[Music] [Applause] good morning good afternoon good evening wherever you are in this world let's smell the flowers and cool the soup let's get our minds right and take this into Tuesday in an awesome way remember tomorrow's hashy word Wednesday so submit your vocab word and definition in the comments section of my most recent post at kwire on social put your school mascot teachers name in there too if you'd like and we're going to pick a winner to work into tomorrow's show all right we start today in Texas where water is finally beginning to recede after parts of the state experienced extreme flooding as we told you yesterday some areas are swamped with two months worth of rain in just 5 days search and rescue teams are scouring the streets looking for people in distress so far at least 200 people have been rescued from homes and vehicles in Harris County with which is home to nearly 5 million people it's the most populous county in the state officials report that at least one person has died in the flooding Rivers haven't swelled to this level since hurricane Harvey in 2017 it appears to be uh potentially even more uh devastating in in some parts uh than than Harvey uh so we we definitely got a lot of rain and a and a and a quick amount of time and that's one of the things in East Texas we we don't get the runoff and and when you have these flat flooding events many times Unfortunately they they catch people off guard now although the water has started to recede in some areas official say overall the water levels are still dangerously high so to all of our friends in Texas please stay safe next up we head to New York City where Colombia University is cancelling its schoolwide commencement ceremony planned for next week it instead will hold smaller events due to security concerns Colombia is where Pro Palestinian encampments started a few weeks ago and then spread to colleges and universities all across the country before Polie shut them down Pro Palestinian protests already interrupted some graduation ceremonies last weekend as we've discussed many colleges and universities have endowments which are basically big sums of money acquired largely through donations and pro Palestinian protesters want their schools to divest those endowments or take money away from Israeli companies from companies that work with Israel or create weapons for Israel next we head to Iran a country that is currently sanctioned by the US and its allies so what is a sanction it's when a country punishes another country financially in this case the United States and several other countries don't buy products from Iran or sell products to them that's because Iran supports Islamic terrorist organizations and has violated nuclear agreements CNN's Fred plen shows us how Iran is trying to work around these sanctions working with countries willing to defy the US an International Trade Fair in one of the most sanctioned countries in the world it's called the Iran Expo and is the Islamic Republic's attempt to Market its products to businesses willing to defy us-led sanctions Iran's leadership has said that in order to try and beat the sanctions what they want to do is develop their own homegrown Industries like the automobile industry and then hopefully export items like these around the world te showcasing everything from heavy machinery to food products hoping for international buyers it seems like a tall task but as large economies like Russia and China increasingly find themselves under Western economic pressure the Iranians hope they'll be more open to doing business with tan we even met a parliamentarian from Mali saying he' do an interview but only in Russian right now we have Dynamic growth in the medic sector in the first place he says and we're also interested in widening cooperation in the oil sector and also General trade Iran's economy has been ravaged by what the US called maximum pressure designed to the US claims to compel it to stop its support for extremism halt its Crackdown on protesters and agree to a tougher nuclear deal unemployment and inflation are high while Iran's currency continues to devalue Iran is is working with other adversaries of the West like Russia the cooperation we have in the energy sector and agriculture education and development and the contexts between our scientists in all these directions we can take further steps Iran's president said at a recent meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Iran wants to rely not only on oil and gas but also on manufacturing the country's Deputy Industries Minister tells me same time I think you can see the reality is that sanctions have two faces he says the damaging side but the other side is that it makes you believe in your capabilities and become independent but the Iranians acknowledge Western sanctions are a major hurdle not only when it comes to making their products but also trying to sell them abroad for plin CNN tan Pop Quiz Hot Shots what do you call a piece of sea ice formed in the ocean flow ice B glacier ice dam if you said flow you are correct an ice flow forms from ocean water an iceberg forms on land then breaks off from a glacier into the ocean Arctic sea ice has been shrinking for 46 straight years in fact NASA says we've lost enough arctic ice to fill the entire state of Alaska one big question is can anything be done well an ambitious group of prob problem solvers have an idea create new Ice by pumping water from below check this out can you refreeze melting Arctic Ice this startup says it's developing a way to do so we were in Alaska with our submersible pump we made a hole in the ice we pumped water within hours it was solid frozen it is as simple as that A study says the Arctic could be free of sea ice during the month of September by the 23rd about a decade earlier than previous projections and this would have dire Ripple effects right around the world since the 1980s the amount of sea ice that's more than a year old has roughly Fallen by half we're currently losing about 6 cm every year so if you reiz you can add an extra 70 cm of thickness it's as simple like pumping water on top of existing ice basically you expose the sea water to the cold temperature of the atmosphere and it will freeze very very quickly we know that works UK based company real life plans to use automated underwater Vehicles powered by Green hydrogen they use small pumps to bring water from below the ice to the top creating a lake that freezes thickening the ice sheet why would we do it from under the water it seems complicated in reality operating underwater is actually Mak making many things simpler and more controlled if you think the opposite operating on top of the CIS in the middle of the Arctic you're facing very very cold temperatures high winds all sorts of precipitations from the sky the project is currently in the early testing stages they aim to be working with underwater prototypes in 2024 and are planning to test the reising on an Arctic Bay in 2027 this is a preservation of a habitat exactly like a tropical forest or a coral reef all right this is something you have to see look what happened to the US team's boat during a practice race in Bermuda the boat flipping over on its side during the sale GP event on May 3rd five of the six team members went into the water thankfully there were no serious injuries it turns out one of the team members accidentally pressed the wrong button in diting the wing and causing the boat to capsize the US team was unable to compete for the rest of the race weekend due to damage to the boat's [Applause] Wing in today's story getting a 10 out of 10 it's Italy versus France we're not talking about a soccer match five years ago Italy dethroned France as Baker of the world's longest baguette but French Bakers just said ready or not here we Crum they came back with a bag at that's longer than a football field it measures 461 ft that's 235 times longer than a traditional baguette which is a long thin crusty loaf of bread in case you didn't know France has baked its way back into the Guinness World Record Now That's What I Call Redemption all right powerful people thank you for joining us today shout out to Mrs Cunningham's class at Bell School in Min not North Dakota go beaver and to the rail Splitters at Lincoln Park Middle School in Michigan keep on chopping baby have a wonderful Tuesday everyone see you tomorrow for your word Wednesday and you better bring it [Music]