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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. A newborn was surrendered

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at the Ocala Fire Rescues fire Station
Number one, and she has found a

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permanent new home. A firefighter who
wished her a name, Anonymous, told

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the Today Show he'd been working overnights
on January second, he heard an alarm

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at two am indicating a baby had
been left at the department's safe Haven Baby

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box. That's a device that allows
someone to surrender a newborn who can't be

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cared for. The firefighter said,
to be honest, I thought it was

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a false alarm. But he opened
the box and he found a baby girl

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wrapped in a pink blanket. He
said, she had a little bottle with

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her and she was just chilling.
And picked her up and held her.

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We locked eyes and that was it. I've loved her ever since that moment.

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He and his wife had been struggling
to conceive a baby for over a

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decade. They had considered adoption,
and he decided when he took the baby

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to the hospital he would ask about
adopting her. He said, I didn't

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call my wife right away because I
didn't want to wake her up, but

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I knew she should be on board. So he wrote a note with the

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baby girl, detailing he and his
struggles having a baby, and let them

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know they were ready and willing to
take care of the child. I tell

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them we'd complete it all our classes
in the state of Florida. We were

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registered to adopt. All we needed
was a child. Came home from work,

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clued his wife in. She started
crying in the good way, he

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said. I was like, don't
get too excited yet. My biggest fear

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was the note I wrote. Wouldn't
stay with the baby and should be gone.

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It was a very stressful a few
days, however, the baby,

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now named Zoe, ended up going
home with the couple on January four,

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just two days later. She stayed
with them for months, and they officially

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adopted her in April. The firefighter
said, the way I found her this

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was gone helping us out. Hey, good news for you. If you

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lost your phone off the coast of
Florida, we found it. Four Ocean

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Ceo Alex Schultz was diving off the
coast of Florida and he found a brand

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new iPhone sealed in a plastic bag. It was in far better shape than

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most of the phones that he finds
the phone also was in a waterproof case.

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He was able to charge the phone
and get in touch with the person's

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emergency contact. The owner got the
phone back, and of course, like

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many of these stories, it went
viral on TikTok alex. We're alway stoked

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about the work we do cleaning the
ocean, when it's even better to make

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someone's day, but returning what's important
to them. Meanwhile, a woman was

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in the thrift store. She found
four plates for six dollars. Pretty good

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deal, right, four plates six
dollars? Oh, they're made by Picasso.

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She was at the thrift store.
She looked at some plates. They

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vaguely resembled human faces. The price
was listed on a sticker at a dollar

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ninety nine per plate, right next
to the name Picasso. Nancy said,

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I stumbled on the plates during my
daily trip to the store. Wait,

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did the person who own the store
know that they were Picasso plates? Why

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does it say Picasso? Maybe the
plates said Picasso. On my way out,

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I noticed some new china had been
added to the shells. My first

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reaction was they would make a great
table scape. But then I turned them

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over and saw the Picasso tag.
She bade the six bucks went back to

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the office to do some research.
She called the auction houses of New York

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City. Became clearer that each plate
was worth about four thousand dollars. Nancy

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said, it was absolutely bananas.
I was watching the auction from the office,

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screaming, crying, throwing up.
Hey, good news. If you're

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an elephant, We've got some yoga
classes for you. At the Euston Zoo,

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elephants participate in static or slow motion
stretching practice, much like yoga,

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for between thirty seconds and five minutes
a day. That's to help them strengthen

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muscle groups while stimulating their brains and
bodies. During the yoga, the zoo's

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elephant keepers are able to get a
full look at the entire bodies of the

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elephants, from trunk to till.
If anything seems off, they'll call over

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one of the five staff vets for
checkup. Let's keep the elephants motivated.

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They get special treats like are you
curious? You're curious? Right, whole

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wheat bread, cantaloupe, raisins or
bananas and that would also work on me.

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Martin Ward is sixty four. Congratulations Martin

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on finishing your one hundredth marathon.
That's ninety nine more than me. Martin

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started running in his mid fifties.
Hey I could catch up. After falling

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in love with running, he began
taking on Marathon twenty fifteen, has gone

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on average twelve and a half marathons
a year. He's now completed his one

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hundred. He was registered as disabled
in his thirties, having previously suffered a

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collapse, long and slip disk.
Doctors warned him keep fit, but never

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run. Certainly not a marathon.
Guess he doesn't listen to his doctors.

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His feet includes nine thirty three mile
ultra marathons, two of which he won

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three days apart against super fit runners
half his age. Wow, this guy's

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amazing, he says. I began
by just jogging around the block, starting

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with just between lamp posts, and
eventually on to more of a run.

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I built up park runs than did
a three k. Then I started doing

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ten k's, started to really believe
I could run. Then it was like

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a revelation. As you can imagine, for fifty five years, I've been

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sold not to run. I can't
run. Then I find out I can.

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That's your five good news stories for
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