NATO members are divided over military spending commitments. President Trump criticized other countries for not meeting the 2% of GDP guideline. Forecasters predict an above average Atlantic hurricane season between June 1st and November 30th. Electric vehicle sales are rising while autonomous vehicles and car sharing could change transportation in the future.

1. May 26, 2017
A complicated agreement within NATO is unraveled today, as we examine the
contributions of member nations. A hurricane prediction is made, though forecasting
these major storms is not an exact science. And we examine what the future of
driving could look like if EVs hog more of the road.
Please note that we will be off the air for the Memorial Day holiday and will return on
Tuesday, May 30.
TRANSCRIPT
CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Fridays are awesome. This is CNN 10, world news
explained.
Our first stop today is in Brussels. It's the capital of Belgium. It's also where you'd
find the headquarters of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's an
alliance of 28 countries, mostly from Europe, plus Canada and the U.S. It was formed
in 1949 as a way to counterbalance the military might of the Soviet Union.
The alliance is based on collective defense, an attack on one NATO member is
considered an attack on all of them, and that was invoked once in 2001 after the
September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S. Troops from other NATO members
served in the resulting war in Afghanistan.
But there's a sore spot between the U.S. and NATO. Alliance members agree to
spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on their militaries. It's a guideline
they're not penalized if they don't.
But America has consistently met that target while most other NATO countries
haven't. President Donald Trump brought this up yesterday on his visit to Brussels.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Twenty-three of the 28
member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are
supposed to be paying for their defense.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ: NATO's website says the organization as a whole does over-rely on the U.S.
for providing some of NATO's essential military capabilities and President Trump's
comments likely troubled some NATO leaders partly because he's questioned
NATO's effectiveness in the past, and partly because he didn't promise yesterday
that the U.S. would stick to its NATO commitments.

2. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SUBTITLE: Explaining the controversy around NATO funding.
NICOLE GAOUETTE, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER: It's been a problem
for decades, I would say 20, 30 years.
ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Many U.S. presidents
have talked about NATO members meeting to take on more of the burden.
JOHN KIRBY, CNN DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY ANALYST: President Trump
wouldn't be the first president that has tried to do this. President Obama made the
case, as did President Bush before him.
GAOUETTE: There was a breakthrough in 2014 at a summit in Wales. But there are
other factors. In 2014, we saw the rise of ISIS and we also saw Russia and Vladimir
Putin moving into Ukraine and annexing Crimea. And those things really, really scared
people in Europe. It was a huge incentive to spend more so that they can defend
themselves.
KIRBY: It's a struggle because many European countries are having their own
domestic economic woes that are limiting their ability to spend on defense.
LABOTT: President Trump has really made this a cornerstone of his campaign
certainly and now of his foreign policy, and has even threatening to withdraw from
the alliance if the U.S. -- if other countries don't pay more.
GAOUETTE: I think he has put the fear to some countries, with a lot of his rhetoric
during the campaign. He was very equivocal about whether the U.S. needs NATO. And
I think that unsettled people.
KIRBY: His bellicose nature has certainly reignited the flame, but that flame was
already burning.
LABOTT: NATO members are willing to pay more and they are coming up with plans to
lay out an outline for how they're going to pay more. The U.S. wants them to commit
to a 10-year plan. A lot of countries aren't ready to do that.
KIRBY: It's going to be a constant balancing act for them and quite frankly for the
Trump administration going forward.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

