t actually cause flu.

Why do people feel sort of crummy afterward? It`s because the flu vaccine is actually working, making your immune system fire up, get ready and

recognize it, if it actually sees the flu, how to kill it.

No, it`s not 100 percent fail safe. But it`s still going to offer a lot of protection, so you are not going to be as sick as likely to get sick or if

you do get sick, have a shorter duration.

OK, so if you are like me, your mom probably said, don`t go outside in the cold without your hat on, you are going to catch the flu. You can`t catch

the flu from just simply being outside in the cold.

But it does raise the question, why are there so many more flu cases in the winter months? You are likely to stay indoors more. So, if one person is

sick, more people are likely to get sick.

The sun is lower in the sky, and as a result, you have less Vitamin D actually being produced in your body. Your immune system starts to get

suppressed a little bit. You are more likely to get sick with the flu.

The winter months tend to be lower humidity. Viruses like the flu virus they like lower humidity. They are likely to live longer.

So, your mom may have been right -- I mean, look, moms are always right, but maybe not for the reasons you originally thought.

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AZUZ: We wrap on the report on the running of the British royals. From left to right, we present you Kate Middleton, duchess of Cambridge, then

here husband, Prince William, and his brother Prince Harry. And though Kate looks like the only one dressed to run, in this 50-meter sprint to

support mental health charities, it`s Prince Harry who best his brother and the duchess to take home bragging rights.

Was it the shoes? We don`t know whether their footwear harken to Reebok to something classic, if Dr. Marten prescribes something special, or if they

had something George cleverly up their sock. Maybe they went the athletic route with U.K. gear, though surely they think favor British knights.

Those shoes have sole.

If these puns weren`t Ugg-xactly what you had in mind, we`ll have something else afoot tomorrow on CNN 10. I`m Carl Azuz.

CNN 10 February 6, 2017

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hi. I`m Carl Azuz. And you`ve landed on a special edition of CNN 10.

Get ready for liftoff. Today`s show is focused entirely on space.

First up, China is a nation that`s hoping to become one of the world`s major space powers. It`s considering missions that include putting a

lander on the dark side of the moon by 2018, a rover on Mars by 2020, a mission to gather samples of Martian soil after that, and a prove to

Jupiter in the years that follow.

The country also plans to work with other global space agencies, but not NASA. Since 2011, the U.S. Congress hasn`t allowed NASA to work with China

because of concerns about security.

As far as U.S. plans for space, things are somewhat up in the air. President Donald Trump hasn`t detailed his space policy yet. Last October,

then President Barack Obama wrote that America would send humans to Mars by the 2030s.

People who support that idea argue that first hand exploration would be more valuable than remote exploration and that Mars can one day serve as a

second planet for people to live on and a great base for exploring the broader universe. People who oppose the idea argue that it`s too expense,

that it`s too risky and that robots should continue to do the job instead, that they can do it well and more cost effectively.

One thing that`s not debatable is that getting any person to deep space takes extraordinary effort.

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RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Space has never been more accessible. There is a growing appetite for space tourism. And private

programs like this one at the National Aerospace Training and Research Center can get pretty much anyone with money and good health ready for a

ride to space.

(on camera): Oh, I`m ready.

(voice-over): But that`s just a quick trip and down to what`s called suborbital space.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Welcome home, astronauts.

CRANE: If we want to get to deep space --

ANNOUNCER: Three, two, one -- we have lift off.

CRANE: -- that`s a whole other challenge. A human hasn`t been there in over 40 years. But NASA is looking to change that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It will stand taller than the Statue of Liberty, longer than a football field.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It will be the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of going into the deep space or anywhere else you want to go.

CRANE: They`re talking about space launch system or SLS, NASA`s new heavy lift rocket.

ANNOUNCER: The dawn of Orion and a new era of American space exploration - -

CRANE: Together with the spacecraft Orion, which will go on top of the rocket, humans could explore our solar system deeper than ever before.

(on camera): There`s only two of us right now in here --

MARK GEYER, NASA DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Yes.

CRANE: -- and you`re saying the thing could it up to six.

(voice-over): And we got an inside look at what that new spacecraft looks like.

(on camera): Could we even survive 21 days just the two of us inside of --

GEYER: Yes, it would be a wild, yes.

CRANE (voice-over): Orion will take up to six astronauts into deep space for 21 days.

(on camera): How was Orion outfitted to get us to deep space?

GEYER: State of the art heat shields to protect the crew on entry, parachute systems, a very lightweight system, so Orion is, you know, over

40 percent composites, which means it`s light.

One of the things special about Orion is the size. So, four people in 21 days gives you a lot of capability whether it`s exploring an asteroid or on

the surface of a planet.

