A number of sports cancelations and a high flying high school are all featured today on CNN.

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I'm Carla Zeus and Fridays are awesome.

First up, the Republican National Convention has wrapped up and officially nominated incumbent President Donald Trump for another term in office.

His running mate, incumbent vice president Mike Pence, was officially nominated on Wednesday night.

Like the Democratic National Convention the week before, the Republican event took place over four days, and it was more virtual than usual thanks to the social distancing guidelines of the coronavirus pandemic.

But six delegates from each state and territory for a total of 336 people did attend the events kickoff Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina.

President Trump and Vice President Pence were there as well.

Speakers this week have included current and former political leaders, supporters of the president and his policies, with the goal of highlighting President Trump as the best choice for voters in 2020 and speaking out against his political rival, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

In that way, the event was a direct opposite to what the Democrats did last week.

One thing.

Both parties air hoping for from their conventions is a bump in the polls.

A jolt of voters support for their candidate.

The voters get their say in the presidential election on November 3rd.

Look, look, look like this roof.

The roof there, that's a phone roof coming down.

You can see it.

Some on the ground there.

Just raining down here in Lake Charles.

Like, uh, this is hidden in the dark of night.

And that is why the storm eyes particularly dangerous.

Because people have the potential to get woken up if they did not evacuate and have to deal with what is actually occurring outside.

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Mhm, mhm, Mhm.

You're gonna hear ranges of storm surge that we haven't heard in Louisiana since Hurricane Audrey in 1957.

You're going to hear the word unsurvivable.

Yeah, to describe the storm surge that we are expecting.

Yeah, mhm.

At dawn on Thursday morning along the border between Louisiana and Texas, it looked like Laura's storm surge wasn't as bad as forecasters predicted.

Ah, lot of the damage appeared to have been caused by the hurricanes.

Powerful winds.

Louisiana's governor says the storm didn't bring absolute catastrophic damage to his state, but that it still caused a lot of destruction in the deaths of several people.

Officials in Texas said emergency crews were working at the border to see if anyone needed help and to see how bad the flooding damage was.

They say the evacuation orders saved lives.

The storm caused a fire at a chemical plant near Lake Charles, Louisiana, and the coronavirus pandemic created a social distancing challenge for shelters.

Officials were moving people to motel and hotel rooms to try to limit the spread of cove in 19.

There have been some national ripple effects.

Following a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, a man named Jacob Blake was shot several times by police during some sort of dispute.

We don't know exactly what happened.

There are differing accounts from witnesses and officials, and the Wisconsin Department of Justice is currently investigating.

Blake survived the shooting and is currently in the hospital.

The incident has become part of the widespread civil unrest taking place in America.

Protests, marches and calls for changes have been made in several cities.

For months, they've followed controversial encounters between police and African American civilians.

Some of the demonstrations have been peaceful, some have been violent, with cars and buildings being burned and stores being looted.

In June, President Trump signed an executive order that concerned policing in America.

Its goals would maintain the administration's support of police while also establishing a database of police misconduct and laying out guidelines concerning the use of force, as well as policing techniques meant to calm down difficult situations.

But critics have said more needs to be done to address police related issues.

And on Wednesday, following the shooting of Jacob Blake and Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association protested by boycotting their playoff game against the Orlando Magic.

That led to the MBA postponing several different playoff games on Wednesday and Thursday.

They were also postponements of certain games in the Women's National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer.

12th trivia.

Where would you most likely find a Super Tucano in a restaurant, in a rainforest, on a race track or on a runway?

The 29 Super Tucano is a light attack aircraft used by the military.

Students literally earn their wings that New York City's aviation high school.

Like many schools, it's currently working on plans to reopen during the pandemic, and when it does, students will resume taking classes in an actual airplane hangar.

They'll resume working on actual airplanes from the classroom to the sky.

The school is pretty fly in what way?

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Aviation High school.

We take all your regular academic classes, English social studies, physical education.

But then also, we have ground operations.

Carbonated Magneto's jet engines, this airplane behind me in my classroom.

Every day I'm on Shen check and I must do in aviation high school, and I currently go to class to JFK Airport.

Aviation High School is a public New York City high school.

Students at Aviation High School spent 4 to 5 years working on repairing airplanes on in the process.

They get their licensing to work in the industry from the Federal Aviation Administration.

We have a hanger on site in our main building, where we have 17 aircraft.

We've been teaching students for 81 years toe work in the aviation industry, very proud to be the school that certifies some of the most mechanics in the country.

The responsibility of an aircraft mechanic is huge.

I have to ensure that every single bolt every single screw.

Every single piece of wire is safely secured on that aircraft.

Prevent anything from happening while it's in there.

When we sign off any part, it's basically our signature that's allowing the airplane to get into the sky on our signature is worth gold wear, letting over 100 people on the ground get into the sky and get to the destination.

I like working with my hands.

I like getting out in the world.

I love seeing work that I put in flying there, earning a perfect 10 at attend.

Today.

It's morning rush hour in parts of western Australia.

You go have a look at a traffic camera to see how your commutes shaping up, and it's photo bombed by a Carella bird.

Theano Melis, native to Australia.

It's not native to traffic cameras, and this one didn't just hang out and blocked the shot.

It perched, played, preened and posed at least until another cock a two game and stopped the show.

He wasn't just a cockatoo.

He was cocky, too, and while he parroted his bill for you, he blocked the shot up to Was he on the crest of Beacon News with that words.

If so, this traffic reports on the wing and for the birds.

Whoa!

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