Male: to See the Video Is Eye-Opening for Sure

Tom: Hey everyone. It is Tuesday, March 10th. I am Tom Hanson and Channel One News starts right now.

Let's start off with headlines. A fraternity on the campus at the University of Oklahoma has been shut down after some pretty shocking video surfaced. It is only nine seconds, but it appears to be a racist message and it is causing plenty of outrage.

Hundreds of University of Oklahoma students gathered to protest the racist video that went viral.
It appears to show members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant. Usingthe n-word, and referring to Africans-Americans being hanged.
It has rattled students on campus.
Adrianne Wilson: Clearly these people have something against the African-Americansrace. So, I personally feel scared to be around those people because I don’t know what they’re going to do to me, you know.

Male: To see the video is eye-opening for sure.

Male 2: Definitely just disgust and shamethat anything like that is happening in our campus.

Tom: Sunday night, Sigma Alpha Epsilon's national organization said, "This type of hateful action is not what Sigma Alpha Epsilon stands for. This is absolutely not who we are."

The University of Oklahoma chapter of SAE has been shut down permanently, and the school has cut all ties with the fraternity.

Protests have also erupted on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin. The outrage comes afteran unarmed black teen was shot and killed at the hands of a white police officer.

Tony Robinson died after an alleged altercation with veteran police officer Matt Kenny. It happened Friday night in Madison, Wisconsin.
Police say the officer was attacked by Robinson when responding to a call. But the details, just like in the Ferguson Missouri killing of Michael Brown are unclear.

What is clear though, emotions are running high. Yesterday, local high school students and college students packed the Wisconsin State Capitol after walking out of school to protest the shooting death of Robinson.
Robinson was taken to a hospital after he was shot where he later died. Officer Kenny, now on leave, also went to the hospital with minor injuries.
While his mother said Robinson was not a violent kid. He did have a conviction for armed robbery.
Andrea Irwin: My son has never been a violent person, never.

And here's one for the record keepers. Two pilots are attempting to fly a plane around the world without using any fuel. Instead, their plane is only being powered by the sun.
Bertrand Piccard: Now the adventure has started.
Tom: Two pilots flying the Solar Impulse 2 took off yesterday morning from the Middle Eastern country of Abu Dhabi.
They are on a 22,000 mile journey around the world without a drop of fuel. More than 17,000 solar cells are built into the plane's wings which transfer energy collected from the sun to motors that power the propellers.
The lightweight plane, which weighs about as much as a mini-van, will reach an altitude of around 28-thousand feet during the day to catch the sun's rays.
The trip will take more than three weeks flying about 30-60 miles per hour.
Alright coming up, it is a bite-size battle against mosquitos in Florida, using bugs to fight bugs.

Alright now, it is time to get your geek on. And today, we are buzzing around with those pesky little mosquitos.Because as Maggie Rulli shows us, there’s about to be a mosquito invasion, the likes of which Florida has never seen.

Maggie: Ugh! Nothing like mosquitos to ruin a perfectly great beach day, and they are a huge problem all over Florida. But for years, scientists have been working hard to get rid of one type of mosquito in particular.
See mosquitoes are not just annoying, but they can carry some diseases that are deadly, especially in the case of the Aedes Aegyptimosquito. It is originally from Africa, but has now found its way to warm spots all over the world.

The tiny striped insect is resistant to most chemical pesticides, and has the potential to spread debilitating and incurable diseases like dengue fever and chikungunya.
Michael Doyle: This is the most difficult mosquito to control on earth because it stays close to people. It is like an urban guerilla warfare mosquito.
Maggie: But a bio-tech company says this could be the latest weapon, a genetically modified version of the bug.
Derric Nimmo: This is where we produce the eggs that we ship out to Florida, for during the trial.
Maggie: It is the brain-child of British based Oxitec. The male super mosquito is injected with a special gene designed to take out its own species by preventing the offspring from maturing.