CRANE: And why 21 days?

GEYER: Well, 21 days -- it gets you really into this high orbits around the moon, which allows you to either do missions at the moon or do

transfers on to asteroids around the Mars. So, it`s about the right duration.

CRANE (voice-over): For a journey to Mars, the crew would have to transfer from Orion to a larger habitat.

GEYER: If you`re going to go to Mars, which is somewhere up to a year and a half to three-year mission, you need more volume.

CRANE (on camera): Right.

GEYER: You need bigger head module, more food.

CRANE (voice-over): Orion still doesn`t have an exact destination. But whether it`s the moon or Mars, it`s going to take a powerful rocket to get

it out there.

(on camera): You guys are building SLS now in anticipation that a destination will be selected. But right now, this is kind of a rocket to

nowhere.

PATRICK WHIPPS, NASA`S SLS STAGES MANAGER: Not really, it takes a long time to make a rocket system that`s complex. There are folks that are

working on all the missions that we`ll got to as we speak.

CRANE (voice-over): Part of the rocket is built here, at NASA`s Michoud facilitate which spans 43 acres.

Workers here helped built the rockets for the Apollo missions and the space shuttle program. One of the main goals of SLS is to make it affordable.

But despite reusing its engines, NASA has already spent approximately $7.3 billion on the SLS program and each rocket will only be good for one

mission.

NASA is testing the engines and they`ve already sent Orion on a flight test. The first manned Orion SLS mission is set for 2021.

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AZUZ: So, that`s the "how" when it comes to getting deep space astronauts off the ground. What happens afterward, if and when people are actually

spending time in an environment where there`s very little gravity? Another consideration, the health effects of long term space missions could be a

significant challenge for medical science.

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CRANE: I`m huffing and puffing here.

(voice-over): Our bodies have physical limits.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just squat down a little bit and come up and you feel hardness (ph).

CRANE: But when humans encounter a boundary, we tend to push. How fast, how high, how far we can go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two space walkers are currently 250 miles above the Earth.

CRANE: Exploration of our solar system is perhaps the most extreme bodily challenge.

DR. JOHN CHARLES, NASA HUMAN RESEARCH PROGRAM: You`re motion sick. You`re uncomfortable. You`re disoriented.

CRANE: That`s because the human body is a complex network of bones, tissues and cells designed to suit our environment.

Here at Johnson Space Center, everything from food, to spacesuits, to exercise routines are designed so humans can survive in a world we simply

aren`t built for.

(on camera): What happens to your body when you`re in space?

CHARLES: As soon as you arrive in weightlessness, the fluids start shifting in your body. The organs of balance and your inner ear

immediately sense there`s no gravity pulling down on them anymore. All your joints and your muscles also sense that.

CRANE (voice-over): We know about these effects because human have been consistently living in space for over 15 years onboard the International

Space Station.

And we`re learning even more about how our bodies react in space, after Scott Kelly became the first NASA astronaut to spend nearly a year on ISS.

CHARLES: As you spend more time in space, you lose muscle mass. Your bones gradually lose calcium. They gradually lose structural integrity

because they`re not fighting the force of gravity.

CRANE: It sounds simply, but exercise is one of the most important activities for astronauts. Onboard the ISS, they dedicate about two hours

a day to it, but this is not your average workout.

MICHAEL HOPKINS, ASTRONAUT: Swat down just a little bit.

CRANE (on camera): OK, like this?

Oh, hello? Yes, OK, that feels different.

When you were in space, can you describe the changes you notice in your body?

HOPKINS: More fluid will go towards the head.

CRANE: Right.

HOPKINS: So, you`ll sometimes feel a little bit stuff here like you got allergies or something like that. You can lose up to 2 1/2 percent of your

bone density in a month in space, and this is very, very important part of counteracting that.

CRANE (voice-over): But what about on a deep space mission?

(on camera): If we ever get to Mars, do you think we`ll have machines like this up there, keeping us fit?

HOPKINS: Well, these machines take up quite a bit of space onboard the International Space Station. So, I think if we go to Mars, there`s going

to have to be something new, something probably a little bit smaller, a little more compact -- something along the lines of a rolling type machine.

CRANE (voice-over): NASA is currently testing a miniature exercise device on the ISS.

Just as critical as exercise is what we put into our bodies.

DR. GRACE DOUGLAS, NASA FOOD SCIENTIST: In order to maintain their health and maintain top performing crew that are going to fulfill all their

functions and have a very successful mission, we need to make sure that they`re happy with their food system, that they want to eat it the entire

time.

CRANE (on camera): I got to say, astronaut food is much better than I expected.

