Fridays are awesome! Why? Because Super Bowl and Puppy Bowl. Those reports are minutes
away on CNN 10.
First, though, tensions between the U.S. and the Middle Eastern nation of Iran. Earlier
this week, Iran tested out a medium range missile, a U.S.
defense official said the test failed and that there was no threat to America or its
allies in the Middle East.
But do Iran`s missile tests break international law? A U.N. Security Council resolution passed
in 2015 tells Iran not to have anything to do
with missiles that can carry nuclear weapons. Iran has tested several missiles since then,
but it says the resolution does not apply because its
missile program is only for defensive purposes.
The U.S. doesn`t agree. On Wednesday, America`s national security adviser called Iran`s recent
tests a provocative breach of the resolution and said
the U.S. was putting Iran on notice. Iran responded that it would vigorously continue
its missile activity and that it didn`t need permission
to do it.
Trump administration officials say they`re planning to impose additional sanctions, penalties
on certain people or businesses affiliated with Iran.
Ten-second trivia:
What location was struck in 1960 by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded? Chile,
San Francisco, Alaska, or China?
On May 22nd, 1960, a magnitude 9.5 earthquake struck near the South American nation of Chile.
The 1960 Chilean earthquake wasn`t the most deadly ever recorded, but its affects spread
far and wide. In addition to the hundreds killed in
Chile, the tsunami generated by the quake killed dozens in Hawaii and as far as Japan.
It also left millions homeless.
Looking at more recent seismic activity, here`s a map of every quake on record, from 2001
through 2015. You can see a lot of them flashing all
around or near the Pacific Ring of Fire. Some devastating quakes occurred during this time
period.
One example, the 9.1 magnitude tremor that shook Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2004. More than
220,000 died in that and the tsunami that followed.
And the 8.1 magnitude quake that hit Samoa in 2009. Also an 8.8 magnitude quake in Chile
in 2010, and a 9.1 jolt near Japan in 2011. That quake and
tsunami killed more than 22,000.
Five things you should know about earthquakes.
Number one, an earthquake occurs when two blocks of the Earth slip fast each other.
Now, for most of the time, those
blocks are together with friction. But they are building up energy because they are moving
in different directions. When one block decides to slip,
all of a sudden, that energy is released by seismic waves, kind of like ripples on a pond,
creating the earthquake.
Number two, an earthquake can occur very near the surface of the Earth. Those earthquakes
are typically very destructive, or as deep as 400 miles
down into the crust. Now, where the shaking actually happens, that`s called the hypocenter.
But directly above it, on the surface, that`s
called the epicenter.
Number three, the power of an earthquake is called magnitude. Now, the intensity of he
shaking can vary depending on the geography, the
typography, or even the depth of the quake. Now, the USGS says there are 500,000 detectable
quakes every year. One hundred thousand can be felt and
100 will create damage.
Number four, earthquake themselves actually don`t kill that many people. It`s the natural
and manmade structures that fall to the ground during the
shaking that injure and kill.
Number five, the majority of all earthquakes and volcanoes happen along plate boundaries.
The largest is the Pacific plate and its series of
boundaries all along the Pacific Ocean known as the Ring of Fire.
Big game this weekend in the U.S. Pro-football is the most popular sport in the country and
its championship game, the Super Bowl, kicks off
at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. Why this gets so much attention? For one thing, it`s routinely viewed
by more than one third of the entire country.
Nielsen ratings indicated last year`s game averaged almost 112 million viewers. That
only counts people who watched in a home, not restaurants.
Advertisers paid $5 million for each 30-second spot. And this was for a game that came in
at number three in terms of viewership. The all-time TV
record was set in 2015 when Super Bowl 49 got more than 114 million viewers.
Will this year`s Super Bowl 15 break that record? We`ll know after the Atlanta Falcons
play the New England Patriots in Houston, Texas.
And while all the players in this game are men, that`s not the case across the sport.
I`ll get shouts like, "Number 2, you look like a girl." And I was like, well, I am a
girl. If
you can take your helmet off around somebody who doesn`t, is not expecting it, you can
kind of seem squint, the reaction is like, well, that was
football. What do you think I`m doing three days a week my entire life? Power fluff, you
think we`re just prancing around? I think they picture
like lingerie or whatever.
Inside the world of women`s tackle football.
I`m a catcher at Maryland. And I had a teammate who said, you know what? You probably be a
good
quarterback and I kind of laugh at it and the league started and honestly, I didn`t
take it seriously and I went out to a game and realize I was
missing out. And it`s all she wrote, here I am.
I`ve moved over to England for this job with horses and I`d seen an ad on Facebook and
thought, I needed to do it, I could get a bit of
American culture in, make friends that way. I haven`t looked back since and that was four
years ago.
Some girls that I played basketball back in college, I saw it being posted on their Facebook,
and
said, well, that`s really cool. When I`m done with college sports, maybe I`ll give it a
shot.
Each player has to pay about $500 to $1,000 a season. That doesn`t mean you can`t go out
and get sponsorships, ticket sales help,
things like that. Fields alone, these days, it`s $200 an hour. We all personally insured.
So, you have to have insurance to play in this league
for obvious reasons. So, it`s an expensive sport.
Every year, it`s close to $1,000 just for fees. You`re not counting equipment. You`re
not counting accessories, medical bills,
anything like that. So, it`s upwards to tens of thousands of dollars.
I`m an athlete trainer.
I`m a homicide detective for the Prince Georges County Police Department in Maryland.
SCHECHTER: I`m a personal trainer.
It`s three times, you know, a week for eight months.
I play Saturdays. I coach Sundays. I`ve got Thursdays.
And then you get your international games. And I actually play on a men`s team as well.
I play middle linebacker and I`m actually quite small for
that role. But I`m very effective at what I do and I want to be look at as an athlete,
just like the other girls here.
The chance to play football now that I have it is almost everything. It changed in my
life in more ways that you can imagine. And
the people that you meet and the avenues that it`s opened for me, the places that it`s taken
me. I ended up in Pittsburgh moving out of New York
City because of Pittsburgh Passion. So, it`s like at some point, you have to consider those
decisions were made because of football. When I started playing, we would literally
find a patch of grass. We would use our headlights for practice.
Hopefully, you know, 10 years from now, this is, you know, just the started and the mindsets
changed. The best comment I ever had was I would never
know you were a woman until you took your helmet off, which tells me we`re playing the
sport right, we`re doing it right and we`re building it.
So, men, women, and some children play football. Who says it should limited to humans? For
the 13th year, puppies will be taking the field for
the annual Puppy Bowl. It`s more a competition of cuteness. The game, which airs at 3:00
p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday, helps some of these pups get
adopted. They come from shelters across the country. They`re all between about 12 and
20 weeks old. They are mixed of breeds, including mixed
breeds and the ref says he`s bitten, chewed, scratched and needs to avoid stepping on tails.
So, there are a couple of things to watch out for. The players are all scrappy and though
victory is pup for grabs, it`s still a sport with fight,
though its bark is probably worse, at least the winning threats could make for a Super
Bowl.
I`m Carl Azuz, dogging you with puns for CNN 10.