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NFL experts  give final mock draft predictions as NFL draft begins tonight. They go through tonight and end on Saturday, April 27th.

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Mel Kiper has served as an NFL draft analyst for ESPN since 1984. He is a regular contributor on SportsCenter and ESPN Radio and writes weekly for ESPN Insider.

The 2019 NFL draft is finally here, and it's time for one last first-round mock draft. This is a projection of where I think guys could come off the board based on what I'm hearing, not a reflection of my final rankings. Still, check out my top 300 Big Board and position rankings to see where I have the rest of the class.

Trades change the draft every year, and I don't expect 2019 to be any different. I'm not including trades in my 1-32 projection, but I will note the picks that could see action.

Catch me all over ESPN on Thursday, and live coverage of The Big Show begins at 7 p.m. ET on ABC, ESPN and the ESPN App. Here we go, projecting Round 1:
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Prospect profiles | Draft buzz | Full order
Best at everything | 50 facts about the class

I'm sticking with 99.9 percent here. There has just been too much smoke the past two months. Murray could be a star for new coach Kliff Kingsbury.

Bosa is my top-ranked prospect in this class, and the Niners have to improve their edge rush. Easy pick for GM John Lynch.

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Kiper's final 2019 NFL Mock Draft: My predictions for picks 1-32

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7:30 AM ET Mel Kiper Jr.Football analyst Close Mel Kiper has served as an NFL draft analyst for ESPN since 1984. He is a regular contributor on SportsCenter and ESPN Radio and writes weekly for ESPN Insider. The 2019 NFL draft is finally here, and it's time for one last first-round mock draft.

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In texas a 13 year old was walking home from school two teenage girls jumped her, when one of them kicked her in the head putting. While she was at the hospital they found a tumor in her head that instantly started filling with fluid which started to fill her brain and she later died. They are waiting for an autopsy to see if she passed from the fight or from something that happened before that.

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A 13-year-old Texas girl died Wednesday after falling into a coma following a violent altercation with two teen girls outside her middle schoo l last week in which one girl kicked her in the head.

Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died five days after the attack while on life support at Texas Children's Hospital. It was there doctors discovered a large tumor in the back of her head and fluid build-up in her brain, her mother, Mamie Jackson told KTRK.
SOUTH CAROLINA FIFTH GRADER DIED DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES, NOT FIGHT WITH FELLOW STUDENT, PROSECUTOR SAYS
Police said they are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine if Francis' death was caused by the fight, the tumor, or a combination of both.

The case is being investigated as a homicide but no arrests have been made pending the results of the report, Victor Senties, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department told ABC News.

The seventh grader was walking home Thursday when two girls jumped her. In a video that surfaced of the fight, children can be heard laughing as at least one of the girls kicked Francis in the head about two blocks away from the school, Jackson told KTRK.

Francis returned home Thursday with bruises on her face but no other apparent injuries, her mother said. The girl briefly became delusional while staying the night at her aunt's house Saturday and complained of severe headaches Sunday morning.
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Jackson called 9-1-1 Sunday when her daughter lost consciousness, ABC News reported. Francis was rushed to the hospital where she fell into a coma. Houston Independent School District officials said they are cooperating with the Houston Police Department in its investigation of this "off-campus" incident.

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Texas girl dies at hospital days after being beaten by classmates: report

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A 13-year-old Texas girl died Wednesday after falling into a coma following a violent altercation with two teen girls outside her middle schoo l last week in which one girl kicked her in the head. Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died five days after the attack while on life support at Texas Children's Hospital.

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Tesla lost $702 million this past quarter. Revenue was down 37% and they only expected to be at a loss of $301 million.

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Tesla lost $702 million last quarter, snapping its profit streak

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In an animal sanctuary in Arizona, a Tiger attacked a worker as they attempted to relocate it to another cage. The 11 year old tiger is usually tame, however caused the worker to have several injuries including two broken bones. There will not be charges pressed against the tiger because there was a lapse in the safety protocols.

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The director of an animal sanctuary in Arizona was seriously injured on Monday when he was attacked by a tiger at the facility.

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Jonathan Kraft, the director and founder of Keepers of the Wild, was moving the 11-year-old tiger to a safer area during a heavy rainstorm and was attacked by the normally docile animal.

"Jonathan was concerned for the welfare of several large cats in his approximate area including the tiger and took unilateral action to allow them access to protection from the elements," the sanctuary said in a statement on Wednesday. "During that process, a safety protocol had obviously failed resulting in the incident."

Kraft was flown to a hospital in Las Vegas where he was treated for "multiple wounds and two broken bones." The sanctuary said he will take several months to recover.

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The tiger, Bowie, was taken into the sanctuary last year after previously being owned as a pet. The animal was declawed as a cub and had difficulty walking, the sanctuary said.

The sanctuary said in its statement that Kraft "made the decision to shift Bowie's gates to allow him access to his den box area. During the process, the usually docile behaving Bowie exhibited unusual conduct by suddenly pushing the gates prior to Jonathan being able to secure the safety clips."