(voice-over): On a mission to Mars, the food needs to stay good for five years, a difficult challenge for food scientists. So, they`re also working

on growing nutrients in space, like green peppers, tomatoes and lettuce. But the point of traveling to deep space is not just to stay inside the

spacecraft. We want to go outside, and really explore.

CARLY WATTS, NASA SCIENTIST: Anywhere outside of Earth really, you need a spacesuit that has a functioning life support system because the pressure

environment is such that your body can`t survive. Like around the space station, temperatures range from roughly negative 250 to positive 250

degrees Fahrenheit.

CRANE (on camera): That`s a massive range.

WATTS: Yes, it is. And your body wouldn`t be very happy in that environment.

CRANE (voice-over): For a Martian environment, NASA is currently working on their Z-2 prototype, a spacewalking suit.

(on camera): Is it what I think it is?

DUSTIN GOHMERT, CREW SURVIVAL TEAM LEAD: It is what you think it is. This is actually an adult diaper.

CRANE (voice-over): It`s complicated enough to keep astronauts alive when missions are going as planned. But, what about when things go wrong?

(on camera): What you go guys are working on here, you could categorize as like worst case scenario?

GOHMERT: Absolutely. We are the survival method of last resort in many cases.

CRANE (voice-over): The crew survival engineering team works on emergency equipment like life rafts, breathing systems, protective suits, even the

diapers astronauts would put on during a catastrophic event.

GOHMERT: The urine will actually turn to ammonia over the matter of a couple of days, which is toxic to the crew.

CRANE (on camera): Everything has to be considered, because there`s people`s lives on the line.

GOHMERT: Yes, that`s absolutely true. We have never partake in an effort to go to deep space with these many contingencies that we plan for.

CRANE: Is this really going to happen?

GOHMERT: I certainly hope that it does. I think that`s why we`re all here.

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AZUZ: We hope you found today`s show out of this world. CNN 10 will resume its daily news coverage tomorrow.

CNN 10 February 3, 2017

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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

CNN 10 February 2, 2017

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Whether you`re watching in the classroom, in office, at home or on the go -- thank you for taking 10 minutes for CNN 10.

I`m Carl Azuz.

The U.S. Supreme Court has had eight justices serving on it since Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly last February. Four of these justices

were appointed by Republican presidents. Four were appointed by Democratic presidents. So, on divisive cases, you can see how a 4-4 split could

hamper the court`s decision making process.

Last March, then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, nominated a U.S. Appeals Court judge named Merrick Garland to replace Justice Scalia. But

Republicans who controlled the Senate argued that the next U.S. president should appoint Scalia`s replacement. And they did not give Judge Garland a

hearing.

With the new U.S. leader now in place, a new nominee has been named. Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced that Neil Gorsuch, a U.S.

Appeals Court judge, was his pick to fill Scalia`s seat on the high court. The 49-year-old Judge Gorsuch is considered to be a conservative jurist,

like Scalia. The nominee studied at Columbia, Harvard and Oxford Universities and President Trump says his qualifications are beyond

dispute.

But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi described Gorsuch as a hostile appointment, who`s outside the American mainstream.

Experts say Gorsuch is still likely to join the Supreme Court bench. His Senate confirmation hearings are set to begin in six weeks.

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JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: Federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, serve for life. That`s why presidents regard these

judicial appointments as such an important way to extend their own legacies.

SUBTITLE: Selecting Supreme Court justices.

Steps to becoming a Supreme Court justice:

Secure a presidential nomination. Sit before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Receive confirmation by a Senate vote.

TOOBIN: The Constitution does not set out a resume that a Supreme Court justice has to have. There`s no requirement in the Constitution that a

Supreme Court justice even be a lawyer. But traditionally, presidents have nominated impeccably qualified sitting judges.

Both presidents and senators like to say that the confirmation process is all about qualifications. But it`s really also about politics. Virtually,

every important issue in American politics and even American life winds up in front of the Supreme Court, and they have the last word. Both the

president and the senators trying to figure out how the nominee`s stance on the hot-button issues that the Supreme Court deals with and that`s why the

senators will vote yes or not.

The Supreme Court is designed to operate with nine justices. What makes Justice Scalia`s death so unusual in Supreme Court history is that most

justices announce that they plan to retire and then a president nominates their successor. So, there is no vacancy at any point in the Supreme

Court. With eight justices, there are possibilities for tie votes, which can create a significant amount of confusion in the law.

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AZUZ: Next, messages crisscrossing the Pacific Ocean. A U.S. research institute says it looks like the Asian country of North Korea has restarted

one of its nuclear reactors and it may be using it to make plutonium for its controversial nuclear weapons program.

