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A desperate hunt was on in Charleston, South Carolina, for a 4-year-old girl who vanished from her home after an intruder forced his way in and beat her mother so badly she had to be taken to a hospital, police said today.

The child, 4-year-old Heidi Ranae Todd, was reported missing about 5:50 p.m. Tuesday in the Johns Island area of Charleston after police were called to her family's house and found the mother had been assaulted, Charleston Police Chief Jerome Taylor said a news conference today.

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Police were called to the house on Sweetleaf Lane after Heidi's mother did not show up at a school to pick up her other children, he said.

The mother told police a man forced his way into the home and beat her, the chief added.

"It was an unwanted guest. She did not invite anyone into her residence," Taylor said. "The individual was not invited into the residence."

The chief did not describe the incident as a kidnapping, saying, "I don't know if she [Heidi] is with this particular individual or not."

Two other children were inside the home at the time of the attack, Taylor said, but Heidi was the only one missing.

The FBI is involved in the investigation and has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Heidi's recovery.

"Help us in this most serious matter. Heidi Todd is missing. We need everyone to help find her," Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said at the news conference, holding up a flier with a picture of the curly-haired girl.

Heidi was last seen wearing pink pants and blue shirt, police said.

Taylor said the mother described her attacker as possibly Hispanic, skinny, 25 to 30 years old with short hair and dressed in all gray.

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Mayor Tecklenburg added, "The mother is in the hospital. She was brutally beaten and is in reasonably fair condition."

The mother, whose name was not released, might have to undergo surgery, he said.

Heidi's father is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard and was out of town on a training exercise at the time of the attack, Tecklenburg said, adding the father has since returned home.

Chief Taylor said, "At the present time, we are trying to unravel a motive. We are leaving no stone unturned to determine what occurred."

The mayor said there was no Amber alert issued for Heidi because authorities did not have enough information to meet the criteria for one.

"We don't even know if a vehicle was involved," Tecklenburg said.

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A desperate hunt was on in Charleston, South Carolina, for a 4-year-old girl who vanished from her home after an intruder forced his way in and beat her mother so badly she had to be taken to a hospital, police said today. The child, 4-year-old Heidi Ranae Todd, was reported missing about 5:50 p.m.

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technology is getting better each year. the things we are able to do with it is amazing. by 2068 planes will have a complete different look.

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(CNN) - If time travelers from 1968 found themselves in an airport today, there might be plenty of changes that surprise them. But the planes would look reassuringly familiar.

While there have been vast improvements in materials, engines and avionics -- helping 2017 become the safest year in aviation history -- commercial aircraft remain structurally similar to those of the 1960s.

In fact, the Boeing 737, one of the best-selling airliners ever in its many successive versions, flew for the first time in 1967.

But what might air travel look like 50 years from now?

Over the years, there have been some attempts to change the aircraft design paradigm.

The 1970s promised a future of supersonic travel that never really took hold, apart from the limited flights of the Concorde and its Soviet equivalent, the Tu-144.

And, the idea of a blended wing airliner, resembling the stealth Northrop B-2 bomber, has sometimes been touted -- but without much success so far.

A combination of technical and financial reasons has led the aviation industry to discard these rather outlandish propositions and focus on the more canonical designs that are the norm today.

Will the next 50 years continue along the slow, steady path of the last half-century? Or will we once again see the rapid technological disruption that characterized aviation in the years between the end of World War I and the Apollo moon landings?

Don't be fooled by the apparent lack of spectacular breakthroughs. Some big changes are in the offing.

The airliner of 2068 is already in the making -- and electric propulsion is set to play a major role.

Most short-haul flying is likely to go electric within the next few decades and this will transform the way we think of air travel.

Smaller electric motors will enable distributed propulsion, like the one found in NASA's X-57 prototype. Lower noise levels and operational costs will make it possible for electrical-powered aircraft to fly much closer to where people live and work.

In fact, several of today's most advanced electrical aircraft projects aim to not only replace ground transportation between cities -- as with the nine-to-12 passenger Zunum and Eviation concepts aim to do -- but within them.

Flying taxis will become a reality very soon, but it remains to be seen whether the futuristic-looking Vahana and CityAirbus concepts are really the face of things to come.

