Good morning and welcome to Kidnews. I'm Tori. Today is Wednesday, May 11th, 2022, and

we begin with a massive, great white shark raising eyebrows on the East Coast. Ironbound

is more than 12 feet long and tips the scales at a thousand pounds. Researchers from Osearch

tagged him in 2019 and keep tabs on his whereabouts to learn more about how, when, and why he and

his great white friends cruise up and down the Atlantic. And just the past two and a half

years, this big fish has reportedly traveled more than 13,000 miles from Nova Scotia to the

Florida Keys and back again, multiple times. He spent some time at the Jersey Shore in

late April, but his latest ping just yesterday came from the Carolinas. And while Ironbound

is enormous, he's far from the largest great white ever recorded. According to National

Geographic, the biggest was 20 feet long and weighed about 5,000 pounds. Back on land,

pump prices are taking a shark-sized bite out of your parents' wallets. Nationwide, the

average cost of a gallon of gas is now an all-time high of $4.37. In California's Bay Area,

it's a jaw-dropping 603. Those numbers aren't lost on President Biden, who yesterday

said he could taste the frustration of Americans tired of high prices at the pump and just

about everywhere else. Politicians are already looking ahead to midterm elections in November,

knowing that the state of the economy could play a key role in bringing voters to the polls.

High pump prices are also fueling sales of the hottest new trend on two wheels. Electric

bikes aren't cheap, but one charge only costs about a quarter and will take a rider 75 miles.

Are they a fad? Maybe, but there's some evidence of staying power. Last year, even before

gas prices went up, more e-bikes were sold than electric cars. According to estimates,

Americans bought 608,000 electric cars and trucks in 2021, and during that same year,

purchased more than 880,000 electric bikes. That's almost double the number sold in 2020.

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