Hey, here’s your weekly dose of good stories. You’ll learn about how a mother gave birth on the side of the road in Colorado while she had 911 on the phone.

This is one of the beautiful situations we can help in. It’s really rewarding.

Also a city that loves its street cats so much that it practically has an entire museum dedicated to them. I’m Krista Bo from CNN and this is Five Good Things.

“There’s a saying that you’re never too young to make a difference. One high school student in Virginia is proving just that. Heman Bekele is only 15 years old, and when he’s not playing basketball or joining his school’s marching band, he’s developing a bar of soap that could one day treat skin cancer. No big deal.

“Essentially, the way it works is that it takes a drug called imiquimod and coats it with these lipid-based nanoparticles. It’s a more affordable and easier alternative to modern skin cancer treatment.

This invention, called Skin Cancer Treating Soap, or SCTS for short, earned him the title of “Child of the Year 2024” by Time Magazine. Heman was inspired to address the disease by the place where he grew up.

I was born in Ethiopia and saw so many people working for very long hours in the scorching sun. It made me realize how damaging UV radiation is over such a long period of time and inspired me to do something.

In 2022, the World Health Organization estimated there were more than 1.5 million new cases of skin cancer worldwide, and the Skin Cancer Foundation says more people are diagnosed with skin cancer in the U.S. each year than all other cancers combined. He has been working with skin cancer experts at Johns Hopkins University and the Melanoma Research Alliance to test the treatment before taking the next steps to bring it to market.

My goal is that within the next five years we can transform SCTS from a simple passion project into a non-profit organization that will allow us to distribute the soap to the people who need it most.

South Metro Fire. What is the emergency address?

Cole Kingsbury was driving his pregnant wife Caitlin to the hospital in Colorado last week when he had to call 911.

We were on the way to the hospital when suddenly my water broke in the car.

If you stop somewhere, I can send help to your stopping point.

Okay. We’re going over there.

They were only about six minutes away from the hospital, but they couldn’t wait any longer.

I’m sending the paramedics to help you now. Stay on the line and I’ll tell you exactly what to do next.

You can do it, baby, you can do it.

Support the baby’s head and shoulders during birth.

And Connor Blinzler of the South Metro Fire Department accompanied the couple during the curbside delivery. While Connor operated the hands-free system, Caitlin rode in the passenger seat. Cole sat right next to her and their two young sons sat in the back seat.

He’s coming! He’s coming! He’s coming!

And shortly thereafter, baby Cale Payton Kingsbury was born.

Hey baby. Hello!

Needless to say, the whole thing was pretty chaotic. But eventually, the paramedics arrived to help the Kingsburys with the rest.

The biggest relief was when the ambulances and fire trucks showed up. It was hard to hear, but Connor was great and loud enough for us. That helped us a lot.

And the whole family was able to meet Connor personally in the hospital.

Thank you very much. Nice to meet you guys.

Nice to meet you.

Yes, yes. There is no better time than now, is there?

No. No. That’s what I do. That’s really what I do.

Meeting Kingsbury was a humbling moment for Connor, who has worked as a 901 operator for ten years.

Often times people aren’t calling us on a good day or they’re calling us in distress or a medical emergency. And that’s one of the good situations where we can help. It’s really rewarding.

Imagine a world where your jacket charges your phone or the roof of your car powers your ride. That’s the kind of solar power technology that’s on the horizon.

It could be a much better place if we generated all our electricity from clean, renewable sources and used land that we can use to generate energy.

Henry Snaith is a professor of renewable energy in the physics department at the University of Oxford. He and his team have developed a wafer-thin solar coating that can be applied to everyday objects. How thin is it? The new technology consists of a material called perovskite, which is 100 times thinner than a hair.

These perovskite materials absorb sunlight so strongly that they can be extremely thin. Like, really, really thin. That means they can be really light. So you could carry them in your backpack, even in a jacket made of this material. That generates even more energy from sunlight.

Conventional solar panels convert about 20% of sunlight into electricity. This new material has the potential to use 45% of that. With a solar technology as versatile as this one, there may one day not be as much need for solar farms that take up huge areas of land. And he says power grids won’t be as strained. As climate change continues to impact our lives, scientists like Snaith are keen to take on the challenge of scaling this technology for everyday use.

The potential to actually transform the world into a much, much better place is super exciting. We need to have a utopian, not a dystopian, vision of the future and really try to do everything we can to get there.

Oh man, that was so much easier than putting. I should just try to get the ball in one shot every time.

“A nearly 30-year-old comedy classic is getting a sequel, and an open casting had fans waiting in line for hours for the chance to star as an extra in Adam Sandler’s ‘Happy Gilmore 2.'” Thousands of aspiring actors and fans turned out for auditions in Morristown, New Jersey, on Tuesday, where the line was insane.

It goes all the way around the building. Yes, we’ve done at least three laps. I think at this point.

CNN partner News 12 New Jersey spoke to some of them, including Christine.

I’ve probably been out here for a little over an hour and 20 minutes.

If you haven’t seen the movie, Adam Sandler plays Happy Gilmore, a hockey player who learns to play golf to save his grandmother’s house. Some people went to great lengths to get noticed. We’re talking Happy Gilmore jerseys, hockey sticks, and complete stick sets. The whole thing. So many people showed up. The auditions ended three hours earlier than planned. Tyquan Griffin wore a T-shirt with one of the characters from the movie at his audition.

Adam Sandler is one of my top 3. I’ve seen every movie. I just like his humor. I decided to audition because I like acting, so Happy Gilmore 2 was a no-brainer because I love Happy Gilmore 1.

We don’t know much about the new film yet, except that NFL star Travis Kelce will be in it. Filming begins in a few weeks. Good luck to all the hopeful extras.

Next, can you guess which city is a cat paradise? Hint: It’s not in the US.

My fiancé and I got a pet during the pandemic. His name is Podcat. It sounds cheesy, I know, and he’s a street cat. I thought my city had a lot of street cats, but the Turkish capital Istanbul is apparently a different story. The city loves them so much that Fatih Dagli opened a museum almost entirely dedicated to them.

How many cats are there in Istanbul? It’s hard to say at the moment, but I think there are more than 300,000.

Cat culture in Istanbul is deeply rooted. They lounge in cafes. They ride along on motorbikes. These cats are everywhere and the community helps to take care of them.

So this city actually pushes you to be a cat person.

There’s even a statue of one of the city’s most popular cats in his signature pose. His name was Tombili, which means chubby in Turkish, and he was known for resting and leaning on ledges. Look it up. It’s actually pretty cute. Fatih says half of all the museum’s ticket and merchandising revenue goes to feed and provide medical care for Istanbul’s street cats.

Okay, that’s all for now. Tomorrow we’ll continue with the next edition of One Thing. CNN’s Samantha Delouya joins host David Rind to explain how new rules are changing the way homes are bought and sold in the United States.

Five Good Things is a CNN Audio production. This episode was produced by Eryn Mathewson and me, Krista Bo. Our executive producers are Felicia Patinkin and Faiz Jamil. Matt Dempsey is our production manager. Dan Dzula is our technical director. And Steve Lickteig is the CNN Audio executive producer. We received assistance from Joey Salvia, Haley Thomas, Alex Manasseri, Robert Mathers, Jon Dianora, Leni Steinhardt, Jamus Andrest, Nichole Pesaru and Lisa Namerow. Special thanks to South Metro Fire Rescue for the 911 call and to Katie Hinman. Thanks for listening. Until next time.