In any case, door-to-door flying is not the exclusive preserve of electrical aircraft.

Although not a new concept, the use of tilt-rotors -- meaning aircraft can transition from vertical lift to fixed-wing configuration -- has so far been confined pretty much to the US military.

However, Italian helicopter manufacturer Leonardo is now readying the commercial launch of a civilian model, the AW609, that if successful, could potentially transform executive and regional aviation.

Global air traffic has been increasing steadily for decades and now that there are all these new uses for aircraft, the question is: Who's going to fly them?

"It is estimated that the global commercial aviation industry will need some 600,000 pilots in the next 20 years," says Pascal Traverse, general manager for the Autonomy Thrust at Airbus.

Compare that to the approximately 200,000 pilots currently in service. This is one of the reasons automation will become more important," he adds.

Suddenly, the idea of a pilotless airliner doesn't sound so far-fetched.

Bjorn Fehrm, an independent industry aviation expert at Leeham News, refers to one- and half-pilot airplanes, a term some industry executives already use to refer to the latest generation of aircraft.

"Take this concept a bit further and, in a few years, with enough automation built in, you may really need just a 'safety pilot' to be there, in case something unexpected happens," he explains.

A fully pilotless airliner isn't envisaged in the foreseeable future.

"One of the main challenges is modeling the unknown unknowns. When the unexpected happens, a human pilot should be able to react or to draw analogies with similar situations and resolve it, but it is not so easy to teach a machine to take into account all that many variables," says Traverse.

Airliner automation may not itself translate into changes in aircraft design.

However, some experts see in the combinations of all these new technologies an opportunity to redesign the passenger experience from scratch.

"The emergence of electrical aircraft will lead to new fuselage designs that can accommodate passenger needs much better," says Victor Carlioz, founder with Matthew Cleary of ACLA Studio, a California-based design studio specializing in airline cabin design.

Could it be time for the tailless "flying wing" to make a comeback?

"One of the issues of the flying wing was actually the passenger experience," explains Fehrm. "People would be seated in an amphitheater-style cabin, many abreast, and no windows.

In this set-up, people at the edges could eventually have felt dizzy every time the aircraft turned. As dizziness depends on your visual references, you may be able to solve this by projecting images into the cabin and changing the points of reference."

Even if you are able to replicate the window-gazing experience, Carlioz still sees a strong case for keeping windows on aircraft. "Some futuristic concepts show windowless aircraft and, while there may be some structural benefits from getting rid of the windows, there is also another line of thought that says the opposite: having some point of communication with the outside improves the passenger experience".

It's not a coincidence that Boeing's Dreamliner, its most modern clean sheet design, features large windows and that Airbus devised a cabin with transparent walls in the vision of the future it presented at the 2011 Paris Air Show.

The appeal of large windows has been taken one step further by Embraer in one of its executive jet designs. The Kyoto cabin, designed for its Lineage 1000E aircraft, features large panoramic windows running along most of the lateral walls of the cabin.

There is one area where it seems that commercial aviation has gone backwards instead of forward.

Back in the day, it was possible to fly supersonic across the Atlantic, but nowadays even those with the deepest pockets have to content themselves with subsonic speeds.

Some start-ups are working to fix this.

Boom Supersonic, a startup that has Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator and Japan Airlines among its investors, is developing a commercial aircraft that will be expected to fly at speeds of Mach 2.2 with lower costs than the Concorde.

The Aerion AS2 is another civilian supersonic aircraft project, this one aimed at the executive market. Although it's still under development, it already boasts a $2.4 billion order from fractional jet operator Flexjet for 20 of its AS2 planes, capable of flying at Mach 1.5.

But even those speeds pale next to the hypersonic speeds envisaged by some ambitious research programs.

The Spaceliner, a project led by DLR, the German Aerospace Research Institute, would travel at the edge of space in order to fly 25 times faster than the speed of sound. This way you would be able to travel from, let's say London to Australia, in about 90 minutes.

"Very often in aerospace the challenge is not technological, but financial or operational," says Rolf Henke, executive board member for aeronautics research at DLR, the German Aerospace Research Institute.