Bowie bit down on Kraft, before other staffers freed him from the tiger's jaws.

The tiger will not be euthanized, the sanctuary said.

Keepers of the Wild is a nonprofit that cares for 150 exotic animals, including tigers, lions, leopards, bears and wolves. The facility is open to visitors, but was being closed due to the storm, the sanctuary said.

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The facility was established in 1995 in Las Vegas, but later relocated to rural Valentine, Arizona, about two hours southeast of Las Vegas.

Kraft previously worked as an entertainer on the Las Vegas Strip, appearing in shows with two tigers he trained starting as cubs. He initially started the sanctuary as a place for retired animals from stage shows and eventually decided to cut animals out of his shows entirely.

The sanctuary said it was conducting an internal investigation into the accident.

The attack was the second by a tiger in a matter of days in the U.S., after a zookeeper at the Topeka Zoo was mauled on Saturday. The keeper, identified as Kristyn Hayden-Ortega on Tuesday, was removed from the intensive care unit a day after the attack and is expected to make a full recovery from puncture wounds to her head, neck, back and arms.

ABC News' Olivia Rubin contributed to this report.

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The director of an animal sanctuary in Arizona was seriously injured on Monday when he was attacked by a tiger at the facility. Jonathan Kraft, the director and founder of Keepers of the Wild, was moving the 11-year-old tiger to a safer area during a heavy rainstorm and was attacked by the...

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A 13-year-old Texas girl died Wednesday after falling into a coma following a violent altercation with two teen girls outside her middle school last week in which one girl kicked her in the head. Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died five days after the attack while on life support at Texas Children’s Hospital. It was there doctors discovered a large tumor in the back of her head and fluid build-up in her brain.

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A 13-year-old Texas girl died Wednesday after falling into a coma following a violent altercation with two teen girls outside her middle schoo l last week in which one girl kicked her in the head.

Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died five days after the attack while on life support at Texas Children's Hospital. It was there doctors discovered a large tumor in the back of her head and fluid build-up in her brain, her mother, Mamie Jackson told KTRK.
SOUTH CAROLINA FIFTH GRADER DIED DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES, NOT FIGHT WITH FELLOW STUDENT, PROSECUTOR SAYS
Police said they are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine if Francis' death was caused by the fight, the tumor, or a combination of both.

The case is being investigated as a homicide but no arrests have been made pending the results of the report, Victor Senties, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department told ABC News.

The seventh grader was walking home Thursday when two girls jumped her. In a video that surfaced of the fight, children can be heard laughing as at least one of the girls kicked Francis in the head about two blocks away from the school, Jackson told KTRK.

Francis returned home Thursday with bruises on her face but no other apparent injuries, her mother said. The girl briefly became delusional while staying the night at her aunt's house Saturday and complained of severe headaches Sunday morning.
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Jackson called 9-1-1 Sunday when her daughter lost consciousness, ABC News reported. Francis was rushed to the hospital where she fell into a coma. Houston Independent School District officials said they are cooperating with the Houston Police Department in its investigation of this "off-campus" incident.

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Texas girl dies at hospital days after being beaten by classmates: report

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A 13-year-old Texas girl died Wednesday after falling into a coma following a violent altercation with two teen girls outside her middle schoo l last week in which one girl kicked her in the head. Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died five days after the attack while on life support at Texas Children's Hospital.

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Joe Biden is running for president in 2020, yet he is still not the highest democratic bid.

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After months of deliberation, former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his decision to run for president for a third time, answering one of the biggest outstanding questions about the makeup of the 2020 race.

The announcement came in a campaign video released Thursday morning.

In his campaign announcement video, Biden rebuked the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 and President Donald Trump's handling of the aftermath.

"He said there were quote some very fine people on both sides," Biden said. "With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime."

Biden framed the 2020 race as a "battle for the soul of this nation."

"The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America, America, is at stake," Biden said in the video. "That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for President of the United States."

Later Thursday, Biden will attend a fundraiser in Philadelphia before appearing on ABC's "The View" for his first television interview since the announcement on Friday. On Monday, he will hold his first official event in Pittsburgh, followed by a swing through early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina in the coming weeks.

On May 18, Biden will host a rally in Philadelphia where he will "lay out his vision for unifying America with respected leadership on the world stage," according to his campaign.

Faces unprecedented scrutiny

Biden, 76, enters the crowded Democratic primary field of 20 candidates as the presumptive front-runner sitting atop the most recent polls. But his more than four-decades-long career is set to undergo an unprecedented level of scrutiny as he seeks to win the Democratic nomination to take on Trump in a general election.

Biden, a centrist Democrat who often touts his relationships with those across the aisle, also will grapple with a Democratic Party that is increasingly feeling a pull from the left with a number of progressive candidates, like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, in the 2020 race.

"I'm told I get criticized by the new left," Biden said at an event in Delaware last month. "I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the United ... anybody who would run."

