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Hello and rise up. I'm Ky Wire with your
daily 10 minutes of news from around the
world right here on CNN 10. Happy Friday
Eve. Random thought Thursday for you.
What does the TNT shirt stand for? I do
not know the answer to this one. Let a
brother know. All right, your 10 minutes
of news starts now. We start with a pair
of tangential stories having a big
impact on a bunch of back tochoolers. In
Philadelphia, major cuts to the city's
mass transit system are making commutes
more difficult for students who rely on
public transportation to get to school.
The city's transit authority, known as
SEPTA, has been forced to cut more than
20% of its bus and rail routes due to
budget shortfalls. And the effects took
place just one day before the city's
largest school district went back to
school. Our affiliate there says this
has left more than 50,000 students who
rely on the service, dealing with larger
crowds, longer weights, and fewer
options. As pressure grows on the state
lawmakers there to reach a solution, it
appears the situation could get even
worse. Even more cuts, and higher fairs
are set to take effect next week. And in
Iowa, a year'sl long teacher shortage is
continuing to put the strain on
educators as the Hawkeye State goes back
to school. The Iowa Department of
Education says more than 660 full-time
teaching positions remain unfilled and
teachers are feeling the impact.
>> It's obviously really difficult to have
a shortage because that just means that
teachers who are already working really
hard and trying to do everything they
can for their students have to fill in
those gaps. The Iowa Department of
Education says special education,
science, English language arts, and
mathematics are the subjects with the
most vacancies. They also say the
shortage has actually improved in recent
years, down from more than 900 years
ago. But educators worry this shortage
could have an impact on the next
generation of teachers.
>> Even students who might have a passion
to be a teacher are often being
discouraged from teaching and they go
into other professions. and even some
that are actually going into teaching
decide, I'm gonna go elsewhere where
teachers are more supported than they
are in Iowa.
>> The state, for their part, says teachers
recently received an historic pay raise
as part of a nearly $100 million
investment in K through2 education. And
Iowa is hardly alone with this struggle.
According to the Learning Policy
Institute, one in every eight positions
across the country were unfilled as of
July 2025. Let's put on our critical
thinking hats for a quick CNN 10 think
tank. What do you think is one of the
biggest reasons some states are
struggling to hire or keep teachers?
Unmanageable workloads, lack of freedom,
creating lesson plans, insufficient
resources for their classroom, or if
other, what do you think it might be and
why? Press pause, discuss with your
friends and fam, and see what you come
up with. Our next story is space news
and it reminds me of our quote of the
day from arguably the greatest NBA
player of all time, Michael Jordan, who
once said, "I've missed more than 9,000
shots in my career. I've lost almost 300
games. 26 times I've been trusted to
take the game-winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again
in my life, and that is why I succeed."
After three straight test flights that
failed to get the Starship spacecraft to
a safe landing, SpaceX appears to have
finally figured out how to get this
version of the vehicle back through the
Earth's atmosphere intact and without
losing contact. The company says they
overcame every major obstacle in this
10th test flight of various spacecrafts
and that the two reusable parts splashed
down on opposite sides of the world.
They were able to successfully deploy
dummy satellites as well and even
relight a booster in orbit. This new
scaled up version of the spacecraft is
the most powerful rocket ever
constructed and could one day take
humans to Mars. Previous attempts had
either blown up in mere minutes into the
flight or spun out of control. If at
first you don't succeed, dust yourself
off and fly again. Pop quiz hot shot.
Salvatore Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci is
the most expensive piece of art ever
sold. How much did it go for? $24
million, 98 million, 220 million, or
$450 million bucks?
Purchased in 2005 for less than $10,000.
Damaged and overpainted, it sold in 2017
for $450.3
million at auction after a meticulous
six-year restoration.
This next door is a big dolly deal. A
graduate student at MIT has developed a
new process to restore heavily damaged
oil paintings using AI, a brushstroke of
genius, if you will. The modern-day Da
Vinci says the process could restore
damaged paintings faster and more easily
than traditional methods. I'ming it now.
I think you're van Going to love this
story. Take a look. The way we begin the
process of constructing the mask is we
scan the painting in very high
resolution to construct a virtually
reconstructed version of the painting.