"Blended wings have already been talked about in the 1920s and hypersonic flight since the 1930s, but you need someone willing to take the risks and invest huge amounts of money."

Will we get to a point where all these different technologies co-exist?

"We may see the market split in two clearly differentiated parts. The short and medium haul will go electric and this will happen sooner than many expect," says François Chopard, founder of Starburst, an investment fund and consultancy that focuses on aviation innovation.

"For the longer haul, we will have hypersonic suborbital flight that will shrink distances between continents considerably, like, let's say Europe to Australia, in under an hour," he adds.

You may add to this the "last mile" of the journey, covered by electrical-powered automated flying taxis such as the Vahana.

ACLA Studio's Carlioz and Cleary see automated flying taxis becoming an integral part of the whole air travel experience. Some tasks like luggage check-in and identity verification via biometrics could be completed on board in advance, fixing one of the major pain points in the air travel experience.

Says Starburst's Chopard, "What seems assured is that there are going to be many more objects flying over our heads than there are today!"

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(CNN) - If time travelers from 1968 found themselves in an airport today, there might be plenty of changes that surprise them. But the planes would look reassuringly familiar. While there have been vast improvements in materials, engines and avionics -- helping 2017 become the safest year in aviation history -- commercial aircraft remain structurally similar to those of the 1960s.

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Passenger booted from delta for screaming about being seated near a baby

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An annoyed passenger was allegedly kicked off a Delta Air Lines flight earlier this month after "screaming" about being seated next to an 8-month-old, according to footage captured by the baby's mother.

Marissa Rundell, a mom from Hammondsport, N.Y., was seated with her son Mason on a flight scheduled to depart from JFK International Airport for Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 6, when a woman preparing to take her seat across the aisle began complaining, Rundell told the Daily Mail.
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'She came to the back and slammed her bags down. She said "this is f---ing ridiculous. It's bulls--- having to sit in the back of the plane," said Rundell.

Rundell claims she then asked the woman to watch her language - twice - and was told to "shut the f--- up and shove it."

Soon afterward, the woman began complaining about being seated next to Rundell's small child on the flight, which was operated by Endeavor Air, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta.

"Can I sit somewhere else?" the woman can be heard saying in footage Rundell shared to Facebook. "I'm not sitting near a crying baby."

A flight attendant, later identified as Tabitha, tells the woman she can take the next flight if she'd prefer.

"No, I can't," the woman shoots back. She then asks for the flight attendant's name, which Tabitha offers along with her employee ID number.

"Thank you, Tabitha," the woman says. "You may not have a job tomorrow."
'INTOXICATED' WOMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING JETBLUE CREW, TOUCHING MALE PASSENGER
At this, Tabitha immediately tells another crew member that she "want[s] this lady off the flight," which prompts the woman to begin apologizing.

"No. You just screamed at a woman and her baby," Tabitha responds. She then turns toward a responding crew member and motions toward the woman. "She was screaming at the baby," Tabitha says.

"I'm not screaming. I'll be quite now. Please. OK? I'm sorry. I was really stressed out," the woman can be seen pleading near the end of Rundell's video.

Rundell confirmed to the Daily Mail that the woman continued to argue with a Delta gate agent who came to remove her from the flight, but ultimately left the plane after coming back to her seat and fetching her belongings.

'I thought it was funny how she was acting like a child throwing a tantrum," said the 19-year-old mom.

In response to the incident, a spokesperson with Delta Air Lines has stated that the woman's behavior was not in keeping with the standards the airline requests of its passengers or crew.

"We ask that customers embrace civility and respect one another when flying Delta," a Delta spokesperson tells Fox News via email. "This customer's behavior toward a fellow customer on a flight from New York to Syracuse was not in keeping with those standards. We appreciate our Endeavor Air flight attendant's commitment to Delta's core values and apologize to the other customers on board flight 4017 who experienced the disturbance."
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Rundell, meawhile, says she's extremely pleased with how Delta handled the unruly passenger.

"This lady thought she was going to be rude to me and Mason now she has no way home today," Rundell wrote on Facebook. "Thank you to the lovely Delta flight attendant for not letting this women [sic] bully us. "

"Karma is a b----."

