Miraculous Rescues in Nepal

0:00Good morning to you. I'm Sarah Cider. It is Friday, September 4th. Here are your five things. Number one, the tunnel rescues an incredible moment. First responders in Nepal managed to pull two men out alive from deep underground more than nine days after those cataclysmic floods in Nepal. Wow, you hear the rescue teams there shouting pull as they drag one of the men out on a stretcher. And then finally the survivors emerge, a 30 year old man and a 45 year old man who are both said to be in stable condition, although one is being treated in the ICU. The 30 year old explained how he got stuck while trying to evacuate his co-workers.

1:01I told them that there was an accident in the big dam. I asked everyone to escape outside. Doing so, I wasted time and I could not get out. I got trapped. They're both employees of the Hydro Power Company which still has roughly 900 workers missing. To get to the men rescue today, teams had to first drain water from the tunnel and then blow up rocks the size of cars to clear a path. They are now at the hospital in Kathmandu and CNN is on the scene as crews dig by hand to see if they can save anyone else. The morning rescues have given renewed hope to the Army and first responders in the wake of this horrifying disaster. About 1300 people are now confirmed dead. More than 5,000 are still missing. Number two, the loan holdout. A dramatic day in court over the deadlocked jury. The judge

2:01and the Lindsey Clancy trial will question a single juror today as deliberations are so far deadlocked 11 to 1. In heated moments in court yesterday, Clancy's attorney accused the juror of disregarding the law after reading a note that was sent to the judge. Here's the exchange with the judge. My motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction a reasonable doubt. I've asked if they are able to follow my instructions. According to the swore earlier that they could. They've said tonight at this point that they can. That was specifically addressed towards the specific question. And that's what I'm doing. If the juror was removed, that essentially erases the more than 36 hours of deliberations they've done so far. The jury would have to start from scratch with an alternate juror. If the judge decides to declare a mistrial, however, prosecutors

3:03would likely seek to keep Lindsey Clancy in custody at the psychiatric facility where she is currently being held while they could consider whether they want to go forward with retrying her. After court, Clancy's attorney said he hadn't spoken to his client about the juror issue, but says he has faith in the process. Number three, the DC renovations. The Trump administration says it plans to break ground on the president's triumphal arch in the next two weeks. That's despite a series of hurdles remaining like the pending lawsuit to stop it. It also still hasn't gotten the okay from the DC Planning Commission and the FAA hasn't finished its review. Critics also say it needs congressional approval. The Department of Interior did not immediately respond to CNN's questions and the same agency that has an update on the never-ending saga of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. They've awarded a $2.7 million contract to American AG Energy to repair and

4:10maintain the sewage and water purification systems. That contract could be extended for five more years, taking the cost to nearly $9 million. And in another twist, the company's CEO, Richard Rosen, was found guilty of voter fraud for casting ballots twice in the 2016 election. In Massachusetts and in New Hampshire, the State Supreme Court overturned that conviction this year, but Rosen is still in mediation with the New Hampshire Attorney General's office. And that's the story there. We'll be right back.

5:12Have I got news for your ears? Check us out on Apple, Amazon Music, wherever you get your podcast. Even better, you can watch the podcast on Spotify. The relationship with Trump and the White House actually led to her being let go, according to a source. Reports say she wanted to cover conspiratorial claims on her show pushed by President Trump about China and the 2020 election. But when the network shot that down, she allegedly shared that text message with White House officials as if to say it wasn't her fault that the story wasn't getting air time. Instead, it was Fox's fault. Bartoromo has not responded to CNN's request for comment. Her last day on air was August 9th,

6:16but the network said her departure was effective yesterday without any on air sign-off. Formerly, the network put a positive spin on it, thanking her for more than 12 years of work and wishing her all the best on her next chapter. And one last thing, the strangest awards in science, a very colorful group of academics gathered yesterday to hand out something called the Ig Nobel Awards. They're modeled after the Nobel Prize, but these are not the kinds of studies that are carrying cancer exactly. Instead, the organizers honor researchers who quote, first make people laugh and then make them think, I think that's cool. The winner in physics, for example, went to a study that searched for a way to make a splash-free urinal design. For biology, a scientist was honored for being willing to step on different parts of a venomous snake to figure out exactly what would make it bite a human being.

7:18But who will be brave and stupid enough to put their foot in front of Venomoy's nicks? Well, me, yes, of course. Of course, in economics, the winning study that found evidence that quote, upper-class people are more likely to snatch from a children's supply of candy and engage in other kinds of unethical behavior. Notty. And in chemistry, a team of researchers found cockroach milk contains three times as much energy as cow's milk. Okay, I wonder how they figure that one out. All right, good luck selling that one to the masses. I'm Sarah Siner. Those are the five things you need to know to get your day going now. Get going. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, host of the Chasing Life Podcast. Last week, there was this important report that dropped that I think got a lot of attention. It's about football. And there was this new study in the British Medical Journal, which estimates that of all the NFL players who died

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