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What's up, sunshine? Hope you had a
wonderful weekend. I'm Koi Wire. This is
CNN 10. Happy Cinco de Mayo. And while
we like to celebrate this holiday in the
US, did you know Cinco deayo is not a
federal holiday here or even in Mexico?
It's actually mostly observed in one
Mexican state, Pueebla, to celebrate
Mexico's victory over French forces at
the Battle of Pueba on May 5th,
1862. As the years went on, many
Mexican-American communities in the
Southwest began holding Cinco deio
celebrations here in the United States.
And over time, the holiday became
popularized as the cultural celebration
of Mexican heritage and traditions that
we know today. the more you
know. Now that we've kicked off the show
with that fun Cinco de Mayo fact, let's
get our minds right with some knowledge
and information. Your 10 minutes of news
starts now. We begin today with student
loans. When a college student can't
afford to pay for their tuition, whether
through scholarships, grants, or
hard-earned savings, they can turn to
the government to borrow money and pay
it back after they graduate. When the CO
19 pandemic hit the US, the federal
government decided to give college
students a break and said they could hit
pause on paying those loans back every
month and without any extra punishments
for paying them off later. Well, 5 years
later, that pause is coming to an end.
And today, students have to get back to
paying off that debt. Here's the White
House press secretary on the matter. The
student loan portfolio controlled by the
federal government is nearly $1.6 $6
trillion. But fewer than four out of 10
borrowers are in repayment. This is uns
unsustainable, unfair, and a huge
liability for American taxpayers. Now,
the department is asking millions of
borrowers with defaulted student loans
to pay up by resuming their collections.
Student loans go into default after 270
days without payment. And borrowers who
don't make payments could be facing some
major punishments as soon as this
summer. If these students or former
students don't pay what they owe, the
government could even make their
employer take a chunk of money from an
employees paycheck to pay a debt. Now,
there are some lawmakers that believe
some of this student debt should be
erased entirely, in part because tuition
at American universities and colleges is
at an all-time high. Here's
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
So, remember that the proposal is to
have income caps on it. So, it's not
cancelling student loan debt for people
who are making a bazillion bucks. I know
everyone wants to talk about, you know,
the person with the fancy diploma or
whatever. 40% of these folks never
graduated from college. So, they're
wrestling with student loan debt on what
you make as a high school graduate. It's
time to turn them loose. All right,
let's take a moment to discuss amongst
ourselves. Press that pause button if
you have to. Put your politicians cap
on. What do you think? Should the
government let some of these students
off the hook? If so, why? If not, what
are some of the reasons these students
should pay the money they owe? Also,
what types of questions might this topic
bring about the cost of college tuition
and paying for it in general? Now, to a
stunning story of survival in South
America. Bolivian officials say three
women, a child, and an airplane pilot
were rescued Friday morning, two days
after their small plane crashed into the
Amazon jungle into an alligatorinfested
swamp. The pilot says he believes that
jet fuel from the crash plane likely
deterred these alligators from coming
too close to them. Listen, we were
practically with the water under our
knees and it was deep. We couldn't swim
and because of the wild animals around,
we couldn't move to harder ground.
I thank God more than anything for a
second chance that we are all here
alive. Miraculously, no one was hurt and
they survived on rations of chocolate
and cassava flour before local fishermen
spotted the group and called for help.
The Bolivian Defense Ministry, they said
about an hour after takeoff, the pilot
reported technical issues before all
contact with the aircraft was lost. The
group was airlifted to the city of
Trinidad, their original
destination. 10sec trivia. What European
nation was home to the first training
facility for dogs in law enforcement?
Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, or
France. If you said Belgium, put your
hands up. The earliest K9 training
facility started in Gent, Belgium in
1899. They trained Belgian sheep dogs
and wolf hounds, and their methods
became the basis for the first K-9 units
in Europe and the US. The roles of
canine helpers have expanded to not only
help police and military units, but also
save lives when a conflict is over.
Because even when fighting ends, many
communities in conflict areas face the
threat of landmines and other military
ammunition that was fired but maybe
didn't detonate as planned. One facility
in Bosnia trains these dogs to be
experts at sniffing out the components
in explosive weapons. And they've been
sent to conflict zones across the globe,
including Ukraine, which is in its third
year of war with Russia. Our Isabelle
Rosales tells us more.
