What's up everybody? Welcome to the
show. I'm Koi Wire. This is CNN 10 and
today is your word Wednesday. So keep
those ears on high alert to see if your
vocabulary word that you submitted
helped us write today's show. A lot of
very important stories that we want to
tell you about today. So let's get right
to it. We begin in Egypt where world
leaders from across the Middle East and
the United States have signed a Gaza
ceasefire deal. And while US President
Donald Trump says this is a quote
historic dawn of a new Middle East,
questions remain about what happens next
in the war torn region. World leaders
continue to hash out the 20point plan of
how Gaza will be governed. And some are
still uncertain whether the terror group
Hamas will indeed put down their
weapons. Phase two of the agreement was
signed just hours after the last 20
living Israeli hostages were returned to
their families. And in exchange,
hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were
released from Israeli custody. CNN is
now getting a look at some of the
emotional returns home. Families
reunited for the first time in more than
2 years. Our Clarissa Ward filed this
report.
Two years of anguish and agony finally
giving way to joy.
For the mother of 23-year-old hostage
Bar Cooperstein, taken at the Nova Music
Festival on October 7th, this was the
hug she had dreamed of.
Bar's paralyzed father is helped out of
his wheelchair so he can finally hold
his son
amid whales of raw emotion.
For hostage Sev Kalfon, even the sight
of his family was all too much.
Scenes of tearful reunions between the
final 20 living Israeli hostages and
their families punctuated this historic
day.
"You're home. You're home." The mother
of 24year-old Guy Gilbawa Dal cries in
disbelief.
In Hostages Square, the beating heart of
the movement to bring them home. Tens of
thousands of Israelis gathered from the
early hours singing Habeta or coming
home.
The crowds cheered as the first images
of the hostages emerged before their
release. Surreal scenes of them calling
their loved ones as Hamas militants
stood in the background.
After reuniting with their immediate
families at Raheem Military Base, they
were flown to hospitals, looking down at
the crowds gathered to welcome them
home.
You can hear the crowd cheering as you
see those hostages traveling by a
helicopter tool hospital. This is a
moment that these people have been
waiting for for 737 days.
In Gaza, they have known the pain of
waiting, too.
Applause erupted as some 1700
Palestinian detainees emerged from
crammed buses outside the Nasser
hospital in Kanunis.
Held without charge by Israel throughout
the war, they waved to the crowds,
tearful.
For many in Gaza, joy still feels like a
distant dream. The scale of loss and
destruction leaves little room for it.
And as Israel turns the page on a very
dark chapter, Gaza is opening a new and
uncertain one.
One of the world's most popular apps,
Instagram, now has some big changes
coming to some of our feeds. Instagram
just rolled out new PG-13 restrictions
aimed at what younger users can see.
What's changing and why now? CNN's
Claire Duffy is here to help. Hi,
Claire.
Hey, Coy. Yeah, your viewers may
remember that last year, Instagram
rolled out these new teen accounts
safety settings. These were default
privacy protections and content
restrictions for users under the age of
18. Now, the platform is making those
content limits even stricter by aligning
them with PG-13 movie ratings. So, what
does that mean? That means that teen
users will have a harder time seeing
posts on Instagram that include strong
language or that could encourage harmful
behavior because they include risky
stunts or drug paraphernalia. Teen users
will also not be able to search for
terms like alcohol and gore. They won't
be able to follow or interact with
accounts that regularly post that kind
of age inappropriate material. And teen
users conversations with Meta's AI
chatbot will have to remain within those
PG-13 guidelines. Now, this comes as
Instagram has continued to face
criticism from parents and online safety
organizations who say its teen account
safety settings still weren't doing
enough to keep young people safe on the
platform. One study from a group of
online safety organizations recently
found that 58% of 13 to 15 year olds
said that they had seen unsafe content
or unwanted messages within the last six
months. Now, Meta disputed those survey
results, but the company is trying to do
more to make its guidelines clearer and
to give parents more control over their
teens experience on Instagram. And a
really key piece of this announcement
that previously 16 and 17year-olds could
basically just go in and turn off these
teen account safety settings. They'll
still be able to do that for the teen
accounts privacy protections, but these
new content limits will apply to all
users under the age of 18, and they will
have to get a parents permission if they
want to opt back in to the more adult
experience on Instagram. Back to you.
SpaceX is calling this week's test
flight of its Starship Mega Rocket, the
most powerful rocket ever built, a
success. The spacecraft made it halfway
around the world and released mock
satellites before splashing down in the
Indian Ocean.
Three down to two.
Starship has landed. With ground
controllers cheering back in mission
control, the version two prototype
appeared to reach its zenith, smoothly
navigating a series of landing maneuvers
for just the second time before it was
engulfed in flames during its
splashdown. This is an important test
for SpaceX. The private company is
racing to get the vehicle ready for a
NASA moon landing in the year 2027.
Pop quiz hot shot. What is the highest
waterfall in the world? Niagara Falls,
Angel Falls, Victoria Falls, or Iguazu
Falls.
If you said Angel Falls halo, you're
correct. Located in Kanea National Park
in Venezuela, Angel Falls stands at
3,212 ft. Fun fact, these waterfalls
were the inspiration for Pixar's
Paradise Falls in the movie Up. One of
the world's most famous honors, the
Nobel Peace Prize, was just awarded and
this year it goes to a woman who can't
even safely appear in public. Venezuelan
opposition leader Maria Karina Machado,
known as Venezuela's Iron Lady. She has
rattled President Nicolas Maduro's
authoritarian rule, a battle that has
intensified in the last two years. In
2023, Machado won the opposition primary
by a landslide, but the regime soon
disqualified her from running in the
presidential election. In January,
Machado stepped out of hiding to join a
protest in Caracus. She says it is not a
choice, but a personal responsibility to
fight for democratic rights for the
people of Venezuela. And her message is
now being heard around the globe. This
reinforces that the fight we Venezuelans
have against your dictatorship is real
and the world needs to see it.
I feel proud to say that woman is
Venezuelan. I'm really happy and truly
we are very hopeful the situation will
change for the better.
All right, I have something to add to
your next road trip checklist. Suitcase
packed, full tank of gas. Family cat on
the roof of the car. A Pennsylvania
family found their cat had hitched a
ride on the top of their car without
them even knowing. A 100 miles into
their road trip, the family stopped for
gas, they described the panic, the
shock, and total disbelief of
discovering old Ray Ray had been tagging
along for 2 hours. With more than 300
miles to go, but too far from home to
turn around and head back, they headed
to the pet store for supplies and
decided to include old Ray Ray in the
rest of their vacation.
He had such a good time and a great, you
know, adventure. I actually did videos
and pictures everywhere we went of him
and it was just like his whole
adventure.
Ray Ray went on to cross the finish line
with dad at the New Hampshire Marathon
and then explored New York City in a cat
backpack. Ray Ray became a viral
sensation. This fearless feline is
reminding all of us, no matter what
we're going through, just hang in there.
All right, superstars. Congratulations
to Miss Ferman at KMS High School in
Kirkovven, Minnesota for submitting
today's Your Word Wednesday winner.
Zenith, a noun which means the time at
which something is most powerful or
successful. Well done. Thank you for
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