Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Friday, August 19, 2022, and

we begin with a baseball player introducing himself to the majors in a way that most

only dream about. 22-year-old Brett Bady in the Metz was on the second pitch of his first

ever big league at Bat Wednesday night. When he took a monstrous swing and launched

the ball 377 feet for a two-run homer. As he rounded the bases, the young man took

a moment to flash a hand signal to his proud mom, who was there to watch his debut with

his dad and sister. According to The New York Times, the timing was serendipity. Brett

was actually supposed to be on the roster the day before, but was playing triple A ball

in Syracuse when he got the call and rushed to the airport only to miss his flight and

what would have been his first game. Safe to say the frustration has forgotten, and the

weight worth it. A whale that's been in captivity for 52 years may soon be released back

into the wild. Since 1970, Lolita the Orca has lived at the Miami Sea Quarium in what

Newsweek says is the smallest Orca tank in North America. She's 56 now and also the last

surviving killer whale out of 45 that were originally captured and delivered for display

in aquariums between 1965 and 1973. Activists who've been working for years to get her out

are reportedly making headway. The Sea Quarium has a new owner who's open to the idea and a

federal agency has raised serious concerns about her current environment. If she does get relocated

to the Pacific Northwest as hoped, a happy reunion could take place. Experts believe Lolita's mom

93-year-old Orca named Ocean Sun still rums the waters off of Oregon, Washington, and British

Columbia. You can't really fix a mistake until you first admit making one. With that in mind,

the Centers for Disease Control came out late Wednesday and acknowledged that it could have

handled its pandemic response a whole lot better. The CDC's director Dr. Rochelle Walensky called

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