What's up, sunshine? Rise up. I'm Coy,
and today on CNN 10, we have passengers
stuck on a cruise ship, finally home
after weeks stranded at sea. Students
getting a harsh reminder that even
homework isn't safe from hackers. We'll
even see if some of us here at CNN are
fit enough for the presidential fitness
test. Lots to get to. Let's lock in and
get this show on the road. We do start
with an update on that cruise ship at
the center of the deadly Hanta virus
outbreak. Dozens of quarantine
passengers and crew members aboard the
MV Hondas who were stranded at sea for
more than a month were finally able to
leave the ship this weekend after it
docked at Spain's Canary Islands.
Spanish health officials conducted
extensive screenings before evacuating
the occupants. 17 Americans and one
British national living in the US have
arrived at one of the most advanced
infectious disease facilities in the
country, a specialized quarantine
facility at the University of Nebraska,
where they'll be treated and monitored
in negative pressure rooms designed to
help stop any potential spread of
viruses. At least one of those
passengers has tested positive for the
virus. Another has shown mild symptoms.
French officials say one passenger from
France tested positive and is receiving
treatment in a specialized hospital as
well. So far, three people have died and
a handful more have been infected since
the ship left Argentina last month as
part of a transatlantic cruise. Hivirus
typically spreads to humans via contact
with rodent droppings or urine. And
while this strain, the Andes strain, can
spread via human to human contact in
rare cases, officials are stressing that
it does not pose a major threat to the
public.
>> And let me be clear, let me be crystal
clear. The risk of Hanto virus to the
general public remains very, very low.
The Andes variant of this virus does not
spread easily and it requires prolonged
close contact with someone who is
already symptomatic. Even so, we have
taken this situation very seriously from
the very start.
>> Final exams are right around the corner
and probably stress levels are rising.
And then comes this digital disaster
that no student wanted to see. Canvas,
the online educational platform used by
thousands of schools for assignments,
grades, quizzes, and teacher
communication was hit by a cyber attack
last week. The outage left students and
teachers temporarily locked out of
important coursework during one of the
busiest academic stretches of the year.
Schools scrambled for backup plans. Tech
teams race to restore systems and
investigate this breach. Our Charerelle
Hubard explains how campuses nationwide
were impacted by the crash at crunch
time.
>> You're kind of like, what the heck is
happening? As as a senior graduating,
you're you're you're really unsure of
like I thought I was done. UMass senior
Shawn Belton said he thought he'd
finished his coursework. That's until he
received an email about the Canvas data
breach.
>> All of a sudden, finals are moved until
Monday.
>> The widely used cloud-based learning hub
has more than 30 million active users
worldwide and over 8,000 institutional
customers, including Georgetown,
Harvard, and Colombia universities.
>> All my classes are on Canvas. So,
anything from assignments to
announcements to homework to grades,
it's all on Canvas. We do use other
software, but sometimes they're also
attached to Canvas.
>> Thursday, while scores of students and
teachers were cut off from essential
classroom materials, one student
jokingly made a plea directly to hackers
to let her download study materials.
>> To the people that hack Canvas, if y'all
could unhack it for like five minutes,
two at best, two minutes is all I need.
>> Some schools reported a ransom note on
their Canvas homepages. The hacking
group, Shiny Hunters, claimed a
responsibility, saying it had stolen the
data of 275 million individuals and
demanded ransoms to prevent data leaks.
Instructure, the parent company behind
Canvas, said Friday it shut down
accounts exploited by an unauthorized
actor. It's reportedly the second breach
of Instructures Canvas platform this
month by the same hacking group. I think
that the teachers will be going back to
using pencil and paper.
>> Pop quiz hot shot. Which large muscle
group is located on the front of the
thigh? Trapezius, quadriceps,
hamstrings, or deltoids.
If you said quadriceps, you better work.
The quadriceps help control both jumping
and landing. Sometimes your quads work
the hardest while slowing your body
down.
The presidential fitness test is
officially back. US President Donald
Trump has reinstated the school fitness
program first introduced in the 1950s
before it was replaced in 2012 when it
pivoted to a program that minimized
competition against other students. Now
the push-ups, the sit-ups, the onem run,
etc. They're back. So you may have to be
there for your peers to cheer them on
sometime soon. A few of us here at CNN
found out if we could keep up.
>> The presidential fitness test is back
>> and that means it's a bad day to work at
CNN.
>> We decided to test our journalist to see
at what age we could pass at and it
didn't go well.
>> I hate cardio. All right, that's it.
>> Eight. Uh-oh.
>> There are three categories: core and
abdominal strength. Come on, you can
beat a 17-year-old boy.
>> Go to my happy place.
>> I need anybody holding my feet though.
Those were legit sit-ups. I have to do
how many?
>> 57 in 1 minute. I stopped counting. I
hope you're counting.
>> Oh my god.
>> He was done anyways.
>> Then there's cardio to see how fast you
can run a mile in.
>> 8 minutes a mile. I'll be doing just as
well as a 17 and up girl.
>> Believe the heavy breathing.
I'm not a runner. Oh no, an 18-wheeler.
>> You have to do a mile in under 7
minutes.
>> You're already out. And finally, there's
upper body strength to see how many
push-ups you can do in a row or how many
pull-ups.
>> How many?
>> That was 13.
>> You're going to try to bang out 53.
>> Yeah.
>> 48 49 50 51 52 53.
>> I would have qualified as a 17-year-old
with my pull-ups, but I would have
needed to have been 10 years old to
qualify with that mile time. I'm gonna
go print off the award myself and put it
on my desk proudly.
>> This would have been a lot easier when
we were 17.
>> Yeah, I think so.
>> This next story proves that innovation
doesn't always come from giant labs.
Sometimes it comes from a high school
classroom with a whole lot of heart.
Four seniors in Silver Lake, Kansas,
teamed up with physics teacher Kimberly
Yell to create a device aimed at helping
people living with Parkinson's disease,
including Yell's own dad. Parkinson's is
a neurological disorder that can cause
involuntary tremors and movement
challenges. Miss Yell, she found the
perfect lab partners. The students spent
their final semester developing a glove
equipped with vibrating coins that
stimulate nerve endings in the
fingertips. Vibration therapy has been
shown to temporarily reduce tremors in
Parkinson's patients. But creating a
wearable version that actually worked,
well, that was the challenge. This group
was determined and kept plowing through
challenges. They named their project
Grit.
>> Are you a dog person or a cat person? In
East Asia, more people are on team cat.
A recent government survey in Taiwan
found that the number of pet cats has
surpassed dogs for the first time. The
same thing happened in Japan a decade
ago and in China in 2021.
Even in places where dogs are still more
common, like here in Hong Kong, cats are
growing in popularity. So, what's
driving the trend? Dense cities with
young people flocking to urban centers.
They're working busy jobs and living in
cramped apartments, conditions better
suited for cat ownership. But they're
also lonely. Young Asians are dating and
marrying less and having fewer kids. If
you're living in a single person
household, you might want a little furry
friend. So, at least for me, in East
Asia, cats are coming out on top.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Proof that creativity doesn't come with
an expiration date. We're drawing
inspiration from 99year-old woman who is
now the featured artist at a gallery
exhibit in Missouri. Nita drought says
she didn't even realize she could draw
until she was 70 years old. Never too
late to chase something that moves you.
The past few decades, she's created
hundreds of graphite portraits of
everyday people she finds fascinating.
And now, while receiving hospice care,
her nurses decided her drawings deserved
a bigger audience. And the Parkville
Frame Gallery agreed.
>> You can't know really how satisfying
that is that you're doing something that
people like.
>> All right, tomorrow is your word
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