Once that restored version, that image
exists, we find the different areas in
the painting that need to be inpainted
based on what humans perceive as the
major damages. So that means that of the
hundreds of thousands of damages in the
painting in the study, only a few
percent of them are actually in painted
because they're the most visible ones to
us humans. That mask is then made on a
very thin membrane that's placed over
the painting and that restores the
damages on it. The transparent parts of
these membranes is only 30 microns thick
and that's thinner than a human hair.
You can see the regions that survived
underneath it. And it is a very easily
reversible bond. But really, the
intention was overall to try and get
more damaged paintings out from storage
and into public view. Cuz there are many
paintings that are damaged that I would
love to see. And it's a real shame that
there just aren't the resources
necessary to restore them for us as
viewers to go enjoy them.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Twin brothers choosing to be Marines
because they were rescued by a military
man 20 years ago. Tomorrow, the nation
marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina
made landfall in New Orleans. It was the
deadliest hurricane in recent US
history. But Jamari and Amari, babies on
the verge of starving during that time,
were scooped up by Lieutenant General
Russell Honore. CNN's Stephanie Elum has
more.
>> From hurricane evacuees,
>> congratulations, class of 2024,
>> to high school graduates.
For twins Jamari and Amari Reynolds,
this moment last year seemed improbable
at the beginning of their lives.
>> Right now, Hurricane Katrina looks like
>> in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina ravaged
New Orleans, survivors fought
challenging circumstances to stay alive.
We hadn't eaten in maybe 6 days.
Alexandria Wheeler, knowing she needed
to find help for her 6 and 1/2month-old
sons, waited through the water. When the
trio finally made it to the convention
center turned makeshift shelter in the
muggy heat, they were starving and
dehydrated, the infants nearly limp.
That's when Lieutenant General Russell
Honor, the decorated commander who led
the military response to hurricanes
Katrina and Rita, came to their aid.
folks in Washington, they were looking
at calendars and we were looking at a
clock.
>> It was a moment CNN caught on camera.
>> He was like, "God's angel. If it wasn't
for him, we wouldn't be here today."
>> For years, Wheeler says she tried to get
in contact with Honor to thank him for
his kindness. But it would take another
storm, Hurricane Harvey, threatening
their new home in Houston in 2017 to
bring them together again.
>> Then there's some who that boys over
here.
Who that?
>> Wheeler sent honore a message on social
media and he responded.
>> We don't even have words to put into our
mouths to thank you enough or to repay
you back for what you did.
>> Nearly 20 years after their lifealtering
encounter. Honor celebrated the young
men on their graduation day.
>> I affectionately refer to you as the
Katrina twins because the world got to
meet you that day. Jamari and Amari
after a lifetime made possible in part
by the man in uniform chose to honor
honore each in his own way. Amari joined
the Marine Corps and is currently
deployed overseas.
>> I chose to be in the Marines because I
watched over the video and I kept
watching and it inspired me to want to
help people a lot more.
>> You got to learn how to say that word.
Hurrah.
>> Turns out Jamari will have to learn the
lingo, too. After about a year and a
half of studying automotive engineering,
he's also enlisting in the Marines and
will head to boot camp later this year.
>> I would like to thank you so much for
your bravery, your help that I was able
to survive.
>> How do you feel hearing that these two
young men are pursuing these careers
that have been inspired in part by you?
>> I feel so gratified. I mean, there's no
greater service than the service to
others. Now, coming up tomorrow, we have
a CNN 10 special 20 years after Katrina.
We'll discuss the what, why, and hows of
what happened and how some of the people
of New Orleans have come back stronger
than ever. We have Dr. Sanjay Gupta, our
meteorologist, Alli Chinchar, joining us
for the CNN 10-minute special. All
right, family. Time for some Thursday
shoutouts. This one goes to our friends
at ACT, at Academy in Lewis Central,
Ohio. Thank you for the dog treats. Now,
I do not have a dog, but Nadair does.
Nadair, tell Chewbacca Koi Boy has
snacks.
Chewy. And this shout out goes to Miss
Clemente at Kenny Gwyn Middle School in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Let's go. Thank you
for watching everyone. We'll see you
right back here tomorrow. I'm Koi Wire
and we are CNN 10.