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What's up, sunshine? I'm Koiwire. You're

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watching CNN 10, the best 10 minutes in

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news because of you. It is your word

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Wednesday. One of you helped us write

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today's show with a vocabulary word you

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submitted. So, listen up to see if your

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word makes the cut. 10 minutes, big

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word. Let's rise up. Now, we start

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today. 3 years since a day that forever

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changed Israel, Gaza, and much of the

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Middle East. On October 7th, 2023, the

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terror group Hamas launched a massive

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attack inside Israel, killing about

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1,200 people and taking more than 250

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hostages. Israel responded with a

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military campaign in the Palestinian

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enclave of Gaza, where Hamas had

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governed since 2007. 3 years later, the

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human cost has been enormous. Gaza

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health officials say more than 70,000

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Palestinians have been killed, including

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many women and children. The United

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Nations estimates more than 90% of

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Gaza's housing and infrastructure have

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been destroyed or damaged, and many

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people have died from malnutrition, with

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many more still facing severe hunger. A

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ceasefire began in October of last year,

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leading to the release of hostages and

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Palestinian prisoners and allowing more

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humanitarian aid into Gaza, but it did

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not resolve the conflict. Israeli forces

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still control nearly twothirds of Gaza.

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Deadly strikes have continued. Hamas has

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indicated it could give up weapons under

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certain conditions, but the two sides

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remain far apart. Israeli Prime Minister

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Benjamin Netanyahu recently rejected the

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latest USbacked peace plan for the

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region. 3 years after October 7th,

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Israelis are still living in the trauma

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of the attack. Palestinians are still

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living through an enormous humanitarian

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crisis and the path toward lasting peace

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remains uncertain. Now to Chicago, where

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a river once famous for being well kind

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of gross has undergone a remarkable

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transformation. For generations, the

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Chicago River collected sewage, chemical

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waste, even abandoned cars. Not even

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wildlife would go near it. But thanks to

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efforts from nonprofits and city

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officials, Chicagoans are feeling less

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paranoia about the river and more of a

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sense of the waterway is even clean

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enough now to host an annual open water

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swim. Our Whitney Wild dives into how

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they did it.

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>> Today, Chicago's iconic river is

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flourishing. Wildlife has returned. Just

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last year, the city hosted a public swim

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to show off its clean waters for the

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first time in nearly a century.

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This year, though, the official swim was

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cancelled due to weather, an unofficial

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event brought swimmers to the now much

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cleaner waters. It's a stark contrast

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from a century ago when the author Upton

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Sinclair called the river a [music]

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great open sewer and the filth stays

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there forever and a day.

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>> When it comes to chemical poisons that

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have been dumped into the Chicago River,

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you name it, it has practically every

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one of them. Arsenic, cyanide, PCB, just

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to mention a few.

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>> Rapid expansion in the 19th century

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turned the city's most vital resource

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into its biggest eyesore. People used to

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throw anything in the river. And now

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they don't do that. Yeah. Cars. It used

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to be shopping carts. It used to be old

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cars.

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>> At the turn of the 20th century,

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engineers reversed the river's flow to

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bring fresh Lake Michigan water into the

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city's veins. The environmental movement

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of the 1960s and 70s ushered in more

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interest and investment. [music]

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>> Species of fish were seven or eight

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species in the 70s and now nearly 80.

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Nonprofits like Friends of the River

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funded advocacy and cleanups while the

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county broke ground on a massive

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reservoir system.

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>> Basically, we were holding about 3.5

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billion gallons of water right here.

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>> How does this help keep the river clean?

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Our reservoirs help keep the river clean

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because when we have these intense rain

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events and we have too much rainwater

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and waste water coming together at one

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time, we're able to store the water

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instead of it ending up in those

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unwanted places. If we weren't able to

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capture 3.5 billion gallons right here,

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that would be in our streets, in our

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basement, in Lake Michigan, in the

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Chicago River, basically contaminating

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our waterways. And with climate change,

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we're seeing more storms. We're seeing

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stronger storms. Do you feel like you're

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keeping up?

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>> I definitely think we're keeping up.

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Now, is this the one all solution?

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Absolutely not.

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>> Pop quiz shot. Nobel prizes are named

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after Alfred Nobel. Where was he born?

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Switzerland, Canada, Sweden, or Germany?

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If you said Sweden, your eye is on the

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prize. Nobel was born in Stockholm,

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Sweden in 1883. He became an inventor

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and businessman, and he bequathed his

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fortune to establish the iconic prizes.

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Fun fact, Alfred Nobel invented

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dynamite. Booyah! Nobel Prize season is

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officially lighting up. This year's

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prize in medicine is going to three

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scientists whose work gave researchers

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something once thought almost

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impossible. the ability to control

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individual brain cells with light.