Trump has described a general election match-up against the former vice president as a "dream," while some Republicans cast Biden, who has crafted a political brand aimed at appealing to working-class voters, as the most feared potential Democratic opponent for the President.

The President taunted Biden soon after his announcement Thursday morning.

"Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe," Trump tweeted. "I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign. It will be nasty - you will be dealing with people who truly have some very sick & demented ideas. But if you make it, I will see you at the Starting Gate!"

Shortly after jumping in the race Thursday morning, Biden picked up endorsements from Democratic Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Chris Coons of Delaware. One notable Democratic heavyweight, however, did not immediately throw his support behind the former vice president. A person close to former President Barack Obama told CNN that Obama is "excited" by the growing field, but he is "unlikely" to come out in support of a candidate this early in the primary season.

In recent weeks, Biden indicated he was close to mounting a 2020 campaign after gaining approval from his family to run for president for a third time. But he also acknowledged there were a number of other hurdles he still needed to work through, including fundraising, digital strategy, assembling a diverse campaign team and ensuring there is an appeal for a Biden run.

"I can die a happy man never having lived in the White House, but what I don't want to do is take people's time, effort and commitment without there being a clear shot that I could be the nominee," Biden said in late February. "It is something that I have to make sure I could run a first-rate effort to do this and make clear where I think the country should go and how to get there."

But it appears those concerns were assuaged. As they awaited a decision, Biden's political team has worked quietly for months to lay the preliminary groundwork for a campaign, court donors and talk to potential staff.

Biden's announcement comes in the wake of allegations he has made women feel uncomfortable in their encounters. The former vice president has maintained he does not believe he has acted inappropriately in his interactions with voters but said he's willing to listen to women's experiences and will be more "mindful about respecting personal space in the future."

The debate over his interactions highlights the new reality for candidates running in a post #MeToo era. As he dealt with the fallout of the allegations, Biden's aides said the issue would not dissuade him from entering the 2020 race, but his team is aware his contact with voters on the campaign trail could be scrutinized throughout a presidential campaign.

Seeks to claim Obama mantle

This will mark Biden's third attempt for the White House after two failed bids in 1988 and 2008. His first presidential run was plagued by charges he plagiarized in law school and in campaign speeches. In 2008, he dropped out of the presidential contest after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses, placing fifth with less than one percentage point.

Biden came close to making a late entrance into the 2016 campaign to challenge Hillary Clinton and Sanders in the Democratic primary, but ultimately decided against a run, in large part due to the emotional toll his son Beau's death took on him and his family in 2015.

Biden has described himself as an "Obama-Biden Democrat," a sign he would embrace the mantle of the Obama administration in a presidential campaign. The former vice president has led most early polls of potential Democratic contenders and has enjoyed high name identification and favorability ratings, which rose in the years since leaving public office.

Late last year, Biden declared himself the "most qualified person in the country to be president," with his supporters pointing to his more than four decades of political experience as a boon for a possible campaign.

Throughout his career in Washington, Biden has embraced a blue-collar, middle-class message, delved into foreign policy debates and talked about the need to engage in bipartisanship. On the campaign trail last fall, he cast the election as a "battle for America's soul," a theme that will be central to his presidential campaign.

But his more than four decades in public service also carry some political baggage as several areas of his career are set to come under fresh scrutiny in a possible campaign - including his handling of Anita Hill during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, his work related to the financial services industry - which has a base in his home state of Delaware - his past views on school busing and even his gaffes.

"I am a gaffe machine, but my God what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can't tell the truth," Biden said in December. "I'm ready to litigate all those things. The question is, what kind of nation are we becoming? What are we going to do? Who are we?"

Biden tried to head off some of the expected criticism earlier this year, expressing regret for his handling of criminal justice issues - particularly the 1994 crime bill he helped authored, which critics argue led to an era of mass incarceration.

"I haven't always been right. I know we haven't always gotten things right, but I've always tried," Biden said at a Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast in January.

Biden has also repeatedly expressed regret for his handling of Hill's testimony at the Thomas hearings, though critics say he could have done more in his role as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time.

"To this day, I regret I couldn't come up with a way to get her the kind of hearing she deserved, given the courage she showed by reaching out to us," Biden said at an event in New York last month.

In recent months, Biden defended his work with Republicans as he came under fire for praising a GOP congressman from Michigan during a paid speech weeks before the midterm elections.

"Bless me father for I have sinned," Biden said as he made the sign of the cross while speaking to the United States Conference of Mayors earlier this year. "From where I come from, I don't know how you get anything done. I don't know how you get anything done unless we start talking to one another again."

But he's also been confronted by the realities of the current political environment. In a speech in Omaha, Nebraska, this year, Biden called current Vice President Mike Pence a "decent guy," a comment that drew furor from the left due to Pence's stance on LGBTQ rights. After he was called out by actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, Biden quickly walked back his comments on Twitter, writing, "there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the Vice President."

Emotional personal story

Biden will be among the oldest candidates in the Democratic primary field, and he has acknowledged his age would be a "legitimate issue" for voters and opponents to raise.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, Biden, who overcame a stutter as a child, often touts his upbringing in Pennsylvania and Delaware as emblematic of the concerns of working-class families.

