Today's Show Transcript
COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Rise up, sunshine. Happy Friday, Fri-yay. I'm Coy Wire. This is CNN 10 with your 10th and final summer episode of the show before we flip back to our usual Monday through Friday flow. And hey, check this out. Welcome to our brand-new CNN 10 wall of friends.
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All right, now it's time to get you your news. We begin today with an update from the war in Gaza. As we've previously reported ever since the terror attacks in October of 2023, the Israel-Hamas conflict has escalated and the topic of how to end the war has been divisive to say the least.
There have been a lot of politics involved, a lot of blame. But behind all of that, there are lots of innocent people, many of them children, who are having to endure the fallout of the ongoing war, including a starvation crisis in one of the most densely populated places on earth. Some of the images you're going to see in this next report are really tough to see.
In the past two weeks, borders have been closed, aid trucks have been delayed or blocked, and Gaza's food system has collapsed. In some areas, basic things like flour, clean water, and baby formula have become impossible to find. This week, Israel's military responded to the crisis by resuming what they called a tactical pause that has opened some routes for funneling aid into certain parts of the enclave.
But international pressure is building on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who says there is no hunger crisis in Gaza. He has suggested that some of these videos are not real. The U.S. is committing to more involvement in getting food to the civilians who need it. France, Spain, and Germany began airdropping aid into Gaza this past Monday.
Our Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, explains what happens to the human body when it does not get the nutrition it needs. Again, these images are disturbing, so if it's too much for you at any point, feel free to fast forward to the next story.
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DR. NICK MAYNARD, MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINIANS, SURGEON: The expression skin and bones doesn't do justice. They're every single rib visible.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's Dr. Nick Maynard. He's a surgeon volunteering in a hospital in southern Gaza. His patients are among the two million residents of the Gaza Strip, now in the midst of a hunger crisis.
According to the U.N.'s World Food Program, nearly 100,000 women and children alone are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. That is actually a medical diagnosis, and while it may seem obvious, it occurs when people simply can't get enough energy in the form of calories, and oftentimes not enough of the right nutrients inside the few calories they do receive.
Now, in some people, severe malnutrition can look like this, a condition known as marasmus. It is distinctive and it is frightening. You can actually trace the skeletal outline of an individual because of the significant loss of muscle and fat. In others, particularly in children, it can present as a condition known as kwashiorkor. That can occur when there is severe protein deficiency in a person's diet. In those cases, the legs and even the abdomen will actually swell because the body starts to desperately retain fluids.
According to the U.N.'s World Food Program, as things stand now, a third of Gaza's population hasn't eaten anything at all for days in a row, and we know when that happens, the body will begin foraging through its own energy stores, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Then the body's metabolism will slow, and it will begin to have a hard time regulating temperature. The kidneys and immune system will weaken, making them susceptible to infections. Eventually, the body will fully start to turn on itself, consuming muscle, anything to try and sustain itself, major organs shut down, and the heart stops.
During this conflict with Israel, the Palestinian Health Ministry said 80% of those who have died from malnutrition were children.
You know, this crisis reminds me of the famine in Somalia in 2011. It was among the most difficult and challenging reporting assignments I have ever covered. Brutal to watch people die for lack of basic needs and also come to grips with the fact that mass starvation is too often the cost of human politics.
TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, WHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL: I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation, and it's man-made, and that's very clear.
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WIRE: Now to a story about math, machines, and a monumental win for the human brain. Are humans smarter than AI? Most of us probably initially think, no. Well, think again, my friends. At the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, five teenagers did something incredible. They outperformed some of the world's most advanced AI models.
The IMO is the world's toughest math competition for high school students. This year it was held in Queensland, Australia, with 641 students from 112 countries. Each contestant had two four-and-a-half-hour sessions to solve six mind-bending problems.
No calculators, no internet, just brain power, baby, for the first time ever. AI models from tech titans Google and OpenAI joined the competition. These weren't math-specific bots. They were general-purpose reasoning models trained to solve problems in natural language. Both Gemini Deep Think and OpenAI's experimental model solved five out of six problems, earning 35 out of 42 points, enough for a gold medal. Pretty impressive, right?
