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Survivor stories from the heroic Japan Airlines evacuation · Apple News Today

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  Mark Garrison, Narrating: Good morning.
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  It's Wednesday, January 3rd.
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  I'm Mark Garrison in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today."
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  On today's show,
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  family members raise questions about deaths in federal prisons,
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  what it took to launch a women's hockey league in just six months
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  and how people are messing up the moon.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, let's take a quick look at some major stories in the news.
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  There are new fears of a widening conflict in the Mideast after the assassination
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  of a senior Hamas leader, Saleh al-Arouri.
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  He was killed in a drone strike in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
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  Israel hasn't confirmed or denied it ordered the killing,
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  but it's widely seen to be responsible.
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  Florencia Soto Nino, spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General,
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  said this could be a dangerous escalation.
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  Florencia Soto Nino: We are calling for maximum restraints from all parties.
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  We don't want any rash actions that could trigger further violence.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, is an ally of Hamas.
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  It's threatened in the past to retaliate against Israeli assassinations
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  on Lebanese territory.
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  At Harvard University, President Claudine Gay has resigned.
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  The move follows weeks of criticism of her testimony before Congress
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  about anti-Semitism on college campuses
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  and growing allegations of plagiarism in past academic research.
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  The Harvard Corporation investigated concerns about her research before,
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  concluding that she made some mistakes but did not engage in misconduct.
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  But new allegations about her research came out more recently.
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  Gay will stay at Harvard as a faculty member.
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  In legal news, a federal appeals court ruled
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  that Texas doctors are not required
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  under federal law to perform emergency abortions.
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  This is a blow for the White House, which argued
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  that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act
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  gives doctors the authority to perform abortions in emergency cases.
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  The court said the law does not govern the practice of medicine.
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  And we know more this morning about the dramatic escape of all 379 passengers
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  and crew onboard the Japan Airlines flight that caught fire
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  on a Tokyo runway yesterday.
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  Safety experts are paying tribute to a well-trained crew.
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  They executed the evacuation in difficult circumstances,
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  with the plane tilting and on fire.
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  Also a big factor, passengers complied with safety instructions,
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  including to leave luggage behind.
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  Anton Deibe was one of them.
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  He told "NBC" what it was like in the smoke-filled cabin
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  as the evacuation was underway.
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  Anton Deibe: You had a hard time breathing.
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  So I took my hoodie, the only piece of equipment I still have left,
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  everything else was burned down, and covered my face.
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  And then after a while, they finally opened the doors and everyone, they ran out
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  and then you had to jump out of the plane.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Another survivor, William Manzione, talked to "Sky News" about the moment
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  after he got out when he saw just how deadly
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  the situation could have been for him.
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  William Manzione: I turned around and I see the airplane with the nose completely smashed
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  and the flames all over on the back.
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  Garrison, Narrating: The fire happened after a collision with a Coast Guard plane,
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  where five people died.
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  Transport officials and police are investigating the cause,
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  including whether negligence may have played a role.
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  [GENTLE MUSIC]
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  Since 2009, three quarters of all deaths
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  in federal prisons have been deemed natural.
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  And if a death is classified as natural, federal prison authorities aren't required
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  to do an autopsy.
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  An "NPR" investigation finds some of these deaths are likely mislabeled,
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  which is potentially preventing scrutiny of very questionable cases.
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  "NPR" spoke to Kesha Jackson.
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  Her husband, John, was in a federal prison in Arkansas waiting on a release hearing
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  after 18 years.
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  She thought he'd be home within a few weeks
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  until she got a call with news from other incarcerated people.
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  Kesha Jackson: What the prisoners were saying to me is that he had been in a special housing unit
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  for three days banging on the door
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  because he was going in and out of consciousness and he couldn't breathe.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Days later, an officer did CPR, but John died shortly after.
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  The prison ruled his death as natural.
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  But Kesha found out more later.
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  Her husband had MRSA, a staph infection.
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  It's typically not fatal if treated properly.
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  Kesha believes her husband might have lived with the right care.
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  Jackson: Saying that it's a natural death could sometimes be misleading.
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  I believe that having proper medical treatment
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  could have possibly saved his life.
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  Garrison, Narrating: "NPR" found many cases like Jackson's where medical neglect
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  or poor prison conditions could have played a role
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  in the deaths and where the family was given little to no information.
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  The Bureau of Prisons told "NPR" that all deaths are investigated thoroughly
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  and it has detailed procedures to inform family members.
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  But Kesha Jackson and other families "NPR" spoke to
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  say their loved ones deserved better,
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  and their deaths were anything but natural.
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  [MELODIOUS MUSIC]
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  History was made this week after the first puck was dropped
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  in the newly formed Professional Women's Hockey League.
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  Just over 10 minutes into the game,
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  Ella Shelton scored the league's first goal.
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  Announcer: …And she gets it!
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  [CHEERING]
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  Ella Shelton scores!
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  History is hers!
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  Garrison, Narrating: Hailey Salvian covers hockey for "The Athletic,"
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  and she was at the game.
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  Hailey Salvian: The crowd was really great.
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  The line to get into the building was huge.
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  It went around a full city block in Toronto just to get into the building.
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  All the merchandise lines were so long.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Salvian told us the backstory to the league's creation.
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  It came together in just a few months,
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  something unheard of in the world of professional sports.
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  Salvian: So from July 1st until January 1st, they had essentially six months to get
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  their original six markets finalized, do venue agreements, build the rosters,
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  create branding, marketing, sales, ticketing.
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  Just so many things had to go into putting this league together.
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  They knew things weren't going to be perfect,
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  but they thought that they owed it to the players
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  Garrison, Narrating: to start this league as soon as possible.
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  It's not the first professional hockey league for women,
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  but there's never been one quite like this,
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  with all the best players facing off.
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  Salvian: Women's hockey at the professional level has always been divided.
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  There was a league in Canada, and then there was a competing league
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  in the U.S., the Canadian Women's Hockey League,
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  the National Women's Hockey League,
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  that divided up not just the player pool and the talent
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  across two different leagues, but also the resources that were invested.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Fans, sponsors and investors no longer need to decide
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  which league gets what attention.
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  The quick launch meant some details are TBD.
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  The teams don't even have official nicknames yet.
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  For now, they'll go by the name of their home base.
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  The six teams that make up the league are in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Minnesota,
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  Boston and New York.
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  You can read more of "The Athletic's" coverage
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  of this new league and all sports on the Apple News app.
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  Finally, a story about what happens when you mess with the moon.
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  Some researchers now believe that humans have become such
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  a dominant force on the moon
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  that it's now in a new epoch called the "Lunar Anthropocene."
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  More than 100 spacecraft visits since 1959 seem to be taking their toll.
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  "Popular Mechanics" looks at a new paper on this.
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  From spacecraft touching down, sometimes even crashing on the moon,
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  to astronauts walking on the surface,
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  humans are altering its geology,
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  disturbing the delicate balance of the moon's environment.
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  Researchers say exhaust from spacecraft can do serious damage,
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  and debris left behind from past missions is also a problem.
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  The moon is littered with abandoned spacecraft
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  from decades of landings.
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  They want future missions to be more mindful of the potential damage,
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  and to do more to mitigate the impact.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're already listening in the News app right now,
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  we've got a Narrated Article coming up next from "The Wall Street Journal."
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  Any day now, we're expected to get the names
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  of Jeffrey Epstein's associates listed in court documents.
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  The "Journal" has an investigation that reveals how young women were drawn
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  into Epstein's inner circle and abused.
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  If you're listening in the Podcasts app, follow Apple News+ Narrated
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  to find that story.
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  And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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