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Hello and happy Thursday. Happy Friday

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Eve. I'm Coy Wire here with your daily

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dose of CNN 10 for March 5th, 2026.

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While millions of Christians around the

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world are officially 2 weeks into their

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40 days of Lent, the tradition where

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people give up some sort of comfort or

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luxury as a way to refocus on their

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faith, there's another religious

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tradition just kicking off in India

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where large crowds took over the streets

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across the world's most populous nation

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on Wednesday to celebrate Holi, the

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festival of colors. Holi is celebrated

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at the onset of spring each year and it

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symbolizes renewal and fresh starts.

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This is one of those festivals where

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everyone is equal. No one is rich or

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poor. People belonging to every

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community or group come together. Now,

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Holi isn't just about color. It has deep

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meaning. The festival is connected to a

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traditional Hindu story about good

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overcoming evil. The night before the

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color celebration, families light

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bonfires in a ritual known as holika

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dian, symbolizing the victory of good

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over evil, forgiveness, and

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reconnection. The next day, people

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gather outside to toss colored powder

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called gulal and spray colored water on

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each other. For students in India, it's

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one of the most exciting holidays of the

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year. No school, lots of laughs and yes,

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a big Jackson Pollock painting looking

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sort of celebration. And Holi is not

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just celebrated in India. Indian

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communities in the US, the UK, and other

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parts of Europe have celebrations

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planned for later this week. We've been

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talking a lot about the economic fears

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many adults and soon to be graduates

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have about artificial intelligence

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taking jobs. Here's something to think

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about. These companies, they better not

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take away too many human jobs or there

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won't be many people who can afford to

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pay for the products they are making.

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But fears that AI could soon replace

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many of the skills and industry needs

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that justify jobs and careers in many of

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our everyday lives still justifiably

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persist. Well, a new tech startup called

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Meror AI is hiring experts to train AI

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to be even better. But the company says

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they believe this will actually benefit

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human society. Our Hadas Gold takes us

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behind the scenes.

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>> Meet the people training AI to replace

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your doctor, lawyer, banker. Brendan

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Footy is the 22-year-old co-founder and

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CEO of Merur, one of the hottest

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startups in Silicon Valley, valued at

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$10 billion.

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>> They manage a network of some tens of

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thousands of professional experts who

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help train the major AI models to think,

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act, and talk like them. Most people, I

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think, believe that AI just learns off

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the internet and what's out there. Why

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do you need humans involved in the

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process?

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>> The largest driver of AI progress right

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now is how do we effectively identify

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model mistakes, measure those mistakes,

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and allow models to learn from them. And

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so, the AI labs are hiring large armies

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of people to help create these data

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sets, and teaching models how to learn

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from them. The average expert is paid

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$95 an hour, although some specialized

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roles can earn up to $250 per hour. The

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most popular subject is software

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engineering, followed by finance, then

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medicine and law. Are these people not

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kind of training their future

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replacements?

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>> The way I think about it is that we're

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not going to run out of things to do as

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a society. We have so many problems that

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we need to solve. We need to cure

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cancer. We need to solve climate change.

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Um, and making everyone 10 times more

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productive so that they're able to

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better work on those key problems is

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going to be a huge, huge benefit to how

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we make progress as a society.

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>> Mccor experts present the AI they are

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training with a prompt, then grade their

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response using a rubric they've created

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in consultation with other experts in

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their field. Dr. Alice Chow is one of

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these experts. She used to teach at

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Stanford University's medical school.

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Now her student is an AI model. So tell

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me what it's like when you sit down in

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front of the computer. What are you

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doing?

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>> I am looking at the AI model that I'm

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working with and I am posing real life

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questions or challenges that I've faced

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or I've seen patients face and I ask the

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model provide me with the potential

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diagnosis. Suggest several treatments

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and list the evidence that you used to

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support these these diagnoses.

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>> I've heard from doctors that sometimes

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medicine is a lot about a gut feeling.

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Can you train an AI on that?

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>> So, this is where it's really important

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to note that the AI is not a doctor.

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It's not a human being. It does not have

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the 20 years of clinical experience that

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I or another one of my colleagues might

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have. This is where you need to be

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really careful.

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>> Do you ever feel like you're training

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your replacement?

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>> No, I do not. I I don't want to see it

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as AI taking over our jobs. I want to

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see it as AI taking over the aspects of

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our jobs that prevent us from being good

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doctors, good healers, and good

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listeners.

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Pop quiz hot shot. In which historical

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period was long-distance trade first

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established? The Bronze Age, the Middle

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Ages, the Renaissance, or the Industrial

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Age?

