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I'm Carl Jesus, this is CNN 10.

Facebook is facing two lawsuits.

One is from the U.

S.

Federal government.

The other is from 46 U.

S states.

Both suits accused the social media company of trying to keep competition out of the digital marketplace.

More than three billion people of the 7.7 billion who are alive today use an APP owned by Facebook.

The company is more than a social networking site.

It also controls WhatsApp and Instagram.

And the US government says that Facebook bought these APs to prevent them from eventually competing with the company.

The suits say this breaks America's antitrust laws, which are designed to keep the nation's businesses from having too much power.

And both legal challenges seek to decrease Facebook's power by forcing it to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp into separate companies.

Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.

It says the U.

S government approved those purchases then and that it now wants a do over the social media company also says people don't choose Facebook services because they have to, but because it saps deliver the most value, so it plans to fight these suits.

Facebook isn't the only technology company accused of breaking antitrust laws.

The American government and 11 states filed suit against Google in October, saying it's work to prevent competition in online searches and advertising.

Google had a similar response to Facebook's.

It says people use its platform because they choose to, not because they're forced to.

These lawsuits could take years to resolve.

European officials have also been concerned about US tech companies.

Next week, they're expected to put new rules in place that are designed to limit the power of Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.

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John Triage.

Yeah, Kids.

Yeah, yeah, 12th trivia.

Which of these words comes from a Latin term that describes a wind from the North Zephyr bluster, Boreal or our boreal?

Zephyr was a west wind, but when you're talking about a north wind, you're speaking in boreal terms, and when you're talking about aurora borealis, you're talking in terms of the northern lights, a spectacular display of them is possible this week, thanks to what's been characterized as a giant solar belch, the sun has hurled plasma and other magnetic activity toward the Earth.

It's not expected to hurt anyone.

Those scientists say it could interfere with the power grid and with the global positioning system, or GPS.

But the fun part of a possible geomagnetic storm is that the northern lights could be seen in places farther south, unusual places that rarely get a glimpse of the aurora borealis.

So parts of Idaho, Pennsylvania, Oregon, maybe even New York could see an unusually illuminating event described as one of Earth's greatest light shows in Aurora is one of the most fascinating and beautiful, naturally occurring phenomena.

You might know it as in northern lights, but it's technically called the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere.

In the Aurora, Australia's or southern lights in the Southern Hemisphere, this phenomenon occurs above the magnetic poles in the northern and southern hemispheres.

They form when gaseous particles in the earth's atmosphere collide with charged particles released from the sun.

Electrons and protons from the sun are blown toward the earth by the solar wind.

As these air carried towards earth most of them are deflected by Earth's magnetic field.

However, the magnetic field is weaker at the polls, allowing some of the particles to funnel into the Earth's atmosphere.

The vibrant colors produced are determined by the type of gas.

Is that air colliding?

The result is a brilliant display of the common green and yellow, less common blue and violet, even rare reds painting the night sky and ribbons, arcs or shooting rays.

Oxygen produces green and red light, while nitrogen gives off blue and purple.

The best time of year to view the light show is during the winter months, when the nights are longer under a cloud free sky, away from light pollution.

Staying focused on science There's a difference between astronomical winter, what we call the Season of Winter and Meteorological Winter, what meteorologists sometimes call winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

Astronomical winter officially begins this year on December 21st.

It's based on Earth position in relation to the Sun, and the 21st is when we'll see the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year when astronomical winter begins.

So what's meteorological Winter?

Besides being kind of hard to say that's based on the yearly temperature cycle.

So when you hear CNN contributor Tyler Mauldin refer to Meteorological winter, he's talking about the season of cold that began on December 1st.

Tyler.

Now that we're in Meteorological Winter Carl, you may hear us meteorologist talk more about a weather phenomenon called an atmospheric River.

Atmospheric Rivers Air found way up in the air and are responsible for transporting water vapor.

Poll word from the tropics.

When you see one on satellite, it looks very much like a river you would find on the surface of the Earth.

These rivers are a lot larger, however.

Noah says An atmospheric river is roughly 250 to 375 miles wide and can be thousands of miles in length.

You can find one present somewhere in the world at any point in time.

The United States and the rest of North America mainly feel the effects during the early winter months when the jet stream becomes more active.

Those impacts are in the form of extreme precipitation.

Most atmospheric rivers simply provide beneficial rain and snow to areas.

For example, the U S West coast receives 30 to 50% of its annual precipitation from atmospheric rivers.

But in some or intense cases, severe flooding and mudslides or landslides can occur when it's slow to move out.

That's because an atmospheric river can transport up to 15 times the average flow of water found at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Carl.

One of the most well known of these atmospheric rivers is the Pineapple Express, which is the party responsible for transporting deep tropical moisture from Hawaii to the West Coast.

You're probably not going to get the chance to spend the night in Santa's workshop, but if you live in New York, you might get the chance to spend one night at the F.

A O.

Schwarz toy store.

It's an Airbnb that'll give one lucky family the chance to stay on December 21st, they'll get a lavish dinner, a shopping spree and a private tour from a socially distant toy soldier, and they'll get to sleep at the store for the low, low price of $25.

It's amazing to think what's in store for the good little soldiers who will be able to get dolled up in Slinky on over to the ultimate PlayStation.

It's a great way to connect for a family.

It could make the season Mary and light bright, and there will be plenty to tinker and toy with, at least until your batteries get low.

So who knows how kids will be able to build a bear?

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