[music] >> What's up, sunshine?

Happy Monday.

I'm Coy Wire, you're watching CNN 10.

Today, we've got school cafeterias trying to make lunches less shelf-stable, a former NFL player putting his money where his planet is, and a polar bear goes to the dentist.

Stay tuned for all those stories, but first, on this day, 79 years ago, it was lights, camera, action at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as President Harry S.

Truman delivered the first televised presidential White House address.

Truman used the speech to urge Americans to cut back on grain consumption as part of the Marshall Plan, his administration's program to help a famine-stricken Europe recover from World War II.

But that wasn't even the first time Truman made TV history that year.

9 months earlier, he delivered the first televised State of the Union address to Congress.

>> What we do or fail to do at home affects not only ourselves, but millions throughout the world.

>> While TV was still a nascent technology at the time, just beginning to develop or grow, it would explode in popularity over the next decade.

By the 1950s, millions of Americans no longer just listened to their radio for their news, they could watch it from their living rooms.

Turns out Truman was truly ahead of his times.

These days, politics and television are virtually inseparable, right?

Campaign ads, televised debates, the White House press conferences.

Here's your knowledge bomb for the day, though.

The S in Harry S.

Truman stands for S.

His parents famously couldn't decide which grandparent to name him after, and they compromised on the single initial name.

Whether or not the S gets a period has become a decades-long debate, did you know?

With government buildings, style guides, even aircraft carriers all sporting different variations.

Now to a new push to overhaul school lunches.

The White House is calling for public school cafeterias to serve less ready-made ultra-processed food and instead provide more meals cooked from scratch using fresh ingredients.

But many school districts say making those changes won't be easy due to outdated equipment, limited kitchen space, tight federal funding, and more.

CNN's Meg Tirrell takes us to a school in Connecticut to see the challenges and a school in Colorado to see what's working.

>> Imagine preparing lunch for 300 kids every day in here.

>> When the doors opened, like it was claustrophobia.

>> Well, we have a very old building that was opened in the early '60s, [music] and so it was sort of piecemealed with the cafeteria.

They didn't serve hot lunch at the time that it was built.

>> administration wants to encourage schools to do more cooking from scratch.

The problem is spaces like this.

>> I have absolutely no idea how I would do it here.

>> This is Thomas Hooker Elementary School in Meriden, Connecticut.

They've cobbled together a kitchen out of that closet, this hallway, and this office, which also doubles as their washing space.

Out there, you've got their only prep space.

>> The orange glaze comes, you know, in a shelf-stable container that she heated up.

The chicken is a frozen popcorn [music] chicken product.

The burgers are a pre-cooked burger patty that's reheated.

>> The administration has promised to make childhood nutrition a central focus from HHS to USDA.

>> We traded real food for convenience.

>> And our kids were left to pay the price.

>> Which is making $70 million in federal grants available for schools to upgrade equipment.

But out of $20 allocated so far, Connecticut has received about $209,000.

The school district in Meriden alone spent more than that last year.

>> I spent $175,000 on equipment last year out of my own budget, and $150,000 on repairs and maintenance.

>> Wow.

So, and the 209 is for the entire state, so >> Correct.

Correct.

>> The administration is also finalizing a proposed new school nutrition rule based on updated dietary guidelines.

>> What do you think you would need in order to be able to do that?

>> I would need an addition.

>> [laughter] >> Like a new physical structure.

>> we would we would need definitely more space for food preparation, for sure.

Definitely more ovens, more refrigeration, more work space.

>> Around the country, 16% of school districts are already doing some scratch cooking.

Littleton, Colorado built this kitchen last year, and makes about half of their lunches from scratch.

>> This full project of our production kitchen in Littleton cost a bit over $4 million.

We feed [music] roughly 7,000, a little bit more than that.

>> But schools say they still need more resources.

>> I budget around $100,000 for equipment every year.

In a perfect world, I would be budgeting about $350,000.

>> Anything will help, but it won't get me there.

It's just insufficient.

>> Tick tick tick tick 10 second trivia.

Which of these is the world's oldest international sporting competition?

America's Cup, World Cup, Ryder Cup, or Tour de France?

