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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

Today is Monday. It is January 13th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. It was a violent weekend in Philadelphia.

Seven people were killed in the city over the weekend, bringing the total number of homicides in the city to 13 for 2020, not even a full month into the new year.

A double shooting left a 35-year-old man dead in Strawberry Mansion late Sunday. A second victim was taken to Temple Hospital and critical condition. At about 1 a.m. Sunday on the 4,700 block of North 5th Street,

police officers found a man lying in the middle of the street with two gunshot wounds to the head.

He was taken to Temple University Hospital where he later died. Just about an hour earlier,

a man in his 20s was shot at the intersection of Amber and Rush Streets in Port Richmond. He was

taken to the hospital and pronounced dead there. At 1.16 p.m. on Sunday, police say shots rang out near St. Joe's University's campus.

Officers found a 24-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

In the city's Germantown section, a shooting left an 18-month-old baby and an adult male injured by gunfire at 5.30 in the evening on the 100 block of East Pastoria Street. Police say the baby suffered a graze wound to the head and the man was shot in the upper body, but both victims are expected to survive. Now, on Saturday afternoon, a 15-year-old was shot to death in North Philadelphia. According to investigators, the boy was shot twice in the chest. At about 6 p.m. on Saturday, a man was stabbed to death during a fight at a busy center city

street. And then an hour later, a 24-year-old man was shot once in the head in the 200 block of

South Edgewood Street, and he later died at the hospital. So all of that this weekend, seven people

dead, 13 so far for the year and not even a full month in.

Carnell Elementary School in Oxford Circle is scheduled to reopen this morning after

weeks of asbestos remediation.

The school district of Philadelphia announced that necessary repairs had been completed

and testing was confirmed that the school is safe.

Yet the teachers' union countered the school should remain closed for now. Carnell, as well as McClure Elementary and Hunting Park, closed before winter break due to imminent asbestos concerns. I think they came over with a great idea. They're able to now reincorporate the asbestos into the cafeteria meatloaf. Oh, yeah. It's two birds at one stone. They're doing something with it. Right. You know that mystery meat. You don't know. Last week...

That's what gives it the crunch, the asbestos.

Oh, God, that's gross. Last week, teachers elected officials and parents gathered outside

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