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Arielle: Hey guys, it is Wednesday, January 20. And today one controversial book is back on the shelves 70 years after being banned. Plus, some tough lessons on gun violence in the City of Brotherly Love and a robot revolution. I am Arielle Hixson, and Channel One News starts right now.

Let's start off with headlines, and first up, there is growing anger in the city of Flint, Michigan, over how the state is handling the city's water contamination crisis. Last night the governor of Michigan gave his State of the State speech and addressed the issue.

Governor Rick Snyder: To you, the people of Flint, I say tonight as I have before, I am sorry, and I will fix it. I'm sorry most of all that I let you down.

Arielle: The governor also said he was going to hold all officials responsible and will release all emails regarding the water crisis.

As Michigan Governor Rick Snyder laid out his plan inside the state capitol, Flint residents outside continued to blame the governor for the water problems. The water has high levels of lead, which can be toxic. Residents are using bottled water handed out by volunteers or going to a distribution center each day for water.

Patrisha Marshal: Every day we still have to go out and get water. We have to do that, and we are low income. You know what I’m saying? How do we survive?

Arielle: The problem started in 2014 when the city switched where it gets its water. Yesterday lawyers filed three class-action lawsuits on behalf of all the residents of Flint.

Next up, the nation’s highest court is going to look at President Obama's controversial actions on immigration. The president first announced his immigration programs in 2014. The executive order would have allowed millions of undocumented workers to stay in the United States, giving most adults work permits.

But the president’s plan was blocked after 26 states challenged it. Federal courts ruled that President Obama overstepped his authority. Since then, the more than 4 million immigrants who would have been eligible have been caught in legal limbo. Now the nine justices on the Supreme Court will decide.

And last up, according to a new report, there is a revolution under way, one that has a lot of robots in our future. But it says, “Beware,” because robots could be replacing humans in the workplace.

The new report by World Economic Forum says that more than 5 million individuals will lose their jobs by 2020 to robots. And robots will take over jobs dealing with clerical work and administration.

So what does that mean for your future? Well, the study says that 70 percent of children studying in school today will ultimately be working in jobs that do not exist today. And employers of the future will be looking for core skills such as critical thinking, emotional reasoning and active listening.

The findings support the idea that the world is starting the fourth Industrial Revolution. That is the focus of the World Economic Forum, which gets under way today in the city of Davos, Switzerland. World leaders like Vice President Joe Biden and celebrities like Leonardo di Caprio gather at the ski resort for the annual meeting.

All right, coming up: a book that was once banned in many countries makes a comeback.

Arielle: Books can be a way of preserving history, giving us a glimpse at the thoughts and beliefs of a particular time. Sometimes those ideas can be offensive. Well, one book written by Adolf Hitler back in 1925 gave us a glimpse of what was to come during the height of Nazi Germany.

Tom Hanson explains how the banned book, which is decades old, is back on the shelves, this time with a new message.

Tom: The Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s were for many the first look at Nazi Germany. The annual event was meant to be like a pep rally for Adolf Hitler and his followers. They also gave the world a glimpse at Hitler's extreme political views and his calls for a supreme race.

But it was Hitler's book "Mein Kampf," or “my struggle,” written a decade earlier, that really paved the way. The book outlined Hitler's plan for Germany's future that would eventually lead to the Holocaust, the mass murder of 11 million people. Six million of those victims were Jewish.

More than 10 million copies of “Mein Kampf” were printed, sold and even handed out by the government at weddings. In 1945, when Hitler died and World War II ended, the Allies handed the copyright to the Bavarian government, which stopped the printing of the book.

But 70 years later, the copyright has expired, and “Mein Kampf” is back in German bookstores for the first time. It is a chapter in history some who lived through it hoped would stay closed. This latest printing has some big changes to the original. The German government would only allow an annotated version, so next to the original copy, there are notes from academics that explain or analyze the text.

Professor Andreas Wirsching: This edition exposes the false information spread by Hitler, his downright lies and his many half-truths.

