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April 12, 2018
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan Announces He`ll Step Down;
High School Students Raise Awareness About Human Trafficking;
A Young Researcher Puts Her Stamp on Ink
CARL AZUZ, CNN
10 ANCHOR: Hi. I`m Carl Azuz. Good to see you today.
There`s a significant change ahead for the U.S. House of Representatives and
that`s the first story we`re explaining this Thursday on CNN 10.
Since 2015, Paul Ryan, a Republican from the state of Wisconsin, has led the
House of Representatives as House speaker. The majority party in the House
choices its speaker. And the position is important not only for its House
leadership but because it`s also in line to the presidency, behind the
president and vice president.
Speaker Ryan played a major role in the Republican tax reform bill that was
signed into law last December. He`s helped roll back banking rules that were
enacted under Democratic leadership and he`s helped the Republican Party raised
funding for the upcoming midterm elections this fall.
So, why did he announce yesterday that he`d leave the House at the end of his
term in January?
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Look, you all know me. I didn`t
take this job to get the gavel in the first place. I`m not a guy who
thinks about it like that. This really was two things, I have accomplished much
of what I came here to do and my kids aren`t getting any younger, and if I
stay, they`re only going to know me as a weekend dad and that`s just something
I consciously can`t do. And that`s really it right there.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ: Speaker Ryan hasn`t always seen eye to eye with President Trump though they`re
both Republicans and some political analysts say Democrats have a good
chance of winning control of the House in November`s midterm elections. So,
they see Speaker Ryan`s departure as a bad sign for Republicans.
Ryan says he`s confident that Republicans will keep control of the House, that
he doesn`t think the individual elections will depend on whether he stays
on as speaker. Ryan`s been in Congress since 1999. He was the Republican
nominee for vice president in 2012, though he wasn`t elected.
Some Democrats joined Republicans in praising Paul Ryan`s work as House
speaker.
OK. Next story today. Slavery is not a thing of the past. It may be illegal the
world over, but it still goes on in several different forms.
And since 2011, CNN`s Freedom Project has worked to inform of where and how
people are still being enslaved or trafficked.
To amplify the voices of survivors and to pressure governments to eliminate
slavery, a group of high school students in Virginia has taken up the cause.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MATT PLOYD, TEACHER: Smithfield, Virginia, is a very rural family-based town.
The sense of community is a very big part of our local culture and identity.
My name is Matt Ployd. I`m a teacher of USVA government. That`s Smithfield High
School.
Hi, everybody. Good morning. How are we doing?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m good.
PLOYD: My first day on this job about a year and a half ago, my new department
head asked me, what do you know about human trafficking? And
have you given any thoughts of making that your project-based learning topic?
And the answer was nothing and no and sure.
I jumped into it and, you know, haven`t looked back.
I like that, convinced (ph).
The Prevention Project is a nonprofit organization and they provide a curriculum
for us to teach human trafficking in a very real world sense to high
school kids.
Our students are taking the information to getting and they`re taking it off
the PowerPoint. They`re taking out of the textbook and they`re addressing
it in the real world. They`re making sure their congresswomen, their senators
and their government officials know what they`re learning and know what
they expect for them to do about this problem. And they`ve actually pushed for
events in the community to help bring awareness to the community by how
serious this is in our area.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And in every single state in America, there`s been a case
of human trafficking.
PLOYD: We decided to put together a presentation to help raise awareness of
human trafficking. The goal being to try to convince local lawmakers to institute
education on human trafficking and to the local curriculum across the board and
all middle schools and or high schools in the county.
If this one classroom can make this big a difference and this one classroom can
have this much of an impact, what can an entire school system do?
The one thing the kids said is we`re going to meet somebody and that`s really
had to live with this, that`s had to deal with this.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My name is Monica and I am a human trafficking survivor.
PLOYD: Having Monica come in has inspired the kids and made it real. Now, it`s
not something you read about or see in a movie. It`s somebody who`s flesh
and blood standing right in front of you. And I thought it was important for
them to see firsthand and hear a story and not be able to turn the other
way.
BREIGH CAMPBELL, STUDENT: When Monica came and spoke to us, that`s when I got
the idea of writing Monica -- monologues to show what the different views
are.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Effort every piece of my body.
CAMPBELL: I decided to take her story and to put into words from my point of
view of what it would be like if I was in her shoes.
ELISE BROWN, STUDENT: Monica was a part of my inspiration. I don`t want this
happening to anyone else. It needs to stop. Things need to change and we
can`t just be that person that sits and watch. We need to do something about
it. We want better. We want change.
ABBY CONYERS, STUDENT: I have found such passion in this problem that I don`t
want to take that onto my college career and to be able to make a change
not only in my community here, but future communities that I`m going to be a
part of.
JADA HEAD, STUDENT: I wrote a song I call the sale of your sister.
Just being chosen to perform or to share my piece, it is an honor.