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2 actors accuse Scott Baio of abuse but he denies it.

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Two young actors from the show "Charles in Charge" have now accused Scott Baio of harassment and abuse. Baio denies the allegations.

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Gunman confessed to Florida high school shooting, police say

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The 19-year-old accused of gunning down 17 people at his former high school told police he carried out the rampage, according to a probable cause report.

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A Massachusetts hockey coach accused of sexually abusing several children, including a 6-year-old, is being held without bail.

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Massachusetts hockey coach accused of sexually abusing 8 children, including 6-year-old

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A Massachusetts hockey coach is currently being held without bail after eight families have come forward alleging that their children have been sexually abused by him, with the youngest being only 6 years old.

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Women are sending pads, tampons, and money to Rep Jay Lawrence because he is stalling to pass a bill that lets women in jail have an unlimited supply of what they need. "#LetItFlow"

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The #LetItFlow campaign began over the weekend as a direct response to a bill that stalled in the House of Representatives.

House Bill 2222 looks to provide female inmates in Arizona with an unlimited supply of feminine hygiene products at no cost to the inmates. It also looks to appropriate $80,000 from the fiscal year 2019 general fund to the state Department of Corrections for the purchase of these products.

Women are sending the hygiene products, and sometimes money, to Rep. Thomas "T.J." Shope, Republican chairman of the House Rules Committee, who stalled the bill because the DOC is revising its policy. In order for the bill to continue, it must go through the rules committee.

"It just seems cruel and absurd to make women barter and beg and plead for what should be a basic human right, which is access to sanitation and hygiene products," said Christy Chavis of Phoenix who sent $20 on Monday.

"If we continue to pressure Rep. Shope and the legislature, they may think it's a cause worth their time and won't pass the buck to the DOC," Chavis said.

Democratic Rep. Athena Salman introduced the bill and said currently incarcerated women are given 12 pads a month and if they run out they have to buy more themselves.

Matthew Specht, House of Representatives Republican Caucus spokesman, said in a statement to CNN the mailed products haven't arrived yet.

"If/when those come in, we're exploring whether they can be donated to the Arizona Department of Corrections," Specht said in an email. "If not, Representative Shope would like to donate them to a women's shelter in his district."

'The basic dignity of being a woman'

During a February 5 committee hearing, Salman and former inmates spoke in support of the bill. Salman said the current distribution of 12 pads a month is unfair because incarcerated women are paid 15 cents an hour, but a 16-pack of pads are $3.20 and a 10-pack of tampons are $2.05 in prisons. Salman told CNN she thinks the bill struck a nerve.

"This issue speaks to the basic dignity of being a woman," she said Tuesday. "By denying women additional pads and no free tampons, that is violating a woman's dignity and that's fundamentally wrong."

The bill passed through the all-male Military Veterans and Regulatory Affairs Committee with a 5-4 vote.

"I walked away thinking my male colleagues learned something from the committee," Salman said.

Salman said Shope spoke with the DOC and the bill was stalled because they were revising their policy.

On Tuesday, Specht said the DOC "will now provide female inmates with sufficient feminine hygiene products."

"In light of the Arizona Department of Correction's decision to revise their administrative policy on feminine hygiene products, HB 2222 would now be redundant and Rep. Shope does not intend to hear it in the House Rules Committee," Specht said.

Neither Shope nor Salman have seen the revisions.

Salman said it's not fair to future female inmates for her bill not to become law because future government administrations can change the rule if needed.

"We haven't seen the policy so it's inappropriate for Rep. Shope to hold the bill without talking to the stakeholders, including the women who were formerly incarcerated and the attorney who is monitoring the women's prison," she said.

"This is so fundamental to the dignity of women, you can't leave this up to chance that future administrations will change this rule back. The women of Arizona deserve for this to be in statute."

Salman said she'll be meeting with the DOC and the governor's office Tuesday. Specht was not aware of any future meetings with Shope, the DOC or the governor's office.

"It is very peculiar that the bill is being stalled by the chairman who is only talking to the governor's agency, the DOC, and not talking to the formerly incarcerated women who lived through this nightmare," she said.

