Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

Police are continuing their search at this hour for a gunman who killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday.

The mass shooting took place during final exams.

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley is urging people living near the campus to stay indoors while police continue their efforts to capture the shooter.

We have two priorities right now as a community. One, to bring the individual responsible to justice,

and two, to pray for the full recovery of those affected. The brown community's heart is breaking

and Providence's heart is breaking along with it. We're a week and a half away from Christmas,

and all of us are getting calls from

concerned families, parents, employees. Police have released a video showing the suspect who was

last seen leaving the school's engineering building. A shelter-in-place order is in effect for the

campus as well as people living near the school. House Republicans are unveiling a health care

policy package. They say will reduce health

costs. But as NPR's Jude Jaffe Block reports, Democrats are blasting the proposal for not

extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits. The enhanced tax credits are slated to expire at the

end of the year. And when they do, the out-of-pocket costs for millions of Americans who buy their insurance

on the Affordable Care Act marketplace will skyrocket. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the

GOP proposal instead tackles, quote, the real drivers of health care costs. It will allow small

businesses to ban together to buy health insurance plans. It also attempts to lower drug costs by imposing

new requirements on pharmacy benefit managers. A Democratic bill to extend the tax credits for three

years failed in the Senate, as did a Republican proposal. Members of Congress are running out of

time to address health care costs before the holiday recess at the end of the week.

Jude Jaffe Block, NPR News.

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