PLOYD: My students humble me on a day to day basis. My students tend to push
things further than what I anticipate seeing them gone. They have a drive
that I couldn`t imagine before I started doing this. My students are rockstars.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:
Which element, which forms more compounds than any other, is represented by an
atomic number of 6?
Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, or oxygen?
C is for carbon, an element found in everything, from petroleum to people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ: Carbon black, a form of carbon made by partially burning the element, is
found in everything from car tires to makeup to printer ink.
There`s some debate over whether carbon black is harmful to humans. Some
studies say it depends on the type of exposure. But concerns about it are part
of the reason why Shaima Alqassab is working on a way to make ink without
carbon black.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SHAIMA ALQASSAB, INVENTOR: I am really crazy about the environment and you find
this in any chemical engineer. We really strive to make this planet a better
place, using more sustainable and renewable resources to make products.
My name is Shaima Alqassab and I`m 22 years old.
From 2016, it was the innovation week in the United Arab Emirates and everyone
was calling for thinking out of the box and creating new things.
As chemical engineering students, we print a lot of lectures. So we thought,
how about making a small portable printer that`s eco-friendly?
We`re developing the printer and then we said, OK, how about the ink that the
printer is going to use? It contains something known as carbon black which
is the pigment, gives like the black color on the paper that you print
on.
We thought how about replacing that carbon black with something from nature?
This is working good for my experiment. It`s known as Chlorella.
So what we are doing is we`re replacing the carbon black with the green algae.
Algae has pigment.
Here, we have we grow our algaes and we make them ready so that we can extract
the pigments from the algaes and take it to the next step.
And we dry it, and then when it`s dried, we add some natural ingredients to it.
We test the product, and it goes through a certain process so that it`s,
like, nice and fine, and then we add it to the ink cartridge and we test it if
it`s printing or not.
And it`s having the same function. So we`re moving towards the vision of
sustainability and in the UAE, and algae life is moving along with it.
We believe that the future will be written with algae.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: A squirrel recently fell out of a tree in western New York. Why would
that make news? Because she broke her winnowed leg (ph) and needed a winnowed
cast. Yes, there are casts for squirrels, as you can see in this video from the
Orphaned Wildlife Center. A windstorm knocked the animal`s nest out of a
tree and when a woman saw that the baby squirrel was injured, she took her to a
local vet. Doctors say she`s going to be just fine in a couple of
weeks.
Well, why rodent she`d be? She`s been whiskered away and casts in both a video
and a plaster. And as long as she doesn`t get too squirrely before she
heals, she`ll have quite a tale to tell.
I`m Carl Azuz and that`s all the chattering we`ve got time for on CNN. We`ll
tree you tomorrow.
END
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CNN News Student 201804 11_Facebook's CEO speaks at a hearing and affects a social media stock
China`s President Addresses the Issue of Tariffs;
Facebook`s CEO
Testifies at a Congressional Hearing;
A CNN Hero Uses Music to Help Dementia
Patients
CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: We`re
thankful to have you watching CNN 10 on this Wednesday in April. I`m Carl Azuz
at the CNN Center.
First story we`re explaining today involves the leader of the world`s most
populated nation. Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech yesterday that
was closely watched around the world. A big reason for that is because China
and the U.S. have spent recent weeks going back and forth, putting tariffs
or taxes on good imported from the other country. Economists have warned that
this could lead to a trade war, though both sides have said that`s not
what they`re after.
Still, it`s had an effect on stock market. Worries about a trade war have
caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 significant stocks to take some
major dives recently, losing hundreds of points in a given day. But then on
days when investors thought trade war talk was only talk, the Dow gained
hundreds of points in a given day. Yesterday, for example, it closed up 429
points.
In his speech, China`s president made a statement that ease investors` fears
about a trade war. What we don`t know yet is whether President Xi will
follow through on his promises or if he`s just trying to slow the pace of the
back-and-forth tariffs.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, in past years, this was not the kind of
speech that would have attracted all that much attention. But in the midst
of a looming China-U.S. trade war, each word delivered by President Xi Tuesday
on Hainan Island was important. He started by playing to what most
countries around the world want to hear right now, that China is reforming,
that it is a responsible international player and that a trade war is not
in its best interest.
XI JINPING, CHINESE PRESIDENT (through translator): China will continue to
adhere to its fundamental national policy of opening up and pursue development
with its doors wide open. I wish to make it clear to you all that China`s door
of opening up will not be closed and would only open even wider.
RIVERS: Xi then went on to speak about strengthening intellectual property
rights, about increasing market access for foreign companies. And when he spoke
about increasing foreign imports, he specifically brought up automobiles,
saying that he would lower tariff rates significantly by the end of this
year.
That is absolutely a nod to the United States. Consider what President Trump
tweeted on Monday. When a car is sent to the United States from China, he
wrote, there is a tariff to be paid of 2-1/2 percent. When a car is sent to
China from the United States, there is a tariff to be paid of 25 percent.
Does that sound like free or fair trade? No, it sounds like stupid trade, going
on for years.