CNN's David Williams and Carma Hassan contributed to this report.

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Cellphone video shows SWAT team clearing a classroom at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida after shooting leaves at least 17 people dead. http://abcn.ws/2Et02O0

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Another 'unspeakable tragedy' at a US school leaves 17 dead in Florida

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A football coach who shielded students from the Florida shooter died as he lived -- by putting himself second

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It would become perhaps the final act undertaken by the assistant coach and security guard, who suffered a gunshot wound and died after he was rushed into surgery, according to the school's football program and its spokeswoman, Denise Lehtio.

"He died the same way he lived -- he put himself second," Lehtio said. "He was a very kind soul, a very nice man. He died a hero."

Feis was among 17 people killed when a former student armed with a rifle opened fired on campus, unleashing a massacre that stands among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.

Colton Haab, a 17-year-old junior and football player who was close with Feis, said he heard the coach shielded three girls from gunfire.

"That's Coach Feis," Haab said, describing the educator as selfless, approachable and friendly.

"(He) made sure everyone else's needs were met before his own. He was a hard worker. He worked after school, on the weekends, mowing lawns, just helping as many people as possible," Haab said.

Haab last saw Feis Tuesday morning in a school hallway, he said. They talked "about normal stuff," like work and football.

"I'm glad he didn't suffer that much," the teenager said. "It's sad because it's not going to be the same without him at school anymore, that's for sure. Football definitely won't be the same. We're definitely going to have to band back together as brothers and mourn his loss and pick up the pieces to try to rebuild our football team."

Janitor ushers students to safety

Feis, who spent his whole career at the school after graduating from Stoneman Douglas, was among countless heroes whose stories began emerging after Wednesday's horror

Teacher Melissa Falkowski hid 19 students in a closet as the shooting erupted. Most students communicated silently on their phones, she said. Others burst into tears.

"This is the worst nightmare that could ever happen to you," she told CNN.

Meantime, as a fire alarm blared, a janitor diverted senior David Hogg and other students away from the direction of the shooting, Hogg told CNN affiliate KTRK. A teacher then opened a classroom door so they could hide.

"Without her, who knows how many of us would have died, 'cause we were easily 100 feet away from the freshman building," Hogg said, "and again, we thought this was a drill."

CNN's Chuck Johnston contributed to this story.

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It would become perhaps the final act undertaken by the assistant coach and security guard, who suffered a gunshot wound and died after he was rushed into surgery, according to the school's football program and its spokeswoman, Denise Lehtio. "He died the same way he lived -- he put himself second," Lehtio said.

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Google launches audiobooks that dont have a monthly subscription. The book are sold indevidually. unlike amazon prime, google has each book sold in 45 different contrary and 9 languages.

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Google is coming for Audible.

The tech giant announced it's now selling audiobooks on the Google Play Store.

Google Play Books rolls out in 45 countries and nine languages starting Tuesday. The audiobooks are available on Android, iOS, the web and with Google Assistant-enabled devices like Google Home smart speakers.

No subscription is required, and audiobooks can be purchased individually. Amazon's Audible service costs $14.95 per month after a free 30 day trial. That getsusers get a free credit for a book each month and 30% off additional titles.

Related: Google's assistant now works on smart speakers with screens

You can also access Google's audiobooks across multiple devices from the company. For example, you could listen on your Google Home smart speaker, and then pick up where you left off on your Pixel smartphone later.

Books can also be shared with family members for no extra fee via the Family Library feature.

The company is currently offering discounts on popular titles like Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" and Stephen King's "It." Google is also giving you 50% off your first purchase.

Meanwhile, Audible is already a well-established player in the audiobooks space, with over 400,000 audio titles. That company was founded in 1995 and acquired by Amazon in 2008 for $300 million. In 2016, Audible members downloaded nearly 2 billion hours of content.

While Amazon dominates the U.S. audiobooks market, Google's major advantage is that its service is available in 45 countries, according to James McQuivey, VP at research firm Forrester.

"Google can scale outside of the U.S. market much more easily than Amazon can," he told CNN Tech. "Google is making its voice assistant available in other countries faster than Amazon, and it will be able to use Android devices around the world as a platform for distributing audiobooks."

