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What's up sunshine? Happy Friday eve.
I'm Ky Wire. This is CNN 10, your daily
10 minutes of news for Thursday, October
9th. But tomorrow is 1010, October 10th.
And we want to give our 10 out of 10 to
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the comments so we can help you tell the
story of you. All right, now let's get
you your news. We begin in California
with some big news about the deadly
Palisades fire that ravaged parts of the
state earlier this year. Authorities
announced yesterday that they have
arrested and charged a suspect in
connection with January's deadly blaze.
Today we are announcing the arrest of
29-year-old Jonathan Renderneck for
igniting a fire that ultimately burned
down the Palisades earlier this year,
killing 12 people, destroying more than
6,800 structures, both homes and
businesses, and damaging over a thousand
more buildings. The suspect is accused
of maliciously starting a January 1st
fire that went on to become the
Palisades fire. Police say he was
working as an Uber driver and dropped
off a passenger on New Year's Eve before
walking up a nearby trail and starting
the fire. He then allegedly drove away
from the scene. The Palisades fire is
the third most destructive and ninth
deadliest fire in state history. Next,
we go to the Big Apple, New York City,
where a very important part of the
school day, lunchtime, is getting a
homegrown upgrade thanks to a new
competition. Students at the nation's
largest school district flex their
culinary skills to create a whole new
take on school lunch. Yep. Move over
fish sticks and fruit cups. Arm Maya
Blackstone caught up with the teen chefs
behind these delicious and healthy
treats.
At this high school in Queens, New York,
kids aren't just eating school lunch,
they're designing it.
New York City hosted its first
competition between high school students
to design a cafeteria menu item.
According to New York City public
schools office of food and nutrition
services at Francis Lewis High School,
students spent months developing dishes
that met the city's strict nutrition
standards. The winning creations, honey
garlic chicken with broccoli and a Greek
inspired cucumber salad are now being
served in every school cafeteria across
the city.
Every week there would be a new recipe.
They would come up with it. They would
present it. They would cook it. They
would scale it down with uh sugar salt
ratios and then uh the staff would try
it.
Obviously, New York City is a huge
melting pot. Kids come from all sorts of
backgrounds. How do the kids bring that
into what they're doing today?
We are from Queens, so I think there's
over 75 to 80 different cultures within
the Queens itself. We try to incorporate
every kid with their cultural background
and embrace it. We want to be able to
teach them the skills and the safety and
understanding of where their food comes
from and the process of making it. How
have you seen the students grow through
this program?
Teamwork, creativity, uh leadership.
These kids wouldn't be where they are
now without this program. We tried to
run this kitchen just like any
professional kitchen. Maybe some of them
will take this to move forward to feed
themselves during college or get a job
or even go into the industry.
A lot of kids I feel now they rely on
their parents. So when I do move out, I
already have a lot of life skills, a lot
of responsibility because that's what
you do need in the kitchen. It has
honestly helped me focus a lot. It's
kept me off my phone. I love how it's
hands-on. They give us a lot of creative
freedom and I think that allows a lot of
kids to be themselves in the kitchen.
The program aligns with New York City
Mayor Eric Adams's push for healthier
school food. Part of a broader citywide
effort to reduce sodium, sugar, and
processed ingredients. But some critics
say the mayor's healthy eating agenda
leads to nutrition gaps, logistical and
economic concerns, and plain just
doesn't taste good.
We have the largest school district in
the country, as you know. We also have
the most prohibited ingredient list. And
what that means is we have low sugar,
low sodium, and we prohibited a bunch of
different things in our menu and in our
food products. We want to make sure
they're not just eating healthy, but
they understand why to eat healthy. The
only way to really improve our menu is
to have student feedback. And what
better way to have student feedback than
to have them develop recipes for our
menu.
For CNN 10, Maya Blackstone, New York.
And Maya did further report that she did
taste the food, and it was good, she
says. All right, now to another
announcement of one of this year's Nobel
Prizes, the esteemed annual awards that
are given to those who reach the
pinnacle of their fields. The Nobel
Prize committee has announced this
year's prize in the field of chemistry
is going to a trio of scientists whose
work is being likened to something
straight out of Harry Potter. Susumu
Kitigawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yagi
have been named for their development of
metorganic frameworks, a new form of
molecular architecture. The materials
contain cavities that function a bit
like hotel rooms, if you will, allowing
guest molecules to enter and exit. The
prize committee likens it to Hermione
Grers's enchanted handbag in the Harry
Potter universe. Small on the outside,
huge on the inside. But this
breakthrough isn't magic, per se. The
committee says it could have some
realworld impacts, including harvesting
water from desert air or even isolating
toxic pollution from exhaust gas.
