Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Monday, February 11th, 2019.

And we begin with a solid reason never to doubt the intelligence of a chimpanzee.

Over the weekend, a troop of them used the from their zoo enclosure in Ireland.

Video taken by tourists shows the animals

fashioning the latter, scaling a wall,

and at least one strolling down a path outside the pen.

But according to zookeepers,

the chimps knew they weren't supposed to be where they were, and after a few minutes of freedom, put themselves back in.

While it paints a funny picture, no one in Ireland is laughing. This is the second breakout in recent weeks.

A red panda escaped from this same zoo in January

and was found lounging in someone's garden a full mile away.

In political news, President Trump is headed to El Paso, Texas today for a re-election rally

and to again make his case for more security at the southern border.

Funding a wall there is what caused the first government shutdown and it may cause another one.

Over the weekend budget negotiations between Republicans

and Democrats stalled out. Lawmakers often haggle up until the last minute in an

effort to cut the most advantageous deal possible for their party.

But the clock is ticking.

They only have until midnight Friday night

to find some middle ground.

There's a little fiz in business news this morning.

For the first time in more than a decade, Coca-Cola is releasing two new flavors.

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