CNNMoney (New York) First published January 23, 2018: 2:19 PM ET

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4-year-old girl found after intruder enters home, brutally beats mother.

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A desperate hunt was on in Charleston, South Carolina, for a 4-year-old girl who vanished from her home after an intruder forced his way in and beat her mother so badly she had to be taken to a hospital, police said today.

The child, 4-year-old Heidi Ranae Todd, was reported missing about 5:50 p.m. Tuesday in the Johns Island area of Charleston after police were called to her family's house and found the mother had been assaulted, Charleston Police Chief Jerome Taylor said a news conference today.

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Police were called to the house on Sweetleaf Lane after Heidi's mother did not show up at a school to pick up her other children, he said.

The mother told police a man forced his way into the home and beat her, the chief added.

"It was an unwanted guest. She did not invite anyone into her residence," Taylor said. "The individual was not invited into the residence."

The chief did not describe the incident as a kidnapping, saying, "I don't know if she [Heidi] is with this particular individual or not."

Two other children were inside the home at the time of the attack, Taylor said, but Heidi was the only one missing.

The FBI is involved in the investigation and has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Heidi's recovery.

"Help us in this most serious matter. Heidi Todd is missing. We need everyone to help find her," Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said at the news conference, holding up a flier with a picture of the curly-haired girl.

Heidi was last seen wearing pink pants and blue shirt, police said.

Taylor said the mother described her attacker as possibly Hispanic, skinny, 25 to 30 years old with short hair and dressed in all gray.

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Mayor Tecklenburg added, "The mother is in the hospital. She was brutally beaten and is in reasonably fair condition."

The mother, whose name was not released, might have to undergo surgery, he said.

Heidi's father is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard and was out of town on a training exercise at the time of the attack, Tecklenburg said, adding the father has since returned home.

Chief Taylor said, "At the present time, we are trying to unravel a motive. We are leaving no stone unturned to determine what occurred."

The mayor said there was no Amber alert issued for Heidi because authorities did not have enough information to meet the criteria for one.

"We don't even know if a vehicle was involved," Tecklenburg said.

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President Donald Trump says it appears the suspect in Florida's deadly school shooting was "mentally disturbed."

Trump tweeted Thursday about the shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school. A former student opened fire Wednesday with an AR-15 rifle, killing 17 people. The 19-year-old was charged Thursday morning.

Trump says: "So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!"

The president offered sympathy in a tweet Wednesday and said he spoke with Florida's governor, but he has not addressed the nation.

Trump has cited mental health before as a cause for mass shootings, dismissing questions about gun control.

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A school shooting in Florida 19 years of age and killed 17 kids in Broward Highschool.

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Nikolas Cruz tried to blend in with panicked students fleeing the Florida high school he had just opened fire in, killing 17, authorities said late Wednesday.

Cruz concealed himself in the crowd and was seen running out of the school with hundreds of terrified students, authorities said.

Authorities said Cruz was later taken into custody "without incident" by Coconut Creek police in a Coral Springs neighborhood, located just a few miles from the high school itself.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office said Cruz, 19, was identified as the only possible gunman after looking at security footage from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Police said Cruz was taken to the hospital because he "exhibited labored breathing." He was later seen being escorted into Broward Sheriff's headquarters in a medical robe.

The carnage, however, had already taken its toll.

Noah Parness, 17, told the Associated Press that the fire alarm went off for the second time in the day at around 2:30 p.m. Parness said students were calmly filing out of the school when he suddenly heard several pops.

"Everyone was kind of just standing there calm, and then we saw a bunch of teachers running down the stairway, and then everybody shifted and broke into a sprint," Parness said. "I hopped a fence."

An unidentified student described the gruesome scene in an interview with Fox News.

"The police came through the hallway to get us and in the hallway, I saw a big pile of blood, like, kind of smeared as if they were dragged away, and I saw two girls probably dead in the hallway," she said. "And then, coming down the stairs, there was some more blood and outside the building there was another guy - I think it was a teacher - who was, [I'm] pretty sure was dead."

The motive behind the massacre was not immediately clear. Lawmakers and officials suggested the shooting may have been planned.

