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FIRST ALERT: Wind and Thunderstorms Move Through Wednesday

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The NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert for wind and thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon.

Wednesday will begin foggy and cloudy, with a chance for drizzle or an isolated thunderstorm. A line of gusty thunderstorms moves in between 1 to 4 p.m. The storms do not appear severe, but we will continue to track them carefully.

Strong winds come with the storms. Gusts of 40 to 50 mph are possible. A Wind Advisory is in effect for all of Connecticut, and there is a chance for isolated tree and power issues.


The weather turns sunny but remains windy Thursday.

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Woman Who Opened Fire at YouTube HQ Last Resided in San Diego

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The woman who killed herself after opening fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday in San Bruno last lived in San Diego, California, at least four senior law enforcement officials tell NBC News.

Investigators said Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, approached an outdoor dining area at YouTube’s headquarters and began firing. Four victims were transported to area hospitals with gunshot-related injuries.

Aghdam has a robust presence on YouTube. In a video posted in January 2017, she says YouTube “discriminated and filtered” her content. In the video Aghdam says her channel used to get lots of views but that after being filtered by the company, it received fewer views. In a Facebook post from February 2017, Aghdam blasted YouTube saying, “There is not equal growth opportunity on YouTube.”

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit learned the license plate on a car towed from YouTube’s campus Tuesday is registered to Aghdam.

The San Bruno Police Department (SBPD) said at this time, there is no evidence that the shooter knew any of the victims or that any of them were specifically targeted.

Police said that they received numerous 911 calls regarding gunshots near the area of Cherry Avenue and Bay Hill Drive in San Bruno around 12:46 p.m. They responded to the scene within two minutes.

The 911 emergency call describes the first minutes of the scene: "From one of the witnesses coming in, they identified a female in a white shirt. That's the one we have down in the center court area with the gunshot wound in the chest," an officer can be heard saying. Another officer responds: "So confirming she is the suspect."

The first officer replies: "Affirmed, that's what we are told. There is a handgun about 20 feet to the south of her."

San Francisco General Hospital said it received three patients: a 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman was in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman was in fair condition.

Television news footage showed people leaving the building in a line, holding their arms in the air for police to inspect as they went by. Officers patted down people grouped outside, and police vehicles surrounded the area.

Videos and photos on social media showed YouTube employees walking out of offices with their hands raised. SWAT teams surrounded the campus, guns drawn.

On Twitter, YouTube employees reported hearing multiple gunshots inside the campus, using the hashtag "#YouTubeShooting." A few were live tweeting what they saw while they were hiding in their offices.

"I am hiding barricaded holy s__," tweeted an employee with the Twitter handle @_lilchen.

"I got evacuated outside with my hands up. I’m with other people. I don’t think the shooter’s been found that I know of. I saw blood drops on the stairs I walk up everyday. I’m shaking. This is surreal. I hope my colleagues are okay," she tweeted a few minutes later.

And then, an update: "I am behind another building with colleagues. There are helicopters. There are lots of police nearby. I don’t know if the shooter has been found. If you hear they’ve been found, tell me. I’m safe for now, but don’t feel safe until they’ve been found."


Workers in offices close to the YouTube headquarters reported “closing blinds, keeping quiet” as police are nearby.

A person with the first name "Erin: live-tweeted as SWAT teams descended on the YouTube office.

"There is a shooting - people are running out of the building with their hands up. I can’t believe I am watching this," she tweeted.

She described a chaotic scene with ambulances in front of the building, sirens everywhere and police officers with rifles.

"We are seeing @YouTube employees being brought out with hands up!" one of her tweets said.

YouTube product manager Todd Sherman tweeted that he was sitting in a meeting when he heard people running "because it was rumbling the floor. First thought was earthquake."

"After exiting the room we still didn’t know what was going on but more people were running. Seemed serious and not like a drill," he tweeted. "We headed towards the exit and then saw more people and someone said that there was a person with a gun. S___."

