Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, August 17th, 2020.

And we begin with a spooky way to beat the boredom of social distancing.

Because of COVID, a company in Tokyo, Japan

has created what it calls the world's first drive-thru haunted house.

Visitors pull in, the garage door goes down,

and the ghosts and ghouls show up.

For the next 17 minutes, adventurous souls find out what it would be like to be stuck in a car

during a zombie attack.

The creepy actors press up against, crawl on, and even rock your

ride. Left behind once they slither away, a mess of fake blood, zombie prints, and possibly germs.

The car gets wiped clean before exiting,

but as the fine print states,

there's no guarantee they'll get off all of the red food coloring and corn syrup.

Not too concerned.

Opt for extra gore for an additional $9.

It's time to get the parties started. Today Democrats kick off their four-day

virtual convention to shore up support for the Biden Harris presidential ticket.

The atmosphere won't be nearly as festive as in years past.

Instead of balloon drops and booming speeches to big sign-waving crowds,

headliners will have to hype their candidates from a distance.

Republicans share the same challenge. Their scale... their scale back

back convention opens next Monday with many of the speeches taking place

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