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Good morning, good afternoon, and good

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evening everyone. I'm Allison Chinchar

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in for Koi Wire. Whenever you are

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watching today, I hope your Monday is

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off to a beautiful start because this

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week marks one of the most colorful

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holidays in the world, Diwali. Known as

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the festival of lights, Diwali is one of

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the most important holidays in Hinduism.

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It's also celebrated by people in other

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faiths including Janism, Sikism, and

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some Buddhists. The five-day celebration

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symbolizes the victory of light over

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darkness and good over evil. Now,

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families will decorate their homes with

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colorful lights, light small oil lamps

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called Diaz, share sweets, exchange

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gifts, and even enjoy some fireworks.

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Now over the weekend, a brilliant scene

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as more than three million oil lamps

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light up an Indian holy city in

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anticipation of the Hindu festival of

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lights. The colorful celebrations

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featured a drone show of scenes from the

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ancient story of Prince Rama who is

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believed to be an incarnation of the

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Hindu god Deatti Vishnu. Now Diwali is

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also a time for new beginnings, hope and

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happiness.

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to Indonesia now where NASA's Neil

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Geral's Swift telescope has re-entered

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Earth's atmosphere almost 22 years after

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its launch. Now, even though the

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telescope orbited hundreds of miles

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above Earth, the thin layer of

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atmosphere creates friction or drag,

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which gradually lowers a satellite's

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orbit over time. Swift descended too low

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to continue operating, and NASA ended

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its science mission on October 20th.

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Now, the spacecraft then fell back into

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the ocean near North Sumatra on November

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4th. Launched back in 2004 for what was

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supposed to be just a two-year mission,

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the telescope studied black holes,

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exploding stars, and gamma ray bursts,

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the most powerful explosions in the

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cosmos. Now, most of the spacecraft was

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expected to burn up during re-entry, but

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some components still remain intact. In

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the past, NASA has been able to recover

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pieces of spacecraft for further

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observation.

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It is time for 10 second trivia. What is

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the name of the filtering structure gray

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whales use instead of teeth? Is it

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boline, gill plates, keratin fins, or

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whisker nets?

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If you said bine whale, aren't you

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smart? Grey whales can dive down to 200

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f feet to feed. They roll onto their

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sides, suck up mouthfuls of muddy

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sediment, and use their boline to filter

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out tiny shrimplike creatures called

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amphipods. Now, off the coast of

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Washington State, conservationists are

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using special drones to study grey

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whales, but not in the ways you might

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think. SR3 researchers are collecting

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whale mucus and other measurements to

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assess their health and that of their

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home, the Salish Sea, a Mission Blue

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Hope spot supported by the Rolex

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Perpetual Planet Initiative.

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So, you're at 23.8

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and you're at 64 70 74 78. Let's go

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ahead and go up to 100.

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One of the strengths of our research is

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that it's completely non-invasive. We

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like to say we're giving them a health

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check without them even knowing that

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we're there.

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>> We are in Reed Harbor in the San Juan

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Islands and today we're flying our

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octacopter drone and this is the primary

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tool that we use for our health

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monitoring of the endangered population

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of southern resident killer whales.

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Holly Furbach is the marine mammal

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research director of SR3 Sea Life

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Response Rehabilitation and Research

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located in the Pacific Northwest.

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She studied southern resident killer

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whales here for nearly two decades,

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establishing the longest running

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quantitative record of their health.

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>> There's 76 individuals remaining. We're

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going into our 20th year of monitoring.

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We've seen a decline with most pods in

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the average body condition.

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What we do is something called

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photoggramometry and it's very simply

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the science of making measurements from

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photographs. So whether we're interested

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in estimating size or assessing

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nutritional condition or reproductive

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condition, we can collect images like

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this and then take a series of different

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measurements.

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When killer whales and when other

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species lose nutritional condition, they

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lose fat behind the skull. So, we

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developed something called an eye patch

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ratio that we can use to track

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individual body condition over time. And

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this really helps guide fishery

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management decisions to try to ensure

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that the whales have enough prey, their

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primary prey to nook salmon throughout

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the year.

