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Good morning and welcome to Kid News.
I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, March 18th, 2025.
And we begin with NASA changing the long overdue homecoming for those two stranded astronauts again.
But this time the move is in their favor.
If all goes well, Butch Wilmore and SUNY WILLIAMS will be saying their Space Station farewells later today instead of tomorrow and are expected to splash down off the coast of Florida just before 6 o 'clock tonight.
They've been in orbit for nine months, even though their mission was only supposed to last eight days because their ride home ran into technical trouble.
On another space note, the private lunar lander Blue Ghost has become a ghost. As expected, the craft went quiet after two weeks on the moon, but in that short time gathered mountains of data that will help NASA eventually send astronauts back to the lunar surface.
The ghost's end came when the Moon entered its nighttime phase and its solar panels could no longer charge.
The company's CEO texted, Mission is completed.
The monster storm that pummeled the country from west to east is now over, but the cleanup and recovery are just beginning.
At least 80 tornadoes were reported in the Midwest and south, health, with two EF4 twisters with winds between 170 and 190 miles per hour tarry through Arkansas on Friday.
According to the National Weather Service, it was the first time in more than 25 years the state experienced more than one EF4 in a single day.
The devastation is widespread and people are coming together as they so often do in times of tragedy to pick up the pieces and help one another.
Some say they've never seen storms like this in all their lives.
And while it's still early, some forecasters see another round of bad weather for the same hard hit area moving in over the weekend.
An amazing result on only his second try.
Matt Richmond made history Sunday by becoming the first American to win the Los Angeles Marathon since 1994.
On top of that, he says this was only the second marathon he's ever run in his life.
The Montana State grad had an impressive time of two hours, seven minutes, and 56 seconds.
26 ,000 runners took part in LA's 26 .2 -mile challenge.
The route passed through iconic areas of Los Angeles, such as Dodger Stadium, downtown Los Angeles, Echo Park, and Hollywood, with a finish line on Santa Monica Boulevard. If some Japanese scientists are right, humans may soon be able to regrow teeth.
Researchers in Osaka say their innovative approach is based on years of research into a protein that prevents tooth growth.
By blocking that protein, they believe they can get tooth buds in the gums to grow into fully formed chompers.
They're now doing early trials on adult humans who have lost teeth after tests on animals showed promising results.
If these trials are successful, the next phase will focus on children aged 2 to 7.
The researchers hope to have a tooth regrowing medicine available by as soon as 2030.
Some stories are just hard to explain to anyone.
A man going through security at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey was found to be hiding a live turtle in his pants.
The shelled stowaway was first detected by a body scanner, then confirmed during a TSA pat -down when the Pennsylvania man pulled out a small turtle about 5 inches long, wrapped in a small, blue towel.
The man was escorted for further questioning and wound up missing his flight.
No word on exactly why the man was carrying the tiny animal in his pants.
Still to come? California could get a new state mascot, even though he may not even exist. Now, today's Kid News Quiz.
When are astronauts Butch Wilmore and Susie Williams scheduled a splashdown tonight after nine months in space?
Just before 6 PM Eastern.
How many EF -4 tornadoes touched down in Arkansas on Friday?
Two. The first time multiple twisters of that intensity hit on the same day in more than 25 years.
Japanese scientists are excited about the possibility of regrowing what?
Human teeth. How many marathons had American Matt Richman run before winning in LA on Sunday?
Just one. In today's KidNews kicker, few people have seen him and he may not even exist. Every time someone snaps a photo, it comes out blurry.
Nevertheless, California's state legislature wants to make Bigfoot the state's official cryptid or mythical creature.
The legislation would designate the giant hairy creature as an official mascot of the Golden State.
There have been 463 official sightings of Bigfoot in California, according to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
The most famous occurred in 1967, when a man named Roger Patterson made a shaky 30 second film of a large creature walking along a dry creek bed.
Whether the footage is real or fake remains up for debate, but most scientists are skeptical.
It's shout out time for our Kid News teachers, including Miss Clifton and her Trojans at Maroa Forsythe School in Forsythe, Illinois, Miss Grace and Miss Lipham, who say go roadrunners at Robia School in Midlothian, Virginia, and Mrs. Sudney and the Lincoln lightning at the Lincoln School in Warren, Michigan.
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