Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Tori. It's Tuesday August 6th, 2019 and we begin with if you felt a little warmer than normal last month, it wasn't your imagination.

It's just been confirmed that July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth.

The global average slightly exceed attempts from July 2016 by 0.07 degrees, which had been the previous record.

This is according to the Copernicus Climate Change Program, which analyzes data from around the planet.

Scientists say the new record is the result of intense

heat waves that have punished Europe this summer. We've also seen wildfires in the Arctic,

mass melting of Greenland's icy sheet, and the hottest month ever recorded in Anchorage, Alaska.

Things are definitely heating up in the trade war

between the two biggest economies in the world. Yesterday, China allowed its currency, the UN, to weaken.

That initially sounds bad, but it can make products made in China

cheaper to sell in other countries.

President Trump did not like that move and called it currency manipulation, or basically cheating.

But China said it was a necessary response to President Trump's recent threats to slap more steep

tariffs or fees on lots of Chinese products being sold in the U.S.

The bottom line is stock markets did not like this latest development and

yesterday Wall Street suffered its worst day of the year. So instead of buying stocks,

many investors are now putting their money in traditional safe havens like Treasury bonds and gold.

San Francisco Airport gets a gold star for going green.

In two weeks, SFO, as it's known, is banning all sales of water in plastic bottles as part of its goal to become the world's first zero-waste airport by 2021.

In restaurants, shops, and even vending machines, thirsty

travelers will have the option of buying airport-approved reusable glass or

aluminum water bottles. Of course passengers can still bring their own

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