3. Which of these events occurs on June 1st?
Summer solstice, Vernal equinox, hurricane season begin, or wildfire season begins?
June 1st is the official beginning and November 30th is the official end of the
Atlantic hurricane season.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ: These storms can form at anytime. That window is just when they're most
likely. And this year, NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is
predicting an above normal Atlantic hurricane season, with between 11 and 17 named
stores, five to nine hurricanes, and two to four major hurricanes.
Why? NOAA expects sea surface temperatures to be average or above average, and
it doesn't expect a lot of vertical wind shear which can weaken hurricanes.
Forecasting these storms is not an exact science. Experts at Colorado State
University predicted a season with slightly below average activity.
The U.S. hasn't had a major hurricane make landfall since 2005. That's a record
amount of time.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JENNIFER GRAY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Tropical systems come in all shapes and
sizes. You have tropical depressions, tropical storms.
And once it is strong enough to become a hurricane, you have five categories, with
category five being the strongest.
SUBTITLE: Hurricanes: What you should know.
GRAY: The states most frequently hit by a hurricane, Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
But as much as we know about hurricanes, forecasting them is still a challenge. Just
as we name each storm, each storm has its own personality, like Katrina in 2005,
which intensified rapidly overnight, going from a category three to a category five. It
became the fourth most intense hurricane on record as of that time.
And the forecast track can change dramatically, like Erica in 2015, or a system that
can be viewed as relatively weak, like a tropical storm could end up like Tropical
Storm Allison in 2001. The remnants of the storm stalled over Southeast Texas,
dumping 35 inches of rain over Houston in just five days. The storm became the first
non-hurricane to have its name retired.
(END VIDEOTAPE)

4. AZUZ: According to EVs.com (ph), which covers news about electric vehicles and
tracks their sales, there was a deep in the average number of electric cars sold in the
U.S. between March and April. Still, for the first four months of this year, EV sales
have been higher across the board than they were last year. Is that a sign of things
to come?
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PETER VALDES-DAPENA, CNNMONEY SENIOR AUTOMOTIVE REPORTER: For the
past 100 years or more, Americans have mostly bought cars, filled them with gasoline,
and driven them places.
Get ready for all that to change.
SUBTITLE: The future of driving.
REPORTER: First, electric cars are coming on strong. Batteries are now better and
cheaper to make. The Chevrolet Volt and soon the Tesla model 3 both get more than
200 miles of range for under $40,000. They promised to make practical electric cars
accessible to the masses.
At the same time, advances in computers, software and sensors are bringing the
dream of self-driving cars to reality. Already, many luxury models can largely drive
themselves on highways and in stop and go traffic.
That's easy stuff, though. The real challenge is driving on city streets and in suburbs
where are there complex intersections and pedestrians. Companies from both inside
and outside the auto industry are working on those problems. Several automakers
have promised to put self-driving cars on the road in just a few years. They'll
probably show up in fleets at first, think self-driving taxis with a driver at the wheel.
Once cars can drive themselves, car sharing becomes much more attractive. After all,
if your car doesn't need you to drive it, why just let it sit in a parking space all day?
For that matter, why buy a car at all when you can cheaply ride in one that's just
driving around on its own anyway.
With all this going on, it's no wonder automakers and auto industry investors are
nervous about which companies will come out on top when the future finally arrives,
and it's arriving fast.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: OK. Electric cars are one thing, but what about an electric police officer?
This is a real life Robocop. It's on duty in Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates.

5. It has a touch screen that allows people to pay traffic tickets or report crimes. It
also has facial recognition software to potentially spot criminals.
There are concerns about the ethnics and safety of robotic police. But this one is
also programmed to give compliments to people passing by, which some might get used
to and consider automatic.
An electric officer could come as a shock to a criminal. Getting caught would be an
arresting development. Would the robot be impersonating an officer? Could knocking
one over be an assault on battery? No matter what happens, something is getting
charged.
I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10. That's all for today. We'll be off the air next Monday for
Memorial Day, when America remembers fallen servicemen and women. We hope to
see you back here on Tuesday.

6. It has a touch screen that allows people to pay traffic tickets or report crimes. It
also has facial recognition software to potentially spot criminals.
There are concerns about the ethnics and safety of robotic police. But this one is
also programmed to give compliments to people passing by, which some might get used
to and consider automatic.
An electric officer could come as a shock to a criminal. Getting caught would be an
arresting development. Would the robot be impersonating an officer? Could knocking
one over be an assault on battery? No matter what happens, something is getting
charged.
I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10. That's all for today. We'll be off the air next Monday for
Memorial Day, when America remembers fallen servicemen and women. We hope to
see you back here on Tuesday.