Let's take a look at this morning's need to know headlines.
Well, first up, this is breaking news.
Kevin mccarthy is no longer Speaker of the House after
a motion to vacate his position passed last night.
The motion was bought by Congressman Matt Gates, a fellow republican.
And here's what mccarthy had to say after the vote.
I believe I can continue to fight maybe in a different manner.
I will not run for speaker again.
I'll have the conference pick somebody else.
I hope you realize that every day I did
the job regardless whether you underestimated me or not.
I want to do it with a smile
mccarthy went on to say he believes Gates moved to
oust him for personal reasons which Gates has denied.
Gates said the vote for speaker will likely happen next Wednesday.
And some of the potential candidates include Congressman Steve Scalise,
Jim Jordan, Bob Hemmer and Kevin Hearn.
But right now interim speaker is Congressman Patrick mchenry.
So we'll have more on this throughout the show.
A shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore leaves five people injured.
The shooting happened last night during a homecoming celebration on campus
and the campus was locked down for roughly four hours.
Police commissioner Richard Worley confirmed
the victims were not critically hurt
and that they range from 18 to 22 years old.
Morgan State Police Chief Lance Hatcher said that four out of
the five people who were hurt last night were students.
Police did not make any arrests and they
also didn't share any information on possible suspects.
Baltimore, Mayor Brendan Scott called for action on gun control.
We need action now there are things that can
be done particularly at the level of Congress that
could help stop the next shooting on a campus
at a church at a supermarket from happening.
And when is enough going to be enough?
When will the sanctity of American lives and the sanctity
of American college students and students to get their education outweigh
the sanctity of American guns
and the university has canceled classes for today.
At least 21 people are dead and 15 injured
after a bus crash just outside of Venice Italy overnight
the bus was on its way to a local campsite when
it drove off an elevated road crashing and catching fire.
Local officials confirmed the bus was carrying a
group of international tourists including visitors from Ukraine,
Spain, Austria, France, Croatia and Germany.
They also confirmed at least two of the people killed were
Children and that at least five people were critically injured.
At
Venice City Council said investigators were looking
into whether the driver was sick.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded early
today to a group of scientists who pioneered technology
that's used to make led lights screens and for medical treatments.
The Nobel Committee announced
American scientist
Moon
Bay
and Lewis Bruce along with Russian scientist Alexi Ek,
the prize for their work to develop quantum dots which
are tiny nanoparticles that contain just a few 1000 atoms.
Quantum dots can absorb light and reflect it as different colors.
They are used in television screens.
Doctors can also use them to distinguish healthy tissue from cancerous tumors.
Right.
Well,
a judge overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud trial yesterday rebuked
and issued a limited gag order against the former president.
The move came after Trump claimed one
judge Arthur
Earns clerks was a
girlfriend to Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer.
The comment was posted on a social media platform, truth social
and Goran ordered Trump to delete the social
media post calling it disparaging and untrue.
The judge also told participants in the case that any
disparaging comments about court staffers could lead to serious sanctions.
He said quote, personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable,
inappropriate and I will not tolerate them in any circumstances.
This morning,
unionized health care workers at Kaiser Permanente walked off the job
and this is about 75,000 health care workers and they're
expected to strike today in several states including Virginia,
California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington.
Kaiser Permanente is one of the country's largest not for profit health providers.
And these strikes are happening in five states.
The employees are represented by a coalition of eight unions
that make up about 40% of Kaiser Permanente staff.
So we're talking about nursing staff,
dietary workers, receptionists, optometrists and pharmacists.
They're all expected to join the strike.
The workers' contracts expired on September 30 without
a deal being reached between the unions and Kaiser
workers are demanding higher pay better conditions including more staff.
The man accused of ordering the killing of legendary rapper
Tupac Shakur is set to make his first court appearance today
in Las Vegas.
Six year old Dwayne
D Davis was arrested on Friday near his home in Henderson, Nevada.
Prosecutors say Davis orchestrated Tupac's killing.
The rapper was shot in September of 1996 in Las Vegas during a drive by shooting
Davis who has been charged with murder, implicated himself in a 2019.
Tell All memoir,
he's accused of handing a gun to his
nephew Orlando Baby Lane Anderson who ultimately shot Shakur
Anderson died in 1998.
Today,
everybody in the US is going to share a
special moment at 2 20 pm Eastern Standard Time.
Today is the day that the Federal Emergency Management agency
or FEMA is testing the nationwide emergency alert system.
The alert is scheduled to go to all phones as well
as radio and television at 2 20 pm Eastern time.
The agency says wireless providers will transmit
the national test for about 30 minutes but
that your phone should only get it once. Meanwhile, they have been
on a baseless conspiracy theories on social media
that the test could impact people's health.
Those claims are false. There's no evidence of that whatsoever.