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A major battle has begun for a city in Iraq, and that's where we begin today's show. I'm Carl Azus,

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thank you for watching. Fallujah is located in central Iraq, along the banks of the Euphrates River.

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It's been controlled by the ISIS terrorist group since early 2014. In fact, it was the first Iraqi city that ISIS

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captured as part of its plan to create its own Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The fight to take Fallujah back

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involves Iraqi troops, police, and militias and they're supported by US led air strikes. But trapped in the

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crossfire between these forces and the ISIS fighters who control the city, an estimated 10, 000 civilian families,

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according to the United Nations. The Iraqi Air Force dropped leaflets on the city, telling residents how

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they can get out safely. But activists in the area say ISIS is not allowing civilians to go and that some have

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died trying to leave. Falluja is where dozens of US troops were killed during the Iraq war in 2004.

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It's a strategic city that's no stranger to terrorist or violence. Falluja has a long history of bloody battles.

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It's considered A hotbed of Sunni insurgent groups.

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This was the first city to fall to ISIS months before any other city in Iraq, in January of 2014. Extremist groups

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like ISIS and Al Qaeda in Iraq before that used Falluja as a symbol of Sunni resistance. Now for the

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Shias of Iraq, many of them feel that a lot of the terrorist attacks that target them, whether it's ISIS or Al Qaeda

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in Iraq before that, those attacks, they feel, stem from Falluja, especially with its proximity to Baghdad.

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So they really have wanted to see ISIS cleared out of that city for a very long time.

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Now with this new offensive underway right now, it's expected to last a very long time and expected to be

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bloody if history is anything to go by.

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Here what remains a major issue is the civilians who may still be trapped inside that city.

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The head of security for the US Transportation Security Administration has lost his job.

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A house of representatives committee announced the change earlier this week. It followed a congressional

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hearing on mismanagement at the TSA. The organization's in charge of screening passengers and

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cargo at airports across the US. But the Department of Homeland Security which oversees the TSA says,

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it's had a number of security failures recently and some have swelled long lines at airport checkpoints,

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causing hundreds of passengers to miss their flights. The TSA says, Kelly Hogan wasn't fired specifically

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for doing anything wrong, but that the agency wanted a different approach to security leadership.

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It's saying that a number of management changes are ahead, and that they'll deliver better

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leadership and screening operations at American airports.

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Starting in Brazil on today's call of the roll, the nation has 26 states and in the northeast state of Ceara Hello

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to all of our viewers at Escola de Ensino Medio Liceu do Crato. San Juan Hills High School is next, from

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the US state of California. The Stallions are roaming in San Juan Capistrano. And one state over in Arizona,

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we've got some Wolverines watching today.

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Mountain Vista Middle School rounds out our roll from San Tan Valley.

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The Walkman, the floppy disk, the dot matrix printer, and the VHS, the video home system.

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These are some of the inventions of the 1970s, that have become obsolete with the passage of time,

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and the progress of technology. But there are some designs of the disco era that we can't imagine

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living without. Email, the first video game, cell phones, and one thing that doesn't get a lot of credit but has

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revolutionized shopping, the barcode.

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On June 26, 1974, a pack of Juicy Fruit gum made history when it was the first item to ever be scanned via

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a state of the art technology, the bar code. And now, more than 40 years later, 5 billion bar codes

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are scanned every day across the world.

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The code itself, you know those black lines of varying width on the label was inspired by mores code.

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But the holy smokes component of the innovation was how it was scanned, by lasers. Lasers had

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been the stuff of nerd fantasy until the early 1960's, when the Hughes Aircraft Company unveiled the

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first one at a press conference. A Los Angeles newspaper reported the story underneath the headline,

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LA Man DIscovers Science Fiction Death Ray. But the fact of the matter is, no one knew what to do with that

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new technology until that June morning in 1974 when a pack of Juicy Fruit gum in Ohio changed the world.

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Today, bar codes are the unsung heroes that make everything from shipping, into boarding an airplane to

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keeping track of medication possible. But the biggest beneficiary is retail. Think about a grocery store from

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yesteryear, every individual item had to be marked with a price and the cashier had to manually input it

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into the register. So thanks to the bar code, you're waiting in the checkout line a whole lot less. And the

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stores themselves have benefited big time. The bar codes allow them to keep accurate real time inventory.

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That's a major advance in efficiency. Even in the costs in groceries staff their jobs.

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For about 20 people who live in a housing project in Richmond, Virginia, Craig Dodson has become a sort

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of father figure. The 37 year old leads a non profit organization called Richmond Cycling Core. It allows

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young people who's opportunities are extremely limited and who's schools are some of the lowest

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performing to join cycling teams and to train to ride. The lessons and the benefits go far beyond the bike trails.

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All right. Come on back guys. Rows of five.

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The thing is for you, you got to get in the woods, all right?

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And then settle into your rhythm, you know what I mean?

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Stay positive, run, run, there you go that's how it's done.

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All during the race, we see our kids are going through this rollercoaster of emotion.

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Come on, Jay. I know you fell dude, but you got this. What a lot of people can't see is that our kids have the

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equivalent of ten suitcases each of baggage that they are carrying on that bike.

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The kids live in Richmond Public Housing. It's not just bad because of drugs, violence, guns.

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Goodbye.

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You ain't gotta swerve. You gotta tighten up, man. I'm not playing with you right now, man.

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I'm being serious. You're clowning way too hard. That's why we've been on you so hard.

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Matt's gonna be here in the morning to pick you up. We're tired of getting messages from everyone

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that you're ducking school. It's gotta stop or you're gonna fail 9th grade.

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We gotta get Antonio. Our organization is not about giving kids positive life experiences through bikes.

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Our job is to get them out of public housing. The bad news is you gotta little suspension.

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So we can pick him up in the morning this week, put him to work at least.

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That's what I do here with him.

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This is a war to me.

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What time do you wake up?

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It's me against the circumstances these kids live in. Thought I was gonna let you off the chain, man?

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You come in and hold them accountable and it shows a level of care that their not use to.

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He taught me to be your own person. Don't be what you live around. You never give up.

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I'm so proud of you man.

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We see the side of these kids that is genius. There are so many things that we wish the world could see.

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These are kids that have been let down.

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Guys, we'll pick you up tomorrow, man, at the same time, all right?

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My promise to them is, I'm not going to leave you. Good job, today. All right, I'll see you Thursday.

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All right.

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Those of you who were not Star Wars fans are gonna see this and think, okay, well loud sliding door.

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Those of you who are Star Wars fans might hear it and think

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So again, the R2- D2 screaming door.

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Maybe the laughter is not as infectious as the viral Chewbacca mask video. But it certainly made

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some folks Chewbac- up to hear it again thinking it was R2- D2 good to Skywalk through just Ob- 1 time.

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That's it for today's pun solo, it's part of my Jabba and for putting up with them. Yoda the best.

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CNN Student News, we'll catch you Vader.