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Today is Thursday, August 5th, 2021, and we begin with a Florida tween making headlines

for speaking out against her state's masking policy.

12-year-old Lila isn't happy with a recent order that prevents Florida schools from requiring

students to cover up.

The incoming seventh grader, who hopes one day to become Secretary of State, says she's

concerned about her 10-year-old brother Will and every other kid too young to get a vaccine.

In addition to pleading her case in a letter to the local school board, Lila and her brother

held posters and demonstrated outside of a recent meeting.

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