1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:10,279 Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five 2 00:00:10,359 --> 00:00:14,240 good news stories. In Minneapolis, a pizza place is delivering 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,440 free food to vulnerable families amid the ice crackdowns. Rectangle 4 00:00:18,519 --> 00:00:21,359 Pizza launched a buy a Pizza, give It Pizza to 5 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:23,839 a family a need deal to support community members. In 6 00:00:23,879 --> 00:00:26,480 a few days, they received eighty three thousand dollars in 7 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:30,239 donations to support their efforts. They sold two two hundred 8 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:32,920 and ninety one pizzas in four days and said we 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,000 couldn't be more stunned or grateful. Congratulations to Charlie, a 10 00:00:37,119 --> 00:00:41,960 French sailor who completed a solo sailing race while secretly 11 00:00:42,079 --> 00:00:46,280 battling gastro intestinal cancer. He began the twenty four thousand 12 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:49,920 mile race as the favorite after narrowly finishing second to 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,399 previous year. Unknown to competitors and most of his team, 14 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,799 he had been diagnosed a year earlier with a fifteen 15 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,320 centimeter tumor in a small intestine. Doctors weren't sure what 16 00:00:59,439 --> 00:01:02,159 was going to happen, but immunotherapy appeared to slow the 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,000 tumor's growth. Charlie chose to race while continuing the treatment 18 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,319 at sea. During the multi month voyage. He had to 19 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,719 deal with torns, broken equipment, brutal storms, fatigue. He had 20 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,319 to take daily cancer medication alone aboard his sixty foot boat. 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,959 To take the lead, he made a risky decision steering 22 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:22,799 toward a powerful storm system that allowed him to build 23 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:25,519 a lead. He eventually had a lead of more than 24 00:01:25,519 --> 00:01:28,920 two hundred miles. One of his rivals caught up, but 25 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,560 then Charlie reclaimed that extended the lead. He crossed the 26 00:01:31,599 --> 00:01:34,560 finish line in January. He didn't say anything about his 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,799 illness at the finish he didn't want it to overshadow 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,239 the achievement. A few days later, a post race scan 29 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:42,959 revealed the tumor had grown during the race. Surgery followed. 30 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:47,040 He was hospitalized for weeks. He's uncertain about his long 31 00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:50,120 term prognosis, but he said there's no proof of racing 32 00:01:50,159 --> 00:01:52,280 worsened the condition and says watching the race from home 33 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:55,319 would have been unbearable. Good luck to you, sir, and congratulations. 34 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,920 A new study in the Journal of Mammalogy says the 35 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,040 number of recognized living mammal species has increased by about 36 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,640 twenty five percent since two thousand and five. That's more 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,319 than thirteen hundred newly recognized mammal species in just two decades. 38 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,280 Some of them include the Peruvian andes, which is a 39 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:18,639 mouse opossum, a dwarf shrew in Ethiopia, and the olunguito 40 00:02:18,759 --> 00:02:20,879 in Ecuador. Think I told you about that one one day. 41 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,360 So these are because of what scientists call splits, where 42 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:27,639 advanced genetic analysis reveals that animals thought to be one 43 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:32,280 species or actually multiple distinct ones. Modern DNA sequencing makes 44 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,639 it cheaper and faster to analyze hundreds of animals at once, 45 00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:36,879 so they can all figure this out. Good news In 46 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,840 Florida they got rid of the nine foot boa constrictor 47 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:43,719 that was in someone's yard. Yikes. The Indian River Sheriff's 48 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:47,360 Office set on social media that Corporal Cremer was called 49 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,960 out to a home where a resident said, hey, big 50 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,039 snake in the yard. The Sheriff's office shared photos of 51 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,560 Kramer capturing the nine foot boa constrictor snake, who was 52 00:02:56,599 --> 00:03:00,000 turned over to animal control. No one knows from one 53 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,520 where it came. And in Spain, a cat jumped out 54 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,879 of its owner's camper during a stop at a gas station. 55 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,199 What did the cat do? It walked home to France 56 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,759 feelw The cat jumped out the window on August ninth 57 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:17,039 at a gas station at Spain, located near the French 58 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,599 border but still one hundred and fifty five miles from home. 59 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,080 Patrick said they didn't notice the cat was gone until 60 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,719 the next morning. They returned to the gas station twice. 61 00:03:24,759 --> 00:03:26,759 In the next few days and weeks, no one in 62 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:29,759 the area had seen any cat. A couple months went by, 63 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,360 then they got a call in January from someone who 64 00:03:33,439 --> 00:03:35,240 was less than a mile from the house saying, Hey, 65 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,120 we found your cat. The woman said she'd been feeding 66 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:40,400 the cat outdoor since December and noticed he was very 67 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,120 thin and appeared to be coughing, so she took him 68 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:45,000 with a vet. The vet found the chip. How the 69 00:03:45,039 --> 00:03:47,520 cat figured out how to get home, we'll never know. 70 00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:50,360 Those are your five good news stories for today. You 71 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,120 have an awesome day.