Why manatees are starving in Florida | May 2, 2025 – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.[Music] [Applause] what's up sunshine happy Friday i'm Koi Wire this is CNN 10 where I simply tell you the what letting you decide what to think we've got you covered from international relations to feeding baby vultures with puppets today your 10 minutes of news starts now we start with a brand new partnership between the US and Ukraine focused on underground goodies rare earth minerals these are some of the ingredients needed for our tech things like lithium for batteries and phones and EV cars strong titanium for airplanes and elements vital for computers even defense systems turns out Ukraine has lots of them the US and Ukraine just signed a major agreement creating a special joint investment fund sort of like a shared high-tech piggy bank the fund aims to help Ukraine develop these mineral resources while keeping full ownership and control of everything underground while America contributes money to the fund and potentially military aid like air defense systems like the US has done in the past ukraine in exchange will put in some of the money earned from future mining projects so why is this deal so significant first it's aimed at boosting Ukraine's economy second it helps the US secure access to these important minerals which means the US can rely less on supply chains from other parts of the world third it shows a strong long-term commitment from the US supporting Ukraine's future one big question how might this impact Ukraine's ongoing war with Russia here's part of what US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett had to say today's agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free sovereign and prosperous Ukraine over the long term it's time for this cruel and senseless war to end this week two NASA astronauts conducted the fifth all female spacew walk ever nicole Ays and Anne Mlan suited up in their extra vehicular mobility units and spacewalked outside of the International Space Station spending about six and a half hours hard at work they relocated a space station communications antenna installed the first round of gear needed for an additional power generation system this was the very first spacew walk for astronaut Iris and Air Force instructor pilot with more than 200 combat hours this was the third spacew walk for Miss Mlan a colonel in the US Army whose call sign is animal dating back to her rugby career this marked the 275th spacew walk conducted on the ISS for space station assembly maintenance and upgrades now to an environmental crisis affecting Florida's beloved manatees around 1,200 of the aquatic mammals have died from starvation after their main source of food seaggrass has been wiped out by pollutants randy K went to Florida's Indian River Lagoon for an uplose look take a look we're heading out on Florida's Indian River Lagoon which stretches from Palm Beach County to Daytona Beach the lagoon is where Florida manatees come for the warm water but in recent years the northern end of the lagoon has been a death trap for them all these homes along the lagoon that are on septic tanks are slowly leaking literally uh tons of nitrogen and phosphorus into the system marine biologist Peter Belli has studied manatees for decades he says those pollutants are being released by septic tanks and water treatment facilities along the lagoon and are fueling algae growth in the water which is causing the manatee's main food source seaggrass to die so this algae is reducing light down to the seagrasses essentially smothering them and killing them he says manatees need to eat nearly 100 lbs of vegetation a day between December 2020 and April 2022 more than 1,200 manatees died of starvation most of them here in the northern part of the Indian River Lagoon just a couple of decades ago the water in this Indian River Lagoon was crystal clear you could easily see down to the bottom now it's dark and murky and polluted with chemicals and algae with their seaggrass gone the manatees had little choice but to eat the algae that killed it which is toxic for them their normally round bodies became flat as they became more and more emaciated katrina Shadex is the executive director of Bear Warriors United which sued Florida's Department of Environmental Protection in 2022 to help protect the manatees they suffered immensely and for a very long time when a manatee starves to death it's an extremely painful process these photos from Bear Warriors United show how desperate some of the manatees were attempting to pull themselves out of the water to eat leaves off dry land or grass along the water's edge on this beach in the lagoon Katrina says she found many manatee carcasses she showed us some of their bones that still remain and shared this picture with us of a manatee skull earlier this month a federal judge ruled in favor of Bear Warriors United and against the state finding Florida's Department of Environmental Protection was quote in violation of the Endangered Species Act there was lacks leadership from the state of Florida the state of Florida has admitted that it will be 12 to 15 years before seaggrasses start to recover we reached out to both the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Florida Governor Ronda Santis but neither provided a response to our questions are you hopeful the manatee population will come back here i am hopeful now i wasn't at first i I was convinced that this home herd was going to go extinct and that the rest of the state manatees would follow but now that we won this lawsuit we think we have a really good chance of working with the state to make sure the manatees don't go extinct on our watch pop quiz hot shot the Michelin Guide for Raiding Restaurants with Stars began in 1926 as a way to sell what vacuums cameras wristwatches or tires you're entirely correct if you said tires the Michelin Tire Company first published the Michelin Guide in 1900 with maps hotels gas stations and mechanics it promoted travel in France airgo the need for tires the first Michelin stars were awarded in 1926 when a restaurant and hospitality section was added now to a trailblazing Michelin chef for our CNN series Visionaries our Kyouung Law sat down with San Francisco based chef Dominique Krenn the first woman in the US to earn three Michelin stars we find out how her native France and her time by the sea influence her menu dominique Kren nature lover i love to be alone i love to walk through landscape a father's daughter is daddy and dummy and hot dog connoisseur perhaps a surprising choice for the first woman in the United States to earn three Michelin stars joining a very short list of female chefs worldwide to garner such recognition but for Dominique Krenn the title of chef is just that a title my title might be a chef but I am a human being that is using my craft as a language to be able to dialogue to others born just outside of Paris Dominic was adopted as a baby to a politician father and a mother who worked in finance look at this so this is my mom this is my dad this is my brother and this is little Dom already touching food you know look at her it was their roots in a Celtic region of France that first inspired Dominique i kind of want to start by asking just about how you grew up because you talk a lot about place where you first remember life beginning for you both of my parents are from Britany so Britany is a place in France that is um on the coast the Atlantic coast it's rough it's raw is untouch i spend a lot of time by the sea and this is where where I start to to become to become [Applause] me today's story getting a 10 out of 10 zookeepers at the Bronx Zoo in New York for doing whatever it takes to feed one of their newest additions handlers employing a very special puppet to handfeed a brand new baby vulture apparently this species of king vulture has a tendency to neglect their chicks so hand feeding can be necessary to ensure these babies survive but also important that the baby bird doesn't identify too closely with its human handlers now we all know vultures main source of food is dead animals like roadkill right but did you know vultures are essential in the preventing the spread of disease in wildlife populations all 23 species of vultures have stomach acid so strong so powerful it can sterilize animal bones and its immediate surroundings killing bacteria that causes bachulism anthrax and rabies in fact some researchers in India believe hundreds of thousands of human illnesses could have been prevented if it weren't for the decline of the country's vulture population the cleanup crew you never knew you needed all right let's bring this show home big Friday shout out going to Mr blair and all our friends the Wildcats at Columbia Falls Junior High in Columbia Falls Montana wildcat strong rise up and Anelise you designed this well done cue that Friday music now Eric you never know when you never know how but you may be the light someone needs you are more powerful than you know so shine bright this weekend y'all may the fourth be with you i'm Koi Wire and we are CNN [Music] [Applause] [Music] 10 [Music] heat heat [Music] heat