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While parts of the United States were shivering under record cold temperatures last week, Australia, both of its territories and all six of its states were sweltering under a record heat wave.

And in the northeastern state of Queensland, days of intense rainfall have caused the kind of flooding that officials say happens only once every 100 years.

Townsville is a city on Australia's north east coast.

More than 190,000 people live here.

It's City Council says it gets more than 300 days of sunshine every year, But the massive downpours that have hit Townsville recently had put a major strain on a nearby dam.

On Sunday night, the Ross River Dam was at about 250% of its capacity, and its floodgates had to be open to prevent the structure from collapsing.

Australian officials warned people in Townsville that historic flooding would happen as a result, and some residents who had reportedly thought they'd be okay have had declined to their roofs for safety.

And it's not just the flood waters that are dangerous.

Nine news reports that there've been several sightings of crocodiles and snakes that have been carried along in the floods.

And while you're about to get a sense of the ongoing rescue effort, relief from the rain is nowhere in sight.

A CNN meteorologists predicted that Townsville would receive another four inches on Monday and 2 to 3 inches on Tuesday.

Entire neighborhoods are underwater, and thousands of homes were in danger of flooding and strong winds that are in the forecast.

Thousands of residents of town has been a long day and plenty more to come.

I'm standing here at the Ross River this right now It, Ross Lee, is where the water is coming from the river which has made its way down the damn at a rapid pace, heading right across.

You can see when we have a look at the water, how fast it is still moving and making its way right into the suburb of Rossley, which locals are considering to be ground zero in what has been this flight emergency.

On the other side of where I'm standing is a suburb of Annandale, where a number of properties as you see a completely inundated on the ground floor.

We've seen helicopters that are constantly checking for people who are there trying to pluck them to safety.

We also know the swift water rescue teams have been out and about so far, at least a dozen rescues, probably even more overnight as well.

So a huge effort right across Townsville.

This all started last night.

Of course, the rain has been building up for days, but the Ross River Dam, about 10 kilometers as the crow flies from where I'm standing at the moment, it opened automatically the damn gate open because it reached about 43 meters.

At that stage, it's built into the dam that it needed to open up to let out some of that water to maintain the integrity off.

The damn is that happened?

The velocity of the water 2000 cubic meters per second was released.

It's headed straight down the river, trying to find its way to the ocean, cutting a straight line through suburbs like this one in Rossley, now the queen's own premiere, defending the actions of all emergency service's and saying it's a tough time for those people living in towns U.

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President's annual State of the Union address this Tuesday night.

It had originally been scheduled for last Tuesday, but it was postponed because of the U.

S government's partial shutdown.

When that ended late last month, the address was rescheduled.

One issue that President Donald Trump is expected to address is the major reason for the shutdown security at America's southern border with Mexico.

The Pentagon announced this week that an additional 3700 and 50 American troops would be deployed to the border, their mission to give extra support to U.

S Customs and Border Protection agents.

This could include assignments like installing wire fencing and watching for illegal crossings.

The deployment would bring the total number of U.

S military forces there to 4300 and 50 and the new mission is scheduled to last for three months.

President Trump says this is necessary to stop large caravans of people who are headed to the border with the goal of entering the U.

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Illegally.

But US Representative Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington and the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, questioned what the additional troops would be doing at the border and suggested the increase could be unjustified.

On Wednesday's show, we plan to bring you some highlights of the Republican president's speech and the Democratic Party's response.

You'll find it right here at CNN Tenn dot com.

You trivia American inventor Philo Farnsworth is best known for his development of what telegraph, telephone, television or telescope.

In the late 19 twenties, Farnsworth demonstrated his invention of the Elektronik television system.

A famous story about Vilo Farnsworth is that he grew up in a house that didn't have electricity until he was a teenager.

So going from that to presenting the first Elektronik TV within a few years, well, it shows how Farnsworth had chosen the right field.

Of course, the TV itself has changed a lot over the decades, but it's still a fixture in roughly 95% of American homes, and a growing number of the ones that don't have TVs are still watching programs on other kinds of screens.

Will the screen itself eventually become obsolete?

So we're surrounded by screens there, how we entertain ourselves, But how will watch them?

The form factor is changing, too.

The size, the shape and even the idea of needing a screen at all is evolving.

I think one of the big changes we're just going to see over the next decade is that we're gonna start toe, have intelligent conversations with inanimate objects, is going to be on the gaming console.

Is it gonna be in?

Everything is gonna be in everything.

Kicker, A French startup Thanks.

Your future entertainment system will look like this.

It's a projector, sound system and security system rolled into one.

So kicker is kind of like an obedient dog that's right, whistles, bells and whistles and just really useful the sense that it could be there to give you your music.

Your TV appearance on He can be a way if you don't want designed to do ah lot, but it isn't perfect yet a kicker.

Come to the living room, a kicker.

Show me the weather.

Stop moving, please.

Like a petulant version of the Amazon echo.

He had to say it over and over and over.

But instead of Alexis saying, You think there may be a day when Kicker replaces the TV?

I think the TV has to be replaced.

Buy something because it's just too old, like, you know, the voice assistance.

It's all about learning and trying to be better to serve you better, as opposed to just be a blank plastic.

Turning TVs into something more than just a black box is a challenge lots of companies are tackling.

Some are making screens more flexible or getting rid of them entirely.

Others are designing screens to blend it.

This isn't a painting behind me.

It's actually a TV.

It's called the frame, and it's made by Samsung.

Now, when the TV is off, Samsung provides hundreds of pieces of art that can be displayed.

But you could also add your own, and you can even change the color of the frame itself.

But what if your screen could actually talk to you?

Some of the biggest advances we're going to see in home entertainment are going to be virtual reality headsets coming into the home.

We're gonna make a big difference, augmented reality systems and then also artificially intelligent characters that start to become part of games and other experiences.

So you would be talking then to it, like a character in one of your games about something that you're watching instead of kind of saying, you know, Hey, television, pull up Video number three.

You could just say, Hey, Sydney, what do you think we should watch next?

Then the character Have some suggestions and the two of you will have a conversation when these technologies get good enough.

Do you foresee a day when screens just completely disappear?

It's sort of like did television kill radio?

I think just like Air is gonna replace some screen applications.

Screens are going to survive and hang in there.

So what will we be watching in the future?

We're not exactly sure.

I guess we'll just have to stay tuned.

Golden Colorado Golden Retrievers.

Coincidence?

No, not at this gathering in the Centennial State.

It's called the Goldens.

In Golden Gala.

It was held on national Golden Retriever Day.

It brought together animals from all dog walks of life, and it might have set a record two.

They were reportedly about 1000 golden retrievers and their owners here.

A previous record in Scotland brought around 361 dogs.

So for fans of Golden's, the idea was pure gold.

But if they could have goldens and golden can someone host Air Dale's in a Dare Ville Facets and Bassett.

Boston's in Boston, Two Hours in Chihuahua.

Colleagues and Colleyville, Labradors and Labrador, Maltese and Malta, Pappy Onset Pappy on Terriers and Terra Haute or Your Keys in Yorkshire.

That'll give him something to Yap about, and it takes a bite of another edition of CNN.

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I'm Carla Zeus.