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hello sunshine hope you had an awesome
Thanksgiving break it is November 27th
motivation Monday and to honor it a
quote from former South African
president and social rights activist
Nelson Mandela who once said it always
seems impossible until it is done we
start today with something that once may
have seemed impossible possible for many
of those affected by the conflict in the
Middle East but it has happened in a
breakthrough Tru deal Israel and Hamas
agreed on a temporary pause in fighting
and the first largescale release of
hostages and prisoners who were taken on
October 7th it began on Friday when 24
hostages left Gaza and 39 Palestinian
women and miners were released from
Israeli prisons over the weekend we
continued to see the emotional reunions
of families who hadn't seen each other
for weeks under a 4-day truce deal
Israel and Hamas agreed on the release
of a total of 50 hostages from Gaza and
150 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli
jails now we're going to zip on over to
our next story of the Day in the US
Black Friday the Friday after
Thanksgiving is not what it used to be
years ago Black Friday shopping crazes
could sometimes lead to stampedes even
injuries at stores but now American
Consumer habits around the holiday
shopping season have changed here Jen
Sullivan with the how and the
why the Mad discount Dash associated
with Black Friday appears to be slowing
clearly the month of November has
changed really since the pandemic more
Shoppers are looking to score deals
online as many consumers gear up for
Cyber Monday a pretty big shift from the
black Fridays I remember about a decade
ago where people would line up early
outside the stores now people are
shopping in their pajamas it's not just
the convenience of shopping from home
that has consumer scaling back on intore
shopping many retailers rolled out their
discounts much earlier this year to
entice people to spend sooner actually
started as early as early October and
will go right till Christmas time the
Black Friday deals have already
generated nearly $0 billion in online
sales according to Adobe analytics
that's 7 and a half% more than a year
ago but Black Friday is only the
penultimate attempt by retailers to
ratchet up their sales today marks the
final substantial day of holiday
shopping deals Cyber Monday designed for
online Shoppers did you know that Cyber
Monday is expected to generate a record
$ 122 billion in sales according to
Adobe analytics Adobe says SmartWatches
TVs toys and gaming products were the
bestselling categories this year they
also saw a notable increase in Shoppers
who went for buy now pay later options
47% more Americans use this flexible
payment method compared to last year and
while that may mean that they may end up
paying a bit more because of interest
that works better for some now Pop Quiz
Hot Shot 10c trivia what is the oldest
operating ballpark in Major League
Baseball Wrigley Field Fenway Park
Dodger Stadium or Yankee
Stadium opening in 1912 Fenway Park with
its iconic left field wall opened 2
years before
Wrigley although baseball season might
be over in the US one of the sports most
iconic venues is still active in an
unexpected way as we celebrate our
shared home this call to Earth Day CNN
went to the city of Boston to take a
look at an urban farm unlike any other
sitting above the front offices of the
Boston Red
Sox hours before the gates open on a Red
Sox game day in late August at Fenway
Park in
Boston a different team is hard at work
as these crops continue to come out
we'll plant in Fall greens we'll plant
in Lett
uses this is Fenway Farms a 5,000 ft
Garden area on a section of Rooftop at
the oldest active Major League Baseball
Park in America you know agriculture
happens everywhere we're just bringing
it up off the ground and putting it up
on a roof I Chris grower is a farmer and
the president of Green City Growers
which operates this Farm in some 200
other locations including at 40 Boston
Public Schools but none are as visible
and perhaps surprising as Fenway Farms
there's a desire for people to have more
locally grown fresh produce and interact
with the people who are growing and and
distributing that fresh produce and I
think when you have such high visibility
like you do at a garden like this people
start to see that it's possible and it
can really be the seed to start the new
Revolution towards food system
transformation The Garden first opened
in 2015 recycled milk crates formed the
raised Planters these are fingerling
type potatoes irrigated by a special
system that delivers the precise amount
needed to each
plant the produce doesn't have to travel
far just a short walk to chef Ron AEL
and his team operating the restaurants
and concessions at Fenway CTO delivery
how you doing bud good to be seen good
to see you beautiful onions right off
look at the size of those I have the
best chef job in the city well actually
maybe the country where I've got a
rooftop garden that the food travels 100
ft gets washed and gets served to
everybody and then this dish that Sean's
putting together is is simple potatoes
we harvested this morning we've got
purple potatoes we got finger in
potatoes heirloom carrots of different
colors and he just steamed them lightly
and they get seasoned
lightly Green City Growers estimates
Fenway Farms reduces the need for
produce to purchase at the venue by 20%
mostly we look at quantities and what we
can go through and we also look at
perishability so there are challenges
here we can't predict what Mother
Nature's going to give us anything left
over along with what's harvested from a
smaller designated area next to the main
Farm is donated to a local food rescue
and distribution organization called Len
spoonfuls we can produce anywhere from 4
to 6,000 lbs of fresh produce a year
depending on what we're growing and so
the range of vegetables asparagus to
zucchini making the iconic green of
Fenway Park even
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today's story getting a 10 out of 10 The
Great Escape Shelly Betts from Georgia
and her family were busy decorating
their home for Christmas and when it was
time to clean up all the mess their
Robot vacuum was nowhere to be found
until they found video evidence of the
mysterious getaway here's jeie MOS with
more Roomba is supposed to work for you
Alexa can you tell Roomba to clean under
the kitchen table but who knew a Roomba
could turn the tables by disappearing we
could not find him and we looked under
all the furniture unbeknownst to Georgia
resident Shelly Betts Roomba headed out
the front door they'd left open we were
doing Christmas decorations in and out
and he escaped two days later shelle's
husband found him under a bunch of
leaves how far did he actually get to be
honest he didn't get very far maybe 10
yards it was after they found it that
they looked back at their ring camera
and witnessed his Escape we were
laughing hysterically so was the
internet the little Roomba that could
now that's a clean getaway clean but
Roomba was a mess he lost his padding
and his brushes though he still works he
did his job you know he was doing what
he's he was born to do so she saluted
The Runaway roomba's Escape by adding
the George Michael class
classic without Roomba the family was
left in a
vacuum shout out time now we're showing
love to Campbell Middle School in Smyrna
Georgia rise up and the Panthers at
Thomas W Pile in Bethesda Maryland keep
shining Miss Hyman and Nora we see you
thanks to all of you who have subscribed
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for your shout out request let's make
Monday great and do this again tomorrow
shall we I'm Ki wire and we are CNN
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