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What's up, sunshine? Welcome to the

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show. I'm Koi Wire here with your daily

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10 minutes of news. We are halfway

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through the week and it is your word

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Wednesday. So, listen up to see if the

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vocabulary word you submitted helped us

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write today's show. We are starting

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today with the ongoing federal

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government shutdown and the impact it's

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having on a vital safety net program.

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Now in its 36th day, it is officially

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the longest US government shutdown in

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history. As the shutdown drags on, so do

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disruptions to many essential government

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operations and services like SNAP

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benefits for those who rely on

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government assistance to afford food.

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More than 42 million Americans need SNAP

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or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

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Program to buy groceries and necessities

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each month. November payments were

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initially paused due to the shutdown,

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but President Donald Trump's

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administration now says it will

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distribute partial benefits following a

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ruling by two federal judges, but the

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payments will be half their normal

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amount due to funding constraints. And

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that's left many unsure whether they'll

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be able to feed their families this

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month. The prolonged lapse in government

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funding has continued to stress food

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banks, charities, and nonprofits set up

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to assist Americans in need with federal

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workers going without pay also turning

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to those sources for aid. Turning now to

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Egypt, which is celebrating its opening

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of the world's largest archaeological

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museum. The highly anticipated Grand

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Egyptian Museum opened over the weekend

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to some next level fanfare. We are

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talking orchestras, flying dancers,

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fireworks, and a drone show against a

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backdrop of incredible Egyptian relics.

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The billion-dollar project took two

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decades to build. That's nearly as long

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as it took to build the real great

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pyramid of Giza. We had a pyramid, the

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pyramids. Our Salma Abdelaziz has more.

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>> Visitors will be welcomed by the more

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than 3,000year-old statue of Ramsiz II.

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But that's just one of the highlights.

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There are over 50,000 restored artifacts

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detailing life in ancient Egypt to

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explore with the collection of King

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Tutan Kamun as the main attraction.

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I visited as part of a CNN team in 2018

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and saw firsthand how conservationists

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worked around the clock to restore

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objects thousands of years old,

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including King Tut's very degraded

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sandals. We create a new technique by

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using some special adhesive. As you saw

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the its condition, it's it was very bad

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and here I think it's [laughter] come

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alive again.

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>> Construction started in 2005 but was

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delayed several times over the years.

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First because of the Arab Spring and

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later the CO 19 pandemic.

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But now the museum is finally opening.

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Pop quiz hot shot. What do grizzly bears

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eat most before hibernation? Salmon,

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rodents, berries, or insects?

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This is a twofer. Grizzly bears chow

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down on berries and salmon before

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hyperagasia, an abnormally great desire

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for food. Or for bears, the process of

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accumulating fat reserves when they eat

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for up to 22 hours of the day.

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Grizzly bears have lost roughly half of

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their global range since the 1800s.

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Canada is one of their last strongholds,

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but even there, they're considered at

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risk. Today on CNN's Call to Earth, we

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head deep into Bear Country to see the

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innovative ways researchers are keeping

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tabs on these giants and helping them

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elude the harmful human impacts to their

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habitats.

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Bruce Mlen is used to bushwhacking his

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way through the thick forest of British

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Columbia.

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But

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>> I think this is a really good route. I

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think I've got a good route this time.

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Yes. Look at that.

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>> For it's here that the wildlife

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ecologist has studied grizzlies for more

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than four decades.

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>> Put my first radio caller on a grizzly

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bear in 1978. It takes a lot of skill

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and not everyone can do that or would

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want to.

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But today, he's not on a mission to

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track down bears. Instead, he's looking

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for what they've left behind.

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>> It's quite remarkable what you can get

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out of a root of a hair. A hair trap is

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a way we catch hair. We attract bears to

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a site with baits and then we string a

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strand of barb wire around it. Inside

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this gas can is very well-aged cow's

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blood. It's quite smelly. They will

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crawl under or over the wire, hopefully

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leave a hair or two.

