>> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm siena. we'll start with our top story. for years now, we've been reporting on the downsides of using steroids. but the story doesn't seem to get better. professional athletes continue to ruin their careers with these illegal drugs. and, sadly, teens are getting the wrong message about what it takes to get ahead, either athletically or socially. scott reports on the ongoing effort to set them straight. >> we know about the pros

using illegal performance-enhancing drugs. but america seems to be ignoring what's going on with teens. >> the bulk of the nation's attention regarding steroid abuse is solidly fixed on the professional athlete. while it's understandable because of the celebrity involved, it's drawn our attention as a country away from what is rapidly becoming a growing national tragedy among our young people. >> this press conference was called by the taylor hooton foundation, an organization started when 17-year-old taylor died after using steroids. although he was 6'2" and 185 pounds, his father says taylor felt the pressure to get bigger and stronger. >> so, taylor looks around the dugout. he didn't need to look far to figure out how the other kids were getting bigger and faster and stronger. he began injecting himself with real, hard-core anabolic steroids, and seven months later, he committed suicide.

>> anabolic steroids are powerful drugs. they do increase muscle mass, but they also increase your risk for a host of health problems, from mood swings to heart trouble and kidney failure. >> the reality is it will give you an edge, but, boy, are you gonna pay for it later. >> no, they're not good for you. steroids are not good for you. >> no. >> no! >> many of us know that steroids are bad, and yet the hooton foundation's research found a million teens still use these drugs. >> you know, young people hear that athletes are using these products. and know what they see? they see the success, they see the money, they see the glamour. they never see the broken athlete later. they never see the dangers associated with it. >> the dangers are even worse for teens, who get the drugs from shady sources, on the street or online. the professional baseball athletic trainers society is pitching in to get the word out. >> you would not believe what

some of these bootleggers are using to put these things together. used motor oil, animal fat, all kinds of garbage. >> we want to provide you the information so that you can make an intelligent decision, which we believe is to say no. >> the baseball hall of fame is fielding a new program called base -- "be a superior example." it promotes good nutrition and training as an alternative to steroids. >> it's cheating whether you're taking shortcuts to make the athletic team, or it's cheating if you're competing in the hallways for the attention of the opposite sex. you can look better by eating properly, getting enough sleep, and exercising. >> remember, the same drug that could supposedly help you compete can also get you thrown off the team. if the pros can get caught, so can you. and the pros are getting caught. >> this week's driving tip is brought to you by the national road safety foundation.

[ indistinct conversations ] >> cool party. >> what do you guys want to drink? >> can i have a head-on collision with a concussion twist? [ tires screech ] [ crash ] >> make mine a fatal accident with no survivors. [ tires screech, siren wails ] [ crash ] >> and you? >> a designated driver, please. you know, just a bottle of water. >> awesome! >> you're a life-saver! >> the u.s. has the most powerful and advanced military in the world. so you'd think there's little a kid can do to help our men and women in uniform. be prepared to be surprised.

>> there's an organization called the "angels among us project." it looks for people who are making a difference in the world. as emily reports, a recent honoree was rather unusual -- a student still in elementary school. >> you're about to meet a kid

with a mission. when remington youngblood was 10 years old, he started "change 4 georgia." it's a community-service program that collects much-needed items for current and past members of our military, as well as their families. hi, remington. >> hi! >> you've said that the goal of your organization is to "serve those who are serving us." what gave you the idea to do that? >> i can answer that question in one word -- freedom. our troops fight for our freedoms -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press. and they go to the other side of the world, leaving behind everything they love -- family, friends, neighbors, and the wonders of america -- to fight for our country. and they deserve our thoughts, prayers, and support. and i'm here to give them all three. >> so, what exactly do you do for our troops and veterans? >> change 4 georgia is a

non-profit organization that assists our troops overseas by providing them with items that fit in their backpacks, add comfort, and are not readily available -- items like beef jerky, ramen noodles -- a favorite -- and crackers. we also provide the veterans and their families here at home with diapers, new and gently used clothing, food, and personal items. and we offer scholarships to student veterans at local colleges for their extraordinary efforts in going above and beyond the call of duty. >> was it hard to get started? what were some of the biggest challenges? >> our two biggest challenges were finding volunteers and finding veteran families in need, because the veteran families may be embarrassed to contact someone, because they are asking for help. but they shouldn't be embarrassed, because they fought -- the veterans fought for our country, and if his

