Azia: Hey guys. It is Tuesday, October 27. I am Azia Celestinoand Channel One News starts right now.
Alright first up, we are taking a look at your daily diet. Do you guys love your hot dogs or BLT’s? Well, you may want to rethink all that meat you’re chowing down on.
A new report from the World Health Organization says that eating processed meats, like bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, causes cancer. And that red meat probably does too.
The studies show that eating processed meats, including those that are smoked, cured, or salted, poses the same cancer risk as smoking. About34,000 cancer deaths per year have been linked by the report to diets that are too high in processed meats.
Doctors have always warned against eating too much meat, but the World Health Organization report goes a step further classifying processed meat as cancer causing. The North American Meat Institute says cancer is a complex disease and not caused by a single food. But the WHO says the evidence it has comes from 800 studies about meat and cancer from several continents.
Next up, many parts of South Asia are dealing with widespread disaster today after a massive earthquake ripped through northern Afghanistan.
Emergency workers rushed a child to the hospital, one of hundreds wounded after the quake struck northern Afghanistan yesterday. Survivors today are sifting through the rubble.
The quake could be felt as far as Pakistan and India. It measured 7.5. The epicenter of the quake was in the province of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, which borders Pakistan and China.
Dozens of homes were destroyed. More than a 150 people were killed, and the death toll continues to rise. Thousands more were forced out of their homes in a panic.
At least 12 students at a girls' school were killed in a stampede as they tried to flee the shaking buildings. The earthquake also cut power and communications in many areas,
making the rescue and recovery effort even more challenging.
Alright, now it is time to see what you guys said about a story we did yesterday onstandardized tests.We asked you, "Do you think you take too many standardized tests?"
Ninety-three percent of you said yes, while only 7 percent said no.
Payton said, “We're only kids and we don't want to sit in a chair for an hour and fill in bubbles or look at a computer screen all day long."
Carl Said, “Students are being overworked with the number of tests they have to take. It's unfair to the students who want to learn but get overwhelmed with tests that do nothing to improve our learning.”
Mrs. Burkhart's class said, “Our class feels that if we took fewer standardized tests, we would be less stressed out. We would also have more time to learn more material.”
But Dominic said, “Yes, test on.”
And Alexa said, “No, not really. They can improve grades just as much as decrease them.”
Thanks guys for voting and giving us your feedback. Alright coming up, it is a deadly and growing drug addiction in American suburbs.
The drug heroin is highly addictive and for decades it has been associated with inner city junkies. Demetrius is here with us to talk about the new face of heroin.
Demetrius: That's right Azia. Young people and teenagers in American suburbs are becoming users, and the numbers are pretty alarming. Most recently, one teen filmed herself while under the influence.
Mariah Powers: I want my life back and I am ready. I’m so ready to stop.
Demetrius: This is 19-year-old Mariah Powers in a video she made while high on heroin, on the day she says she hit bottom.
Mariah: I don't want to live my life this way. I’m going to end up dead or in prison.
Demetrius: Mariah had overdosed four times in the previous month. She said she made the video as a reminder of how low she was that night. She quit using heroin and came off the drug alone, at home, after she couldn't find a facility to take her in.
Mariah: Just to see my face, even how I looked that day is like wow.
Demetrius: Mariah says she was just 16 when a boyfriend introduced her to heroin.
Mariah: It starts with your first high where it is just complete euphoria. And then when I didn't get that high again, after I did it again, I thoughtmaybe I need to do a little more.
Demetrius: Before she knew it, that first high had turned into a $100 a day habit.
Mariah: I would steal, lie, cheat, sell my body.
Demetrius: It's an epidemic sweeping the nation. Over the past decade, heroin use more than doubled in the 18 to 25 age bracket.A drug once known for the streets, has taken over the suburbs.
Keith Brown: Usage among different groups is growing. We see usage among more affluent people.
Demetrius: Federal data shows 80 percent of heroin use starts with an addiction to doctor prescribed pain meds. But those drugs are expensive and hard to get. So many addicts, and most commonly young people, end up turning to heroin to chase their high.
But more and more of these heroin addictions are ending tragically.
Brandon Holden was just 23 years old when he was found in a New York convenience store bathroom with a needle still in his arm, dead from a heroin overdose.
Donna Holden: Everybody thinks it's never gonna happen to them. Oh no, not my family. But it does happen to people who say that and it was very devastating.
Demetrius: According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, heroin overdoses are up over 170 percent across the country.
Joe Powers: I felt pretty hopeless.
Demetrius: Mariah's father Joe Powers watched his daughter overdose over and over.
Powers: I pretty much buried my daughter at that point, in my mind. And that sounds cruel. It doesn't mean I gave up with her, but I figured that the disease would get her.
Mariah: There’s no way, I’m not doing this anymore.
Demetrius: Powers had never seen that video his daughter made.
Mariah: I don't want to be this empty hollow shell any more.
Demetrius: He hopes she can stay off drugs, but knows it is an uphill battle.
Powers: She will always be an addict and there’s always going to be a waiting for the shoe to drop.
Mariah: I can only take it one day at a time. I can’t say I’m going to be sober for the rest of my life. But as of today, heck yeah, I’m going to stay sober.
Demetrius: Demetrius Pipkin, Channel One News.
And to learn more about what drugs can do to you and your brain, head on over to ourdrug mythbusters page on Channelone.com.
Azia: Such an important story. Thanks, Demetrius.
Alright coming up, a new gadget that can detect your mood.
Alright guys, it is time to Get Your Geek On with some new tech that has you typing less and feeling more. Maggie Rulli explains.
Maggie: Hmm, do I feel like a winky face emoji or, I don’t know, maybe I am just angry. Or, do I want to go outside, and like, totally chill in the sun?
You know, sometimes it isjust really hard to decide how you feel. Well luckily, there’s a new software program that might make it a lot easier to figure out.
The devices we can't stop looking at may soon be looking back,observing our joy and sadness and expressing it alongside our texts and chat.
Rana el Kaliouby: We're all about bringing emotional intelligence to our digital world.
Emoji's are not enough.
Maggie: Rana el Kaliouby and the team at MIT spin-off Affectiva recorded the facial expressions of more than 3 million people in 75 countries to develop emotional recognition software.
Kaliouby:We are able to read about 15 facial expressions and these combine to create or portray about eight emotional states. So, happy, sad, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, confusion, surprise.
Maggie: So far, the app is mostly making money through audience-testing of commercials, programs and movie trailers.
Fourteen hundred brands use it to find out, frame by frame, what's funny or sad or spellbinding or boring.
Rana is working to expand the appfor use in the mental health field, for depression.
And to bring emotional interactivity to your everyday, like this robot that comes to you when you smile, and runs when you frown.
Kaliouby: We envision a world where all our devices have an emotion chip. It could be things like your car, or your fridge or your mirror. But they're all emotional, where they can sense and they adapt to your emotions in real time.
Maggie: And although there are some concerns of privacy…
Kaliouby: Emotions are very personal.
Maggie:…Rana says that this software will still be the way of the future.
Kaliouby: I do recognize that there’re going to be abuses of this technology, but I really do believe the good that can come out of this technology kind of outweighs the potential for abuse.
Maggie: Maggie Rulli, Channel One News.
Azia: All right, guys. That's all for now, but have an awesome day, and we will see you right back here tomorrow.
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