The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with five good news stories. A newborn was surrendered
at the Ocala Fire Rescues fire Station Number one, and she has found a
permanent new home. A firefighter who wished her a name, Anonymous, told
the Today Show he'd been working overnights on January second, he heard an alarm
at two am indicating a baby had been left at the department's safe Haven Baby
box. That's a device that allows someone to surrender a newborn who can't be
cared for. The firefighter said, to be honest, I thought it was
a false alarm. But he opened the box and he found a baby girl
wrapped in a pink blanket. He said, she had a little bottle with
her and she was just chilling. And picked her up and held her.
We locked eyes and that was it. I've loved her ever since that moment.
He and his wife had been struggling to conceive a baby for over a
decade. They had considered adoption, and he decided when he took the baby
to the hospital he would ask about adopting her. He said, I didn't
call my wife right away because I didn't want to wake her up, but
I knew she should be on board. So he wrote a note with the
baby girl, detailing he and his struggles having a baby, and let them
know they were ready and willing to take care of the child. I tell
them we'd complete it all our classes in the state of Florida. We were
registered to adopt. All we needed was a child. Came home from work,
clued his wife in. She started crying in the good way, he
said. I was like, don't get too excited yet. My biggest fear
was the note I wrote. Wouldn't stay with the baby and should be gone.
It was a very stressful a few days, however, the baby,
now named Zoe, ended up going home with the couple on January four,
just two days later. She stayed with them for months, and they officially
adopted her in April. The firefighter said, the way I found her this
was gone helping us out. Hey, good news for you. If you
lost your phone off the coast of Florida, we found it. Four Ocean
Ceo Alex Schultz was diving off the coast of Florida and he found a brand
new iPhone sealed in a plastic bag. It was in far better shape than
most of the phones that he finds the phone also was in a waterproof case.
He was able to charge the phone and get in touch with the person's
emergency contact. The owner got the phone back, and of course, like
many of these stories, it went viral on TikTok alex. We're alway stoked
about the work we do cleaning the ocean, when it's even better to make
someone's day, but returning what's important to them. Meanwhile, a woman was
in the thrift store. She found four plates for six dollars. Pretty good
deal, right, four plates six dollars? Oh, they're made by Picasso.
She was at the thrift store. She looked at some plates. They
vaguely resembled human faces. The price was listed on a sticker at a dollar
ninety nine per plate, right next to the name Picasso. Nancy said,
I stumbled on the plates during my daily trip to the store. Wait,
did the person who own the store know that they were Picasso plates? Why
does it say Picasso? Maybe the plates said Picasso. On my way out,
I noticed some new china had been added to the shells. My first
reaction was they would make a great table scape. But then I turned them
over and saw the Picasso tag. She bade the six bucks went back to
the office to do some research. She called the auction houses of New York
City. Became clearer that each plate was worth about four thousand dollars. Nancy
said, it was absolutely bananas. I was watching the auction from the office,
screaming, crying, throwing up. Hey, good news. If you're
an elephant, We've got some yoga classes for you. At the Euston Zoo,
elephants participate in static or slow motion stretching practice, much like yoga,
for between thirty seconds and five minutes a day. That's to help them strengthen
muscle groups while stimulating their brains and bodies. During the yoga, the zoo's
elephant keepers are able to get a full look at the entire bodies of the
elephants, from trunk to till. If anything seems off, they'll call over
one of the five staff vets for checkup. Let's keep the elephants motivated.
They get special treats like are you curious? You're curious? Right, whole
wheat bread, cantaloupe, raisins or bananas and that would also work on me.
M what does that mean? I am Patty Callahan Henry, I am
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on finishing your one hundredth marathon. That's ninety nine more than me. Martin
started running in his mid fifties. Hey I could catch up. After falling
in love with running, he began taking on Marathon twenty fifteen, has gone
on average twelve and a half marathons a year. He's now completed his one
hundred. He was registered as disabled in his thirties, having previously suffered a
collapse, long and slip disk. Doctors warned him keep fit, but never
run. Certainly not a marathon. Guess he doesn't listen to his doctors.
His feet includes nine thirty three mile ultra marathons, two of which he won
three days apart against super fit runners half his age. Wow, this guy's
amazing, he says. I began by just jogging around the block, starting
with just between lamp posts, and eventually on to more of a run.
I built up park runs than did a three k. Then I started doing
ten k's, started to really believe I could run. Then it was like
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