Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Wednesday October 2nd, 2019.

And we begin with a wrong turn and an accidental win.

A nine-year-old from Minnesota who had no intention of running a 10-K

ended up winning it anyway. Kate Lavelle signed up for the shorter 5K but both races

follow a similar route.

When he got to a fork in the road, a woman told him to go one way, which turned out to be the

wrong way.

He didn't notice the mistake until he saw a sign for the 10K and that's when panic set in because he knew

his mom was waiting for him at a different finish line and was probably

freaking out. He was right. Heather Lavelle was already in meltdown mode, driving the route and recruiting

firemen to help find her son. Then she got word that a young boy was running the 10K and doing

quote, really, really really well so well he finished a full minute ahead

of the second place finisher a 40 year old man. Kate says he loves to run and picked up

cross country when he was only six. Now he says he'll be

training for the junior Olympics in Wisconsin. A chunk of ice equal to the size of

Los Angeles just broke off Antarctica and this time scientists

say it had nothing to do with climate change. They've been expecting the split for

years and call it part of the Amory icelf's normal calving or separation cycle.

Now though they have to keep an eye on it.

The brand new iceberg is 600 square miles big, 689 feet thick, weighs upwards of

315 billion tons and is now floating around the ocean where it could cause trouble for unsuspecting ships.

Also being watched, a part of the same ice shelf but a little east. It's called the

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