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early Sunday night in Seattle. Among those injured is a two-year-old boy. The shooting took place during
“a food festival. Oscar Sanchez was there when the shooting began. He says many people were rushed to the”
nearby space needle. Once we got inside, they told us to stay against the walls. And from there we were there for about a five minutes against the walls. And then they were like, "Okay, go up, go up, putting us in the elevators all the way up to the top of the space needle. We'll be there for about two hours." At least one person is in custody at this hour and police are looking for a second suspect as well. Police have not yet offered a motive for the shooting. It's just one hundred days until the mid-term
elections and PR is more Elias and tells us where things stand right now for both parties. Republicans are facing strong headwinds. President Trump's approval rating
is under 40 percent and voters are sour on the economy. The Iran War and Trump's tariffs are
keeping prices up. But Republicans have some advantages too. They've raised much more money than Democrats and Republican Jerry Manders have reduced the number of competitive house districts to less than 20. Democrats have the advantage of enthusiasm. Democratic voters have turned out in larger numbers than Republicans in primaries and special elections this year. To win the majority in the Senate, Democrats need to pick up of net four seats and to win the house, they need three
seats, Mar Elias and NPR news. Wall Street is headed into a busy week with the federal reserve facing a big decision on interest rates, along with earnings reports from big tech and big oil. NPR's Raphael Nam has more in that story. The Fed is set to hold this latest policy meeting at a time of high uncertainty. Although investors for now believe policymakers will hold rate steady, many are betting the Fed may have to raise them this year if inflation picks up as expected.
That's because the continued war with Iran has led to a spike in energy prices.
We'll also get a first read of economic growth in the second quarter, which covers from April to June.
“And we have a slew of important tech earnings including from Microsoft and meta.”
Investors will also carefully eye the earnings of Chevron and Exxon Mobil at a time of big volatility in the energy markets. Raphael Nam in PR news shares on Asian markets rose mostly higher Monday after the U.S. and Iran appeared to have paused their attacks both sides. Now discussing a possible resumption of negotiations toward a ceasefire. The markets were also affected by a drop in crude oil prices with Brent crude down 4.6%
to $87.46 early Monday, and shares in Chinese chipmakers CXMT sort almost 470% as began trading on Shanghai's technology board. You're listening to NPR news. Borders' our Tom Holman says the vetting process for ice officers remains under review following fatal ice involved shootings in Houston and Maine this month,
“but he says that some changes are already underway.”
I mean, that can direct advice, didn't make some immediate changes. Right now, and all vehicles stop to release one body camera on site to record the entire event. You know, gentlemen, agents are assigned to each stop. So there's already, it's still on the review, but we're going to continue doing the stops, but there's been changes to help improve the experience of people are on those stops.
Home and was speaking Sunday on CNN's State of the Union News Program. So really low snow conditions in the western half of the country over the past went to were likely made worse by human cause climate change from the mountain-west news bureau Rachel Cohen reports. Warm temperatures meant more precipitation fell as rain or snow melted early.
The low amount of snow on the ground in mid-March was about four and a half times more likely today than before industrial warming, according to the analysis. Adrian Marshall at Colorado School of Minds led the study. A bad snow here in the climate we're living in now is substantially worse than what we would have had in the absence of climate change.
It results signify more than bad ski conditions. Researchers estimate warming dramatically reduced the amount of water in this year's snowpack, which communities across the west rely on for drinking. For NPR news, I'm Rachel Cohen in Boulder, Colorado. And I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