At the age of 29, Biden was elected to represent Delaware in the US Senate. where he served for 36 years. During that time, he sat on the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees, including stints as chair on each of them. Among his proudest legislative accomplishments - authoring the Violence Against Women Act.

After Biden's failed presidential bid in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama asked the Delaware senator to join the Democratic ticket as his running mate, an offer Biden initially resisted.

Just before leaving office in 2017, Obama surprised Biden by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

"To know Joe Biden is to know love without pretense, service without self-regard, and to live life fully," Obama said at the time.

Biden, a devout Catholic who suffered two brain aneurysms in 1988, bears an emotional personal story, publicly enduring more tragedy than most political figures.

Weeks after he was elected to the Senate at the age of 29, Biden's wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident, which also seriously injured his young sons Beau and Hunter. Biden was later sworn into the Senate at his son Beau's bedside. Several years later, Biden married Jill Jacobs, and the two had a daughter, Ashley.

Tragedy struck the Biden family a second time in 2015 when Beau, the attorney general of Delaware and an Iraq War veteran, passed away after a battle with brain cancer - a time the former vice president recounted in his memoir, "Promise Me, Dad."

Since leaving the White House, Biden has built a network of initiatives, including his American Possibilities PAC, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement, the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware, the Biden Foundation and the Biden Cancer Initiative. The Biden Foundations was planning to suspend operations once Biden announced his presidential campaign.

Biden also served as one of the most high-profile Democratic surrogates during the 2018 midterm elections, previewing arguments for a possible presidential campaign at campaign rallies across the country.

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John King was given the death penalty after one of the most horrific hate crimes in history. On June 7, 1998, he chained a black man to the back of a truck and drug him for approximately 130 miles along a secluded road until he died. King was openly racist and even had a tattoo on his body of a black man with a noose around his neck. He was executed on Wednesday and he had no last words and kept his eyes closed the whole time.

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A white supremacist who orchestrated one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history was executed in Texas Wednesday.

John William King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection for his role in the murder of 49-year-old James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged to death along a secluded road outside Jasper, approximately 130 miles northeast of Houston, early on the morning of June 7, 1998. Investigators said Byrd was alive for at least two miles before his body was ripped to pieces.

The crime put a national spotlight on Jasper, which was hit with a racist stigma it has tried to shake off and that local officials said was undeserved. The case also became an issue in the 2000 presidential election, with groups including the NAACP criticizing then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush over his opposition to hate-crime legislation.

King was the fourth inmate executed this year in the U.S. and the third in Texas.

He was the second man executed for Byrd's killing. Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed in 2011. The third participant, Shawn Allen Berry, was sentenced to life in prison.

Prosecutors said Byrd was targeted because he was black. King was openly racist and had offensive tattoos on his body, including one of a black man with a noose around his neck hanging from a tree, according to investigators.

King's appellate lawyers had tried to stop his execution, arguing King's constitutional rights were violated because his trial attorneys didn't present his claims of innocence and conceded his guilt.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected King's last-minute appeal.

"From the time of indictment through his trial, Mr. King maintained his absolute innocence, claiming that he had left his co-defendants and Mr. Byrd sometime prior to his death and was not present at the scene of his murder. Mr. King repeatedly expressed to defense counsel that he wanted to present his innocence claim at trial," A. Richard Ellis, one of King's attorneys, wrote in his petition to the Supreme Court.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles also turned down King's request for either a commutation of his sentence or a 120-day reprieve.

Over the years, King, who grew up in Jasper and was known as "Bill," had suggested the brutal slaying was not a hate crime, but a drug deal gone bad involving his co-defendants.
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In a 2001 interview with The Associated Press, King said he was an "avowed racist" but wasn't "a hate-monger murderer."

Louvon Byrd Harris, one of Byrd's sisters, said King's execution sent a "message to the world that when you do something horrible like that, that you have to pay the high penalty."

Compared to "all the suffering" her brother suffered before his death, Harris said King and Brewer got "an easy way out."

Billy Rowles, who led the investigation into Byrd's death when he was sheriff in Jasper County, said after King was taken to death row in 1999, he offered to detail the crime as soon as his co-defendants were convicted. When Rowles returned, all King would say was, "I wasn't there."

"He played us like a fiddle, getting us to go over there and thinking we're going to get the rest of the story," said Rowles, now the sheriff of Newton County.

A week before Brewer was executed in 2011, Rowles said he visited Brewer, who confirmed, "the whole thing was Bill King's idea."
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Mylinda Byrd Washington, another of Byrd's sisters, said she and her family will work through the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing to combat hate everywhere.

"I hope people remember him not as a hate crime statistic. This was a real person. A family man, a father, a brother and a son," she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A white supremacist who orchestrated one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history was executed in Texas Wednesday. John William King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection for his role in the murder of 49-year-old James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged to death along a secluded road outside Jasper, approximately 130 miles northeast of Houston, early on the morning of June 7, 1998.

