Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025. And we begin with a

historically busy few days on the roads and in the skies. In fact, it may have been the busiest

Labor Day travel weekend ever. If you were on a plane, we don't have to tell you that you didn't

have much elbow room.

Airlines say their flights flew nearly 100% full,

and the TSA expects that when all the numbers are in,

they'll have screened more than 17.4 million passengers nationwide,

which would be a new holiday high.

The roads were equally crowded,

with AAA estimating more than 72 million travelers

behind the wheel. The top destinations, Orlando, New York, Seattle, San Diego, and National Parks.

AI may have met its match at the drive-thru. Taco Bell is pulling the plug on its experiment after some

pretty big errors. One viral video shows a customer frustrated when he ordered a Mountain Dew

only to be repeatedly asked, what will you have to drink with that? Other customers have

successfully pranked the system, one when he ordered 18,000 cups of water, and another who

asked for McDonald's food, and the AI went along with it and even suggested McDonald's

menu items. Taco Bell's chief technology officer admitted to the Wall Street Journal that

while there is a place for artificial intelligence at Taco Bell, perhaps the drive-thru just isn't it.

It was a rough debut for the nephew of football greats, Peyton, and Eli Manning.

Arch Manning's much-anticipated first game as the Texas Longhorn's starting quarterback

was basically a bust. He finished 17 of 30 for 170 yards with

one touchdown and one interception in a loss to defending national champions, Ohio State. After the game,

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