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  • with the week rolling along, we're happy you're spending part of your Wednesday with Sian and 10.

  • I'm Carla Zeus with CNN Center.

  • It's always good to see you.

  • Election results are in from Canada, and the nation's incumbent Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is set to serve another four year term in office.

  • But election results for him were a mixed bag in the vote that was held on Monday, Prime Minister Trudeau's political party, the Liberal Party, won enough seats for him to stay in power is prime minister, but the party lost its majority in parliament.

  • It needs to have 100 and 70 seats for that.

  • And though the Liberals 184 seats in the last election, they won 157 in this one.

  • Canada's Conservative Party, the main opponents of the Liberals, gain seats in this election, winning 121 of them.

  • But that too is short of a majority.

  • So for Prime Minister Trudeau's party to pass any major legislation, it'll have to get support from other smaller parties within Parliament.

  • So compromise will have to factor into that and by many accounts, including one by Prime Minister Trudeau, this election was a divisive one for Canada.

  • The nation shares a border with only one other country, the United States.

  • Ahead of Canada's election, former U.

  • S President Barack Obama endorsed Prime Minister Trudeau and after it current U.

  • S President Donald Trump congratulated Trudeau on his victory.

  • Up next, a settlement worth hundreds of millions of dollars related to America's opioid epidemic.

  • A trial was set to begin this week.

  • The plaintiffs were two counties in Ohio, and the defendants were four pharmaceutical companies.

  • The county's accused the drug distributors of not doing enough to make sure that the orders they filled We're going to people that needed them and not to the black market.

  • The companies were also accused of ignoring signs there was a problem concerning opioids in northeastern Ohio.

  • Hours before the trial began, the four companies agreed to a settlement worth $260 million.

  • They said they strongly disputed the county's accusations, but that they believed settling the trial would be an important step toward quote achieving a global resolution and delivering meaningful relief.

  • They also said they expected the settlement money would be used to fight the opioid epidemic by treating and rehabilitating people who abuse the drugs.

  • This was one legal case concerning the opioid epidemic there.

  • More than 2700 others like it awaiting trial.

  • The problem is widespread across America between 1999 and 2017 the U.

  • S Centers for Disease Control says almost 400,000 people died from overdosing on opioids that includes both prescription and illegal drugs.

  • Sometimes it's gnawing.

  • Other times it's sharp.

  • It can be a persistent ache or a sudden shooting burn its pain.

  • Everyone knows what it is, But how is it relieved when you accidentally touch a hot stove or try to walk on a sprained ankle?

  • Special pain sensing nerves called no susceptible, were triggered to send neural messages up your spine in India, brain in turn, your brain releases naturally occurring opioids.

  • Thes chemicals lock into opioid receptors throughout your body to help dull the pain and generally calm you down.

  • They also hit receptors in the brain stem that slow down breathing.

  • Now you've likely heard of opioid drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, even heroin.

  • These drugs, all chemically similar, mimic the body's own naturally occurring endorphins.

  • Prescription opioids are one of the most common ways for doctors to treat pain.

  • But the more opioid to take the left natural opioid your body makes Onda less sensitive, become to the drugs, pushing you to take even higher and higher doses to get any relief and increasing your chances of an overdose.

  • 12th Trivia.

  • Which of these World War two battles was a turning point in the fight between the US and Japan?

  • Battle of the Bolts Battle of Midway Battle of the Coral Sea, or Battle of Cursed in early June of 1942 The Battle of Midway a naval battle was an important victory for America.

  • There were four Japanese aircraft carriers destroyed in the Battle of Midway, and within the past week.

  • The remains of two of them have been located by a team of deep sea explorers.

  • The Kaga was found last Wednesday, and the Akagi was found on Sunday.

  • That shipwreck rests more than 17,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific.

  • It's located about 1300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and historians say both of these carriers participated in the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

  • The Akagi was sunk on June 5th, 1942.

  • It was reportedly detected by an autonomous underwater vehicle, which took sonar images of the site and matched them with the dimensions of the lost Japanese warship.

  • A U.

  • S.

  • Naval historian says.

  • Unlike land war ocean battles leave nothing we can see on the surface.

  • So finding these shipwrecks will give historians a new perspective.

  • On the Battle of Midway, The pastor of Canada Chapel Missionary Baptist Church did not like farming when he was a kid.

  • Reverend Richard Joyner is the son of sharecroppers, he says.

  • The last thing he wanted to do when he grew up was working the fields.

  • But as an adult, the work that Joyner thought he'd hate has turned into something he loves.

  • It made him a CNN hero back in 2016 and it's helped improve his community of just under 300 people in Canada.

  • North Carolina.

  • Canada was a food desert, but I wanted to do something about it.

  • We began to grow, and we begin to put our hearts and hands and gather.

  • And Kaneda is no longer food.

  • Desert Anita is a food oasis.

  • I'm Reverend Richard or John Founder Oconee, The Family Life Center, Canada is a rural area in the eastern part.

  • Enough Carolina population.

  • About 300 people.

  • Ah, food doesn't really mean that the residents here do not have access to fresh, locally affordable, grown foods well by most of our food from discount stores, which high sodium calories, very low nutritional values.

  • People had these early stages of chronic disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes and even mental illness.

  • Because of the stress and pain people dying in the thirties and forties, we would be having 2 to 3 funerals a month, really devastating families.

  • I was really feeling overwhelmed, feeling hopeless.

  • I couldn't stop this chronic disease opponents out of road and really started praying, wanting to know what could I do?

  • I had this epiphany, Opie eyes look around and I love my eyes.

  • All that's always feels So we started our first small guard, and now we're up to 21 acres of farm way have about eight people, the parents and grandparents of youth that work here every day.

  • We have 40 students during the summer that used this from for the reading, writing, math, science and for food.

  • Presently on our farm, we have blueberries, tomatoes.

  • We have collars.

  • We have squash with zucchini.

  • We've end of averaging £100 of food per week out.

  • The guard food that we grow has had a tangible impact upon our community.

  • Were able to put food on people tables.

  • Our community is spending $4000 last month on prescription appeals because of food.

  • Depths have slowed down.

  • We're not having his managed funerals.

  • I feel like we are making a difference.

  • Love this community here because we're united around saving lives together.

  • Following yesterday's Halloween themed 10 out of 10 segment, you've heard of the walking dead Take a ride with the biking dead.

  • What else would you expect at the Florida Keys fantasy fest Zombie bike ride?

  • This is part of a 10 day festival that takes place every year.

  • There's a lot of makeup, a lot of creativity that goes into this and not much speed, so you can get a good gander at the 11,000 undead people who participated.

  • And there's no place they'd rather zombie now.

  • It might not look, too, really, but it is to wield a zombie of bike ellipse.

  • That's a ride of the living dead For some, it's killer.

  • For others, it's thriller, and haters can just hoist up the zombie sail and go home to another zombie land of Carla Zeus for seeing in Texas.

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