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Since its domestic eradication in 2000, measles has reached its highest level in 20 years. There have been 695 cases in 22 states. "Measles is not a harmless childhood illness, but a highly contagious, potentially life-threatening disease,".

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The Lego Foundation’s project, Lego Braille Bricks, aims to create stackable blocks with braille dots in addition to printed letters, numbers and math symbols, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday. Altogether, the pilot program aims to help blind children play their way to learning braille.

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Great strides have been made to help people who are visually impaired adapt to life without eyesight. Now, an emerging Lego product may revolutionize how blind children learn braille and encourage more interactive play with all kids.

Approximately 700,000 children and young adults in the United States have a vision disability, but as audio aids have become increasingly available, only about 8% of legally blind children are learning to read braille, according to the National Federation of the Blind.

The Lego Foundation's project, Lego Braille Bricks, aims to create stackable blocks with braille dots in addition to printed letters, numbers and math symbols, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday. Altogether, the pilot program aims to help blind children play their way to learning braille.

Play is such an integral part of childhood development that it should be prescribed by doctors, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

"Play provides a singular opportunity to build the executive functioning that underlies adaptive behaviors at home; improve language and math skills in school; build the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that buffer against toxic stress; and build social-emotional resilience," a September 2018 report from the AAP said.

In a day and age where children are playing more with phones and tablets and using toys and their imaginations less, Lego seems to have found a way to turn its traditional blocks - and all the fun that comes with playing with them - into an educational tool that could potentially make learning braille more exciting and collaborative.

"Existing hands-on tools available to teach braille are very limited and restricted in terms of giving children the flexibility to trial, fail and try again to learn," Stine Storm, manager of the Lego Foundation's New Venture's team and head of the Braille Bricks project, told ABC News.

Storm said that the new bricks would "break down the barrier and fear of making mistakes because they all of a sudden have a flexible tool in which they can easily play around with - in a way that has not been possible before."

The American Printing House for the Blind is coordinating with Lego to begin testing the Braille Bricks in select schools starting in the fall 2020.

"American Printing House for the Blind is excited to see the Lego Foundation create a product that is inclusive, and will teach all children about braille," said Craig Meador, president and CEO of the APH.

Lego Braille Bricks are currently being tested in English, Norwegian, Danish and Portuguese, and they will soon be tested in Spanish, French and German. The Lego Foundation's goal is to distribute Braille Bricks to associated schools for the vision impaired all over the world, free of charge.

Charlyn Laserna is a pediatric resident physician in Houston, Texas, and a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit.

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Teen from New Orleans has been accepted into 115 colleges and universities. She was offered a total of more than $3.7 million in scholarships. She was accepted into every college that she applied to.

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A New Orleans teenager has been accepted to 115 colleges and universities across the nation.

NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports Antoinette Love was accepted at every school she applied to and was offered a total of more than $3.7 million in scholarships. She says she plans to visit schools over the next few weeks and make a decision by May.

Born to teen parents and surrounded by four siblings she helps raise, the International High School of New Orleans senior is in several honor societies and will be a first-generation college student. She has maintained a 3.5 grade point average while dual enrolled at a community college and has been described as a gifted painter.

Her mother, Yolanda, says Love's accomplishments have inspired Love's parents to consider returning to school.

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A New Orleans teenager has been accepted to 115 colleges and universities across the nation. NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports Antoinette Love was accepted at every school she applied to and was offered a total of more than $3.7 million in scholarships. She says she plans to visit schools over the next few weeks and make a decision by May.

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Two people were killed on Thursday morning after a tornado struck Ruston, Louisiana. More severe weather is going to move into the Gulf Coast region on Thursday.

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Severe weather was set to move into the Gulf Coast region on Thursday after three reported tornado es, damaging straight-line winds over 60 mph and golf ball-sized hail from Texas to Louisiana the day before. Parts of eastern Texas saw more than 8 inches of rain on Wednesday.

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Severe weather watches and warnings, including tornado watches and warnings and severe thunderstorm watches, are in effect on Thursday morning.

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The entire storm system will finally begin to move out of Texas and into the Gulf Coast states -- from Louisiana to Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle -- on Thursday afternoon.

This storm system will bring severe storms on Thursday to New Orleans; Jackson and Biloxi, Mississippi; Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama; and Tallahassee, Florida.

The biggest threat with these storms will be damaging winds of over 60 mph, with a few tornadoes possible. Heavy rain could produce flash flooding in urban areas, including New Orleans.

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The whole storm system will move east Thursday night into Friday and bring heavy rain and strong storms for the East Coast.

The heaviest rain and strongest storms will hit the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic, while the Northeast should see heavy rain and gusty winds.

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A Walmart store is using AI to watch the products. It could tell when bananas were getting over ripe and alert stockers to switch them out. It could tell when there was a spill on the floor so a worker could come and clean it up. The public is concerned over privacy over themselves.

