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Approximately 3,750 additional active duty U.S. troops are heading to the southern borderin support of Customs and Border Protection, according to a statement released by the Department of Defense on Sunday.

"That support includes a mobile surveillance capability through the end of September 2019, as well as the emplacement of approximately 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry," the statement said.

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Approximately 3,750 additional active duty U.S. troops are heading to the southern border in support of Customs and Border Protection, according to a statement released by the Department of Defense on Sunday.

"That support includes a mobile surveillance capability through the end of September 2019, as well as the emplacement of approximately 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry," the statement said.

The new troops are expected to deploy in mid-February, a U.S. official told ABC News.

There are already about 2,350 active duty troops along the border in Texas, Arizona and California. In the statement, the DOD said the total number of active duty forces would only rise to 4,350, meaning some of those currently deployed troops would return to their bases. There are also about 2,200 National Guard troops who have been serving on the southern border since last April.

"Additional units are being deployed for 90 days, and we will continue to evaluate the force composition required to meet the mission to protect and secure the southern border," the statement said.

Airman 1st Class Brennen Lege/U.S. Marine Corps

The troop increase was previously announced by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith who in a statement on Thursday sharply criticized top Pentagon officials for not disclosing the figure during a public hearing about DOD's border mission earlier in the week.

Smith, a Democratic congressman from Washington state, said he has since spoken with Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan for more details about the additional troops, but that phone call was "not a substitute for transparency before Congress and public candor."

When the active-duty mission was first announced in late October, it was originally slated to only last 45 days, but has been extended twice. Now both the active duty and National Guard missions are slated to continue through Sept. 30.

The active duty and Guard deployments are already estimated to cost taxpayers $682 million.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brendan Mullin

Since the fall, military engineers have built approximately 87 miles of wire obstacles and placed movable barriers at 22 ports of entry in Texas, Arizona and California, according to the Department of Defense.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump tweeted that more troops were deploying "to stop the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans, into our Country," adding that a wall would make it "easier" and "less expensive" to stop the migrants.

More troops being sent to the Southern Border to stop the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans, into our Country. We have stopped the previous Caravans, and we will stop these also. With a Wall it would be soooo much easier and less expensive. Being Built!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2019

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Pentagon confirms 3,750 additional troops heading to the US-Mexico border

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Approximately 3,750 additional active duty U.S. troops are heading to the southern border in support of Customs and Border Protection, according to a statement released by the Department of Defense on Sunday. "That support includes a mobile surveillance capability through the end of September 2019, as well as the emplacement of approximately 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry," the statement said.

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Members of a Georgia family returning home Wednesday after traveling over the holidays said they were stunned to find that a man they did not recognize had changed the locks and claimed the house was his.

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Members of a Georgia family returning home Wednesday after traveling over the holidays said they were stunned to find that a man they did not recognize had changed the locks and claimed the house was his.

Janice Henson told WSB-TV the key to her family's Marietta home wouldn't work when she tried the lock. Matters took a bizarre turn when a man in a wheelchair came to the door and told her to leave. Henson said the stranger also claimed to have a gun.

Police were called, leading to a five-hour standoff between officers, a SWAT team and the suspect. At one point, WSB reported, the SWAT team broke down the door and sent in a robot to locate the suspect.
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The man, identified as 26-year-old Nathaniel Jacob Nuckols, eventually surrendered to law enforcement. He was charged with felony first-degree burglary and making terroristic threats as well as misdemeanor obstruction. He was being held in the Cobb County jail in lieu of $33,220 bond.

Henson told WSB she did not know how long Nuckols had been in their house, but she noticed that some of the family's belongings had been moved and all their food was gone.

"He also left us notes thanking us for the key and thanking us for letting him live here, and it was his house now," Henson told the station. "He moved all the pictures, emptied drawers. He was making this house his."

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Georgia family members say they returned from vacation to find stranger living in home

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Members of a Georgia family returning home Wednesday after traveling over the holidays said they were stunned to find that a man they did not recognize had changed the locks and claimed the house was his. Janice Henson told WSB-TV the key to her family's Marietta home wouldn't work when she tried the lock.

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future released two songs one featuring french Montana

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On New Year's Eve, Future shared a new single called "NASA" featuring French Montana and production from Future's right hand man, DJ Esco. You had to get in quick, because "NASA" promptly disappeared into space.

No matter. The prolific hip-hop star just dropped another new release, the Wheezy-produced "Crushed Up."

"Crushed Up" arrives just a few days after the birth of Future's fifth child, Hendrix. There's no word yet on when "NASA" will blast off.

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On New Year's Eve, Future shared a new single called "NASA" featuring French Montana and production from Future's right hand man, DJ Esco. You had to get in quick, because "NASA" promptly disappeared into space. No matter. The prolific hip-hop star just dropped another new release, the Wheezy-produced "Crushed Up."

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A Michigan hunter who was caught with an illegal deer hunt told a Conservation Officer his wife would get mad at him if he didn’t come home with deer meat

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Michigan hunter who was caught with an illegal deer told a Conservation Officer his wife would get mad at him if he didn't come home with deer meat, The Cadillac Evening News reported.