So, the Chinese decision to include this issue in that speech was certainly not
a coincidence, though we`ve seen Chinese state media saying that this speech
was in no way a response to potential U.S. trade action, believe that if you
will.
That said, for all the reforms that Xi Jinping laid out, there were only a few
new details sprinkled in. For the most part, these are reforms that have
been promised by the Chinese government for years now, across multiple U.S.
administrations, and most economic analysts and businessmen and women that
we speak to here in China would argue that they have yet to be realized. This
speech did not offer any sort of new, bold, substantive changes that the
government hasn`t talked about before.
So, the question becomes, is this speech and the promises of reform inside of
it going to be enough to prompt the Trump administration to back down from
its tariff proposals. The U.S. has said it wants to negotiate better terms with
China, so it will be interesting to see if this speech by President Xi is
enough to alleviate the concerns of policymakers in Washington.
Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:
Which of these includes more than 2 billion people?
Facebook users, population of China, YouTube users or population of India?
More than 2 billion people are said to use Facebook every month, making it the
most populated option on this list.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ: Very different type of speaking event is also having an effect on the
market. The stock price of the Facebook social media company went up yesterday
when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified to the U.S. Congress.
The privacy of Facebook users data is a major focus of these hearings. They
started almost a month after news broke that a company named Cambridge Analytica
accessed the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users
without their knowledge.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARK ZUCKERBERG, CHAIRMAN & CEO, FACEBOOK: It`s clear now that we didn`t do
enough to It`s clear now that we didn`t do enough to prevent these tools from
being used for harm as well. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in
elections and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy. We
didn`t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big
mistake. It was my mistake, and I`m sorry.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ: But though Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook fell short in preventing
abuse of the service, he defended that company`s practice of using
people`s personal information to target ads. He said users overwhelming prefer
to see advertisements based on their interests than irrelevant ones.
In recent days, Facebook has a lot of updates designed to address concerns
about data privacy. But some lawmakers and critics still have concerns about
what information Facebook is collecting from its users, who has access to it,
and how it`s being used.
OK, next story. Parkinson`s is a disease that affects the brain and has
symptoms like uncontrollable shaking, slow movements and trouble keeping balance.
Dementia also involves the brain, memory loss, trouble communicating, changes
in mood and personality can happen.
Years ago, Irwin Rosenstein was diagnosed with both Parkinson`s and dementia,
but his wife Carol found a way to use music to help Irwin and more than
200 others like him nationwide. She`s a CNN Hero.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CAROL ROSENSTEIN, CNN HERO: When my husband Irwin was diagnosed with
Parkinson`s and dementia, our lives were turned upside down.
We`re really blessed to have each other still every day.
To hear something like that when you`re about to set out on a golden journey of
retirement is quite earth shattering.
You`re ready to go in?
IRWIN ROSENSTEIN, HUSBAND: Yes.
C. ROSENSTEIN: All right.
Every day is a rollercoaster. New symptoms show. Their vocabulary is not
accessible to them, and mental disease carries a terrible stigma. People hide
out in the shadows.
(PLAYING PIANO)
C. ROSENSTEIN: One day, Irwin was playing the piano at home. He appeared to be
more conscious. Playing a musical instrument is like a full body workout
for the brain. The music actually resurrected him.
Yay!
I. ROSENSTEIN: Thank you.
C. ROSENSTEIN: Hey, how are you?
We needed to get some musical buddies so that we could all party
together.
So, I started a band for Irwin. The band is called The 5th Dementia.
It didn`t take long before I recognized that we were on to something really
grand. So, I started an organization that was intent on starting bands
for people with neurodegenerative decline. Everybody comes together under
this wonderful umbrella of music. Our band members regain their
confidence, their identities and their self-worth.
Bravo!
This is a powerful support group that gives people an opportunity to go out and
socialize. Caregivers love and hug and cry together because we`re all in
the same boat.
And here`s to music.
The concerts bring great pride to our musicians.
(SINGING)
My own personal suffering is the fuel that I used to propel this forward.
This project can have people happy until the 11th hour because that`s what the
power of music is all about.
(CHEERS)
(END VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: Many police forces have K-9 units. When one gets a feline unit, "10
Out of 10".
Something cataclysmic is afoot in the city of Troy, Michigan. The police chief
there said that if its department`s Twitter page got 10,000 followers, it
could also get a police cat. The Michigan Humane Society is providing the
cat-plicants and whoever gets the job will be the station mascot. It will
live with an officer but spend its days hanging out at the office.
Simon Chaudary (ph) of affiliate WXYC had some excellent question for the
cat-didates like how they felt about cat burglars or if they`ve ever been caught
with catnip. That may cat-cratch the surface, but we`d also want to know if
they`d have any mis-meow-nors or if they`ve been convicted of littering or
caterwalling before they try to Siamese their way into joining the long arm of
the claw.
I`m Carl Azuz and cats all for CNN 10.
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