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President Donald Trump fired back at congressional Democrats on Thursday morning after Democrats said the two sides agreed Wednesday night to work together on a legislative package to address the status of young undocumented immigrants.

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President Trump and congressional Democrats agreed Wednesday night to work together on a legislative package to address the status of young undocumented immigrants.

Democrats claimed the agreement would include protections for "Dreamers" and border security measures short of a border wall, a characterization disputed by the White House following the two-hour dinner.

"We had a very productive meeting at the White House with the President," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said in a statement following dinner at the White House with Trump and several White House officials.

"The discussion focused on DACA. We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that's acceptable to both sides," Schumer and Pelosi said.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders disputed the statement in a tweet after the dinner, writing that "excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to" in the larger discussion over DACA and border security.

While DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to.
- Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) September 14, 2017

A White House official called the dinner -- at which participants ate Chinese food in the White House's Blue Room -- "constructive," and said the group discussed tax reform, border security, the DACA program, infrastructure and trade.

"This is a positive step toward the President's strong commitment to bipartisan solutions for the issues most important to all Americans," the official said. "The Administration looks forward to continuing these conversations with leadership on both sides of the aisle."

According to one person briefed on the meeting, Trump, Schumer and Pelosi agreed to put together a package consisting of the bipartisan Dream Act with border security provisions.

That bill would offer a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants brought to American as children who graduated high school or obtained a GED and pursued higher education, served in the military or worked lawfully for several years.

The meeting comes one week after Trump announced plans to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and surprised Republicans by cutting a deal with Democratic leaders on hurricane relief, government funding and extending the nation's debt limit.

The dinner also followed a flurry of bipartisan meetings at the White House. Trump, at a meeting with moderate Republicans and Democrats Wednesday afternoon, pushed for action on a legislative fix for DACA, but supported pairing it with border security, according to Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon.

It's unclear how far any agreement can proceed on Capitol Hill without buy in from Republicans controlling both chambers.

In a statement Wednesday following a DACA meeting between Pelosi, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other top lawmakers, Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said GOP leaders believe "any solution needs to address border security and enforcement, which are the root causes of the problem. Discussions among the Republican conference will continue in the coming weeks."

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MASON, Mich. - A Michigan teenager fatally shot his mother as she slept hours after she told him he couldn't keep a puppy he brought home a few weeks earlier, police said.

Andrew David Willson, 19, was arraigned Monday on one count each of murder and felony firearm possession.

Magistrate Mark Blumer denied bond for Willson, who has been in police custody since Friday.

More: Dog owner faces charges in mauling of mom, boyfriend

Andrew Willson called police shortly before 7 a.m. Friday and said he came home from a drive to find his mother had been murdered, an Ingham County (Mich.) Sheriff's detective told the judge in a hearing that led to charges against the teen.

Lisa Marie Willson, 51, was found dead in a bedroom of her home near Williamston, Mich., in Wheatfield Township, police said. She was shot once in the back of the head.

Investigators determined that no one besides her and her son had been inside the house the night of the killing, Detective Charles Buckland testified.

Andrew Willson talked to his mother about the puppy Thursday evening, and she told him he would have to bring the dog to his father's home, Buckland testified.

The teen told detectives that in the overnight hours he removed a .22 Magnum rifle from a locked cabinet, then went into his mother's room and shot her in the back of the head as she slept, Buckland said.

He then drove around back roads for a while before discarding the rifle. Police recovered the weapon, which had a spent shell casing and a live round in it.

Andrew Willson has no criminal history, police said.

An attorney for Willson, Stephen Milks, declined to comment after the hearing.
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Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN.

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The New York meeting preceded a separate effort by the UAE to facilitate a back-channel communication between Russia and the incoming Trump White House.

The crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, arrived in New York last December in the transition period before Trump was sworn into office for a meeting with several top Trump officials, including Michael Flynn, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his top strategist Steve Bannon, sources said.

The Obama administration felt misled by the United Arab Emirates, which had failed to mention that Zayed was coming to the United States even though it's customary for foreign dignitaries to notify the US government about their travels, according to several sources familiar with the matter. Rice, who served as then-President Obama's national security adviser in his second term, told the House Intelligence Committee last week that she requested the names of the Americans mentioned in the classified report be revealed internally, a practice officials in both parties say is common.

Rice's previously undisclosed revelation in a classified setting shines new light on a practice that had come under sharp criticism from the committee chairman, California Rep. Devin Nunes, and President Donald Trump, who previously accused Rice of committing a crime.

But her explanation appears to have satisfied some influential Republicans on the committee, undercutting both Nunes and Trump and raising new questions about whether any Trump associates tried to arrange back-channel discussions with the Russians.

"I didn't hear anything to believe that she did anything illegal," Florida Rep. Tom Rooney, a Republican helping to lead the panel's Russia invesigation, told CNN of Rice's testimony. He declined to discuss any of the contents of her classified remarks.

Through a spokeswoman, Rice declined to comment about her testimony. Nunes refused to answer questions when asked about Rice Tuesday evening.

It's unclear precisely which Trump officials Rice discussed at the House meeting. But multiple sources have confirmed to CNN that Zayed met at the time with Flynn, Kushner and Bannon. The three-hour discussion focused on a range of issues, including Iran, Yemen and the Mideast peace process, according to two sources who insisted that opening up a back-channel with Russia was not a topic of discussion.

Still, the fact that the New York meeting occurred prior to the Seychelles session and that the UAE did not notify the Obama administration about why the crown prince was coming to the United States has raised questions in the eyes of investigators on Capitol Hill.

A secret meeting in the Seychelles

But the Trump Tower meeting came shortly before the UAE brokered a meeting to open lines of communications with the United States and Russia, with a clandestine January meeting in the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, according to reports in CNN and The Washington Post. That meeting is now under investigation on Capitol Hill, though it's unclear whether Rice mentioned the Seychelles meeting in the testimony.

A senior Middle East official told CNN that the UAE did not "mislead" the Obama administration about the crown prince's visit, but acknowledged not telling the US government about it in advance. The meeting, which took place December 15, 2016, the official said, was simply an effort to build a relationship with senior members of the Trump team who would be working in the administration to share assessments of the region.

"The meeting was about ascertaining the Trump team's view of the region and sharing the UAE's view of the region and what the US role should be," the official said. "No one was coming in to sell anything or arrange anything."

A spokesperson for the crown prince declined to comment.

The Seychelles meeting -- and the circumstances around it -- has been a subject of interest to Hill investigators looking at any potential link between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The Washington Post initially reported in April that the UAE brokered a pre-inauguration meeting between the founder of the security firm Blackwater, Erik Prince, who is a close Trump ally, and an associate of Vladimir Putin's in the Seychelles Islands. The purpose of the meeting was part of an effort by the UAE to persuade Russia to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, according to the Post.

And it occured shortly after Bannon, Flynn and Kushner also met in Trump Tower with Zayed, whom the Post said helped arrange the Seychelles meeting with Russia government officials to set up the private discussions with the Trump team.

But the senior Middle East official told CNN this week that Prince's name was not discussed at the Trump Tower meeting. And Prince himself has said he did nothing wrong, telling CNN's Erin Burnett last month: "I was there for business."

Both the White House and Prince have strongly denied that Prince was working as a liaison for the Trump administration.

Prince said he met with a Russian while at the Seychelles but "I don't remember his name."

"It probably lasted about, as long as one beer," he said about the meeting.

Explaining 'unmasking'

For her part, Rice had been called to the House Intelligence Committee to testify partly over what Nunes and other Republicans believed was an abuse in the practice of "unmasking" -- or revealing the identities of Americans who were communicating with foreign officials under surveillance by the US intelligence community. Simply unmasking the names of individuals in classified reports does not mean that their identities will be revealed publicly, and Rice denied to the committee that she leaked classified information to the press, sources familiar with the matter said.