The United Nations considers North Korea`s nuclear and missile programs illegal. It`s repeatedly penalized the country for them. But that hasn`t

stopped the communist nation from moving forward with nuclear production. And officials from the U.S. and South Korea say the North may be testing

more long-range missiles sometime soon.

This is all happening as the new U.S. defense secretary, James Mattis, heads overseas to visit Japan and South Korea. They`re both American

allies in the region and they`re both hoping the Trump administration supports those alliances and addresses the threat posed by North Korea.

Earlier this week, Secretary Mattis said America was committed to defending South Korea.

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ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): U.S. military helicopters test fire on the South Korean soil, target practice.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In case we are called to fight tonight, we can. We can actually execute our mission at a moment`s notice, if we`re ordered to do

so.

FIELD: On the peninsula still technically at war, U.S. troops are key to a decade`s old deterrent against an unstable armed neighbor.

(on camera): U.S. troops train here 365 days a year, preparing for the possibility of one day being called upon to potentially confront a threat

from North Korea. This live fire training complex is just about 10 miles away from the DMZ, between North Korea and South Korea. Nearly every U.S.

unit that deploys to South Korea will at one point be sent here for training.

(voice-over): The units are also part of annual exercises with South Korea`s military, advanced training and an unmistakably warning that`s

angered Kim Jong-un -- the erratic dictator who`s believed to have an arsenal of between 16 and 20 nuclear weapons.

The construction of U.S. military post Camp Humphreys is currently the Pentagon`s largest construction project in the world. The total costs,

$10.8 billion. South Korea will pay for more than 90 percent of it. They also foot about half the bill when it comes to personnel cost for 28,000

U.S. soldiers stationed here.

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

Name the U.S. president who, in 1959, proclaimed Hawaii as the 50th state. Was it Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy or Johnson?

Hawaii achieved statehood under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served from 1953 to 1961.

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AZUZ: And Hawaii is where our next story takes place today. It involves surge (ph). In Hawaii Volcano National Park, lava is streaming into the

sea. What it looks like a red bar in the center of your screen is actually molten rock. It`s flowing quickly from Hawaii`s Kilauea Volcano, raising

through a lava tube and splashing into the Pacific.

The research team that observed this says the entire cliff nearby could be unstable and that the explosions that occur as the lava hits the cool water

make the whole area dangerous on land and sea. It`s the U.S. Geological Survey which posted this video, is telling people to avoid the area.

Today is a groundbreaking holiday in the U.S. Yes, that`s a pun -- no, it`s not really a holiday. But it is a time when millions or at least a

handful of Americans look to a woodchuck, not to see how much wood it would chuck, but to see what it says about the weather.

Groundhog Day is a kind of ancient way of forecasting. From semi-famous rodents like Punxsutawney Phil, General Beauregard Lee or Staten Island

Chuck, people are hoping to get a sense of whether spring weather is coming soon. And if they don`t get an accurate sense of that, at least they can

have fun trying.

Where exactly did this tradition come from?

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JENNIFER GRAY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It`s Groundhog Day. Every year on February 2nd, it`s Groundhog Day. But this has been around for a long

time. This is a German tradition that dates back to the 1700. The Germans brought it over to the United States when they settled in Pennsylvania.

Now, on Groundhog Day, it all comes down to this guy, Phil the Groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, whether he will see his shadow or not. Now,

Phil comes out of hibernation every year on Groundhog Day, on February 2nd. If it`s a bright, sunny day, well, most likely, Phil will see his shadow.

But then, he will get scared, go back in his hole, and go back to sleep, we`ll have winter for six more weeks. But if it`s a cloudy day, a dreary

day, and he comes out and does not see his shadow, well, he`ll stay out. And that means spring will come early.

Now, if you count up all of the years that Phil has been forecasting, he basically sees his shadow about 85 percent of the time. So, it`s most

likely he`ll see his shadow. His owners think he`s accurate 100 percent of the time, but if you ask meteorologists around the world, well, we

disagree. We think he`s wrong about 50 percent of the time.

Whether he sees his shadow or not though, the official start to spring is March 20th.

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AZUZ: It`s time for a world record that`s totally going to knock your socks off. Most people floating while holding hands. What? Do you

believe this?

Well, sure. It`s footage from a lake in Argentina. It shows some of the 1,941 people who literally floated into the Guinness World Record books.

Previous record was 634 people.

These folks have a bit of an advantage. This lake is 10 times saltier than the ocean and that helps people stay afloat.

I want to know who first floated the idea. Did he have an inflated ego? Was she full of hot air? How did they it hold water?

Guess they figured, we`ll just hold our breath and see. After all, it`s sink or swim. And if we keep our heads above the waves, it`s likely we`ll

sink that previous record.

Hey, y`all, whatever floats your boat.

I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10.