Mass Shootings in Maine, Gaza Fuel Shortage, New Speaker of the House
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A man is still at large after a shooting spray in Lewis in main.

police are currently searching for a Robert r car. Car is considered armed and dangerous.

Police are asking residents to shelter in place and locked their doors.

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Gaza is running out .

of fuel to run hospitals and delivered desperately needed aid. The united nations says relief Operations may come to a hold as early as today. If something .

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Police have still not confirmed the exact number of victims in a shooting spring, luis in main, but early reports suggest dozens of people were shot.

Yeah, that happened when a man opened fire in a boling eli and a bar last night. The gunmen is still at large, and police are asking local residents to shelter in place and lock their doors. Authorities identified four year old Robert card as a person of interest. Here's my ssh tuck of the main department of public .

safety car is considered armed and dangerous is a person of interest, however, and that's what will label moving forward until that changes .

by joining is now with the latest on this is Patty White of main public. Paddy, take us to what happened.

Well, IT started just before seven P. M. Shootings were reported at two locations. One was at a bowling ally, and authorities released surveilLance images of a White man who was wearing a Brown switcher and Carrying an air style rifle. IT showed him pointing IT as he entered the bowling ally.

It's a large place with a family restaurant about twenty two lanes for bowling. It's also a venue for birthday parties and events. And the owner, the facility posted on facebook that he and his wife made IT atok, but it's clear that many others didn't.

And there was also a second shooting side a few miles away at a barring girl. There are hundreds of police officers in men who are investigating, and many are in the loosen area. Throughout the night, we heard helicopters and sirens, and people been congregating at the local hospital hoping for answers about missing loved ones. And as of right now, authorities have said virtually nothing about how many people were killed or how many were shot. They're calling IT a fluid situation and that the numbers are all over the map as the search for the suspect continues.

And there is a picture of a man Carrying in a gun that's been a released. What do they know about that man?

Well, they're calling him a person of interest, and he's not officially a suspect, but he's someone they want to talk to. They've identified him as forty old Robert card. He lives in the nearby town of boat.

In police released images of him Carrying the rival inside the bowling ally, and also a picture of a car that he was driving at the time. Let's here again from Michael chuck of the main department of public safety. He says they found his car in a neighing town.

A vehicle which was a vehicle of interest in this incident, was located in lisbon, and we are now also asking residents in lisbon to shelter in place. So people who .

live in lisbon, leiston and all of androscoggin ney, have been asked to shelter in place while the search for this person of interest goes. And I should also mention that schools in the area have cancelled classes today, local municipal offices have shut down, and some businesses have told their staff not to come to work.

As all this is happening. You know, one thing I know about leiston is that in sixty five, muhammad leave fought there against Sunny listening. IT was a heavy way rematch. What kind of a place is lowest in main?

Yeah, it's the second largest city in may. It's got a population of about forty thousand people. It's roughly forty five minutes away from portland is a very diverse place.

Many immigrants live here, including from somalia. There's also a sizable population of french canadians who have settled here. It's a former milltown.

It's had its economic chAllenges over the years, just like many places. And the mayor of loose on put out a statement after this happened. He said that he's hard broken for the city in its people. And he said Lewis is known for its strength and grid, and it's going to need both of those in the days to come.

absolutely. That's main public Patty. I I think thank you.

Relief efforts for the more than two million people trapped in gaza could soon come to a halt if fuel isn't delivered to the passage. Jungle ve seven .

weeks of negotiations to try to get aid into gaza. The ignition now is that that desperately the relief can be delivered since gaza has been cut off from fuel .

and other basic necessities. I mean, the situation is terrible, hey. And IT gets worse .

by the hour, not even by the day. And comes has been garment since october seven, when fighters associated with homos, which is the governing authority in gaza, launched across border attack, killing more than fourteen hundred people in southern israel and taking more than two hundred hostages in gaza. The health officials say that within six thousand have been killed in hospitals running on generators are struggling to treat the wounded.

We're joined now by elisa nd. Warning from television. Elisa, what can tell us about what's happening in gaza right now?

I talked with Juliet tuma, who is with the U. N. Agency for palestine refugees. Thirty eight members of her staff have been killed. Many more have lost family members and homes.

Our supplies are really blind link, and they're running out fast. This is why we need fuel today.

Tumors is the biggest need for the U. N. And gaza right now is fuel to keep hospitals going, to power the water system, to power you and vehicles, to transport food.

And a few dozen eight trucks have made IT into gaza in recent days. That is just a sliver of what eight organizations say is needed. It's spent full of medical supplies in food, but not fuel.

Israel has said supplying fuel could mean IT gets diverted by hamas, which continues to launch rockets and other attacks on israel. The israel defense forces clam. Hamas has plenty of fuel stockpiles in regard to the need for fuel. On social media, they posted, ask him.

so what does all of this mean? I mean, just millions of people that can get us. So what does this mean for them? Well.

at night IT means most residential buildings are in total darkness. People are stockpiling food rationing, whatever water they have left. We talked to a man with a one year old baby who ran out of milk.

