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Good morning and welcome to Kid News.
I'm Tori. Today is Monday, February 3rd, 2025.
And we begin with six more weeks of winter.
That's this year's forecast from the famous weather prognosticating woodchuck, Puxatawney Phil.
Yesterday, as happens every February 2nd, Phil was rousted from his burrow in Gobbler's Gnaw, Pennsylvania, to give his prediction.
If he casts no shadow, spring is right around the corner.
But if he sees it, which he did early Sunday morning, we need to keep those snow jackets and shovels handy.
Phil's forecasting dates back 132 years, and even though he's the most famous of the groundhogs, he reportedly gets it right only about 35 % of the time.
Some of his fellow forecasters have a significantly better track record.
New York's Staten Island Chuck is the most reliable and has precisely predicted the arrival of spring with 85 % accuracy, according to NOAA.
Georgia's General Beauregard Lee is right behind at 80%.
Poor Phil is not even in the top 10.
He's currently 17th most reliable.
Remember the asteroid Bennu?
NASA used the OSIRIS -REx spacecraft to chase it down, punch a hole in it, take samples and jet them back to Earth for analysis.
The whole process took years, but on Friday, researchers announced that the galactic grit scoop from Bennu's surface suggests we might be getting closer to finding ET.
Inside the four ounces of dirt, they found the building blocks of living, breathing things, specifically ammonia and 16 amino acids that cells use to make proteins.
As one of the lead scientists told the New York Times, our odds of finding life elsewhere are increasing.
It's a trade so big it nearly broke the internet.
The Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks swapped superstars Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis.
The news was so big and so unexpected that fans and fellow NBA players actually thought the reporter who first posted it, ESPN's Sham Sharania, had been hacked.
In fact, there were so many doubters that Shams had to repost the news with a message, this is real.
Some people don't learn from their mistakes, and zoo workers in China apparently fall into that category.
Hot on the heels of getting called out for painting chow chow dogs black and white to look like pandas, a facility in East China is again taking heat, this time for using orange and black dye to make its chow chows look like striped tigers.
These faux big cats are fooling no one, visitors want their money back, and the zoo is the butt of jokes online.
After denying the ruse, zoo officials fessed up but defended its actions by saying the dye job was done professionally and there was no risk to the health of the dogs.
Super Bowl ads are always super expensive and this year is no exception.
At least 10 of the 30 -second spots set to air on Sunday have sold for $8 million, up from the record $7 million set just last year.
According to the Morning Brew, this year's lineup will include more celebrities and more humor, with first -timers Ritz, Haagen -Dazs and Instacart making an appearance.
More than 123 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl last year, making it the most -watched U .S.
broadcast on record.
Throw in the Chiefs going for a three -peat and Taylor Swift there to cheer on Travis Kelsey, and the expectation is for an even bigger audience this year.
In today's Kid News Notes, this is the last week for the name Boy Scouts of America.
On Saturday, the organization will mark its 115th anniversary by officially changing its name to Scouts America.
The goal, it says, to help everyone, including boys and girls, feel welcome.
It took three and a half long weeks, but the two biggest wind -whip wildfires in Southern California are now 100 % contained.
That doesn't mean the Palisades and Eaton fires are out, but it means they probably won't get bigger.
100 % containment means firefighters have been able to set up a perimeter or border all around both of them to keep them from growing.
Still to come, fun facts about Phil and how he got so famous.
But first, today's Kid News Quiz.
The dirt retrieved from the asteroid Bennu contained what?
Ammonia and amino acids, the building blocks of life.
Which two basketball players were swapped in a super -secret blockbuster trade?
Luka Doncic, who is going to the Lakers, and Anthony Davis is headed to the Mavericks.
How much did some Super Bowl ads sell for this year?
eight million dollars for 30 seconds of air time did Pugsitani Phil see his shadow yes which means six more weeks of winter in our kid news kicker a little more on the origins of groundhog day first the star of the show is best known as a groundhog but this relative of the squirrel also goes by woodchuck,
marmot, hedgehog, land beaver, and whistle pig.
And the celebration itself dates back to German settlers in Pennsylvania who marked February 2nd as Candlemas Day.
If the sun was shining, it meant a long winter.
Adding an animal to the forecasting mix may have started as early as 1841, but it wasn't until 1886 that the Punxsutawney newspaper declared February 2nd as Groundhog Day.
The 1993 movie of the same name gave it a big boost, and now thousands of people turn out every year to break the monotony of winter with some good -natured fun.
Yesterday's festivities began with tuxedos, top hats, a cane, and three knocks on Phil's stump by his handler, Tom Dunkel, the only person who knows how to speak Groundhog.
Once out, Phil conferred with Mr.
Dunkel, then came his forecast.
It's Groundhog Day, and maybe life is on a loop but I miss my burrow I miss my coop so I'm heading back down there's a shadow up here get ready for six more weeks of winter this year is Phil right we'll find out soon enough before we go shout outs to our terrific teachers Miss Lukowski and her TRE stars
at Thornhill Road in Pittsburgh New York Miss Werner and her wonderful Wildcats at Montclair in Omaha Nebraska Mrs.
Swigert and her Mustangs at New Bloomfield in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania And Mrs.
Gall and her chief loving Ravens at Ravenwood in Kansas City, Missouri Thanks for listening We're warming up our annual listener survey So you can let us know what you like and don't like about our daily podcast Look for it in your emails in the next few weeks Have a great day We'll see you back here
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