Transcript 0:00 [gentle music] Good morning, Parrish. This is George Henman in the heart of Parrish, Florida. Here's today's good news for November eleventh, twenty twenty-six. 0:13 Today is Veterans Day, and Parrish is marking it the way we do best, together out on Fort Hamer Road. 0:21 The Parrish Civic Association's second annual Veterans Day parade steps off this morning at ten o'clock, traveling from the Fort Hamer Road roundabout to Erie Road and back again. 0:34 A ceremony follows at about eleven at Parrish Community Park, with food trucks on hand and the celebration runs until two. 0:44 State College of Florida President Tommy Gregory, himself an Air Force veteran, will give the keynote address. And today brings something new. 0:54 The Civic Association is unveiling its military banner program with about ten to twelve banners honoring local service members going up along Fort Hamer Road between Erie Road and US 301. 1:10 Palmetto holds its own parade this morning too, forming at the fairgrounds and ending at Sutton Park. 1:17 And in Sarasota, the Ross Kamp Institute opens its doors from ten-thirty to one-thirty for a free Veterans Day open house with tours, veteran resources, and researchers studying traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's. 1:35 Today, we stand and say thank you properly. And here's a way to help some four-legged neighbors while you decorate for Christmas. 1:45 Queens Ranch Dog Rescue, a small nonprofit out in Eastern Manatee County, is holding its holiday poinsettia fundraiser. 1:56 The group is building a self-sustaining, no-kill sanctuary on five and a half acres with room for about a hundred dogs who were abandoned, neglected, or simply unwanted. 2:09 The poinsettias are locally grown, fifteen dollars apiece or thirteen each if you buy five or more. And orders of five or more get free local delivery right here in Parrish, Palmetto, Bradenton, and Lakewood Ranch. 2:27 Every plant sold helps build a permanent home for dogs that need one. Music is reaching more of our young people. 2:36 This fall, more than six thousand fourth and fifth graders from Sarasota and Manatee Counties heard a live orchestra through the Sarasota Orchestra's Young Person's Concerts. 2:50 More than twenty-five hundred of those students were right here in Manatee County from forty-nine schools in all. 2:58 A twenty-five thousand dollar grant from the Bishop Parker Foundation helped make this year's concerts possible. The Young Person's Concerts have been running since nineteen fifty-three. 3:11 Seventy-three years in, and the music still finds new ears. November is Manatee Awareness Month, and Florida State Parks have a new way to meet the gentle giants. 3:24 The Florida State Parks Foundation has unveiled new manatee experiences at four parks, made possible by a two hundred fifty thousand dollar gift. 3:35 Manatee Springs and Fanning Springs have new signs to help visitors share the waterways safely. At Homosassa Springs, you can come face to face with the park's ambassador manatees. 3:49 And at Blue Spring, as many as nine hundred manatees gather during the peak of winter, an awe-inspiring sight across the spring run. 4:00 The new offerings even include a hydrophone, so visitors can listen to manatees underwater. November is the season to go see them. 4:10 On the ice, the Lightning head to Buffalo tonight, and the lineup will look a little different. Brayden Point was placed on injured reserve on Tuesday after leaving Sunday's game in Winnipeg with an undisclosed injury. 4:26 The team has given no timeline for his return. In his place, the Lightning called up twenty-year-old prospect Sam O'Reilly from Syracuse, and he could make his NHL debut tonight. Tonight also brings a milestone. 4:44 Anthony Cirelli plays his six hundredth career game, all of them in a Lightning sweater. Just the tenth skater in team history to reach that mark with Tampa Bay alone. 4:59 The Bolts are eleven, four and two, still tied for one of the best starts in franchise history. Puck drops in Buffalo at seven tonight. Down in Tallahassee, the top-ranked Florida Gators are still unbeaten. 5:15 Florida beat rival Florida State eighty-one to seventy-two on Tuesday night in front of a sold-out crowd. 5:24 Senior forward Thomas Hall led the way with twenty-one points and ten rebounds, his tenth career double-double and his second of the young season. 5:36 The Gators led for the final twenty minutes and closed the game by making seventeen straight free throws. It is Florida's sixth straight win in the rivalry. They come home Friday night to host Merrimack at seven. 5:52 In medicine, a one-time treatment for sickle cell disease has cleared a major hurdle. 5:59 Beam Therapeutics announced that its gene-editing therapy, called RISTOCELL, met the main goal of its trial Patients went at least 12 straight months without a severe pain crisis, and the study met all of its safety goals too. 6:18 49 adults and teenagers have been treated so far, and 31 have completed the year of follow-up. The company says it plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration for approval as early as the end of this year. 6:34 For families living with sickle cell disease, a single treatment that could quiet the crises is welcome news indeed. More hope on the liver front. 6:45 An experimental drug called Brolovitug has now succeeded in its second late-stage trial for chronic hepatitis D, the most aggressive form of viral hepatitis. 6:58 In the trial, 59% of patients met the study's combined goal after 24 weeks of weekly injections. The virus cleared to negligible levels, and a key marker of liver injury returned to normal. 7:15 The company plans to seek approval in the first half of next year. These are company-reported results, not yet peer-reviewed, but two successful late-stage trials in a row is a strong signal. 7:30 And a skin condition with few good options may have a new one. 7:35 Results published in the journal JAMA Dermatology show that a pill called Brepocitinib helped clear the skin of most patients with cutaneous sarcoidosis, a disease that causes painful, disfiguring skin lesions. 7:54 After 16 weeks, 69% of patients on the higher dose had clear or almost clear skin, compared with none of those on a placebo. There were no serious side effects in the study. 8:10 It was a phase 2 trial, so larger testing is already underway. But for a condition that has long had little to offer, this is a real step forward. 8:22 To Scotland now, where a family of six beavers is home again after 500 years. 8:30 The beavers were released last Wednesday into a small loch on Trees for Life's 10,000-acre Dundregan Estate in the Loch Ness catchment. 8:42 Beavers were last recorded beside the loch about five centuries ago, before hunting drove them out of Scotland altogether. 8:51 The family, a mother, two juveniles about two years old, and three kits born this year, was moved from elsewhere in Scotland under a government license. 9:03 It is the first of at least 15 beaver families the project plans to return to the waters around Loch Ness over the next three years. 500 years is a long time to wait. The beavers are back. 9:19 And finally to Ethiopia, where a mouse that was feared extinct has turned up again after almost a century. 9:28 The Ethiopian water mouse was known from a single specimen caught in a stream in 1927 and never seen again. Its habitat was largely lost to farming, and most scientists believed it was gone. 9:46 Then, during a wildlife survey in the Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve, an ecologist named Mengistu Wall checked a trap and found a large, brown, beady-eyed amphibious rodent staring back at him. 10:04 Two more were caught after that. By comparing the animals to the original 1928 description, the team believes they can say with confidence that the long-lost mouse is back. Genetic tests are still underway to confirm it. 10:22 If they do, a creature the world had written off was swimming in those streams all along. That's the good news for today. Be good to each other and share good news.
