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5-year-old Charlotte County girl does Coronavirus Newscast

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5-year-old Charlotte County girl does Coronavirus Newscast
5-year-old Charlotte County girl does Coronavirus Newscast

A five-year-old girl from Charlotte County is entertaining her family during quarantine with a COVID-19 "Newscast."

THAT’S AT FOX FOUR NOW DOT COM.I’M NOELANI MATHEWS, FOX FOUR INYOUR CORNER."THIS MORNING, I WANT TOINTRODUCE YOU TO SOUTHWESTFLORIDA’S YOUNGEST NEWSCASTER.5-YEAR-OLD KYA IS FROM CHARLOTTECOUNTY.

HER MOM AND GRANDMA SAYSHE’S BEEN ENTERTAINING THEMTHROUGH THIS QUARANTINE.

ANDIT’S QUITE POSSIBLE YOU’LL SEEHER IN THE FUTURE, HERE ON FOX 4NEWS.27-34124-130[Duration:0:02] <KYA CLIP "so...talking about the virus..." 2secTHIS IS 5 YEAR OLD KYA CAPERS.KYA CLIP "...and we don’t likethe virus because we can’t meetpeople that we don’t know.

Wecan’t touch them or hug them.even our friends" 9 secAND AS YOU CAN SEE IN HERAT-HOME BROADCAST -- VERYSIMILAR TO MINE, BY THE WAY --SHE HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUTCOVID-19.KYA CLIP "we can’t go to schoolanymore because of the virus.

Wecannot even go inside of storesbecause of the virus" 8 secKELLY & MORGAN "She brought itto me and showed me and I wasjust hilarious I had to show it"6 secKYA CLIP "and the virus is verybad, so we don’t want the virusto be in us cuz we can makeother people sick.

And we don’twant that to happen to otherpeople.

So we try to not touchpeople that we don’t know.

Andeven if we love the and they’reour friends, we don’t touchthem" 22 secLISA/FAM "She is already readyto take my job!

Is thissomething she does often or isthat like a first time thing?"All the time, even when she wastwo she would grab one of thestakes that you have in youryard and she would pull it outof the ground and start singing"17 secKYA CLIP "you can only hug yourmom, your grandma... you can notever hug a random person youdon’t know.

Because it’s bad.

Ifyou do, you can get sick andthen maybe die and go to heaven.it could happen to a kid, andi’m a kid on the news" 19 seLISA/KYA "do you watch a lot ofnews?

Is that how you learn hto be a reporter?" Is that howyou learn watch a lot of news?LISA/KYA "do youLISA/KYA "do you watch a lot ofnews?

Is that how you learn howto be a reporter?" " yeah, withgrandma!

Not like a lot though,like three times a day" 10 secLISA/KYA "for anyone who iswatching our show, what do youwant them to know about thecoronavirus?

I just want them toknow that it’s very bad, youcan’t see it because it’s maybein peoples body?" "Mhmmm" 14 secKYA ALSO WANTS YOU TO KNOW, SHEKNOWS THE PROPER SAFETYPRECAUTIONS.KYA "so you don’t get sick youhave to wear masks and gloves" 4secKYA "I am having safety when Igo to stores, and I have nevertook my mask off Justsometimes, like I’m like mom Ican’t I can’t breathe in it!" 11seSHE IS TOO FUNNY, RIGHT?

ANDDON’T WORRY -- SHE CAME PREPARTO OUR INTERVIEWKYA "the Santa hat I used tobring the microphone!" 2 secLISA/KYA "can you do a littlenewscast for me?" " helloeverybody, so I am on Morris,and I’m talking about the virus.The virus is very bad, so I wantno one to touch anybody becauseof the virus.

This is so bad youcan get sick sometimes I don’twant that to happen" "good job!""Even the Bowing" 15 secAND KYA HAS EVEN PERFECTED HERSIGN OFF...KYA CLIP "and i make the newsand i am the news person.

Bye" 5sec

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