The Conservation Officer, Josiah Killingbeck, told the paper that he approached a suspect after receiving a tip about a hunter who allegedly shot a deer near Baldwin, despite county restrictions that protect the animal.

The suspect denied having killed a deer but Killingbeck said he could see unused deer tags in the suspect's wallet and blood and drag marks leading away from a bait pile, the report said.
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When told a witness had seen him shoot the deer, "the suspect hung his head and admitted to shooting a spike horn knowing it was illegal and not tagging it," Killingbeck said.

"The honest-to-God truth is that my wife wants deer meat and if I come home without any she'll get really mad at me," the hunter allegedly told the Conservation Officer.

Killingbeck followed the suspect back to a cabin where he found the deer hidden behind a house. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources then seized the animal and said: "enforcement action was taken," according to the report.

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Michigan hunter who was caught with an illegal deer told a Conservation Officer his wife would get mad at him if he didn't come home with deer meat, The Cadillac Evening News reported. The Conservation Officer, Josiah Killingbeck, told the paper that he approached a suspect after receiving a tip about a hunter who allegedly shot a deer near Baldwin, despite county restrictions that protect the animal.

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Leighton Vander Esch a rookie linebaker for the dallas cowboys that was taken in the first round of the NFL draft.

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It was the morning after the first round of the draft, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his son Stephen had just finished an emotional conversation with Jason Witten. The great tight end, a franchise cornerstone for 15 years, was done with football.

As Witten walked away, Jerry and Stephen looked out the windows of their offices at The Star, where the Cowboys work and train. The blades from a helicopter, a white Airbus H145 with a star on the tail, were casting shadows on the practice field as it descended.

Anticipation built around the facility. The team's first-round draft pick was aboard.

As Leighton Vander Esch stepped off the helicopter into the Texas sun, the moment was not lost on Stephen Jones.

"There's one 6'5", light-haired, good-looking guy who loves to play walking out the door," Jones says. "There's another one walking in. It was a little eerie, if you will. When we interviewed Leighton, he exuded that kind of character that Jason has."

The moment was not lost on Vander Esch, either. He was about 1,700 miles from his former home in Riggins, Idaho-and about a billion miles away culturally. He was moving from a place you can barely find on a map to the place where all NFL roads lead. He was stepping into a life of starring for America's Team, sharing a locker room with Zeke Elliott and Dak Prescott, playing in a stadium with high-kicking Cowgirls, artwork worthy of a museum and video boards that hang like magnificent clouds.

"A huge wake-up moment for me," he says. "It was like, 'This is my home?'"

And somehow, he's not out of place here. Not even a little.

Somehow, he isn't too far from home in a sprawling metropolis in the Southwest.

Somehow, the expectation of being the next great Cowboy hasn't gotten to him, either.

Vander Esch is "destined to be one of the all-time greats," according to Cowboys Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman.

"You talk about a guy at 255 pounds, and he runs a 4.6-second 40-yard dash," Aikman said on the Thanksgiving national broadcast of Cowboys- Redskins. "He's big, physical, and he can run, and he matches up against tight ends. I watched him last week match up against Atlanta, and the job he's able to do, he's an old-school linebacker in size and new school in his ability to cover and run."

Vander Esch, a candidate for Defensive Rookie of the Year, isn't just killing it on the field. The player they call "The Wolf Hunter" is owning the moment, celebrating big plays with a howl.

If everything goes according to the Cowboys' plan on Saturday, when they host the Seahawks in the wild-card round of the playoffs, howls will be echoing throughout AT&T Stadium.

The town Vander Esch called home, about three hours north of Boise, has a population of 419 people-well, 418 since the April draft. It would take everyone in town, times 239, to fill the stadium he now calls home.

They couldn't get cell phone coverage in Riggins until Vander Esch was about nine years old. It's still spotty. He was one of 11 kids in his graduating class from Salmon River High School, where he played eight-man football on a team that sometimes had no more than 12 on the roster.

He and his family-dad Darwin, mom Sandy and older sisters Shannon, Christon and Morgan-lived on about 300 acres in a canyon between two national forests, where the Little Salmon River flows into the Salmon River. From those rivers, Vander Esch reeled in many a meal and earned some spending money as a white-water rafting guide.

Nearby Seven Devils Mountain was the place for hunting and snowmobiling, and the Vander Esch clan did a lot of both. Darwin owned Heaven's Gate Outfitters in Riggins, and the kids learned to hunt at the same time as they were learning their ABCs.

Black bear, elk, deer, doves, chukar, quail, grouse, turkey. And, of course, wolf (Idaho is one of three states where wolf-hunting is legal). There isn't much Vander Esch hasn't brought home. He hasn't yet bagged a mountain lion, but Christon and Morgan have.

Christon, who's married name is Medley, concedes Leighton is the best hunter of the siblings. He's also the best athlete, even though all three sisters were college basketball players and Christon played professionally in Luxembourg.

The truth is Leighton is good at everything. He played four years of varsity basketball at Salmon River and was the star on two state championship teams. He was so good at snowmobiling that he might have made the X Games.

