Air Pollution Causes Flight Cancellations in New Delhi; An Outbreak of Legionnaires` Disease Strikes California; A Sanctuary Helps Veterans and Wolves Heal

1. CNN 10 NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Air Pollution Causes Flight Cancellations in New Delhi; An Outbreak of
Legionnaires` Disease Strikes California; A Sanctuary Helps Veterans and Wolves
Heal
Aired November 13, 2017 - 04:00 ET
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CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: This is CNN 10, your objective explanation of news
from around the world, and I`m Carl Azuz. It`s good to have you watching again this
Monday.
In the Southeast Asian country of India, exhausts (caños de escape) from old cars
and motorcycles, pollutions from industries, smoke from cooking and fires from when
farmers burn their crops double, all of this contributes to the toxic air pollution in
the Indian capital of New Delhi. More than 25 million people live there and many of
them are suffering with air conditions that one doctor compared to smoking 50
cigarettes a day.
Now, United Airlines has suspended its flights to the city because of what it called
poor air quality concerns. At least through Monday, no United flights are landing in,
taking off from or connecting in India`s capital. The company is treating conditions
there like it treats severe weather or other events like a volcanic eruption. For those
with flight tickets, United is offering travel waivers (exenciones), to allow
passengers to choose another flight without paying for the change.
New Delhi is under a public health emergency, schools have been closed, tracks from
other areas are not allowed to enter the capital, construction projects have been put
on hold (wait), pollution is not something that`s new for the city. It`s a part of life
there, especially this time of year. But that doesn`t mean that residents can get
used to it, or avoid suffering from it.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
NIKHIL KUMAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is India Gate, one of
Delhi`s most famous landmarks. It`s about 42 meters high and here`s what it looks
like on a summer`s day. So, how do you make it disappear?

2. Well, just make for winter.
(on camera): I`m standing just a few hundred meters from the monument, and as you
can see, nothing. Trust me, it`s right there, behind the thick, dense and dirty haze
(niebla), and it`s been like this pretty much all week, as air quality in Delhi fell to
hazardous levels.
And right across from India Gate is a presidential palace, another famous Delhi
monument. It`s massive, more than 300 rooms. Again, you can barely see anything.
And it`s not just what you can and can`t see. You can actually taste the filth
(dirtiness) that`s hanging in the air. It hits your throat and it makes you feel ill.
(voice-over): Just ask Shir Singh, a traffic cop who`s been on duty all week, working
12-hour days in the population.
It makes our eyes burn and it`s difficult to breathe, he says.
The smog comes every year where the temperature drops, wind speeds fall, and a mix
of dangerous pollutants settles over the city.
Nineteen-year-old Kishur also spends his days on Delhi`s congested roads. He`s a
street hawker (door-to-door seller). For him pollution means watery eyes, but also a
way to make more money.
Me and my friends, we used to sell balloons, he says, but the pollution is so bad that
we switched (changed) to selling masks. Two days, we got a thousand pieces. We
already sold 700.
But it`s not easy. Kishur works at one of the busiest and most polluted traffic
junctions (crossroads/intersecciones) in the city.
By the time I get home, my throat and my eyes hurt. Everything, he says, smells of
smoke.
(on camera): Now, believe it or not, this isn`t the worst it`s been this week. At one
point, the level of pollutants in Delhi`s air was almost 40 times what the World
Health Organization deemed (considered) safe. Now, I`m in a busy market in the
center of town. And I`ve got a portable meter with me that tells me how bad the air
really is.
Blue is good. Purple is hazardous. And look, we`re still hazardous.

3. Nikhil Kumar, CNN, New Delhi.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:
Which of these Disney products is oldest?
Magic Kingdom, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book or Disneyland?
Both the movies and the Magic Kingdom opened after Disneyland did. That was in
1955.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ: The Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, recently shut down two of its
cooling towers (torres de enfriamiento) because of concerns about Legionnaire`s
disease.* (see note)
Cooling towers are used to bring air and water together, to make the water cooler.
Then, it can be used for things like refrigeration. Disneyland has 18 of these towers
and the park says it recently shut down, treated and disinfected two of them because
elevated levels of Legionella, the bacteria that caused Legionnaire`s disease were
found there.
Health officials say, in all, 12 have come down from the disease since visiting
Anaheim.
Since September, nine of them have been to the Disneyland theme park.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SUBTITLE: What is Legionnaires` Disease?
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: We might not
hear about Legionnaires` disease all the time, but actually, it`s not a rare disease.
Every year in the United States, between 8,000 and 18,000 people are hospitalized
with Legionnaires` disease.

