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  • the same week that the United Kingdom was originally scheduled to leave the European Union.

  • British lawmakers have voted to take control of that process from their prime minister, and the questions hanging in the air just got bigger.

  • I'm Carla Zeus.

  • This is CNN.

  • In 2016 British voters chose to leave the European Union and economic and political union of 28 countries.

  • No one's ever left it before.

  • The complicated part was determining how Britain would separate itself.

  • How would its loss be affected?

  • What would its trade deals look like?

  • What about immigration and people from other countries currently living in Britain?

  • The government of British Prime Minister Theresa May had been negotiating these terms with the European Union.

  • Their original deadline to get this done was March 29th and they reached a deal.

  • But Britain's parliament needs to approve that deal before it's completed, and so far lawmakers have rejected it twice.

  • Last week, the European Union agreed to delay the deadline for Britain to leave, and this week British lawmakers voted 329 to 302 to take control of the parliamentary timetable from the government.

  • It's the first time in more than 100 years.

  • That's happened.

  • And it means that Parliament, not the government of Prime minister May, is temporarily in control of the Brexit process.

  • So what now?

  • The basic options lawmakers have are the same.

  • They can try to delay the Brexit process further.

  • They can allow Britain to leave the European Union without a deal which could temporarily hurt Britain's economy.

  • Or they could keep working on a deal with the European Union, though the you may not agree to a different plan.

  • Meanwhile, the prime minister can try 1/3 time to get her deal passed.

  • As Parliament grapples with Brexit, some British businesses are in a holding pattern.

  • Recent winter months would typically see a decline in business for this cold storage hub outside of London.

  • As you can see, we have reached maximum capacity.

  • But this year has proved very different.

  • A lot of our existing clients panicking due to the uncertainty around Brexit and therefore stop piling on getting goods shipped in in larger box and quantities.

  • This side store's produce for a range of clientele from manufacturers and restaurants, caterers and small businesses, and their space here for over 2000 pallets or frozen goods.

  • Items such as bread, chicken, breast as well as ice cream.

  • But fully stocked shelves present an unwelcome problem in this industry.

  • We had quite a few new enquiries over the last couple of months, bad for business because in an ideal world, you don't want tohave to be turning away.

  • Any business.

  • Threats of leaving the you without a deal or with a bad one have created a safety first approach.

  • For many retailers across the UK who fear trade disruptions, those with enough resource is our stocking up.

  • While they have the chance, we know that retailers are taking a number of steps.

  • Be looking to hire extra staff working in their customs units to help get things through the borders.

  • If there should be any delays, they've also been looking at what they stock.

  • Is there a chance, perhaps to source things locally from the UK?

  • Everybody wants to do that.

  • Of course.

  • It's a great marketing tool to talk about locally grown produce on British produced two British consumers.

  • But the simple fact is, Britain only produces half of the food that it actually eat.

  • The government has so far reassure the public that food supply irrespective of Brexit will remain unchanged.

  • A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said this to CNN.

  • The UK has a high degree of food security build on access to a diverse range of sources, including strong domestic production and imports from third countries.

  • This will continue to be the case as we leave the U, they added.

  • While we are making sensible preparations for all eventualities as we leave the you, the government is not and will not be storing food.

  • You do know that 10% of consumers have said that they are already stockpiling goods.

  • But another 25% of consumers have said they would consider stockpiling and his Brexit uncertainty continues to fester.

  • Businesses and consumers must now choose how best to fill their freezes.

  • Isa Suarez CNN loved Next up After 50 years of sending rockets and satellites and humans into space, we've left a lot of junk up there and it's becoming a bigger problem with every launch 10 years ago to satellites collided, adding to the millions of pieces of debris that's orbiting the Earth.

  • If Maur collisions happen, millions of people could lose their Internet or phone service.

  • Satellite TV could be taken out.

  • GPS service could be lost, with thousands of new satellites being planned for the years ahead.

  • Some companies, like one Web, are taking steps toward retrieving defunct satellites or leaving enough fuel in them to ensure they head back into Earth's atmosphere to burn up once their missions are completed.

  • The company says this is expensive, and though NASA recommends that every space company comes up with a way to remove its products once they're done working, it doesn't punish those who don't.

  • So what the risk is coming down to is whether enough has done to keep space clean as people and businesses continue to explore it.

  • 12th Trivia.

  • Which of these events took place in 1992 Little hammer Winter Olympics Barcelona Summer Olympics Election of George H.

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  • Bush for the launch of the Hubble telescope in the summer of 1990 to the Olympic Games were held in Barcelona, Spain, and it makes sense that the daughter of a woman who competed in those Olympics would also be a competitive athlete.

  • But what makes Carmen older a positive athlete in our ongoing series is how she set an example for others on the track in America and in her mother's home country.

  • You could nominate a positive athlete.

  • You know what?

  • CNN dot com slash positive athlete.

  • I had tried a bunch of sports, but four running.

  • None of the sports really stuff.

  • Once I tried, I was like, Oh, yeah, I'm good at this.

  • In her four semesters in high school so far, she has won five state titles.

  • She is a coach's dream.

  • She cares just much about her teammates.

  • It's really not about her.

  • I remember growing up watching my mom, you know, she got training run and, you know, I kind of wanted to be like when I was 14.

  • I run for it, and then I made it to the Olympics, to Barcelona and 92.

  • And eventually that's what brought me to the United States.

  • Became a coach because we're leading finally distance coach.

  • We started the idea clock, and then last summer we went thio to Ecuador.

  • I took my girls to train their we did the clinic.

  • We saw that there was a lot of kids there they were interested in on running to my mom owns some land on the whole summer.

  • She was like, Hey, guys, we're gonna go run like hell to tune.

  • It was like having us up.

  • And so we got this group of kids and we all drove up in this bus.

  • We start running and we finally did six miles.

  • And then after that, we're all all of us were, like, so tired, like, Oh my gosh, that was really fun Just to see how many kids there were like, we're willing to come on a Saturday, all the way up there in the cold, No run together.

  • That was special experience.

  • I think it was really good and really afflicted for her to see all the kids.

  • They're trying to do the same things that she's doing.

  • And I think for her also saw how fortunate she is.

  • They have the opportunities that she has here, that most of those kids there they don't have it.

  • One of them main goals is helping out scholarships, cuts through that you open this so many more opportunities like so many jobs, they want to dio take that education is really important and most kids, they're probably don't have the money needed to, like, you know, get some of you know, the degrees they want.

  • And, you know, if running can open up that door for them, that I think you're awful remedy for it.

  • 10 out of 10 it's alien.

  • The play drama Students at a New Jersey high school recently took a horror classic from 1979 adapted a script and put it on stage.

  • It was a budget production, one senior said.

  • The crew used whatever cardboard and scrap metal was lying around to build the set, but it was pretty convincing.

  • The production went viral after viewers posted clips on social media and the local mayors office has funded an encore.

  • You might be asking What happened to our town?

  • What kind of midsummer night's dream led those students to Shrek tradition.

  • Not go into the woods, Leave Alice in Wonderland and take on a crucible that makes Beauty and the Beast looked like the Little Mermaid.

  • Maybe this December they'll sing a Christmas Carol, but for now they're little shop of horrors has them married, popping on social media.

the same week that the United Kingdom was originally scheduled to leave the European Union.

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