Arielle: Hey, guys,I am here at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. I am Arielle Hixson, and Channel One News starts right now.
Emily: All right, Arielle has got a museum visitabout Nazi Germany, and much of it powered by the research of high school students. That is coming up.Hey, guys, I am Emily Reppert. It is Tuesday. Let's get to it.
First up, the White House is feeling a little French today.That is because President Trumpis hosting the French president and the first lady of France.
This is no ordinary visit.President Trump is hosting his first-ever official state visit, and the guest of honoris French President Emmanuel Macron. Last year, Macron invited President Trump to the French Bastille ceremonies. Now President Trump is repaying the favorby making Macron the first foreign leader of his presidency to receive a state visit.
And in the world of diplomacy, that is a really big deal.It even includes a fancy state dinner tonightwith celebrities and politicians. But it isn't just good food and parties; President Trump and President Macron are expected to discuss trade, the Iran nuclear deal and North Korea during the three-day visit.
And did you catch Words in the News? State visit, which is a formal visit by a head of state to a foreign country at the invitation of that country's head of state.
Today we have social media and 24-hour news, so we know what is going on around the world. But that, of course, wasn't the case in the 1930s and 40s during the Holocaust. So how much did Americans know about the horrors committed by Hitler?
Well, Arielle got a behind-the-scenes look at a new exhibitat the Holocaust Museum in Washington,D.C., which is shedding light on Americans and the Holocaust.
Arielle: How does it feel for you to walk through this exhibit?
Susan Warsinger:It brought back a lot of memories.
Arielle: Susan Warsinger has a tough past. She is one of the few who escaped the Holocaust. She visits the Holocaust Museum in Washington,D.C.,often.
Warsinger: I just found out about it, and I’m so excited. Here is a letter to help my brother and me come to the United States. When I first came in,I said,“Well, this is all about me,” because it describes exactly what happened in 1933, how much the world knew about what Hitler was going to do.
Arielle: “Americans and the Holocaust” is a new exhibit that uses documents from the past to show America's knowledge and involvement in the Holocaust in the 1930s and 40s.
Jennie Perrone: Because I was always under the impression that America didn't know what was going on. But seeing these news articles, they definitely did, and they just chose not to do anything, so that kind of changes my perspective a little bit.
Arielle: The Holocaust was a period in history where an estimated 11 million people were killed just because of who they were.Six million of them were Jewish. At the time the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, was on a dual mission to expand the German empire across Europeand to kill off people he thought were inferior, not onlyJewish peoplebut other groups, including gay people and those with disabilities.
Many assume that, at the time,Americans had little knowledge that people in Europe were being murdered.But in reality, they weren’t in the dark at all.
Daniel Greene: Americans learn in 1942 that the Nazis have an intention to murder all the Jews of Europe, and even at that moment, when that becomes public news, you don't see a big shift in American public opinion about letting in refugees.
Arielle: News articles, documents and even Hollywood films are used to take visitors back to the time where Nazi extremism was a common headline.
And the exhibit is extremely interactive as well. Students can pick any state in the country and find actual articles proving that Americans had some knowledge of the Holocaust.
The project is crowd sourced, meaning that a large number of people across the country helped find articles for the exhibit.And get this — 1,500 of those people were students.
You are a student, but you are having the ability to help learn more facts about what happened back then.
Jennie: It makes me feel like my opinion and my voice matters.
Arielle: These students from New Milford HighSchool in New Jersey searched for articles in their local newspaper during the time of the Holocaust.
Colleen Tambuscio: It's not as if you gave them something,you said,“Read it, and here's the questions,” and then we're done. You're saying,“Here's the task, let's take a look at this period, and let's see what you find.” And that's engaging.
Arielle: Once-forgettable landmarks in their hometown suddenly became portals to the past.
Max Walter: When you're looking at the newspaper article, seeing locations you know, it really, like, connects to you ona personal level. Because, you know,like, I wasn't involved, but the people before me were involved, and I kind of live where they stood.
Arielle: Young people across the country are helping expose a dark time in our past and helping to keep history alive for the future.
Max: I mean, it's such an invigorating feeling, you know, that you're helping teach not just your own generation but future generations to come, and it kind of really gives you a sense of power and importance.
Warsinger: Those children are the future of our culture and of our heritage, and if they understand what anti-Semitism or hatred of another people can do, they would immediately stand up for what they think is right.
Arielle: Arielle Hixson, Channel One News.
Emily: Definitely an important history lesson.
And there is more on our website, including a blog post from Arielle about some of the things she learned about Americans and the Holocaust. Check it out on ChannelOne.com.
All right, coming up, the term“breakfast of champions” takes on a whole new meaning.
Emily: Okay, breakfast fans, we have got some good news for you.But those of you skipping the most important meal of the day, a new study says you better make some time for it.
A regular meal in the morning could help you stay slim. Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed the breakfast habits of about 350 adults. They found people who ate breakfast regularly only gained about three pounds over the past year. People who ate breakfast occasionally put on about five pounds, while people who skipped a morning meal entirely gained about eight poundsand developed dangerous belly fat.
Dr. Virend Somers: If you eat a good breakfast in the morning, you're less likely to be hungry during the course of the day.
Emily: And researchers say making breakfast a habit for young people could help them maintain a healthy weight as adults.
All right, we know concussions in youth sports have been a huge topic for years.And D, now one state is actually putting new laws in place about this, right?
Demetrius: Yeah,Emily, California is hoping to change the game for youth sports with a new bill designed to prevent brain injuries in youth football. But not everyone is a fan.
They say they are tired of being singled out, so they are tackling the issue head on. Hundreds of people gathered at rallies in Californiaover the weekendto raise awareness about a new California bill.The bill, which would go into effectin 2020, would keep any person who is not at least 12 years old from playing tackle football with a youth sports organization.
The bill is aimed at preventing young athletes from getting long-term brain damage that results from multiple concussions. A concussion is a type of brain injury that is caused when a fall or a blow to the head or body shakes the brain inside the skull.Your brain is a soft organ, and your skull hard, so if your brain crashes into your skull, it can cause severe damage. And for young athletes, the risk is even higher.
One in 5 students — that is 20 percent of teens — have been diagnosed with at least one concussion.
Woman: Their body parts and everything else are very fragile at that age, and I feel like they should wait.
Woman: I wouldn’t want my children to play football.
Dimitri Fabiani-Wyatt: I probably know more about football than half the lawmakers that are trying to make pass this law.
Demetrius: Fourteen-year-old Dimitri Fabiani-Wyatt, who has played youth football for the past eight years, says football is being unfairly targeted over other sports like soccer, rugby and baseball.
Dimitri: In baseball you have a ball coming at you at 90miles per hour. So there's ups and downs in every sport. To say that football is unsafe and target football primarily, it’s just unfair to me, to football itself.
Demetrius: Joe Rafter is one of the founders of Save Youth Football. He says the sport is as safe as it has ever been, and it has made great strides to monitor head trauma.He says the bill is not needed.
Joe Rafter: Years ago, we used to let our children ride in the back of pickup trucks. We don't do that anymore. The way the bill is currently written, the analogy would be we've outlawed children from being in a car at all.
Demetrius: But the bill's co-sponsor, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, disagrees and issued a statement saying,"The Golden State's children need to know that no touchdown or interception is worth long-term damage to their brains caused by tackle football."
So we want to know what you guys think.Should there be a minimum age for playing tackle football? Vote at ChannelOne.com.
Emily: Yeah, and don't forget to sound off in the comments section as well.We might feature some of them on the show.
All right, guys, we are out of time,but we will see you right back here tomorrow.
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