But Rice's suggestion that she unmasked the names of US individuals -- who turned out to be Trump associates -- over concerns about the propriety of the crown prince's visit to the United States could help her fend off attacks that she was out of line in the actions she took.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who is helping lead the House investigation, told the Daily Caller "nothing that came up in her interview that led me to conclude" that she improperly unmasked the names of Trump associates or leaked it to the press.

Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, did not say explicitly whether Trump still believes Rice committed a crime but added the issue of leaking and unmasking needs to be investigated.

"We've seen illegal leaking of classified materials, including the identities of American citizens unmasked in intelligence reports," Sanders told CNN. "That's why the President called for Congress to investigate this matter and why the Department of Justice and Intelligence Community are doing all they can to stamp out this dangerous trend that undermines our national security."

Nunes was forced to step aside from running the Russia investigation amid a House ethics inquiry into whether he improperly disclosed classified data. The ethics inquiry came in the aftermath of his bombshell comments that Obama administration officials had improperly unmasked the names of Trump associates, a revelation that Trump used as cover for his unsubstantiated claim that Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped during the election to spy on him. The Justice Department said in a court filing Friday that the DOJ and the FBI have no evidence to support Trump's claims.

But on Tuesday, the Republican who took over the investigation from Nunes said there was no reason to bring Rice in for further questioning.

"She was a good witness, answered all our questions," Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican now running the House Russia probe, told CNN. "I'm not aware of any reason to bring her back."

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LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- Firefighters are on the scene of a large fire in Lee's Summit Wednesday morning.

The fire appears to have started just before 8 a.m. at CK Enterprises just south of the intersection of Highway-50 and 291 south. CK Enterprises makes industrial strength cleaning supplies.

Ryan Gerding, the husband of Fox 4's morning show executive producer, stopped by the scene to get video and said flames appeared to be getting bigger.

Ryan said his son was on his way to middle school when he first noticed the smoke. By 8:30 a.m., Ryan said flames appeared to be shooting nearly 30 feet into the air outside of one of the buildings.

Fox 4 has multiple crews headed to the scene and will be providing updates as they become available.

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LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- Firefighters are on the scene of a large fire in Lee's Summit Wednesday morning. The fire appears to have started just before 8 a.m. at CK Enterprises just south of the intersection of Highway-50 and 291 south. CK Enterprises makes industrial strength cleaning supplies.

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Tesla has now triggered a upgrade for the people in Irma´s path. The upgrade allows people in evacuation zones to go 40 extra miles before the car has to be stopped and recharged.

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Tesla is giving a boost to customers in the path of Hurricane Irma.

The electric carmaker says it is temporarily extending the range of some of its vehicles. In other words, drivers who are trying to leave Florida or another evacuation zone are now able to travel up to 40 extra miles before they need to stop and recharge.

The decision was reported earlier by Electrek. A Tesla spokesperson confirmed the move to CNNMoney on Sunday.

Here's how it works: Tesla remotely triggered a software upgrade for some cars in the southeast, where Irma is expected to cause significant damage, according to the spokesperson.

That update is allowing some Tesla batteries to travel for longer than they were previously able to.

When Tesla built the cars, it used software to restrict the car batteries' range and sold them for a cheaper price point.

Hurricane Irma: Live Updates

Customers who wanted to unlock the full capacity could later spend money to get the upgrade.

Tesla said it decided to temporarily extend the feature for free after one Irma evacuee requested it.

The free upgrade will last until September 16.

Some Tesla owners might have felt an advantage over drivers of gasoline-powered cars during the evacuations. There have been massive lines at pumping stations and widespread gas shortages throughout Florida.

Related: Gas stations on Florida's west coast are running out of fuel

No matter the type of fuel that powered their trips, people attempting to leave Florida via roadways still encountered miles of traffic jams. Millions have attempted to flee the state in the last few days.

About 6.3 million people were in mandatory evacuation zones, according to the state's division of emergency management. That makes it potentially the largest evacuation in U.S. history.

Irma made landfall in South Florida on Sunday as a Category 4 storm.

--CNNMoney's Peter Valdes-Dapena contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 10, 2017: 3:57 PM ET

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Wife Heather Yavaliollah went into labor inside their home, but couldn’t get out because a storm resulting from Hurricane Irma had knocked down a tree, blocking the door.

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A couple in suburban Atlanta will likely never forget Monday, the day they became parents of twins.

Wife Heather Yavaliollah went into labor inside their home, but couldn't get out because a storm resulting from Hurricane Irma had knocked down a tree, blocking the door.

That's when husband Mehrvarz Yavaliollah sprang into action, Atlanta's Fox 5 reported.

He ran to a shed and grabbed a chainsaw that was stored under some outdoor furniture they had stored away.

Then he started cutting away at the tree.

"My wonderful neighbors saw me outside. They kind of knew the situation, so they started grabbing limbs as I was cutting them off and helped move them to the street. So very thankful to them," Mehrvarz Yavaliollah said.

With a path cleared, the Yavaliollahs tried to head toward a hospital - but their truck wouldn't start.

Eventually, Heather made it to Piedmont Hospital and delivered two healthy baby boys, Stuart and Solomon.

"Everything looked fine, and we were not expecting anything to happen," Heather Yavaliollah said. "And then Irma came along and changed all of that."

As for the boys, born a month before their due date: "Sweet little angels," their mom said. "So Irma was no indication of their behavior."

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19 year-old Kenneka Jenkins was found dead in a Chicago freezer. Police have interview 12 people about the accident. The autopsy came back inconclusive. Police said that it looked as if she was heavily intoxicated when she walked into the freezer.

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Amid mounting pressure from protesters, police released new information about their investigation into the mysterious death of a Chicago teenager who was found dead in a hotel freezer last week.

The Rosemont Police Department said Wednesday evening that it has located and interviewed 12 people in connection with the case of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins, whose body was discovered in a freezer at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont, Illinois on Sunday morning after she attended a party there. Jenkins' death is currently classified as noncriminal.

"Eight of those people interviewed were present the night/morning of the hotel gathering," the department said in a statement. "Additionally, we have positively identified four others who were present the night of the gathering and are working to locate and interview them."

Investigators are also analyzing social media content and surveillance footage from 47 cameras at the hotel, the department said, adding that it had sent "certain videos related to this investigation" to specialized forensic technicians for further analysis.

Separately, the department told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday that Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, would be shown the security footage by Thursday afternoon.

The department's statement came as more than 100 protesters gathered near the hotel, some chanting and carrying signs that read "Justice for Kenneka."

"Our concern is that it was possibly foul play. I think that's what everybody's concern is, that there was a possible cover-up of her death," activist William Calloway told ABC Chicago station WLS on Wednesday.

A viral Facebook Live video, shared by Jenkins' friend just hours before she died, has fueled conspiracy theories about how she may have died. Martin has said she suspects foul play.

Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens called the young woman's death a "tragedy" on Wednesday and said speculation about the case was "convoluting" the investigations, according to WLS.

"It's unfortunate a lot of the social media posts that are going on and the rhetoric that's going on and that is sort of convoluting things and making things a little more difficult," Stephens said while speaking at an economic meeting on Wednesday.

"Because they have to go and follow all those leads at the same time as they're trying to get to the bottom of this," he added.

Jenkins' body was discovered in an industrial size walk-in freezer in the basement of the hotel, according to Martin. She said that police, who had access to surveillance video, told her that Jenkins was intoxicated when she walked into the freezer and died there.

An autopsy performed on Sunday came back inconclusive, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday, and officials say it could take weeks before toxicology results are available.

Martin said her daughter's friends called her at around 4:30 a.m. Saturday, saying Jenkins disappeared after they briefly left her alone in a hotel hallway.

The friends said they were in the car Martin had loaned her daughter for the night, Martin said. They had Jenkins' cell phone and keys in their possession, according to Martin, who said she isn't convinced because their "stories changed over and over."

The Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel and Conference Center has directed questions about the case to the Rosemont Police Department.

"We are saddened by this news, and our thoughts are with the young woman and her family during this difficult time," the hotel said in a statement. "The hotel staff will continue to cooperate fully with local authorities."

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The Indians in the MLB have now tied the winning streak record of 21 games. They said they don't really care they just want to win the world series.

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CHICAGO -- The Cleveland Indians' win streak is amazing: 21 games and counting. But it means nothing. It's championship or bust for these Indians.

Division titles are great -- Cleveland is on the verge of clinching its second straight AL Central crown and ninth of the wild-card era -- but another one means nothing.

Pennants are great, too. After all, Cleveland won one last year, and that was only its fourth since the franchise's last World Series crown in 1948. You know what another one this year would mean? Nothing.

This is not really a controversial observation. It's the simple reality for a franchise that inherited the mantle of baseball's longest World Series title drought just 10 months ago, when the team lost to the Chicago Cubs in seven unforgettable games. Maybe that's why, despite their amazing on-field feats of the past few weeks, the Indians still walk around like protagonists of an Albert Camus novel. As with Camus, it's not an act. It's a philosophy.

"I don't know if we look at it as that much of a big picture," Indians ace Corey Kluber said last week during the team's stop in Chicago. "We're just showing up each day and trying to win that game. Guys are having fun and just showing up to win that day's game. If we do, great. If we don't, then try to move on."

When Tom Thibodeau, whom I greatly admire, was coaching the Chicago Bulls, I used to refer to him as "belligerently dull." He gave the media nothing, he knew he gave the media nothing, and he delighted in giving the media nothing. Hence the belligerent quality of his dullness. The Indians' dullness isn't belligerent. It's more congenial. They are polite and cooperative. They really seem to enjoy their jobs. They just don't say anything.

"The winning streak is enjoyable, and I think it's gotten people's attention," Francona said. "And I think that's given me a chance to brag on our guys a little bit, which I love. Other than that, we'll go play tomorrow."

The Indians have never been better positioned to win a title since the 1948 champs broke through. Well, that's not precisely true. The Indians were pretty well positioned to win last year, when they held a 3-1 lead over the Chicago Cubs in the Fall Classic. They were also right there when the 1997 World Series matchup with Florida went to a seventh game. And they made it to the World Series -- and lost -- in 1954 and 1995. That near-miss history, more than anything, is why it's championship or bust in Cleveland this time around.

Here is why you can argue that this year's Indians are better situated than last year's: They are better. The streak, as a literal stepping stone to a title, means little because even without it, Cleveland would almost certainly be closing in on a division crown. What the streak has established is a new consensus, one that marks the Indians as baseball's most complete team and perhaps the best edition in franchise history.

That claim couldn't have been made back on July 20, just 11 days before the non-waiver trade deadline, when Cleveland stood at 48-45. They led the Twins by a half-game in the division, and the hard-charging Royals were just two back. Since then, the Indians have gone 41-11, a stretch capped by the in-progress 21-game win streak that is the longest an American League team has ever had.

While the streak by itself would certainly have re-established the Indians as prime title contenders, the sheer dominance of it has completely rewritten how we will view the 2017 regular season. Cleveland has outscored opponents 139-35 during this streak -- an average margin of more than five runs per game. The Indians have trailed after just four innings during the streak. Four innings!

"I don't look at many stats," Kluber said. "Whether you win a game by 10 runs or win a game by one run, the goal is to win. Maybe you could say that over the course of the season that run differential has some value in analyzing a team, but I think that every team in baseball doesn't care."

According to my power rankings, when the Tribe's streak started on Aug. 24, the Dodgers occupied the place where the Indians now reside. L.A.'s rating (expressed as a "true talent" wins-per-162-games metric) was 108.1, nearly nine games better than that of every other team in baseball. Now Cleveland sits on that perch at 106.2 -- 9.1 wins more than second-place Houston.

Has the prime narrative of a season ever changed so much so quickly?

In a streak this epic, everything is working. The Cleveland offense has been dominant, and the defense has piled up as many defensive runs saved as it had the rest of the season. The bullpen has continued to lock down games, even with Andrew Miller on the disabled list.

Nevertheless, the dominant trait of the streak has been the consistent excellence of the Cleveland rotation. Fifteen quality starts. Seven shutouts. An overall team average of 1.7 runs allowed per game. Kluber has been the ace, moving into a tier that we thought belonged only to Chris Sale, Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer.

"The goal is to string not just good outings [from the starters] but games as a team together and try to build some momentum," Kluber said. "There's still a while before we can say where we are right now is where we're going to be, but hopefully that is the case and we can ride this out until we get [to the postseason] and keep going."

It has been more than Kluber. Carlos Carrasco has been an elite No. 2, Trevor Bauer has embraced his curveball to career-making positive effect, and Mike Clevinger has perhaps become the best candidate to take the fourth spot in the postseason rotation.

"Pitching staff," Lindor said, when asked which group has propelled the streak. "They continue to do what they've been doing since Day 1. And the hitters are just clicking at the right time. We're having fun and enjoying the game, but we still have [a lot] left to play."

It's an obvious point to make, but think about what last year's Indians might have done with a healthy rotation. Without Carrasco and Danny Salazar, Francona was forced to improvise by maxing out Kluber and his high-leverage bullpen studs. It came so close to working, but in the end, Kluber had to make one short-rest outing too many. With the rotation on full blast this time around, Kluber can lead the charge and be at near-max strength when he's needed most.

"His routines are impeccable," Francona said. "And his tank doesn't look like it's on half-empty. You see a lot of pitchers this time of year where maybe you start getting them extra rest.

"The only time I thought he looked a little tired was the last game of [last] year. And he pitched on short rest a couple of times, so he wouldn't have been human if he wasn't. The way he prepares, he never looks tired. He may be tired, but he doesn't look it."

The Indians have candidates for all the major awards. Jose Ramirez, Kluber and Francisco Lindor can all stake claims in the MVP chase, with Ramirez getting the most recent buzz. Kluber is dueling Sale for the AL Cy Young Award, which would be Kluber's second if he were to win. Lindor has been viewed as the likely face of the Indians for a while now, and it's no surprise that either player would be in the running for elite recognition. As for Kluber -- big surprise -- he isn't too keen on comparing himself to Sale.

"I guess every pitcher has his own style," Kluber said. "That's part of identifying what works for you is finding what your arsenal is and what the best way to go out and use it to try and get the job done."

Ramirez is the star-is-born member of the trio, a player who has come out of nowhere the past couple of seasons. Before 2017, the question was whether he could repeat his breakout of 2016. He has done exactly that while adding more power than anyone ever thought he'd have, all while playing excellent defense at more than one position and serving as a constant source of upbeat energy in the clubhouse. Not even Francona foresaw Ramirez reaching this level.

"I don't think we could have said that," Francona said. "If somebody goes down, somebody gets an opportunity. He took it and ran with it. It's not surprising this year what he's doing because when you do it for 600 at-bats, you can tell it wasn't smoke and mirrors.

"He's just a really good player. He can move around [positions], which makes his numbers even better because he can move around and allow us to play other guys, like when [Jason] Kipnis gets hurt. He is one of the best players in the game."

Even if all the players in the running for postseason honors come up short in their respective votes, they can at least stake a claim to an unofficial award: baseball's MVT (most valuable trio). Entering game play Wednesday, Kluber (No. 7), Ramirez (No. 13) and Lindor (No. 15) all were on pace to finish in the top 15 in Fangraph's version of WAR. Only Colorado (Charlie Blackman and Nolan Arenado) also has two players in the top 15.

Of all the emergent star power on the Indians, no one typifies the team more in performance or personality than Kluber, who has long toiled under the nickname of "Klubot." It's an unfortunate moniker because Kluber is less an automaton than he is a Hemingway hero. Stoic. Professional. And while I don't know if Kluber writes like Hemingway, he certainly gives him a run when it comes to conciseness and understatement.

