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Good morning and welcome to Kid News.
I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
And we begin with a happy 100th birthday to former president Jimmy Carter.
Mr. Carter turns a full century old today and becomes the only president in U .S.
history to reach that milestone.
Jimmy Carter was president between 1977 and 1981.
After his presidency, Mr.
Carter established the Carter Center to Promote Human Rights, a longtime passion of his, and received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in 2002.
He also dedicated countless hours to the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity.
This week in his honor, thousands of Habitat volunteers, including country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, are building 30 homes in St.
Paul, Minnesota. Mr.
Carter has been in hospice care since last February.
He slowed quite a bit and lost his wife of 77 years in November.
But his sonship says he's still up early every morning and likes to talk politics, the presidential race, and his Atlanta Braves.
Also on the subject of the presidency, tonight will be the debate between the two candidates for Vice President, Ohio Senator J .D.
Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Typically, these running mate showdowns don't get much attention, but this one is because the race at the top of the ticket is so tight.
The debate will start at 9 p .m.
Eastern and is supposed to last about 90 minutes.
It's the only vice presidential debate in this election.
It will take place in New York City at CBS Broadcast Center.
The election itself is just a little over a month away.
By plane, truck and mule, that is what emergency workers are resorting to to get much -needed aid to the area's hardest hit by Helene, among them the tourist destination of Asheville, North Carolina.
According to the Associated Press, that city's main routes have been washed away or blocked by mudslides, and Asheville's main water system is crippled.
Hundreds of roads across the southeast are impassable.
Just under two million people are still without power and damage estimates across the six states in Helene's path are now expected to top $110 billion.
President Biden says he'll visit the region perhaps later this week.
NASA officials are downplaying a report over the weekend about a leak that's growing inside the International Space Station.
Previously, they had rated it a 5 out of 5 for seriousness.
They're now saying repair work by astronauts has reduced the leak by about a third.
NASA first discovered the issue in 2019 and since then it's slowly grown worse.
But while they have traced it to a section of the station that was constructed by Russia, they don't know exactly where it is, so plugging it up is problematic.
Instead, they've been keeping the hatch to that section closed when it's not in use.
It leads to a docking port and if the leak grows worse and they have to seal the area off completely, they will have one less port for visiting spacecraft.
NASA says it does not expect the aging station to last much longer than the year 2030.
Geologists are excited about an unusual type of magma found in volcanoes around the world.
Magma is the extremely hot liquid and semi -liquid rock under Earth's surface.
When it flows above the surface, it's called lava.
Scientists say the magma from extinct volcanoes, which are volcanoes that aren't erupting any longer, could contain rare elements that are crucial for electric vehicles, wind turbines, and other clean energy technologies.
Those elements are important for helping the world break its dependence on planet heating fossil fuels, but they can be difficult to extract.
As demand ramps up, many countries are scrambling to find new ways to obtain them.
Still to come, a hugely expensive box office flop.
But first, we want to wish an early happy 12th birthday to one of our original super fans, Atticus Doshi -Becker of San Francisco.
Atticus, your mom and dad, tell us you are very skilled at finding joy in chaos, which has helped you enthusiastically tackle the start of middle school, right on down to navigating public transit.
They say it's been an amazing 12 years and they hope you always stay authentically you and never dull your shine, which we think is pretty good advice.
Now, today's kid news quiz, which former president turns 100 years old today.
Jimmy Carter. What event is happening between two political candidates in New York City tonight?
The vice presidential debate.
Mules are helping get aid to what town, especially hard hit by Helene?
Asheville, North Carolina.
Why are NASA scientists concerned about the International Space Station?
It is still leaking.
In today's kid news kicker, a legendary director is likely licking his wounds this morning.
Francis Ford Coppola spent the last 10 years of his life and $120 million of his own money to bring his movie, Megalopolis, to life.
You know how much it made on opening weekend?
Just $4 million. Back in May, when reporters asked about dumping that amount of his personal fortune into the project, Mr.
Coppola said, it doesn't matter.
The money doesn't matter.
What's important are friends because a friend will never let you down.
Money may evaporate.
While Megalopolis was a box office dud, the wild robot was a box office dynamo.
The family friendly flick came in first with $35 million in ticket sales.
Thanks again to the Doshi Becker family of San Francisco for sponsoring today's quiz.
Happy birthday a day early to baseball and soccer star Atticus and a shout out to his friends at Harvey Milk's Civil Rights Academy and the Owls at Everett Middle School.
And hello's to our other kid news classrooms including Mrs.
McNulty and Titan the mascot at Bryantville in Pembroke, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Parker and her awesome fourth -grade labs at Legacy in Ashburn, Virginia.
And Mrs. Neely and her Cougars at Governor Bent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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