Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, February 10th, 2020.

And we begin with one state trying to put the brakes on a sweaty middle school ritual.

If California gets its way, no longer will kids in grades 5, 7, and 9

be tested on how well they do push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, and the mile run.

Parents will remember it as the presidential physical fitness test.

It has a different name now, but the premise hasn't changed.

Find out how healthy kids are at different stages.

Governor Newsom reportedly thinks the testing leads to bullying and body shaming

and wants to pause the program for the next three years.

Perhaps it will be changed or dumped altogether.

One thing that isn't going anywhere,

Fiz Ed.

Those classes will remain a requirement for graduation.

A British Airways flight just set a new New York to London speed

record and for that it can thank Mother Nature. The Boeing 747 reached speeds of

825 miles per hour as it rode the powerful winds associated with

Storm Kira, which moved in on Europe over the weekend.

The plane touched down at Heathrow Airport after just four hours and 56 minutes in the air,

almost two hours less than it normally takes.

The new record still needs to be verified, but if it holds up, it will be the fastest ever subsonic flight, meaning below the speed of sound between the two cities.

Now, the speed of sound is actually 768 miles per hour and although this flight was faster

aviation experts say the plane did not break the Sonic barrier because it was

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