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today with an update from the war in
Gaza. As we've previously reported, ever
since the terror attacks in October of
2023, the Israel Hamas conflict has
escalated and the topic of how to end
the war has been divisive to say the
least. There have been a lot of politics
involved, a lot of blame. But behind all
of that, there are lots of innocent
people, many of them children, who are
having to endure the fallout of the
ongoing war, including a starvation
crisis in one of the most densely
populated places on Earth. Some of the
images you're going to see in this next
report are really tough to see. In the
past two weeks, borders have been
closed. Aid trucks have been delayed or
blocked, and Gaza's food system has
collapsed. In some areas, basic things
like flour, clean water, and baby
formula have become impossible to find.
This week, Israel's military responded
to the crisis by resuming what they
called a tactical pause. That has opened
some routes for funneling aid into
certain parts of the enclave. But
international pressure is building on
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu who says there is no hunger
crisis in Gaza. He has suggested that
some of these videos are not real. The
US is committing to more involvement in
getting food to the civilians who need
it. France, Spain, and Germany began
airdropping aid into Gaza this past
Monday. Our chief medical correspondent,
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, explains what happens
to the human body when it does not get
the nutrition it needs. Again, these
images are disturbing, so if it's too
much for you at any point, feel free to
fast forward to the next story.
>> The expression skin and bones doesn't do
it justice. They're every single rib
visible.
>> That's Dr. Nick Maynard. He's a surgeon
volunteering in a hospital in southern
Gaza. His patients are among the 2
million residents of the Gaza Strip now
in the midst of a hunger crisis.
According to the UN's World Food
Program, nearly a 100,000 women and
children alone are suffering from severe
acute malnutrition. That is actually a
specific medical diagnosis. And while it
may seem obvious, it occurs when people
simply can't get enough energy in the
form of calories. And often times, not
enough of the right nutrients inside the
few calories they do receive. Now, in
some people, severe malnutrition can
look like this, a condition known as
Morazzmus. It is distinctive and it is
frightening. You can actually trace the
skeletal outline of an individual
because of the significant loss of
muscle and fat. In others, particularly
in children, it can present as a
condition known as quashiore. That can
occur when there is severe protein
deficiency in a person's diet. In those
cases, the legs and even the abdomen
will actually swell because the body
starts to desperately retain fluids.
According to the UN's World Food
Program, as things stand now, a third of
Gaza's population hasn't eaten anything
at all for days in a row. And we know
when that happens, the body will begin
foraging through its own energy stores,
carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Then
the body's metabolism will slow, and it
will begin to have a hard time
regulating temperature. The kidneys and
immune system will weaken, making them
susceptible to infections. Eventually,
the body will fully start to turn on
itself, consuming muscle, anything to
try and sustain itself. Major organs
shut down and the heart stops. During
this conflict with Israel, the
Palestinian Health Ministry said 80% of
those who have died from malnutrition
were children. You know, this crisis
reminds me of the famine in Somalia in
2011. It was among the most difficult
and challenging reporting assignments I
have ever covered. brutal to watch
people die for lack of basic needs and
also come to grips with the fact that
mass starvation is too often the cost of
human politics.
>> I don't know what you would call it
other than mass starvation and it's
man-made
and that's very clear.
>> Now to a story about math machines and a
monumental win for the human brain. Are
humans smarter than AI? Most of us
probably initially think no. Well, think
again, my friends. At the 2025
International Mathematical Olympiad, or
IMO, five teenagers did something
incredible. They outperformed some of
the world's most advanced AI models. The
IMO is the world's toughest math
competition for high school students.
This year, it was held in Queensland,
Australia, with 641 students from 112
countries. Each contestant had two 4 and
a half hour sessions to solve six
mindbending problems. No calculators, no
internet, just brain power, baby. For
the first time ever, AI models from tech
titans Google and open AAI joined the
competition. These weren't mass specific
bots. They were general purpose
reasoning models trained to solve
problems in natural language. Both
Gemini Deepthink and OpenAI's
experimental model solved five out of
six problems, earning 35 out of 42
points. Enough for a gold medal. Pretty
impressive, right? Well, here's the
twist. Five human teens scored
perfectly, something no AI could match.