"At that point, every new person I saw was a potential shooter. Someone else said that the person shot out the back doors and then shot themselves," Sherman's next tweet read. "I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peaked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front."

A YouTube employee who was inside the building spoke to NBC Bay Area and said he was getting back from lunch when the fire alarm went off. He said he heard a couple of gunshots and heard a woman yelling and cursing "like she was mad."

Marco Tartaglia, who works at a Walmart near the complex on Cherry Street, told NBC Bay Area he heard about 15 shots “from the direction of the YouTube building, from what sounded like inside.”

“We heard the shots first, and that immediately drew us over to the window to see what the heck’s going on, and next thing you know, you see people streaming out just running, dozens of them, just running out the front exit,” Tartaglia said.

President Donald Trump said he has been briefed on the situation. "Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved," he said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein tweeted out: "My stomach sinks with yet another active shooter alert. I’m praying for the safety of everyone at YouTube headquarters."

The YouTube campus is a small one compared to that of its parent company, Google.

"This is a terrible day in the United States, when once again we have a multiple-casualty situation that has confronted us," Andre Campbell, a surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, told reporters.

Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all tweeted out statements in support of the victims.

"There are no words to describe the tragedy that occurred today. @SusanWojcicki & I are focused on supporting our employees & the @YouTube community through this difficult time together. Thank you to the police & first responders for their efforts, and to all for msgs of support," Pichai tweeted.

4 Presumed Dead in Marine Helicopter Crash Near El Centro, Calif.

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Four crew members who were aboard a Marine helicopter when it crashed Tuesday near El Centro are presumed dead, U.S. Marine Corps officials confirmed.

The Marine Corps said a CH-53E Super Stallion from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at MCAS Miramar crashed "in the vicinity" of El Centro Tuesday at around 2:35 p.m.

Officials did not confirm the cause of the crash but did say that it happened during a routine training mission. The USMC is withholding the names of those killed pending family notification.

Officials also did not confirm the military branch affiliation of the four crew members or if they were all Marines.

No other information was available.

Please refresh this page for updates on this story. Details may change as more information becomes available.



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Why the YouTube Shooting Suspect Being Female is Unusual

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Tuesday's shooting at YouTube HQ in California had one major difference from the usual grim pattern seen in American mass shootings, NBC News reported — the suspect was a woman. 

Nasim Aghdam, who was in her 30s, opened fire on an outdoor dining area at lunchtime, motivated by what authorities believed was a domestic dispute, though police later said there's no evidence she specifically targeted her victims.

Female shooters are rare. The San Bernardino shooting, Alturas Tribal shooting and Goleta Postal shooting are the only three instances in the past three decades that involved a female mass shooter. 

"The more extreme the violence, the more likely the perpetrator is to be male," said Sherry Hamby, research professor of psychology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.



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Stories of How MLK Changed Lives at Key Moments

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The two women are the daughters of a Baptist minister who invited Martin Luther King Jr. to his church on Chicago’s West Side in 1965, shortly before King moved into a tenement as he tried to desegregate one of the country’s most segregated cities.

King spoke at the Rev. Shelvin Hall’s Friendship Baptist Church three times in the mid-1960s when he formed the Chicago Freedom Movement, and turned his principles of nonviolence to overturning redlining, steering and other discriminatory real estate practices. At one march in Marquette Park, King was attacked by a mob.

On the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination, the sisters, Shelvin Louise Hall and L. Priscilla Hall, recalled the civil rights leader’s work and how he influenced both of them to go into law. They are among people across the country whose lives were touched at key moments by King.


Shelvin Louise Hall met King in her father’s study in 1965 and she remembers the crowd he drew to hear him and his ability to speak for hours without notes. But one sentence jumped out at her: “He said the civil rights movement needs lawyers,” she recalled.

She had thought she would teach, like her mother, but instead she became a lawyer and then an Illinois state judge. L. Priscilla Hall had already left Chicago and missed the chance to meet King, but she also was motivated by his campaigns. Like her sister, she became a lawyer and then a state judge, in New York.

