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[00:10.59]Hey. Hope you had a great weekend.
[00:12.95]We've got a lot lined up for you today on CNN STUDENT NEWS,
[00:15.71]starting with the report on Tropical Cyclone Winston.
[00:18.49]It was the most powerful storm ever recorded in the southern hemisphere.
[00:24.45]It made landfall in the Pacific island country of Fiji on Saturday.
[00:26.36]Winston killed at least 10 people when it roared through.
[00:29.67]Trees are down.
[00:30.91]Power is out.
[00:31.90]All of Fiji schools are close this week.
[00:34.31]A state of emergency will be in effect for a month.
[00:37.21]Now, the challenge is prioritizing clean up efforts.
[00:41.84]Officials are most concerned about some of Fiji's smaller villages.
[00:44.79]They didn't have the infrastructure to withstand the storm's 184-mile-per-hour winds.
[00:50.33]Winston was the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane.
[00:54.01]As for the difference between that and a cyclone, it's just geography.
[00:59.59] A tropical cyclone is an area of low pressure that forms in the tropical regions of the world.
[01:05.64]Cyclones are actually very important, even though, of course, they can be deadly.
[01:11.49]They help essentially balance out the temperature across the globe.
[01:17.04]They are an equalizer, so they take the heat energy from the tropics
[01:21.54]and they translate that where we need it into the colder climates.
[01:25.65]The generic term for it is a tropical cyclone.
[01:31.44]That can refer to any cyclone that has a closed center of circulation, anywhere in the world,
[01:37.88] like in the Atlantic, when they get strong enough, to a certain wind speed, we call them hurricanes.
[01:41.74]But if you're in the western Pacific, a hurricane is called a typhoon.
[01:46.00]There's no difference between a hurricane and a typhoon except in the name.
[01:51.54]They're both tropical cyclones.
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[01:53.37]AZUZ: Up next, a struggle of Mumbai.
[01:54.59]It's one of the most populated cities of the world's second most populated country, India.
[02:00.59]It's home to tens of millions and some massive landfills.
[02:04.51]The government says that things are improving around the slums of Deonar.
[02:08.55]The roads are better, parks and schools have been built,
[02:11.84]many people who lived there disagrees, saying the government doesn't listen to the poor.
[02:17.90]Few would deny though that the garbage problem is immense.
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[02:21.22]MALIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Always busy, always bustling.
[02:24.60]Mumbai is a city on the move --
[02:26.77]home to factories, industry, 21 million and a lot of rubbish.
[02:33.76]It generates 10,000 metric tons of waste a day.
[02:37.84]The problem is, there's no real way to get rid of it.
[02:41.30]Much of it ends up here, at the Deonar dumping ground, on the edge of the city.
[02:47.04](on camera): There's so much garbage over here,
[02:51.00]it's miserly bad and to be honest, it's quite hard to breathe.
[02:54.38]And if you look at this hill behind me, this isn't actually a hill.
[02:58.77]It's 90 years of accumulated garbage.
[03:02.98](voice-over): From ground level, it's as high as a 10-story building.
[03:08.24]RISHI AGGRAWAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST: This was wetland swamp.
[03:11.04]There were beautiful mangrove and --
[03:12.98]KAPUR (on camera): This area was once green?
[03:14.55]AGGRAWAL: Absolutely, absolutely, yes.
[03:15.81]KAPUR (voice-over): Now, activists say it's a national embarrassment and a hazard.
[03:21.16]Part of the dump recently fire, a fire so big with so much smoke, it was visible from space.
[03:29.76]We asked the head of the local city council what her plans for the dumping ground are.
[03:34.40]She said they've ramped up a citywide cleanliness campaign
[03:39.09]and started diverting some of the waste to another area, but the ultimate goal?
[03:44.13]To scientifically cover the dump.
[03:46.06]KAPUR: She admits that could take a while.
[03:48.88]As India continues to project itself as a growing super power,
[03:54.01]dumps like this are eyesores that critics say contradict its ambitious message.
[04:00.45]AZUZ: This is a zebra.
[04:03.20]There are hundreds of thousands of them in the world.
[04:05.67]But one particular type called the Grevy's zebra
[04:08.77] has seen a dramatic population drop in recent decades.
[04:12.42]They're hunted by lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas.
[04:15.93]But the main reason they're disappearing may be humans.
[04:19.34]We're going on safari to their stumping ground in Kenya to explore why.
[04:23.57]We're in a very different sort of hunt.
[04:27.53]The animals we are stalking are beautiful but shy and skittish.
[04:31.73]The Grevy's zebra population is less than a fifth of what it was 30 years ago.
[04:36.03]Today, an estimated 2,000 are left in Kenya but no one knows for sure.
[04:41.17]DAN RUBENSTEIN, PRINCETON SCIENTIST: Grevy's, Grevy's.
[04:42.84]KRIEL: Often hunted for their skins,
[04:45.04]the only shots this group will take are the photo kind and for an important cause.
[04:50.29]RUBENSTEIN: I got them.
[04:53.11]Go that way, go that way.]
[04:55.61]KRIEL: The aim for these Grevy's hunters
[04:59.02]is to get a good still photograph of the animal's right flank.
[05:02.93]RUBENSTEIN: We're going to use this picture to do an analysis of the stripe patterns.
[05:08.97]They're naturally barcoded, just like you get in the grocery store and everyone is unique.
[05:13.30]And so, we will be able to, with our hot spot software, identify where the stripes touched each other.
[05:20.03]KRIEL: The software analyzes and compares the zebra's natural barcode.
[05:26.03]It records other data, too, such as where and when the picture was taken.
[05:28.43]All in all, around a hundred thousand pictures.
[05:32.67]RUBENSTEIN: It's going to be amazing.
[05:34.26]It's magic.
[05:35.03]It's historic.
[05:35.71]KRIEL: It will take a couple of weeks for scientists in the U.S.
[05:39.60]to review the data found in the Grevy's count,
[05:41.77] then the hope is that Kenya and the world
[05:44.51]will know how many of these majestic beasts remain,
[05:47.99]and just how worried we should be about their disappearance.
