The principal's extreme snow day closing message PLUS a doctor saves TWO lives while running a half marathon

WEBVTT

1
00:00:01.720 --> 00:00:04.759
Johnny Mack with five good news stories. As you can imagine, coming off

2
00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:08.160
the Christmas holiday, a lot of
Christmas stories out there. How about Christine

3
00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:11.759
Lily. She lives in Kyle,
Texas, and she goes all out on

4
00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:16.160
her Christmas decorations. Back in twenty
twenty, she was getting ready to spend

5
00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:19.679
Christmas without her two children, they
were both stationed on military bases. She

6
00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:23.079
says she thought back to the Christmases
of her childhood in Arkansas, when her

7
00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.640
mother, Sandy would make gingerbread houses
would stare at the house and wait for

8
00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.879
the day we could eat it.
So she decided to turn her house into

9
00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:35.600
a giant gingerbread house and a new
annual tradition was born. You can imagine

10
00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.159
this gets hundreds of visitors. Each
visitor is treated to a free cup of

11
00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.759
hot chocolate and photos with Santa,
played by Lily's husband, Robert Well.

12
00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.920
He says he was dubious at first, but he soon embraced it and now

13
00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:49.240
eagerly greets guests and hands out candy. Lily. He has now turned this

14
00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:53.399
into a larger purpose, asking visitors
for canned food donations to help combat food

15
00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:57.640
insecurity in the local community. Some
visitors also donate money. So if you

16
00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:02.159
look at the house here, it
is totally created as a gingerbread house,

17
00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:06.319
where the molding is alongside the roof
and the door frames. It's all in

18
00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:10.200
the kind of candy cane color scheme
that you would see in a gingerbread house,

19
00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.680
and the house itself is gingerbread colored. He might want to become friends

20
00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:17.959
with Raymond Roberts. He recently played
the lottery and his intuition told him don't

21
00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.560
just buy one ticket, buy six, and don't use any numbers. Use

22
00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:26.200
the exact same numbers on each ticket. While the numbers came in the tickets

23
00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.480
were three hundred and ninety thousand dollars
each. He took the lump sum for

24
00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.319
five of the tickets. That gets
some two million dollars For the six ticket.

25
00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.079
He chose the annuity option, so
he'll get twenty annual payments of twenty

26
00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:40.159
five grand. What were the numbers? It was a combination of birthday as

27
00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.519
an anniversary dates. What will he
do with the money. He's going to

28
00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.439
buy a motorcycle. Doctor Steve Loam
was running the half marathon. He says,

29
00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.079
in the twelve years he's been a
cardiologist, he's never had to give

30
00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.239
anyone CPR outside of his shift,
but during the Monterey Bay Half Marathon in

31
00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.519
California, he had to give CPR
twice. Around the third mile, Gregory

32
00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.000
Gonzalez fell down in front of Loam, hitting his head on the page.

33
00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.959
Loam immediately began to give him CPR, and after several minutes he was transferred

34
00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:07.400
to an amulets. Loam jumped back
into the race, but not long after

35
00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.080
crossing the finish line, the same
thing happened again. This time, Michael

36
00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:13.000
Heilman fell to the ground, hitting
his head. Loam rushed to give him

37
00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.599
CPR as well. Turned out,
both men had blockages that led to cardiac

38
00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.840
arrests, and they received stants in
their coronary arteries. Loam, Gonzalez,

39
00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.560
and Hilman planned to run the half
marathon together in twenty twenty three. Gonzale

40
00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:24.800
says, there's not a day that
goes by where I don't have tears of

41
00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:29.240
joy, absolute joy. I'm here
with the second chance at life. From

42
00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.319
the Washington Post. A puppy was
abandoned at an airport. Don't worry,

43
00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.400
this is five good news stories.
These never ended on a dark note.