“We didn’t want to be part of the problem,” L. Priscilla Hall said, a reference to a slogan popularized by Black Panther member Eldridge Cleaver: There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.

King was shot to death at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Brought to Memphis by a sanitation workers strike, he was killed by a gunman later identified as James Earl Ray as he stood on a second-floor balcony. Ray escaped but was captured two months later and died in prison in 1998. The motel is now the National Civil Rights Museum.


The Hall sisters’ father, born in Texas and later appointed pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, was active in the civil rights movement. He marched with King after the Bloody Sunday civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, when state troopers assaulted marchers, and he invited King to speak when King was trying to force Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to support desegregated housing.

Shelvin Louise Hall graduated from Boston University School of Law, and became a civil rights lawyer, receiving training through the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.


She was part of the first law firm run entirely by African-American women, in Houston, before she was appointed to the Illinois Circuit Court in 1991, and then to the Illinois Appellate Court.

“It was a pivotal moment in my career, hearing him talk,” she said.


Her sister, L. Priscilla Hall, graduated from Columbia University, receiving first a master’s degree in journalism and then her law degree. She became a New York City judge in 1986, a New York State Supreme Court justice and finally a judge in the Appellate Division. She presided over one of the most horrific child abuse cases in New York City, the killing of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown in 2006 by her stepfather. The child’s death led to an overhaul of the city’s child welfare system and led Hall to volunteer to serve in the state Family Court.

But for all of their personal success, the sisters are troubled by the state of the country. They thought the it would have made more progress in the 50 years since King’s work, when segregation was being dismantled and housing and jobs were becoming available.

“In some ways it looks like we’ve gone backwards,” L. Priscilla Hall said. “Public schools don’t seem to be educating our young people, so many people are in prison.”


And as for the unarmed black men being shot to death by police, most recently Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s California backyard, she said, “This is a racist country. It just is.”

But the activism shown by young people, from Black Lives Matter to the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting survivors, is phenomenal, they said.

“And a child shall lead them,” said Shelvin Louise Hall, quoting Isaiah in the Old Testament.

June Clark, an artist from Harlem, left the United States after King’s assassination, both because she was disillusioned with the country and because her husband was dodging the draft. She eventually moved to Toronto and became an artist.


“It was an awful, awful, awful time, 1968 at the time,” she said. “It just felt like your insides had been taken out. But I also felt that when Malcolm X was murdered.”

She returned temporarily in 1996 after receiving a one-year residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Among her projects was a documentary in which she asked people on Harlem’s 125th Street about how King had affected their lives and what they thought of the different approaches by King and Malcolm X. Their responses ranged from ignorance about King to continuing sadness about his death.


“Some people said his life hadn’t changed theirs one iota and other people talked about how proud it made them and how they felt about being black,” she said.

As far as the United States now, she is making several pieces for a new exhibition. One she calls “Unrequited Love,” of an American flag and a young child reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. But like the Halls, she is heartened by the young people demonstrating. She thinks King would have too.

“I think he would have felt quite proud of these young people, white and black who are marching,” she said.

A year after Shelvin Louise Hall met King, Michael Louis Pfleger, then a high school junior in Chicago, rode his bicycle to Marquette Park and saw protesters throwing rocks, bricks and bottles at King and the other marchers.

“I never saw so much hate in my life,” Pfleger, now the senior pastor at the Faith Community of Saint Sabina in Chicago and a leading voice against violence, told a church newsletter.

Pfleger will be the keynote speaker at the former Lorraine Motel on Wednesday as part of the commemoration of King’s slaying. He has dedicated himself to King’s principles of nonviolence as a way of life, teaching them to young people in Chicago, even as they are surrounded by some of the highest rates of gun violence in the country. They in turn have shared them with the students from Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School, who survived the massacre there and who are now demanding stronger gun control.

