Host Marco Werman catches us up on some attention grabbing stories: A 13-year-old Australian skateboarder, Arisa Trew, became the first female ever to perform a 720 trick; New Zealand declared a national war on rats; and a portrait by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt sold at Sotheby’s for the highest price ever paid for a painting in Europe.
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