"I think the constant is solid pitching and timely hitting," Kluber said. "All that cliché stuff they say wins ballgames, it's true. We've been doing it for a couple of weeks now."

The Indians' top awards candidate might well be Francona, who has navigated the Indians around major injuries for two years and has somehow or another gotten an entire team to adopt his say-nothing, stay-in-the-moment demeanor. This is a team that has won 21 straight games, and the quotes coming out of the clubhouse still can be paraphrased as "We just play them one game at a time."

Move over, Moneyball: Cleveland made American League history with its 21st straight win. We go inside the stars and key moments of the streak (so far).

A generous call might've helped Kluber notch his first strikeout Tuesday. But you don't tie the AL record for longest win streak without a few breaks.

Francona knows how this goes. There is no point in putting things into context for the rest of us. There is no point in offering explanations for that which has already happened. All that matters is the next game. The next pitch. The next grinding at-bat. One unit at a time, until the job is finally complete. We can slather over the streak all we want, but that is not what the Indians are striving toward.

"Believe it or not," Francona said. "We get so caught up in what we're doing today, it adds up, and people start asking you questions about road wins, home wins. What matters is your record and the game at hand. So we'll show up tomorrow and try to win that game."

In an alternate universe, the Indians' history of almost but not quite is a dead scroll. In that realm, the Cleveland Indians' World Series-winning game story has already been published. It went out to the sports-reading world in the early morning of Nov. 3, 2016, when the Tribe ended a 68-year championship drought with an epic, come-from-behind victory over the Cubs in Game 7.

I know such a story exists because I wrote it. Only I'm the only person to have read it.

Explanation: One of my duties during postseason coverage last season was to write the "live" story, the quick reaction piece that we'd publish to give us a chance to hustle down to the clubhouses for interviews and such. The more fully realized stories would come out shortly thereafter.

Game 7 presented a unique challenge. No matter who won, a historic drought would be broken, and from my perspective, that meant two fan bases that deserved my best effort to capture the euphoria. Without knowing who would win, that meant writing two stories at once, updating as events unfolded. As we all remember, in the latter stages of that unforgettable game, events unfolded at the pace of an avalanche. I almost became the first sportswriter to get seasick on dry land.

I'm telling you, Cleveland fans. I put it all in there. The last version of the story that will never be read invokes the ghosts of John D. Rockefeller, Lou Boudreau and Bob Feller. It has Micheal Martinez driving in the title-winning run off Chicago's Mike Montgomery. Only he didn't. He grounded out, and the Cubs' version of the "drought is over" story is the one that went out into the world. That last sentence, that last punctuation mark, coming six weeks from now -- that's what the Indians are after.

The Cleveland streak might end on Thursday. Or it could go on for a while -- ESPN Stats & Info estimated that the average of the starting pitchers the Indians are slated to face the rest of the way yields an ERA of more than 4.80. But even if it keeps going and going and going, it will mean nothing. It's unique, it's rare, but for the Indians, it's still championship or bust. One day at a time.

"Day at a time, game at a time," Kluber said. "If we start looking towards who we're going to be playing in the playoffs, we're getting ahead of ourselves. First we have to make the playoffs."

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Banana's are threatened by a deadly fungus, among other aliments. Yet, bananas are also threatened by a number of diseases. Scientists are working on ways to contain the pestilences, and create a new varieties that have a better shot at surviving.

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Bananas are serious business. Around the world, roughly 145 million tons of bananas are grown each year. In some areas, they are a staple food; in the East African highlands, people consume them several times a day. In these areas, annual banana consumption can go as high as 400 pounds per capita.

Yet bananas are also being threatened by a number of diseases, and could suffer more as climate change encourages those pathogens to spread. Banana fields around the world are under siege from a deadly fungus, while a bacterial disease is devastating plantations in East Africa. These most troubling ailments cause any banana plant they touch to wilt and die.

Researchers worry that these fruits are in deep trouble. But don't panic yet-bananas are far from doomed. Scientists are working on ways to contain the pestilences, and create new varieties that have a better shot at surviving. "It's not completely hopeless," says Charles Staver, an agricultural scientist at Bioversity International who is based in Montpelier, France.

A plague of plagues

The kind of banana found in most global supermarkets is called the Cavendish. Many consider it to be blander and less tasty than the variety we used to dine on, the Gros Michel. Unfortunately, most of these succulent bananas were wiped out in the mid-20th Century by an ailment called Panama disease (although they are still grown locally today).

The Cavendish now accounts for 99 percent of banana exports, a position it climbed to thanks to its resilience against the fungus that causes Panama disease. But there are still many other types of bananas out there, including cooking bananas that aren't eaten raw. In parts of Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Eastern Congo, people farm bananas that aren't grown anyplace else, Staver says.

Unfortunately, a new and virulent strain of the fungus behind Panama disease is now on the loose. Cavendish bananas are very vulnerable to it; scientists aren't sure yet how many other varieties are susceptible. Known as Tropical race 4, it's the most critical menace to bananas globally.

This illness, caused by the Fusarium fungus, was first spotted in Taiwan in 1967. In recent years, however, it has spread alarmingly. The fungus has swept through Asia and Africa, with devastating impacts on the Chinese banana industry, Staver says. Australia has particularly rigorous quarantine procedures, but the disease has appeared on several farms there as well.

The fungus invades a plant by infecting its roots and then moving up through the xylem, the tissue that transports water and nutrients. With its xylem blocked up, the plant wilts and dies. Fusarium is sneaky, too-the spores can linger in the soil for decades, waiting to infect new banana plants. If unchecked, Tropical Race 4 could kill 80 percent of the bananas grown each year, researchers have predicted.

About one third of the world's bananas are grown in Africa, and roughly 40 percent of these come from East Africa. In these countries, where most of the fruits are grown by smallholder farmers, bacterial wilt is the most pressing concern. Carried by insects and infected tools, the bacteria spread more quickly than the fungus. And as far as researchers know, bacterial wilt can infect-and invariably kill-any type of banana.

"As soon as one plant gets infected in the field, in few months time the whole field gets wiped out," says Leena Tripathi, a plant biotechnologist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya. "It's devastating the livelihoods of millions of farmers who depend on bananas."

Yet another hazard is banana bunchy top virus, which is spread by infected planting materials and by banana aphids as they snack on the plants. It's common in parts of Africa and Asia. This disease also affects all types of bananas, but some can survive it better than others. It turns leaves stunted and "bunched" in appearance.

Banana bunchy top virus has been around for decades, but only recently are we seeing more serious losses and recognizing how much of a threat it is; it now seems to be accelerating, Staver says. This is particularly worrisome through the Congo Basin. In this area, farmers could lose their banana crops and have to switch to others like cassava. "They're not going to starve to death, but they're going to lose a major component of their diet," he says.

In parts of Central Africa, farms can be devastated by bunchy top virus, and lack support from research organizations and other services to help them cope. "Villages end up without bananas," Staver says. "They have no support from anywhere, nobody's paying attention."

Another major disease is black sigatoka, a leaf-attacking fungal ailment found everywhere. Bananas are also harassed by pests like nematodes and weevils. Climate change is expected to impact bananas, too.

The good news is that bananas are pretty hardy, at least when it comes to this last threat; we grow them in subtropical and tropical conditions around the world, ranging from South Africa to Turkey. If temperatures rise, bananas should still thrive. But as extreme events like storms and droughts become more intense, individual plantations will likely get clobbered, Staver says. And warmer temperatures could encourage some of the pathogens that infect bananas to grow more aggressively, Tripathi explains, so disease might spread faster.

Hope for bananas

But there is some heartening news for bananas: The new strain of Panama disease has yet to reach Latin America. And scientists in Taiwan have managed to grow Cavendish bananas that are somewhat resilient against the ailment, continuing to produce fruit longer in the presence of the fungus. These cultivars are grown commercially in the Philippines, Staver says.

