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What's up, sunshine? Welcome to the
show. I'm Koi Wire. This is CNN 10.
Happy Friday. If your week was anything
like mine, you were feeling the heat,
feeling some pressure, and you put in
the time to get through. But heat,
pressure, and time, the same things that
test our fortitude also make diamonds.
So, let's rise up, shine bright, and get
you your 10 minutes of news. Now, we
begin with potentially groundbreaking
news in the fight against cancer
involving a vaccine. An experimental
mRNA vaccine, has shown promising
results in latestage clinical trials
aimed at preventing the return of
melanoma, the deadliest form of skin
cancer. Results of the ongoing study
have shown that when combined with an
amunotherapy drug, the vaccine prevented
the cancer from returning or spreading
among high-risk patients. It uses the
same basic mRNA technology that became
widely known through co 19 vaccines.
mRNA or messenger RNA carries genetic
instructions that tell our cells how to
make proteins. Now vaccines particularly
mRNA vaccines are a source of skepticism
for some people and it's important to
point out this treatment is still
experimental. The complete trial data
have not yet been released and
regulators still have to evaluate it.
They take the mRNA that codes for those
mutations in the patient's actual tumor
and they give that back to the patient
and the patient makes antibodies to
their own their own tumors. This is a
customized personalized vaccine to treat
your own tumor. So promising absolutely
proven cure no but potentially an
entirely new chapter in how doctors
fight cancer. More than 1.5 million
Americans were living with melanoma in
2023, according to the National Cancer
Institute. Pharmaceutical companies
Madna and Merc who are co-developing the
treatment say they plan to file for
approval from regulators within months.
This weekend, Washington DC becomes
washing ton of horsepower. The nation's
capital is set to transform into a
bonafide racetrack hosting its first
ever Indie Car race, the Freedom 250
Grand Prix. The 125 lap race carries a
roughly $35 million price tag, all paid
for by Indie Car, making it among the
most expensive races on their calendar.
Extensive construction was needed to
allow open wheel indie cars to race
safely at speeds of up to 180 mph,
including walls to protect both racers
and spectators in viewing areas along
the track. The roughly 1 and a half mile
circuit is centered around the National
Mall and flanked by some of the
capital's biggest landmarks. It even
features a Pennsylvania Avenue pit lane
just blocks from the Capitol building.
The one-of-a-kind race rounds out a
summer of celebrations that included a
mixed martial arts fight on the White
House lawn, a fair on the National Mall,
and what was built as the biggest
fireworks display in history? [snorts]
Pop quiz hot shot. Which of these is an
actual feature of the Reese's Macak the
monkey commonly found around Delhi,
India? A second stomach, cheek pouches,
retractable claws, or a prehensive tail?
Answer
is cheek pouches. It's like their own
snack pack. Reese's Macaks can stuff
food into expandable pouches inside
their cheeks and save it for later. The
pouches can expand roughly the size of
their stomach. Basically, a lunchbox
built into their face. In the streets of
Delhi, India, organizers of the bad
mitten world championships have hired
people with one of the strangest job
descriptions we've ever heard of.
Professional monkey whisperer. Our Ivan
Watson has more on how they're trying to
keep monkeys away from one of Bad
Mitten's biggest stages. How do you keep
the monkeys that roam New Delhi's
straits out of an international sports
event? One solution might involve a
monkey whisperer.
>> Here's a monkey whisperer shared by
Radio India at Delhi's Indira Gandhi
Stadium where Bat Mitten's World
Championships are currently being held.
He's imitating the call of a langanger
monkey to scare [music] away smaller
Reese's Macac monkeys.
>> For years, authorities here have been
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keep Delhi's monkeys from infiltrating
major events without hurting the
animals. They put up life-sized cutouts
of langers when Delhi hosted the G20
summit in 2023. And during the
Commonwealth Games in 2010, officials
actually employed live langers to scare
away monkeys, but that's illegal now. A
monkey was spotted at Indira Gandhi
Stadium at a different bat mitten event
earlier this year. When asked what to do
if it happens again this week, the head
of India's main bad mitten association
joked, "Maybe he'll just give the monkey
a banana." Now to Panama, where
conservationists just found something
that hasn't been documented in this
community in nearly three decades.
tracks in the sand, leading to a nest
belonging to the biggest sea turtle on
the planet. Community conservationists
say they've located a leatherback sea
turtle nest near Hake on Panama's
Pacific coast for the first time in
nearly 30 years. Officials say at least
one leatherback turtle came ashore after
conservationists discovered its tracks
in the sand. From 1998 to 2026, we have
significantly increased the sea turtle
population here. Previously, only one
species, the loggerhead, was found here.
But now, of the five species found in
Panama, four have already arrived in the
region. The turtles return marks major
progress for the town where
conservationists have spent close to two
decades dedicating their time to
protecting the animals. Imagine studying
for one of the biggest tests of your
life, passing, and then being told,
"Yeah, we're going to need you to take
that again." That's the reality for tens
of thousands of college applicants at
the National Autonomous University of
Mexico. Mexico's largest university and
one of Latin America's most prestigious.
It enulled the results of around 3,000
tests after the results showed an
unusually high number of perfect scores,
suggesting some students may have
cheated using AI. 58,000 applicants were
called to take a new test, even if they
were not accused of cheating. This time
in person and under strict supervision.
CNN's Valeria Leon reports. After an
alleged AI fraud using in the admission
exam, thousands of students are now
lined up to get to this admissions in
test for the second time to get into the
National Autonomous University in
Mexico, one of the oldest and most
prestigious universities of Latin
America.
This is the first time that the UNAM
applied this test online. And after this
fraud allegedly
signaling students using AI for this
first test, the university decided to
reapply this test.
And this is what the students feel of
retaking the exam.
Around 50,000 students have presented
this test, the second one for the
admission to the university.
And here in Mexico City, this is the
place Palasio de Portes where thousands
of students and also their families, as
you can see here, they are waiting for
hours until their students can present
the test and finally go out. This is the
last date for the students to get inside
and get this test done and finally get a
place in one of the most important
universities in Mexico.
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>> Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
mama bear who would do anything for her
son, including getting some serious ink.
11-year-old Hunter Fletcher has
non-verbal autism and communicates using
augmentative and alternative
communication or AAC, a virtual tablet
with words and symbols. But when the
devices battery died, mom had to try
something new.
>> I got a piece of paper and I wrote the
alphabet and he kind of got a little
frustrated. He flipped it over and
started writing the keyboard and he fake
typed on the keyboard to tell me what he
wanted to eat.
>> Inspired by that one afternoon at a
restaurant, Fletcher decided to
permanently tattoo a keyboard on her
arm.
>> That sparked the idea for me that I
can't limit him to technology cuz
technology does fail us.
>> One viral social media video later, the
Fletcher family has now partnered with a
clothing company to sell shirts with
keyboards on their sleeve. a mom giving
a whole new meaning to wearing your
heart on your sleeve. Let's end with
some Friday fun. We have a shout out
going to Mr. Taylor at Lorraine
Preparatory High School in OIO. Thank
you for commenting and subscribing on
our CNN 10 YouTube channel. And this
shout out goes to Liz Zangy at Graded
the American School of Sa Paulo Brazil.
Thank you so much for sending us this
very sweet flag and this little dude.
Bomb you brother. Play that Friday music
nare. Go out. Have an awesome weekend.
Go out, make someone smile. You never
know how or when or who, but you may be
the spark of joy someone needs. I'm Koi
Wire. This is CNN 10. It's been a
blessing to spend this week with you.
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