Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening everyone.
Whenever you are watching today, I hope your Monday is off to a beautiful start because this week marks one of the most colorful holidays in the world, Diwali.
Known as the festival of lights, Diwali is one of the most important holidays in Hinduism.
It's also celebrated by people in other faiths including Janism, Sikism, and some Buddhists.
The five-day celebration symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
Now, families will decorate their homes with colorful lights, light small oil lamps called Diaz, share sweets, exchange gifts, and even enjoy some fireworks.
Now over the weekend, a brilliant scene as more than three million oil lamps light up an Indian holy city in anticipation of the Hindu festival of lights.
The colorful celebrations featured a drone show of scenes from the ancient story of Prince Rama who is believed to be an incarnation of the Hindu god Deatti Vishnu.
Now Diwali is also a time for new beginnings, hope and happiness.
to Indonesia now where NASA's Neil Geral's Swift telescope has re-entered Earth's atmosphere almost 22 years after its launch.
Now, even though the telescope orbited hundreds of miles above Earth, the thin layer of atmosphere creates friction or drag, which gradually lowers a satellite's orbit over time.
Swift descended too low to continue operating, and NASA ended its science mission on October 20th.
Now, the spacecraft then fell back into the ocean near North Sumatra on November 4th.
Launched back in 2004 for what was supposed to be just a two-year mission, the telescope studied black holes, exploding stars, and gamma ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos.
Now, most of the spacecraft was expected to burn up during re-entry, but some components still remain intact.
In the past, NASA has been able to recover pieces of spacecraft for further observation.
It is time for 10 second trivia.
What is the name of the filtering structure gray whales use instead of teeth?
Is it boline, gill plates, keratin fins, or whisker nets?
If you said bine whale, aren't you smart?
Grey whales can dive down to 200 f feet to feed.
They roll onto their sides, suck up mouthfuls of muddy sediment, and use their boline to filter out tiny shrimplike creatures called amphipods.
Now, off the coast of Washington State, conservationists are using special drones to study grey whales, but not in the ways you might think.
SR3 researchers are collecting whale mucus and other measurements to assess their health and that of their home, the Salish Sea, a Mission Blue Hope spot supported by the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative.
So, you're at 23.8 and you're at 64 70 74 78.
Let's go ahead and go up to 100.
One of the strengths of our research is that it's completely non-invasive.
We like to say we're giving them a health check without them even knowing that we're there.
>> We are in Reed Harbor in the San Juan Islands and today we're flying our octacopter drone and this is the primary tool that we use for our health monitoring of the endangered population of southern resident killer whales.
Holly Furbach is the marine mammal research director of SR3 Sea Life Response Rehabilitation and Research located in the Pacific Northwest.
She studied southern resident killer whales here for nearly two decades, establishing the longest running quantitative record of their health.
>> There's 76 individuals remaining.
We're going into our 20th year of monitoring.
We've seen a decline with most pods in the average body condition.
What we do is something called photoggramometry and it's very simply the science of making measurements from photographs.
So whether we're interested in estimating size or assessing nutritional condition or reproductive condition, we can collect images like this and then take a series of different measurements.
When killer whales and when other species lose nutritional condition, they lose fat behind the skull.
So, we developed something called an eye patch ratio that we can use to track individual body condition over time.
And this really helps guide fishery management decisions to try to ensure that the whales have enough prey, their primary prey to nook salmon throughout the year.
>> These whales face a series of threats to their survival.
Declining salmon stock, vessel disturbance, and pollutants that build up in their bodies, all of which negatively impact reproduction.
We've documented that they lose more than twothirds of their pregnancies.
>> The female whale known as J35 made international headlines in 2018 and again in 2025, carrying her dead newborn calves for weeks in a tour of grief.
Her story alongside SR3's research helped pass stronger protections for southern resident killer whales.
And this year, Holly says there's been a slight improvement in body condition across the population for the first time.
>> There have been changes that have been made for fisheries and for vessels.
And so, it's very hopeful that we are going to continue to see this increase in body condition.
>> Our primary study populations are killer whales, but we also study grey whales and humpback whales.
>> Now, SR3 researchers are taking a new approach to assessing grey whales by collecting their blow.
There's an ongoing mortality event with grey whales right now.
And so we're really interested in just understanding what their overall health looks like.
So this is Chimo and this is our hexacopter drone.
And something that's really fun about Chimo is we can use it to collect blow samples.
When the whale comes up to the surface and breathes, we fly Chimo through the blow and we're able to collect the droplets on this sterile plate that you can see here.
We'll just swab the inside of the plate and then we send it off to labs.
We are interested in linking what we can get from the blow sample collections to what we can get from the body condition.
>> The study is still underway, but the stakes are high.
Grey whale numbers have plummeted by more than 50% since 2015.
