Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Friday, November 16th, 2018.

And we begin with one of the busiest travel days of the year, the Friday before Thanksgiving, complicated by an early calling card from Old Man

Winter.

Up to six inches of snow fell across New England last night, while much of the eastern

seaboard struggled yesterday with freezing rain or flooding,

88 million Americans kicked off their holiday plans under some kind of weather watch or warning,

and hundreds of flights have been either delayed or cancelled altogether.

California on the other hand hasn't seen measurable rain since last May,

but that may change next week. It won't be much, maybe about an inch, but

firefighters battling wildfires up and down the state will take what they can as soon as they

can. In the past 30 days they've been on the lines of more than 500

separate fires from the border with Mexico to the Oregon State line.

London Bridge is not falling down but in the nearby Parliament building

Britain's government is in turmoil. Two cabinet ministers quit yesterday

because they didn't like the newly released draft on Britain's withdrawal

from the European Union next year, commonly known as Brexit. Prime Minister Theresa

May not only faces a threat to her plans for the departure from the EU, but also for her own leadership of the country.

The British currency, known as the pound, plummeted on the news.

If you really like science, you'll want to sit down for this one.

Le Grand K, as it's known, is a hunk of metal weighing exactly one kilogram that sits beneath a glass dome underground in France.

It is the one weight that rules them all, the weight against which all other weights are calibrated for every industry from aerospace to medicine to bakeries.

Trouble is that piece of metal has mysteriously lost 50 micrograms about the weight of a single

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