NZ Shootings, Students Strike & St. Patrick's Day - Friday, March 15th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, March 15th, 2019!
Today, we're talking about deadly shootings at mosques in New Zealand, how Congress made history this week, and why hundreds of thousands of students will be skipping school today.
Plus: the reason Facebook went down, Britney on Broadway, and millions of migrating butterflies.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...
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Sources:
New Zealand Shooting: AP, Bloomberg, NBC News, Daily Mail
Congress on Border Emergency: NYT, The Hill, AP
Mueller Report Vote: CBS News
Beto O'Rourke Announcement: CNN, NYT, CNBC
Students Sue: Stanford Daily, LA Times
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee: The Guardian, CBS News
Tesla SUV Reveal: CNBC, Business Insider, WSJ
Facebook Down Cause: USA Today, Engadget, TechCrunch
Britney on Broadway: People, CNN
Butterflies in SoCal: Travel + Leisure, KTLA
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, March 15th. |
| 0:02.4 | What to know about shootings at two mosques in New Zealand, |
| 0:05.8 | and a first for Congress and President Trump. |
| 0:08.6 | Plus why hundreds of thousands of students will skip school today, |
| 0:11.8 | the state seeing millions of migrating butterflies, and St. Patrick's Day. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:20.5 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica |
| 0:26.1 | Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:37.8 | We start today with a story that is still developing as of early this morning. There were shootings at at least two mosques in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand |
| 0:41.8 | that left at least 40 people dead and 20 more hurt. |
| 0:45.6 | The AP reports police also diffused a number of explosive devices on cars. |
| 0:50.0 | The latest reports say three men and a woman are now in custody. |
| 0:53.0 | At one point police were warning people to stay away from all mosques anywhere in the country. |
| 0:56.8 | The Daily Mail reports an Australian white supremacist was involved and posted a manifesto, |
| 1:01.5 | calling this a terrorist attack attack and then may have even |
| 1:04.0 | live streamed some of the shooting. Police were working to get any video of it |
| 1:06.9 | taken down. New Zealand's Prime Minister says it's one of the country's darkest |
| 1:11.0 | days and it's unprecedented violence there. |
| 1:14.0 | Expect more details to come out later today. |
| 1:19.6 | North Korea is rethinking talks with the US and even rethinking its ban on missile tests. |
| 1:24.9 | The AP reports a top official there said the US threw away a golden opportunity to make a deal. |
| 1:30.3 | Of course he's talking about the second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader |
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