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hi I'm Carl azuz first topic today on

CNN ten concerns chicken eggs and soap

three items available right now at

practically any grocery store in America

but much harder to come by and afford in

a country just 90 miles from US soil

Cuba has a food shortage the Caribbean

nations communist government has put

what it calls regulations which are

rations on meats and cleaning products

the reason there are fewer of them on

the island and the government says it's

trying to make sure what is available is

distributed equally Cuba imports

two-thirds of its food from other

countries and its economy has been

heavily influenced by what happens

abroad for instance Cuba used to be

supported by the former Soviet Union but

that support ended in 1990 when the

communist bloc was getting ready to

collapse that said Cuba into a

depression by the end of the 90s things

were getting better for Cuba's economy

and that was thanks to oil provided by

Venezuela but as that country's economy

has crumbled in recent years those oil

supplies have dried up and so once again

Cuba may be facing a crisis the country

has voiced support for the Venezuelan

government and that's resulted in

economic penalties from the United

States which opposes Venezuela's

government how bad could things get for

Cuba the nation's Communist Party leader

recently indicated that conditions

probably won't be as difficult as they

were in the early and mid 90s but that

his nation had to be ready for the worst

signs of trouble have already reached

Cuban shores and moved inland Juana

leaves her old havana apartment to see

what there is at the bodega

that's what Cubans call these small

neighborhood markets that carry products

subsidized by the government

the options have always been scarce but

these days Juana says there is less and

less for people like her Juana is

retired with a government pension of

about 12 dollars a month and she washes

laundry for her neighbors so she can

afford to eat if you work you don't get

anything she says when you go to a

market there's nothing the people who

buy to resell take everything facing the

worst food shortages in years the Cuban

government is

implementing even stricter rationing on

increasingly hard to find products like

chicken eggs and soap the government

blames the shortages on increased US

sanctions but the slow collapse of

socialist ally Venezuela which sends

Cuba most of the islands supply of oil

is also taking a toll Cuba imports most

of the food its citizens consume and the

government has the monopoly on those

imports Cuban officials have told the

populous to remain calm every day though

there are longer lines at this

government-run supermarket which charges

for mostly imported goods at prices far

beyond what many Cubans can afford to

pay hoarding of products is increasing

as fears grow that a severe economic

crisis is on the horizon so there are

several hundred people who have been

here for hours waiting because the word

has gotten out that there will be

chicken at this market I got a message

on a social media app called domme di

comida where is their food the problem

is though even if you get here you have

to get here early to make sure you're

the right place in line because by the

time you get inside there may be none

left for many Cubans this has become a

daily ritual waiting in line for hours

to buy a single item I've been here for

an hour other people since 5:00 a.m.

Arata miss tells me on Mother's Day I

came at 9:00 a.m. and left at 4 p.m.

it's too many hours the shortages came

quits identity as the government finally

gave Cubans widespread access to mobile

Internet for the first time allowing

frustrated consumers to post their

photos on social media of endless lines

and even the occasional fight breaking

out for people on the bottom like Juana

the answer to the crisis seems to be

more government rationing so that

everyone gets their share well I ain't

got hope I don't like that or that it's

very expensive fruit is so expensive

everything and she says it's because of

the people who resell things there

should be a law making them lower the

prices food shortages that despite near

total government control are now out of

control

patro Gottman CNN Havana

ten-second trivia what is pious song is

it a French desert flowering plant a

type of straw or a tunic this is a type

of straw that's woven to make hats and

that word is apparently one of the

hardest for students to spell at the

Scripps National Spelling Bee the 2019

competitions coming up next week in the

US state of Maryland the group of

linguists from Babel a language learning

tool teamed up with folks from the

merriam-webster dictionary to determine

the hardest words from the past decade

the ones that knocked out spelling bee

contestants in the last round they

included several terms that came from

other languages like French German and

Italian and for many of them their

pronunciations and meanings may be as

elusive as their spellings consider

family a german word that means

excessive enthusiasm another french term

was gay Ardea a type of plant or flower

how about osaka wheat a a pine tree

you'll find in Mexico or chipolina an

Italian word for a type of Roman marble

lasse was on the list

it's a Hindi term for a yogurt drink so

was hot chuck a czech term for the mark

that's over the sea in this word so if

you're an aspiring spelling champion

practice these for a spell up next today

if a meatball is meatless what kind of

ball is it a plant ball the one that

IKEA is developing is the Swedish

company is one of many trying to cash in

on a growing demand for meat

alternatives which are intended to taste

like beef but be healthier not

everyone's on board for some consumers

the taste of plant-based meat

alternatives simply isn't meaty enough

there's also a growing consumer

preference for simple natural foods with

few ingredients meat alternatives can

have more than 15 ingredients the u.s.

food market analyst says that could

cause problems for the industry in the

years ahead

the unmistakable sizzle of meat on the

grill the real meat of the beyond meat

we have our beyond burger over here and

we have our beef burger over here

once you dress them up it's impossible

total difference at this bear burger

restaurant in Manhattan burgers made

from plant protein make up a meaty

portion of sales the response has been

great it's been so great in fact that

our menu is now 50% vegan for the first

time is it takes a little getting used

to investors though had no trouble

taking their first bite

beyond meats beefy IPO soared a hundred

and sixty percent on its first day of

trading on May 2nd the best IPO jump of

a major US company since the financial

crisis analysts believe it's part of a

veggie revolution that is just getting

started if it follows the same path that

the plant-based beverage market followed

you'd see it growing from roughly 13

billion 14 billion dollars today up to

potentially over 40 billion dollars over

the next decade well beyond meats is not

yet profitable its revenues are up more

than a hundred and thirty percent in

each of the past three years and it's

expanding into new product categories

like meatless sausage it's not just

being into vegetarians that are

interested in this in fact 93% of the

people that are putting them beyond

burger in their cart at the nation's

largest grocer are also putting animal

protein in their car it's a tremendous

sign that we're able to grow the

business thank you very much now the

beyond burger it does have some

competition mainly from this one which

is the impossible burger from impossible

foods that's already on the menu at

Burger King which is rolling out the

impossible whopper mcdonald's is also

selling a meatless burger and germany

made by Nestle and Tyson Foods one of

the world's biggest meat producers is

also set to launch a fake meat

if I smell like meat as for my first

bite well it felt like eating a burger

just a little less beefy but I quite

like them they're not exactly like meat

but they are something interesting and I

do think this might be a taste of things

to come

where's Betty in CNN New York confirmed

fire helmets can hold a maximum of ten

ducklings that's a recent tweet from

South Metro Fire Rescue in Littleton

Colorado and here's how they know a

reason call came in saying that

ducklings had gotten stuck in a storm

drain the mother was waddling anxiously

nearby but she had nothing to fear

firemen worked together to retrieve the

wayward babies

carefully carry them to a safe spot and

reunite them with their mother they were

quacked to act their efforts fit the

bill they might have found it draining

but if they canvassed back to the area

they'll find they made a Teel difference

having had a golden eye for saving

animals from a malady and not ducking

out until everything was just ducky all

a Carl azuz and that CNN ten

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