Sheriff Scott Israel, from Broward County, said at an evening news conference that the suspect carried an AR-15 rifle and had "countless magazines." He did not specify how many rounds were fired.

"It's catastrophic. There really are no words," Israel said.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., told Fox News that Cruz was wearing a gas mask and may have had smoke bombs during the rampage.

Nelson said in a separate interview with CNN that Cruz used the fire alarm "so the kids would come pouring out of the classrooms into the hall."

After speaking with authorities, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, said in a tweet "it is clear attack was designed & executed to maximize loss of life."

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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Nikolas Cruz opened fire in Florida high school then fled with students, police say

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Nikolas Cruz tried to blend in with panicked students fleeing the Florida high school he had just opened fire in, killing 17, authorities said late Wednesday. Cruz concealed himself in the crowd and was seen running out of the school with hundreds of terrified students, authorities said.

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McDonald's will soon banish cheeseburgers and chocolate milk from its Happy Meal menu in an effort to cut down on the calories, sodium, saturated fat and sugar that kids consume at its restaurants.

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McDonald's will soon banish cheeseburgers and chocolate milk from its Happy Meal menu in an effort to cut down on the calories, sodium, saturated fat and sugar that kids consume at its restaurants.

Diners can still ask specifically for cheeseburgers or chocolate milk with the kid's meal, but the fast-food company said that not listing them will reduce how often they're ordered. Since it removed soda from the Happy Meal menu four years ago, orders for it with Happy Meals have fallen 14 percent, the company said.

The Happy Meal has long been a target of health advocates and parents who link it to childhood obesity. McDonald's has made many tweaks over the years, including cutting the size of its fries and adding fruit. Most recently, it swapped out its apple juice for one that has less sugar.

It's been especially important as the company tries to shake its junk-food image, since McDonald's is known for getting more business from families with children relative to its traditional rivals, such as Burger King and Wendy's. The Happy Meal is a key part of that.

The latest changes will occur in the United States by June.

McDonald's said Thursday that it wants all its Happy Meal options to have 600 calories or fewer and have less than 650 milligrams of sodium. It also wants less than 10 percent of the meal's calories to come from saturated fat and added sugar.

The cheeseburger and chocolate milk didn't meet those new standards, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said. It is, however, working to cut sugar from the chocolate milk and believes it'll be back on the Happy Meal menu eventually - but doesn't know when that will happen.

There will be other tweaks: the six-piece chicken nugget Happy Meal will now come with a kids-sized fries instead of a small, lowering calories and sodium from the fries by half. And bottled water will be added as an option to the Happy Meal menu, but will cost extra. Currently, the Happy Meal menu lists milk, chocolate milk and apple juice. Soda does not cost extra.

For international restaurants, McDonald's Corp. said that at least half of the Happy Meal options available must meet its new nutritional guidelines. The company said some are adding new menu items to comply, like in Italy, where a grilled chicken sandwich was added to the Happy Meal menu.

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McDonald's slims down Happy Meal by banishing cheeseburgers

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The gunman accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school Wednesday had previously attended the school, where he was known as a "weird kid" and "loner" who was expelled for getting into a fight

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Nikolas Cruz tried to blend in with panicked students fleeing the Florida high school he had just opened fire in, killing 17, authorities said late Wednesday.

Cruz concealed himself in the crowd and was seen running out of the school with hundreds of terrified students, authorities said.

Authorities said Cruz was later taken into custody "without incident" by Coconut Creek police in a Coral Springs neighborhood, located just a few miles from the high school itself.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office said Cruz, 19, was identified as the only possible gunman after looking at security footage from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Police said Cruz was taken to the hospital because he "exhibited labored breathing." He was later seen being escorted into Broward Sheriff's headquarters in a medical robe.

The carnage, however, had already taken its toll.

Noah Parness, 17, told the Associated Press that the fire alarm went off for the second time in the day at around 2:30 p.m. Parness said students were calmly filing out of the school when he suddenly heard several pops.

"Everyone was kind of just standing there calm, and then we saw a bunch of teachers running down the stairway, and then everybody shifted and broke into a sprint," Parness said. "I hopped a fence."