“Guns have become part of our American wardrobe,” Pfleger said. “It’s what we put on in the morning.”

Most of the violence in Chicago occurs in the same communities King was trying to help, still struggling with high poverty rates, double-digit unemployment, underperforming and underfunded schools, a lack of affordable housing or resources for mental health, he said. They are abandoned and neglected.

What gives him hope now are the young activists, who have come together across racial and economic divides and who are threatening to vote out politicians who toe the NRA line and reject gun control.


“They’re not a very patient group of people,” he said. “They’re very impatient and I love that about them. They’re saying, we’re not going through a long process with this, we’re not going to wait three more years and five more killings. We want this to change now.”

Among the young people from Chicago who spoke at the March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., is Trevon Bosley, a 19-year-old whose brother was shot to death outside a church. He led the crowd in a chant: “Everyday shootings are everyday problems.”

Bosley, a sophomore at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, where he is studying electrical engineering, became involved in an anti-violence group called the Brave Youth Leaders. They tutor, put on basketball tournaments and organize peace marches and voter registration drives.

Bosley knows that other people react to violence by joining gangs or seeking retribution. He remains angry that no one was ever arrested in his brother’s killing and has escaped any consequences.

But he said, “You can’t really combat violence with more violence. You’re not going to reach any kind of solution.”

For those who are discouraged or impatient, he would remind them that King advocated for something many thought would never come: civil rights. He is excited about the new push for gun control, and hope officials heard his plea for more funds for Chicago’s neighborhoods, not just tourist attractions. And he is happy that the Florida students included so many others in their movement.

“They didn’t have to do that,” he said. “They could used the media platform for themselves, and just kept to themselves but instead they went out and talked to people that have been struggling with this problem.”




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Job Fair for Veterans in East Hartford Today

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A job fair for veterans and their spouses will be held in East Hartford Wednesday and more than 100 employers are taking part it in.

The Heroes 4 Hire Veterans Career Fair will be held today in the Rentschler Field ballroom and it goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“This is our 14th year holding the Heroes 4 Hire Veterans Career Fair, and all indications are that this year’s event, with 100-plus companies and service organizations already signed up, will be one of the largest yet,” State Labor Commissioner Scott Jackson said in a statement. “Attendees and their spouses will be able to meet with a wide range of companies, service providers and educational institutions regarding employment opportunities and programs that serve veterans. Admission is free, and there is plenty of parking.” 

The companies taking part include Albertus Magnus, Foxwoods General Dynamics – Electric Boat Mohegan Sun, Pratt and Whitney Stanley Black and Decker, Tilcon, USPS, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Yarde Metals. See the full list here. 



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Stocks Poised for Big Drop Amid Fears of US-China Trade War

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The Dow Jones industrial average and other market indices were poised for heavy losses at the open on Wednesday, hours after China announced new tariffs on more than 100 U.S. products, CNBC reported.

Futures for the Dow indicated a nearly 550-point drop an hour before trading was set to open, with brokers concerned about a possible trade war between the United States and China.

China's new tariffs affected cars, aerospace and defense, soybeans and more. Stocks for Ford, General Motors, Boeing and other companies were down sharply in pre-market trading.

"I think the market is just concerned about this thing escalating right now," Leuthold Group chief investment strategist James Paulsen told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "It's not so bad if we have a few tariffs on a few products, but if it escalates worldwide, … then you're really threatening the recovery globally."



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Most of Millennials Are in Debt: Poll

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About three out of every four millennials in the United States are carrying some form of debt and many are putting off major life milestone events as a result, according to a new NBC News/GenForward survey.

A quarter of those surveyed between 18 and 34 years old are over $30,000 in debt and 11 percent owe more $100,000.

Credit cards are playing a bigger role than student loans, the survey found.

The debt load has led a third of all millennials to hold off buying a home and 31 percent to delay saving for retirement.

Only 22 percent of millennials are debt free.


