Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. It's Friday, May 21st, 2021 and we begin

with the Summer Olympics supposed to start 9 weeks from today on July 23rd. But right

now there are a lot of questions about whether the games will go on. Yesterday, a top medical

organization joined the calls to cancel, saying hospitals in Japan are already overwhelmed

as the host country battles a spike in coronavirus infections. Athletes, coaches and citizens are

also expressing concern. Not helping matters? The vaccination rollout has been sluggish in

Japan. Currently, only 4% of the population has gotten their full dose of shots. Still,

Olympic officials express confidence the games will be held with strict rules in place

to keep everyone safe. It was only a matter of time, a world-famous natural rock formation

called Darwin's Arch has collapsed off the coast of the Galapagos Islands. Officials

in Ecuador, 600 miles to the east, posted the news on Twitter a few days ago and blamed

natural erosion as the cause. A tourist boat in the area witnessed the event as the top

part crumbled into the water, leaving only two pillars standing. The arch and a nearby island

are named after Charles Darwin, the British scientist who developed his theory on evolution

and natural selection while visiting the area back in 1835.

Fly anywhere in the world in 4 hours. Sounds too good to be true, but that's the long-term

goal of a sleek new jet company. Boom Supersonic says, unlike the old Concord jets that were

super expensive, it's coming up with a way to make traveling faster than the speed of

sound affordable and without harming the environment. The plan is to build a carbon neutral plane

that sucks carbon out of the atmosphere, liquefies it in a jet fuel, and then uses that

to fly the plane. CEO Blake Scholl told CNN, either we fail or change the world. And

if they do succeed, the aerodynamic airplane could be slicing through the skies at Mach

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