When his father decided they needed a smaller house after Leighton's sisters left the nest, Darwin and Leighton built it themselves on a mountain ledge. Father and son laid the foundation, then, nail by nail, beam by beam, they did everything from the roofing to the plumbing.

"We're still trying to find out if there's something he can't do," Christon says.

The first weekend of every May, there is ranch bull riding, calf roping, wild cow milking and more at the Riggins Rodeo. There are competitions for kids, too. Little Leighton dominated the stick horse races. He also excelled at mutton busting-riding a sheep as long as you can. At another rodeo, he was a ringer in the calf chase, in which about 30 kids run after a young cow to try to untie a ribbon from its tail.

Cowboying came naturally to him.

And even though he came from a small town, Vander Esch had big dreams. When he was three or four years old, he started telling people he planned on playing in the NFL. And he never had a backup plan.

He was undeterred when "hundreds" of people tried to tell him the NFL was a pipe dream. "It just pissed me off and lit a fire under me even more," he says.

He was undeterred when he had to walk on at Boise State. He made the team, and it took him just nine months to earn a scholarship, though he hadn't played a game yet.

He was undeterred when AT&T Stadium was filled with boos after the Cowboys selected him with the 19th overall pick in the draft.

Vander Esch spent his life in the mountains, and he learned how to move them.

One topic took up most of the time in predraft meetings between Vander Esch and Cowboys executives, scouts and coaches: wolf hunting. When Vander Esch showed them a photo of him with a wolf kill, they were fascinated.

Some draft prospects are swallowed by the personal side of the evaluation process. They shrink in interviews. Vander Esch, the now-22-year-old who grew up on the side of a mountain, was as impressive in interviews as he was on tape.

"I was blown away," Stephen Jones says. "The big thing was his confidence. When he walked in, he had a presence. He never blinked in the interviews. He felt right at home-big smile, talking ball."

Initial expectations were modest for a linebacker who had played only 32 games of 11-man football in his life. The thinking was he could be a backup and special teams player as a rookie and develop into an eventual replacement for Sean Lee.

But Vander Esch didn't see it that way. The moment he opened the Cowboys playbook, shortly after being selected, he was confident he could make a quick transition, in part because the Cowboys defensive system was similar to the one he played in at Boise State.

"On the first snap in OTAs, it was like, OK, the O-line is a little quicker," he says. "Now I'm playing against 11 great players instead of just one or two in college. Once that registered, it was like nothing changed from college. My instincts, preparation, hard work and ability just took over."

On the surface, playing eight-man football in high school would seem to be a disadvantage. But for Vander Esch, it has been a benefit. "In eight-man, you have to be able to make plays in space, and that helps with the way the NFL is turning with more spread offense, more passing, air raid," he says.

"I never came off the field in high school. You had to be in shape. You had to be able to play when you are tired. Being able to open-field tackle when you are tired, and staying disciplined added to my instincts."

Vander Esch began the season as a backup. He started his first game on Sept. 30, and he has started 10 more since. He finished the regular season as the Cowboys' leading tackler with 140, 18 more than the next-closest teammate.

A proud Cowboys linebacker tradition goes back nearly six decades. Lee, an old pro who has made a career out of doing everything the right way, understands he is a part of something that's bigger than what's happening now. He owns a piece of Cowboys history, just like Chuck Howley, Hollywood Henderson, Lee Roy Jordan and Ken Norton Jr.

"It's amazing being his teammate," Vander Esch says. "A once-in-a-lifetime experience."

Lee embraced the rookie who looked up to him. He began mentoring Vander Esch before OTAs even began, meeting almost every day and going over plays on the dry erase board. Vander Esch's locker is next to Lee's. He sits with him in every meeting. He stands next to him on the practice field.

Lee has taught him the big things, like how to prepare over the course of a week, how to stay fresh over the grind of a season and how to stay grounded in the vortex of celebrity. And he's taught him the little things, too, like how to cheat on alignments and how to distinguish his keys in different situations.

And, ultimately, Lee has taught him how to step aside with grace. Lee's hamstring injuries opened the door for Vander Esch, and Vander Esch blitzed through it, taking his job.

"I see him like a little brother, so I want to see somebody like that who has great character succeed," Lee says. "You want to help him any way you can. He deserves it."

Lee might be the mentor, but he's not the most common comparison. Vander Esch and Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher are the same height and approximate weight, and Vander Esch was just a tick slower in the 40-yard dash (4.65 to 4.57). Urlacher has a similar background, coming from rural Lovington, New Mexico.

"He's like Brian in his ability to play in space-the hips, the turn, the awareness," says Cowboys defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli, who coached Urlacher for four years. "It's rare for a guy who has that size to be able to play in space. And the game is so much in space right now. You can't teach that. They are both very bright, and the humility is the same. He's a great teammate, just like Brian."

Of course he's a great teammate. Vander Esch understands the strength the pack gives to the wolf. He also realizes that a football team, like a wolfpack, operates on a hierarchy.

Every morning, Vander Esch arrives at The Star about 20 minutes before meetings begin, at 6:40, and prepares three canisters of coffee for the veterans and coaches in the kitchenette adjacent to the meeting rooms on the second floor. He makes each canister a different strength to please all tastes.