If you said America's Cup, your knowledge is in shipshape.

The esteemed sailing competition dates back to 1851, and the trophy is actually named after a boat, not a country.

The America, a 100-ft schooner, won the inaugural race around England's Isle of Wight.

Kelvin Beachum spent his NFL career protecting quarterbacks.

Now, he's helping a different sport think about protecting its own playing field.

I spoke to Kelvin about how his love of the water led him to a passionate new partnership with SailGP, the racing league whose basic premise is, "If the ocean is your racetrack, you have a responsibility to protect it." >> As a football player, you know this all too well.

We fly a lot.

We fly all over the world.

We fly all over the country.

And we fly, you know, now over the oceans with us playing in international games.

And I think we have an obligation to ensure that the oceans that we're flying over have the ability to endure not only our lifetime, but our children's, children's, children's lifetimes.

>> You're an NFL offensive lineman from Texas, not exactly the resume you'd expect for a SailGP guy.

How did you get hooked on sailing?

>> You know, for me, man, it's it's fascinating just to see movement and how movement can occur in a number of different ways.

Um as an offensive lineman, I get to move people.

And what's great about watching SailGP is watching the wind and watching the water really test the wills of athletes at a very, very high level.

I've had the opportunity to watch them in San Francisco.

I've tried to get to some of the international opportunities.

I've cashed it um for years online and and been fortunate to be a part of of of Impact League, which has allowed me another purview to see SailGP and everything that it's doing and all the good work that it's doing as well.

>> For someone who's never seen SailGP, uh these boats can fly across the water at more than 60 mph.

What makes the sport itself so cool to you?

>> You know, the thing is is is is mother nature doing the work, honestly.

And it's seeing these, you know, uh high-performance athletes being able to wield their way to use mother nature in their advantage to find a way to win, you know, these particular races and these particular matches.

And what's so great about it is every region has something different to offer.

The Middle East, Europe, uh America, South America, you know, anytime they're having these races, each location has something different to add.

You know, a football field, it's the same football field whether you're playing it in, you know, you play it in in in Buffalo now at Highmark Field or whether it's when I was there in Pittsburgh at Heinz Field.

Like, it's a football field.

But, when you're going to Southeast Asia and and and they're in Singapore or you're going to the South of France or you're going to Chicago, which is another place I had the opportunity to see the race, there's different climates and the wind and the water is much different in each of those locations.

>> When you talk to kids about water and conservation, what's one thing you hope sticks with them?

>> You know, I think the one thing that I ask that sticks with young people is go and explore.

You really don't know what the world has to offer unless you take the time to go and explore.

And what's beautiful about, you know, some parts of the world is you have access to looking at water, whether it's a big lake, whether it's a big river, and then find a way to serve wherever you happen to be at.

Sometimes, you know, kids don't know where to start.

Just go find whatever you're passionate about and start serving there in that particular regard.

>> And you know, sometimes it's as simple as you see a piece of trash floating in the water or sitting alongside it, just pick it up.

You're doing something that's bigger than you realize.

>> [music] >> Today's story getting a 10 out of 10, a creative team of veterinarians who fought tooth and nail to help their zoo's beloved polar bear.

Meet Kova, a polar bear at the Alaska Zoo, who wasn't acting like herself lately.

>> Kova is a very interactive and and busy bear, and she just seemed kind of off.

She was pawing at her mouth a little bit.

We could see that she had broken one of her canines, and there's any number of ways she could have done that.

>> Ouch.

After a few massive x-rays and conversations with experts, the zoo's veterinarians decided to team up with a local Alaska endodontist.

And that's a mouthful, but also a dentist who specializes in root canals or cleaning out infections deep inside teeth.

Perhaps not so surprisingly, this was the first time they had performed a root canal on a fully sedated 450-lb bear.

The tooth was treated and the whole operation a success and that is as cool as a polar bear's toenails.

All right, we have time for a shout out today and this one goes to Ms.

Green Tree and friends at St.

Francis of Assisi Catholic School in Newcastle, Ontario, Canada.

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Let's make Monday a fun day.

I'll see you right back here tomorrow.

I'm Coy Wire and we are CNN 10.