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CARL AZUZ: One chamber of the US Congress
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has voted to overturn a presidential emergency
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declaration.
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I'm Carl Azuz with your down-the-middle explanation
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of what that means.
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When he was on the campaign trail in 2016,
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future US president Donald Trump promised
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to build a wall along America's southern border with Mexico.
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He recently asked Congress for $5.7 billion to pay for it.
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Congress did not approve that.
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It set aside a little less than $1.4 billion
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for border security.
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So earlier this month, the president
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declared a national emergency.
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That would allow him to access the money to build a wall
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or barrier without the approval of Congress,
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even though Congress has the constitutional control over how
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the government spends public money.
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Presidents have been allowed to declare
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national emergencies under a law that was passed in 1976.
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And they've done that dozens of times.
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But under that law, Congress also
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has the authority to stop the emergency declaration.
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And while it hasn't done that before, one chamber of it,
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the House of Representatives, voted
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yesterday to overturn President Trump's emergency declaration.
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So what happens next?
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Well, it's now up to the Senate to vote in the weeks ahead.
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And we don't know how that'll turn out.
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The house is controlled by Democrats who
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mostly disapprove of the wall.
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In the Senate, Republicans, who mostly support the wall,
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have a small majority.
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But some may still vote against the Republican president's
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Emergency declaration because they're concerned
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that a future Democratic president
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can use the same power to do something they don't want.
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Even if the Senate joins the house in overturning
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the emergency declaration, President Trump
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would veto that, and it would probably stand.
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But there are other challenges.
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16 states have filed a lawsuit to block the declaration
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from going through.
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President Trump said he expected that and that the Supreme
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Court would ultimately side with his administration.
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How and when all this plays out is in the hands
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of Congress and the courts.
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Another priority for President Trump
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is getting the communist nation of North Korea
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to completely give up its nuclear program.
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He's in the Southeast Asian country of Vietnam
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right now for a second historic summit
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with North Korea's leader.
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Kim Jong-un is hoping that the US
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will end its sanctions, its economic penalties,
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on his country.
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The question of which nation should make the first move
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has been a sticking point since the two leaders first summit
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last summer.
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Ahead of their second meeting, the White House
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said just the fact that these rival leaders were getting
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together was a victory and that a third summit down the road
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might be necessary for them to reach a final agreement.
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But several international analysts
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are saying that this summit is when action needs to be taken.
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WILL RIPLEY: US President Donald Trump
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and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
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are meeting for a second time.
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First, it was Singapore-- now, Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Whatever you want to call it, Trump-Kim,
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Round Two, Trump-Kim, The Sequel, Trump-Kim 2.0,
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it's surreal.
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These guys went from trading threats--
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DONALD TRUMP: They will be met with fire and fury.
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WILL RIPLEY: --to exchanging letters.
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DONALD TRUMP: And then we fell in love, OK?
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No, really.
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He wrote me beautiful letters.
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WILL RIPLEY: But let's be real.
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Analysts say it'll take much more
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than letters for the Hanoi summit
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to deliver what Singapore did not--
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actual progress on denuclearization.
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The first summit was heavy on symbolism, light on specifics.
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Trump and Kim signed a vaguely worded agreement.
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It allowed them to walk away with very different ideas
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of what should happen next.
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Now, you can argue both sides have
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taken steps to reduce tensions.
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Before the summit, Kim suspended missile
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launches and nuclear tests.
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The North Koreans even took us to their nuclear test sites
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so we could watch them blow parts of it up.
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After the summit, North Korea handed over a few dozen
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sets of Korean War remains.
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Trump suspended joint military exercises with South Korea.
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He sent his top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, to Pyongyang
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four times.
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MIKE POMPEO: We had productive, good-faith negotiations.
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WILL RIPLEY: But talks fell apart.
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The US wanted North Korea to be transparent about its nuclear
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program and to start taking irreversible steps
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to get rid of nuclear weapons.
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DONALD TRUMP: Complete denuclearization.
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WILL RIPLEY: Did that happen?
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No.