family needs help, let's give them help. >> do you have other kids working with you? what do they do? >> we have thousands of students participating in the schools and the donation drives. it is amazing. i was shocked to see the results and how many items we've collected. we've probably collected over $50,000 worth of items, including donations and items and things we send to the veterans. it's just shocking how much progress change 4 georgia has made. >> how do your parents help you out? >> yes. i am very fortunate to have two optimistic life coaches -- my mom, who doubles as my secretary, chauffeur, and number-one fan; and my dad, who is my personal trainer, financial adviser, and my hero. and they assist me in becoming the world's leading expert on

me. >> what's been the response from the people you have helped? >> yes. we have gotten several letters back from the troops, showing how appreciative they were, and i was very excited to receive them because i didn't know that they would take the time to write me back, which is really cool to have letters back from the troops. >> yeah, that must be really cool. as we mentioned earlier, you received an award from the angels among us project. is that pin you're wearing on your jacket from them? >> yes, this pin right here was given to me by john shimer, when he gave me the award, and he gave me several -- probably 25, 30 others -- and when i see someone doing something good in the community, i can give them a pair of these angel wings. >> cool. you're from atlanta, so i guess that's how you came up with the name "change 4 georgia." doesn't it limit what you guys do? >> yes, it does. we are thinking about changing the name to something else. we haven't got any ideas yet,

but we're thinking about it, because we don't just help georgians. it's not like, "all right, we're gonna send this to troops overseas, but they have to be from georgia." they can be from minnesota, north dakota, new york, maine. it really doesn't matter as long as we're helping the troops. >> yeah. for kids who think that they could never start an organization that does such great work like yours, what advice could you give them? >> follow your dreams, do what you like. and if you think you're too small to make a difference, just look what a 10-year-old kid did in 1 1/2 years. i mean, if you can dream it, you can do it. >> exactly. congratulations on your award and congratulations on starting such an impressive and important organization. >> thank you. it's been so much fun talking with you. >> change 4 georgia is always looking for volunteers. if you're interested in findings a link on our website. >> in "flag facts," i'll tell you how washington state came very close to making

a big mistake.

>> we all know what the american flag looks like, but every state has a flag, too, and every one of them tells a story. here's our "flag facts" report. >> the flag for washington state has a unique color. it also has unique origins, linking it to a box of cough syrup. author randy howe has this week's dose of flag history. >> washington state is unique for two reasons. it's the only green flag of the 50 states, and it is also the only flag to include the image of a person on it, and, obviously that person is george washington. and it's from the portrait that was painted by gilbert stuart. he was an artist from rhode island, and it's the most famous portrait of george washington. but there were brothers who were put in charge of creating the image for the flag, and they

went about designing it, coming up with all the different lettering. they had it perfect, except the image they had of george washington came from a box of cough syrup, and it just wouldn't do. and in the 11th hour, they found gilbert stuart's portrait of george washington. they put it on the flag. it was accepted by the legislators in washington, and we still have that flag today. >> with "flag facts," i'm brandon. >> online quizzes can be a fun way to put your skills to the test or to take a well-deserved break from all that tedious homework. think you have what it takes to name all 50 jelly belly flavors in just seven minutes? what about naming the villains from disney movies? sporcle.com has over 100,000 stimulating games just waiting to challenge you. the website also lets you create your own quizzes, which, if you're lucky, can be featured on the sporcle's home page.

