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5 Good Things: This Resilient Rose Survived Katrina & Blooms Nationwide

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This nonprofit which feeds thousands of families in need in Florida all started with one man's extra vegetables. Skateboarder Brooke Johnson broke a world record and kept a promise. Artifacts from an ancient sunken city were pulled from the sea in Egypt. A new US coin features a first and a win for disability advocates. Plus, the mystery behind the Peggy Martin rose that survived Hurricane Katrina.  Sign up for the CNN 5 Good Things newsletter here  Host/Producer: Krista Bo  Showrunners: Faiz Jamil & Felicia Patinkin  Special Thanks: Jessica Jordan, Ryan Bergeron and Christie O’Reilly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, need a reason to smile?

0:02.9

Well, I've got five. Let's get into it. I ended up keeping my promise to him. Every time we crossed a state boundary, that was a finish line. Every time I made it up a hill, that was a finish line. And so, like, as special as the last finish line was, it didn't compare to all the other little ones. Meet the first woman ever to skateboard across America,

0:21.6

and learn why her journey was about so much more than breaking a world record.

0:25.6

Then we head to Egypt for the discovery of 2,000-year-old treasures from a lost sunken city.

0:31.6

Plus,

0:32.6

I just said to myself, my God, how did this survive when everything else in this garden is dead?

0:41.3

And I truly still believe that my mother and father asked God to leave me something.

0:46.3

One Rose survived Hurricane Katrina and became a symbol of resilience 20 years later.

0:52.3

From CNN, I'm Krista Beau, and this is Five Good Things. Stick with

0:57.0

us back in a bit.

1:02.6

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1:34.4

At 96 years old, Bill Brown has lived through a lot. World War II, the civil rights movement,

1:40.9

even the rise of the internet. But of all the history he's seen, Bill says it was the

1:45.4

Great Depression that shaped him the most. People came to help me and my mother and father

1:51.5

during the Depression. And I've always felt I had a debt to pay. And he spent a lifetime paying

1:57.8

that debt forward. For the last 30 years, Bill, or Mr. Bill, as everyone

2:02.9

calls him, has run the nonprofit he founded called the Children's Table. It's a small but mighty

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