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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What happened during the shooting at Brown University?
Authorities say two people have been killed and nine others are in critical but stable condition following a shooting at Brown University on Saturday. Police say the suspect remains at large. NPR's Lydia Kalitri has more.
Providence police say the shooting took place around 4 p.m. outside the Barris and Hawley building, which houses the School of Engineering and Physics Department. School officials say final exams were taking place at the time. Deputy Police Chief Timothy O'Hara says authorities are searching for a suspect described as, quote, a male dressed in black.
We're utilizing every resource possible to find this suspect.
A shelter-in-place order remains active for the university and surrounding areas. Lydia Kalitri, NPR News.
President Trump says the U.S. will retaliate after an ISIS militant shot and killed two American soldiers and one U.S. civilian in central Syria on Saturday. As NPR's Greg Myhre reports, this marks a rare attack on the U.S. forces that still remain in that country.
The Pentagon said a lone gunman with the Islamic State, or ISIS, carried out the shooting ambush near the ancient desert city of Palmyra. The gunman killed the two soldiers, as well as a U.S. civilian interpreter, and also wounded three U.S. troops. The Americans were on a joint mission with Syrian forces and the Syrians killed the ISIS gunmen, the Pentagon said. U.S.
forces were sent to Syria a decade ago to combat ISIS. The Americans defeated the group, but remnants still carry out periodic attacks. U.S. forces have remained in Syria to guard against a resurgence of ISIS. Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.
The Skagit River north of Seattle has crested this weekend at a record high level. Hundreds of people in western Washington who did not evacuate in time had to be rescued from their homes, sometimes from rooftops and even from their cars. Scott Greenstone from member station KUOW reports the thousands of people who did evacuate may not be able to return to their homes for several days.
In Burlington, just about an hour north of Seattle... The water levels have begun to recede and some people are returning to their homes assessing damage. Jocelyn Alm's home was still too submerged to get in, so a friend waited in to look in the windows and told her,
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