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(crowd of children) thank you. "sauce." but as nicole found out, salsa also means "delicious." >> so, chef johnny, fruit salsa. what do we do? >> well, first we're gonna start by taking a mango and peeling it. and before i do that, let me just get you going on the banana. you want to help me with the banana? >> i would love to. >> okay. so what we're gonna do -- now, see, most of the time, you take

this and break it. >> mm-hmm. >> sometimes it cracks like that. you can just peel it open and peel it like that. >> okay. >> it's funny, you know, in mexico -- i've always peeled it like that -- they peel it from the other end. >> i heard that monkeys peel them from the other end, too. >> do they? it's probably a more efficient way to do it, now that i think about it, 'cause they're definite monkey experts. okay, so we're gonna cut this in half this way. we'll cut off that brown tip at the end. >> mm-hmm. >> and we're gonna take it and cut it in quarters like that. okay? >> and is it better to do this with a smaller knife, a safer knife? >> yeah, i think it's a lot easier. i've got a little paring knife. paring knives are wonderful for doing small, delicate work, and we're trying to get this into small pieces like this. >> remember, only use a knife if your parents say it's okay. >> so, keep your fingers turned under -- good knife safety, okay? so you keep them -- and then just pull it back like that. you're gonna cut it into long strips like that. okay? >> okay. >> now, if you get down to this edge, it's a good idea to turn it around so that your round part isn't going into your fingers. >> okay. >> then you turn it sideways,

keeping your thumb behind your fingers, and just go like that. >> so we're making this really, really small chunks? >> you bet you, because this is not gonna be pureed. we're gonna make this little, chunky salsa, all with good knife skills. >> all right. i'll do my best. >> i know you're gonna just do well with that. while you're doing that, i'm gonna show how to cut a mango. mangoes are an interesting fruit, because, you know, when you buy them, you really can't look at the color so much. you really want to see that it's got some softness to it. you don't want it wrinkly and soft -- okay? -- but just a little bit of softness to it. see how it's got? okay? because that means it's nice and ripe, and when you're making a fruit salsa, you want it to be nice and sweet. and you see that kind of golden color? if it's not ripe, it'll be a lot -- it'll be lighter than that. >> that's beautiful. >> so, you just cut off the very tip -- okay? -- like that. very carefully, keeping your hands back behind it. you come on the bottom and you -- make a flat surface, and you just cut off the very tip again, because you'll see there's this little woody thing right here, okay? and you can see it on that side, too, and that's going in

this direction. that's the whole seed, and it's a big seed. so once i've got a nice flat on that, now i can put it on my cutting board. it's nice and stable. it's not gonna slide around on me. then i just take my paring knife, and i rotate it around the bottom, around the whole fruit like that. cut along like that. some people use a peeler. you know, these things are pretty slippery animals, and i find that this is a kind of a nice way to keep it, 'cause you got that nice base to work with on the bottom. then you just got to remember to go along the bottom in case you missed any. >> mm-hmm. >> and catch that little bit on the bottom. and you're good to go. now, the thing about the seed is most of this is seed. >> where's the seed? i don't see it. >> see this white thing? this whole thing from here to here is seed. >> you're kidding. >> yeah, so you're actually gonna cut down. i'll get into the hard part, so i have to go out farther. >> wow. i didn't know there was so much seed in a mango. >> yeah, yeah, and if you cut down and it gets hard like that, you got to move outboard a little. you got to move towards the

outside. so, literally, that's your mango. that's your mango, and that's your seed. >> that's all seed. so the seed is a nice, orange color, too? >> yeah, it looks just like it, but it's really fibrous, and it's inedible. you can catch a little bit on the sides. see how you keep your hands away from that knife? always cut away from your hand as much as you can. and this whole big chunk right there -- you can kind of see a little bit there there -- that's inedible. so you've got a lot of waste with your mango. but what you have left is really, really good stuff. >> mm-hmm. >> you can even take a mango and just put a little salt and pepper and grill it and serve it with fish. it really goes nice. >> that sounds good. >> so, i'm gonna do the same thing you're doing. i'm just gonna cut this... into little, tiny pieces. so, we're not gonna put this in a food processor. this is gonna be a kind of a chunky salsa. >> i noticed we're not putting any tomatoes out to chop. >> no tomatoes. this is all fruit.

