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Good morning and welcome to Kid News.
I'm Kim.
Today is Monday, October 13th, 2025, Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day in the U.S.
What you call it and how you celebrate depends on where you live.
And we begin with emotions running high and freedom reportedly at hand for the remaining Israeli hostages.
Hamas was expected to begin the transfer either last night or early this morning, with Israel releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in return.
It's hoped the exchange will mark the beginning of the end of that devastating two-year war.
On hand President Trump, who arrived overnight and is due to attend a ceremonial signing of the peace agreement between the two sides, deliver an address to the Israeli parliament and and travel to Egypt to meet with 20 other world leaders to map out the future of Gaza.
The wind is up and the rain is coming down, and forecasters are urging residents along the mid-Atlantic states not to take the ongoing nor'easter lightly.
Downpours and 60 mile an hour gusts could last through today and beach erosion is almost a given.
Trouble is expected all along the Atlantic coast, but New Jersey is expected to take the brunt of it, with potential power outages, road closures and airport delays.
This kind of storm gets its name from the direction of the wind.
It's coming in from the northeast.
But usually, nor'easters arrive later in the season and bring with them a boatload of snow.
This time around, because it's still so warm, only rain is in the forecast.
From Texas comes a heart-stopping video a hero sister and a TikTok challenge that nearly went terribly wrong.
If you're on social, you've seen people popping warheads candy to see how long they can avoid making that telltale sour face.
But 10-year-old Leah James and her younger brother decided to take it up a notch by eating warheads while jumping on a trampoline.
After a bounce or two, Logan's got stuck and he started to choke.
As seen in the now viral video, Leah didn't miss a beat.
She smacked him on the back and, when that didn't work, grabbed him from behind and successfully gave him the Heimlich.
Their mom and even the town's police chief credit Leah with saving Logan's life.
The chief is extra proud because Leah learned the maneuver at a babysitter's club hosted by his department.
Starship hopes to make it two in a row.
This evening a window opens up at 715 pm for another launch of SpaceX's massive reusable someday-to-the-moon-and-Mars rocket.
The company had a successful blast-off in flight this past August, but before that suffered a string of high-flying failures.
NASA plans to use Starship for its Artemis II mission, which the agency says will launch no later than April of 2026.
And take four astronauts on a 10-day trip circumnavigating but not landing on the moon.
The largest great white male ever tagged by the research group OCEARCH is going a bit off the grid.
Contender, a beast measuring 13 feet 9 inches, just surfaced northeast of Anacostia Island in Canada, which is one of the furthest pings north shark scientists have had.
They suspect he's plumping up on seals.
Contender was last recorded along the Cape Cod coast two months ago and before that near the Florida-Georgia border in January, for a total of 31199 miles in 266 days.
If you'd like to follow where he heads next, download OSearch's free Shark Tracker app from the Apple Store or Google Play.
In sports news, the Road to the World Series is a lot less crowded this morning.
Only four teams remain standing.
Fighting for the American League crown are the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays.
And in the National League, it's the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
And over in the WNBA, it was a sweep.
The Las Vegas Aces won their third title in four years with Friday's win over the Phoenix Mercury.
Still to come, a 100-pound dog named Eeyore saves the day in Florida.
But first, today's Kid News quiz.
What momentous event is supposed to be underway in the Middle East?
The release of Israeli hostages by Hamas.
The winds of a nor'easter come from what direction?
The Northeast, hence the name.
How did a Texas 10-year-old save her little brother?
With the Heimlich maneuver when he was choking.
How big is contender the great white?
13 feet 9 inches, making him the biggest great white male ever tagged by O-Search.
In today's Kid News Kicker, his name is Eeyore, but he's no donkey, he's a dog.
And a hero dog at that.
The 100-pound pooch led an officer straight to his 86-year-old human who had fallen and destined Florida while walking him in the dark.
The woman's worried husband called 911 when she hadn't returned.
And the responding deputy saw the dog on the side of a nearby road, dragging his leash.
She told Eeyore, take me to your mom, and he did.
The victim was in disbelief.
He wouldn't leave.
He kept coming back to me.
I'm not even his owner.
I'm his grandmother.
Grandma has since been treated and released, and Eeyore is enjoying well-deserved hero status on social media.
It's shout-out time for our terrific teachers, Mrs Martinez and her Grizzlies at Gravenstein in Sebastopol, California.
Mrs. George at Heritage High School in Conyers, Georgia.
Mrs. Foster's Fifth Grade Bulldogs at Belmont in Shawnee, Kansas.
And Mrs. Amthor and her Wildcats at Onstead in Onstead, Michigan.
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