Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Tori. Today is Friday, February 24th, 2023.

And we begin with a pair of high school twin sisters raising the bar when it comes to

sibling rivalry. Gloria and Victoria are the top two students at West Hamstead Secondary

School in New York, earning the titles of class valedictorian and salutatorian. According

to their school, the high achieving sisters have never received a grade below 100 on

their transcripts, all while taking the most challenging courses. And when they're not

studying, both girls are also stars on their track team. What's their secret to success?

A healthy case of sisterly competition, which they say motivates them to excel while also

supporting each other. Post-graduation the twins both plan to study computer science

at Yale University.

Sunny Southern California isn't immune from the wicked weather blasting its way across

much of the nation. The National Weather Service says the mountains around Los Angeles are

in the crosshairs of a rare winter blizzard and could see up to seven feet of snow and

wind gusts to 75 miles an hour through tomorrow. Local officials had to dig deep into the record

books for the last time that kind of weather warning went out. They found it way back in 1989.

In the northern part of the state have their own peculiar forecast to contend with,

they might see and hear thunder snow, a rare weather event where a snowstorm is accompanied by thunder

and lightning. Astronomers have made a mind-blowing discovery. Using the James Webb Space Telescope,

scientists have identified six enormous galaxies that existed just 500 million to 700 million years

after the Big Bang, completely flipping our current understanding of how galaxies are formed.

Scientists used to think that galaxies began as small clouds of stars and dust that grew over time,

but these galaxies are far more massive for the time period than anyone thought possible.

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