Good morning and welcome the kid news sponsored today by bamboo learning. I'm

Tori. Today is Thursday July 2nd 2020 and we begin with an about face on face

coverings from President Trump.

Yesterday he said he's quote all for masks, encouraged Americans to wear them

and insisted he has no problem doing so himself if he can't maintain social distance.

In fact, he thinks he resembles the Lone Ranger when he does,

and kind of likes the look.

Whether we'll get a glimpse of it this weekend, may as anyone's guess.

Tomorrow night he travels to Mount Rushmore for a holiday fireworks display that's been in the

works for over a year.

Organizers are expecting 7,500 to attend, but the governor of South Dakota says face coverings are optional.

It'll be a different story on Saturday when Mr. Trump is back in Washington, D.C.

For an Independence Day celebration, officials are calling

one of the biggest ever.

300,000 people are expected to crowd onto the National Mall, and officials are asking everyone to cover up and

socially distance advice that health experts say is critical to ending the pandemic.

How would you like to float to the edge of space beneath a balloon as big as a football stadium?

A Florida startup called Space Perspective says it's on track to deliver that dream in just a few years. A flight crew will take eight

passengers at a time and a pressurized capsule suspended from an enormous hydrogen blimp.

Each trip will last six hours during which explorers, as they'll be called,

can post to social media and contact their earthbound friends.

The company plans to conduct its first unmanned test flight out of

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