We could also screen the bacteria and fungi that grow naturally on bananas and identify ones that can protect the plant from infection. Then we could gift the plants with more of these helpful microbes. This has worked for strawberries and tomatoes in the past; the microbes are commercially available. Researchers have identified some promising bacteria for the bananas, too, Staver says, but this work is very preliminary.

Other researchers are modifying bananas to withstand these deadly foes, although this technique too is only in the first stages of testing. Tripathi and her colleagues are genetically engineering bananas that can withstand bacterial wilt and nematodes. Because all varieties of banana are vulnerable to bacterial wilt, conventional breeding can't be used to develop resistant varieties. They have identified two genes in sweet peppers that are related to disease resistance. They boost the so-called hypersensitive response, which plants use to fight off disease. When the plant detects a pathogen, it kills its own cells that have come in contact with the germ. These patches of dead cells form a physical barrier that the pathogen can't penetrate, preventing it from spreading further in the plant. The team has tested bananas that carry a pepper gene in carefully isolated fields in Uganda and found them completely resistant to bacterial wilt, Tripathi says. None of the plants even showed symptoms of illness. If these bananas had been regular, non-edited plants, each of them would have died.

In the meantime, there are ways to help restrict the diseases from spreading, such as plucking the male flowers, which attract disease-carrying insects, early in a banana plant's development. Farmers can also clean tools between uses in the fields and use clean planting materials. And the germs that cause bacterial wilt can't survive in the soil for very long, so some farmers have been able to replant their crops, Tripathi says.

Another, drastic option would be to switch the bananas we depend on once again, moving from the Cavendish to a new cultivar. But we're not at the point of needing to worry about that yet, Staver says. We're not about to lose our bananas, or even just the imperiled Cavendish, to any of these diseases. "It's a huge threat, but its not immediate," he says. "Is it likely that bananas are going to go up in price in the supermarket in the next couple years? Probably not."

Tropical Race 4 has been present in Taiwan for decades, yet Cavendish bananas are still grown there, Staver points out, albeit fewer than before the new strain of the fungus appeared.So bananas are facing very serious threats that must be addressed, and small farms in particular are in danger of having their crops devastated. But bananas are not doomed, or about to disappear from the face of the Earth. "Oh, I don't believe that one, that the banana will go extinct," Tripathi says. "That will never happen."

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Bananas are serious business. Around the world, roughly 145 million tons of bananas are grown each year. In some areas, they are a staple food; in the East African highlands, people consume them several times a day. In these areas, annual banana consumption can go as high as 400 pounds per capita.

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Outrage as well-known rapper 'lynches' small white child in music video

Rapper XXXTentacion is under fire after releasing a disturbing music video featuring a Caucasian boy being lynched on a stage as an African-American boy looks on.

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Rapper XXXTentacion is under fire after releasing a disturbing music video featuring a Caucasian boy being lynched on a stage as an African-American boy looks on.

The video "Look At Me!" debuted on Tuesday and features imagery depicting police brutality, violent protests, and the 19-year-old Florida-based rapper placing a white child's head in a noose on stage in front of a crowded theater and then hoisting him up into the air.

The child's feet are shown dangling and twitching and then they suddenly stop.

The casting director of the video LaShawnna Stanley told that finding parents who would allow their child to be hanged on stage was a challenge.

"We had to delay the video because the mom that originally agreed and said okay but when she got there she didn't feel comfortable. We delayed for a week," said Stanley.

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"I called a lot of parents. It was a direct booking. No one was okay with their white child getting lynched," Stanley said. "With all the racial tension in the world right out they were nervous."

Stanley said the mother who finally agreed "was serious about acting and the message. The mother of the son is very serious about acting. She's a stage mom. She has three sons and takes them to LA to audition. She understood the vision."

That vision, according to Stanley, is that the "little white boy and black boy show innocence," and that society has become desensitized seeing black men hung and shot, but the imagery of a white child being hung is shocking.

She explained that the rapper made sure to make both children feel comfortable on set.

"XXX was very lovely to the kids and hugging," she said.

Not everyone on social media agreed.

A Twitter user questioned the use of the child in the video.

"I'm not sure if hanging a child in a music video is right, regardless of the message you send."

A fellow follower agreed the video was going too far.

Another chimed in, "so x is saying to be 'equal' we must do what is being done? (Killing white people) which is creating more hate?"

But some argued the video's message was powerful.

One YouTuber mentioned in the comments below the video that the shock value of the video was causing viewers to miss this point.

"THIS ISNT ANTI WHITE!!! When he hung the white boy I think he was trying to show it from a different perspective to show what would it be like if the roles were switched."

Another wrote: "My summary and take away from this: Murder is murder as he said is awful. No matter what your cause is death is not something you should be able to inflict. If you do have a supremacist attitude realize that it is because you fear the opposition and that's why you are weak. For the youth is impressionable and will repeat their environment."

The video has been viewed over 5 million times on YouTube.

Fox News.com Reporter and FOX411 host Diana Falzone covers celebrity news and interviews some of today's top celebrities and newsmakers. You can follow her on Twitter @dianafalzone.

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A student was shot and killed while confronting a heavily armed gunman during a school shooting Wednesday near Spokane, Washington, police said.

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A high school near Spokane, Washington, is on lockdown after a shooting in the building, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.

Freeman Middle School and Freeman Elementary school, both located in Spokane County, have been placed on lockdown, the sheriff's office wrote on Twitter.

Several deputies and officers are on the scene and are searching rooms, police said.

"We understand parents are extremely concerned" police tweeted. "We will provide info ASAP, please avoid area."

Medical personal are also at the school and the safety of the students is the No. 1 priority, police said.

The shooting happened at Freeman High School, south of Spokane, ABC News Seattle affiliate KOMO reported.

It is unclear whether anyone was injured in the shooting.

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

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A high school near Spokane, Washington, is on lockdown after a shooting in the building, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office. Freeman Middle School and Freeman Elementary school, both located in Spokane County, have been placed on lockdown, the sheriff's office wrote on...

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Preeti Desai found the decaying fish on a beach in Texas City, so she posted several photos on twitter. Her pictures were passed to biologist and eel specialist Dr Kenneth Tighe, who believes it is a fangtooth snake-eel.He said it may also be a garden or conger eel, because "all three of these species occur off Texas and have large fang-like teeth".

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President Donald Trump pushed back Thursday morning against claims by top congressional Democrats that a deal has been reached over legislation to protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants and that a border-security package would not include a wall along the US-Mexico border

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In an optimistic statement following the White House meeting, Schumer and Pelosi said the parties had "agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that's acceptable to both sides."

"We had a very productive meeting at the White House with the President," they said.

But White House press secretary Sarah Sanders pushed back on that assessment: "While DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to."

It was not immediately clear what exactly was agreed to on Wednesday night, besides the details included in the Democrats' initial statement.

The meeting follows an unexpected deal between Trump, Schumer and Pelosi last week that would temporarily raise the debt ceiling -- leaving the GOP and some of Trump's closest allies flabbergasted.

A White House official said in a statement that the topics discussed Wednesday included tax reform, border security, DACA, infrastructure and trade.

"This is a positive step toward the President's strong commitment to bipartisan solutions for the issues most important to all Americans," the statement said. "The administration looks forward to continuing these conversations with leadership on both sides of the aisle."

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program had protected individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children from deportation. The Trump administration announced last week it would give Congress six months to pass legislation preserving those provisions before the program was terminated.

"We also urged the President to make permanent the cost-sharing reduction payments, and those discussions will continue," Schumer and Pelosi said.

CNN's Elizabeth Landers, Kevin Liptak, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox contributed to this report.