After every game, he makes sure a fresh towel is in every teammate's locker stall.

It's part of being a rookie first-round pick, but it's also part of who he is.

"He's approached things the right way," Cowboys cornerback Chidobe Awuzie says. "He listened a lot in the beginning. He waited his turn. Then he got his shot after Sean got hurt, and he became that vocal guy. I have the utmost respect for that guy."

The Cowboys were protecting a seven-point lead against the Eagles with 2:07 left in a November game. Before the snap, Vander Esch stalked running back Corey Clement as if he knew a screen pass was going to head his way. Quarterback Carson Wentz dropped back, and center Jason Kelce and right guard Brandon Brooks bolted to their right, straight for Vander Esch. With a deft angle, he got past both and grabbed Clement by the ankle with one hand for a loss of five.

The play took the life from the Eagles. Vander Esch is at his best when the kill is near-when those hunting instincts kick in.

A good hunter is aware of everything-the direction of the wind, the scent in the air, the phase of the moon, the snap of the twig. He makes note of any clutter that could come between him and his target. He knows every landmark.

A good linebacker is aware of everything, too-the pad level of the uncovered guard, the quiver in the quarterback's snap count, the widening of the wide receiver's eyes just before contact, the way his cleats grip the earth beneath him. He makes note of any clutter that could come between him and his target. He knows every landmark.

Yes, Vander Esch will tell you, there are similarities in the disciplines.

"You have to be able to use your instincts in both," he says. "When you are trying to make a tackle, you have to think as if you were the ball-carrier. Trying to hunt, you think what the animal would do in this situation. What would be their next move? It's the same as football."

In some ways, Vander Esch is doing the same things he's always done. In other ways, life is very different.

Instead of taking Main Street and Seven Devils Road, speed limit 25 mph, he's traversing the Dallas North Tollway and the Sam Rayburn Tollway, speed limit what difference does it make?

In Dallas, the bus that represents his team is Jerry Jones' Elegant Lady-luxury on wheels. It's reportedly worth $2 million and includes nine televisions, mahogany wood, electronic shades, secret ice boxes, a mobile office, a 24-karat gold football and Cowboys logos everywhere. When it's parked, the interior can be widened by a foot, and an awning can be extended. "It's really something," says Vander Esch, who has been on the Elegant Lady numerous times for team events.

In Riggins, it was the Vander Esch Express, a 1992 MCI coach bus that, in a previous life, transported passengers from a train station to Disneyland. Since Darwin purchased it for $14,000, the Vander Esch Express has been tricked out with bunk beds, a stove, a refrigerator and an expanded bathroom. Last year, it made its maiden voyage in the parade down Main Street to kick off the Riggins Rodeo.

The Vander Esch Express still rolls. It spent most of the football season in the Dallas area, as the family used it to tailgate at Cowboys games.

The core of Vander Esch remains the same. His first big purchase after signing his contract was an all-terrain vehicle for getting around in the mountains.

One day, Lee noticed Vander Esch was agitated.

"What are you mad about?" Lee asked.

Vander Esch: "I ordered a part for a snowmobile, and they sent me the wrong part."

Lee: "Snowmobile problems, man. Who has snowmobile problems?"

Someone from rural Idaho has snowmobile problems.

"I'll always love Idaho and will always go back to where I grew up," Vander Esch says. "But I'm enjoying life so much right now, living the actual dream I've set my highest goal for my entire life. I'm having the best time of my life."

There is no place on this blue planet he would rather be than where he will be Saturday, with an opportunity to do something worth howling about.

In a November game against the Saints, Vander Esch tackled Mark Ingram for a loss of one on a critical 3rd-and-2. Then he stepped forward, tilted his head back, put his hands around his mouth and howled. His teammates howled too. The crowd at AT&T joined in. Then fans in bars, in their dens and living rooms all started howling.

Teammates had been encouraging Vander Esch to develop a signature celebration. Wolves howl to defend their territory. This was perfect.

"I wish I came up with that," Awuzie says. "Fans love it. We love it as teammates. When we know he's about to do it, we all start howling. It gets us all hyped."

It is a sound Vander Esch knows well.

On a wolf hunt, the first task is to search for tracks and identify travel patterns. Once the hunter suspects there are wolves in the area, he howls. If he is on the money, there will be a return howl. He can answer back like a lone wolf, or try to sound like a pair of wolves. The idea is to try to induce a sly, shy animal to come to him.

"Wolf hunting is an extreme adrenaline rush, an absolute blast," Vander Esch says. "It's different from hunting for elk and deer. They are an animal to us, and we are an animal to them. They are hard to hunt because they are so intelligent. Some animals have better senses than others-sight, hearing, smell-wolves have it all."

He feels completely alive when he looks through the sight, gets a glimpse of that magnificent animal with the fluffy coat and thick tail and begins to pressure the cold trigger with his forefinger.

The senses become heightened.

The hairs on the back of the neck rise.

The heart beats faster.

It is a feeling that only can be duplicated on a football field, with a chilling howl that all of Dallas bellows with him.
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Leighton Vander Esch Was Born to Be a Cowboy

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It was the morning after the first round of the draft, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his son Stephen had just finished an emotional conversation with Jason Witten. The great tight end, a franchise cornerstone for 15 years, was done with football...

