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The invasive species threatening Lake Erie's shipwrecks October 27, 2025

 

What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of CNN 10, where we tell you the what, letting you decide what to think. I'm Coy Wire. Hope you're having an awesome day.

 

We have some really interesting stories to get to today, and we're going to start with this one.

 

Do you love to fly? And are you looking for a new challenge? Because there's one airline that may just have the ticket for you, offering a new route they're touting as the world's longest direct flight.

 

tout [taʊt] v. 宣传；吹捧

 

They say it's also the first commercial flight to connect to untypical cities or cities on opposite sides of the earth.

 

untypical [ʌnˋtɪpɪk!] adj. 非典型的

 

China Eastern Airlines has this long haul flight that is a marathon. It'll take you from Shanghai, China to Buenos Aires, Argentina in about 25 hours. The return leg is a whopping 29 hours, but there's a catch.

 

leg [lɛg] n. 一段航程；一段旅程

catch [kætʃ] n. 隐藏的问题；暗藏的不利因素

 

Both legs have a two hour stop in New Zealand. So while it's technically direct, it's not nonstop. So which airline does hold the crown for longest nonstop flight? That would be Singapore Airlines.

 

Their direct flight from Singapore to New York City covers 9,537 miles over more than 18 hours. Our Richard Quest actually took that trip back in 2018. This new flight is also opting for an unusual southern flight path, crossing some of the world's most remote waters, even getting close to Antarctica.

 

It's a choice the airline says will help shave at least four hours off of the total journey.

 

shave [ʃev] v.【口】削减[（+off/from）]

 

Have you ever heard of a ghost ship? It's a term for a sunken ship that's expected to never be found. Well, there's this one ghost ship out there that has now been found.

 

A 144 foot boat sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan way back in 1886, and it's just been discovered after decades of searching. The F.J. King met its unfortunate end during a ferocious storm off the coast of Wisconsin. The crew was rescued by a passing schooner, but the ship disappeared.

 

schooner [ˋskunɚ] n.（双桅以上的）纵帆船

 

It's gone. And a joint effort by the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association just announced their big find this week.

 

This calls for a... Did you know? Lake Erie, which touches the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Michigan, has the world's highest density of shipwrecks.

 

The Great Lakes all together are home to anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 shipwrecks, most of which remain undiscovered. The ships that have been discovered so far have largely been found well preserved.

 

Why? Because the Great Lakes are cold freshwater lakes, which helps keep wood and metal from degrading.

 

degrade [dɪˋgred] v.【地】使陵削，剥蚀

 

But efforts to find them have ramped up recently because they are increasingly being destroyed by an invasive species of mussels.

 

mussel [ˋmʌs!] n. 贻贝，淡菜；珠蚌，河蚌

 

Pop quiz, hot shot. What was the first Latin American country to eliminate illiteracy nationwide?

 

illiteracy [ɪˋlɪtərəsɪ] n. 不识字，文盲

 

Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, or Argentina? If you said Cuba, muy bien.

 

muy bien（西班牙語）very well / very good

 

Led by Fidel Castro in 1961, an aggressive campaign to teach all adults and teens to read reduced the illiteracy rate from about 20% to under four in less than a year.

 

Starting all over in a new country.Well, that would take guts, grit, maybe a little caffeine.

 

gut [gʌt] n.【口】勇气，胆量，毅力

grit [grɪt] n. 胆量

 

CNN's Boris Sanchez knows that firsthand. He's a Cuban American immigrant who understands the challenges of finding your path in a brand new place.

 

So he headed to New Jersey to visit a Cuban cafe that's doing way more than serving strong coffee and pastelitos.

 

pastelito 西班牙语中的「小糕点」

 

It's helping Cuban Americans build their futures one cup at a time. Here's Boris with a story and probably some cafecito.

 

cafecito 古巴式浓缩咖啡（CaféCubano）的别称

 

I'm very proud of Cortaitos, a five store, going to be six soon, Cuban coffee shop chain.

 

We're building careers and pathways to resettling and growing in this country and to support specifically Cuban American students.

 

I am a Cuban American immigrant and my family came to the United States the day that I turned three. I feel very connected to Adam in part because of our shared background and the idea that our families fled our homeland in order to create a new life.

 

Coming to Cortaitos feels like a slice of home. It feels like I'm back in Miami sharing cafecito and talking about the events of the day. You hire a lot of Cuban migrants.

 

We are very purposeful about it. So we work with refugee resettlement agencies and we go specifically to their job fairs and we recruit. And so I always tell them I want you to have a career with us or a career without us and we're going to help you get there.

