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The Ten News, News For Curious Kids

Re-air! What Is Infastructure? 🚧

The Ten News, News For Curious Kids

Small But Mighty Media

Education For Kids, News, Kids & Family

4.5889 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

While we are off this week, enjoy this re-air of this episode! See you back here on Septemebr 2nd. 🔧 A big infrastructure bill is making its way through Congress, but what is infrastructure? 🏗️ Correspondent Pamela Kirkland digs into the definition. Learn what projects are included in the plan and how trains, pipes and roads could be impacted. 💰 From the headlines: Olympics wrap up and new pandas say hello. 🐼 And test your infrastructure knowledge in today’s Trivia on the Ten! 🧐 📧 Do you have something to tell us? Email us at: hello@thetennews.com 📝 Sign up for The Ten News-letter! 📸 Join us on Instagram 🌍 Visit our website for a list of sources used for this episode and a full episode transcript! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hey, Tenors.

0:01.1

Just a quick note from the team that we are taking a week off to get ready for the start of our second season.

0:07.5

Woohoo!

0:08.2

We hope you'll enjoy this re-earing of one of our favorite episodes from this year.

0:12.9

And we will be back on Thursday, September 2nd, to kick off our brand new season.

0:19.8

Season 2.

0:27.3

Yes! What? Catch you then 10 nine eight seven six five four three two one i'm bethany van delft and this is the ten news where we get the load down on what's up in the world

0:35.9

it's tuesday, August 10th.

0:39.0

Infrastructure.

0:40.2

What?

0:41.0

It's a word that you may have been hearing in the news lately.

0:44.0

But what does it mean?

0:45.4

Uh, help.

0:46.5

Today, come with us across bridges to the tops of skyscrapers

0:50.8

and along high-speed internet cables to find out.

1:00.7

Let's dive in. Let's dive in. Does infrastructure sound boring to you? Because it isn't. It's actually something that every one of us uses

1:06.5

every day. Here to introduce us to the world of infrastructure is our correspondent Pamela Kirkland.

1:14.3

Have you ever been in the car listening to the 10 News, of course, and your parent or guardian

1:19.9

hits a pothole or bump in the road, and they probably say some kind of bad word after they hit it.

1:26.4

Oh, that's something called an infrastructure problem.

1:30.3

So what exactly is infrastructure?

1:33.3

It's really anything that helps us live our lives the way we do.

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