Hope you're feeling good this Friday, Fri-yay.

I'm pumped to finish this week strong with you and fuel our minds one more time before we head into the weekend.

I'm Coy Wire, this is CNN 10, let's go.

We begin today talking about the rising threat of food insecurity, an issue that persists in the U.S. and around the world.

Food insecurity is not having consistent access to enough food to meet one's basic needs.

And around the world, the U.N. estimates that to be the case for 868 million people, with more than one-third of those cases, 342 million people, being severely food insecure.

Those numbers increased by a million people since the U.N.'s last global report on food crises in 2023.

Conflicts in the Gaza Strip accounted for most of those facing imminent famine, in addition to conflicts in Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, and Burkina Faso.

The U.N. projects those numbers will increase by another million people being affected next year.

And in the U.S., a growing number of families are struggling to put food on the table.

A USDA report showed that more than 47 million people were food insecure last year, a slight rise from the year prior.

The report attributes the spike to inflation and rising food costs.

And the rollback of relief programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, which boosted support for things like SNAP benefits and free school meals for all students, has left families with fewer resources to help put food on the table.

CNN's Natasha Chen gives us an on-the-ground look at the impact this growing need is having on local food pantries here in the U.S.

This is not video from the pandemic.

This is a line of people waiting to receive food at a church in time for Thanksgiving.

I have to do it.

And that's the way it goes.

Chris Merrill has been coming to this Pasadena, California church every week for several years.

My wife won't even come because she'd be embarrassed.

He's a retired mechanic living on less than $700 Social Security per month.

He never thought he'd need help from a food bank.

And he's not alone.

Never seen a line that long before.

This time it was all the way up and down the street.

Lines are getting crazier.

We first met Anna Duran two years ago when her home in Riverside, California, saw inflation at almost 10 percent.

Even though inflation has cooled now to about 2 percent.

I have to get up at least, you know, like I said before, 6 to be there by 6.

Duran still goes to weekly food distributions.

Two years ago, she told us she was turning in recycling and selling jewelry for extra cash while working as a part-time caregiver.

She's continued to do that, selling what little jewelry she has left.

I only have like two or three more pieces that I have for as a backup resource.

The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank says they're tracking about 10 percent ahead in the amount of food distributed compared to last year.

They're serving 900,000 people a month right now, near pandemic levels.

We can't turn nobody away.

In New York City.

Some days you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

City Harvest says visits to city food pantries and soup kitchens are at the highest level on record, even higher than the pandemic's peak.

In Chicago, Common Pantry says they're serving 26 percent more households per month than last year.

Across the country, 85 percent of food banks in a Feeding America survey reported similar or higher demand for food assistance comparing this August with last August.

Why do you think that is when inflation has actually cooled quite a bit?

I think what we're seeing here in Los Angeles is the cumulative impact of inflation.

Food prices are about 25 percent higher than they were pre-pandemic.

Now the unemployment rate has come down.

We would expect the demand for food assistance to decrease, but that's not what has happened.

Pop quiz, hot shot.

Which planets in our solar system do not have a natural satellite or astronomical body that orbits them?

Mercury and Venus.

Venus and Saturn.

Mars and Earth.

Or Jupiter and Neptune.

Answer is Mercury and Venus.

The only two planets without natural satellites, like moons.

An astronaut recently captured video of objects in space of what he called cosmic fireflies.

Now scientists have been making some fascinating discoveries while studying space, but occasionally the intriguing phenomena they find have some less than stellar explanations.

CNN's Jeremy Roth shows us that that was the case with these cosmic fireflies.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station recently shared an out-of-this-world sight of what he dubbed cosmic fireflies, but there's more than meets the eye to this eye-popping celestial sight.

Astronaut Don Pettit is no stranger to surreal scenes spotted from his orbiting ISS perch and shared to his socials.

This latest trippy video could inspire all manner of astrophilosophical and existential questions if the true explanation wasn't so vanilla.

Pettit explained that what looks like cosmic fireflies are actually scores of star-length satellites glinting and gleaming in the sun as they hover above the Earth.

SpaceX has sent thousands of the internet communications satellites into orbit, with even more in the works, sparking a debate amongst some astronomers on what their impact may be on future celestial studies.

In the meantime though, hey, they sure are pretty.

Alright, so you might have noticed that a bunch of big movies were released around Thanksgiving break.

You may have gone to see one or two yourself, Wicked, Moana 2, and Gladiator 2.

Those were the top grossing movies last month, and they were all released just before the holiday.

Now it's no secret that production companies release their hit movies around the holidays and in the summer, but it turns out there's an even more design behind releasing multiple blockbusters at the same time.

CNN's Lisa Respers-France lets us in on the movie studio marketing strategy behind filling up those seats in the theaters.

Glicket, Gladiator 2, and Wicked, making it one of the most successful pre-Thanksgiving box office weekends in more than 10 years.

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Now it's giving us echoes of the cultural phenomenon of Barbenheimer.

Companies releasing movies on the same day as a rival company is actually not new.

We've seen matching U.S. release dates in the past, including The Dark Knight and Mamma

Mia, which was later coined The Dark Mama, Casino and Toy Story, and way back in the 1990s, 10 Things I Hate About You and The Matrix.

So why do they do this?

Well, in the movie biz, it's called a counter-programming strategy.

That's when companies release their film the same time as a film that is tonally very different to target, on paper, two traditionally different audiences.

But they can also feed off of each other, as we saw with Barbenheimer, allowing social media to do a lot of the marketing for the studios, making people want to be a part of the conversation.

And there's an economic aspect, too.

In the 1930s, the double feature where you'd get to see two selected films with one ticket was created to attract moviegoers during the Great Depression.

Today's story, getting a 10 out of 10, is a giant blanket that is snow joke.

A snow blanket that is, and yes, that is a real house, under real snow.

After some monster snowstorms hit the Northeast, one Pennsylvania man was snow-overwhelmed with several feet of the fluffy stuff draped over the top of his house.

He had to shovel not only his driveway and sidewalk, but his roof as well.

All right, superstars, you already know what time it is.

My favorite part of the day, we're showing some love with a shout out to Mr. Kumka's social studies classes up at Sanford Middle School in Sanford, Maine.

Thank you for the sweet swag, my Spartan friends, and for this drone photo.

Some of y'all I received here at work, rise up, literally.

Cue that Friday Music Night Air.

Remember the power you possess to create some positive change in this world.

You never know when or how, but you just might be the light someone needs today.

You are more powerful than you know.

I'm Coy Wire.

This is CNN 10.

It's been a blessing to spend this week with you.

I'm Coy Wire.

This is CNN 10.

It's been a blessing to spend this week with you.

I'm Coy Wire.

This is CNN 10.