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Stanford University professor Carl

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Daiseroth, German scientists Peter

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Hegamon and Gayorg Nagle share the prize

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for their work in optogenetics, which

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uses light to map the brain. The

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technique takes light sensitive proteins

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originally discovered in algae and uses

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them like tiny onoff switches inside

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selected nerve cells. Scientists can

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shine light on those cells, activate or

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silence them, and essentially test which

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brain circuits are involved in things

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like memory, movement, emotion, and

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behavior. The Nobel Committee says

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they've unleashed a new era in

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neuroscience, and their work could

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advance research into neurological and

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psychiatric disorders. Daiser says he

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was speechless when he got the news and

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had the chance to celebrate the surreal

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accomplishment with his family. From one

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Stanford grad to another, I see you,

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Nerd Nation. Four astronauts just made

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the fastest trip to the International

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Space Station ever. NASA's [snorts] Crew

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13 launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9

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from Cape Canaveral, Florida last week.

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At just under 8 hours, they pulled off

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the fastest launch to docking of a US

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spacecraft in the history of the

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International Space Station. For

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perspective, that's like the same as a

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commercial flight from New York to

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London. SpaceX says the faster trip

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wasn't because of any changes to the

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hardware. The station was just in an

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opportune spot in space and the crew

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could start their approach almost as

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soon as they reached orbit. The

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fiveperson crew will now spend about 6

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months in orbit studying human health

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and performance in zero gravity.

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

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kid who got to ring one very special

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bell. 11-year-old Payton Stewart was

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diagnosed two years ago with a rare

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genetic mutation. He spent six months in

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the hospital. Payton underwent a

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life-saving bone marrow transplant. Then

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on October 1st, Payton walked through

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that hospital surrounded by doctors,

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nurses, family, and friends, and rang

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that bell, celebrating a full recovery.

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Local station WVU in New Orleans has

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more.

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[cheering]

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>> Payton Stewart is a little boy with big

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dreams. One of them is to play in the

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NBA. A dream the staff at Manning Family

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Children's Hospital quickly learned

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about when [cheering] Payton arrived

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here in 2024. Suffering from a rare

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mutation called stat one gain of

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function.

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>> So at that time we didn't know what was

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the cause of it. We knew his red blood

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cells were getting destroyed but we

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didn't know why.

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>> Payton's doctor says the condition

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caused his immune system to attack his

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own red blood cells and his only hope

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for a cure was a bone marrow transplant.

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His older brother AC was a match and

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they underwent the procedure. Their mom

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worried.

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>> It touched my heart to see the siblings,

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you know, pull together like that. And

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uh I was nervous during the process cuz

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both I had two children going through

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something at the same time. During the

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six months Payton spent at the hospital,

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the 11-year-old from Gulfport,

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Mississippi, seemingly won over

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everybody, including its CEO, who found

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himself going one-on-one with the

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aspiring Hooper.

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>> Somewhere along the way, uh, you stopped

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just being a kiddo that I visited in the

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hospital, and you became my buddy. Uh,

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we played basketball. Uh, me not very

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well. [laughter]

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>> Exactly one year after that

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life-changing transplant,

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[applause and cheering]

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Payton rang this bell celebrating his

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so-called rebirth. There weren't many

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dry eyes among the people who took care

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of him.

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>> Thank you for helping me through the

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hard days and giving me reasons to

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smile.

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You held my mom, too, and made us feel

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like family.

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>> Payton's doctor says his immune system

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is now healthy, and there's not much

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holding him back.

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>> Payton says he's ready to take a shot at

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this new life. Today, ringing this bell

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means I get to look forward to being

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home, playing basketball, and following

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my dreams, [snorts]

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including becoming the future CEO of

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Manning Family Children's Hospital,

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>> only after my NBA career, of course.

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>> And that is our 10. But before we go,

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did you catch our your word Wednesday?

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Congrats to Mr. MC at the High Road

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School in Wallingford, Connecticut, who

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submitted, "You knowa, a feeling of

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goodwill, cooperation, or beautiful

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thinking. We love any reminder to stay

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positive. Thanks for making us a little

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smarter today." And our shout out today

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goes to Mrs. Reeb at Ridge Park Charter

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Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She

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sent us these photos. One of her

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students, Sunpair, made this awesome

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rise up ceiling tile. And Mrs. Reed

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writes so the class can always look up

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and remember to rise up to any

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challenge. That is so humbling. Gives me

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and my whole team a sense of you knowya.

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Go out make someone smile today. I'm Koi

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Wire. This is CNN 10. You are more

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powerful than you know.