Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Friday, January 30th, 2026. And we begin with much of the East Coast battening down the hatches again. As we've been reporting this week, another big winter storm is forming off the Carolinas. Right now, it's looking like a nor'easter, which means it's taking shape along

the Atlantic coast and is projected to move to the north. If it intensifies fast enough, it could get

bomb cyclone status, which means more wind and potentially more precipitation. The million-dollar

question this morning is just how big will it get and where will it track?

For the city still digging out from Fern, the result could be just a glancing blow or a bunch more snow.

Forecasters are urging residents from South Carolina to Maine to stay alert, stock up on food, water, and medications beforehand, and avoid unnecessary travel.

Whether we're talking about snowflakes or fingerprints, no two are alike, right? Well, that

centuries-old belief may be out the window, at least for one of them. Using artificial intelligence, researchers from

Columbia University and the University at Buffalo found subtle but significant similarities across

all 10 fingers of a single person. These patterns are invisible to human examiners, no matter how

well-trained they are, but AI detected ridge patterns

across different fingers that were totally unexpected. While not ready for courtroom use,

this new technique could dramatically speed up investigations by narrowing suspect lists and linking

partial or smudged fingerprints. Beyond forensics, the findings may also force a rethink of fingerprint-based

security systems in use. It's the snub-heard round the world. Despite a resume with eight Super Bowl

championships, 302 regular season wins, and a slew of league and team records,

Bill Belichick did not get elected to the Football Hall of Fame on his first try.

He needed 40 votes from the 50-person panel of media members and other Hall of Famers,

but came up short. Players are stunned. Patrick Mahomes called it insane, and Mr. Belichick's own protege,

Tom Brady, told Seattle sportscasters that if he's not a first ballot hall of famer, there's

really no coach that should ever be a first ballot hall of famer. Some of the holdouts pointed to

SpyGate as the reason. SpyGate was a cheating incident from 2007 where Belichick

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