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An 11-year-old boy apparently suffered a severe asthma attack and died when he inhaled the aroma of salt fish cooking in his grandmother's New York City home after going there to wish her a happy New Year, according to his mother.

"I just want whatever happened to my family not to happen to someone else," Jody Pottingr, the mother of Cameron Jean-Pierre, told ABC News on Thursday.

Pottingr said her son suffered from asthma and had a severe allergic reaction to fish. She now wants other parents of children with similar allergies to be aware that inhaling the aroma of fish can be deadly.

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An 11-year-old boy apparently suffered a severe asthma attack and died when he inhaled the aroma of salt fish cooking in his grandmother's New York City home after going there to wish her a happy New Year, according to his mother.

"I just want whatever happened to my family not to happen to someone else," Jody Pottingr, the mother of Cameron Jean-Pierre, told ABC News on Thursday.

Pottingr said her son suffered from asthma and had a severe allergic reaction to fish. She now wants other parents of children with similar allergies to be aware that inhaling the aroma of fish can be deadly.

"Cameron was full of life. He was such a great kid," Pottingr said of her only child.

Jody Pottingr

New York City Police and paramedics were called to the home of Cameron's grandmother on 82nd Street in Canarsie, Brooklyn, around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday after Cameron inhaled a traditional Caribbean fish dish that his grandmother and aunt were cooking, according to police.

After suffering the asthma attack, the boy was rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The city medical examiner has launched an investigation to determine the official cause of death, a spokeswoman for the agency told ABC News.

"No determination on the cause of death has been made," the spokeswoman said.

Pottingr said her son went with his father, Steven Jean-Pierre, to his grandmother's home on New Year's Day after first visiting her mother, also in Brooklyn.

"I guess they forgot something at the house and went back and he went in the house and then he inhaled the fish," Pottingr said. "When he inhaled the fish I guess that triggered off an asthma attack and he couldn't breathe."

Steven Jean-Pierre immediately administered a nebulizer machine on the boy, which the child always had with him.

"I'm just devastated by the situation right now, it just happened so suddenly," the father told ABC station WABC-TV. "I gave him the nebulizer, the machine, that he usually takes if something like this happens, so it was a normal situation. But for some reason, he said it wasn't giving him enough air at the time."

"My son's last words were 'Daddy I love you, daddy I love you,'" he added. "He gave me two kisses, two kisses on my face. He said, 'I feel like I'm dying.' I said, 'Don't say that. What are you talking about. Don't say that.'"

The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology warns people with allergies to fish to "stay out of areas where fish is being cooked, as proteins may be released into the air during cooking."

Pottingr said her son was first diagnosed with a fish allergy when he was in kindergarten and threw up after being served fish sticks for lunch.

"He went to the doctor and they did the allergy tests where they put the little dots all over your body," Pottingr said. "So we have like a list at the house of all the things that he's allergic to and fish is one of the things."

She said her son was a sixth-grader and an honor-roll student at Theodore Schore Middle School in Piscataway, New Jersey, where the family moved to from Brooklyn two years ago.

"He's very smart. He plays sports. He loved playing football," she said. "He loved reading. He taught himself to play video games just by watching YouTube videos. Anything he wants to learn he watches a YouTube video and he does it."

She said teachers at his school were heartbroken when they received word that Cameron had died.

"I called the school and told the counselor what happened and she called me back and said, 'I went to each teacher individually and told them what happened and they were all devastated because they all loved Cameron,'" Pottingr said. "[The teacher] said, 'Cameron is such a good kid here and we all has such high hopes for him.'"

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There isn't a hotter name on the coaching market than Lincoln Riley.

In only two seasons, he's racked up accolades. Oklahoma has two Big 12 championships, two appearances in the College Football Playoff and two Heisman Trophy winners.

Short of winning a national title, Riley could hardly have a more appealing resume. The 35-year-old has built an offensive juggernaut on a high-efficiency system with remarkable production.

And the NFL wants him. Oh, does it covet Riley.

During the spring, someone from nearly all 32 NFL teams approached him to discuss Oklahoma's offense. Then, they watched him turn Kyler Murray into a baseball-playing football star.

Rumors had him reuniting with former OU quarterback Baker Mayfield with the Cleveland Browns. The Green Bay Packers have a vacancy, a legend in Aaron Rodgers and a desperate need for a creative scheme. The Dallas Cowboys seemed to be a possibility until a late-season surge might've saved Jason Garrett.

Bleacher Report's own Brad Gagnon called Riley the fourth-best candidate behind star coordinators Josh McDaniels and Vic Fangio and a two-time NFL Coach of the Year in Bruce Arians.

Perhaps a better time to pursue the pros awaits, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't seize the moment right now. Success is never guaranteed, and college football has a razor-thin margin for error―especially compared to the 16-game NFL season.

Yet he's wisely not going anywhere.

Financially speaking, Oklahoma can compete with most anything the NFL will offer. Riley recently agreed to a contract extension and a second raise in two years. In 2018, per , he earned $4.8 million. According to Oregon Live data gathering, a top-10 NFL salary is $5 million. The school isn't short on resources to provide him.