Man Reported Missing from Mohegan Sun

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A man has been reported missing from Mohegan Sun and a Silver Alert has been issued for him.

Police are looking for 63-year-old William Dubauskas.

He has been missing since Tuesday and was last seen wearing a black pullover shirt that has a horizontal gray stripe across the chest, jeans and dark sneakers.  

He is 6-feet-2, weighs 220 pounds and has gray hair and green eyes, according to the Silver Alert.

Anyone with information on where Dubauskas is should call Mohegan Sun Tribal Police at 860-862-7460.

No additional information was available.



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Osprey Camera at Hammonasset Goes Live

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The Ospreys have returned to Hammonasset Beach State Park and the live cameras are up.

The camera, which is solar-powered, is installed on the osprey platform just west of the Meigs Point Nature Center.

Ospreys have been nesting on the platform every year since Menunkatuck installed it in 2012, according to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The birds returned from South America on March 25 and 26.

Watch the camera here. 

Learn more about the ospreys from the DEEP. 




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Amity Regional High No Longer In ‘Secure Mode’

'What's Up, Chapo': Man Who Helped Catch Drug Lord Speaks

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For the first time since he began hunting one of the world’s most notorious drug lords, the man who helped make the second capture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in 2014, is revealing his identity and telling his story.

Former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Andrew Hogan appeared on the "Today" show Wednesday to talk about the intricate tactics he used to track down Guzman, who headed the Sinaloa Cartel that authorities say supplied most of the methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana that entered the U.S.

Guzman rose through the Sinaloa ranks in the 1980s and was first arrested in 1993. He made his first escape in 2001, from a Mexican maximum-security prison, by hiding in a laundry cart. It would take 13 years for U.S. and Mexican officials to catch up with him again. After a second escape and infamous interview with actor Sean Penn in 2015, Guzman was finally caught in 2016 and extradited to the U.S., where he is awaiting trial in New York City and facing 17 counts that include money laundering, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder.

During those 13 years Guzman was on the run, Hogan infiltrated his cartel in 2010 and tracked the phones of his closest associates. Hogan read their text messages, he said, “every single one of them.”

He even moved to Mexico City to zero in on Guzman.

“It was in the details,” Hogan told Savannah Guthrie about following the electronic trail to Guzman. He and his team began intercepting members of Guzman’s inner circle to “dismantle layers” until they reached the top. When they got to Guzman’s personal secretary, they located the kingpin and moved in.

In 2014, Hogan and other members of U.S. and Mexican law enforcement followed the surveillance to the resort town of Mazatlan. Despite Guzman being a billionaire drug lord, they found him living at the Miramar condominiums, a way of life that surprised Hogan.

“He almost afforded himself no luxury,” Hogan explained. "Same plastic tables and chairs in every safe house that was designed the same way.”

As agents entered the Miramar, Hogan stayed outside guarding the perimeter, fearing Guzman would try to escape those closing in. Then, he heard a call come over the radio: “They got him.”

Hogan, wearing a black baseball cap “souvenir” he snagged from Guzman’s own closet, “ran right up to him,” he said.

Hogan came face-to-face with the man he had been hunting for seven years. He explained what he did next: “Jumped into his face and said the first thing that came to my head. I screamed: ‘What’s up, Chapo?’”

“Our eyes locked there for a second, and they threw him into the back of my car," he added.

Video was taken of the agents after Guzman's capture, and Hogan and others can be heard celebrating and yelling, “Yeah, baby.”

But Hogan and his teammates had no time to revel in their victory. Less than two years after entering a Mexican prison, Guzman was on the run again, having escaped through underground tunnels.

“It was pretty predictable,” Hogan said.

Nevertheless, in 2016, Guzman was captured for a third time and sent to America to face justice.

While “the dangers are certainly real,” Hogan said, he is not afraid to “embrace” his role in the capture of one of the most elusive criminals and share the story of a seemingly impossible feat.