4. The bacteria that causes Legionnaires` disease is naturally found in hot tubs (bucket
for water), in decorative fountains, and in cooling towers. Cooling towers are part of
the air conditioning system. So, if the bacteria gets into the towers, that means it
can get into the air conditioning.
Legionnaires` disease is not spread (propagated) person to person. It`s spread
through the air. When people come down with Legionnaires` disease, they start
out just not feeling well. They have a headache, their muscles are achy, and then
after that, that`s followed by a high fever, sometimes as high as 104, 105 degrees.
Most people who get this disease develop pneumonia. Most people recovered when
they get Legionnaires` disease, but between 5 percent and 30 percent died. The
people who are most likely to die from Legionnaires` disease are the elderly and
people who have underlying (subyacentes) medical problems.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: It was a weekend of honoring those who served their countries. Armistice Day
events in France mark the 99th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Remembrance Day in Britain honored veteran sacrifices and conflicts since World
War I. And across the U.S., ceremonies, parades, and even marathons were held as
Americans celebrated Veterans Day.
There are some veterans-related programs where the American public is not allowed.
The Lockwood Animal Rescue Center in California is an example.
It says it`s restricted so that the veterans and the animals it serves are given the
privacy they need to heal (get better).
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MATTHEW SIMMONS, CO-FOUNDER & VETERAN, LOCKWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE
CENTER: There`s something about being part of nature. There`s something about
being around these animals.
Even the most wounded veteran, they feel different, keeps them part of something
greater than themselves.
SUBTITLE: Healing with wolves.
SIMMONS: The idea is that you`ve got to give someone who`s been through a severe

5. trauma an opportunity to heal. And we believe at "Warriors and Wolves" program, in a
back to nature setting, it does that.
We have 40 animals at this facility. We`ve rescued wolves off of chains in Alaska as
part of the roadside attraction (a show at the side of a road). We rescued wolf
dogs from a backyard breeder (criador) in San Diego. I think for all the veterans
that we bring up here, whether they work here or they`re here for the support
group, what rings true (sounds genuine/suena sincero) is if they can heal, I can heal.
JESSE MARTINEZ, VOLUNTEER & VETERAN, LOCKWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE
CENTER: The wolves, they`re mostly injured, or something is wrong with you, and
they have trauma. You know, we have some trauma in life, we can get that connection
and one wolf would be your friend for life.
SIMMONS: What happens is one animal picks up one veteran. Never again does that
animal pick someone else. Never again does that animal want to show the same kind of
affection to someone else.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What a good boy.
JIM MINICK, MANAGER & VETERAN, LOCKWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER:
Conventional therapy isn`t really something for me. It didn`t help, to be honest.
After ten years of military life, it was sort of a tough transition. Had I continued
down my course of being angry, drinking myself to death, it may have been the last
chapter of my life.
SIMMONS: There are things I`ve seen that I can`t unsee (no percibir). There are
things I`ve done that I cannot undo. Just saying that, well, I did in the name of my
country doesn`t help you sleep at night. But what does help you sleep is having a
companion.
MINICK: We kind of (somehow) teach you how to be calm and confident. It`s got
some deeper meaning when they accept you. They accept you into the family, part of
the pack (manada).
(END VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: Our friends at Guinness have some pretty world records when it comes to hula
hooping. The most hula hoops spun at once, the fastest marathon while hula hooping.
Two good examples.

6. Here`s a new one, the record-sized hoop itself measured almost 17 feet in diameter.
And Japan`s Yuya Yamada just twisted his way into the record books. He hula hooped
it up for at least three complete revolutions while keeping the ring between his
shoulders and his hips.
You could tell, it took a hu-lot of strength, skill and balance for him to put his own
spin on the twist and shout. It was like he was starting a revolution. And though no
one can hoop it up quite like him, he runs circles around the competition and that`s
exactly what you`d expect from the lord of the ring.
I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10.
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Legionnaire`s disease.* enfermedad de los legionarios (legionnaires disease) Enfermedad
acompañada de alta mortalidad, causada por un bacilo gramnegativo (Legionella pneumophila),
que no se propaga por contacto personal. Se caracteriza por fiebre alta, dolor gastrointestinal,
cefalalgia y neumonía; puede haber además ataque de riñones, hígado y sistema nervioso. El
agente etiológico fue identificado después de un brote ocurrido en el verano de 1976 en la
convención de la Legión Americana en Filadelfia, Pensilvania.

7. Here`s a new one, the record-sized hoop itself measured almost 17 feet in diameter.
And Japan`s Yuya Yamada just twisted his way into the record books. He hula hooped
it up for at least three complete revolutions while keeping the ring between his
shoulders and his hips.
You could tell, it took a hu-lot of strength, skill and balance for him to put his own
spin on the twist and shout. It was like he was starting a revolution. And though no
one can hoop it up quite like him, he runs circles around the competition and that`s
exactly what you`d expect from the lord of the ring.
I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10.
END
Legionnaire`s disease.* enfermedad de los legionarios (legionnaires disease) Enfermedad
acompañada de alta mortalidad, causada por un bacilo gramnegativo (Legionella pneumophila),
que no se propaga por contacto personal. Se caracteriza por fiebre alta, dolor gastrointestinal,
cefalalgia y neumonía; puede haber además ataque de riñones, hígado y sistema nervioso. El
agente etiológico fue identificado después de un brote ocurrido en el verano de 1976 en la
convención de la Legión Americana en Filadelfia, Pensilvania.