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Good morning, and welcome to KidNews.
I'm Tori. Today is Monday, May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, 2025.
And we begin with SpaceX successfully launching a brand new city.
Over the weekend, residents of the tiny southern Texas town Boca Chica, most of whom worked for SpaceX, voted to incorporate and rename their high -tech hamlet Starbase.
The final vote was 173 in favor, four against. The new city is only one and a half square miles but that includes the launchpad for SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket.
CEO Elon Musk hasn't said much about why he needed city status, but the new designation gives his company more control over the land and nearby beaches, both of which are impacted by launches.
According to SpaceX's head of legal, Sheila McCorkle, the company has lofty goals.
We need to carry on our mission of turning South Texas into the Gateway to Mars and making humankind multiplanetary.
They may have lost their school, their prize projects and even some of their own homes to the Los Angeles wildfires, but a group of Southern California fourth and fifth graders did not lose their will to robot.
The Marquez Charter School robotics team just won an engineering competition in Iowa with their Hole in One Bot, a gizmo that can dunk a tiny ball into a small basket.
To say the win didn't come easy would be an understatement.
As Charlie Liu told CNN, he remembers seeing the smoke that chased them out of town and thinking, oh no, the school, oh no, the robot.
Despite the devastation, he and his teammates decided to rebuild their bots from scratch, working three days a week every week to make up for lost time.
It paid off. Their next stop is Nationals.
There's good news and bad news from mother nature.
In Alaska, years of rising temperatures means that starting this summer, the National Weather Service will be issuing heat warnings when the temperature reaches 75 degrees.
As climate specialist Rick Tomen told USA Today, 75 degrees will probably get a chuckle in the lower 48 states, but that far north, it's no laughing matter.
Homes there don't have air conditioning, snow is melting earlier and wildfires are popping up in places they hadn't before.
The better news comes from the Atlantic Ocean where surface temperatures are two degrees cooler than this time last year.
That may not sound like much, but hurricanes thrive on warm water, and forecasters say even that small of a change can make a big difference in how many storms form and how powerful they might become.
People pay millions to have lunch with him hoping some of what he knows will rub off, and they no doubt still will.
But legendary investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett is calling it a career and retiring as the CEO of holding company Berkshire Hathaway, the 94 -year -old who's worth $196 billion, made the announcement at his annual shareholder meeting over the weekend.
Some of his best quotes is rounded up by MarketWatch, you only have to do a very few things right in your life, so long as you don't do too many wrong.
You cannot make a good deal with a bad person.
And the perfect amount to leave to your kids, he told Fortune in 1986, is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.
In today's Kid News Sports Notes, Katie Ladecki just outdid herself, literally.
On Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the nine -time Olympic gold medalist broke her own record in the women's 800 meter freestyle.
In fact, her time was more than a half second faster than nine years ago at the Olympics.
I can't stop smiling, she told People magazine.
It's been so many years in the making.
There is always a story to each world record that I set.
And it was a muddy mess, but still a very exciting two minutes.
Saturday night, sovereignty reigned at the Kentucky Derby, nosing out the odds on favorite, journalism.
The Derby is the first leg of the Triple Crown.
The Preakness is the second and will run on May 17th at Pimlico in Baltimore.
The final is the Belmont Stakes in June.
Only 13 horses have won all 3 in the same year, the last being Justify in 2018.
Still to come... A question.
Would you buy a pair of intentionally dirty sneakers?
Nike sure hopes so.
We'll explain. But first, today's kid news quiz.
What's the name of SpaceX's newly approved city in Texas?
Starbase, how much cooler is the Atlantic Ocean this year compared to last?
Two degrees, which is good news for hurricane season.
Who won the Kentucky Derby?
sovereignty what legendary CEO is retiring Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett in today's kid news kicker nothing beats a bright white set of kicks right out of the box right wrong according to Nike it's releasing a pair of sneakers that start out rocking a scuffed up lived in They're called Dot Swoosh X Nike Air Force One Low Dirty Triple White.
The concept, reverse the aging cycle.
Thanks to scratch -away panels, the shoes will actually get cleaner the more they're worn.
Joining the dirty whites will be Nike's Triple Triple Black Air Force One Low, which will get blacker with use, and together will make up a pack called Smoke & Mirrors.
The age -defying sneakers will be released Wednesday and sell for $130 a pair.
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