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Interesting when you hear the NFL rumor mill throw out big name college coaches like Harbaugh, Saban, Lincoln Riley etc..NFL fans might not realize it, but top college salaries have surpassed what many NFL coaches make.. So other than ego, what's the incentive to come to the NFL?

Riley's end of the bargain is supplying the on-field talent, and he's done a tremendous job recruiting. The Sooners ranked eighth in 2017, ninth in 2018 and are seventh before the February signing period―even without a defensive coordinator in place.

He's adding this current class to a squad that has celebrated four straight Big 12 championships. Although the Sooners have rejoined the nation's elite, they've done so without a string of top-tier defenses. The unit is practically a rebuild, and Riley's teams are 24-4 anyway. Considering the offense's excellence, OU would become a powerhouse if the defense could match what Gary Patterson has built at TCU.

At that level, Oklahoma would boast a degree of balance only Alabama and Clemson have displayed. Given that OU ranked 15th in yards allowed per play in 2015, that upside is possible even in a Big 12 that features wide-open offenses.

However, all of these accomplishments have no bearing on NFL success.

Those are necessary to get Riley in the door, but that's all. It's not like NFL coaches leave thriving teams as Bob Stoops did at Oklahoma in 2017 after an 11-2 season and Sugar Bowl win, handing Riley the keys to a Corvette. NFL vacancies are vacancies for a reason. If he doesn't win, Riley can't fall back on an impressive college football resume. Nobody will care.

In Norman, he's already upgraded the Corvette to a Lamborghini.
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Additionally, he'd be limited to one first-round pick and free agency each season. At Oklahoma, he can recruit any college-eligible prospect on the planet.

Nick Saban learned that the hard way, mustering a 15-17 record with the Miami Dolphins before returning to the college level. All he did was orchestrate the most successful decade in college football history at Alabama, dominating on the field and in recruiting.

Dabo Swinney is doing the same at Clemson, which has a national title among four straight College Football Playoff appearances. He's never coached in the NFL and over the summer said he's never put much thought into it, either.

No coach is closer to joining that duo than Riley.

From an outside perspective, the allure of the NFL could offer a guaranteed reunion with Mayfield or the realization of a dream of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. Neither one appears to carry more weight than college football's grandest stage.

Taking an NFL job is "not a burning desire of mine by any stretch right now," Riley said Sunday following Oklahoma's 45-34 loss to Alabama in the CFP semifinals, per Joe Mussatto of the Oklahoman. "Not even close. It doesn't even compare to my burning desire to win a national championship here."

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Sure, it's possible he's simply saying the right things in public to coincide with immediate plans. Opposing coaches will take any negative rumor and use it to their recruiting advantage, and Riley cannot afford to let any doubt seep into the minds of Oklahoma's recruits.

Yes, Riley recently left the NFL door cracked, acknowledging he can't predict 10 years into the future. But 10 years ago, the college football world saw Alabama as a rising force, not a dynasty. Swinney was a first-year head coach, not a superstar football mind who returned Clemson to prominence.

Oklahoma can join them with Riley at the helm. As the Sooners thrive, the NFL will keep calling.

Riley has more than enough incentive to continue hanging up.
All recruiting information via 247Sports' composite. Stats from , cfbstats.com or B/R research. Quotes obtained firsthand unless otherwise noted. Follow Bleacher Report CFB writer David Kenyon on Twitter@Kenyon19_BR.

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Five children from a Louisiana church group believed to be on their way to Disney World were among seven people killed during a fiery Florida interstate crash, state highway patrol has confirmed.

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Authorities say the deadly Florida interstate crash that left at least seven people dead is currently being treated as a homicide and may have involved a van with a group of children heading to Disney World.

Two big rigs and two passenger vehicles collided about a mile south of Alachua, near Gainesville on Thursday, sparking a massive fire fed by about 50 gallons of diesel.
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Fire Rescue said that "multiple patients" had suffered "critical injuries," but did not specify how many. Authorities initially said six had died but late Thursday night revealed a seventh victim had perished. The condition of the injured people remains unknown.

The authorities are treating the crash as a homicide investigation, though it remains unclear the reasons why.

Alachua County Sheriff's spokesman Art Forgey told the Star-Banner that the agency is still verifying the dispatch records that indicate one of the vehicles carried a group of children to Disney World.

He noted that other vehicles that traveled with the same group weren't involved in the crash.

Some people passing through the interstate described some of the scenes after the crash. Nicole Towarek, a student who was on a holiday trip from Fort Myers to Atlanta, told The Gainesville Sun that the scenes completely changed after the crash, with black smoke billowed and people being laid out near vehicles.

"We kept seeing these little explosions and fire," she said. "The heat, it was insane."

"We kept seeing these little explosions and fire. The heat, it was insane."
- Nicole Towarek

A spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol told the Associated Press that the top priority at the moment is to verify the deceased victims. It remains unclear if the victims died as a result of the crash or the fire that came after the collision.

