Good morning, and welcome to Kid News! I'm Tori, today's Monday, March 27th, 2023.

And we begin with a pretty cool cosmic event that's even caught the attention of astronaut

Buzz Aldrin. Starting at twilight tonight and lasting all week, a parade of five planets

will be visible in an arc stretching from the western horizon up and over the moon. Jupiter

and Mercury will be at the bottom, Mars and Venus will be in the middle, and the unfortunately

named Uranus will appear as a greenish star at the top. According to CBS News, Uranus

will be the toughest to spot and may require binoculars, but it's a rare chance to add

it to your planet-spotting collection. Buzz won't miss it, and tweeted a reminder for

other space fans to catch the celestial show before it's gone. The best viewing, according

to astronomers, will be tomorrow night for 20 to 30 minutes after sunset.

Today residents of the southeastern U.S. are doing what they can to clean up their

neighborhoods following a devastating weekend of weather. Mississippi took the brunt of at

least 10 tornadoes with meteorologists raiding the one that flattened the town of Rolling

Fork, an extremely rare EF4 with winds of 170 miles an hour. Twisters also hit Alabama

and Tennessee before moving on to Georgia, where wind damage to the wild animal safari

park led to the short-lived escape of two tigers, both are now safe and back in their enclosure.

When it comes to kids, the gloves are now off between Utah and social media companies.

The state just became the first in the nation to set a curfew on scrolling. Effective

next March, anyone under 18 will be barred from the likes of TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram

between 10.30pm and 6.30am. The new law also requires permission from parents to create

an account, block social media companies from using addictive features, and makes it easier

for families to sue if they think their kids were harmed by the content. After signing

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