Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, December 17th, 2019.

And we begin with turning computer coding into child's play.

That's what seems to be happening in China where some kids are learning

coding even before they enter grade school. One example, an eight-year-old boy in Shanghai logs in

for an online coding lesson as the teacher.

Vita started learning about coding at age five from his dad who is a translator for scientific

and technology books.

The young instructor uses his tutorial channel to patiently take his students,

mostly kids older than him, and young adults, step by step through a coding app

explaining as he goes. And there seems to be a growing demand for this instruction.

Already, Vita has 60,000 followers and over a million views.

There's a new king at the box office. Final numbers confirm that the movie

Jemongi The Next Level has put frozen two on second place ice. The film

starring Duane Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Nick Jonas brought in over $60 million in the US and Canada over the weekend.

That set a new three-day record for a comedy in December.

Frozen 2 dropped a second place with just over 19 million after claiming the top box office spot

for three straight weeks.

But it did break the billion dollar mark globally this weekend. A group of Canadian fishermen said they had never seen

anything like it. The crew was off the coast of Vancouver Island last week when they heard a lot of screeching and splashing sounds.

As their boat got closer they realized they were witnessing a knock-down drag-out fight

between an octopus and a bald eagle. The men debated if they should get involved but

eventually used a pike pole to slowly peel the octopus's tentacles off the

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