It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. And well, for anyone who tried to

just take the weekend off from the news and the issues in the world. The world didn't let us,

did it. In such short order, there was the Brown University mass shooting with two people dead

and many injured, the Bandai Beach, Australian mass shooting with 15 people dead and dozens

injured, and the mass shooting outside of Brooklyn Sweet 16 party, six people shot,

all 15, 16, and 17 years old, says the NYPD.

So it may be of little comfort to any of the victims or the families to say our hearts

go out to you from us at the radio station, but of course they do, and the least I can do is say

that out loud and acknowledge these tragedies that are also horrific crimes. And that's all before

the apparent murder of Rob Reiner and his wife yesterday. And were it not for all of those horrors,

there might be more attention on the incident also

since Friday's show in which a young tourist to New York was changing her baby's diaper in a

restroom at Macy's.

Maybe you've heard this and was stabbed, apparently at random, by a woman who reportedly had

just spent about a year as a psychiatric inpatient,

bought the knife at Macy's and went right to the restroom to use it.

Channel 7 reports that that alleged attacker had previously been arrested in Massachusetts

for threatening to kill Senator Elizabeth Warren.

That cites the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as the source for

that. On the Brown University attack, that gunman at last report this morning is still at large

after one person of interest was detained but then determined not to be the shooter. On the Australia

attack, by all indications,

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