Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Wednesday, August 26, 2020 and we begin with a famous slogan getting shelved.

KFC has apparently decided that given a coronavirus,

finger-licking good comes across as tone-deaf and maybe kind of gross.

The Fried Chicken franchise revealed its new look through a cheeky YouTube video with the phrase pixel-in. The for now and while this change seems like a smart and sensitive push for better hygiene in the age of COVID

it's also pretty good marketing. Many on social media have pointed out that we all eat with our own hands anyway. The slogan will return, KFC says, when the time is right.

The Crimson Tide is getting crushed by the coronavirus. Less than a week into in-person classes.

The University of Alabama is reporting 566 new cases, and that's on top of the 310 students

who had tested positive even before the first day of school.

The university has now issued a two-week ban on all student events outside of the classroom.

Roll Tide Nation would be well advised to toe the line unless it wants to get sent home or end up like

Tik-Toc Star Bryce Hall when the 21-year-old social media

celebrities flouted an LA ban on public gatherings with a mask-free

rager the city got creative and cut his lights and water right in the

middle of the fun. His downfall, uploading videos of the illegal party for his 12 million

followers, including, apparently, Mayor Eric Garcetti, who basically said, you've been

warned plenty. The party is over.

Marco may have petered out but Laura is picking up steam.

The second significant storm of the week is now expected to hit somewhere between Texas and Louisiana as a category 3,

with winds topping out at 115 miles an hour and a dangerous storm surge of 11 feet, arrival time, late today or early tomorrow.

Many people in Laura's Path are still drying out from Marco, which brought heavy rains,

even though it only spent a day as a hurricane

before fizzling out. Laura is bigger and stronger and so far is being categorized

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