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Squiz Kids! It's your daily news fix.
Fun. Free. Fresh. Hello and welcome to Squiz Kids Today, your fresh take on what's happening in the world around you.
I'm Bryce Corbett. It's Wednesday, May 21.
In Squiz kids today, floods and drought cause chaos across the country.
Origin debutantes step up.
Record breaking run across Australia.
And could the Pope visit Australia?
That's what's making news, kid style.
The Lowdown. Forty schools across the New South Wales and Mid -North regions were closed yesterday after a major flood warning was issued in the face of torrential rains that saw rivers rise and residents evacuated from their homes.
Damaging winds brought down trees and power lines, with the State Emergency Service receiving more than 2 ,000 calls for help yesterday morning, while on the coast, huge surf pounded beaches around Port Macquarie, causing widespread erosion.
Residents of Taree, on the Manning River in NSW, were told to evacuate their homes yesterday morning as a low pressure system refused to budge, instead throwing down more than 200 millimetres of rain, causing rivers in the area to start to break their banks.
Meanwhile, it was a completely different story halfway across the country, as farmers in South Australia started selling off livestock in the face of the worst drought they have seen in decades.
A drought is when it doesn't rain for a really long time.
for obvious reasons that makes farming really difficult.
Rainfall in parts of South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia has been the lowest on record in the past couple of months forcing farmers there to buy food for their livestock or in some cases sell them off.
Many towns are even on water restrictions with reports that water is even being trucked in to parts of the Adelaide Hills to fill up empty water tanks.
Stay safe out there people.
spin the globe Each day, we give the world globe a spin and find a news story from wherever it stops.
And today, we've landed in Rome… in Italy… again… as the new Pope continues to make headlines having just delivered his first ever papal mass.
Now a mass, for those who aren't familiar, is a Catholic religious ceremony.
and Pope Leo performed his first mass as the head of the Church in St Peter's Square in Rome in front of some 200 ,000 people on Sunday.
Now that is a big crowd.
As well as the heap of ordinary folk who were in attendance there were also kings and queens and world political leaders including our own Prime Minister Anthony Albanese who had a meeting with the Pope after the Mass and invited him to come to Australia.
Meanwhile, the Pope used his sermon to call for world peace.
And maybe, just maybe, US President Donald Trump was listening, with reports that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday about bringing an end to the war in the Ukraine, which has been going on now for over three years, if you can believe it.
Sport time! Look out New South Wales and Queensland kids and look on in confusion kids in every other state because it's officially state of origin time where grown adults in Australia's two rugby league obsessed eastern states set aside all rational thought and become completely unhinged for a few weeks.
It all kicked off on Monday with the announcement of the New South Wales Blues and Queensland Maroons teams, the big news from which was the number of debutantes named in each side.
Now in sports speak a debutante is a player who has chosen in a team for the first time.
Maroons coach Billy Slater has chosen three debutantes for Queensland, including Sydney rooster Robert Toyer who has only played 10 games of professional footy, Gold Coast Titan bow firma and Melbourne Storm player Trent Liero, who told Media on Monday it seemed only like yesterday that he was playing footing in his backyard and dreaming of being selected for the Maroons.
Meanwhile, the Blues have tipped one debutante into their mix in the shape of Canterbury Bulldog, Max King, who spent two years off with an injured foot.
You see, even if you suffer an injury set -back at your favourite sport, with determination and hard work, you can still realise your sporting dreams. Speaking of sporting dreams, can we stop and give a great big squeeze kids salute to English ultra marathon runner William Goodge, who has just smashed the Guinness World Record for running across Australia.
William set off from Cottesloe Beach in Perth just over a month ago, and he ran day and night for 35 whole days to arrive on Bondi Beach in Sydney on Monday afternoon, making him the fastest person to ever run across our country.
He beat the previous record holder by four whole days after completing the equivalent of, get this, not one, not two, but two and a half marathons every single day.
Hundreds of runners turned out in Sydney on Monday morning to run the last five kilometres with William, who dedicated the run to his mum who died of cancer seven years ago, and he used the enormous physical feat to raise money for an Aussie cancer charity.
– William Goodge, Squiz Kids Salutes You.
Time for the squiz.
This is the part of the podcast where you get to test how well you've been listening.
Question number 1. How many debutantes have been chosen for the Queensland Maroon state of origin team?
Yep, well done if you said 3.
Question 2. In which Italian city has the Pope just conducted his first mass?
Yeah, that's right, it's the Italian city in which he lives, called Rome.
Question 3. How many days did it take William Goodge to run across Australia?
Was it a. 55 days b.
172 days Or c. 35 days Yeah that's right it was 35 days Well done if you had your listening ears on for that one YLove Shout outs It's Wednesday May 21 today is the start of the crank works mountain biking festival in Cairns, and it's also the anniversary of Amelia Earhart becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean way back in 1932.
Just remarkable. It's also a special day for these Squiz Kids celebrating a birthday today.
Indy from Adelaide, Eric from Vermont South, Grace from Coo -Lunga, Chloe from Northorn East, Milena from Chinchilla, Harry from Exeter and Parker and Estelle from Curry Curry.
And belated birthday shoutouts go to Charlie from Ivanhoe, Kobi from Eglinton, and Edie, Electra, Max, Lizzie, Sisica, Loki, Ledger and Noah, who are all from Exeter.
And classroom shoutouts today go to Emouse class with Mrs. Spruce at All Saints College in Maitland.
Class 4L Literacy with Mr. Loker at Pimble Ladies College in Sydney.
Class 4 6A Magpies with Mrs Murphy at Albury North Public School and Class 5E with Mrs Edwards at Burleigh Head State School.
And a reminder, all classroom shout out requests we receive during the month of May will go into a draw to have me pay a virtual visit to your classroom.
Yes, that's right. I'll beam into the classroom of one lucky school that submits its classroom shout out this month.
Otherwise, don't forget if you've got a birthday coming up and you want a shout out, or if you're after a classroom shout -out, drop us a line at squizkids at thesquiz .com .au or fill out the form on our website.
Well, that's all we have time for.
Thanks for listening to Squiz Kids today.
We'll be back again tomorrow.
In the meantime, get out there and have a most excellent day.
Over and out. Finally, as soon as I finished writing this, it becameoooo futures.
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