 

purposeful [ˋpɝpəsfəl] adj. 有目的的

 

As a young girl I always wanted to leave Cuba. I came to achieve a dream to be a professional.

 

My first goal is to learn English and improve myself a little more because I really would like to know a little more about business.

 

It can be extremely intimidating as a new arrival in the United States to try to carve a path for yourself and your family especially if you don't speak English.

 

What Adam is doing at Cortaitos is giving an express lane to these folks to assimilate and to pursue their dreams.

 

assimilate [əˋsɪm!͵et] v. 使（民族、語音）同化

 

When I say welcome you say CAALE.

 

Welcome. I founded CAALE in 2013 the Cuban-American alliance for leadership and education. Our mission is to build leadership capacity in the next generation of Cuban-American leaders.

 

We give out three ten thousand dollar scholarships a year and the goal of the program is to build a professional one that is successful in their career, has a spirit of service and they know and care about their cultural identity which is Cuba.

 

My grandfather always marveled at how big and how great this country was and he always knew the opportunity was there.

 

marvel [ˋmɑrv!] v. 感到惊讶；感到好奇[（+at）]

 

If he would have saw you know of course not just what I've accomplished because I don't think owning a coffee shop is so special but I know he would be very very proud of how I did it.

 

He would be proud because I did it helping people.

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.A group of young athletes from Afghanistan celebrating victory before they even take the pitch.

 

pitch [pitʃ] n. 运动场地;（尤指）足球场

 

FIFA is backing their bid to compete as the first Afghan refugee women's football team. Our Amanda Davis has this inspirational story.

 

Obviously just an amazing moment for all of us. I can't wait to share with my family.

 

They're probably gonna see me from TV but the thing is it's how sad it is that I don't have them by my side to celebrate them like other my teammates who are gonna share with their family.

 

In 2021 Elaha was 17 and had earned her first call-up for the Afghan women's national team as a goalkeeper.

 

call-up [ˈkɔlʌp] n.（尤指國家隊的）徵調邀請; 征召某人服兵役; 选派某人

 

She never got to play. For her and her teammates their role as footballers and what that meant in the eyes of the Taliban meant they were forced to flee their homes and country. Elaha's father was ill so her parents were unable to travel.

 

footballer [ˋfʊt͵bɔlɚ] n. 足球运动员；橄榄球运动员

 

She and her brother had to leave without them.

 

I feel very honoured being your passenger after you just passed your test. Thanks.

 

honored [ˋɑnɚ] adj. 荣幸的

 

Am I safe? You are. I feel like you guys should trust with me.

 

For everything they've lost there are so many ways this group live in defiance of the rules the Taliban have imposed on women in Afghanistan.

 

Learning to drive, gaining an education, securing jobs and playing football.

 

The only thing they've not been able to do is go from playing their football here in Doncaster to representing their country wearing the shirt of Afghanistan on the international stage.

 

FIFA has said that Afghanistan's women national team title should come from the Afghanistan's football federation which we do not accept and it is running by Taliban now and we do not recognize Taliban.

 

We want the FIFA to recognize us as an international woman Afghan and we are tired of calling get called refugee. We've been called refugee for four years now.

 

Because the Taliban believe women playing sport is against Sharia law and have refused to acknowledge the women's team their ability to play internationally has depended on the intervention of world football's governing body FIFA.

 

Sharia [ʃəˋriə] n. 伊斯兰教教法；回教教法

 

It has taken until now for them to create the Afghan women's refugee team set to take part in a four-team tournament in Dubai in October.

 

None of this would have been possible without Khalida Popal, the first ever captain of the original Afghan women's side founded in 2007.

 

We have been screaming out loud we have been knocking every closed door to listen to get FIFA's attention to listen to our voices and we have really faced silence for four years these girls lost their time.

 

FIFA did not respond to our questions about the desire of some of the players to be referred to as the national team.

 

refer [rɪˋfɝ] v. 把……归类（于），把……归属（于）[（+to）]

 

It did however stress in a statement that it's financing facilities and personnel in what it called a significant and landmark step forward in giving Afghan players the international platform and recognition to which they aspire.

 

That is awesome stuff. All right also awesome you. Shout out time this first one goes to Miss Lipscomb at Holbrook Middle School in Lowell, North Carolina. Zaley one of the students there you've been showing the show so much love so we need to return the favor.

 

So go Lions rise up and this shout out goes to Miss P at the St. Anne's School in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada. Oh you're getting me ready for the cold weather. Excellent swag, thank you very much.

 

Remember kindness is free so sprinkle that stuff all over like glitter. Have an awesome day everyone.

 

glitter [ˋglɪtɚ] n.（装饰用）小发光物

 

I'm Coy Wire and we are CNN 10.