07/10/2016 Newsround


07/10/2016

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Good morning.

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I'm Ricky with Newsround this Friday.

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Coming up this hour...

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Hurricane Matthew moves closer to Florida

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after causing devastation in Haiti.

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Exploring the bottom of the oceans.

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And...

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First up...

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Hurricane Matthew has been upgraded to an even more

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powerful Category 4 storm.

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The storm has now passed the Caribbean islands of The Bahamas.

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And it's due to hit the Florida in the United States today.

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Around two million people who live near the coast in Florida have been

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told to move away from the sea to keep them safe.

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One of the first countries to be hit by hurricane Matthew was Haiti.

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And, so far, over 300 people are known to have died,

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with many thousands more unable to return to their homes,

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after the storm wrecked homes and caused massive flooding.

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Charities and aid workers in the region are working hard

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to provide essentials like food, shelter and clean water for people.

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We have seen a lot of houses being damaged and destroyed.

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Right now, our biggest concern is some of the overcrowded shelters,

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where tens of thousands of people are residing

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in less than 300 shelters.

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At this moment, our biggest concern is the sanitation,

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water and hygiene conditions of the people living there.

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We are trying to provide emergency supplies, so that the families

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and children there can have access to clean water.

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And to supplies that will help them, like blankets, bed sheets,

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jerry cans and hygiene kits.

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Moving forward, we are concerned about the situation for children,

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because the hurricane has brought a lot of devastation.

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We are seeing schools being damaged, roads are blocked.

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A lot of debris on the roads.

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There is concerned that cholera,

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or other water-borne or mosquito-borne diseases,

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might break out.

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In football...

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Both Wales and Ireland were in action last night,

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as they aim to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

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It was a pretty tough match for Wales, who faced Austria in Vienna.

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It was a pretty tough match for Wales, who faced Austria in Vienna.

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Final score there was 2-2.

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Meanwhile, the Republic of Ireland beat Georgia 1-0 in Dublin.

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Captain Seamus Coleman scored

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his first international goal for his country.

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Now, to something that really surprised me this morning.

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Did you know that we're actually more familiar with the surface

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of Venus than the deepest parts of our oceans?

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Well, there's one group in Australia trying to change that.

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The deep blue sea.

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Vast, dark and full of life.

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Some more alien than others.

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While there aren't actually any any aliens down there,

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some of the creatures are a bit, well, odd.

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Although the ocean covers around 70% of our planet,

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95% of the ocean floor is still unexplored.

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We've got a better idea of what's out there in outer space!

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This is something the Ocean Exploration Trust wants to change.

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The organisation was set up in 2008 to map unexplored

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territory underwater, discovering new species and

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unravelling the secrets of the deep.

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Aside from being home to more than half of all life on Earth,

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it's estimated around three million shipwrecks are down there.

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Just think of all that buried treasure...

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So, what else do we know?

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Well, the ocean is actually split up into three zones.

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The first is the Sunlight Zone.

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That's where a lot of the most well-known fish live.

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And it's about as far down as most humans can go.

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At 200 metres, you reach the Twilight Zone,

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where light starts to disappear.

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At more than 1,000 metres down, sunlight disappears completely.

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This is the Midnight Zone.

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It's a cold, dark place that we still don't know much about.

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But it's still not even close to the bottom

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in most places on Earth.

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The lowest point is 11,000 metres down.

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That's about the same depth as stacking 36 Eiffel Towers

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on top of each other.

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That place is called Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

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To get a glimpse of this weird undersea world,

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the Ocean Exploration Trust has to use special deep sea vessels,

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strong enough to deal with the HUGE pressure

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that comes from having so much water on top of you.

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And, with these special subs, the team has discovered

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some amazing things.

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Everything from shipwrecks to weird and wonderful sea life.

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The organisation hopes their work

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will inspire a new generation of researchers.

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Maybe someone just like you to help unravel some of

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the mysteries still hiding right here on Planet Earth.

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That's all from me.

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I'll be back in half an hour.

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