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>> These whales face a series of threats to

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their survival. Declining salmon stock,

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vessel disturbance, and pollutants that

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build up in their bodies, all of which

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negatively impact reproduction. We've

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documented that they lose more than

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twothirds of their pregnancies.

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>> The female whale known as J35 made

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international headlines in 2018 and

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again in 2025, carrying her dead newborn

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calves for weeks in a tour of grief.

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Her story alongside SR3's research

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helped pass stronger protections for

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southern resident killer whales. And

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this year, Holly says there's been a

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slight improvement in body condition

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across the population for the first

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time.

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>> There have been changes that have been

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made for fisheries and for vessels. And

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so, it's very hopeful that we are going

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to continue to see this increase in body

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condition.

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>> Our primary study populations are killer

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whales, but we also study grey whales

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and humpback whales.

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>> Now, SR3 researchers are taking a new

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approach to assessing grey whales by

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collecting their blow.

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There's an ongoing mortality event with

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grey whales right now. And so we're

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really interested in just understanding

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what their overall health looks like. So

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this is Chimo and this is our hexacopter

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drone. And something that's really fun

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about Chimo is we can use it to collect

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blow samples.

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When the whale comes up to the surface

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and breathes, we fly Chimo through the

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blow and we're able to collect the

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droplets on this sterile plate that you

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can see here. We'll just swab the inside

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of the plate and then we send it off to

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labs. We are interested in linking what

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we can get from the blow sample

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collections to what we can get from the

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body condition.

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>> The study is still underway, but the

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stakes are high. Grey whale numbers have

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plummeted by more than 50% since 2015.

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If we can identify any new health

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markers or or threats to the population,

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we might be able to get some more

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restrictions in areas where vessels

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can't transit or to give them extra

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space for foraging. That's why we've

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been expanding to have a more

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comprehensive health assessment of these

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animals.

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>> You have to think of conservation of

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every part of the ecosystem to be able

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to support all the wildlife.

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.

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The scenic route home. After 28 years,

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31,000 miles, four continents, and 30

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countries. 57-year-old British

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adventurer Carl Bushby is finally home.

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And the first thing he did, hug his mom,

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whom he hadn't seen in a decade, on the

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doorstep of the family home in Hull,

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England. It was back in 1998 that Bushby

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started walking from Chile. An idea that

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started with a birthday card from his

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dad and then became an odyssey to travel

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around the world on foot. The biggest

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hurdle, as you can imagine, was water.

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Along the way, he crossed frozen seas

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and even swam the English Channel. There

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were also deserts, jungles, and visa

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nightmares to contend with. And now

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after nearly three decades of relying on

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the kindness of strangers to complete

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his mission, Bushby had this to say.

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>> I always say I've met 99.9999%

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of the very best of humanity. Um, you

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know, I'm sitting here today because

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they say it takes a village, but in this

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case, it took the world to get me here

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today.

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>> He originally thought the journey would

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take 5 years. Can you imagine the

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stories he now has to tell 28 years

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later? All right, before we say goodbye,

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today marks day one of CNN 10's 10 days

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of giving where we are highlighting all

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the ways you are showing kindness or

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volunteering in your community. Today we

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highlight Warsaw Central School District

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in Warsaw, New York. Ms. Meyer sent us

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these fantastic photos of her students

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volunteering with what they call raking

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for a reason, where middle schoolers

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rolled up their sleeves and got to work

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on some of their neighbors yards. Ms.

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Meyer writes, "Our students learned that

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being part of a community means more

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than just living in it. It means showing

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up, lending a helping hand, and finding

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ways to make life a little easier for

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others." They discovered that sometimes

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the biggest impact comes from the

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simplest acts of kindness. What a great

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idea. Now, do you know someone who is

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making a difference in their corner of

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the world? Send us your photos and

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videos to CNN10 at CNN.com. Tell us your

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name, your school, city, and state, and

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we may feature your acts of kindness

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over the next two weeks. All right,

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superstars. I've got time for one more

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shout out today. Miss Whipperman at

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Watts Middle School in Centerville,

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Ohio. Thank you for liking and

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subscribing to our YouTube page and for

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sharing us with your students. And thank

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you for making us a part of your day. Ky

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will be back tomorrow. I'm Allison

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Chinchar and this is CNN 10.