Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Tori. Today is Thursday, September 29th, 2022.

And we begin with Aaron Judge snapping his recent home run drought to tie an American

league milestone that went untouched for 60 years. The Yankee slugger launched number

61 last night in Toronto, leveling him up with a single season record set six decades

ago by another Yankee great Roger Maris.

Among those on hand to witness history, Roger Maris Jr. and Aaron's mom. Now the only

players with more home runs in a season are Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa,

all of whom hit theirs during baseball steroid era. According to ESPN, judges race to the

top has been done with no evidence of performance enhancing drugs, which manager Aaron Boone says

should put Mr. Judge's achievement a notch above all the others.

Florida is picking up after Ian. The hurricane may landfall late yesterday on the golf

side near Fort Myers as a potentially catastrophic category for storm with winds of at least 150

miles an hour. A million people lost power and some towns are reporting historic flooding

from the rain and a water surge that experts feared could reach 18 feet.

Overnight Ian marched its mess across the center of the state all the way to the Atlantic

side, which is home to Cape Canaveral. Earlier in the week, NASA brought its massive Artemis

moon rocket back indoors to ride out the weather and said yesterday that a launch any time

before Halloween is considered unlikely. A crazy looking critter that's typical in Texas

is raising eyebrows in Illinois. Armadillos may be as common as 10 gallon hats in the

lone star state, but not so much a thousand miles away in the land of Lincoln. We're

according to the Wall Street Journal, they're showing up in droves and no one really knows

why or even how. They've got stubby little legs in a heavy shell and yet they've seemingly

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