Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, September 24th, 2019.

And we begin with a couple cool skateboarding kids in the news right now.

11-year-old Sky Brown beat out 140 of Britain's best skateboarders

to win gold at the UK Championships back in April.

And this month she came in third in the World Park Championships.

Her next goal get to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Her recent wins means she has enough points to qualify and if she does she'll be the youngest

athlete to ever compete in the Olympics. However, she may face some stiff

competition from 10-year-old Maxim Abramov of St. Petersburg, Russia.

He's got some amazing moves even though he has no legs due to an accident when he was a baby,

but he practices every day with a coach and he's gained thousands of followers after a recent shout

out from skateboard legend Tony Hawk.

Britain's oldest tour company has gone belly up,

creating an end of vacation bummer

for hundreds of thousands of people.

The company, Thomas Cook, has been in business

for 178 years, but ran out of funds over the weekend.

That left about 600,000 of its customers stranded

all over the globe with no way to get back home.

The British government is stepping into help and its biggest

peacetime operation ever. It's chartering planes from as far away as Malaysia to

bring 150,000 of its citizens back to the UK.

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