This is the first time in its life IT won't have IT people are safeguarding that last bit of juice on a cell phone battery. We've been keeping in touch with muck mood. Kuwait, who is in gaza city.

hi, I feel that this is my lost message. So we've been recording these .

daily voice memo to his friends and families just in case he doesn't survive the night.

It's my fair time to feel afraid of something. I'm afraid. I'm afraid for my family members to die in front of my eye. And i'm afraid .

for .

the next day. I'm afraid for the night to come.

You know, I just want to say no one is getting in or out of gaza. So people like mac mood are risking their lives using a precious battery power to share what's happening there. Nowhere in gaza is safe, even in the south.

That's where the israeli military had asked them to evacuate again. Overnight, we saw more horrific images, including video of the moment and algeria. Gaza bureaux ef discovered his family had been killed by israeli airstrike while they were sheltering out of refugee camp at, the israeli military said. In response, they were targeting homos infrastructure .

in the area and all as the world weights for a ground invasion that's rate.

Overnight, the israel military launched the limited cross border raids. But we are all still waiting for this very chAllenging task ahead, given just how densely packed gaza is. I mean, there's two million people in in the size of the .

city of phillippa npr elisa nd warning elisa, thank you.

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right? It's over. Republicans have selected a new speaker of the house of representatives.

where three previous G O, P candidates to tried and failed. Yesterday, mike Johnson of Louis ana pulled IT off.

therefore the honor mike Johnson of the stay, luiz ana, having received a majority, the votes cast, is duly elected speaker, the house of representatives for the one hundred and eighteen time.

And he was unanimously elected speaker by his republican colleagues.

Mp R. S. Erick mcDaniel watched IT all come together. He joins us from our studio in washington, c. So eric, how did Johnson pull this off?

Yeah, so he's a social conservative guy from lousianner, and he's known as a nice guy, which helped at a moment like this. He's known as a bit of a policy minded person. He's also an evAngelical, which played a big role in his acceptance speech and his winds being celebrated by antioch, an rights groups.

He's long been allied with the former president trump. He was one of just a few folks chosen to defend trump in his first impeachment trial. And like Kevin mirtha before him, Johnson votel, against certifying bitings election.

When was there a big G. O. P. Sigh of relief.

No idea. Folks were chanting his name as the vote got underway. It's it's hard to overstate. Just hovered ly. Folks seemed there right now. And in fact, place older speaker that Mickey, who has cut a figure in the capital over the last few weeks, was all smiles as he presided over the vote yesterday. But even after coupling together this win for Johnson, the hard parts probably still come. The government shuts down next month, and Johnson has already had to weigh lay congress, his recess, to buy himself some time to get something done to try and keep IT open.

So what is said about mike Johnson that got him all the votes that he needed? Look.

like I said, he's a nice guy. On tuesday night, as all of this was starting to come together, I was having a conversation with floor republican cat chemic. SHE told me about how kind he thinks Johnson is, which I have to imagine was really important after all these weeks of fighting.

And also former president tempted in bad mouth him online. So that was good for him IT doomed to previous candidate. And look, folks were tired. Republicans were tired. Even the focus and congress don't want to fight forever.

You would think or you would hope, yeah, that's that's yeah so okay. So what comes next then? Because yeah, as you mentioned, there's a lot of stuff that's right around the corner.

I don't think anyone has looked particularly smart guessing about what's about to happen next with house republicans over these last few weeks. We've had a lot of steps and starts. They've been through three different candidates before they got here. Mike Johnson pulled that off, but i'm getting guess and don't at me if i'm wrong. There's probably not much of a honeymoon period for him.

In addition to funding the government, which again is gonna be a big deal hard thing by the middle of next month, they also need to figure out a plan for aid to real, whether they're going to send more support to support democracy in ukraine. They've got their placement. They're gonna have to collaborate with joe biden, pair up with a democratic control senate to get anything done, not to mention keep everybody united within their own caucus. And that's all gonna be really.

really hard. One more thing, eric, before you go, I spoke to us, a former congress, on yesterday. You said that people will soon forget this. You think people will forget what happened the last three weeks.

Look where a year out from the election still. It's hard to say what's onna matter to folks. I remember in the twenty, twenty cycle, covet had even happened yet. So a lot could change.

P eric, Daniel, thanks.

Thank you.

The united auto workers union has reached a tentative agreement with four motor referential six weeks of strikes at some of the largest plans. The united states.

The union says that the new four year contract includes cost of living wage adjustments, major gains on pensions and an immediate eleven percent increase in wages. While the union continues to negotiate with general motors and atlantis, the other two large manufacturing plants impacted by the strike.

president john fane emphasize yesterday that the final decision will be in the hands of union members.

We see this contract to you because we know IT breaks records, we know IT will change lives. But what happens next is up to you all.

U, A, W, also called on ford workers who were striking to go back to work while the union votes on the tension of agreement. And that's a first for thursday, october twenty six mi.

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