Sit,
stay, search. At this Bosnian facility,
a dog's training can be the difference
between life and death. Tail wagging as
she springs for a red ball.
May isn't just learning to fetch. She's
learning to sniff out landmines.
Since the establishment of the center,
more than 500 demining dogs and hundreds
of dogs for other purposes have been
trained. Norwegian People's Aid runs his
Sievo training center, sending dogs to
conflict zones around the world.
Countries like Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Iraq,
and now Ukraine. Landmines and unexloded
ordinance litter Ukrainian land. After
more than three years of war, the
country is the most mined in the world.
The UN
says it's a deadly mess. Also a blow to
exports and tax revenue as undetonated
explosives and agricultural fields keep
farmers away. 26 specially trained dogs
have been sent to some of the most in
battle regions of Ukraine so far, and
more will soon join them. agents like
May whose keen canine senses are vital
to the safety of civilians and soldiers
alike.
We have this expression, this parallel
which says, "One mind found, one family
saved." And it all starts here. Paws
scurrying, tails wagging, heroes in the
making. Now to a remote region in the
Brazilian Amazon, where a once isolated
indigenous community just got access to
the internet for the first time. The
villagers there now have the ability to
get online because of the Starlink
satellite run by Elon Musk. It's changed
warfare in Ukraine, sped up Wi-Fi on
airplanes, and now connecting the most
remote corners of the world. Our Nick
Payton Walsh traveled into Brazil to see
what it was like when they logged in for
the very first time.
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It is night when the village really
joins the new online world. increasingly
one, but they are together alone. I
don't want peace. I want problems
always.
Kids use their parents' cell phones. And
oddly, adults explain how to use them. A
new right of passage so distant from
being taught
fishing.
Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign
speech.
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adults even after a year here aware the
damage these machines can do to them but
especially to children. If you want to
learn more about this fascinating effort
to get internet access to remote regions
of the world, check out the whole story
with Anderson Cooper. You can stream it
on Macs or YouTube. 2,000 miles away
from that remote village, a starkly
different scene in Brazil's capital, Rio
de Janeiro. Global pop icon Lady Gaga
throwing a free concert for more than
2.1 million fans on Copa Cabana Beach.
There's no official tally yet, but that
would make it one of the biggest shows
of her career. Before the show, Gaga
surprised her fans, who she calls Little
Monsters, with a rehearsal performance.
Listen, I know that this is not the
first show here.
I know that it's just a rehearsal,
but
it feels like it's the real show.
City officials say Gaga's visit could
pump more than 100 million bucks into
its economy. More than half a million
tourists traveled to Rio to attend the
massive concert. That's more than twice
the number the city
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expected. Today's story getting a 10 out
of 10. An Olympic gymnast with a
vaulting ambition to turn some young
kids worlds upside down. 21-year-old
Frederick Richard of Boston,
Massachusetts, who took home a team
bronze at last summer's Paris games,
just took a leap at the world record for
most consecutive back flips in 24 hours.
He did
1,111 flips live streamed each and every
jump, tuck, and stick. Guinness has to
formally acknowledge the feat, but the
record isn't even what was important to
Frederick. The whole point of this Tik
Tok campaign was to raise money to send
gymnastics equipment to kids in Uganda.
We broke down costs of what equipment I
want to bring there. Mats, springboards,
trampolines, mini trampolines. That's to
start them off. Storage facilities,
logistics of shipping, and that's what
it's going to take to really make a big
difference. Frederick says gymnastics
shaped his life and he hopes to continue
raising money so that the sport of
gymnastics can become more accessible
across the entire continent of Africa in
his lifetime. We are floored by your
story, Frederick. Your feed has us
flipping out. Way to tumble into realms
of possibility and raise the bars on
what it means to give back. You are
beaming with positivity and a world
record holder that has quite the rings
to it. All right, time to show some love
to one of you. Today's shout out goes to
Mrs. Ames special education class at
Simmons Middle School in Oaklan,
Illinois. Rise up. Thank you for
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shout out requests. Let's do it again
tomorrow, shall we? I'm Koi Wire and we
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