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Inside one of Walmart's busiest Neighborhood Market grocery stores, high resolution cameras suspended from the ceiling point to a table of bananas. They can tell how ripe the bananas are from their color.

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When a banana starts to bruise, the cameras send an alert to a worker. Normally, that task would have relied on the subjective assessment of a human, who likely doesn't have time to inspect every piece of fruit.

Welcome to Walmart's Intelligent Retail Lab - the retail giant's biggest attempt to digitize the physical store.

The thousands of cameras are a key feature of the lab, which officially opens inside this 50,000-square-foot store on Thursday. Walmart envisions using them, combined with other technology like sensors on shelves, to monitor the store in real time so its workers can quickly react to replenish products or fix other problems. The technology, shown to The Associated Press, will also be able to track when shelves need to be restocked or if shopping carts are running low. It can spot spills on the floor and even detect when cash registers need to be opened up before long lines start forming.

Walmart's deep dive into artificial intelligence in its physical store comes as Amazon raised the stakes in the grocery business with its purchase of Whole Foods Market nearly two years ago.

That's put more pressure on Walmart and other traditional retailers like Kroger and Albertson's to pour money into technology in their physical stores. At the same time, they're trying to keep food prices down and manage expenses. Amazon has been rolling out cashier-less Amazon Go stores, which has shelf sensors that track the 1,000 products on its shelves.

Walmart's online U.S. sales are still a fraction of Amazon's online global merchandise empire, which reached $122.98 billion last year.

Walmart hopes to start scaling some of the new technology at other stores in the next six months, with an eye toward lowering costs and thus lower prices. As the shopping experience improves, the retailer expects to see higher sales.

"We really like to think of this store as an artificial intelligence factory, a place where we are building these products, experiences, where we are testing and learning," said Mike Hanrahan, CEO of Walmart's Intelligent Retail Lab and co-founder of Jet.com, purchased by Walmart three years ago. "If we know in real time everything that's happening in the store from an inventory and in stock perspective, that really helps us rethink about how we can potentially manage the store."

Hanrahan says the cameras are programmed to focus primarily on the products and the shelves at this point. They currently do not recognize faces, determine the ethnicity of a person picking up the product or track the movement of shopper, he says. A glass enclosed data center at the back of the store houses nine cooling towers, 100 servers and other computer equipment that processes all the data.

There are signs throughout the store alerting and educating shoppers about how the store is being used as a lab. Still, all the cameras could raise privacy concerns.

"Machine learning fundamentally finds and matches patterns," says Steven M. Bellovin, professor of computer science at Columbia University and an expert on privacy, who hasn't seen the new Walmart AI Lab. But he says companies run into trouble where it starts to match the behavior to a specific customer.

Hanrahan says Walmart has made sure to protect shoppers' privacy and also emphasized that it does not have cameras at the pharmacy, in front of the rest rooms or its employees' breakrooms.

Walmart's new living lab marks its second in a physical store. Last year, Walmart's Sam's Club opened a 32,000 square foot lab store, the quarter of a size of a typical Sam's Club store. It's using the store to test new features surrounding its Scan & Go App, which lets customers scan items as they shop and then buy from their phones, skipping the checkout line.

The retail lab is the third project from Walmart's new incubation arm, created after the Jet.com acquisition as a way for the discounter to shape the future of retail.

It follows the launch of Jetblack, a shopping by text service aimed at affluent shoppers in New York. Walmart's second incubation project to launch was Spatial&, a VR tech company. As part of the launch, it's bringing tractor-trailers to some of Walmart's parking lots of some of its stores so customer can experience DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon" through virtual reality.

Hanrahan says the company is embracing the labs in stores because it can better understand the real ways that technology affects customers and workers. It also wants to educate shoppers.

Walmart has made a point to not hide the technology. Small educational kiosks are set up throughout the store. It plans to bring in local schools and communities.

Despite the signs and visible cameras, many shoppers including Marcy Seinberg from Wantagh, New York, didn't seem to notice or care.

"I am not bothered by it," Seinberg said. "If technology saves me money, I would be interested."

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In New Mexico, a mailman saw a mother and teen son arguing and went to break it up. The son got very aggressive and the mailman sprayed him with mace. The teen then went inside and got a gun and shot the mailman, killing him at the scene. Police are still looking for the teen.

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Police say a New Mexico postal worker named Jose Hernandez was shot and killed while trying break up an argument between a mother and her teenage son.

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Ever since Stan Lee has passed away last year, people have been wondering when and how he will make his last cameo. Well, now we know. He is expected to make his last cameo as Iron man in the Avengers Endgame.
The directors hinted that Lee might spend his cameo appearance exhibiting some classic Iron Man behavior such as battling against the forces of evil, mourning the death of his young friend Peter Parker,

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Marvel fans were heartbroken last year when Stan Lee passed away at 95, but thanks to the people at Disney, fans are going to get to see the legendary comic book writer one last time. Stan Lee is set to make his final Marvel Cameo in Avengers: Endgame as Iron Man.

