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Hello and welcome to CNN 10. I'm Allison
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Chinchar filling in for Koi just for
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today. He's actually out on the West
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Coast shooting some special content for
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later this summer. So if you're in Los
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Cusus, New Mexico today, you might see
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his bald head out and about. I'm excited
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to be here with you. We've got a great
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show for you today. So, let's go ahead
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and get started. We begin today with
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severe storms that battered a large area
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of the US and triggered dozens of
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tornado reports over the last week. Now,
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late last week, an EF3 tornado rocked
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the St. Louis area, damaging or
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destroying thousands of buildings, and a
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powerful EF4 tornado tore across
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southern Kentucky. The National Weather
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Service officials say it was the
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deadliest tornado in the history of
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their area with London, Kentucky hit
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particularly hard. Now, another storm
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hit parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, and
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Colorado late on Sunday where homes were
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severely damaged. Roads were blocked and
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cars were overturned. The storms were
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powerful enough to toss semitrs into a
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field in Kansas. A powerful EF1 tornado
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tore apart homes and brought down trees
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in Nebraska. We went into the bathtub
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and then put pillows and blankets and I
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just laid on top of my daughter so that
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if anything came through I would
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hopefully get me and her. It sounded
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like a train basically and just really
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windy and then you could hear stuff
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hitting against like the house. More
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tornadoes touched down as the severe
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weather pattern continued earlier in the
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week battering homes and power lines in
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the small city of Plena, Kansas. Now,
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thankfully, no one was injured there.
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And as the severe weather moved east,
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millions of people in parts of the
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Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee valleys
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braced for new rounds of storms as they
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were still cleaning up debris from the
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previous storms. It is simply unsafe to
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be around that much debris with this
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level of of wind. Now, further east,
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tornadoes touch down in parts of
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Alabama. Let's head to the weather
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center to show you what meteorologists
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like myself look for when these storms
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form. This is a two-dimensional look at
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a storm on radar, but meteorologists see
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a tornado. But what is it exactly that
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meteorologists see? Well, let's take a
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look. The yellow and green colors you
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see here are going to be your very heavy
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rain in the storm. The red color
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indicates your hail core. And then all
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the way down there, the purple circle,
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that's where your tornado is going to
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be. Meteorologists often refer to it as
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the hook echo because of the hook shape
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that it ends up taking. But these aren't
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the only features we look for. We also
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have to take a look at the winds inside
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the storm. Imagine this flag pole was
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inside of our storm and the flags going
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all the way up to the very top of the
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cloud. The thing is the wind changes
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direction as you go up. So this
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naturally creates that rotation
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necessary for funnel clouds and also
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even tornadoes. So now let's take a look
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at the base of that storm. What you have
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is you have very warm inflow, warm air
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coming into the storm and rising because
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that's what warm air does. It goes up.
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But you also have cold air coming down
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from the tops of the clouds and sinking
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all the way down towards the base. Now
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together, these help to create wind
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shear down near the perimeter. And that
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is what helps create some of the more
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violent tornadoes. Now, what if your
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tornado has been on the ground for at
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least a little bit? Then you start to
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get this, the debris cloud, which is
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essentially a collection of all of the
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stuff the tornado has been able to pick
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up. Everything from dust to trees to
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even homes. Now, tornadoes can happen
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almost anywhere. So, it's important to
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know the differences between the three
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key alerts for these storms. you have a
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tornado watch, a tornado warning, or a
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tornado emergency. And the National
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Weather Service has come up with a
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pretty clever analogy to help us all
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remember tacos. So, a taco watch is we
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have all of the ingredients, but we
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haven't yet assembled the tacos. Simply
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meaning we have all the ingredients for
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a tornado and they're present, but you
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need to make sure you know your
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emergency plans and can be ready to go
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to a safe place when the taco is made.
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Now you have a taco warning. This means
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the taco is made or in other words, a
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tornado has either been seen or
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indicated by weather radar. So the
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threat of danger is imminent. You want
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to move to an interior room on the
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lowest floor of a sturdy building and
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avoid all windows. Also, anyone in a
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mobile home should safely move to a more
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substantial shelter. And the third and
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highest alert level is a tornado
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emergency. Now, no tacos here, but this
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alert is reserved for rare situations.