Well, here's the twist. Five human teens scored perfectly, something no AI could match. That means the top students beat the bots. While AI has tackled Olympiad-style problems before, like geometry-focused models in 2024, this was the first time general-purpose AI models competed under full IMO conditions and reached gold-level scores. That makes this year an historic moment for the tech. But while AI crunched numbers, these teens crunched the bots' dreams.
Fun fact, did you know the word robot actually comes from the Czech word robota, which means forced labor or drudgery? As many of us humans can relate, those robots may have felt exactly that, having to do all that math.
Pop quiz hot shot. Which of the following is an artificial sweetener created entirely in a lab? Sucralose, sucrose, galactose, or fructose?
Answer is sucralose, an artificial sweetener or non-nutritive sweetener similar to aspartame or saccharin. Most artificial sweeteners are created from chemicals in a lab, but some, like sucralose or stevia, are made from natural substances like fruits or herbs.
Next, a story with a little pop to it. We're talking soda. We learned earlier this week a new version of Coca-Cola is on its way this fall. In addition to its classic original formula, which uses high fructose corn syrup, the iconic global soda brand will release a version of its flagship product that's sweetened with real cane sugar. There was a presidential push for this sweetener swap. President Donald Trump took to social media to announce that he'd been speaking to Coca-Cola.
So, what's the difference? Well, cane sugar is a natural number produced straight from sugar cane, a type of sugar called sucrose. High fructose corn syrup is a type of sugar made from processed corn starch. It's the processed powerhouse of the sugar world.
And if you're wondering which version is healthier, experts say neither, actually, stating these sodas are bad for our health no matter which of these sweeteners is used.
Now, to a children's advocacy group that just might inspire some young minds to go to law school. A judge in Lee County, Florida, volunteering one recent Saturday morning to preside over Kids Kourt, where some convincing kiddos got to argue their biggest cases, grievances, and wish lists against their parents.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And why do you want a corny dog?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because I want to play with it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One request was just one day a year to be able to stay up late.
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WIRE: Disclaimer, we do not condone the concept of pecking for perks with your parents, but this is pretty creative. This particular Florida program is designed to help dads spend more time with their kids while learning something new.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We wanted to do a day where people could come and learn about the basics of the justice system and the court system.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really did enjoy seeing her stand up, be confident in front of the judge, and plead her case.
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WIRE: Cuteness alert, a rare zoological occurrence. For the first time in nearly a full century, a zoo in the UK is celebrating the birth of a rare baby snow leopard. Videos shared by the Chester Zoo showed the six-week-old cub playing with its mom in their cozy den. The cub is not only the first birth of its kind in the zoo's 94-year history, it was the product of a pair of adult snow leopards that were carefully matched as part of an international breeding program aimed at bolstering the species, which is classified as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's threatened species list.
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10, a summer program that's providing rewarding lobster-tunities for students in Maine. Since 2022, the Lift All Boats program has been connecting high students to the shell-lebrated Maine tradition of lobstering, an industry that can be tough to get into if you don't have a boat, gear, or the mentors to get started. Beginner lobstermen spend 10 weeks on the docks and water, setting and hauling traps, even operating the boats to learn the ins and outs and icks of the trade. Listen.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Dealing with fish guts all day, seaweed, like you should have seen me on the boat earlier. I was covered in mud. It was disgusting, but it's like I enjoy all of it.
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WIRE: And one claw-some bonus, these lobsters get to sell whatever they catch at the end of their day.
All right, superstars, time for our shout-outs. Today's Summer Friday shout-out is going to Columbia Academy in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. Thank you for this shirt. Rise up. We're talking respect, integrity, strength, excellence, understanding, and pride. That is awesome.
And before we go, we have to take a moment to give a shout-out to what's behind me here. All the art, letters, memorabilia, 3D-printed models, the photos you've sent, a shout-out to all of you. Thank you. We love making this show for you and seeing how much you love the show.
Have a great weekend, everyone. Make someone smile today. And for those of you starting school on Monday, we hope you have a fantastic first day. We'll see you there.
I'm Coy Wire, and we are CNN 10.
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