Wow. What a beautiful chance to say goodbye to one of the most legendary people in Marvel history.

According to Endgame directors the Russo brothers, eagle-eyed moviegoers will be able to spot Stan Lee getting the cameo treatment one final time with a short appearance he filmed before his death, playing the character Iron Man. The Russos said they didn't want to give away too much away, but they hinted that Lee might spend his cameo appearance exhibiting some classic Iron Man behavior such as battling against the forces of evil, mourning the death of his young friend Peter Parker, and seeking redemption for his failure to stop Thanos in the last Avengers movie.

This is so exciting! Avengers: Endgame sounds like it's going to be the best Marvel movie yet!

"When Stan agreed to make a little time in his schedule to rehearse multiple extended fight scenes against Thanos, perform days of motion capture action sequences in the Iron Man armor, and memorize hundreds of lines of dialogue with the other Avengers, we had no idea it would be his final cameo," the Russo brothers wrote on Twitter this morning. "It's definitely bittersweet, but we think anyone who's ever been touched by Stan's work will be thrilled when he suddenly pops up on screen as Tony Stark to battle for the fate of the universe alongside Captain America and Thor."

The world definitely got a little less bright when Stan Lee passed away last year, but with this beautiful cameo as Iron Man, at least we can say a proper farewell. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled during the movie so you don't miss him!

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Marvel fans were heartbroken last year when Stan Lee passed away at 95, but thanks to the people at Disney, fans are going to get to see the legendary comic book writer one last time. Stan Lee is set to make his final Marvel Cameo in Avengers: Endgame as Iron Man.

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Two people were killed Thursday morning when a tornado struck Ruston, Louisiana, the governor said, as he warned that the threat from the storms wasn't over.

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Severe weather was set to move into the Gulf Coast region on Thursday after three reported tornado es, damaging straight-line winds over 60 mph and golf ball-sized hail from Texas to Louisiana the day before. Parts of eastern Texas saw more than 8 inches of rain on Wednesday.

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Severe weather watches and warnings, including tornado watches and warnings and severe thunderstorm watches, are in effect on Thursday morning.

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The entire storm system will finally begin to move out of Texas and into the Gulf Coast states -- from Louisiana to Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle -- on Thursday afternoon.

This storm system will bring severe storms on Thursday to New Orleans; Jackson and Biloxi, Mississippi; Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama; and Tallahassee, Florida.

The biggest threat with these storms will be damaging winds of over 60 mph, with a few tornadoes possible. Heavy rain could produce flash flooding in urban areas, including New Orleans.

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The whole storm system will move east Thursday night into Friday and bring heavy rain and strong storms for the East Coast.

The heaviest rain and strongest storms will hit the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic, while the Northeast should see heavy rain and gusty winds.

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Two people are dead from a tornado in Louisiana. The storm is moving towards the Gulf Coast toward the panhandle of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi.

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Severe weather was set to move into the Gulf Coast region on Thursday after three reported tornado es, damaging straight-line winds over 60 mph and golf ball-sized hail from Texas to Louisiana the day before. Parts of eastern Texas saw more than 8 inches of rain on Wednesday.

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Severe weather watches and warnings, including tornado watches and warnings and severe thunderstorm watches, are in effect on Thursday morning.

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The entire storm system will finally begin to move out of Texas and into the Gulf Coast states -- from Louisiana to Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle -- on Thursday afternoon.

This storm system will bring severe storms on Thursday to New Orleans; Jackson and Biloxi, Mississippi; Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama; and Tallahassee, Florida.

The biggest threat with these storms will be damaging winds of over 60 mph, with a few tornadoes possible. Heavy rain could produce flash flooding in urban areas, including New Orleans.

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The whole storm system will move east Thursday night into Friday and bring heavy rain and strong storms for the East Coast.

The heaviest rain and strongest storms will hit the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic, while the Northeast should see heavy rain and gusty winds.

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Supposed siblings of the Islamic terrorists have spoken out since the attack saying their siblings were "well-educated" and became "extremely distant" and "crazy" before the attacks. One of the men reportedly became incredibly angry at relatives for shaving off their beards. The woman also said her sibling continually quoted scripture but went so deep she couldn't follow. So, 359 are dead from the Islamic terror attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.

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Sisters of two of the alleged Sri Lanka suicide bombers revealed Thursday that their siblings - who have been described by officials as "well-educated people" -- became increasingly distant and "totally crazy" in the years leading up to the coordinated Easter Sunday massacre.

Their comments come as reports emerged that one of the bombers was let go by police after being arrested earlier at some point.

"He told male relatives off for trimming their beards and became angry and totally crazy," Samsul Hidaya, who identified herself as the sister of suspected bomber Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, told the Daily Mail. "So I just stopped speaking to him because it got to the point where it was getting out of hand."

In an interview published Thursday, Hidaya confirmed reports that her brother - who was in his late 20s -- studied abroad in the U.K. and Australia before returning to Sri Lanka. But she says after coming home from Down Under, he was "a different man".
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"I had many arguments with him," she said. "At first he started quoting scripture and I would say 'OK, you're right.'"