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It's issued when a confirmed and violent
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tornado poses a substantial risk to life
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and property, and it means it's time to
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take shelter immediately, preferably
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underground. 10-second trivia. Now, what
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country has the highest density of robot
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workers? Is it Japan, China, Germany, or
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South
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Korea? Your answer here is South Korea.
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Currently home to over 1,000 industrial
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robots per 10,000 employees in the
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manufacturing
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industry. Engineers at the Massachusetts
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Institute of Technology, better known as
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MIT, have just created a tiny robot the
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size of an AirPod. Kind of like an
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insect. It moves by hopping and weighs
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less than a paperclip with a
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spring-loaded leg and four flapping
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wings. Here's how it works.
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The passive leg, just like a tiny pogo
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stick, make sure the robot can bounce
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back efficiently from the
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ground. On the other hand, the flapping
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wing modules ensure the robot stay
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upright for stability. So why does the
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world need such a small cyborg? The
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creators say the robot could be used in
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search and rescue operations because it
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can navigate confined spaces and
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withstand rough terrain. It's official.
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Flag football will be making its debut
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in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. And
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you may be seeing some of the biggest
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names in the NFL, representing the US in
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the sport. Flag football is the no
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contact version of American football
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that swaps tackles for grabbing flags
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the opponents are wearing. While the
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International Olympic Committee approved
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the inclusion of the sport back in 2023,
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the NFL just voted to allow a maximum of
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one player per NFL team to go for the
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flag football gold. Plus, each club's
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designated international athlete will be
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able to play for his country. And the
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Olympic flag football competition will
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also include women's teams. Now to South
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Korea, where a trip to the nation's
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largest fish market can be an
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overwhelming sensory experience. There
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are rows of hundreds of vendors, a wide
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variety of live seafood, and a whole lot
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of smells. Luckily, our elite Marcus
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went there to give us some tips on
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making the most of a visit.
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We are in Noranin, which is the oldest
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and biggest fish market in Seoul. Think
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of it as like a giant mall, but the only
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thing you can buy is live fish and
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shellfish.
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It's just bigger. It's way bigger. Uh
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there's much more variety to that. It's
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fresher, I believe.
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Norian originally was opened in 1927,
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but it moved here to this location in
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the 1970s, which is where it's been ever
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since. Okay, it's chewier than I
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expected.
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in my mouth.
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A couple things that you should know if
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you come here. First of all, all the
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fish is live. So that means you can pick
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it out and then take it upstairs and
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have someone cook it right there so that
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you can eat it. It's about as fresh as
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it gets. You're also totally welcome to
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haggle. In fact, they kind of expect it.
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Another important thing if you visit,
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make sure that you wear good footwear.
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The floors are wet and I'm an idiot who
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showed up in ballet flats. So, you want
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to take a cue from all the other people
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who are here. Try a pair of tennis shoes
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or some rain
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boots. Today's story of getting a 10 out
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of 10 goes to a school resource officer
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doing a good deed for a student in need.
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Officer Brett Berer noticed one of his
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high school seniors was due for an
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upgrade. Shawn Merritt was born with
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cerebral pausy and relies on an electric
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wheelchair to get around. But that chair
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had seen better days and Ber decided to
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take action. I went out and talked to
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some of my good friends and people of
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the neighborhood and the community and
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explain the situation and before I could
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get past Shawn Merritt, which is Shawn's
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name, they were all in. The community
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rallied to raise money and buy senior
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scholarship night. Ber surprised the
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graduating senior with a new wheelchair
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complete with upgraded features and even
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Bluetooth speakers. A gift Merritt says
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will remind him of home as it helps him
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transition to college life in the fall.
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All right, superstars. It's time to send
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out a shout out to Mr. O and all of the
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Patriots at Colonia Middle School in
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Colonia, New Jersey. Thanks for spending
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part of your day with us and thank you
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all for letting me spend the day with
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you. Koi will be back tomorrow to finish
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out the rest of the week. It's been a
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blast getting to fill in and host the
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best 10 minutes in news. Have a great
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day, everyone.
