Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Thursday, March 30th, 2023.

And we begin with opening day for Major League Baseball and for the first time since 1968,

all 30 teams will play their first games on the same day, which means hours and hours

of non-stop action, starting with the San Francisco Giants sticking on the Yankees in New

York and ending with the Guardians playing the Mariners in Seattle. Expect all eyes and

a lot of analysis to be on the regular season rollout of new rules, most notably the pitch

clock, which managed to shave 26 minutes off of spring training games. Some historic excitement

on opening day, 1974, when the Braves Hank Aaron hit his 714th homer to tie Babe Ruth.

1940, when Cleveland's Bob Feller tossed the first and still only Major League opening

day no hitter. And the biggest of them all, 1947 at Ebbetsfield when Jackie Robinson became

the first black player in the majors when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

She's 16 years old and making a big time splash in competitive swimming. Canada's summer

Macintosh broke the world record in the women's 400 meter freestyle Tuesday night by a mere

three tenths of a second. Macintosh finished the course in three minutes and 56.08 seconds,

which was three full seconds faster than her previous personal best. Reflecting on the

unexpected win, the teenager said, this just blows my mind. Up next, a trip to the Paris

Olympics where she'll likely face off with two other Titans of the 400 meter race, reigning

Olympic champion Australia's Ariana Tipness and defending world champion American Katie LaDeckey.

One restaurant chain doesn't want its customers leaving hungry, even if they come in empty-handed.

Panera bread has become the first in the U.S. to use Amazon's palm recognition technology,

making paying for a meal as easy as giving a high five. The company is slowly rolling out the

biometric technology, which is already used in some airports, stadiums and Whole Foods markets.

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