An unidentified student described the gruesome scene in an interview with Fox News.

"The police came through the hallway to get us and in the hallway, I saw a big pile of blood, like, kind of smeared as if they were dragged away, and I saw two girls probably dead in the hallway," she said. "And then, coming down the stairs, there was some more blood and outside the building there was another guy - I think it was a teacher - who was, [I'm] pretty sure was dead."

The motive behind the massacre was not immediately clear. Lawmakers and officials suggested the shooting may have been planned.

Sheriff Scott Israel, from Broward County, said at an evening news conference that the suspect carried an AR-15 rifle and had "countless magazines." He did not specify how many rounds were fired.

"It's catastrophic. There really are no words," Israel said.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., told Fox News that Cruz was wearing a gas mask and may have had smoke bombs during the rampage.

Nelson said in a separate interview with CNN that Cruz used the fire alarm "so the kids would come pouring out of the classrooms into the hall."

After speaking with authorities, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, said in a tweet "it is clear attack was designed & executed to maximize loss of life."

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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Nikolas Cruz opened fire in Florida high school then fled with students, police say

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Nikolas Cruz tried to blend in with panicked students fleeing the Florida high school he had just opened fire in, killing 17, authorities said late Wednesday. Cruz concealed himself in the crowd and was seen running out of the school with hundreds of terrified students, authorities said.

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School shooting in Florida, 17 adults and children dead. It is becoming the normal to have school shootings, and many people agree that we time for gun control is here. Over 400 people have been shot in 200 school shootings since Sandy Hook.

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florida school shooting: at least 17 dead - cnn

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At least 17 dead in Florida school shooting, law enforcement says

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At least 17 people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Broward County Sheriff's office said.

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Nikolas Cruz has been charged in the Florida school shooting

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Nikolas Cruz tried to blend in with panicked students fleeing the Florida high school he had just opened fire in, killing 17, authorities said late Wednesday.

Cruz concealed himself in the crowd and was seen running out of the school with hundreds of terrified students, authorities said.

Authorities said Cruz was later taken into custody "without incident" by Coconut Creek police in a Coral Springs neighborhood, located just a few miles from the high school itself.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office said Cruz, 19, was identified as the only possible gunman after looking at security footage from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Police said Cruz was taken to the hospital because he "exhibited labored breathing." He was later seen being escorted into Broward Sheriff's headquarters in a medical robe.

The carnage, however, had already taken its toll.

Noah Parness, 17, told the Associated Press that the fire alarm went off for the second time in the day at around 2:30 p.m. Parness said students were calmly filing out of the school when he suddenly heard several pops.

"Everyone was kind of just standing there calm, and then we saw a bunch of teachers running down the stairway, and then everybody shifted and broke into a sprint," Parness said. "I hopped a fence."

An unidentified student described the gruesome scene in an interview with Fox News.

"The police came through the hallway to get us and in the hallway, I saw a big pile of blood, like, kind of smeared as if they were dragged away, and I saw two girls probably dead in the hallway," she said. "And then, coming down the stairs, there was some more blood and outside the building there was another guy - I think it was a teacher - who was, [I'm] pretty sure was dead."

The motive behind the massacre was not immediately clear. Lawmakers and officials suggested the shooting may have been planned.

Sheriff Scott Israel, from Broward County, said at an evening news conference that the suspect carried an AR-15 rifle and had "countless magazines." He did not specify how many rounds were fired.

"It's catastrophic. There really are no words," Israel said.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., told Fox News that Cruz was wearing a gas mask and may have had smoke bombs during the rampage.

Nelson said in a separate interview with CNN that Cruz used the fire alarm "so the kids would come pouring out of the classrooms into the hall."

After speaking with authorities, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, said in a tweet "it is clear attack was designed & executed to maximize loss of life."

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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Nikolas Cruz opened fire in Florida high school then fled with students, police say

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Nikolas Cruz tried to blend in with panicked students fleeing the Florida high school he had just opened fire in, killing 17, authorities said late Wednesday. Cruz concealed himself in the crowd and was seen running out of the school with hundreds of terrified students, authorities said.

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The gunman that gunned down a high school in Florida his digital profile was very disturbing