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“A Mass Shooting On Las Vegas Strip”
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A gunman who fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival Sunday on the Las Vegas Strip has killed more than 50 people and wounded more than 200, police say. The suspect in the case is also dead. The violence at the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert was reported around 10:08 p.m. It was later added that the shooter, acting as a "lone wolf," has been identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, a resident of the Las Vegas area. The violence is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, and the tragic death toll seems likely to rise. Little is known about the suspected gunman. And the question of why has yet to be answered. Officers confronted the suspect on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino and a SWAT team used an explosive to breach the room. Multiple weapons were found in the room; but not identified other than to call them rifles. The mass shooting prompted panic and a lockdown at hotels along the Strip that remains in effect.
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In Other News For the second consecutive Sunday, NFL players around the country demonstrated in a variety of ways in response to President Trump's call for NFL owners to fire anyone who disrespects the flag. As they were last week, some players' protests were met with boos from fans. Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young are the joint winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, winning for their discoveries about how internal clocks and biological rhythms govern human life. The three Americans won "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm" the Nobel Foundation says. Ten days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, 15-year-old Salvador Gomez Colon and his family are hunkered down in their apartment in San Juan, rationing food and water they stored before the storm hit. Still Salvador knows he's better off than many others on the island that was devastated by Maria. So he felt compelled to launch a crowdfunding campaign called "" on fundraising platform Generosity. He hLight and Hope for Puerto Ricoas raised nearly $14,000 of his $100,000 target. He wants to use the money to buy the portable lamps and washing machines for residents in some of the worst affected areas of Puerto Rico. CNNMoney interviewed Salvador and his mother by phone on Saturday.
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