William Shatner's Space Record broken
In this episode of '5 Good News Stories,' host Johnny Mac shares heartwarming and inspiring stories. David set a new Guinness World Record by catching and putting on five t-shirts in 46.09 seconds. A new vaccine patch shows promise in protecting kids from measles. A police dog, Mercury, heroically finds a missing 85-year-old woman. Sean Cummings raises over $83,000 to eliminate school lunch debts in honor of his late wife. Finally, Ed Dwight fulfills his dream of going to space at the age of 90, breaking the record for the oldest person in space.
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Kalaroga Shark Media. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. Congratulations to
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David. He has added yet another
Guinness World Record title to his tally.
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He caught and put on five T
shirts launched from a T shirt canon in
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forty six point zero nine seconds.
David has broken more than two hundred and
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fifty Guiness World records. He said
he had thought about trying this one a
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few times in the past, but
never made an official try due to scheduling
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and equipment problems. David's friend Jake
operated the T shirt cannon and fired off
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the shirts for David to catch and
quickly put on. For David, this
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is the one hundred and sixty seventh
concurrently held record. He's trying to overtake
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the world's top record breaker, Silvio, who holds one hundred and eighty titles
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right now. Good job by the
scientists. A new vaccine patch could protect
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kids from measles. It's the size
of a small band aid and it's easier
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to transport store than standard injections.
And a trial conducted in Gambia, vaccine
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patches were put on two hundred healthy
infants and toddlers and following one dose,
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more than ninety percent of the babies
were protected against measles and against all new
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bella. The patches could ensure that
ninety five percent of children worldwide receive immunization.
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Good job by a police dog.
An eighty five year old woman had
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gone missing for two hours. She
was found clinging to a tree down a
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ravine. Police officers had gotten a
call from a family member who said they
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couldn't find the woman who got lost
during a walk. Body camridge footage shared
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on a Facebook group shows Officer Austin
Spear following the dog's lead as he tracks
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the woman, who could not be
seen from the roadway. The officer said,
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this is a friendly dog. He
found you. We're going to get
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you home, okay. Mercury the
dog joined the department a year and a
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half ago to be trained at tracking
missing people. He's proved that he's pretty
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good at his job, which also
includes detecting narcotics. The son of the
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woman said I'd been searching for her
for two hours and Mercury the dog and
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Officer Spear found her in ten minutes. Unbelievable. It was like watching a
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Navy extraction. Sean Cummings is on
a mission to wipe out school lunch debts
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for kids. When Shawn's late wife, Kathy faced a terminal diagnosis of gall
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bladder cancer, they had a conversation
about extending her love for the community because
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around that time when they heard a
local school was withholding a transcript for a
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seventeen year old over a two dollars
and fifty cent lunch debt. After Kathy's
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death, Sewn launched a GoFundMe page. The response was nothing short of incredible.
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Within a month, that had raised
over eighty three thousand dollars to alleviate
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school lunch debts. Sean says the
amount of money that was raised shows you
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that people believe in her cause.
I'm just the delivery boy. I found
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it cathartic to know she's still helping
these people through my actions. You don't
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have to change the world, you
just have to change a little of it.
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Congratulations to Ed Dwight making it to
space. Back in nineteen sixty one,
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he had hoped to become the first
black astronaut in space, but he
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never made it. Now, at
ninety years old, he made it on
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a Blue Origin capsule. Dwight was
an Air Force pilot back when JFK championed
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him as a candidate for the early
Astronauts, but he wasn't picked for the
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class of nineteen sixty three. Here, at age ninety, he joined five
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other passengers on the Blue Origin capsules
at Skim Space on a ten minute flight.
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He called it a life changing experience. After exiting the capsule, I
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said, I thought I really didn't
need this in my life, but now
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I need it in my life.
I'm ecstatic. He is now the new
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record holder for oldest person in space, breaking a record once held by William
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