Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, March 16th, 2020.

And in addition to our podcast today, we want parents and teachers to know that we've started a resource page on our website at

W.W. kid news.org to help all of us navigate our new normal.

It's called Keep Kids Learning and on it you'll find links to help entertain and educate

students who are home for who knows how long and that's where we begin with at

least 20 states closing or planning to close all schools which means more than a quarter of all American kids are out of the classroom.

And that's why we'd like to give you a little nudge to get those online assignments done.

Maybe, just maybe, you'll then get to take Disney

up on its early streaming release of frozen two. The company acknowledged how

challenging the days and weeks ahead will be,

then made the popular film available on Disney Plus

three months earlier than it had planned.

Fans in the US can watch it now.

Tomorrow it'll be up in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Australia.

According to the company's new boss, frozen two's powerful themes of perseverance

and the importance of family are incredibly relevant right now.

Tomorrow is Tuesday and during election season that means another round of primaries.

Not only will voters in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio get their say at the polls,

but if the momentum continues results in those states could cement the Democratic presidential

nomination for former Vice president Joe Biden.

He and fellow candidate Bernie Sanders held their first head-to-head debate last night in Washington, D.C.

It was just the two of them. Quite a difference from previous showdowns when as

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