Good morning, and welcome to KidNews! I'm Tori. It's Thursday, September 30, 2021, and

we begin with a real lunchtime crunch at some school cafeterias in the US. Several districts

are facing shortages of the basics like chicken, bread, apple juice, and even plastic cutlery.

The main reason for this problem may sound familiar, supply chain issues due to a lack of

workers. Companies that make and distribute food are having a hard time finding enough

people to handle these tasks. The director of food and nutrition services at North Kansas

City Schools in Missouri told The New York Times that she is making regular trips to their

local Sam's Club or restaurant depot stores to buy up all the frozen pizzas, tater tots

and hot dogs. And while she admits that food doesn't meet federal nutritional guidelines,

they're bringing in whatever food they can, so students have something to eat.

You probably won't find this on a cafeteria menu, limited edition Pokemon Oreo cookies.

The treats were introduced earlier this month and feature various Pokemon monsters stamped

onto the chocolate wafer. But one particular cookie is in high demand. And the world of

Pokemon, the mythical monster mu is rarely seen, and likewise, coming across a mu Oreo cookie

is compared to finding a unicorn. So, of course, this is led to a frenzied search on eBay.

One person who claims to have this rare cookie is offering to sell it for as much as $10,000.

And how do they taste? Apparently, exactly like a regular Oreo.

What's happened again? Forecasters are running out of names for storms during another busy

Atlantic hurricane season. There are only two names left on the list for this year, Victor

and Wanda. And right now, four systems are being tracked out in the ocean. Last year, which

had a record 30 named storms, the World Meteorological Organization turned to the Greek alphabet

when they exhausted the regular list. But the group said the Greek letters like Zeta,

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