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Welcome to 10 minutes of international current events.
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I`m Carl Azuz, reporting from Atlanta, Georgia, for CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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First up this Wednesday, Russian drones over Syria.
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We`ve told you before how Russia has been building up
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military equipment and troops in Syria.
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It seems to be supporting the Syrian government
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in the Middle Eastern country's civil war.
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That concerns the US because it opposes Syria's government
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and wants its president removed.
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Russia has started to fly drones, unmanned aircraft there.
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US officials say it looks like they're doing surveillance.
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They haven't said whether the drones are armed.
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Here's where this gets more complicated though.
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The US is leading airstrikes against the ISIS terrorist group in Syria.
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American officials are now concerned about possible run- ins
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between American and Russian aircraft in the skies over Syria.
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Next up, Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic church,
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arrived on US soil yesterday.
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It's the pontiff's first trip to America.
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And when his plane arrived,
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President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters,
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as well as Vice- President Joe Biden and his family
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were there to greet the pope.
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He'll be in the US for six days,
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traveling to Washington, New York, and Philadelphia
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and will give the first ever joint address to Congress by a pope
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He's influential and closely watched,
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both inside and outside the Catholic Church.
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In just over two years,
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Pope Francis has shown the world
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how the leader of the Catholic Church can be
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compassionate, comedic, controversial, and captivating.
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Here are some ways the pontiff has surprised us all.
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For one, he certainly hasn't been shy about
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getting up close and personal with his fans,
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from letting someone play with his cap
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and giving a pair of school boys a lift in the popemobile
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to even posing in a few selfies.
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And remember that homily when a young boy walked up on stage
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to get a closer look at the pope, even kissing his cross?
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But the Pontiff didn't seem to mind.
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Several cardinals even tried to persuade the child to leave,
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but he refused,
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instead wrapping his arms around the pope's legs
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and was then allowed to sit in the his chair
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while the pope gave a speech.
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In another endearing moment,
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Pope Francis clowned around with a newlywed couple
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and donned a red nose with the bride and groom.
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And then there's the humble side of the pope.
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At a detention center in Rome,
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he washed the feet of two women,
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ruffling the feathers of a few traditionalists.
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It is written in liturgical law that
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only men can take part in the ceremony,
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which reenacts Jesus washing the feet of his 12 disciples,
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all of whom were men.
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In another sign of humility
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Pope Francis embraced a disfigured man
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suffering from a genetic skin condition known as neurofibromatosis.
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That truly powerful image went viral.
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Pope Francis has also made moves that have disturbed some conservatives
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who believe he's making too many changes, too quickly.
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He authorized priests to forgive the sin of abortion
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and make it easier and faster to get an annulment.
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He issued a papal encyclical about the dangers of climate change,
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pleading for global action to help stop it.
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In the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo,
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the pope condemned the violence
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but said there are limits to free speech.
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Someone says a swear word against my mother,
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the pope said, he's going to get a punch in the nose.
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And throughout it all,
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Pope Francis has earned some interesting titles.
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In 2013, Esquire named him their best dressed man.
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And Time, gave him the iconic label of Person of the Year.
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Rolling Stone also elevated the pope to rock star status
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by making him the first religious head to grace the cover
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paired with the headline, the times they are a- changin'.
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Germany, Hawaii, and Michigan.
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Get ready to travel on today's roll call.
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Wiesbaden High School. We're shouting out the Warriors today.
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Hello to our viewers in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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From the Hawaiian Island of Oahu,
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say hello to the Rams.
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They're watching from Admiral Arthur W.
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Radford High School in Honolulu.
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And in northern Michigan, Harbor Springs is on today's roll.
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Great to see the swordsman of Harbor Light Christian School.
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You learn in science that
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black holes form when stars collapse
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and that they have such incredibly intense gravity
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that not even light can escape them.
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At least that's the theory.
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There is some controversy over whether black holes actually exist.
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Some scientists including Stephen Hawking
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have said they don't.
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Others argue they're mathematically impossible.
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Those who disagree with that say that
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not only are they real but that two of them are about to collide.
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Black holes are some of the strangest and
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most mysterious objects in space.