Think of it like this. Hundreds of secret agent mosquitoes are born in a lab
and then sent out on a mission, join the hive, and take down the next generation,
like tiny buzzing hitmen.
Ok, ok, so that is not exactly what could happen. But it is pretty close.
Nimmo: Most of those females will mate with our males and most of their offspring will die. Over a longer enough period of time, then you get a reduction in the population.

Maggie: The company has built a breeding lab in the Marathon, Florida office of the mosquito control district. And if they get approval from the government, the team would unleash millions of male mosquitos, which don't bite, into Key Haven, a neighborhood of more than 400 houses.
Nimmo: Just open up and shake, and the males are released and then they go and do their job.
Maggie: But the plan has been met with backlash.
Female: We are humans and we don't like to be treated like guinea pigs!
Maggie: Playing out at town hall meetings.Residents scared of what they modified mosquitos would do.

Male: We need a longer time to find out what the long term effect of your product will have.
Maggie: Nearly 150,000 people have signed an online petition calling for a stop to the field trial. And last month, the Food and Water Watch Advocacy group sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration urging them to block the operation.

Patty Lovera: Our biggest fear is that they haven't been thoroughly studied for public health risks, environmental risks. And this is an open air release. You're not gonna get them back.
Maggie: But Oxitec insists the tool is safe and effective. The company claims that after a release in Brazil and the Cayman Islands, the population of the mosquitos in some areas dropped by more than 90 percent.

And it is those results that Florida officials are hoping to see. While the area hasn't had a dengue fever outbreak in four years, officials say the key to fighting an epidemic is preventing one.
Tom: And to see some other genetically modified animals, from mice to pigs to cows, head on over to Channeone.com.
Alright coming up. We are on the court shooting hoops.

Alright, Scott is here with a story about incredible sportsmanship.
Scott: Yeah Tom. So, if you are sports fan,you know switching sides to cheer for the opposing team, well that’s not taken lightly. But in this case, it was actually encouraged.
If you are a fan of high school basketball, you are not alone. But if you are a fan of the Gainesville Tornados in Gainesville, Texas, then you are very lonely.

Male : Usually our fan base was close to zero.

Male 2: My parents came to one game but they didn't come to the other ones because they didn't have time.
Scott: The other students at Gainesville don't come to the games either. Mostly because they can't get out.

This is a juvenile correction facility for felony offenders.One of the few perks here, for very good behavior, is a chance to leave the prison a few times a year to play basketball.
They play against private schools like Vanguard College Prep in Waco, Texas. And it was before that recent match-up that two Vanguard players announced they weren't going to play against a team with no fans.
Ben Martinson: No one likes playing in an empty gym.
Hudson Bradley: It just seemed weird, you know, it didn't seem right.
Scott: So before their home game against Gainesville, Hudson Bradley and Ben Martinson asked their own fans for afavor, to cheer for their opponent. That’s right, for Gainesville instead.
And when Gainesville hit the court, they had no idea what was going on. They had their own signs of support, their own cheerleaders, and even their own fan section. Half the crowd was volunteered to cheer for them.
Hudson:But then as it went on, everybody just kind of got so into it.

Everyone was cheering for them. I mean every time they scored, the gym was just lit up with cheering and clapping and everyone was on their feet.

I think, in a way, this is kind of how sports should be. It just kind of showed me the real impact that encouragement and support for anybody can make.
Scott: Ben says we all need someone to believe in us. We all need someone who knows our mistakes and loves us anyway. And for that, these Gainesville players can't thank those boys enough.
Male 3: It's something I won't forget. When I'm an old man, I'll still be thinking about this. I'll probably remember this for the rest of my life.
Scott: And finally, as for who won the game. Well, obviously they didn't care, so why should anyone else?

A little support goes a long way.
Tom: Sure does. Thanks Scott. Alright guys, that’s going to do it for us. Have a great day and we will see you right back here tomorrow.

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