44
00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.439
Trust me here and the dog's owner
left the puppy at the San Francisco International

45
00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:44.520
Airport. An international passenger had arrived
from China without the proper paperwork, and

46
00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:49.520
his travel companion abandoned him at customs. The CDC had some concern about the

47
00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.599
validity of the paperwork. Instead of
straightening out the problem, the owner surrendered

48
00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:55.599
the dog and flew to the East
Coast. United had the dog. The

49
00:02:55.719 --> 00:03:00.120
CDC suggested two courses of action that
United could take, return the puppy to

50
00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:05.000
China or leave him at SFO,
but neither choice was going to end too

51
00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.919
well. The initial options were very
grim I'll leave it at that, but

52
00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.039
the team at SFO refused to accept
a tragic fate for the dog, now

53
00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.520
named Polaris, after the airline's business
class, They decided to find a third

54
00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:20.319
way. They contacted the company's governmental
affairs team in Washington and San Francisco for

55
00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.039
help. The staff lobbied for the
CDC to reverse the ruling. The agency

56
00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:28.840
granted Polaris a reprieve, but ordered
a four month quarantine. During the four

57
00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.199
month quarantine, Polaris had to live
on the airport premises. The staff built

58
00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:36.240
him a makeship home in an airport
office. The Canine Cave featured such top

59
00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.840
flight amenities as dogbed toys, treats
at twenty four seven babysitting. Towards the

60
00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:46.319
end of the journey, United transported
Polaris to the La Quarantine Station first class,

61
00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:47.560
so we knew he'd be taken care
of. He was so good for

62
00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.400
the entire ride down. He didn't
bark at all. They reached out to

63
00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:55.120
the San Francisco SPCA. Lisa f. Fader is the chief of Rescue an

64
00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.560
animal welfare there and said, I've
been working in animal welfare for twenty five

65
00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:01.360
years, counter a lot of situations
that are unique and interesting. This was

66
00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.919
a first for us. The rescue
center received thirty five applications, then they

67
00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:10.039
winnowed it down to the top five. They picked the winner's name out of

68
00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:14.360
a dog bowl. The winner William
Dale, United pilot. He said,

69
00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:15.399
I only hope we can do half
as good a job as taking care of

70
00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.319
him as the United staff did.
More than one employee said to me,

71
00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:23.680
you had better take good care of
him or else. And now about this

72
00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:28.279
one. Right before the weekend,
Principal Jack Knack, great name Principal Knack

73
00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.319
was told that Friday was going to
be a snow day in Appleton, Wisconsin.

74
00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.600
For Nack, it was the moment
he'd been waiting for for years.

75
00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:39.079
He'd been recording clips they would eventually
edit together to make the big snow day

76
00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:43.879
announcement. He put out a parody
set to the tune of Oldtown Road called

77
00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:48.079
Official Richmond Appleton's Snow Day twenty twenty
two. The video was shown as students

78
00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:53.519
in their classrooms Thursday afternoon. The
video begins with Principal Knack fueling up a

79
00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.879
snow plow, turning it on,
and exiting from his garage onto a snow

80
00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.480
covered driveway. I'm not going to
sing here, but the lyrics, Yeah,

81
00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:00.839
I'm going to say my plow through
the old driveway, I'm going to

82
00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:04.000
snow blow out to the end of
day. He told today. This was

83
00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:08.160
our first snow day, which is
strange here in Wisconsin, first time in

84
00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.879
two years. That's very surprising to
me as well. So I've kind of

85
00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:13.720
been playing with this one for a
while. It only took a couple of

86
00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:15.959
days in the scheme of things,
but it was a two year project because

87
00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.800
we were just waiting for some snow
to come. Nax revealed he actually finished

88
00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:23.160
the parody last year, but he
had to make some edits after the school

89
00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:28.439
district changed superintendence. I told her
I had her name in and I had

90
00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:30.839
to put in his name. I
had to rerecord some things, even the

91
00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:32.240
last second because I kind of saw
the storm come in and I'm like,

92
00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:34.759
hey, maybe we can finally share
this. He's gonna work on a new

93
00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:36.839
video, he said, Old Town
wrote is a good one. I don't

94
00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:41.399
know if I could top that one, but we'll see. That's your kidneys

95
00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.519
for today. I have a great
day.