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>> 30 years ago, Mlen and his team invented

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this non-invasive hair trap method to

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collect DNA samples from grizzly bears.

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>> From that hair, we can tell the

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individual, its gender, its species, uh

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who's its mother is, who's its father

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is, where it was born. You can learn

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broad categories of its diet.

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So, we have learned an awful lot about

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how many bears there are. We know about

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trends, which tells us which way the

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population is going over time.

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>> After crossing a lake

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and blazing a trail through dense woods.

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>> So, the hair trap is further along here.

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>> Bruce has arrived at his first hair trap

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site.

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>> I don't think anything's been here.

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Usually when you get here and a bear's

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been here, it's knocked the bait pile

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all apart and, you know, smack things

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around, but

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that's it. No, nothing came by.

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A 2018 provincewide report estimates

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that approximately 15,000 grizzly bears

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roam the forests and coastlines of

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British Columbia. While their overall

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numbers have remained stable here since

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the '9s, they still face threats like

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habitat loss due to human development,

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which has fractured the population.

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We have [music] a large population.

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Actually, most of the world's grizzly

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bears are just north of here. But

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there's a big fracture that grizzly

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bears have not been crossing for a long

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time. We're not looking at bear numbers

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anymore. We're looking more at their

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genes and finding out where they were

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born.

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Upon arrival, the second site looks a

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bit more promising.

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>> So, I go along each barb with the paper

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because you can see much better against

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paper than not looking for aha bear

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hair. I'm pretty darn sure we have

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enough of a sample.

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Even in the age of AI, this decades old

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tool remains vital for tracking

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grizzlies and works [music] handinhand

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with newer technology to uncover more

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about their lives. We use, you know,

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game cameras and hair traps at the same

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time to to be even more effective.

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Those are all linked in a geographic

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information system which enables us to

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predict where we'll find bears more.

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[music] As grizzly bears have expanded

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their distribution and humans have

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expanded their distribution and there's

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a lot more overlap now. This work is

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important [music]

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because many many people want to live in

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this world and not have a huge impact on

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the bears.

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Call to Earth Day 2025 is tomorrow,

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November 6, where we are embracing the

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theme, guard your green space, and

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urging individuals, communities, and

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nations to take bold collective action

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to protect the natural world that

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sustains us. Sign up at

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cnn.com/calltoearth

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and share how you are guarding your

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green space.

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

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brave new breed of backpackers blazing

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trails in a whole new way. Move over,

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Elton John. There's a Rocket Man

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Renaissance. Some brilliant boffins,

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that's scientists, y'all, at a Chinese

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university have successfully tested a

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jet powered backpack that can send

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pilots zooming through the air at speeds

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of nearly 60 mph for up to 5 minutes.

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Would you do this? The PAC's twin turbo

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jets can reach a maximum altitude of

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nearly 5,000 ft. Could you imagine

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rolling out to work or school like this?

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Control is handled by the pilot's arm

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movements, but future versions might be

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capable of flying themselves using

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autonomous tech. The developers say the

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real world applications stretch to

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infinity and beyond. Everything from

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emergency rescues to special operations.

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I will be out the rest of the week, but

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I'm going to be leaving you in the hands

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of the doctor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Did you

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know that in addition to being our chief

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medical correspondent, he's a practicing

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brain surgeon performing procedures

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every week? So, here is your chance.

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What questions might you have for the

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health expert Dr. Sanjay Gupta? Send

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I'll tell the doc to be sure to answer

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some of your questions over the next two

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days. All right, superstars. Thank you

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uh for those submitting words for your

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word Wednesday. Our winner today is Miss

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Thank you for making us smarter today.

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today going to Miss Leftwitch and all

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our wolves at Woodstock Middle School in

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Woodstock, Georgia. Rise up. Go make it

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an awesome day. And I want to thank you

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for being the best viewers on the

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to you. Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday to you.