“Immediately after the capture, I knew that I was gonna tell this story, one way or the other,” he said, explaining that he laid it all out in his new book, "Hunting El Chapo," which Sony will soon turn into a major movie.

“It was time to step up and be proud of what I had done and what my teammates had accomplished, Hogan added. "This story goes beyond just the one man. It’s about two countries coming together and accomplishing something that most thought was impossible.”

Hogan's full interview with "Dateline" airs Sunday on NBC.



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Silver Alert Issued for 10-Year-Old Bridgeport Boy

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Police have issued a Silver Alert for a 10-year-old Bridgeport boy who has been missing since last Thursday.

Police said 10-year-old Bryan Brown III has been missing since Thursday, March 29 and was with his father, 33-year-old Bryan J. Brown. They were last seen in a white four-door 2012 Nissan Altima with Connecticut plates 2AHJE1, according to the Silver Alert.

Bryan Brown III is 4-feet tall, weighs 60 pounds and has brown eyes and black hair.

If you know where he is, call Bridgeport Police Department at 203-576-7271.



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Man Threatened to Kill People at Newington Town Council Meeting: Police

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Newington police have arrested a man who they said is accused of threatening to kill people at a Newington Town Council meeting Tuesday night. 

Newington police officers responded to a town council meeting at town hall at 7 p.m. after receiving complaints of a disturbance. 

Authorities said an officer assigned to the meeting escorted 52-year-old William Gardner, of Newington, out of the meeting.

Then, after Gardner left the area, a witness came forward and reported hearing him make threats to kill people as he was entering the meeting, police said. 

Officers then found Gardner, took him into custody and charged him with second-degree breach of peace. 

Gardner was released on a $5,000 bond and is expected to appear in New Britain Superior Court on April 17.




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Police Investigating Shooting in Woodbridge

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Police are investigating a shooting on Rimmon Road in Woodbridge.

A fire truck is blocking Rimmon Road and Oak Hill Lane.

Beecher Road School and Amity Regional High School were placed in secure or precautionary mode because of police activity in the are, but school officials said they have lifted those security modes.

It is an ongoing situation and no additional information was immediately available.



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Popular YouTubers Speak Out After Shooting at Company HQ

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Many in the YouTube community were heartbroken over Tuesday's shooting at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters and took to social media to offer their support for the victims.

The platform has created stars out of many of its most popular vloggers, some of whom noted they'd visited the building in San Bruno, California.

Authorities identified Nasim Aghdam as the shooter who wounded three people at YouTube headquarters before killing herself. While authorities haven't said what they think motivated Aghdam, her family has said she felt discriminated against her by filtering how many views she had. She posted screeds online against YouTube, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit found.

The Paul brothers, viral video pranksters who have over 31 million subscribers between them, both tweeted their condolences to the victims of the shooting and called for change.

"To my online family... I will not be posting a vlog in light of today's shooting at @YouTube. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their loved ones," Logan Paul said, adding, "I'm also tired of typing and reading that exact sentence … CHANGE. IS. NECESSARY."


Jake Paul also offered his thoughts and prayers "to the amazing team there" and said he felt upset and sick over the shooting.

"I hope you all stay safe. No one should have to go through something so horrific," he said. "I have been inside that exact building & it’s scary to even say that. … We need change…now!"

Many others offered thoughts and prayers, including Ellen DeGeneres, whose show has 24 million YouTube subscribers, and makeup artist James Charles. Others called for change as well, like actor and singer Colleen Ballinger.


Jessica Ballinger, Colleen's sister-in-law and a popular YouTuber herself, asked her Twitter followers to send her ideas for ways to stop gun violence. Their ideas ran the gamut of proposals that often surface after shootings: banning guns, gun buy-back programs like one Australia implemented in 1996, funding mental health care, increasing security and expanding concealed carry permitting.

The YouTuber who has the most subscribers, PewDiePie, hadn't commented by 9 a.m. PT Wednesday.