If we can identify any new health markers or or threats to the population, we might be able to get some more restrictions in areas where vessels can't transit or to give them extra space for foraging.
That's why we've been expanding to have a more comprehensive health assessment of these animals.
>> You have to think of conservation of every part of the ecosystem to be able to support all the wildlife.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
The scenic route home.
After 28 years, 31,000 miles, four continents, and 30 countries.
57-year-old British adventurer Carl Bushby is finally home.
And the first thing he did, hug his mom, whom he hadn't seen in a decade, on the doorstep of the family home in Hull, England.
It was back in 1998 that Bushby started walking from Chile.
An idea that started with a birthday card from his dad and then became an odyssey to travel around the world on foot.
The biggest hurdle, as you can imagine, was water.
Along the way, he crossed frozen seas and even swam the English Channel.
There were also deserts, jungles, and visa nightmares to contend with.
And now after nearly three decades of relying on the kindness of strangers to complete his mission, Bushby had this to say.
>> I always say I've met 99.9999% of the very best of humanity.
Um, you know, I'm sitting here today because they say it takes a village, but in this case, it took the world to get me here today.
>> He originally thought the journey would take 5 years.
Can you imagine the stories he now has to tell 28 years later?
All right, before we say goodbye, today marks day one of CNN 10's 10 days of giving where we are highlighting all the ways you are showing kindness or volunteering in your community.
Today we highlight Warsaw Central School District in Warsaw, New York.
Ms.
Meyer sent us these fantastic photos of her students volunteering with what they call raking for a reason, where middle schoolers rolled up their sleeves and got to work on some of their neighbors yards.
Ms.
Meyer writes, "Our students learned that being part of a community means more than just living in it.
It means showing up, lending a helping hand, and finding ways to make life a little easier for others." They discovered that sometimes the biggest impact comes from the simplest acts of kindness.
What a great idea.
Now, do you know someone who is making a difference in their corner of the world?
Send us your photos and videos to CNN10 at CNN.com.
Tell us your name, your school, city, and state, and we may feature your acts of kindness over the next two weeks.
All right, superstars.
I've got time for one more shout out today.
Miss Whipperman at Watts Middle School in Centerville, Ohio.
Thank you for liking and subscribing to our YouTube page and for sharing us with your students.
And thank you for making us a part of your day.
Ky will be back tomorrow.
I'm Allison Chinchar and this is CNN 10.
Whenever you are watching today, I hope your Monday is off to a beautiful start because this week marks one of the most colorful holidays in the world, Diwali.
Known as the festival of lights, Diwali is one of the most important holidays in Hinduism.
It's also celebrated by people in other faiths including Janism, Sikism, and some Buddhists.
The five-day celebration symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
Now, families will decorate their homes with colorful lights, light small oil lamps called Diaz, share sweets, exchange gifts, and even enjoy some fireworks.
Now over the weekend, a brilliant scene as more than three million oil lamps light up an Indian holy city in anticipation of the Hindu festival of lights.
The colorful celebrations featured a drone show of scenes from the ancient story of Prince Rama who is believed to be an incarnation of the Hindu god Deatti Vishnu.
Now Diwali is also a time for new beginnings, hope and happiness.
to Indonesia now where NASA's Neil Geral's Swift telescope has re-entered Earth's atmosphere almost 22 years after its launch.
Now, even though the telescope orbited hundreds of miles above Earth, the thin layer of atmosphere creates friction or drag, which gradually lowers a satellite's orbit over time.
Swift descended too low to continue operating, and NASA ended its science mission on October 20th.
Now, the spacecraft then fell back into the ocean near North Sumatra on November 4th.
Launched back in 2004 for what was supposed to be just a two-year mission, the telescope studied black holes, exploding stars, and gamma ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos.
Now, most of the spacecraft was expected to burn up during re-entry, but some components still remain intact.
In the past, NASA has been able to recover pieces of spacecraft for further observation.
It is time for 10 second trivia.
What is the name of the filtering structure gray whales use instead of teeth?
Is it boline, gill plates, keratin fins, or whisker nets?
If you said bine whale, aren't you smart?
Grey whales can dive down to 200 f feet to feed.
They roll onto their sides, suck up mouthfuls of muddy sediment, and use their boline to filter out tiny shrimplike creatures called amphipods.
Now, off the coast of Washington State, conservationists are using special drones to study grey whales, but not in the ways you might think.
SR3 researchers are collecting whale mucus and other measurements to assess their health and that of their home, the Salish Sea, a Mission Blue Hope spot supported by the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative.
So, you're at 23.8 and you're at 64 70 74 78.
Let's go ahead and go up to 100.
One of the strengths of our research is that it's completely non-invasive.
We like to say we're giving them a health check without them even knowing that we're there.
