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thank you
hey everybody happy Thursday or as I
like to say happy Friday Eve overmorrow
it will be Saturday but first let's
finish this week's strong we've got a
lot to get to not a lot of time to do it
so let's get to it now teachers we're
gonna whip through some headlines and as
always we recommend you preview each
episode of CNN 10 one of them today
involves coverage of school safety
concerns following news out of Nashville
this week here's some headlines from
around the world this month the U.S and
South Korea restarted joint military
drills on the Korean Peninsula including
this simulated storming of a beach these
drills previously took place annually
but they hadn't happened at this scale
in five years the U.S maintains that the
drills are defensive in nature while
North Korea views this military
cooperation as a threat in the United
States six people were killed in a
school shooting in Nashville on Monday
this marked the 16th school shooting
this year in the U.S the tragic event
has sparked further debate among
lawmakers in Washington D.C over U.S gun
control laws and has many parents and
school officials reviewing their safety
protocols yet again
finally in the art World scientists say
they've identified a secret ingredient
in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings egg
yolks that's right according to a new
study published this week European
painting Masters like Da Vinci may have
used proteins especially egg yolk in
their oil paintings this new study finds
that the inclusion of egg was
intentional and was a technique used to
fine-tune properties of the paint that
wraps your quick look at the headlines
now Pop Quiz hot shot
10 second trivia what is the capital of
Australia Sydney Canberra Melbourne or
Brisbane
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though Melbourne was once the capital
Canberra became the official capital of
Australia in 1927.
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being a firefighter is one of the most
dangerous professions on the planet and
did you know that wildfires in Australia
are some of the largest and hottest on
the planet they can be devastating
completely destroying homes and habitats
alike but there's a group of volunteer
firefighters in New South Wales working
without pay to keep people and animals
safe we're going to meet two of these
heroic people to hear why they're
willing to risk it all to keep others
safe
when I tell people I'm a firefighter I
actually get a lot of mixed reactions
oh you do all that for free
what makes you do that
it really does spark a lot of curiosity
in people
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Australia battles some of the largest
and hottest wildfires on the planet the
Fire season in Australia typically runs
from October until the end of March when
temperatures are at their highest most
of the fire fighting is conducted by the
rural fire service a volunteer Force
separate to State Emergency Services the
New South Wales rural fire service has
more than 70 thousand members
we were founded in 1939 by local farmers
and local residents that needed a
firefighting service in the area and it
was a bunch of guys with old trucks or
trailers
now we're sitting here in a Million
Dollar Plus facility with these trucks
that are basically a multi-tool
we do flood work in this we do fires car
accidents house fires
we're coming into a family of a long
line of firefighters I believe there is
that little bit of pressure I can
remember when I first told my
father-in-law that I had joined the
first thing he said to me was as long as
you can operate a pump you'll be fine
as a volunteer service recruits come
from all walks of life and require
intense training before being deployed
it's a huge amount of effort a lot of
hours go into training a new recruit not
for bragging rights it's because they've
got to go out on the truck with you you
need to be able to work with everybody
from different backgrounds you know
people that work in corporate people
that work in construction you'd name it
we've probably got it
One Clue the common thing is this desire
to help people so you've got to be
willing to give your time to someone
else for a thank you
in 2019 and 2020 what became known as
the black summer fires burned 10.3
million hectares of land across the
country
we were tasked to go and do property
protection but the house is in a spot
that was very difficult to defend one
rode in one road out
but then you walk around this house you
look in the back window and it is a
carbon copy of my kids bedroom there's
Lego all over the floor there's posters
on the wall this family have literally
bundled everything they can into the car
and they've left
they don't know that there's someone
there to look after their house but you
staying there and maybe you know putting
in that extra time and that extra work
is going to be the reason they have a
house to come back to the deadly fires
claimed 33 lives including nine
firefighters more than 3 000 homes were
destroyed
the house Andrew and his crew protected
was one of fourteen thousand saved in
New South Wales
recent years have seen some of the
largest fires ever recorded unchecked
climate change means they could grow
larger still when I was growing up
there'd be fires and they'd occur but
there was nothing massive now they seem
to be getting bigger and you know they
talk about mega fires and gigafires just
on that scale I don't recall anything
like that
the balance for work life family life
and the RFS can be difficult
I've got a five-year-old and a
seven-year-old kid there any little boys
at home
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nobody
they see the yellow shirt goes on and
they know something's happening you know
they'll be like handing me car keys as
I'm going out the door they're like a
little support crew it's quite funny
it gets difficult to juggle but the
reward's worth it
when someone says you know we need help
and then you can be the person to go and
deliver that help that's very rewarding
there's nothing tangible that you get
given for it it's just a sense of pride
I'll be with the service for as long as
I can be whether that's time in an able
body or whether it just ends up not
maybe being an Able Body I'm just one of
those old guys telling War Stories if
it's a benefit I'll be here for as long
as they'll have me
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I don't know if I need to quack any
jokes today because today's story
getting a 10 out of 10 about ducks is
funny enough there's an Historic Hotel
in Memphis Tennessee called the Peabody
and it's said that the famous Peabody
ducks own the hotel they're basically
celebrities treated like royalty and
hundreds of people gather every day to
see a tradition that dates back 90 years
the march of the Peabody ducks why do
you see this meet the duck Master Mr
Keenan Walker
the duck March ceremony is exclusive to
the Peabody Hotel in Memphis Tennessee
there was a general manager back in 1933
that went on a duck hunting trip with a
friend of his over in Arkansas that's a
practical joke they decided to bring
back the live duck decoys that they were
using and set them loose inside that
Fountain some of the general manager
woke back up the next morning in a
clearer mind state I'm sure he probably
got up with his life
when he got down here there was a crowd
of people standing around the fountain
staring into these ducks so that led to
ducks living in the fountain within
seven years later a man by the name of
Edward Pembroke just so happened that he
was an animal trainer in the Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus as
a young man and he was the one that came
up with the idea of turning the Ducks
that's living in the fountain into a
ceremony
I have the honor and the pleasure of
marching the Ducks for you all this
morning my title here at the Peabody
Hotel is of the duck Master a very
unusual title to hold it's my job to
train the team of ducks that we have
here and they have a 200 000 duck Palace
upstairs on the rooftop there would be
at least two to three hundred people on
the busy days the number of people doing
the Doug Marshall we're talking into the
thousands
ladies and gentlemen if I may direct
your attention to the elevators having
just left their penthouse on the roof to
join you
looking good ladies and gentlemen the
march of the world famous Peabody ducks
all the way to the Fountain I need
everybody to use the steps come on
Douglas let's do it
everybody say good morning duckies
fantastic all right everybody use those
steps for me everybody up the steps
looking good there's one two three four
and five great job Dougie to know you're
providing an experience that's unlike
any other it's a privilege and I don't
consider it a job I feel like it's a no
pun intended but it's a calling
we love puns and they should always be
intended all right I told a teradiddle I
will Quack a joke today what did Ducks
wear to fancy parties
tuxedos all right we had some great your
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words are off the charts awesome thanks
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a petty lie and thanks to Pocono
Mountain East High School for overmorrow
meaning the day after tomorrow well done
shout out time now we're headed to
Massachusetts to tingsborough home of
the Griffins Greater Lowell Technical
High School you rock we hope you and
everyone watching around the world have
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