That means the top students beat the
bots. While AI has tackled Olympiad's
style problems before, like geometry
focused models in 2024, this was the
first time general purpose AI models
competed under full IMO conditions and
reached gold level scores. That makes
this year an historic moment for the
tech. But while AI crunched numbers,
these teens crunched the bots's dreams.
Fun fact, did you know the word robot
actually comes from the Czech word
robata, which means forced labor or
drudgery? As many of us humans can
relate, those robots may have felt
exactly that having to do all that math.
Pop quiz shot. Which of the following is
an artificial sweetener created entirely
in a lab? Sucralose, sucrose, galactose,
or fructose?
Answer is sucralose. and artificial
sweetener or non-nutritive sweeteners
similar to aspartame or saccharine. Most
artificial sweeteners are created from
chemicals in a lab, but some like
sucralose or stevia are made from
natural substances like fruits or herbs.
Next, a story with a little pop to it.
We're talking soda. We learned earlier
this week a new version of Coca-Cola is
on its way this fall. In addition to its
classic original formula, which uses
high fructose corn syrup, the iconic
global soda brand, will release a
version of its flagship product that's
sweetened with real cane sugar. There
was a presidential push for this
sweetener swap. President Donald Trump
took to social media to announce that
he'd been speaking to Coca-Cola. So,
what's the difference? Well, cane sugar
is a natural number produced straight
from sugar cane, a type of sugar called
sucrose. High fructose corn syrup is a
type of sugar made from processed corn
starch. It's the processed powerhouse of
the sugar world. And if you're wondering
which version is healthier, experts say
neither, actually, stating these sodas
are bad for our health no matter which
of these sweeteners is used. Now, to a
children's advocacy group that just
might inspire some young minds to go to
law school. A judge in Lee County,
Florida, volunteering one recent
Saturday morning to preside over kids
court where some convincing kiddos got
to argue their biggest cases,
grievances, and wish lists against their
parents.
>> And why do you want me corgi dogs?
>> Because I don't want to play with it.
>> One request was just one day a year to
be able to stay up late.
>> Disclaimer, we do not condone the
concept of pecking for perks with your
parents, but this is pretty creative.
This particular Florida program is
designed to help dads spend more time
with their kids while learning something
new.
>> We wanted to do a day where people could
come and learn about the basics of the
justice system and the court system.
>> I really did enjoy seeing her stand up,
be confident in front of the judge and
uh plead her case.
>> Cuteness alert. A rare zoological
occurrence. For the first time in nearly
a full century, a zoo in the UK is
celebrating the birth of a rare baby
snow leopard. Video shared by the
Chester Zoo showed the six-week old cub
playing with its mom in their cozy den.
The cub is not only the first birth of
its kind in the zoo's 94 year history,
it was the product of a pair of adult
snow leopards that were carefully
matched as part of an international
breeding program aimed at bolstering the
species which is classified as
vulnerable on the international union
for conservation of nature's threatened
species list.
[Applause]
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
summer program that's providing
rewarding lobster tunities for students
in Maine. Since 2022, the Lift All Boats
program has been connecting high school
students to the celebrated Maine
tradition of lobstering, an industry
that can be tough to get into if you
don't have a boat, gear, or the mentors
to get started. Beginner lobstermen
spend 10 weeks on the docks and water
setting and hauling traps, even
operating the boats to learn the ins and
outs and icks of the trade. Listen,
>> dealing with fish guts all day, seaweed,
like you should have seen me on the boat
earlier. I was covered in mud. It was
disgusting, but it's like I enjoy all of
it.
>> And one clawsome bonus, these lop stars
get to sell whatever they catch at the
end of their day. All right, superstars,
time for our shoutouts. Today's Summer
Friday shoutout is going to Columbia
Academy in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.
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