5 Good Things: A Foster Kid Came for Surgery. He Left With a Family
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Christobo Polanco, and this is CNN Five Good Things. |
| 0:06.7 | It's International Women's Day tomorrow, so we'll tell you how a mother-daughter dive turned into a record-breaking discovery. |
| 0:13.7 | And in Nebraska, a four-year-old in foster care showed up for major heart surgery all by himself. |
| 0:19.1 | But his new family wasn't far behind. |
| 0:21.9 | This whole experience that we've been living the last four or five years has just shown |
| 0:27.6 | like what kindness truly does and the butterfly effect of it. |
| 0:31.6 | Our kids deserve better. |
| 0:33.9 | Plus, the app that helps foster kids nationwide understand their rights. I felt like it was my out, it's my ticket, that I can make it, despite everything that I've been through. |
| 0:44.3 | Later on, hear the travel inspo you need from a 77-year-old, who says now is the best time to chase a world record. |
| 0:51.3 | We gotta take a quick break, but when we come back, when one volunteer was tired of |
| 0:55.6 | seeing his neighborhood covered in trash, he decided to do something about it. |
| 1:04.9 | We live in such a beautiful area in America, and to see so much trash just laying along the sides of the grass and along the hillside, |
| 1:16.5 | it's just, it's disappointing. |
| 1:18.6 | Andy Wang is a 31-year-old software engineer by day. |
| 1:21.8 | But in his free time, he picks up trash in the San Francisco Bay area, a lot of it. |
| 1:27.0 | He started volunteering in 2021, after noticing |
| 1:30.0 | more and more litter scattered around during his commute. I want to help the Bay Area look really |
| 1:36.1 | nice. This is something that I can do. I have gloves, I have bags, I have trash grabbers. |
| 1:43.9 | Illegal dumping is a major issue in parts of the Bay Area, especially in cities like Oakland. |
| 1:49.0 | Frequently we would see stories about trash just completely covering a street. |
| 1:55.0 | And so when I fear about that, then I would like try my best to help out if I can so the streets are cleaner and kids can get |
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