we're gonna have a little bit of pepper in there, which is really kind of what defines the salsa, is really the pepper -- not necessarily the tomatoes. >> you don't need a tomato for a salsa? >> absolutely not. there's green salsas, there's red salsas. you can make them out of tomatillos and make a salsa verde. so we have nice, chopped-up mango. look at you! >> i'm trying here. >> you're rocking it. you're doing really good. >> learning from the best. >> so, i've got some pineapple here, too. now, you can buy this -- because this recipe doesn't use what you get in a whole pineapple, you can use canned pineapple as long as you get it in the 100% pineapple juice. don't get the heavy syrup, okay? because it's much healthier for you that way. and you can get either crushed, or i got it like this, and then i chopped it up a little bit more. >> mm-hmm. >> right here. so i've got some chopped pineapple, and then i've got to chop up my jalapeño, which we talked about, making sure that we don't rub our eyes. we don't rub our nose after working with a jalapeño. >> 'cause that will burn, right?

>> that would really burn. so, we're gonna chop that up, and then i've got some cilantro, which i've already chopped up, which we used. and we're gonna just mix it all together. so, now, i'm gonna take the jalapeños. i'm gonna cut them really small, as well, because we're gonna have -- see how we do nice, long strips, keeping our fingers curled under? >> mm-hmm. >> if you cut things in nice, long strips like that -- this is the way to use a small knife. you could use a big knife to do this, but small knives work good. >> are you gonna chop those into small chunks, too? >> yeah, and you want this to be pretty small so that people don't have any big chunks of jalapeño. >> [ chuckles ] unless they like it spicy? >> yeah, exactly, you know? but a big chunk of pepper or big chunks of garlic -- you want to stay away from that stuff. >> mm-hmm. >> okay? so we've got that all cut up. >> i got your banana all cut up, too. >> oh, that's wonderful.

okay, so let's just go ahead and dump this in the bowl. you're gonna see how hard this is to do. doesn't that mango look beautiful? >> oh, wow. >> look at that color. you know, if it's really pale and it's not that ripe and it's not that sweet, you can sprinkle a little sugar on it, but i don't like to do that. i'd much prefer to get yourself a nice, ripe mango. >> and that pepper, the jalapeño. >> let's get the rest of our banana in here. >> mmm. i can just smell all those coming together. >> now, bananas tend to turn a little bit of color on you. we're gonna put some chopped-up cilantro -- you know, it's that coolness of the cilantro against the heat of the pepper again. you know, it brings that garden-fresh flavor right into the dish. wipe my hands a little bit. then what we're gonna do is we're gonna add a little bit of lime juice. >> we're gonna put our pineapple in there, too, or that goes last? >> thank you for reminding me.

no, that goes in right now. we'll put that in there right now. got our pineapple. >> mmm. >> and then we're gonna grab a fork. the best way to juice a lime is just to take a fork and twist it right in there like that. that little bit of lime juice -- that acid is gonna keep your banana from turning brown. >> oh! >> so it makes it looking nicer, and it adds a little brightness. you know, cooking is so much of a, you know, combination of things. so we've got the coolness of cilantro, we've got the heat of the pepper, we've got the sweetness, we've got the tartness from the lime. >> mm-hmm. >> it gives your mouth a nice experience when you mix those -- yin and yang. >> you literally just mix it all together? >> that's all you do. now, even with fruit, just a small, and i mean a small pinch of salt, okay? just to open up the flavor a little bit. that's a very small pinch. that's less than an eighth of a teaspoon. >> [ chuckles ] >> and that's it. we've got ourselves a nice fruit salsa right here that would go wonderful on chips. you could eat it by itself.

you can put it on chicken. you can put it on salmon. why don't you give it a taste and see what you think? >> i'd love to. >> all right? don't forget our favorite chips over here. >> mm-hmm. >> here, let me help you with this. >> mm-hmm. mmm, looks amazing. [ crunching ] mmm! >> nice and fresh and colorful and light. >> mm-hmm. >> plenty of flavor? >> it's so good. >> great. >> so, what do you call this recipe? >> i think we should call it nicole's fresh fruit salsa. what do you think? >> i think that's a great idea. >> all right! >> thanks, chef johnny. >> you're welcome. >> you can find the recipe for nicole's fresh fruit salsa on our website. for "teen kids news," i'm nicole.

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