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TEENS LEARN POWERFUL LESSON

Georgia and Michigan are the latest states to approve a ban on texting while driving. But are young people getting the message? CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller 5 went to Sardis High School in the state of Alabama to find out. Texting while driving is still permitted in Alabama. And that, she says, is just fine with many teenagers there.

But this week, the teens got a powerful 10 lesson. Sardis High has set up an innovative program to give students a real-world test of the dangers. The students drive on an obstacle course filled with hazards - all while texting. Lauren Tollenson, a student at the school, said 15 that she texts constantly behind the wheel. But after driving on the obstacle course and hitting several obstacles, Lauren changed her mind. "If those [had] been people," she said, "I'd have killed about five."

20 Sadly, not all of the students got the message. Many admitted that they still couldn't stop texting. So Kim and Russell Hurd brought their story to the students, hoping to change their minds. The Hurds' daughter, Heather, 25 26, had been on the way to see her wedding planner when a truck crashed into her car.

The driver was texting and lost control. Heather died instantly. "I'll never be the mother of a bride," Kim said. "I'll never have grandchildren from Heather. It destroyed me." Kim asked 30 the students: "If you {survived}, but you killed someone else, could you live with that? It's not worth it. It's not worth a life."

It's a message the Hurds hope will save others. Ever since their daughter's death, they have 35 been on a mission to make texting behind the wheel illegal. "Each day that these laws are not in place is another day that someone could be killed because of texting while driving," Russell Hurd said. The Hurds are trying to change the 40 culture and get the word out that this could happen to you.

Thanks to their efforts, the Hurds helped pass a new law against texting while driving in the state of Maryland. And although only half of the states 45 in the U.S.A. now have laws that ban texting while driving, there is hope. A recent New York Times survey found that 97 percent of Americans believe that texting while driving should be illegal.

(Information from cbsnews.com, Teens Learn Dangers of Texting-while-Driving)

Flight dubai

You get on a plane in Dubai knowing that a few hours later you should be at Ben Gurion. Maybe you sleep, watch something or think about getting home. Then the aircraft suddenly plunges thousands of feet. People scream and nobody in the cabin knows why. This was the situation facing more than 170 people, most of them Israelis, on Flydubai flight FZ1073 on September 30, 2026.

What the passengers didn't know was that a violent fight was taking place behind the cockpit door. The co-pilot had attacked Captain Smit Machchhar. Although badly wounded, Machchhar fought back and managed to release the cockpit door. Once it opened, Israeli passengers near the front began to understand what was happening. Tzvika Manes, Yaniv Hayun and Asaf Rajuan moved toward the cockpit.

They weren't soldiers, police officers or members of a rescue unit. Hayun is a plumber and Manes is a bank executive. A few minutes earlier, they had simply been passengers flying home. Now the plane was diving and there was an attacker in the cockpit. Instead of assuming that someone else would deal with the crisis, they moved forward.

The struggle was chaotic. The Israelis helped overpower the attacker and pull him away from the controls. Hayun then faced another terrifying problem: the aircraft itself. He later described pulling back on the controls, trying to stop the dive until somebody qualified could take over. He wasn't a pilot and had never expected to find himself with his hands on the controls of a passenger aircraft. His immediate response was not based on training but on the realization that doing nothing could have devastating consequences.

Other people found different ways to help. Dr. Shota Musayev, an Israeli dentist, treated the seriously wounded captain. Off-duty pilots who happened to be travelling on the flight were brought forward. Once the attacker had been restrained, qualified pilots were able to take control of the aircraft. What had begun as several individual reactions gradually became a remarkable example of cooperation under extreme pressure.

Think about how many factors had to come together at the right moment. The wounded captain had to get the cockpit door open. Passengers had to recognize the seriousness of the situation and be willing to move toward the danger. A medical professional happened to be there when the captain needed treatment. Even more remarkably, trained pilots who were not working on the flight happened to be travelling on that particular aircraft.

The plane was eventually brought under control and made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Only then could the passengers begin to understand what they had survived. They had expected to arrive at Ben Gurion after an ordinary flight from Dubai. Instead, they found themselves in Saudi Arabia after an experience that could easily have had a very different outcome.

Lital Shahar had been travelling with her four daughters. During the frightening moments on the plane, she told them to pray. Afterwards, she spoke about the "miracles" that had taken place: Israelis were there who were prepared to enter the cockpit and fight, and qualified pilots happened to be on board when they were desperately needed. Someone else might interpret the same events differently, pointing instead to courage, quick thinking, professional skill, coincidence or an extraordinary combination of circumstances. Perhaps these explanations do not necessarily contradict one another.

President Isaac Herzog later recommended Hayun, Manes, Rajuan and Musayev for the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism, praising their courage, resourcefulness and sense of responsibility for others. None of them boarded FZ1073 expecting to become heroes. They were ordinary passengers suddenly forced to respond to extraordinary circumstances. Their actions raise an interesting question: are heroes unusual people, or are they ordinary people whose character is revealed when circumstances demand something extraordinary?