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KidNuz: News for Kids

10.15.2018

KidNuz: News for Kids

Starglow Media

Kids & Family, Education, News

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Celebrity Split, Nike News, Flavor Graveyard, Spacesuit for Sale and Ivy League Lawsuit!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, October 15, 2018, and we begin with Harvard University on the hot seat.

0:10.0

The Ivy League school goes on trial in Boston this morning for allegedly treating Asian American applicants unfairly.

0:17.0

How? By holding them to a higher standard of admission than others.

0:21.0

The school denies the accusation. It says race is just one factor

0:24.9

of many use to determine whether to accept or reject a high school senior. The

0:29.5

trial is expected to last three weeks and its outcome could change how all schools use

0:34.4

race in the application process. President Trump is headed to the Florida

0:40.4

panhandle this morning to survey what's being called the indescribable and unprecedented damage left by Hurricane Michael

0:46.9

The President and First Lady Malania will touch down at 1125 East Coast time at Eglin Air Force Base in the town of Destin. Rescue crews, meantime,

0:56.8

continue to search for those who decided to ride out the storm instead of

0:59.8

evacuate. Hundreds of thousands remain without power throughout the South and damage estimates. and

1:04.0

damage estimates already top 21 billion dollars.

1:10.0

Nike made headlines with Colin Capernic.

1:12.0

Now the company is making news with someone you've never heard of.

1:15.6

Justin Giegoes is a runner at the University of Oregon.

1:18.8

He's also the first athlete with cerebral palsy ever signed to a Nike contract.

1:24.3

Justin used a walker as a toddler and leg braces as a grade schooler.

1:28.3

Hours and hours of physical therapy helped his stride, as did a special shoe. Justin helped Nike develop while he was still in high school for runners with

1:36.6

challenges.

1:37.6

Now he's a pro athlete with a three-year deal.

1:40.6

Proof he says that there's no such thing as a disability.

1:46.0

H-tag that was fast.

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