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KidNuz: News for Kids

08.08.2018

KidNuz: News for Kids

Starglow Media

Kids & Family, Education, News

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Mega Fire, Pink is Blue, an NFL First, Foxy Facebook and some Geriatric Metal Heads!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim.

0:03.0

Today is Wednesday, August 8, 2018.

0:07.0

And we begin with a wildfire in Northern California

0:10.0

taking just 10 days to burn its way to an unfortunate new record.

0:15.0

The Mendocino Complex Fire, which started as two fires before merging into one massive blaze,

0:21.0

is now the biggest wildfire in state history.

0:25.0

Its total size is bigger than New York City,

0:28.0

twice the size of Chicago, and almost as big as Los Angeles.

0:32.0

Firefighters think it'll take another week to get and almost as big as Los Angeles.

0:32.6

Firefighters think it'll take another week to get a handle on it.

0:37.0

Singer Pink took a lot of heat when she canceled a concert in Australia,

0:41.2

only to be photographed the same day relaxing on a beach.

0:45.0

Apparently the picture didn't tell the whole story.

0:47.7

The singer had an infection and was told by doctors to lay low, so she did, but it didn't work.

0:53.0

She's now been hospitalized with a stomach virus,

0:56.0

and a third show had to be called off.

0:58.0

The concerts will be rescheduled when pink no longer feels blue.

1:04.0

Flat earthers, people who believe the earth is flat, won't like this story one bit.

1:10.0

Google Maps just upgraded its system, and now when you zoom all the way out, you will see Earth as the round planet that it is.

1:18.0

The improvement will also more accurately reflect the size of countries and continents.

1:23.0

So far, this change is only available on desktops.

1:26.0

The maps you pull up on your phones will still show a flat version.

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