Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shock Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
Speaker 1: good news stories. It's been over a century since the
Speaker 1: Titanic slipped beneath the waters of the North Atlantic, and
Speaker 1: now a battle is underway to see what should happen
Speaker 1: to the treasures recovered from the wreck. The company that
Speaker 1: holds the salvage rights to the Titanic wants to auction
Speaker 1: them off or MS Titanic Incorporated has spent decades recovering
Speaker 1: objects from the wreck site. Thousands of items have been
Speaker 1: brought to the surface, ranging from personal belongings and pieces
Speaker 1: of the ship itself to everyday objects used by passengers
Speaker 1: and crew. Until now, those artifacts have been largely displayed
Speaker 1: in museums and traveling exhibitions, but court documents recently unsealed
Speaker 1: revealed that the company is trying to auction off over
Speaker 1: one hundred items. Among the objects reportedly being considered or
Speaker 1: a bronze cherub, a necklace made of gold nuggets, and
Speaker 1: a heart shaped pendant. Here's the debate. On one side,
Speaker 1: some argue that recovered artifacts can help fund future expeditions
Speaker 1: and keep public exhibitions operating. The other side, are historians, preservationists,
Speaker 1: and some relatives of Titanic victims who view the wreck
Speaker 1: site as something closer to a memorial than a treasure trove.
Speaker 1: O should explorer Greg Stone says he has no objection
Speaker 1: in recovering artifacts if it's done carefully and scientifically. Earlier
Speaker 1: this year, a life jacket won by a passenger reportedly
Speaker 1: sold for more than nine hundred thousand dollars. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, gold pocket watch connected to the captain of
Speaker 1: the rescue ship that saved some survivors fetched nearly two
Speaker 1: million dollars at an auction. Critics note that those items
Speaker 1: were never part of the rex site itself. Meanwhile, in England,
Speaker 1: scientists getting it done once again. A new study has
Speaker 1: found that young women who receive the HPV vaccine at
Speaker 1: age twelve or thirteen now have what researchers describe as
Speaker 1: a close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer
Speaker 1: before the age of thirty. Researched by the Queen Mary
Speaker 1: University of London examine the vaccine's impact on debts from
Speaker 1: the disease. Researchers estimate the roughly two hundred line lives
Speaker 1: that had already been saved since the vaccination program began
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. Between twenty twenty and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, they were zero recorded cervical cancer deaths among
Speaker 1: women age twenty to twenty four in England. Researchers say
Speaker 1: that without the vaccine, statistically, they would have had about
Speaker 1: twenty three deaths. Conservationists in Australia are excited. They saw
Speaker 1: a tiny bulge on a trail camera. What was it?
Speaker 1: It was one of the world's rarest mammals, a northern
Speaker 1: hairy nosed wombat Joey, which probably will soon be like
Speaker 1: running along a highway in Texas if you listen to
Speaker 1: the show Eagily Now. This is both happy and kind
Speaker 1: of sad by spotting the singular northern hairy nosed wombat
Speaker 1: Joey that increased the global population from four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty to four hundred and fifty one. The baby was
Speaker 1: spotted in Queensland at the Richard Underwood Nature Refuge, where
Speaker 1: motion sensored cameras captured images of a female wombat carrying
Speaker 1: a youngster in her pouch. A volunteer said, when we
Speaker 1: first saw the little budge on the belly, we got
Speaker 1: very excited. The images were sent to experts who confirmed
Speaker 1: that the female was indeed carrying a newly born Joey.
Speaker 1: The northern hairy nose wombat is considered one of the
Speaker 1: rarest mammals on Earth. By the nineteen eighties, only about
Speaker 1: thirty five animals remained. Conservation efforts helped pull the species
Speaker 1: back from the brink. Protected habitats, predator fencing, and intensive
Speaker 1: monitoring have allowed the population to slowly recover. Good news
Speaker 1: for Dylan. When Dylan was fourteen years old, doctors told
Speaker 1: him he had stage four kidney cancer and he might
Speaker 1: only have eight months to live. However, four years later,
Speaker 1: Dylan walked across a graduation stage cancer free. Doctor Mary
Speaker 1: treated Dylan through a grueling year of chemotherapy. She checked
Speaker 1: in regularly, shared meals with him, incourgon throughout his darkest moments,
Speaker 1: and gave him a goal to hold on when the
Speaker 1: future looked uncertain. You told him, if you keep fighting
Speaker 1: and make it through treatment, should be there for the graduation.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, she was there. Dylan's dad said, just the
Speaker 1: trick of saying hey, I'll make it to your graduation
Speaker 1: changed everything. He just decided to keep fighting. Dylan has
Speaker 1: been declared cancer free. She lives fifteen hundred miles away.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes the past doesn't arrive in a dusty
Speaker 1: attic box or a carefully labeled family album. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: shows up in the form of a wallet you didn't
Speaker 1: even realize you had lost. Mark was surprised on a
Speaker 1: Facebook post appeared showing the contents of a weathered wallet
Speaker 1: that had shown up after a dig. The wallet had
Speaker 1: some clues pointing back to its owner, including an old
Speaker 1: Leeds United membership card from the nineteen ninety two to
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three season. At that time, Matt was covering
Speaker 1: Leeds United for the Yorkshire Evening Post. You see where
Speaker 1: this is going, right, Yes, he explains, the wallet was
Speaker 1: found by the organizer of a local forest school, but
Speaker 1: I have no recollection of ever walking down there at
Speaker 1: any time in the past, so I have no idea
Speaker 1: how the wallet got there. One theory is the wallet
Speaker 1: might have disappeared after a night out many years ago.
Speaker 1: Another possibility it was stolen and thrown out. Anyway, Claire
Speaker 1: found the wallet posted out on the Internet. Matt's wife
Speaker 1: spotted the post and realized the owner was sitting right
Speaker 1: next to her. That's amazing looking back at the membership
Speaker 1: card photograph, Matt couldn't resist poking fun at his younger self.
Speaker 1: He said, given that I was a sports reporter, you
Speaker 1: might have thought I've had more of a smile on
Speaker 1: my face than on the leads card in ninety two.
Speaker 1: I was thirty and happy, having a good time, loving journalism,
Speaker 1: loving working in newspapers. It was just great. And now
Speaker 1: he's got his wallet back. And those are your five
Speaker 1: good news stories for today. You have an awesome day.