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KidNuz: News for Kids

10.23.2024

KidNuz: News for Kids

Starglow Media

Kids & Family, Education, News

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Limiting the Long Goodbye, Massive Meteorite, James X2, Taking on City Hall, Winged Wetsuit & Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place! Sponsored today by ixllearning.com/kidnuz!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Wednesday October 23rd,

0:04.8

24 and we begin with an airport trying to limit the long goodbye.

0:09.0

Dunedin in New Zealand is now cracking down on how much time people can take to part ways at drop-off.

0:16.0

Max Hug Time, 3 minutes, warned signs at the terminal, with an added note that those seeking

0:21.6

fonder farewells should take their extended emotions to the airport parking lot.

0:26.0

The purpose is to prevent traffic jams.

0:28.5

Airport CEO Dan DeBono admits he's been taking Flack for the new rule but defends it.

0:34.4

Three minutes is plenty of time to pull up, say farewell to your loved ones and move on,

0:38.8

he told the Associated Press. The time limit is really a nicer way of saying you know get on with it.

0:44.5

The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago was apparently

0:51.7

tiny compared to the one that came before it.

0:54.6

Scientists say a space rock the size of four Mount Everest and having at least 50 times

0:59.7

more mass than the infamous Dino Destroyer slammed into what is now South Africa.

1:05.0

It gouged out a 300 mile long crater,

1:08.0

made the top layer of the oceans boil,

1:11.0

generated a huge tsunami, and sent dust and rocks into the atmosphere.

1:15.4

But on the positive side, the event also acted like a fertilizer bomb,

1:19.8

churning up nutrients essential for life,

1:22.4

and allowing for a new phase of evolution.

1:25.2

If it didn't happen last night, it's just a matter of time.

1:31.4

LeBron James and his son Brawny already made basketball history by playing together

1:36.2

in a pre-season game.

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