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question how do you find an objective
news coverage paired with some ghastly
puns all delivered in ten minutes
answer this is CNN 10 and I'm Carl azuz
happy to have you along for the ride
it's been a rollercoaster ride for
international stocks this week the Dow
Jones Industrial Average
an index of 30 important American stocks
fell hundreds of points on Monday and
Tuesday japan's Nikkei index dipped more
than three percent key Australian stocks
dropped 1.6 percent
indexes were also down in Germany and
London stocks seeming to drop as the
earth spun around the main culprit for
this is a disease outbreak that started
in Wuhan China late last year the new
coronavirus is not as widespread or
deadly as the flu but it's mysterious
international health officials aren't
sure how it started they don't know
exactly how it spreads they're not
certain how contagious people are when
they get it because of all that they've
had to resort to serious measures to try
to contain it closures cancellations
lock downs and quarantines are some of
those measures in Italy which has seen
the worst outbreak in Europe at least
322 people have caught the new corona
virus and 11 have died Italian
authorities continue to monitor and to
try to prevent the spread of corona
virus here in what is the first major
outbreak outside of Asia 11 towns under
quarantine with some hundred thousand
people affected by that Italian
authorities have had to put in special
measures to ensure that those
quarantines are respected with laws
designed to keep people in and to keep
people out a three-month sentence lose
if anyone tries to disobey those
quarantine rules there's been an impact
on tourism we've talked about the cruise
ship in Japan where there have been
hundreds of cases on Tuesday there were
lock downs and isolations in hotels in
Austria and the Canary Islands because
guests who traveled there from Italy
initially tested positive for
coronavirus all public and private
schools are closed for two weeks in
Bahrain where there have been 26 cases
so far
Iran has seen dozens of cases and
planned military exercises between the
United States and South Korea were
expected to be scaled back because of
concerns about the disease so as the new
corona virus has spread around the globe
it's had a myriad of impacts on the
different societies it's hit second
trivia on May 29th 1848 which they
became the 30th to be admitted to the
Union Texas Iowa Wisconsin / Oregon
Wisconsin is the Korean state and though
the states 2020 presidential primaries
for Republicans and Democrats aren't
scheduled until April 7th a town in
Wisconsin has been testing out a new
technology related to voting it's
something that could make critic
skeptical as technology was at the heart
of the problems and the Iowa caucuses on
February 3rd people had trouble with a
smartphone application there as well as
a call-in line in other issues but this
is another example of how organizations
are trying to streamline and secure the
voting process this is where the
election guard magic happens because we
insert the guard here and it prints the
ballot that same moment the device is
connected to this tablet are encrypting
your data we're not saying that election
guard makes it impossible to hack voting
machines we're saying it makes it
pointless that both
well right outside the Town Hall for the
town of Bolton Wisconsin Fulton doesn't
have a bank a post office or even a
grocery store but today this town of
just over 3,000 residents is testing the
latest voting security technology in a
statewide election the grand vision
election guard is to make elections more
safe secure and trustworthy than they
have ever been in the history of the
United States microsoft says ballots are
encrypted electronically the moment
they're cast and stay that way the
system can then tally those encrypted
votes without ever deciphering them and
even more importantly it means hackers
should have a harder time tampering with
those votes we're building a world-class
fault that your vote goes into and then
we're wrapping it with tamper-proof seal
if somebody's successfully hacked into
the system if they could break into that
fault the technology would then reveal
that something had happened and then the
election officials can make sure that
the vote is accurate here to vote so
there's a slightly different voting
process going on today here in Fulton
voters are using a tablet to make their
selections and saving them on a card
when they insert that card here their
vote is encrypted and a pay for
duplicate prints automatically none of
this hardware is connected to the
Internet I came in expecting the little
pencils in the uniforms with the little
dots and it wasn't like that at all
election guard will work with paper as a
primary source it will work as the
backup but it would are also working a
system that has no paper ballot at all
and that's important there are more than
10,000 election jurisdictions in the
United States and no universal voting
system here in Wisconsin each of our
1850 cities towns and villages run their
own elections and so cost is a huge
factor the Microsoft team wouldn't say
how much it's spent on the election
guard project but it's clear this isn't
a profit play anyone can download the
open source software for free it's
absolutely core to our democracy that
people know that when they vote their
vote counts
a recent Gallup poll found that 59% of
Americans lack confidence in the honesty
of US elections I think one of the
largest challenges that's facing the
election cycle this year is
misinformation it doesn't take an actual
breach or an actual hack of a system it
just takes a rumor to undermine
someone's confidence that's why a poor
feature of election guard is voter
confirmation Bolton's official results
came from a hand count of the paper
duplicates the encrypted tally from
election guard max and for the first
time voters could use a unique code to
verify that their vote was counted
do you have to be a software engineer to
understand the significance of this
voters will believe in the technology
when they see that it works and then it
works consistently we're really
optimistic and hopeful that in the 2024
election cycle many votes in the United
States will be cast using election guard
technology but in the wake of public
debacles like the app meltdown at Iowa's
Democratic caucuses many officials and
voters might be wary of new technology
from private companies do you think
private tech companies are the answer to
securing our democracy we need the
public sector and we need the private
sector working together to solve these
problems
and I hope it counted
I could talk to you for hours and hours
about the difficulties people in
wheelchairs face on a daily basis but
until you actually sit in a chair you'll
never fully understand together we can
change the world one challenge I have no
experience with the wheelchair even in a
building that is handicap accessible
still you bump into doors you bump into
walls some of the doors that come very
heavy they can influence things they can
help people achieve more independence
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when you think of road hazards in
Washington State this doesn't come to
mind
it also doesn't come when you call it so
multiple wildlife agencies had to work
together to trap this 500-pound sea lion
officials say it likely took several
wrong turns after leaving the river and
that's how it wound up in a wooded area
miles away from its water source the sea
lion was relocated to the Columbia River
after it was trapped I'd say they did a
stellar job oh the animal might have
blubbered about it but they didn't say
cry me a river they just took it to one
and once its fate and safety were sealed
we're sure the otter creatures wall
rushed over to hear some of its roar
some adventures as a peanut pedestrian
whoa on yesterday's show at youtube.com
slash CNN 10 we got a comment from
batiste high school in batiste Oklahoma
let's go Panthers thank you all for
watching I'm Carl azuz for CNN
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