"But then the conversation got deeper and deeper into religion and I couldn't follow what he was saying any longer," she added.

Mohammad Hashim Madaniya, who identified herself as the sister of radical Islamic cleric Zahran Hashim (alternately known as Mohammed Zahran) - told the BBC a similar story.

Her brother has been mentioned in media reports as being one of the suicide bombers and possibly the mastermind of the attacks. Hashim also purportedly has appeared in ISIS-affiliated propaganda claiming responsibility for the bombings, which have left 359 dead and hundreds more wounded.

But before Hashim's descent into radicalism -- as evident by the hate-filled online sermons he posted on YouTube - he broke off contact with his sister

"We had a very good relationship during our childhood. He was very friendly with everyone in the neighborhood," Madaniya told the BBC. "But for the last two years, he has not been in contact with us."

Madaniya says she learned about her brother's alleged involvement in the bombings through the media.

"I never thought, even for a moment, that he would do such a thing," she said. "I strongly deplore what he has done. Even if he is my brother, I cannot accept this. I don't care about him anymore."
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Madaniya says Hashim went off the grid after Sri Lankan police tried to arrest him years ago for allegedly stoking violence between Muslim groups. She also claimed her elderly parents left their home in Sri Lanka days before the bombings and have not been heard from since.

"It makes me think that my brother could have kept in touch with them," she said.

Police reportedly though have tracked down the father of two sons suspected of blowing themselves up in the attacks.

Mohamed Yusuf Ibrahim, a wealthy spice trader in Colombo - the city where many of the bombings happened - is in custody over suspicions that he helped his sons, according to CNN.

A government spokesperson also told the network that one of the sons, Ilham Ahmed Ibrahim, had been arrested before and then released. He is suspected of targeting a hotel.
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"It was the suicide bomber of the Cinnamon Grand bomb attack who was released earlier," Sudarshana Gunawardana said, without elaborating.

As of Thursday, 58 people have been arrested and police are still setting off controlled detonations of suspicious items as they continue to investigate the attacks.

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Sisters of the alleged Sri Lanka suicide bombers revealed Thursday that their siblings - who have been described by officials as "well-educated people" -- became increasingly distant and "totally crazy" in the years leading up to the coordinated Easter Sunday massacre.

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A 13-year-old from Texas, has been announced dead after falling into a coma from a violent attack by two teenage girls. She died five days later after being on life support at the Texas Children Hospital. However, doctors discovered a tumor on the back of her brain and police are waiting for the autopsy to reveal whether or not her death was caused by the altercation, the tumor, or both.

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A 13-year-old Texas girl died Wednesday after falling into a coma following a violent altercation with two teen girls outside her middle schoo l last week in which one girl kicked her in the head.

Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died five days after the attack while on life support at Texas Children's Hospital. It was there doctors discovered a large tumor in the back of her head and fluid build-up in her brain, her mother, Mamie Jackson told KTRK.
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Police said they are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine if Francis' death was caused by the fight, the tumor, or a combination of both.

The case is being investigated as a homicide but no arrests have been made pending the results of the report, Victor Senties, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department told ABC News.

The seventh grader was walking home Thursday when two girls jumped her. In a video that surfaced of the fight, children can be heard laughing as at least one of the girls kicked Francis in the head about two blocks away from the school, Jackson told KTRK.

Francis returned home Thursday with bruises on her face but no other apparent injuries, her mother said. The girl briefly became delusional while staying the night at her aunt's house Saturday and complained of severe headaches Sunday morning.
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Jackson called 9-1-1 Sunday when her daughter lost consciousness, ABC News reported. Francis was rushed to the hospital where she fell into a coma. Houston Independent School District officials said they are cooperating with the Houston Police Department in its investigation of this "off-campus" incident.

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A 13-year-old Texas girl died Wednesday after falling into a coma following a violent altercation with two teen girls outside her middle schoo l last week in which one girl kicked her in the head. Kashala Francis, a student at Attucks Middle School in Houston, died five days after the attack while on life support at Texas Children's Hospital.

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The body of a 5-year-old boy reported as missing last week was found wrapped in plastic in a shallow grave on Wednesday, and his parents have been charged with murder. They both face charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated domestic battery and failure to report a missing or child death, Black said. Freund Sr. also faces charges of concealment of homicidal death, police said.

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The body of a 5-year-old boy reported as missing last week was found wrapped in plastic in a shallow grave, and his parents have been charged with his murder, police said on Wednesday.

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The NFL draft is tonight. A NFL analyst predicted the first 7 rounds. They predicted the cardinals taking kyler murray with the first overall pick. They also had the New York Giants taking Drew Lock at the 17th pick.

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2019 NFL Mock Draft: Matt Miller's Final 7-Round Predictions

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The 2019 NFL draft is finally here. This Thursday night, 32 teams will enter their draft rooms and make selections, trades and decisions that will be the difference between Super Bowl wins and the loss of jobs...