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KidNuz: News for Kids

05.22.2023

KidNuz: News for Kids

Starglow Media

Kids & Family, Education, News

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Twin Heroics, G7 Scene Stealer, Space Goat, Presidential Race, Blackout for Birds and Starcruiser Closes!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, May 22nd, 2023, and we

0:07.8

begin with a 12-year-old girl saving the life of her twin brother and the whole scene caught

0:13.6

on tape. Amelia and Charlie LeVerm were in the same cafeteria, but at different tables

0:19.1

at Lester Middle School in Lester, Massachusetts a week ago when Charlie began choking on a

0:24.2

mozzarella stick. He was terrified and flailing and while most of the kids near him either froze

0:30.0

or ran away, Amelia didn't. Her twin intuition kicked in, she wrapped her arms around him from

0:35.9

behind for the Heimlich maneuver and popped that stuck cheese out. Proud dad Jason hopes the

0:41.6

story prompts other parents to teach their kids what to do in an emergency. They may tune it out,

0:47.2

he said, but clearly something registered and Amelia recalled it when she needed it. Brother

0:52.8

Charlie is grateful. He told CBS News, I would just say thank you because I'm still here.

1:00.0

Late last night, President Biden returned home from Japan and his meeting with the G7,

1:05.1

which stands for the group of seven largest economies in the world. The spotlight stealer, however,

1:10.0

was a G7 outsider. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky flew in on a plane provided by France

1:17.3

to make an in-person, impassioned plea for more help fighting back against Russia. And he got it.

1:23.6

Mr. Biden told reporters, we've got Ukraine's back and we're not going anywhere. Then pledged

1:29.6

$375 million more in aid and agreed to train Ukrainian pilots on American F-16 jets.

1:38.9

A famous American landmark is now doing nightly blackouts for birds. Most of the year,

1:44.4

the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, lights up after dark. But because the city sits beneath

1:50.1

a major bird migration highway, known as the Mississippi Flyway,

1:54.6

park officials pull the plug for two weeks every May. This year, though, the Good News Network reports

2:00.3

that the arch is going lightless for the entire month, the goal to help keep 325 bird species

2:07.5

from getting disoriented as they wing their way north during spring migration. The lights will

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