Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Wednesday, November 13th, 2019.

And we begin with the nation's political movers and shakers fixated on the House of Representatives this morning, their witnesses in the impeachment inquiry

of President Trump will be grilled in public for the first time.

All the television networks are expected to cover the proceedings and each will provide its own

instant spin on the testimony.

And even though Democrats and Republicans are at odds heading into today's hearings, they do have

one thing in common. Both hope it will sway public

opinion in their direction. A new poll however suggests that's unlikely.

According to CBS, of the Americans who are following the story about President Trump's

conversation with a foreign leader, three quarters say their mind is already made up.

The nation's oldest living president is on the mend again.

95 year old Jimmy Carter had brain surgery yesterday to relieve pressure caused by bleeding from a series of recent falls.

The procedure took about an hour and reportedly... bleeding from a series of recent falls.

The procedure took about an hour and reportedly went well.

Doctors at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta

say he'll stay as long as needed for observation,

but they'll have no further comment until he's released.

Mr Carter's 92-year-old wife Rosalind is by his side.

In business news, those hoping to download the much hyped Disney Plus streaming app got

Wreck-It-Ralf instead. And we're not talking about the movie. Almost as soon as the service launched

yesterday, it crashed, reportedly because so many people were trying to access it at the same time.

Thousands of would-be customers took to social media to vent their frustrations.

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