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Scientists say they have found new clues
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that two black holes might be merging,
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a phenomenon some consider the Holy Grail of physics.
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NASA says two of its space telescopes have found new information
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about an odd repeating light signal coming from
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the center of a distant galaxy in the Virgo constellation
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about 3. 5 billion light years from Earth.
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Researchers say the new data is the best evidence
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yet that the light signal is coming from
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two super massive black holes,
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and that the duo is orbiting closer together
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than any pair detected so far.
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Scientists were able to track the changing light patterns
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over the past 20 years using ultraviolet data
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from Hubble and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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The two black holes are expected to collide
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and merge in less than a million years
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triggering a huge explosion.
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Why all the interest in black hole mash up?
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For the most part, black holes are a huge mystery.
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Scientists think there are billions of them in the universe,
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but they can't actually see them.
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Experts say they can detect gas and other materials
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being sucked into the black holes.
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In the final moments before they collide,
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it's predicted the black holes will cause ripples in space
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and time called gravitational waves,
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and scientists say those waves could hold clues
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about the fabric of our universe.
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The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous
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speeches in American history,
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but there's no known photograph
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of President Lincoln actually giving it.
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Why you ask? Well, it's short.
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Like ten sentences and 272 words short.
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Like two to three minutes short.
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Some historians think that because it's so short,
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photographers didn't have time to set their cameras to capture it.
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Now that's random.
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All right, sticking with the Civil War theme.
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The CSS Georgia, CSS standing for Confederate States Ship,
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served near the southeast Georgia coast.
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It never fired a shot in battle.
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Confederate troops intentionally sank it
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when Union forces approached in late 1864.
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A little more than 100 years later,
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a dredge ran into the ship's wreckage in the Savannah River.
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Now, the US Navy is helping recover a giant relic
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of the American Civil War.
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We are right now in Savannah, Georgia
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to salvage the C. S. S. Georgia.
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It's an old Confederate ironclad.
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The Georgia has had numerous failed salvage attempts,
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so there's no shortage of debris down there
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in addition to the Georgia.
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We're mobilized here onboard
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a Naval Sea System's command support platform
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moored out in the middle of the Savannah River.
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Anytime you're working underwater
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what it really comes down to is feeling your way around,
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especially working in zero visibility,
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six inches to a foot is a good day.
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Right now we're lucky enough
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to have the archeologist and underwater sonar device
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that could literally pinpoint us
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and put us onto any artifact
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that they've previously discovered already.
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Something we've been saying a lot of is diving into history.
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We're actually revisiting the Civil War on every single dive,
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and after every dive we actually have a chance
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to take a look at some of those things from that period
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here on deck and asking the question, what is that.
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Even though we don't have plans for the Georgia,
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we know a lot about the ship's construction just based on period,
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and we've also been relying heavily
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on the previous archaeological operations.
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The things they found and mapped to guide us in our salvage operation.
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Our divers are outfitted with a helmet,
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mounted camera and light system,
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so we can actually see what they're seeing,
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but a little better on the camera topside.
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We're also using a variety of sonar technologies
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to track our divers movements
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and effectively guide them through that debris field on the bottom.
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Just about everywhere we step down there
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we're walking on some piece of wreckage.
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While the debris field is very wide,
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I'll say it's very dense.
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There are a good number of artifacts on the bottom,
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and it's always a new challenge, and really, Georgia,
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she doesn't want to give up any of her secrets easily.
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Three things you might see in New York city,
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pizza, the subway, and rats.
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They're generally not seen all at once though,
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so it's no surprise this video went viral.
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A ravenous rodent recently recorded running
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rapidly with a ration of pizza.
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The slice was larger than the carrier.
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And though we don't actually get to see him
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eat his hard- won sample of Subway sustenance,
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we can assume he rat- turned for it later on.
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Guess when you're a rat, you gotta get carry- out.
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Delivery could be a trap.
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And now the to- go meal, made us all stop and stares.
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Even those with unmistakable mousaphobia rodent
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have wanted to miss it.
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Rats all folks.
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CNN Student News pizzas together another show tomorrow.
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It'd be sliced to see y'all then.