5 Good Things: The Lucky Guy with a Tooth for an Eye
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome. Glad you're here. Now let's jump right into the good stuff. |
| 0:05.1 | This week, we've got two stories about century-long streaks finally broken, and an eye for a tooth, |
| 0:12.7 | hear about the super rare surgery that gave one man his sight back after more than 20 years. |
| 0:18.0 | Plus, we saw an opportunity to take this technology we're familiar with and really |
| 0:22.1 | apply it to big, hard problems that can make the world better. How scientists can fight wildfires |
| 0:27.2 | faster from space. From CNN, I'm Krista Belonko, and this is Five Good Things. Stick around |
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| 1:10.0 | So when you think of the Chicago River, what comes to mind? |
| 1:14.0 | Maybe that bright green hue on St. Patrick's Day, or that it used to be really dirty, |
| 1:20.1 | like reverse the flow of the river kind of dirty. |
| 1:23.8 | What's up, good morning, Chicago. |
| 1:26.9 | What a lovely day for a swim. While on Sunday, well, on Sunday, over 250 people did something that hasn't been done in nearly 100 years, swim in it. |
| 1:37.9 | It's a way to take a victory lap for all of the hard work that has taken place over those 40, 50 years of really |
| 1:47.1 | dedicated focus on cleaning up the river. |
| 1:51.3 | And boy, what an exciting time. |
| 1:54.4 | Doug McConnell is the organizer behind the event Chicago River Swim and co-founder of a nonprofit |
| 1:59.5 | called A Long Swim, which supports ALS research. |
| 2:02.6 | Doug said he spent more than 10 years trying to bring this race back. |
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