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A Storm Resistant Town

 

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I'm KY this is CNN 10 it's Monday March 24th already the 83rd day of the year so we have 28 2 days left to shine in 2025.

 

let's make the most of this one and kick this week off with what is the best 10 minutes in news because of you.

 

we start today in London where Heathrow Airport one of the busiest airports in the world was brought to a complete standstill after losing power on Friday.

 

a massive electrical substation fire in a nearby London suburb plunged the airport and thousands of homes nearby Into darkness while disrupting global travel for days.

 

substation [ˋsʌb͵steʃən] n. 变电所

 

the result was travel chaos over the weekend.

 

hundreds of planes headed for Heathrow were diverted or turned back when the

substation failed.

 

divert [daɪˋvɝt] v. 转向；转移

 

the airport's backup power system was running immediately to support critical safety systems but more than 1300 flights were cancelled and hundreds of thousands of travelers were stranded.

 

officials are investigating what started the fire that took crews more than 24 hours to fully put out.

 

West London residents reported explosions and a massive fireball at the substation just before midnight on Thursday.

 

both the Metropolitan Police and the London fire brigade say the cause of the fire is not being treated as suspicious.

 

brigade [brɪˋged] n.（为某个目的而成立的）队，团

 

the airport was up and running again on Saturday and flights have since resumed but it could be days before flights are operating normally again.

 

Airlines rely on carefully coordinated networks to put planes and crews in the right place at the right time.

 

the closure forced dozens of carriers to quickly restructure their operations moving aircraft and staff around the world.

 

CNN's Larry mowo is in London to show us how people there dealt with the extended delays

 

Heathrow is finally fully open again but that does not mean your flight will take off and land on time or at all,why for instance British Airways expect only 85% capacity today

 

that's because planes,pilots,cabin crew are not where they should be they were diverted to airports all across Europe some did not take off at all trying to get to Heathrow

 

it will take a few days until schedules are back on track again.

 

the airport is closed for almost 18 hours and when an airport this big Europe's busiest isclosed for almost a whole day that affects a lot of people almost 20,000 people from around the world who are trying to get here or to leave Heathrow says it is supporting passengers who are stranded to leave that's the priority right now and it's working to try and clear that as possible.

 

the advice:check with your airline if you have a flight leaving Heathrow or coming into Heathrow check to make sure that it's still on schedule.

 

the British utility company National Gridhas said it's deeply sorry for the disruption caused by that fire at a substation supplying the airport

 

authorities are investigating what happened they're not treating it as suspicious but the police say they're keeping an open mind.

 

10 seconds trivia

 

which hurricane name has been used the most during Hurricane seasons in the Atlantic?

Arlene

Brett

Emily

Gordon

 

your answer is Arlene used 10 times since 1959

 

lists of names are reused every 6 years and names of very destructive hurricanes are retired

 

as hurricanes in the Atlantic grow more powerful year after year one town in Florida is proving that engineering communities to withstand storms is possible.

 

developer Syd Kitson broke ground on one such sustainable town in 2016 built and engineered to with stand flooding and high winds the community is surrounded by nature preserves it has its own solar electricity generation and in 2018 it opened as Florida's first so-called storm-proof town.

 

our Bill Weir shows us how Babcock Ranch held up when it came time for the ultimate test

 

these are hurricane resistant windows up to 150 mph

these things are bowing in like this

 

former NFL lineman turneddeveloper Syd Kitson bought 91,000 Acres of Florida wetlands and then sold most of it back to the state so his dream town would be surrounded by protected nature which,in a storm is the best water storage system ever invented.

 

he also buried Babcock's power lines

 

landscaped with only native plants and engineered the whole town for high winds

 

then came the test.category 4 Ian which stalled over the 5,000 new residents for 8 hours,withSydin the middle,worried sick all the while.

 

next morning I got up I jumped in my truck and I started driving around I spent four or 5 hours, I hit every single neighborhood here,talked to the people but people were wandering around like what what just happened

 

becauseon TV all you saw was destruction unfortunately loss of life and just all around us massive flooding and they're walking around going um wow we're looking pretty good

 

while neighboring towns were devastated Babcock Ranch never flooded never lost power and has since survived hurricane Milton in similar fashion

 

we've talked to a number of the insurance companies and they're open to rewarding good behavior rewarding building the homes the right way building a community the right way becauseit's just not the home construction but the community itself also needs to be storm resistant.

 

today's story getting a 10 out of 10

 

a robot dog that is almost like the real thing check out Luna a robot pup created by a Swedish AI startup company that says this four-legged friend can learn and adapt just like a real fur baby

 

our Anna Stewart shows us how the company is using a specific type of artificial intelligence that allows Luna to interact with the physical world.

 

you may have seen robots that walk like dogs,but how about robots that think like dogs

 

the Swedish startup Intuicell aims to make artificial intelligence more animall-like

 

their robot dog Luna is one of the first to use physical Agentic AI

 

Agentic AI 代理式人工智慧

 

unlike generative AI which essentially does pattern matching to generate content or make predictions

 

the physical Agentic AI used to create Luna can make decisions and take action towards specific goals just like humans and many animals

 

the company says this means Luna can learn like a real dog rather than using a generative AI model and data sets to teach Luna how to walk

 

Intuicell will hire a dog trainer

 

the way Luna learns is based on how neurons interact and process information

 

in a sense,we're not talking about today's AI a versus tomorrow's AI uh

 

I see this as the difference between machine learning and biological intelligence uh

 

what we want to show is that machines can have genuine digital intelligence to learn new things to solve problems that they never seen before just like humans and animals can

 

Luthman says their breakthrough is based on more than 30 years of research into how the brain works that the company translated into their software

 

he hopes that next human-like robots can venture into unpredictable environments such as space deep sea exploration or disaster response

 

one possibility is sending intelligent robots like Luna to Mars

 

if you want to send a robot to Mars to build habitats for future Generations you can't do it with pre-trained models

 

it's impossible to train them on everything that might happen when while they're there

 

they need to be able to figure things out and to experiment on that in that environment so this is the technology that will allow any agent to do such exploration

 

Luna has now learned to stand on its feet

 

Intuicell says the robot dog is able to perceive,process and improve by interacting with the world

 

AI dog trainer could be a pretty cool job and as a pet no cleanup no expensive dog food what say you would you ever get a robotic dog or would you rather stick with the real thing?

 

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