Plus, cereal for a cause the story behind a cereal box domino chain were in North Carolina with details. And secrets of a ventriloquist. Well introduce you to this puppeteer who is making history and hoping to inspire a new generation of storytellers make you proud of me this is nbc nightly news kids edition welcome back to kids edition. Im lester holt. Its great to be with you on a saturday morning we have an awesome lineup today, everything behind the science of those Sweet Cravings we all have, to a rare birth at one zoo in the u. S and later on, well have some fun with puppeteer and ventriloquist megan typhus you move your hand for each syllable youre saying, so if you want to say basketball, i would say basketball did she just take my voice . We begin with the weather. Parts of the country have been hit by extreme weather this week, rain, storms, and even tornadoes, and one young viewer had this question on his mind. Hi. My name is sam, and im 4 years old. And i want to talk about
Valentines is incredible to me. I didnt get a ton in my house. Its not like halloween. No. I have to believe that valentines day and the chocolate industry are hand in hand. Loving itment absolutely, man. Biggest chocolate day of the year. Maybe mothers day. My little one ate the chocolate off of the butter finger and i ate it. I dont do that. I eat my kids food. I do. We have a lot of news to talk b the weather is on our mind. Were following more fallout after the resignation of Michael Flynn for his reported improper conversations with a russian ambassador. Democrats on capitol hill are calling for an investigation into the conversations between flynn and other Trump Administration leaders with the russians. Republicans including President Trump want to know the source of the leaked information. Any time theres a transition in an administration, particularly when control of the white house shifts from one party to the other, you will have many employees who might be politically motiv
The teens ahead of the fromrs notice the amounts further south of cleveland we head down w intimate dinah and akron closer to half of an inchl no space factionalized these amounts here. No as the temperatures climb up into the 40s. T we still have fulton blocked off still blocked off of second. How the freeways are looking good we dont have any other issues on the highway its a fleet great me so is cooperating. It is super tuesday. I think trumps going to win everything. John k6 placingng in the nation wide theyve also secured a slew of high profile endorsement i cant both like ifu either. Ted cruz think you got a victorya in his home state of texas mark overview who trails come by more than 30 30 points emergency contingencycy the front runner with donald final bus. Al some recent to me maybe that mean donald trump is a robot. Test but if you wrote what r he was made in china. On the democratic side the head of bernie done 30 percent sanders hoping for strong showing in oklahomaen to
It will bounce back to the mid and upper 40s for the afternoon. Heres the next weathermaker out of the midwest. Its going to be a rain maker, thats overnight tonight. During the day, were fine. Mostly cloudy. 46 now. 42 by noon time. Forecasting high of 47 degrees. Rain and wind on the way. Well get to that in a little bit. First check on the 1st of march on the commute. Heres lauren. Good morning, chris, good morning, everybody. Were heading northbound watch out for an accident in the right lane, exit 1a. If youre headed to the holland tunnel, youll need to avoid this. Right now, the government of the city of patterson is partially shut down due to a budget crisis. This morning, an emergency plan they walk to school. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in patterson with details of the shutdown. Good morning. Reporter darlene, good morning to you, you will see crossing guards today, but here at this train station you likely wont run into other city workers, over 1,000 were told to sta
About 100 people right now walking in front of city hall this morning, and again, just like we saw from the frisco five protests in front. Mission police station, they are calling for the residence resignation of police chief sir. This is a group that started on facebook, the boy scott for sfo justice, in honor of the frisco five, and theyre asking the public to skip out on school and worked it and not by anything in the restaurants or businesses. They say they have tried everything to be heard but theyre not getting the results in terms of Police Reform in the wake of High Profile Police shootings. We the community were forced to liberate them from their hunger strike. And we promised them that we would take action so what we have organized is a First Amendment protected picket in front of city hall. Well have hundreds, perhaps thousands of people join us throughout the day and we plan to circle around the entire building. We will do a pro petal hearing against Police Brutality and ra