Rail Yard Rampage, Amazon Buys MGM & Hide Your 'Likes' - Thursday, May 27th, 2021
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
3.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, May 27th, 2021!
We'll tell you about a tragic workplace shooting in northern California.
Also, there's a new kind of investigation into the origin of COVID-19 and new research shows COVID-19 immunity may last years.
Plus, which major movie and TV studio Amazon is buying, how you can hide the likes on Facebook and Instagram, and where to watch the reunion 'Friends' fans have been waiting for.
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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Sources:
San Jose Mass Shooting: SF Chronicle, LA Times, WSJ, Fox News, White House
Blinken Wraps Mideast Mission: AP, NY Times, Reuters, Axios
Biden Orders Covid Origin Investigation: WaPo, Axios, ABC News, AP, WSJ, White House
Covid Immunity May Last Years: NY Times, Reuters, Nature, BioRxiv
Amazon is Buying MGM: CNBC, NY Times, WSJ, AP, Amazon
Google, Hospital Chain Create Patient Data Tool: WSJ, The Verge, Cnet, Google
Facebook, Instagram Allow Hiding 'Likes': TechCrunch, USA Today, NBC News, Facebook
'Friends' Reunion Debuts: WWD, Sky News, NY Times, Watch Trailer
Thing to Know Thursday: Summer Travel: WSJ, USA Today, Forbes, Travel Survey
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, May 27th. |
| 0:02.2 | We'll tell you the latest about a tragic workplace shooting in northern California. |
| 0:06.6 | Also, there's a new type of investigation now into the origin of COVID-19, |
| 0:11.1 | and new research shows COVID-19 immunity may last years. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll explain. |
| 0:16.0 | Plus, which major movie and TV studio Amazon is buying? |
| 0:19.8 | How you can now hide the likes on Facebook and Instagram, |
| 0:23.2 | and where to watch the reunion friends fans have been waiting for. |
| 0:27.5 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy, all the days news in about 10 minutes. |
| 0:33.6 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Lacey Evans, filling in for Erica Mandy during her maternity leave. |
| 0:39.8 | You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:45.2 | We start today with another shooting rampage this time out of California. |
| 0:49.6 | It happened at a light rail facility for the Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose. |
| 0:54.2 | It provides bus, light rail, and other transit for the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 0:58.8 | Authorities say an employee there set his own house on fire early yesterday morning, |
| 1:03.4 | then drove to the facility where he shot his co-workers. |
| 1:06.4 | At least eight people were killed. |
| 1:08.2 | They say when Sheriff's deputies arrived, the shooter killed himself, too. |
| 1:12.4 | Now, investigators are trying to figure out what might have motivated him. |
| 1:16.2 | The man's ex-wife told the AP she remembers he would come home upset several years ago |
| 1:21.1 | and tell her he wanted to kill people at work. |
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