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I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 and we begin with the National Weather Service issuing another rare PDS or particularly dangerous situation red flag alert for high winds in Los Angeles today.
This is the exact same kind of critical warning it sent out last week and the hours before the firestorm broke out.
Even so, many kids are back in class this morning, though not all students have their school to return to.
According to CBS News, at least a dozen grammar, middle and high schools have burned, leaving nearly 6 ,000 kids in limbo.
The Four Fires have now raced across 62 square miles, which is bigger than all of San Francisco, and so far there is no end in sight.
Yet, amid the sadness, there are also rays of hope.
Oreo, a dog that ran away from the flames and his home in Pacific Palisades last week, turned up safe five days later, sitting in the rubble of a neighbor's home.
It's expected to be a dramatic week on Capitol Hill.
Today in the U .S. Senate, confirmation hearings begin for the men and women chosen by President -elect Trump to form his Cabinet.
That's the group of people he'll turn to for advice during his term.
According to NBC News, his choices run the gamut.
Some are expected to enjoy smooth sailing to confirmation, like Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, while others may face quite a grilling, like Pete Hegseth, a military veteran for Defense Secretary.
Jeff Bezos was quite literally iced out of his latest attempt to catch up to Elon Musk in the billionaire space race.
Sources say technical issues, namely ice clogging one of the fuel tank's vent lines, forced mission control at Cape Canaveral to scrub the inaugural lift -off for his New Glenn rocket in the last minutes of the countdown early yesterday morning.
As of this recording, it has not been rescheduled.
Musk and his SpaceX Starship team are still targeting tomorrow afternoon Texas time for their seventh launch.
It'll feature a first -of -its -kind mid -air deployment of mock satellites, and another attempt at catching the reusable booster with giant mechanical chopsticks.
While he had to cancel a planned trip to Rome to stay home and monitor the fires, President Biden was able to bestow a special Presidential Medal of Freedom on Pope Francis by telephone.
The nation's highest civilian award was bestowed on the 88 -year -old Pontiff, with distinction, which makes it an even higher honor than the regular Medal of Freedom.
This is the only medal that President Biden has awarded with distinction during his presidency.
The White House praised Pope Francis, describing him as Back in 2021, scientists in Morocco thought they'd discovered bones of a new kind of prehistoric sea creature called a mosasaur.
Now they're not so sure.
A number of inconsistencies have come up that signal it may be a fake.
For example, two of the teeth are set in one tooth socket, which has never been seen in a mosasaur before.
Researchers now want computer scans of the creature's roughly 70 million -year -old jaw to examine it in more detail.
If this is a hoax, it wouldn't be the first time.
The most famous prehistoric forgery is Piltdown Man, a skull unearthed in England in 1912 that was claimed to be the missing link between early apes and humans.
Piltdown Man was later found to be just a human skull combined with orangutan teeth and jaw that had been altered with a file to appear different, but scientists didn't uncover the ruse until 1953, 41 years later.
In other Kid News notes, they are not going anywhere.
Basketball's Philadelphia 76ers have decided in a last -minute move to stay at their current address at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia.
There had been plans for several years to build the team a new downtown stadium, but although the deal was supported by the mayor, it faced fierce and successful opposition from residents who worried the new location would bring too much traffic to the heart of the city.
Still to come, most kids enjoy board games, but one youngster has taken it to a whole new level.
Now, today's Kid News Quiz.
How many schools have burned in the L .A.
fire zone? At least 12.
What begins this week on Capitol Hill?
Confirmation hearings for the president -elect's new cabinet Who received a special presidential medal of freedom by telephone?
Pope Francis Why are scientists concerned with a fossil of a prehistoric sea creature they discovered four years ago?
They think it may be a fake.
In today's Kid News Kicker, we all like to play games, and some of us are very good at our favorites, but there's one kid who's taken it to an undreamed -of level.
Roman Shagiev is a Russian -born chess prodigy who's just reached what's called an international master norm at the age of nine, making him the youngest ever to qualify for that title.
He has a chess rating of 2 ,452, and if you don't know what that means, let's just say he could beat almost everyone on the planet pretty easily.
Roman has to maintain his high performance for two more official tournaments to become a full -fledged international master, which is just one step below Grandmaster, the highest title a chess player can achieve.
Time now for shout -outs to our fabulous Kid News teachers, including Ms.
Garcia and her Mighty Jaguars at North Loop International in El Paso, Texas.
Mrs. Davison and her Racing Greyhounds at Ocean Springs Upper in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and Mrs.
Pyle and her Wolves at Perry Middle School in Worthington, Ohio.
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