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Got a lot of stories to get to, not a
lot of time to do it. So, let's get to
it. We begin in Japan, where the
military has been deployed to help with
a spate of dangerous bear attacks. At
least 13 people have been killed. More
than 200 injured since just April of
this year. That's the highest numbers on
record. But hunters on the front lines
of the crisis say that they saw this
problem coming. They point to a changing
climate and habitat loss as key factors.
Our Haneko Montgomery has more.
>> Among Japan's frosted thicket lies an
animal. One so feared it makes humans
feel like prey.
This year, at least 13 people have died
in Japan from bear attacks. More than
200 have also been injured.
Embassies are even warning its citizens
to beware the bears. The panic so
widespread that people are now
sheltering indoors.
It's a problem these hunters say they
saw coming for years.
>> If the government had taken this
seriously earlier, it wouldn't have
gotten this bad. It's nonsense that
they're responding now only after things
have escalated.
To respond to this crisis, Japan has
deployed troops to the front lines. But
because the country's self-defense
forces are legally only allowed to use
their firearms for national defense,
they can't exterminate wild animals.
They can only provide logistical
support, like laying down traps, leaving
the actual calling to local hunters.
>> Haru Ikigami has called bears for over
four decades.
At 76, he still visits his traps every
morning to see what the knights brought
in.
>> How serious is this problem getting?
>> People are dead. This is a murder case.
>> Today, Ikigami's traps yield nothing.
>> Bad news for a local fruit farmer whose
crops were destroyed just days earlier.
The furry suspect leaving behind a trail
of evidence.
>> It's impossible to coexist with the
beers. One blow from them and you're
finished.
>> To Iami, the reason behind the increased
attacks is simple. Too many bears and
not enough hunters. While Japan's bear
population has doubled in the past few
decades, hunters, like much of Japan,
are aging and disappearing.
>> But experts say these attacks are only
increasing now, partly because of
climate change. With less fruit and nuts
in the wild, they prowl city centers
instead for their next meal.
More and more local governments in Japan
are having to simulate these bear
drills. And today the scenario is that a
bear has been spotted at some school
grounds and the police have been called
in. Local hunters have also been called
in and right now they're just deciding
whether or not they're going to actually
cull the bear.
>> After failing to scare the bear away,
they settle on the last resort.
>> Japan's demographic crisis also means
rural towns. Once buffers separating the
bear's habitat from cities are emptying
out, making it easier for bears to cross
into inhabited areas.
Japan's first response is blunt. Kill
bears that cross the red line. But
animal rights groups plead for different
solutions.
To keep bears at bay, Hiro Tamatani and
his group try several methods,
like using dogs to scare off the
animals.
Instead of culling, they capture and
tranquilize the bears, then insert chips
to track their location.
>> What do you think about the Japanese
government's solution to cull more
bears?
>> Rather than just trying to reduce the
number of bears, I think it's important
to identify which bears pose a serious
threat and respond specifically to those
individual bears.
>> This is an ancient fight for survival.
But as Japan scrambles to find solutions
that are fast and fair,
more lives, human and animal alike, will
likely pay the price. Now to Brazil,
where a beautiful yet bittersweet
natural phenomenon is underway in Rio de
Janeiro. The city's landscape has been
transformed by blooming talapot palm
trees, which flower only one time before
their death. The towering palms can
reach heights of more than 60 feet and
can take up to 80 years to produce a
singular bloom. The trees are native to
India and Sri Lanka, but were introduced
to Brazil in the 1960s by renowned
landscape architect Roberto Berle Marx.
The spectacle last occurred in 2010, and
it could be decades before it happens
here again. But death isn't the end for
these towering palms. The trees in the
city's botanical gardens will be cut at
the base once they die, enabling new
seedlings to rise and continue the cycle
for future generations.
10 second trivia. What is the deepest
lake in the world? Lake Ontario, Lake
Victoria, Lake Ball, or Lake Tangana?
If you said Ball, your knowledge is
deep. Located in Russia's Siberia
region, Lake Bol is not only the world's
deepest lake at nearly 5,400 ft, but
also the largest freshwater lake by
volume. Its surface area is larger than
the country of Belgium. Speaking of
Siberia, stunning new video shows the
moment fishermen spotted dozens of
helpless deer stranded on a frozen lake.
This time of year, snow over the icy
ground and frozen lakes typically allows
wildlife to trekk across the landscape
without much difficulty. But a brief
period of unseasonably mild temperatures
meant the surface snow melted and became
extremely slippery. Exhausted and unable
to get back on their feet, the deer
faced freezing to death or harming
themselves while attempting to escape.
At first attempt to rescue the deer, the
fishermen first carried the deer to
shore, then use sleds to pull them to
safety. Question for you. What do a
wedding dress, a prosthetic leg, and a
cooked frog have in common? This is not
a setup to a joke. It's a list of things
that have actually been lost aboard
trains and buses in London's massive
transit system. The peculiar possessions
are just a fraction of the nearly 6,000
items that wind up in the Transport for
London lost property warehouse every
week. The massive facility stores
thousands of lost items from umbrellas
to urns in an effort to reunite them
with their owners. Take a look inside.
>> So this section is our famous umbrellas.
These are the long umbrellas this time.
So, um this is lost property office for
transport for London. And we receive
items that have been lost on um
transport for London's modal system.
That's from London Overground, London
Underground,
um Elizabeth Line, Cross Rail, DLR, and
Black Taxi Cabs. Okay. So when the items
um are lost, they'll hopefully end up
here um if someone hands it in. And what
we do, we input it, put it into our
system, and collect as much information
regarding the item. So if you do inquire
about it, we'll try and match the item
and return it to you. In this room, we
keep all u mobile phones, as you can see
the mobile phones here. The red ones is
for black taxi cabs because, as you
know, that's part of your fail transport
as well. Um over here we have laptops,
mobile phones and um iPads and basically
um because of the lift when batteries.
So this room stays around 19° all time.
If the items are not found within the um
3 months, we um basically put all those
items together and decide if it should
go to auction or charity. This area is
one of my favorite areas. It's items
that we've kept for longer than 3
months, some as long as World War II.
One of the items I really like to look
at is the um stuffed puffer fish. Um cuz
it's just unbelievable. I mean, you
can't even hold it. And how they got
here, I don't know. That's actually one
of our oldest items. It's probably more
than 40 45 years old.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
daddy daughter dance that will melt our
hearts. At the Louisiana State
Penitentiary, also known as Angola
Prison, dozens of incarcerated fathers
were reunited with their daughters for a
firstofits-kind event. Dads wore
tuxedos, many for the first time, and
daughters ages 5 to 20 got ready with
the help of volunteer makeup artists and
stylists who donated their time and
supplies. The event reunited 29 fathers
and 37 daughters for a few hours and
offered families some unique bonding
time that they rarely get.
>> This moment right here today, soak it
in. I pray that we get many more of
these moments, but we don't know how
many we have.
>> They're my world. That mean everything.
The reason I keep going every day in
this place. The reason I fight to get
out of here. It won't make up for the
past time, but it's having our future.
Missed every single event in my little
girl's life. I mean, missed her first
steps, her first words. When she was
younger, I love you, daddy is something
that I just I rarely or hardly ever
heard.
>> I love you, Mary.
>> Missing all of that
affected me, but what it affected most
is her. and to have this day and be able
to share this moment together.
It's just it's it's going to be magical.
I just want her feel the love and just
have a good time and smile. If you want
to hear more about this inspiring story,
be sure to check out our friends over at
CNN's Five Good Things podcast. All
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