Maggie: Hey guys! I am Maggie Rulli and Channel One News starts right now!
Scott: We will see more from Maggie in just a bit.But first, we are starting off today with a look back at one of our most famous presidents.
Abraham Lincoln died 150 years ago today, the first president to be assassinated. But Keith Kocinski shows us that our memory of him has far from faded.
Keith: He lives on today, on Mount Rushmore, at the National Mall, on the five dollar bill and the penny. But Abraham Lincoln never lived to finish out his second term as the sixteenth president of the United States.
He died the morning of April 15, 1865, just days after the South surrendered to the North, reuniting a nation divided by four years of Civil War.
Allen Guelzo: Lincoln's death generates the greatest what-if question of all time for Americans. What if Lincoln had lived?
Keith: The evening before, Lincoln had been watching a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. when John Wilkes Booth, a supporter of the Confederacy who hated Lincoln for outlawing slavery, shot the president in the head.
Guelzo: This one small weapon caused so much damage, so much grief.
Keith: Lincoln's assassination plunged a nation already on edge into uncertainty.
Abraham Lincoln led the country through some of its darkest days, inspiring the nation with his speeches like the Gettysburg Address. But he didn't live to see his legacy of freedom and equality for all Americans.
Guelzo: We still struggle with that today. We are still dealing with the aftereffects of the death of Abraham Lincoln.
Keith: Now here's a pop quiz for you. The Secret Service was first created to protect which president?
Abraham Lincoln, WilliamMcKinley or TheodoreRoosevelt?
The answer is on Channelone.com.
Scott: Thanks Keith. Alright, coming up, we remember a young girl, and her incredible story of perseverance.
Her story touched the lives of millions of lives across the country. Lauren Hill, the basketball player from Ohio that continued to practice and play even while she battleda deadly cancer.
She died on Friday, but her community gathered to celebrate her life this week.
Dr. Mariko Dewire: She has revealed to us that one person can make a difference.
Scott: Monday, Lauren's Cincinnati, Ohio community paid tribute to her short, yet inspiring life.The 19-year-old died after battling a terminal brain tumor. The service was held in the very arena where many came to know of her.
Lauren loved basketball and played for Mount St. Joseph University. Even as the tumor took over, Lauren attended 6am practices with the goal of playing in her first college game. Last October, that day finally came.
Right after the opening tip, Lauren scored.
Lauren: Today has been the best day I've ever had.
Scott: In her final months, with her "layup 4 Lauren" challenge, she helped raise a million and a half dollars for pediatric brain cancer research.
Lauren: And I really hope I can bring a change in the world.
Scott: What an inspiration.
Alright, in just a moment, we head underwater as we continue our look at animal intelligence.
Over the past few weeks we have been showing you the brainpower of dogs, octopuses, and ants. Well today, the brain power gets bigger with dolphins. And Maggie Rulli traveled to the Central American country of Honduras to dive right in and put their smarts to the test.
Maggie: They flip, they wave, they even give us kisses. Dolphins sure know how to put on a show.
Do you think dolphins are smart?
Molly Bolton: Oh super smart. They have really big brains. Sometimes they know that you don’t know what you’re doing. They’ll totally mess around with you. It’s so funny.
Maggie: Have you been messed around with?
Molly: Oh yeah, a lot.
Maggie: Molly Boltan grew up with these dolphins. For her, Gracie, Maury, Max, Bailey,they are all part of the family. Her mom Teri founded Roatan's Marine Institute of Science, just off the coast of Honduras, more than 30 years ago.
Teri Bolton: Sometimes I get accused of these are my first babies. And my terrestrial babies are jealous of aqua babies.
Maggie: And she has been playing with and researching these guys nearly every day since.
Hi Maury! Maury, are you playing,sticking your tongue out at me?
Teri: I did not signal her to do that.
Maggie: How can you tell the dolphins are intelligent?
Teri: How do we quantify intelligence? Are they problem solvers? Yes they are. Are they planners? Yes they are. So, can they make things up? Can they make up their own games? Yes they can, yes they do.
Maggie: To see these animals as they really are, we flipper upand dive into their world.
Almost immediately, our new dolphin friendscheck us out.
Teri: They are naturally curious. It’s part of the dolphin’s make up. These are all signs of an animal that has physically adapted to their environment, and their brains have been allowed to evolve to a higher level and to do other things than just think about survival day to day.
Maggie: Things that almost seem like superpowers. Like echolocation, using sound to find objects, which makes them skilled hunters.
Piya is an expert. So we are going to put him to the test with a little game of hide and seek.
The ring is all buried and we are going to see if Piya can find it. So right now, when you look underwater a human can’t see it at. I see nothing. But we are going see if Piya can use her echolocation to locate the buried triangle.
Immediately, Piya starts to make a clicking noise. The sound bounces off of objects and back to him, letting Piya see what’s around him through sound. Soon the triangle,invisible to the human eye, is easily tracked down by Piya.
So clearly, dolphins can do some amazing things. But how do they if these talented flippers aren’t just obeying commands?
Scientists are now starting to look at what happens when we stop training a dolphin, and start asking them just to think.
Teri: Because they like to learn, because they enjoy a challenge, because they’re curious. You peak that curiosity,the sky is the limit of what the potential for training is.
Maggie: Instead of just doing a trick, Teri asks them to create a show of their own.
Baily and Maury are up first. And this game has a few twists. There are no repeat tricks, no routines and oh yeah, the two of them must performthe same thing at the same time.
Teri gives them the signal to create, and the girls put their heads together.
So again, you gave them no single. This signal just says do it together, and create whatever you want and then they choose what they are going to do.
Teri: Right. And I think that little breathing stuff on the surface of the water is like, ok what should we do?
Maggie: Looks like these guys are more than just trained performers. They can even be their own ring leaders, making people question, should they even be a part of the show in the first place?
Recently, there has been a lot of backlash in books and documentaries against keeping marine life in captivity for entertainment purposes.
If dolphins are so smart, so emotional, so social,should they ever be in captivity?
Teri: I think if you give them each other and you give them enough space and good food and good stimulation. And it’s got to be as close to a natural pod as you can get.
Maggie: At Roatan, this also includes trips into the wild where they are allowed to roam free, and nothing forces them to come back.
And if properly cared for, dolphins, according to Teri, can serve a greater purpose.
Teri: One of the things that we try to do is make people understand that they live in the ocean and we’re destroying the ocean. So if you care about this animal, take care of the ocean.
Maggie: Because once you see a dolphin, it is hard to ignore the fact that they are also seeing you.
Do you think they recognize you?
Teri: Yes.
Maggie: How come?
Teri: A wise old professor one time told me. He said, Teri don’t ever think that they’re not studying you as hard as you’re studying them.
Maggie: Hey guys, Gracie said if you want to see more behind the scenes photos and videos, just head on over to Channelone.com. Back in the newsroom.
Scott: Looks like Maggie made some news friends. I willdefinitely have to check that out, and you guys should too.
And that's going to do it for us. We will see you tomorrow.
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