Good morning, and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Wednesday, February 17, 2021.

And we begin with teens doing what teens do best, redefining cool for themselves and others.

Overused and apparently now out of favor are the laugh cry emoji, and it's funny cousin the rolling on the floor laughing emoji.

According to CNN, both are so yesterday that Gen Z is ditching them.

On TikTok, one kid told an adult, as a 15-year-old, I say you should use those emojis because we sure aren't going to.

EmojiPedia, which basically defines image icons, says it's common wisdom that the laughing crying emoji is for boomers.

Instead, hip Gen Zers are using skeleton faces to mean so funny I'm dying, and the old tried and true LOL.

But emojis aren't the only things on teens suddenly not cool list. Also now reportedly out skinny jeans and side parts.

The polar vortex is overstaying it's welcome. According to CNN, as many as 240 record lows were expected to fall overnight.

From the Canadian border to Texas, the mercury is shivering at or near all time lows, like recent readings of 30 below in Hastings, Nebraska, and minus 20 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

All the bad weather could easily have upended the vaccination plans of one grandma, but she wasn't having it.

90-year-old Fran Goldman of Seattle said she'd been calling to get an appointment anywhere, every morning, every afternoon, and online at night.

So when she woke to six inches of Seattle snow on her long-awaited shot day, no way was she missing it.

Grandma Fran layered up and walked herself six miles round trip and only arrived five minutes late.

Marty Grah may be down due to the pandemic, but don't count it out. New Orleans residents are bringing the annual parade to their porches in a hopeful new tradition called Yardi Grah.

It started out as a joke on Twitter when Megan Boudreau said the cancellation of all the marching and pageantry meant she'd have to decorate her house like a float.

Her idea was a smash hit, and now about 3,000 homes are decked out in decor and part of a wildly popular stationary celebration.

Some homeowners even helped the community by hiring unemployed artists and renting props from float businesses.

There is also now a map of all the decorated homes so those interested can check them out on a leisurely and safely distance stroll through the city.

The world's first flying car is now cleared for takeoff. The FAA just gave the Terafugia the green light to travel 100 miles an hour at 10,000 feet.

Right now, the OK only applies to air travel. It will be another year or so before it meets road safety standards and is considered street legal.

When it is, driver's deck and traffic will be able to convert to flying in less than a minute.

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