Islamic Center Shooting, Fast-Moving CA Wildfire, Musk Loses Lawsuit and more
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin. It's Tuesday, May 19th. Here are your five things. |
| 0:09.0 | Number one, the shooting. There are a lot of questions still swirling about the tragedy that unfolded in San Diego yesterday. |
| 0:16.0 | A deadly shooting at the largest mosque in that city. Police say two teenagers carried it out, |
| 0:22.2 | attacking the Islamic Center of San Diego Monday morning. |
| 0:25.7 | Three people were killed. |
| 0:26.9 | One of them was a security guard who, by all accounts, |
| 0:29.6 | acted heroically and prevented the tragedy from becoming even worse. |
| 0:34.1 | Amin Abdullah was a father of eight. |
| 0:36.3 | Inside the building he was protecting, young children who attend school there. |
| 0:41.3 | I know that he knew he was sacrificing his life for the kids because if he didn't take that bullet, they would easily walk up stairs and then there's just innocent |
| 0:57.7 | eight and younger and women and, you know, people that couldn't defend themselves. |
| 1:04.1 | The two suspects were found in a car nearby, dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds. |
| 1:09.7 | This is being investigated as a hate crime in part because sources tell CNN one of them |
| 1:13.3 | left a suicide note that contained writings about racial pride, and hate speech was also |
| 1:18.9 | scrawled on one of the weapons that was used in the shooting. |
| 1:22.1 | Police say the mother of the 17-year-old suspect called authorities hours before the shooting |
| 1:25.9 | to report that he had run away, had taken three weapons from the home, and that she feared he was suicidal. |
| 1:31.3 | Number two, the DOJ Fund. The Justice Department has announced a new Victims Compensation Fund, |
| 1:37.3 | a wild one, nearly $1.8 billion, not small. And the whole point is apparently to compensate allies of President |
| 1:45.3 | Trump who say they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted by previous administrations, |
| 1:50.5 | especially the Biden administration. It effectively allows the Trump administration to pick, |
| 1:55.2 | choose, and pay his supporters from a government agency, from the Russia collusion investigation |
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