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Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi said following a Wednesday night meeting with President Donald Trump that they have "agreed" to a fix on DACA and resolved iron out a border-security plan -- "excluding" the US-Mexico border wall that was one of Trump's most memorable campaign promises.

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The platic contaniers have a circle on thim for smater contaners to hold on to. Twitter is sering this like crazy.

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Glad's plastic containers have long been a friend to lunch packers and leftover enthusiasts everywhere.

But, as several have recently discovered thanks to a picture on social media, the iconic blue-lidded containers are actually way more convenient than most people previously realized.
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Gracie Villegas, a stay-at-home mom, was meal prepping when she snapped a photo of her progress and posted in on Twitter where people noticed only one thing - the tiny dangling container of dressing secured to the top lid.

"UM. HOW AM I JUST NOW finding out that the circle on these lids are actually lids for the tiny containers?! Someone please tell me I'm not the only one who didn't know this," someone responded on Facebook.

Apparently she wasn't, because the picture has amassed quite a following - liked over 14K times and shared more than 2K times. During its circulation, more and more weighed in on the novelty of the special blue lid.

"I literally had no idea that the circles on the glad lids were for the little circle containers. Mind blowing lol," a user tweeted out.
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"Omg me either," another said.

Though Glad has marketed its To-Go Lunch containers as equipped with special "dressing cups that snap into [the] lid," most have just assumed the circle in the middle of the lid was a design feature, not a built-in dressing holder.

But now that this lunch hack has been revealed, it's likely that more and more people will be taking advantage of the spill-proof cap storage.

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GladWare's container lids are blowing people's minds

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Glad's plastic containers have long been a friend to lunch packers and leftover enthusiasts everywhere. But, as several have recently discovered thanks to a picture on social media, the iconic blue-lidded containers are actually way more convenient than most people previously realized.

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xxxtentacion is under fire after making a music video that showed a Caucasian male was being lynched. All parents said it was not okay that a child was getting lynched. but on the set the children were really loved. getting hugs and made them feel comfortable while doing the video.

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Rapper XXXTentacion is under fire after releasing a disturbing music video featuring a Caucasian boy being lynched on a stage as an African-American boy looks on.

The video "Look At Me!" debuted on Tuesday and features imagery depicting police brutality, violent protests, and the 19-year-old Florida-based rapper placing a white child's head in a noose on stage in front of a crowded theater and then hoisting him up into the air.

The child's feet are shown dangling and twitching and then they suddenly stop.

The casting director of the video LaShawnna Stanley told that finding parents who would allow their child to be hanged on stage was a challenge.

"We had to delay the video because the mom that originally agreed and said okay but when she got there she didn't feel comfortable. We delayed for a week," said Stanley.

Related Image

Expand / Collapse

"I called a lot of parents. It was a direct booking. No one was okay with their white child getting lynched," Stanley said. "With all the racial tension in the world right out they were nervous."

Stanley said the mother who finally agreed "was serious about acting and the message. The mother of the son is very serious about acting. She's a stage mom. She has three sons and takes them to LA to audition. She understood the vision."

That vision, according to Stanley, is that the "little white boy and black boy show innocence," and that society has become desensitized seeing black men hung and shot, but the imagery of a white child being hung is shocking.

She explained that the rapper made sure to make both children feel comfortable on set.

"XXX was very lovely to the kids and hugging," she said.

Not everyone on social media agreed.

A Twitter user questioned the use of the child in the video.

"I'm not sure if hanging a child in a music video is right, regardless of the message you send."

A fellow follower agreed the video was going too far.

Another chimed in, "so x is saying to be 'equal' we must do what is being done? (Killing white people) which is creating more hate?"

But some argued the video's message was powerful.

One YouTuber mentioned in the comments below the video that the shock value of the video was causing viewers to miss this point.

"THIS ISNT ANTI WHITE!!! When he hung the white boy I think he was trying to show it from a different perspective to show what would it be like if the roles were switched."

Another wrote: "My summary and take away from this: Murder is murder as he said is awful. No matter what your cause is death is not something you should be able to inflict. If you do have a supremacist attitude realize that it is because you fear the opposition and that's why you are weak. For the youth is impressionable and will repeat their environment."

The video has been viewed over 5 million times on YouTube.

Fox News.com Reporter and FOX411 host Diana Falzone covers celebrity news and interviews some of today's top celebrities and newsmakers. You can follow her on Twitter @dianafalzone.

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At a Washington state high school (Freeman High) a classmate opened fire down the halls. He shot 4 people, 1 died and 3 were wounded. Earlier that year the suspect wrote notes on how he was "going to do something stupid that would make him killed or jailed."  He was obsessed with other school shooting. The student brought 2 guns to school a pistol and a rifle. Other students say the first one got jammed so he went to the next gun he had.

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The suspect, who a classmate described as being obsessed with previous school shootings, was taken into custody. The wounded victims were expected to survive, officials said.

The shooter brought two weapons to Freeman High School in Rockford, south of Spokane, but the first one he tried to fire jammed, Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told reporters.

"He went to his next weapon," Kzenovich said. "A student walked up to him, engaged him, and that student was shot. That student did not survive."

The sheriff said the shooter fired more rounds down the hallway, striking the other students, before a school staffer could stop him. Kzenovich called it a courageous act that prevented further bloodshed.

Elisa Vigil, a 14-year-old freshman, told The Associated Press that she saw one male student shot in the head who janitors covered with a cloth and another female student wounded in the back.

Michael Harper, a 15-year-old sophomore, said the suspect had brought notes in the beginning of the school year, saying he was going to do "something stupid" and might get killed or jailed. Some students alerted counselors, the teen told AP, but it wasn't clear what school officials did in response.

A call to the school was not immediately returned.

Harper said the shooter had many friends and was not bullied, calling him "nice and funny and weird" and a huge fan of the TV show "Breaking Bad." He also said the suspect was obsessed with other school shootings.

Students say the shooter was armed with a pistol and rifle and had carried a duffel bag to school. After shots were fired, students went running and screaming down the hallways, Harper said.

Authorities didn't release the suspect's identity or a possible motive. The victims also were not named.

Luis Prito, an assistant football coach at Freeman High, called the shooting devastating.

"This is a real close-knit community," he said.

A two-lane road into the town of about 500 people near the Idaho border was clogged as worried parents sped to the school. Some people abandoned their cars on the street to make it to their children.

Cheryl Moser said her son, a freshman, called her from a classroom after hearing shots fired.

"He called me and said, 'Mom, there are gunshots.' He sounded so scared. I've never heard him like that," Moser told The Spokesman-Review newspaper. "You never think about something happening like this at a small school."

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital received three pediatric patients, spokeswoman Nicole Stewart said. They were in stable condition and surrounded by family, she said.

Stephanie Lutje told AP she was relieved to hear her son was safe after his high school near Freeman High was put on lockdown. She commended the school district for its communication.

"It's been amazing, within probably 15-20 minutes of hearing about it, I'd already received a phone call, I'd already received a text message saying that their school is OK," she said.

She still worried for others she knew, including a co-worker who had yet to hear from her son, a sophomore at Freeman.

"My stomach's in knots right now," she said.

Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement that "all Washingtonians are thinking of the victims and their families, and are grateful for the service of school staff and first responders working to keep our students safe."

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Associated Press writers Rebecca Boone in Boise, Idaho, and Alina Hartounian in Phoenix contributed to this story.

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The suspect, who a classmate described as being obsessed with previous school shootings, was taken into custody. The wounded victims were expected to survive, officials said. The shooter brought two weapons to Freeman High School in Rockford, south of Spokane, but the first one he tried to fire jammed, Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told reporters.

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Days after hurricane Irma tore through Florida and left millions without power, residents are slowly returning to find there damage. As of right now 3.2 million people are still out of power and while there cleaning and piking up there damage it will be in the mid 90's

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About 3.2 million utility customers remain without power in the state, Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday. Parts of central and southern Florida will be a sweltering 90 degrees for several days, with humidity making it feel like the mid-90s.