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If you said the Bronze Age, ding ding,

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you are correct. In Mesopotamia, people

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learned to mix copper and tin to create

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bronze, which made for stronger weapons.

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The need for different metals

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established trade networks that

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connected regions across Europe, Asia,

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and Africa. This next story brings the

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Bronze Age right through airport

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security in Philadelphia. US Customs and

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Border Protection officers just released

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these photos to the public. They

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intercepted 36 short swords and 50

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arrowheads last October, and they now

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know the weapons date back a minimum of

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4,000 years to the Bronze Age. The

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package arrived on a flight from the

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United Arab Emirates and was labeled as

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metal decoration articles. The box was

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headed to Jacksonville, Florida. But

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when officers x-rayed the package, they

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spotted something a little more pointy,

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and archaeologists later authenticated

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the artifacts as bronze age antiquities

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from what is now Iran. They date back to

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roughly 1600 to 1,000 B.CE and are

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thought to be from the Talish Mountains

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region near the southwestern Castian

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Sea. Former FBI agent Robert Wittmann

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suspects the weapons may have been

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purchased by a collector on the black

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market. The time period is very

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interesting to the uh to the collectors

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because it's the Bronze Age. So, we're

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talking u minimally 4,000 years ago.

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>> Investigators believe the artifacts may

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have been illicitly excavated from

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ancient burial sites where weapons and

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important belongings were often buried

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with the owners. Wittmann estimates the

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collection could have sold for 15 to

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$25,000 on the black market. For now,

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the swords and arrowheads are being

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safeguarded by CBP, or Customs and

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Border Protection. Investigators expect

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they'll eventually be returned to the

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Middle East, ensuring this piece of the

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past finds its way home.

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. a

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group of high school basketballers who

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went from riding the bench to the

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championship charter bus thanks to one

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secret weapon, a blue heart-shaped

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plastic bucket. CNN affiliate KCBS

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explains.

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>> Did you know?

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>> All right, girls. Phones in the bucket.

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Let's go. Phones in the bucket.

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>> That separating teenage girls from their

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cell phones makes them better at

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basketball.

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>> It has made a world of a difference.

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Just ask varsity girls head coach Sandra

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Duckering here at Sierra Vista High

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School in Baldwin Park.

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>> The one thing I noticed was we were

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super disconnected.

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>> Her observation that maybe the Dons kept

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losing games because they were making

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Tik Toks, texting, and scrolling on

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social media instead of being present

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with each other and confiscating their

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phones before practices and games. Just

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unlocked their best season in the

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school's history. Once they got

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connected, we got flow and it was was

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like just amazing. The game changed.

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Their bond changed.

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>> They started winning games by landslides

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leading to the school's first CAF

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Southern Division Championship win.

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>> And today they're boarding a bus to

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Bakersfield to play the school's first

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ever state championship playoff game.

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We've been ranked lower so we're kind of

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like the underdogs into in this story.

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>> The girls say the phone band freed up

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their attention so they could focus on

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working together as a team.

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>> Talking with each other as a team and

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just being with each other. I think that

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really got us close and we just been

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working hard.

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>> And that hard work is paying off thanks

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to a little help from their secret

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weapon.

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>> I want to be able to come home with

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another championship if we can. Like I'm

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willing I want to work hard. I know my

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teammates want to work hard.

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>> In honor of this ReadAcross America

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week, we are highlighting some of your

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favorite books and books you are reading

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right now. We want to spotlight Mrs.

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McCcluskeyy's class at Gotham Middle

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School in Windermir, Florida. Thank you

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for reading with us. Their class is

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diving into the book I will always write

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back. How one letter changed two lives.

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The true story follows an American

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student and one from Zimbabwe who become

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pen pals through a school assignment.

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Over the years, their letters grow into

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a powerful relationship that bridges

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continents, cultures, and different

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experiences. It's a powerful reminder

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that sometimes a single letter and a

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little curiosity about someone else's

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journey can help open the door to a

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whole new world. Keep turning those

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pages. Keep those stories coming.

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Message us on our Instagram page, CNN10,

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or email us at CNN10@cn.com.

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All right, superstars. One more shout

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out before we go and I hope this one

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sparks a little bit of a trend. Last

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month, Mr. Beby got a shout out and he

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wanted to pay it forward asking for a

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shout out for his favorite

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paraprofessional in another state. Mr.

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Huffman at Benton High School in St.

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Joseph, Missouri. Rise up and way to

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spread the love team. Hope you have a

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wonderful day. It's almost Friday. I'm

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Koi Wire and we are CNN 10.