Tom: Scholars also say the reprint will demystify Hitler by exposing just how bad of’ a writer he was.

Scholar: It's awful, it's a rant, it’s unstructured, it’s unreadable, and I think making that open and showing that to potentially interested students is a good thing.

Tom: The publishing house behind the new edition says it can't keep up with the demand. Controversy, it seems, sells books.

The reaction has been mixed in Israel, where many Jews call home.

Ayo Oppenheimer: It's complicated; on the one hand, I'm not thrilled about the fact that “Mein Kampf” can now be in even wider dissemination around the world, given the hateful content that it contains, but on the other hand, it's kind of impossible to control speech, and I'm not even sure that we should.

Tom: Hitler's original, unchallenged version is still sold in countries outside of Germany and is widely available online. But scholars say this new version offers crucial context that exposes a horrific past so history can't repeat itself.

Tom Hanson, Channel One News.

Arielle: And the new edition of Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is already sold out after less than a week on the shelves in Germany.

All right, coming up, we head to Philadelphia to get a look at how some teens are getting a hands-on lesson about gun violence.

Arielle: Every day hundreds of people are victims of gun violence in the U.S., a statistic that is pretty hard to grasp.

Demetrius: Yeah, Arielle, but a program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is giving kids a closer look at the consequences of guns and the importance of preventing violence.

The hospital where 16-year-old Lamont Adams died in 2004…

Scott Charles: By the time you get here, the odds have been stacked against you.

Demetrius: …has been turned into a school of hard knocks.

Dr. Amy Goldberg: When he came in, he wasn't breathing at all.

Demetrius: Throughout the year hundreds of Philadelphia students visit the trauma unit at Temple University Hospital for the Cradle to Grave program.

Charles: So we’re gonna tell the story of a young man named Lamont Adams.

Demetrius: They learn about Lamont — his life from birth to death. Dr. Amy Goldberg and outreach coordinator Scott Charles have been reenacting the night Lamont died for nearly 10 years.

Charles: Lamont is going to have a bullet wound right there, and he's gonna have a bullet wound right there.

Demetrius: Charles uses dozens of red stickers to mark where the bullets hit Lamont 24 times.

Charles: …and another here. I'm not trying to politicize this issue for them; I'm simply saying this is the thing that is more likely to kill you in Philadelphia than anything else when you're young. And I want them to take ownership of this.

Goldberg: We were both really concerned that the students didn’t really seem to know the true ramifications of what bullet injuries and gunshot wounds can cause.

Charles: If the things that I’m showing you are too troublesome for you, talk to me.

Demetrius: The students watch an hour-long video showing graphic pictures of more gunshot victims. Some students can't bear to look.

Lamont’s grandmother: Sometimes I go in the bathroom and close the door. I get down on my knees, and I cry.

Demetrius: The pain Lamont's grandmother described hit home for 16-year-old Roshelys Sanchez.

Roshelys Sanchez: I can't imagine my mom crying because something happened to me or to one of my family members.

Demetrius: Fifteen-year-old Jordan Barreto first went through the program in May.

Jordan Barreto: I was hanging in the streets with the wrong people, doing the wrong thing, and the program really opened my eyes that gun violence is real and that people are getting killed for nothing.

Demetrius: Demetrius Pipkin, Channel One News.

Arielle: Very interesting way to teach a tough lesson. Thanks, Demetrius.

Now, we get to cover a lot of important and interesting stories here at Channel One, and now you can ask Keith Kocinski about his favorites in a Twitter chat. Keith will be answering your questions on all the cool stories he has covered and places he has been from Indonesia to the Arctic. The Twitter chat with Keith is this Thursday at 5 pm Eastern. Use the #Ch1Chat.

All right, guys, that is it for us, but here is one more thing before we go. You have probably seen it — the performance that has gone viral.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, Revere Dance Studio is giving everyone the chance to dance with their Wonders on Wheels program. Each student in a wheelchair dances with a shadow counterpart. The performance is a tribute to a dancer who passed away earlier this year. They have been practicing the routine since October.

 

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