Wingardium leviosa, rise up. Pop quiz,
hot shot. The first bicycles were
commonly known as what? penny farings,
dandy horses, velocipedes, or tricycles.
If you said dandy horses, giddy up. The
direct ancestor of the bicycle was
invented in 1817 by Baron Carl Vandr in
Germany. Riders propelled the dandy
horse by pushing their feet against the
ground. It didn't have any pedals. A
father-son duo are taking on an
incredible feat together. Mile after
mile after mile, George and Josh Kohler
are attempting to cycle around the
world. It's a record-breaking ride that
could see them log more than 18,000
miles across 25 countries, four
continents. But this globe trotting trek
is no easy pedal. Our Ben Church got a
chance to catch up with the pair to talk
about their progress so far and the
challenges ahead.
Meet Josh and George Ka, a father and
son duo bidding to do something that no
one has ever done before. Cycle around
the entire world together.
About a year and a half ago, I said to
dad, why don't we fly to Singapore and
cycle home? Then we thought, well, if
we're doing that much that far, why
don't we just do the extra bit and go
all the way around the whole world? And
then, yeah, we set off on at the end of
March earlier in the year.
Let's go.
It turns out that no father and son have
ever cycled around the world. So we we
approached Guinness World Records and um
they came back a few months later and
said, "Yep, um these are now officially
endorsed as uh what is now three world
record attempts. The furthest distance
ever cycled by a father and son. The
fastest circumnavigation of the world by
a father and son on on bicycles. Um and
the most countries traveled on bicycles
by a father and son. Uh so we've gone
from rookie cyclists uh a couple of
years ago to potentially making history
on this.
The father and son duo have already
crossed Europe and made it through
China, hoping to finish the trip early
next year.
They've also been documenting their
journey on social media with videos
showing both their ups and the
inevitable downs.
The kindness like of strangers around
the world has just been incredible. Um,
and it's all these little small
gestures, whether that's someone driving
past with a bottle of water out of the
window a gift to us or gifting us bread
or fruit.
While testing every aspect of their
relationship, both men are aware of how
special it is to be sharing this
adventure with each other.
Incredibly grateful. Um, and that's
again like going back to my the previous
point about sort of looking at the
bigger picture is thinking about that
and realizing how sort of lucky and
fortunate I am to have a father that is
willing to do this with me and you know
sacrifice a lot from back home the life
that you had back in England to come out
and do this with me.
I suppose the the proudest thing you can
have as a as a father is a son that's
better than you.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
message in a bottle. Crossing oceans and
leading to a surprising connection. Back
in 2018, Payton Hollandbeck and her
brother tossed a message in a bottle
complete with her phone number into the
Pacific Ocean off of Oahu's Northshore
in Hawaii.
I had been walking on the beach at my
favorite surf spot and I had seen a
message in a bottle. There was no phone
number, but my brother and I were like,
"Oh, we should just go make one
ourselves for fun."
She forgot all about it until nearly 7
years later when she gets a text from an
unrecognized number. It was a family
from Michigan who found her message
while vacationing on Florida's G Coast
thousands of miles away.
And I was like, "Oh, what is this
about?" And it was the piece of paper.
And I knew it was mine cuz it had the
paper cranes. And my brother and I had
like an obsession with making paper
cranes. Despite the once-in-a-lifetime
encounter, Payton says she's more
mindful of what she puts into the ocean
these days. She hopes that others will
think twice before following in her
footsteps and instead choose to help
keep the oceans clean. Our first shout
out of the day goes to Mr. Goodwin and
our friends at Rosedale Elementary in
Rosedale, Indiana. Thank you for
following along on our CNN 10 Instagram
account. It has been fun showing some of
our behind thescenes work here with the
team. And from our YouTube subscribers,
this shout out goes to Mr. Patrick at
Pelum Academy in Lexington,
Massachusetts. Thank you for all the
kind comments and for making this show a
part of your day. Happy Friday Eve,
everyone. Let's dominate the day and do
it again tomorrow. Finish this week
strong. I'm Ky Wire and we are CNN 10.