Scott urged first responders to check health care facilities after eight patients died at a nursing home with no air conditioning three days after Irma ravaged the state.

Relief is days away for those suffering the high temperatures. Those on the west coast, where Hurricane Irma made landfall, will likely have power restored by September 22, according to Florida Power & Light Co.

Customers who lost electricity on Florida's eastern side will likely have it restored by this weekend because fewer electrical poles came down than in other parts of the state, the company said.

Hurricane Irma's furious march through Florida not only darkened millions of homes, it also flooded roads and piled them with debris, blocking off access to neighborhoods.

Massive power outages also crippled other states, including Georgia, where hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses organizations did not have power Wednesday.

'I didn't think it would be that bad'

Jessica Gonzalez is back in her Florida neighborhood of LaBelle, but the heat is keeping her outdoors.

Her home was damaged by the storm and has no power. She celebrated her 20th birthday this week by waking up in her car with her husband and 2-year-old daughter.

They cook outside and sleep in their car.

"I honestly didn't think it would be that bad. You hear a lot it's Category 5, but you really don't think it's going to hit your house," Gonzalez told CNN's Ed Lavandera, referring to how strong Irma was when it left the Caribbean islands and set sights on Florida.

With no power and the house caving in, fellow LaBelle residents Bob and Tara Hahn have moved their 10 children into their oldest daughter's two-bedroom house.

During the storm, a giant tree crashed into their home, sending whipping rain pouring inside. There's no power and no answers on when it'll be back.

Officials told them it'll take weeks, they said. As they wait, they have 17 people living under one roof.

'There's nothing here'

Power is just one of many concerns for the residents. Others don't have access to their homes due to debris and piles of brush blocking roads.

Frustrations grew Wednesday when some residents tried to go home along a two-lane stretch of highway through the Florida Keys, but were told it's not safe enough to return home.

In Big Pine Key, houses were reduced to splinters. Boats were scattered across land -- a reminder that streets turned into rivers when the hurricane hit.

Richard Tabacco stayed with his family on the island through the storm. They are all OK -- a generator is keeping them cool, he said -- but he is warning residents who evacuated to stay away.

"There's nothing here," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo, who accompanied a search-and-rescue team on Wednesday. "There's no gas, there's no water. There's no stores. There's no electricity. There's no cellphone service. Just stay away for about two weeks."

"Let the first responders ... do their job, and y'all can come back later," he added.

Still, anxious residents wanted to return home.

At a checkpoint on Lower Matecumbe Key, sheriff's deputies turned away people trying to get to their homes in the lower Keys. Instead of going back, many pulled their cars over to the side of the highway, sat and waited.

A deputy at the checkpoint said they were trying to keep people safe, but some residents said they knew the risks and were willing to accept them.

Many wanted to survey the damage; others wanted to prevent looting.

No power, simmering temperatures

At least 33 storm-related deaths have been reported on the US mainland, according to local officials. They include 26 in Florida, four in South Carolina and three in Georgia. The total number doesn't include the nursing home deaths, which police said are under investigation.

The nursing home deaths Wednesday in Hollywood prompted officials to call for action. Florida has the largest percentage of residents age 65 or older -- 19.1%, according to the Pew Research Center. Several counties have senior populations of 33% or higher.

"I'm going to aggressively demand answers on how this tragic event took place," Gov. Rick Scott said. "... I am also asking available first responders to immediately check in with the health care facilities in their area to make sure nursing homes and assisted living facilities are able to keep their residents safe."

Before the hurricane smashed into the US mainland over the weekend, it struck northern Caribbean islands, leaving at least 44 people dead, authorities said.

Irma, which stretched 650 miles from east to west, has pummeled at least nine states -- deluging streets, knocking over trees and destroying homes along the way.

President Donald Trump is set to make his first visit to the region Thursday to see the devastation.

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About 3.2 million utility customers remain without power in the state, Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday. Parts of central and southern Florida will be a sweltering 90 degrees for several days, with humidity making it feel like the mid-90s.

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At a Red Sox game a group led by the movement "Black lives matter" held a banner that said "Racism is as American as Baseball" and once security saw this the group got escorted out.

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BOSTON - Security removed four people from Boston's Fenway Park after a banner reading, "Racism is as American as Baseball" dropped over the outfield wall Wednesday night.

The sign - with large white letters on a black background - appeared in the fourth inning as the Red Sox hosted the Oakland Athletics.

The all-caps message prompted loud boos from the crowd that continued until guards removed the banner from the top of the legendary Green Monster. It was only up for a few minutes before umpires requested its removal, according to the Associated Press.

According to a Red Sox spokesman, one person in the group said while being escorted out that they had been inspired by Black Lives Matter.

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'Racism is as American as Baseball' banner unfurled at Fenway Park

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BOSTON - Security removed four people from Boston's Fenway Park after a banner reading, "Racism is as American as Baseball" dropped over the outfield wall Wednesday night. The sign - with large white letters on a black background - appeared in the fourth inning as the Red Sox hosted the Oakland Athletics.

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A 77- year old women, that travels in a wheelchair, was going to London. She got dropped off by her son (Steven Williams) at the airport . Williams trusted the airport to take her to where she needed to go.But he later found out that she landed in New Jersey, and was kicked off of her next flight to London.

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United Airlines might have another public relations nightmare on its hands, after allegedly bumping a 77-year-old woman who travels in a wheelchair off her flight to London, according to her son.

Steven Williams said he dropped off his mother at Ronald Regan National Airport in Arlington, Va., trusting the airline to make sure she arrived at her proper destination, WUSA-TV reported. She was scheduled to fly to Newark, N.J., before catching a connecting flight to London.

"They assist people in wheelchairs and get someone to wheel them through and basically take responsibility for that person until they arrive at their destination," Williams told the station.

Despite being reassured "three or four times she was on that flight" to London, Williams said he later learned from the driver who was hired to pick her up that she never arrived.

Williams said he found out hours later that his mother had landed in New Jersey, but was kicked off her next flight to London.

"Basically, she was left at the gate for 12 hours. They offered her a hotel that was miles away," Williams said. "She had to get there on her own steam. There's no way my mom could have pushed a wheelchair at her age, so she sat there."

"There's no way my mom could have pushed a wheelchair at her age, so she sat there."
- Steven Williams, describing 77-year-old mother's air travel ordeal

United Airlines responded Tuesday, saying "this never should have happened" and that the airline had apologized to the customer's family.

"We have spoken with our customer's family to apologize. We are working with our team and our wheelchair assistance vendor at Newark to review what happened and to prevent this from happening again," United said in a statement.

The airline offered a $1,000 voucher to the mother, Williams said.

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United Airlines left mom in wheelchair stranded in New Jersey, son says

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United Airlines might have another public relations nightmare on its hands, after allegedly bumping a 77-year-old woman who travels in a wheelchair off her flight to London, according to her son. Steven Williams said he dropped off his mother at Ronald Regan National Airport in Arlington, Va., trusting the airline to make sure she arrived at her proper destination, WUSA-TV reported.

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A caribou hunter found a viking sword in a remote mountain in southern Norway. The hunter found the sword in late August in the mountains of the Lesja area. The sword was found at 1640 meters (5381 feet ) above sea level. This viking sword was the first viking sword found at that high.

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The incredibly well-preserved Viking sword was found by a reindeer hunter on a remote mountain in Southern Norway.

The Glacier Archaeology Program at Oppland County Council was recently notified about the sword, which was found in late August in the high mountains of the Lesja area. "It is a common type of Viking sword - what makes it special is the context and the preservation: It was found at 1640 m [5381 feet] above sea level," explained Lars Pilø, an archaeologist at Oppland County Council, in an email to Fox News. "To my knowledge, a Viking sword has never been found at such a high altitude before."
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Researchers accompanied hunter Einar Ambakk, who found the sword, back to the site with a metal detector, but were unable to find any other artifacts nearby.

