Young journalist Weaver lands Obama interview, talks school lunch

(NECN/KECTV: Damon Weaver, Washington, D.C.) – For an 11-year-old Damon Weaver has some landed some pretty impressive interviews, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Vice President Joe Biden, but Thursday he finally landed an interview with President Barack Obama. Weaver, a reporter for Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School’s TV station, even traveled to Washington for the inauguration in the hopes of landing an interview with the President. Weaver grilled the President about his basketball skills, education funding and whether students could have french fries and mangoes for lunch everyday. “We are actually seeing if we can work to at least make school lunches healthier,” Mr. Obama said. “What we want to do is make sure that there’s more fruits and more vegetables in the schools. Kids may not end up liking that, but it’s actually better for them.” “I suggest that we have french fries and mangos every day for lunch,” Weaver said. “See. If you were planning the lunch program, it’d probably taste good to you, but it wouldn’t make you big and strong like you need to be,” President Obama said. Weaver resides in Pahokee, Florida. Video courtesy of KECTV, WhiteHouse.gov.