Condolences poured in from the wider Silicon Valley community as well — the CEOs of Apple, Amazon and Twitter all tweeted about the shooting — and from President Donald Trump and other politicians.

Replying to Trump, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey linked to this March for Our Lives page, with "a simple and reasonable approach" to changing policy to limit gun violence.




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'I Think I Was Going to Die,' Parkland Survivor Who Shielded Students Recalls

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When a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, Anthony Borges barricaded the door to a classroom with his body as he attempted to shield classmates from flying bullets.

In the process, he was shot five times, but survived.

Two months after the Parkland massacre and nine surgeries later, the 15-year-old is finally home. He is the last shooting survivor to be released from the hospital.

"I feel good," Borges told NBC's "Today" show's Kerry Sanders in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

Borges was shot in his legs three times and twice in his lungs. A third of his lung had to be removed and one bullet came close to his liver. 

Donning an FC Barcelona jersey, Borges spoke haltingly as recalled the tragic shooting that killed 17 students and staff members. He remembers seeing the gunman shooting, and, wounded, threw himself in front of the classroom door.

"I think I was going to die," Borges told Sanders.

Borges, a former boy scout and avid soccer player and fan, has been hailed a hero for protecting 20 students inside the classroom. Fellow students at Marjory Stoneman have nicknamed him "the real Ironman."

Anthony's father, Roger Borges, says he's not surprised by his son's courageous actions.

"That's his personality," he said. "He doesn't believe he is [a hero], but he is."

Borges has received boxes of letters from strangers across the country and around the world, including his native country of Venezuela, calling him a "fighter" and "champion."

Doctors say he is going to be okay. His parents say they are just blessed their son is alive. 

"I pray to God every night for him," said Carlos Rodriguez, a friend of Borges' and a junior at Stoneman Douglas. "I'm hoping this Christmas, we can spend it as we did last year."

Family attorney Alex Arreaza has already filed an intent to sue the school, claiming the systems to protect students at Stoneman Douglas failed.

"It shouldn't have happened on Feb. 14. It shouldn't have happened ever, not in my school or any other school," Rodriguez told Sanders.

When asked what he's looking forward to most about going back to school, Borges said, "My friends."

Torrington Man Charged With Sexual Assaulting Girl in Shelton

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A Torrington man accused of sexually assaulting a girl has been arrested on additional charges in Shelton.

Shelton police said they arrested 45-year-old Christopher Galvin on Jan. 16 and he was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault and second-degree harassment.

On April 4, he was charged with second-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor, and enticing a minor by computer.

Police said Galvin met the juvenile victim online when she was 13 and he is accused of having an ongoing sexual relationship with her over an extended period of time.

Galvin was charged at the Derby Superior Court and bond was set at $150,000. He was in custody of the department of corrections as of Wednesday afternoon and is scheduled to be arraigned.



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Trump Sending National Guard Troops to Mexico Border

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The Trump administration began outlining a plan Wednesday to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration, but will probably not allow the troops to have physical contact with immigrants, according to three administration officials.

The planning follows an announcement by President Donald Trump on Tuesday that came as a surprise to many of his advisers, NBC News reported.

"Until we can have a wall and proper security, we are going to be guarding our border with the military," Trump said on Tuesday.



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Woman Sentenced to 60 Months for Bank Robbery

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A 31-year-old West Haven woman has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for three bank robberies in Connecticut, according to the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Courtney Worthington was charged with robberies at TD Bank at 636 Campbell Ave. in West Haven on Dec. 19, 2016; the Peoples Bank at 198 Amity St. in Woodbridge on Jan. 2; and the TD Bank at 184 Route 81 in Killingworth on Jan. 5. During each robbery, Worthington handed the teller a note containing threats and demanding money, according to federal officials.

State police found Worthington at the Quality Inn in East Haven, where they took her into custody.

She pleaded guilty on July 12 to one count of bank robbery. On Wednesday, Worthington was sentenced to 60 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.




Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
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