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We've got a report on the leaf today on CNN.

Thank you to everyone watching across the globe.

Can Mighty ducks help gobble up a problem with Locusts?

That is a question being asked in southern Asia.

Like the region of East Africa, the nation of Pakistan is trying to keep swarms of Locusts from eating the country's crops.

But while the insect invasion in Africa has been blamed on weather, experts say the one in Pakistan is a side effect of a civil war in the Middle Eastern country of Yemen.

Because of that, war officials haven't been able to do enough pest control to keep Yemen's locust population from growing.

So the insects apparently multiplied and made their way north east, eventually descending on Pakistan locus don't directly attack people.

They threaten us by eating our crops, and so many of these insects in such large numbers can destroy regional food supplies.

That's why Pakistan declared a state of emergency early this month, saying it was dealing with the highest number of Locusts in more than 20 years.

Some experts say pesticides are needed to kill masses of these insects.

But there's another idea being considered in China.

It may send ducks to Pakistan as many as 100,000 of them to fight the Locusts by eating them.

An expert interviewed by the Bloomberg Media Company says one duck can eat more than 200 locust per day, and China has reportedly used ducks to successfully gobble up locus problem in the past.

A member of China's delegation to Pakistan says there's not enough water in Pakistan's hot, dry climate to keep the ducks going.

Whatever methods were used to control Locusts in Asia, the situation in Africa is getting more desperate by the day.

For three months now, swarms of desert locus have been eating their way through East Africa.

He and Kenya's like keep your county people bang utensils to try and ward off an increasing menace to their livelihoods, all to no avail.

A voracious appetite means these Locusts eat the equivalent of their own body weight in a single day, and they move with speed on the changing winds as far as, ah, 150 kilometers almost our 100 miles a day.

Beans, maize posture for animals Nothing stands a chance, raising fears over food security as the farmlands are decimated and they keep breeding, laying their eggs in the earth in pastoral and agricultural lands.

Across this Africa locust, swarms of biblical proportions have been threatening life and grating land and eating all the peoples crops.

Here you can see these hoppers are the new generation that will pose a bigger threat to agriculture.

In Kenya, the war against the focus is now in full swing.

N says they can multiply as much as 500 times by June.

N agencies are fighting back with pesticides in its yola, northeastern Kenya.

Villages tell us they're seeing billions of newly hatched locust.

After years of drought, two cyclones hit East Africa in as many years.

But the heavy rains made the wet earth ideal breeding ground for Locusts.

Despite the challenges, they've killed as many as 17 swarms in a day, a medium size warm being 30 to 40 million in six.

But for those on the front line of the locust invasion.

Like 47 year old herder Chris America, the future is full of doubt.

They were just covering the whole sky that there was a kind of a clone.

Having lost all his 25 cars in the devastating drought last year, he is worried about what these Locusts and pesticides will do.

S stock market has been taking a beating over the past week.

Yesterday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed 1191 points lower than it opened.

The Dow is an index of 30 significant stocks like Apple, Coke and Home Depot and Thursdays.

Point drop was its worst single day fall in history.

Another index named the S and P 500 also dropped.

So did the NASDAQ composite, each of them falling by more than 4%.

All three of these stock indexes air now on track for their worst weekly percentage drops since October of 2008.

But at that time the great recession was going on.

It was an economic downturn that affected markets around the world.

This time around, markets are struggling with the fallout from the spread of the new Corona virus.

Investors are worried about the effects this disease could have on the global economy.

Right now, American stocks are said to be in correction territory.

Here's what that means fixing an error or inaccuracy.

That's how the dictionary defines a correction on Wall Street.

A stock market correction is a technical term that signifies a 10% decline from a recent high.

Now a correction might sound scary, but in fact it's a normal, healthy part of the cycle.

The S and P 500 had four corrections from 2010 through 2017 and five from 1992 2000.

That's because markets aren't supposed to go straight up.

Like a market reset, it can keep stocks from overheating and allow investors to re evaluate their portfolios.

What you definitely shouldn't do is panic.

Ah, correction doesn't mean you should sell all of your stocks.

On the contrary, it could be an opportunity to buy.

Remember, history shows stocks often go up after a correction.

Second, which of these historic calendars was created the most recently Julian calendar, Byzantine calendar, Hebrew Calendar or Gregorian calendar.

Gregorian Calendar, which is widely used today, was proclaimed in 15 82 and it includes a date that only comes along every four years.

February ends on the 28th in non leap years.

It's the Earth's fault on the Gregorian calendar.

At least it doesn't complete its orbit in exactly a year.

It goes around the sun once in 365 and almost 1/4 day almost, but not quite so.

In order to rectify this, we have to periodically add an extra day to the calendar that happens every four years.

And it coincides with presidential election years in the United States.

Besides that, though, does it matter that 2020 will have 366 days?

Well, those who were born in the leap here on February 29th will actually get to celebrate their birthdays on the 29th instead of on February 28th or March 1st and There is some interesting history associated with leap years.

According to Irish tradition, Years with 366 days were years when women could propose to men when it was the other way around in non leap years.

Beyond that, though, well, you only get to say Happy February 29th every four years.

So go crazy with that, y'all sleep pods Sounds like airpods that make you drowsy, but their prototype sleeping quarters that could one day appear on Air New Zealand flights.

What's unique about these is that they be for economy passengers, so you wouldn't need to fly first class to stretch out.

They're kind of like a modern day version of the Pullman sleeping cars on old trains.

Each pod would have a blanket, pillow, earplugs and privacy curtains.

Pricing hasn't been announced, but this could make the 16 to 18 hour flight between Auckland and New York City more like a slumber party.

If you're looking him not off after takeoff and give jetlagged the old shake off and instead of time to think, you just need your 40 winks.

Air New Zealand knows the deal in what tired travelers air feeling, helping sleepy eyes economize.

They see you don't need to compromise on lying down while flying up and touching down when waking up.

Refreshment is a given wincing win circadian rhythm.

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