"There's going to be families that need to be notified that their loved ones have perished," said Lieutenant Patrick Riordan.
FLORIDA INTERSTATE CRASH KILLS AT LEAST 7, INJURES 7 MORE
Riordan previously told the Sun that some of the fatalities "were in at least one of the passenger vehicles."

The Alachua County Sheriff's Office dispatched earlier a helicopter to look for potential victims in the woods off the highway.

Thursday's crash has been the worst incident on the interstate in Alachua county since January 2012 when 11 people died in a crash.

Following the crash, officials at the time installed cameras, sensors and large electronic signs to prevent crashes like that from ever happening again.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A 19 year old teen is in coma from trying to break up a fight at his own birthday party. His girlfriend and cousin were fighting outside the hotel around 1 am.

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A teen has been placed in a medically-induced coma after he was attacked while trying to break up a fight on his 19th birthday on New Year's Day.

Matthew Gullat was celebrating at a Fairfield Inn in Toledo, Ohio, with a group that included his girlfriend and cousin when a fight broke out in the parking lot outside the hotel before 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Toledo Police Department.

At least 10 people were involved in the fight, police said. Investigators are currently searching for three unknown suspects, one of whom they believe goes by the first name Melvin and another who goes by the nickname "Day Day," according to the police report.

Gullat's cousin, Danielle Brown, 18, told police that she saw "Melvin," whom she recognized through mutual friends, sitting in the driver's seat of a white Chevrolet Impala, the report stated.

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After Brown said "Hi" to Melvin, a passenger sitting in the car exited and began yelling at the group, asking Melvin, "What they on?" Brown told police, according to the report.

Brown said that Melvin attempted to calm the passenger, whom he referred to as "Day Day," advising him that he knew Brown, according to the report. "Day Day" then confronted a male who was with Brown, engaging him in a fight, Brown told police.

When Gullat attempted to intervene, Melvin and the third suspect lifted him up before dropping him to the ground and knocking him unconscious, police said. "Day Day" then approached Gullat and and began "kicking him about the head and face, and stomping on his head and neck," the police report stated.

"Day Day" continued his assault until Gullat's girlfriend, Savannah Parker, intervened, and "Day Day" then struck her on her back about three times, police said. Parker and Brown told police that they then laid over Gullat's body in an attempt to protect him as Melvin and the other suspects "drove around them repeatedly before fleeing the scene," acccording to the report.

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One witness who saw the end of the fight told police she saw that Gullat was unconscious and "needing help from his friends to stand," the report stated.

When officers arrived to the hotel, they saw about five to six people in the parking lot helping a man to his feet and into an ambulance already on the scene, according to the report. Officers observed him to be "unsteady on his feet" and "Out of it," according to the report.

Gullat was transported to the hospital, where he was placed in a medically-induced coma, his parents told ABC Toledo station WTVG. He suffered serious head injuries and is now in the intensive care unit, the station reported.

Gullat's mother, Lisa Gordon, told WTVG that he is on a ventilator and has a drill coming out of the right side of his head.

"Matthew is a fighter, and he's fighting for his life," Gordon said.

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Gullat's father, Hosey Gullat, told WTVG that he has "cried so much" since the beginning of the new year.

"Just 42 minutes into his birthday, and now he's sitting in this hospital barely able to move," Hosey Gullat said. "We don't know what's going to happen."

No arrests have been made in the case, Toledo Police spokesman Lt. Kellie Lenhardt told ABC News.

Gullat's parents urged the suspects to turn themselves in.

"I just want them to come forward and admit what they did," Gordon said. "...I forgive what they did to my son. Everybody makes mistakes, especially when you're under the influence of alcohol and drugs, you tend to do things that you normally don't do. I'm a Christian, and I have been taught to forgive."

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A teen has been placed in a medically-induced coma after he was attacked while trying to break up a fight on his 19th birthday on New Year's Day. Matthew Gullat was celebrating at a Fairfield Inn in Toledo, Ohio, with a group that included his girlfriend and cousin when a fight broke out in the parking lot outside the hotel before 1 a.m.

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President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance in the White House press briefing room Thursday where he congratulated Rep. Nancy Pelosi on her election as the next House speaker and again advocated for the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance in the White House press briefing room Thursday where he congratulated Nancy Pelosi on her election as the next House Speaker.

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"I just want to start off by congratulating Nancy Pelosi on being elected Speaker of the House," Trump said. "It's a very, very great achievement, and hopefully we're going to work together and we're going to get lots of things done, like infrastructure and so much more."

Trump made the statement at a hastily-arranged press briefing that the White House only advised reporters of minutes in advance. The president was flanked at the briefing by Border Patrol officers who were there to advocate for Trump's demands for a wall along the southern border.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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5 children dead after fiery wreck while driving to Disney World.

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Authorities say the deadly Florida interstate crash that left at least seven people dead is currently being treated as a homicide and may have involved a van with a group of children heading to Disney World.

Two big rigs and two passenger vehicles collided about a mile south of Alachua, near Gainesville on Thursday, sparking a massive fire fed by about 50 gallons of diesel.
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Fire Rescue said that "multiple patients" had suffered "critical injuries," but did not specify how many. Authorities initially said six had died but late Thursday night revealed a seventh victim had perished. The condition of the injured people remains unknown.

