Name: Converting RVs Into New Homes for Wildfire Survivors | August 13, 2019
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No, I'm Carla Zeus and thank you for taking 10 minutes for CNN.

Your source for objective explanations of world news.

We're starting today's coverage in Hong Kong, where 200 flights were canceled on Monday when one of the busiest airports in Asia was shut down.

Protests Hong Kong's latest protest movement has been going on for more than 10 weeks now.

The demonstrations have become violent, with both protesters and police becoming more intense.

The major reasons behind this are rooted in the strained relationship between Hong Kong citizens and mainland China.

Officially, Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, and it's allowed certain freedoms that mainland China is not.

Protests like this is not normal in communist China, but this Chinese city does not like the rest.

A place where the freedom to protest is joined by free speech, free press and other rights normally found in the West, not in a communist country.

Welcome to Hong Kong, a city with just over seven million people that is technically a part of China.

Although it operates under what's known as one country, two systems, Hong Kong runs its own finances, education, immigration policy and judiciary.

It was a British colony until 1997 when the UK worked out a deal to turn Hong Kong back over to China with the stipulation that they continue to enjoy many of the rights they had as British subjects for that agreement will only last for 50 years, and when it ends in 2047 it could mean that Hong Kong will lose a lot of those rights as it will be formally joined with the rest of China.

There is concern, though, that China is not holding up its end of the bargain, taking concrete steps of the last few years that many in Hong Kong see as Beijing encroaching on the cities autonomy.

June 2019 Hong Kong saw hundreds of thousands marched to protest a controversial extradition bill that would allow Hong Kong toe extradite certain suspects to mainland China.

Critics fear that China's government could simply use the law as a tool to extradite people for political reasons.

Charges that both Beijing and the Hong Kong government denied and back in 2014 Hong Kong saw some of its largest demonstrations in decades.

A mass protest over how the city's top leader is elected.

Activists say the Basic Law here allows Hong Kongers the right to develop their own democracy and to hold free elections.

But Beijing insists that it has complete jurisdiction over Hong Kong and must pre approved all candidates who stand for the top post.

There have also been protests over the erosion of press freedom and what activists say is Beijing's interference in Hong Kong's local political matters.

The deal was supposed to last for 50 years, but many in Hong Kong's say a lot of the rights they've enjoyed for so long are now being taken away far faster than they expected.

So why did this lead to the closure of Hong Kong's airport?

Some of the activists who are protesting see this is a way to get international attention on Hong Kong struggles.

Others see the airport is a safer place to stage a protest like a sit in because of the violence that's been seen on the city streets.

Protesters and police say they've seen injuries on both sides of those battles.

Chinese officials say the demonstrators have attacked officers with dangerous tools and have started to quote show signs of terrorism so they want police to crack down on what Chinese officials call violent crime.

The closure of the airport made some protesters there think that riot police would soon arrive.

Not everyone in Hong Kong has been protesting against the local government, the police or mainland China.

There had been some demonstrations in support of the government.

Still, with large demonstrations stretching into an 11th week.

Now, observers there say they don't know where it all will lead and when it will end.

An estimated 85 to 90% of wild fires are caused by what people lightning solar flares or lava.

Arson, campfires, cigarettes and fireworks are some of the ways in which people cause the majority of wildfires.

We're excited to continue our series today that follows CNN heroes everyday people who see a problem in their community or another one and then take steps to fix it.

Last November, he saw the effects of California's campfire, the most destructive and deadly wildfire in the state's history, and he decided to help survivors, one RV at a time.

The out of control wildfires in California.

This fire is destroying everything in its path.

It looks like a scene out of the apocalypse.

It is just complete devastation As news of the fires broke, we're watching this tragedy unfold.

Riel Time from my home in Denver, Going down Skyway.

I saw just video after video of people fleeing the fire.

I decided Let's raise money to buy an RV and give it to a family who lost their home in the fire.

And the day before Thanksgiving, my six year old daughter, Luna, and I hopped in it and we headed to California.

When we got there, it was apocalyptic scene.

We realized just how big the need Waas was overwhelming.

So that's when we decided to start a nonprofit to take in RVs and max them with people who lost their homes in the fire today.

We're coming up on a year after the fire and the vast majority of those impact They're still displaced.

I've been living in my car for about a month.

It could be years that I will be able to really put it all back together.

Yeah, we just have a few finishing touches, and we're good to go.

We refurbished them, and then we donate them.

Now we're gonna drive it up to Grandmother, and we're just super excited to get her in her new home.

It's really awesome to think that there are people out there that care.

Think you'll sleep well in the bed tonight?

Yeah, Somebody who had no idea my life even existed and they're gonna give me my home.

But when you're standing face to face with someone, just such a powerful connector shelter is such a basic need to provide that someone that's compensation for me.

Follow up to the rubber ducky race we told you about yesterday Is the bathtub race were telling you about today?

This is one way that Marais, via New York, honors America's 13th president.

Millard Fillmore was born in Marais via, and he was said to be the first U S leader to install a bathtub in the White House.