A Spring Heat Wave | March 27, 2025

[Music] what's up sunshine welcome to CNN 10 I'm KY wire it's Thursday March 27th happy Friday Eve I want to throw this question out there do any of you know anyone named Elvis or Oprah I was talking with some friends and we thought as popular as those two celebrities are we can't think of anyone we've ever met named Elvis or Oprah so if you know let us know all right let's get you your 10 minutes of news starting now we start today with an early spring heat wave in the southwestern United States we're only 8

days into spring but it's starting to feel more like summer for some cities that are reaching record temperatures for this time of year Phoenix Arizona came just shy of hitting the 100 degree Mark reaching 99 this week if they had reached the forecasted triple digit temperature it would have been their earliest 100° day on record based on National Weather Service data normally the city averages its first 100° Day on May 11th in California cities like Bakersfield and Sacramento City broke high temperature records that were set in 1997 reaching 91 and 88 deges respectively the unusual

warmth is also reaching the Pacific Northwest where record high temperatures in Portlands in Seattle are creating a rare thunderstorm threat that hasn't been seen this early in the year for at least three decades our Derek vanam is in the weather center with more the calendar says it's spring but it certainly feels like summer over the Western 2third of the country in fact in the coming days over 75 potential tied or broken record high temperatures are possible and then when we talk about one of the hottest cities in America Phoenix Arizona this is not what residents

want to hear the potential exists for the earliest 100° day on record to occur late today so that's really saying something about the heat that these people are facing especially coming off of a summer where they had3 consecutive days the longest stretch ever Where the mercury and the thermometer climbed above 100° now it's not just Phoenix Arizona other locations here potentially setting record high temperatures you can see them from Palm Springs all the way to Seattle Washington so much of the West Coast and you can imagine just where this heat is traversing it'll first impact

uh the Rockies for the day tomorrow and then shift a little bit further to the east you can see the temperature Trend going forward uh so you'll see those daytime highs cooling from the West Coast but warming as we look towards the central parts of the US and will be the benefactors here across the southeast look at these temperatures uh from New Orleans to Orlando and Atlanta uh V very much like the middle to end of spring 10 second trivia what international organization was created during the cold War United Nations European Union North Atlantic Treaty

Organization or the World Trade Organization your answer here is North Atlantic Treaty Organization the military Alliance was formed in 1949 by 32 North American and European countries as a response to tensions with the Soviet Union now to a rare firsthand account of what life was like for those living and working at a military base dub the city under the ice it's where one Young American doctor was sent after being drafted into the military as tensions between the US and the Soviet Union simmered during the Cold War in the 1960s the US operated a remote Arctic

research base in Greenland called Camp Century the unprecedented feat of engineering was dug about 26 fet beneath the surface of Greenland's ice sheet at times Camp Century had a population of nearly 200 people living in a network of dozens of tunnels that connected the prefa fabricated buildings where they lived and worked in the underground Caverns that included sleeping quarters bathrooms Laboratories a mes hul laundry room and a gym it was all powered by a nuclear reactor carefully transported and installed beneath the ice while cuttingedge scientific work was conducted there the US Declassified documents in the

1990s revealing Camp sentury was part of a top secret attempt by the US to hide launch sites from missiles in the Arctic a strategic location much closer to Russia Dr Robert Weiss tells us about his time serving at the camp and how he felt when he learned about the facility's secret purpose decades later Camp century is buried below the surface of this ice C this was a cold war they were afraid that Russia might come across and they needed to have military up there this is Dr Robert Weiss in 1962 he was drafted into the

US mil where he began his career as a physician working under the ice at a remote Arctic research base cam centy Greenland which is 800 mil from the North Pole I said you're kidding all I saw was a lot of snow just a few years earlier the US military took unprecedented engineering efforts to build the nuclear powered base calling it a city under the ice a system of 23 trenches would be dug into the ice cap and then covered with steel arches and snow except for the fact that they have no windows the men of

Camp Century live exactly as do other soldiers I never went outside I was very happy I read a lot of Science and in medicine uh played chess in 1967 the camp closed decades later information about the Camp's secret purpose was Declassified revealing it was part of a Top Secret Pentagon plan to hide launch sites or missiles in the Arctic I mean I'm not totally surprised we knew they were digging tunnels and the whole idea was to have a Subway under the snow but they didn't get very far on this base I mean I was totally

surprised about the idea of uh nuclear weapons uh being placed which had never occurred now to Greece where the country's famous Instagram Island Santorini is reopening to visitors for the first time since earthquakes prompted a state of emergency and evacuations on the tourist hotspot between January 26 then February 22nd the Quake rattled island of Santorini and the area around it experienced tens of thousands of minor earthquakes recorded at a magnitude of one or higher on the RoR scale our Linda concade shows us how one month later the first cruise ship of the season is Reviving

hope for the Island's tourism industry the popular Greek island of santarini experienced waves of earthquakes in January and February causing tourists and many residents to evacuate but just over a month later the first cruise ship of the Season arrived at the island it's a sign of Hope the tourism could bounce back after the earthquakes triggered a state of emergency that lasted until March 3rd it's exciting yeah to know that the Island's open again and we get to visit first it's safe the pitus island sits near the boundary of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates because

of its proximity to the geographic fault lines Sant en often experiences seismic activity but the most recent wave of earthquakes was not typical data from the national Observatory of Athens indicated that over 1,200 earthquakes ranging from 1 to 5.2 in magnitude occurred over a 2 we period schools closed and construction work was halted but now that the Quakes have died down tourists Express excitement about returning to Santorini after the government's safety assurances we love being the first cruise ship that got the chance to come to Santorini we feel really blessed we trust the tourism board

here and so if they said it was safe to come we came with open arms the island which attracts around 3.4 million visitors each year is also home to around 200,000 residents and tourism makes up a large majority of the Island's income we all hope that things will return to normal that people will come back the cloud seem to be lifting so things should improve for everyone at least that's what we [Applause] hope today's story getting a 10 out of 10 a skunk that you won't want to run away from this skunk is bringing Smiles

not smells to the people he meets his name is Mr Sushi and he's fully domesticated desentedents Iowa one of 17 states where you can legally own a domesticated skunk it's clear he's brought out quite a Pew Sensational Smiles how much money do skunks have one cent what's their favorite kind of music Funk and I had one more bad skunk joke but um I won't tell it because it stinks all right let's head up to Winston Salem North Carolina big old shout out and lots of love to the Spartans at Mount Taber High School rise up

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