Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Thursday, January 16, 2020.

And we begin with a somber political ceremony ushering in the start of only the third presidential impeachment trial in US history.

At 9 a.m. Eastern this morning, the seven House representatives chosen to present the case against

Mr. Trump will physically walk the two articles into the Senate and read the charges out loud.

All 100 lawmakers will then be sworn in to serve as the jury,

and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will take the oath as judge.

The trial itself will begin next Tuesday and last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks,

but when all is said and done, it is highly unlikely that President Trump will be removed

from office. Doing so would require a two-thirds vote, and many Senate Republicans have

already said they do not believe the president's actions

on a phone call with the president of Ukraine rose to that level.

If you like snakes, really, really big snakes head to Florida.

The state is in the middle of its annual 10-day Python wrangling contest.

Hundreds of people, some pros and some first-timers, have signed up to help rid the everglades of a reptile that just

doesn't belong there.

The problem started in the 1980s when pet stores imported baby pythons from Southeast Asia. People bought them when they were little and cute,

then dumped them when the snakes grew, in some cases to 20 feet long and 200 pounds each.

Now there are hundreds of thousands of the massive reptiles

slithering around South Florida. Conservationists say if nothing is done the

pythons will overrun the state's native plant and animal life.

Smoke from the bush fires burning in Australia will circle the planet at least once.

According to meteorologists, fire-induced thunderstorms allowed the soot and ash to reach the Earth's stratosphere 10 miles up.

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