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You need to know this monday morning we're gonna start with some sad news.
The suspect in the deadly mass shooting in Monterey park California is now dead.
Police say the 72 year old shot himself.
As swat teams approached his vehicle,
authorities believe he is responsible for
saturday's deadly shooting inside a dance studio
that left 10 dead and sent seven others to the hospital.
Investigators still don't have a motive for the shooting
And another mass shooting this time in Louisiana over the weekend,
sending 12 people to the hospital.
This happened at a nightclub in Baton Rouge Sunday
morning thankfully no one died in the shooting.
Officers did say they believe it was a targeted attack
but did not release any information on the suspect.
Countries around the globe rang in the lunar new year over the weekend,
kicking off the year of the rabbit.
This coming after china lifted its strict zero covid policy,
making it the first big festival since the pandemic began.
This is also on the back end of a massive surge in covid cases over the past month,
chinese officials reported more than 12,000 covid
related deaths between january 13th and january 19th
and the Department of Justice is investigating Abbott Laboratories,
infant formula plant in michigan.
You may remember that was the plant that shut down for months
last year after an FDA inspection found deadly bacteria in several areas.
The company recalling several powdered baby formula is made there.
Now the doj is looking into the circumstances leading up to the shutdown,
Abbott says it plans to fully cooperate with this probe,
and we've been telling you about these attacks to power grids in several states.
While now,
lawmakers in several states are proposing legislation to protect power stations.
North Carolina is working on proposals that would require
companies to have round the clock security at substations.
Meanwhile, South Carolina is proposing significant
Real time for any damage done
damages totaling more than $25,000 to fix equipment,
could land the perpetrator in prison for up to 20 years.
Additionally,
a 25 year sentence would be added if anyone died or was put at
risk by a resulting outage and stay tuned to chatter news from our headlines.
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