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Hey.

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I’m Carl Azuz for CNN 10.

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And Fridays are awesome -- unless you’re
in the U.S. Northeast and you hate snow.

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The region is dealing with the affects of
what could be the most significant storm of

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this winter.

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When the snow emergency is declared in

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places like Boston, Massachusetts, you know
the weather is bad.

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Blizzard conditions, whiteouts, more than
1,600 flight cancellations, the closure of

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the largest school district in the United
States, and the warnings to people not to

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leave their homes except in an emergency.

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This is all

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because of a storm system that’s affected
more than 60 million people in some way.

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That’s roughly one-fifth of America’s
population.

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It came on suddenly.

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Wednesday’s temperature at New York’s
John F. Kennedy International Airport was

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65 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Yesterday, it was 25,

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sinking to a low of 18 overnight, and it came
with snow.

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Forecasters predicted eight to 12 inches in
New York, with wind gusts of 50 miles per

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hour.

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Boston was expected to get 12 to 15 inches
of snow.

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And yesterday, in Massachusetts and Connecticut
-- thundersnow.

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Pretty unusual event when a winter snowfall
brings the thunder.

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The system was moving out of New York by last
night, but it was expected to impact Boston

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through the weekend.

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National Weather Service doesn’t expect

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the temperature there to get above freezing
until Sunday.

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Despite the storm’s location, though, and
despite its affects, it moved from west to

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east, from land to sea.

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It’s not technically a nor’easter,

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though some folks were calling it that.

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What exactly is the difference?

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A nor’easter occurs within the most crowded
coast line of the United States, the Northeast,

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and they can occur

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any time of year but are most common between
the months of September and April.

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That’s when weather conditions are primed
for a nor’easter.

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You start with a low.

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It’s going to travel from the Southeast
to the Northeast and intensify.

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Nor’easters are strongest around New England
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well as the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

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Now, we have very warm water in the Gulf of
Mexico and all around the coast of Florida,

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it’s going to warm the air above it and
that warm air is going

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to clash with very cold air coming from the
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Now, nor’easters carry winds out of the
Northeast at about 58 miles per hour or more.

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And keep in

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mind, the win direction out of the Northeast
is what defines a nor’easter.

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It’s also going to cause beach erosion,
as well as coastal flooding and very, very

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rough ocean conditions.

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Now, not all nor’easter have snow, but some
of the most memorable ones have dumped lots

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of it.

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Feeding a growing population, the price and
availability of land, government rules and

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regulations, international trade laws -- these
are a

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few of the challenges faced by farmers worldwide,
and they’re on top of the every day demands

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of producing a successful crop and making
a living from it.

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They have a new tool that can help, though
-- crowdsourcing, getting information usually

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through the Internet from other farmers who
faced and

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overcome specific problems.

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What about those farmers who don’t have
Internet access?

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What if you could stop global food shortages
with this?

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Seventy percent of the world’s food comes
from small isolated farms that are an average

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only two acres.

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About 0.8 hectares, like Darrell’s farm
in

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Kenya.

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If farmers like Darrell didn’t produce food,
the world wouldn’t eat.

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So, what happens when Darrell, who’s only
been farming for a few years finds out his

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crop is mysteriously dying?

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There came a disease.

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It came from nowhere.

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And nobody knew about it.

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That’s where an emerging social network
that connects rural farmers with no Internet

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access comes in.

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WeFarm, a London-based startup

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that’s recently raised $1.6 million in seed
funding, works on a simple premise.

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Have a problem?

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Send a text that goes out to 120,000 other

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farmers and crowdsource the answer.

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That’s exactly what Darrell did when worms
got into his tomato crop.

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Luckily, whoever got that question, it is
like God, who worked there.

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He gave an answer, as if he was in my mind.

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solution, a pesticide that killed the worms
and saved his tomatoes.

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At its roots, farming is about generational
knowledge.

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Your mom was a farmer and her dad was a farmer
and so on.

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But in millions of small

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isolated farms, that knowledge only goes as
far as you walk.

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Now, these farmers have a global community
to lean.

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Our first function is to connect all the farmers,
and insure that they able to tap into this

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generational knowledge.

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The network has already answered over 280,000
questions and shared 18 million pieces of

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information.

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It’s not just about sharing the challenges
that they’re having.

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They’re also sharing the winds that they
get on a day to day basis.

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Basically, the more successful the farmer,
the more land he can buy and the more crops

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the can grow for the world.

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The farming, it’s in my blood.

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Hopefully, I think it will -- it’s going
to take me somewhere.

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Coming Monday, full coverage of a U.S. federal
appeals court ruling concerning President

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Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees
and

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immigrants.

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We’ll bring you a complete explanation and
reactions from both sides on CNN 10.

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Ten-second trivia:

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Research into the structure of DNA made scientist(s)
famous?

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Thomas Edition and Nikola Tesla, Louis Pasteur,
Marie Curie, or James Watson and Francis Crick?

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In 1953, it was Watson and Crick who described
the structure of DNA as a double helix.

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You hear a lot about DNA evidence used in
crime investigations.

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And when people are accused of crimes in the
U.S., they have rights under

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criminal due process.

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That’s not the case with dogs.

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A legal expert says they’re considered property.

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So, DNA testing when an animal is accused
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killing another one isn’t part of their
legal process.

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Still, the owners of Jeb, a service dog that
helps care for an elderly man in Michigan,

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spent $416 to obtain DNA evidence and prove
Jeb’s innocence

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when he was found standing over the body of
a neighbor’s dog.

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The rest is now canine court room history.

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Jeb, you were accused of a very serious crime.

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Did you do it?

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When you heard Jeb killed another dog, what
went through your head?

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No, Jeb didn’t do it.

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At the end of the trial, what was the judge’s
order?

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That Jeb needs to be put down because he’s
a dangerous dog.

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He had his mind made up that that dog needs
to die.

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When it came back, what did it say?

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It said that Jeb did not kill the dog.

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His DNA was nowhere on any of the samples.

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If you had not gotten that DNA, would Jeb
have been killed?

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Yes, certainly would.

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There was no question about it.

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How did your husband respond when Jeb came
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He was in shock.

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He cried.

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Ooh.

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So happy.

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He was so happy.

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You’re a good doggy.

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Well, they say that no two of these things
are exactly alike and these pictures prove

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it.

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At least in the close-up snowflakes captured
by this CNN iReporter.

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He says the pictures were taken by a smartphone
with a lens attachment.

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They are particles that fell out of the Ohio
winter sky and stuck to the

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windshield of a parked car.

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The photographer says he’s been taking pictures
like this for three years.

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And though some people might ask why, to us,
it’s crystal clear.

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Seeing

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snow chilling on his car precipitated the
idea and he probably thought to himself, lattice

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take a closer look.

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As a matter of fractal, who’d want to

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flake out on a chance to branch out and capture
some frozen flake-tography.

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Like these puns themselves, the pictures just
kind of snowball.

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I’m Carl Azuz, hoping you have a great weekend
a sled of you.