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North Korea wanted the US to ease up
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on sanctions pressure, work on building trust,
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normalizing relations.
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Did that happen?
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No.
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That's what makes the second summit in Hanoi so important.
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Analysts say both sides need to come
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to the table with realistic expectations, a willingness
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to compromise, and they need to walk away with a specific plan.
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Singapore delivered plenty of made-for-TV moments.
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Hanoi needs to deliver results.
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CARL AZUZ: 10-second trivia, which
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of these airports sees more passengers than any other--
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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Beijing Capital, London
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Heathrow, or Chicago O'Hare?
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With more than 100 million passengers annually,
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Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International is considered
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the world's busiest airport.
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And it's near that airport that a major US airline
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has just opened a massive facility
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where jet engines are tested.
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Let's say a plane with two engines is in the air,
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and one of them gives out.
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The plane can still stay aloft.
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But the thrust in the working engine
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needs to be increased quickly to produce an extraordinary amount
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of power.
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And facilities like this one are built
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to make sure the engines, with their tens of thousands
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of parts, can handle that pressure
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long before they're mounted on a plane and put in the air.
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The future of testing some of the most powerful jet engines
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in the world is right here at Delta's
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brand-new facility in Atlanta.
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MIKE MOORE: This is exciting because this is the largest
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test cell in the world.
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And we're going to be able to run engines 30, 40,
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50 years into the future because of the way
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we've built this facility.
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CARL AZUZ: The engines that keep travelers
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up in the air during tens of thousands of flights a day
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have to be checked regularly to make sure they're safe to fly.
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That's what this place is for.
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DON MITACEK: Well, airline engines
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are getting bigger and bigger because we're
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building bigger and bigger, more efficient wide-body aircraft.
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MIKE MOORE: This test cell can handle
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up to 150,000 pounds of thrust.
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And when you think of thrust, just think
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of as you stand on a scale.
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Instead of standing on the scale,
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you would hold the scale horizontally
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and push it in space.
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That's thrust.
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CARL AZUZ: Everything in here is gigantic,
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designed to keep the engines' massive power inside the cell
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and away from bystanders.
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The walls are made of concrete 3-feet thick,
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and the doors weigh more than 300,000 pounds.
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A huge lift is built into the floor
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so workers can reach the engines, which
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can weigh more than 8 tons.
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MIKE MOORE: A typical engine when
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it goes through the rebuild process is in a shop
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anywhere from 60 to 90 days.
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The engines are completely disassembled.
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All the piece parts are inspected.
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Everything's reassembled, and then it has to come
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to this facility to be tested.
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The testing allows us to make sure that oil, temperatures,
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oil pressures, rotor speeds, exhaust gas temperatures,
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thrust, everything meets the parameters that we know
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that when we put it out on the aircraft
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that it's going to last as long as it's supposed to.
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DON MITACEK: We expect this facility
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to support not only Delta Airlines but 150
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other customers we have.
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And that should equate to about 1,000,
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1,200 engines in the next three to five years.
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The real story about this facility
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is not that it's the largest test cell in the world,
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but it's what it represents.
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It's a legacy our senior technicians
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are going to leave behind.
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CARL AZUZ: It's all aimed at making Delta more
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competitive as more and more airliners and passengers
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take to the skies.
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Winning 10 out of 10 today, what could be the world's
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most extreme model plane.
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A Chinese farmer always dreamed of owning a passenger jet,
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but they're expensive.
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So he built his own.
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This is a model of an Airbus A320.
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It is life-sized.
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It reportedly took more than 60 tons of steel to build,
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and its materials cost the farmer almost $400,000.
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Along with a team of a few other farmers turned mechanics,
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they put this together in a little over two years.
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(RAPPING) It's a dream of a model and a model of a dream.
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Maybe it'll never catch an in-flight airstream.
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But it's taken off in interest if not taken off the ground.
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It's a soaring success even though it's earthbound.
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It's a one-to-one scale reproduction fantasy.
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Was it worth it?
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Well, that's plain to see.
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I'm Carl Azuz.
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"CNN 10" is back tomorrow.
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