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Welcome to this October 17th edition of CNN.

Happy to see this Thursday, exactly two weeks from Halloween.

Our first topic today is a weather event.

Cyclone, whatever it's formal designation will be.

It's a system so powerful that it's causing problems all over the US Northeast and it came up quickly.

Bomb cyclones start is low pressure weather systems The lower the pressure, the more powerful the storm.

When a systems pressure changes quickly, dropping 24 millibars in 24 hours, the rapidly intensifying storm has undergone a process called bombo genesis.

It has become a bomb cyclone, and that's what the system along the US Eastern Seaboard was expected to do.

A CNN meteorologist said it would have the same low pressure as a Category one hurricane.

Powerful winds blowing faster than 39 miles per hour and possibly up to 60 are a potential threat.

From New York City to Portland, Maine, heavy rain anywhere from 2 to 6 inches were forecast for the Northeast, and all of this could last through Thursday.

Flight delays and cancellations were expected.

Game four of the American League Championship Series was postponed.

It's in New York between the Yankees and the Houston Astros, and they had to wait until it least Thursday for their fourth matchup.

This storm is the second big one to hit this area in a week.

The last one brought heavy waves, beach erosion and flooding to the East Coast.

And while this week's storm isn't expected to bring as much snow is a classic nor'easter typically does.

Except maybe for a small part of upstate New York.

Many of its other characteristics are the same.

A nor'easter occurs within the most crowded coastline of the United States, the Northeast, and they can occur any time of year but are most common between the months of September and April.

That's when weather conditions are primed for a nor'easter.

It's going to travel from the Southeast to the Northeast and intensify nor'easters air strongest around New England as well as the Canadian maritime provinces.

Now we have very warm water go from Mexico and all around the coast of Florida.

It's going to warm air above it, and that warm air is going to class a very cold air coming in from the north.

Now Nor'easters Terry winds out of the northeast at about 58 miles per hour or more.

And keep in mind the wind direction out of the Northeast is what defines a nor'easter.

It's also going to beach erosion, as well as coastal flooding and very, very rough ocean conditions.

Not all nor'easters have snow, but some of the most memorable ones have don't lots of it.

A struggle for space is taking place between electric scooters and the cities they cruise through their intended to help people easily make short trips through busy cities without having to get in their cars and fight traffic.

And on the plus side, many writers have found them effective at addressing the last mile problem.

The trip from the subway bus stop or parking garage to the final destination.

But one downside is that many of the scooters aren't lasting long enough for investors to get a good return.

So their futures in doubt, and they launched so quickly in so many places that lawmakers, businesses and the scooter companies themselves are all playing catch up to define where when and if the machines can be ridden when they're on the sidewalks.

Critics have complained that they clutter narrow spaces and are dangerous to pedestrians when they're on the streets.

They're slower than cars and can be dangerous to their riders.

Different cities have different rules regarding scooters, and some companies are even testing self driving scooters.

But the point of this would be the scooter could move and park itself when someone wasn't on it, so it doesn't wind up in the way of pedestrians.

Air traffic electric scooters rented via ABS are flooding city streets.

Let's say we want to get this one for you so you just have to scan Dick Trickle that here you are code on.

Then you have to give a first push first, kind of.

They cost a dollar to rent 15 cents per minute to ride and use the same lithium ion batteries.

Your phones and tablets do we raise 175 mediums, donors, $135 million lying like a year or so.

That's a lot of capital being injected into exactly the cash is crucial because lime is waging a bitter block by block battle for scooter supremacy.

So really, the goal of bird is to reduce car traffic and trips.

People have been trying to find ways to get Americans out of cars for a long time, and we think burke and have a big impact.

The startups leave them on streets, often without city approval, and the apse allow you to discard.

Residents say They litter sidewalks and pose a danger to pedestrians.

Cities haven't really, you know, they didn't really come to see, and it would be hard to see this this wave of electric scooters coming.

And so there's really not a lost a lot of laws around the electric scooters.

Yes, we're working with them were actually supportive of regulation.

Well, there's definitely a buzz riding these.

It's really cool to be whizzing past the pedestrians and being able to see above everybody else.

But with that speed, you can also feel the risk, especially when you're in the streets and you feel bus go past you.

The most important advice I have for getting on any scooter is knowing when to jump off a knee scooter.

S president officially opened the Empire State Building by pressing a button to turn on its lights.

Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover.

In 1931 President Hoover hit a button in Washington D.

To turn the New York City landmarks lights on, including the land it was built on.

The Empire State Building costs just under $41 million to construct during the Great Depression.

The cost of its recent four year renovation.

More than 100 and 60 million, but it is a major tourist attraction.

About four million people visit the building every year to travel up to its observatory's and gaze of the city below, and that's worth about $130 million every year to the skyscraper.

It's changed a lot, at least internally, since the Art Deco landmark opened in 1931 and the new renovations are intended to make it feel as modern as possible.

Welcome to the new 102nd floor of the Empire State Building Observatory.

We're here on the opening day of a project which has been going on now for four years.

Project started four years ago, and we thought the project was going to be very simple and straightforward.

Project Group on As it grew, it grew into the museum exhibit that we have today and included renovations of the second floor, 80th floor, 86 floor and now the 102nd floor.

So it used to be a 102nd floor that you've come up in an elevator and you see a perimeter of windows, which is start just about here you had, Really?

I step on with jab, step and some barriers to access it.

Now we're looking at complete Florida ceiling.

All of the lows and this entire space have been blown out.

Then we've got this incredible last elevator, which comes up into a glass shop way.

Want the observatory the views here in experience to meet the 21st century and beyond?

If NASA succeeds in returning astronauts to the moon in 2024 here's a look at what they'll be wearing.

The agency unveiled two very different looks recently.

The white one is designed for when space travelers go outside to bounce along the moon's south pole.

The orange one is what they'll wear when launching in this space and returning to Earth, NASA says the suits will give astronauts more mobility, though you can see it's still more limited than, say, a business suit.

There'll be more expensive to the originals.

They are may think that Lacoste is Burberry expensive, but not that Armani space suits will be made.

And if these air just the first and beginning of a Klein of common space projects, who's to say they go?

 Ta extremes when there's a ton of possibilities in interstellar fashion up Carla Zeus for CNN. 

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