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CARL AZUZ: October, more like "rock-tober."
We hope your month is going well and we
thank you for spending a few minutes today with our show.
I'm Carl Azuz.
First up, November 8 is the date for a big change
in US travel rules.
Currently, people from Brazil, China, India, Iran, South
Africa, and many parts of Europe are not allowed
to enter the United States.
These are areas that had high numbers of coronavirus cases.
So the ban was implemented last year with the goal of slowing
the spread of the disease.
In three weeks, though, many people from those places
and anywhere else in the world will be allowed to fly or cross
a land border into the US.
But the Biden administration says they have to be
fully vaccinated against COVID.
If they're not, they won't be allowed into America,
no matter where they're from.
The types of vaccines the government will accept
include those approved or authorized
for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration
and the shots that have an emergency
use listing from the World Health Organization.
There's some confusion over whether the new rules
will apply to children who aren't
eligible for COVID vaccines.
The White House has indicated that they would
still need to be vaccinated.
The Department of Homeland Security
has said they wouldn't.
And adults from other countries who have been fully vaccinated
will still have to show a negative COVID test
within three days of their flights to the US.
Americans who are traveling abroad or back
home will not be required to have had the vaccine,
but they will have to show a negative COVID
test within one day of their flight out
and after they get home.
Though critics have said it's not clear
how the government will enforce that,
they're also concerned the new rules
could still make America vulnerable to new variants
of COVID.
The Delta version of the disease, for example,
can still be caught and spread by fully vaccinated people,
and it made its way into the US while stricter travel
rules were still in place.
An airline trade association and lobbying group
says reopening international travel is good for economies,
communities, and jobs.
Some US airports like Denver International in Colorado,
are seeing delays caused by worker shortages,
and pilots from some US airlines are
expected to protest work and scheduling
conditions in the weeks ahead.
So all this could have an impact on travel, as well.
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:10 Trivia!
The island of Bali is part of what country?
Philippines, Indonesia, Fiji, or the Solomon Islands?
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If you find yourself in Bali, you
are in Indonesian territory.
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Like the economies of many beautiful islands,
Bali's is heavily dependent on tourism.
And it's easy to see why, in normal times,
millions of people travel to the island every year
and hundreds of thousands of Balinese work
in the tourism industry.
But when that dried up in the wake
of the coronavirus pandemic, people started to go hungry.
So a resident came up with a barter system that
aims to address two problems.
The need to eat with the need to clean up some of the plastic
that's polluted the island.
It's called plastic exchange, and its founder
says it's helped feed 30,000 families over the past year
and expanded to 200 villages.
That is why Janur Yasa is a CNN Hero.
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In Bali, we really live in this holistic way.
People taking care of each other.
We have wisdom in Bali we call Tri Hita Karana, which
is three ways to achieve happiness, dignity, prosperity,
and then the environment.
So when this three thing is happening,
that's how we reach the happiness.
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One of the things that I love to do in Bali
is I go to the beach.
I hike the mountain.
I go to temple.
And it's really break my heart when
I see this plastic everywhere.
Plastic pollution in Bali is a big, big problem,
because we don't have the habit yet on how to dispose,
on how to handle the plastic after we use it.
And I said to myself, I got to do something about this.
The majority of Bali economy has come from tourism.
When the pandemic hit, a lot of businesses shut down.
Restaurants, hotels, travel companies.
So I see people losing their job, and this is concern me.
After six months into the pandemic,
people really struggling.
There is no income.
The first thing that people need is food.
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I always like this phrase: inside of the challenge,
there is an opportunity.
I just don't want to give.
I don't want to just lay one hand on the bottom,
one hand on the top.
I want to bring this hand together.
In Bali, we call it Tat Tvam Asi.
The giver become a receiver, and a receiver become a giver.
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Rice in Bali is really, like, the main
staples that people eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I thought to myself, if they bring plastic,
I will give rice.
So that's when the plastic exchange born.
What I'm aiming for is to educate people through action.
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So the community collect and separate
the plastic from their house.
And then they go to the environments.
They go to the rice paddy, they go to the beach,
they go to the river.
And then once a month there is plastic exchange that's
set up in that community.
And people have fun with it and people
not feeling embarrassed about it.
And now, after one year, I do this.
Picking up plastic is a cool thing to do.
I'm so happy to see this empowering the community
to do this for themselves, for the environment,
and for their dignity.
In a plastic exchange, people just get into it.
The vibe is so high.
The vibe is so vibrant.
You can feel it.
All people, younger people, all different kind of age.
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So the villagers will receive the rice
according to the type of the plastic they bring
and the amount of plastic that they bring.
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We work with a company that collect this plastic
and sends it to Java for proper recycling,
because we don't have recycling plant yet in Bali.
We educate people on how to separate the plastic
and on the dangers of the plastic
if they got into the environment.
We buy the rice from the farmers,
so we really creating this circular economy.
Supporting the farmers, clean the environment,
and feed the people in that community.
My goal is to really spread this movement from island
to island through Asia and through the whole world.
I want to inspire people that everything is possible.
There is no small grid.
If you believe and you do it with the community,
and you will succeed.
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CARL AZUZ: If you've ever thought how many tennis balls
can a dog hold in its mouth at one time,
there is a Guinness World Record for that.
The answer is 6.
This is Finley He lives in New York
and loves to do lots of normal doggy things.
But his owner says that during games of fetch,
Finley wouldn't just get the ball,
he would hold it in his mouth and wait
for another one to be thrown so he could carry that one, too.
He'd eventually bring back six at a time,
So his family applied for and recently
received the world record.
Or should we say they retrieved it? (LAUGHS) You could also
say they fetched it, that it was a golden opportunity, that they
were barking up the right tree, that it made the
implausible somewhat paws-ible.
All that's quite a mouthful, but we
would argue it rates more than a canine at a 10,
more like a perfect 10 out of 10.
I'm Carl Azuz to our viewers at Beverly Hills High School,
thank you for watching.
From Los Angeles, California, we hope to see
you tomorrow for more CNN.
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