>> We are in Reed Harbor in the San Juan Islands and today we're flying our octacopter drone and this is the primary tool that we use for our health monitoring of the endangered population of southern resident killer whales.
Holly Furbach is the marine mammal research director of SR3 Sea Life Response Rehabilitation and Research located in the Pacific Northwest.
She studied southern resident killer whales here for nearly two decades, establishing the longest running quantitative record of their health.
>> There's 76 individuals remaining.
We're going into our 20th year of monitoring.
We've seen a decline with most pods in the average body condition.
What we do is something called photoggramometry and it's very simply the science of making measurements from photographs.
So whether we're interested in estimating size or assessing nutritional condition or reproductive condition, we can collect images like this and then take a series of different measurements.
When killer whales and when other species lose nutritional condition, they lose fat behind the skull.
So, we developed something called an eye patch ratio that we can use to track individual body condition over time.
And this really helps guide fishery management decisions to try to ensure that the whales have enough prey, their primary prey to nook salmon throughout the year.
>> These whales face a series of threats to their survival.
Declining salmon stock, vessel disturbance, and pollutants that build up in their bodies, all of which negatively impact reproduction.
We've documented that they lose more than twothirds of their pregnancies.
>> The female whale known as J35 made international headlines in 2018 and again in 2025, carrying her dead newborn calves for weeks in a tour of grief.
Her story alongside SR3's research helped pass stronger protections for southern resident killer whales.
And this year, Holly says there's been a slight improvement in body condition across the population for the first time.
>> There have been changes that have been made for fisheries and for vessels.
And so, it's very hopeful that we are going to continue to see this increase in body condition.
>> Our primary study populations are killer whales, but we also study grey whales and humpback whales.
>> Now, SR3 researchers are taking a new approach to assessing grey whales by collecting their blow.
There's an ongoing mortality event with grey whales right now.
And so we're really interested in just understanding what their overall health looks like.
So this is Chimo and this is our hexacopter drone.
And something that's really fun about Chimo is we can use it to collect blow samples.
When the whale comes up to the surface and breathes, we fly Chimo through the blow and we're able to collect the droplets on this sterile plate that you can see here.
We'll just swab the inside of the plate and then we send it off to labs.
We are interested in linking what we can get from the blow sample collections to what we can get from the body condition.
>> The study is still underway, but the stakes are high.
Grey whale numbers have plummeted by more than 50% since 2015.
If we can identify any new health markers or or threats to the population, we might be able to get some more restrictions in areas where vessels can't transit or to give them extra space for foraging.
That's why we've been expanding to have a more comprehensive health assessment of these animals.
>> You have to think of conservation of every part of the ecosystem to be able to support all the wildlife.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
The scenic route home.
After 28 years, 31,000 miles, four continents, and 30 countries.
57-year-old British adventurer Carl Bushby is finally home.
And the first thing he did, hug his mom, whom he hadn't seen in a decade, on the doorstep of the family home in Hull, England.
It was back in 1998 that Bushby started walking from Chile.
An idea that started with a birthday card from his dad and then became an odyssey to travel around the world on foot.
The biggest hurdle, as you can imagine, was water.
Along the way, he crossed frozen seas and even swam the English Channel.
There were also deserts, jungles, and visa nightmares to contend with.
And now after nearly three decades of relying on the kindness of strangers to complete his mission, Bushby had this to say.
>> I always say I've met 99.9999% of the very best of humanity.
Um, you know, I'm sitting here today because they say it takes a village, but in this case, it took the world to get me here today.
>> He originally thought the journey would take 5 years.
Can you imagine the stories he now has to tell 28 years later?
All right, before we say goodbye, today marks day one of CNN 10's 10 days of giving where we are highlighting all the ways you are showing kindness or volunteering in your community.
Today we highlight Warsaw Central School District in Warsaw, New York.
Ms.
Meyer sent us these fantastic photos of her students volunteering with what they call raking for a reason, where middle schoolers rolled up their sleeves and got to work on some of their neighbors yards.
Ms.
Meyer writes, "Our students learned that being part of a community means more than just living in it.
It means showing up, lending a helping hand, and finding ways to make life a little easier for others." They discovered that sometimes the biggest impact comes from the simplest acts of kindness.
What a great idea.
Now, do you know someone who is making a difference in their corner of the world?
Send us your photos and videos to CNN10 at CNN.com.
Tell us your name, your school, city, and state, and we may feature your acts of kindness over the next two weeks.
All right, superstars.
I've got time for one more shout out today.
Miss Whipperman at Watts Middle School in Centerville, Ohio.
Thank you for liking and subscribing to our YouTube page and for sharing us with your students.
And thank you for making us a part of your day.
Ky will be back tomorrow.
I'm Allison Chinchar and this is CNN 10.