NPR News: 12-16-2024 5PM EST
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast and the following message come from the NPR Wine Club, which has generated over $1.75 million to support NPR programming, whether buying a few bottles or joining the club, you can learn more at NPR Wine Club.org slash podcast. Must be 21 or older to purchase. |
| 0:18.9 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. |
| 0:23.0 | A shooting at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin today, left three people dead, |
| 0:28.6 | a teacher, a teenager, and the teenaged gunman, who police say was a student at the school. |
| 0:34.5 | Six others were transported to area hospitals, and two have life-threatening injuries. |
| 0:39.7 | Sarah Lear of Wisconsin Public Radio has more. Officers responded to a shooting at Abundant Life |
| 0:45.1 | Christian School shortly before 11 a.m. Monday. Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes says |
| 0:51.0 | officers did not fire their weapons and the shooter appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. |
| 0:57.7 | We're still going through collecting evidence, collecting information, making sure that our |
| 1:03.0 | community is safe from what is a sad day for our community and for our country. |
| 1:10.5 | Officials have not yet released the names of the victims |
| 1:12.8 | or the suspected shooter. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Lear in Madison. President-elect Donald Trump |
| 1:20.4 | says the government knows more than its saying about reported drone sightings in New Jersey and beyond. |
| 1:26.8 | NPR's Joel Rose reports those comments |
| 1:29.0 | were part of a wide-ranging press conference today at his home in Florida. There have been |
| 1:33.8 | thousands of reported sightings of unexplained drones in New Jersey and elsewhere in recent weeks. |
| 1:39.2 | The Biden administration says there is no evidence of a threat to the public and that many of |
| 1:43.9 | the unexplained |
| 1:44.4 | sightings are likely manned aircraft. Still, President-elect Trump is accusing the administration |
| 1:49.2 | of keeping Americans in the dark about what the drones are. Our military knows and our |
| 1:54.3 | president knows, and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. Trump declined to say |
| 2:00.2 | whether he has received an intelligence briefing on the drones. |
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