Pilø told Fox News that the sword had been lying on the mountain surface for around 1,100 years. " That a sword should survive more than a thousand years in the open is hard for some people to believe," he explained, but added that, for professional glacier and high altitude archaeologists, it is less surprising. "Previously we have found iron arrowheads that are even older, with the same degree of preservation," he added.
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Pilø attributed the sword's incredible preservation to excellent quality of Viking iron, as well as the cold, dry conditions on the mountain. Additionally, the sword was found lying in scree, or small, loose stones, as opposed to soil, which helped preserve it, he said. "Just to be clear: the sword is not from the ice, though of course it would have been covered with snow and ice for much of the year," he said.

In a post on the Glacier Archaeology Program's website, Secrets of the Ice, Pilø speculates that, given the inhospitable terrain, it is possible that the sword's owner became lost during a blizzard. "It seems likely that the sword belonged to a Viking who died on the mountain, perhaps from exposure," he said. "However, if that is indeed the case, was he traveling in the high mountains with only his sword? It is a bit of a mystery..."
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In his email to Fox News, Pilø explained that retreating glaciers and ice patches have revealed a trove of artifacts in Oppland County. "We have more than half of such finds worldwide, the oldest dating back 6,000 years," he said. "The retreat of mountain glaciers and ice patches here in Oppland is part of a worldwide phenomenon linked to climate change."

The sword is just the latest fascinating archaeological find in Norway. Last year, for example, archaeologists in Trondheim unearthed the church where Viking King Olaf Haraldsson was first enshrined as a saint.
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The incredibly well-preserved Viking sword was found by a reindeer hunter on a remote mountain in Southern Norway. The Glacier Archaeology Program at Oppland County Council was recently notified about the sword, which was found in late August in the high mountains of the Lesja area.

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The death toll from Hurricane Irma in the United States continued to climb Thursday, with at least 31 dead across three states. Four people died in South Carolina, three in Georgia, and 24 in Florida. Recently a 7-year-old died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a generator was used inside her home.

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The death toll from Hurricane Irma continued to climb today in the United States, with at least 30 dead across three states.

Four people died in South Carolina and three in Georgia, officials said.

In Florida, 23 people have died in connection with the storm, including a weather-related car accident in the Florida Keys and the eight people who died after Irma knocked out air conditioning at a nursing home in Hollywood.

Officials in Monroe County, Florida, which includes the Keys, said today that seven others died in the county during Irma but it was unclear how many of the deaths were storm-related.

The county said search-and-rescue teams are going door to door today in the hardest hit areas of the Keys and that military personnel are helping with the search.

Patrica Morrow, a resident of Islamorada, a village made up of multiple islands that are a part of the Keys, works as a housekeeper and stayed on the Keys during the storm, taking refuge at her employer's Islamorada home.

"We knew that it was going to harder to come back home to see what we had left, so we felt safe here, to be honest," she said.

She described the storm as "surreal."

"The water [was] just taking everything out, there was sand everywhere, there were people's belongings just flowing down the canal ... I still can't believe the water that rushed through this island," she told ABC News. "The wind was just scary ... stuff that you just wouldn't imagine blowing away, was blowing away."

"You can definitely feel when the eye of the Hurricane got over Marathon [a city on the Keys] because the winds got violent and the windows started shaking for a good 10 minutes. But the after that the wind didn't die down for the rest of the day," she said. "It was really scary. To think people stayed in homes that maybe weren't as sturdy as this one, it's scary. It's heart-wrenching."

"We lost some things, but we're alive," she said. "Our house, the structure is unstable now, but we're fortunate enough we have most of our belongings and memories. You can replace little things, but you can't replace life. It's going to take a while to get things back to normal."

As many as 25 percent of homes in the Keys were destroyed, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long said Tuesday evening, and as many as 65 percent of homes suffered major damage.

According to FEMA, 90 percent of homes in the Florida Keys suffered some damage.

Officials from Monroe County were quick to counter FEMA estimates on Tuesday night, saying no official estimates of damage percentages or costs have been made.

"Things look real damaged from the air, but when you clear the trees and all the debris, it's not much damage to the houses," Monroe County Commissioner Heather Carruthers said in a statement released by the county Tuesday night.

In a statement today the county said "Monroe County Inspectors have begun Damage Assessment inspections of the outside of private structures, beginning in Key Largo."

Keys residents are now returning to their homes, with the Florida Department of Transportation saying all 42 bridges along U.S. 1 -- the only road into and out of the Keys -- have been inspected and cleared.

The storm wiped out power to the Keys, but crews are quickly working to restore services.

Keys Energy Services, which covers the South end of Seven Mile Bridge to Key West, has restored power to about 7 percent of its customers, the county said today, and Florida Keys Electric Coop, which services the rest of the Keys, has about 30 percent of its service area restored.

Sean Sims, a resident of Islamorada, told ABC News he evacuated for the storm and has since returned to his home, which has little damage. But for now, he said he is living in an RV because he doesn't have power or air conditioning.

But Sims, a 15-year resident, isn't worried about how other Keys residents will fare in the recovery process.

"We're not going to wait for anyone to come down here and do it for us -- Keys people are pretty resourceful. They're going to start cleaning up themselves and piecing together," he said. "They've been through [hurricanes] before. And this is one of the worst ones down here, but it will come back stronger than ever, just like it did for Homestead [the South Miami neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992]."

ABC News' Rachel Scott contributed to this report.

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The death toll from Hurricane Irma continued to climb today in the United States, with at least 30 dead across three states. Four people died in South Carolina and three in Georgia, officials said.

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Steven Williams dropped his 77-year-old mother who travels in her wheelchair off at the Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington. The Airline had promised to help his mother get to her destination of London , and Williams was reassured that she had arrived, when he came to find out that she never even made her trip, she was kicked of her next flight and was left stranded in New Jersey. Williams mother was left at the gate for twelve hours. The Airline has offered 1,000 to Williams and his mother.

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United Airlines might have another public relations nightmare on its hands, after allegedly bumping a 77-year-old woman who travels in a wheelchair off her flight to London, according to her son.

Steven Williams said he dropped off his mother at Ronald Regan National Airport in Arlington, Va., trusting the airline to make sure she arrived at her proper destination, WUSA-TV reported. She was scheduled to fly to Newark, N.J., before catching a connecting flight to London.

"They assist people in wheelchairs and get someone to wheel them through and basically take responsibility for that person until they arrive at their destination," Williams told the station.

Despite being reassured "three or four times she was on that flight" to London, Williams said he later learned from the driver who was hired to pick her up that she never arrived.

Williams said he found out hours later that his mother had landed in New Jersey, but was kicked off her next flight to London.

"Basically, she was left at the gate for 12 hours. They offered her a hotel that was miles away," Williams said. "She had to get there on her own steam. There's no way my mom could have pushed a wheelchair at her age, so she sat there."

"There's no way my mom could have pushed a wheelchair at her age, so she sat there."
- Steven Williams, describing 77-year-old mother's air travel ordeal

United Airlines responded Tuesday, saying "this never should have happened" and that the airline had apologized to the customer's family.

"We have spoken with our customer's family to apologize. We are working with our team and our wheelchair assistance vendor at Newark to review what happened and to prevent this from happening again," United said in a statement.

The airline offered a $1,000 voucher to the mother, Williams said.

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United Airlines might have another public relations nightmare on its hands, after allegedly bumping a 77-year-old woman who travels in a wheelchair off her flight to London, according to her son. Steven Williams said he dropped off his mother at Ronald Regan National Airport in Arlington, Va., trusting the airline to make sure she arrived at her proper destination, WUSA-TV reported.

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Irma aftermath- what 10 days without power will look like. Wednesday, eight people have already died in Hollywood Florida, after their nursing home lost air conditioning. The residents' causes of death are being investigated.