The authorities are treating the crash as a homicide investigation, though it remains unclear the reasons why.

Alachua County Sheriff's spokesman Art Forgey told the Star-Banner that the agency is still verifying the dispatch records that indicate one of the vehicles carried a group of children to Disney World.

He noted that other vehicles that traveled with the same group weren't involved in the crash.

Some people passing through the interstate described some of the scenes after the crash. Nicole Towarek, a student who was on a holiday trip from Fort Myers to Atlanta, told The Gainesville Sun that the scenes completely changed after the crash, with black smoke billowed and people being laid out near vehicles.

"We kept seeing these little explosions and fire," she said. "The heat, it was insane."

"We kept seeing these little explosions and fire. The heat, it was insane."
- Nicole Towarek

A spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol told the Associated Press that the top priority at the moment is to verify the deceased victims. It remains unclear if the victims died as a result of the crash or the fire that came after the collision.

"There's going to be families that need to be notified that their loved ones have perished," said Lieutenant Patrick Riordan.
FLORIDA INTERSTATE CRASH KILLS AT LEAST 7, INJURES 7 MORE
Riordan previously told the Sun that some of the fatalities "were in at least one of the passenger vehicles."

The Alachua County Sheriff's Office dispatched earlier a helicopter to look for potential victims in the woods off the highway.

Thursday's crash has been the worst incident on the interstate in Alachua county since January 2012 when 11 people died in a crash.

Following the crash, officials at the time installed cameras, sensors and large electronic signs to prevent crashes like that from ever happening again.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Advaik Nandikotkur, an 11 year old from Eagan, Minnesota, saved a 34 year old man from drowning by pulling him up from the bottom of the pool. This happened because Advaik's mother, Mareddy Nandikotkur, saw the man sitting at the bottom of the pool with his mouth and eyes wide open. Despite several people being around the pool, none of them knew how to swim, so Advaik sprung into action.

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A man was drowning in the deep end of an indoor pool in Minnesota. Concerned adults gathered around, but none of them knew how to swim. That's when Advaik Nandikotkur, 11, jumped in.

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A body has been discovered in the search for a Georgia father who mysteriously vanished a week ago in a case police say contains "a lot of red flags."

The Lamar County Sheriff's Office told FOX5 Atlanta they believe a male found dead Thursday night behind a mobile home in Thomaston is Roderick Crawford, although an official autopsy is pending.

Crawford's family told WSB-TV that the body is his and the station claims investigators suspect he was murdered.

Crawford, a 46-year-old truck driver, was last seen Friday leaving his home in Barnesville to check a work schedule at a flour mill a few miles away.
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"We would anticipate foul play, we don't know from whom or what, but we are definitely concerned he hasn't shown back up yet or contacted anyone," Lamar County Sheriff Brad White said in an interview with Fox News earlier this week.

Gloria Baker, a family member, told FOX5 Atlanta that when Crawford left his home on Friday, he said to his children: "I'm gonna be right back. I'm going to check the work schedule'."

Crawford has not been heard from since, and his SUV was found abandoned Tuesday in nearby Clayton County.
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Investigators say shortly before his disappearance, Crawford called his wife as she got out of work, as he usually has done. His cell phone is reported to have last pinged a tower 15 miles away from his home - and well beyond his intended destination.

"He usually calls her because she has a long commute back home," Baker told Fox 5 Atlanta. "She said she had missed it. She got off at 7:20. He called at 7:19 and no more phone calls."

White says Crawford's SUV is currently being processed by state officials.
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"He always stays in contact with his close friends and family," White told FOX5 Atlanta. "There's a lot of red flags in this case."

Tambra Crawford, his sister, said to WSB-TV that she has been heartbroken over the case.

"Rod would never just walk away from his family. He loves his family. Especially to leave his boys and not show back up," she said.

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Police arrested a Texas man who allegedly murdered three young children and shot a woman in the head Thursday.

Junaid Mehmood, 27, allegedly killed an infant and two children -- believed to be 2 years old and 5 years old -- at a Texas City apartment complex and left a woman there to die, according to police.

Police discovered the victims at the Pointe Ann Apartments in Texas City, Texas, about 40 miles southeast of Houston, while responding to a welfare concern at around 6:15 p.m., the Texas City Police Department said in a statement.

The children were pronounced dead on the scene and the woman was rushed to a nearby hospital, according to the statement. The department didn't disclose the woman's identity, or her relationship to the children, but said she was in stable condition.

Mehmood was apprehended in Houston after a brief manhunt late Thursday night.

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The man called 911 and confessed to dispatchers, "I killed my family," according to Houston ABC station KTRK, before surrendering to authorities.

The children's causes of death has not been released.

Police records indicate that he'd been arrested multiple times, charged with fraud, robbery, assault and drug possession. He was charged with fraud in Galveston County in February 2010 and received five years probation. In 2014, he was charged with family assault and spent 20 days in confinement. After a robbery conviction in 2015 he was sentenced to three years in jail.

It's unclear if Mehmood has obtained an attorney.

ABC News' Gina Sunseri and Kevin Kraus contributed to this story.

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