Tuesday, May 22, 2018
What we know so far about the Santa Fe school shooting
(CNN)Nine students and a teacher were killed Friday morning in a shooting at Santa Fe High School in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe. It's the 22nd school shooting in the US in 2018. This is what we know:
- 10 people are dead, a law enforcement official said.
- Nine of those killed are students and one a teacher.
- Two law enforcement officers are among those injured.
- At least 13 people have been hospitalized.
THE SUSPECT
- Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, the suspect, appeared before a judge in Galveston County via video from the county jail. He is being charged with capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant. He was denied bond and not asked to enter a plea.
- He started attending Santa Fe High School in August 2015, according to his Facebook page.
- He played on the 2016 Santa Fe JV football team. He appeared on the 2015/2016 boys freshman football team.
- He showed interest in joining the US Marine Corps. On his Facebook bio, he claimed to be "starting in 2019." The military branch said it had no record of Pagourtzis filling out paperwork at a recruiting station.
- The suspect showed signs of aggression or violence: Photos posted on Facebook on April 30, 2018 show a T-shirt emblazoned with the words, "BORN TO KILL," as well as a black duster jacket with Nazi, communist, fascist and religious symbols. Also, the background image of his profile page is the album cover of "Dangerous Days" by French electronic music artist "Perturbator." A song on that album is called "Humans Are Such Easy Prey."
- A second person in custody is 18 years old and is believed to be a possible accomplice, but not the shooter, according to a law enforcement official.
- The second suspect is also believed to be a student, an official said.
WHAT HAPPENED
- Sheriff's officials received reports of an active shooting at the school just before 8 a.m.
- An armed person walked into an art class at the school and began firing what looked like a shotgun, a witness told CNN affiliate KTRK.
- Pipe bombs and pressure cookers were found at the scene, according to a law enforcement official.
- Investigators are searching a trailer nearby where it is believed explosive devices were assembled, according to a law enforcement source, who says a pressure cooker has been found.
- Explosive devices are also found in surrounding areas.
- Multiple agencies are on site, including the FBI, ATF, Texas Dept. of Public Safety, local law enforcement and first responders.
REACTION
- President Trump addressed the shooting at an unrelated White House event, saying: "This has been going on too long in our country."
- Vice President Mike Pence: "I just want to assure all of you that we will continue to do everything in our power to bring safety and security to this nation. To do everything we can to make sure our schools are safe."
- Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said schools must be "safe and nurturing environments" and "we simply cannot allow this trend to continue."
- Parents and students of Parkland offered condolences and reiterated that something needs to change.
- Sen. John Cornyn of Texas says he plans to travel to Santa Fe this afternoon: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those injured and killed."
- The Democratic mayor of Dallas slammed Congress: "Spare us your thoughts and prayers and do your job."
- "History will not look kindly upon those elected officials who failed to act in the face of repeated mass murders of our children," Mayor Mike Rawlings said.
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed flags be lowered to half-staff today through Tuesday.
- The Houston Astros plan to hold a moment of silence before their game tonight to honor the victims.
BACKGROUND
- Santa Fe High School is slated to hold its Class of 2018 graduation ceremony Sunday at the High School auditorium, according to the Santa Fe Independent School District Website.
- The high school has about 1,400 students, according to GreatSchools.org.
- Santa Fe is a city of about 13,000 people roughly 20 miles northwest of Galveston and 30 miles southeast of Houston.
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The $1.50 Michelin-Starred Meal
Chan Hon Meng is the master chef behind “Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle,†the food cart home to the cheapest Michelin-starred meal in the world. Ringing in at a mere $1.50, Meng’s perfected braised chicken recipe was passed down to him by his uncle.
Now, he’s serving hundreds of meals a day out of his hawker in Singapore. And while his food has gained acclaim and recognition across the culinary community, Meng hasn’t forgotten his roots. He’s still serving up the same great food, all for under two bucks.
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Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppressioncampaigns, whistleblower claims
Washington (CNN)The whistleblower whose disclosures about Cambridge Analytica shook the tech world over questions about users' data privacy told Congress on Wednesday that the company engaged in efforts to discourage or suppress voting.
"Mr. Bannon sees cultural warfare as the means to create enduring change in American politics. It was for this reason Mr. Bannon engaged SCL (Cambridge Analytica's parent company), a foreign military contractor, to build an arsenal of informational weapons he could deploy on the American population," Wylie claimed, referring to Trump's former top political adviser Steve Bannon.
Wylie did not provide specific evidence of voter suppression campaigns taking place in the US. But when asked by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, if one of Bannon's "goals was to suppress voting or discourage certain individuals in the US from voting," Wylie replied, "That was my understanding, yes."
After the hearing, Wylie told CNN that although he did not take part in voter suppression activities, he alleged that African-Americans were particular targets of Cambridge Analytica's "voter disengagement tactics," which he said were used to "discourage or demobilize certain types of people from voting," and that campaigns and political action committees requested voter suppression from Cambridge Analytica.
CNN has reached out to Bannon for comment.
Alleged Russian ties
Wylie also outlined during his testimony how he believed it may have been possible for the Facebook data of American voters to have been obtained by entities in Russia.
Wylie highlighted how Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan -- who has told CNN he gathered information on 30 million Americans through his Facebook personality test app in 2014, which he then passed to Cambridge Analytica -- made numerous trips to Russia, in part a result of his work with St. Petersburg University.
Wylie said he believed it was possible that Cambridge Analytica was a target of the Russian security services and that Kogan's computer could have been hacked during his visits there.
In response, Kogan told CNN, "Mr. Wylie is confusing fantasy for probable" and said he did not travel to Russia while he was working for Cambridge Analytica in 2014.
"Mr. Wylie has proven once again that he has a very active imagination without actual knowledge to back it up. As with his claims about the usefulness of the data, his claims here also quickly fall apart under any sensible scrutiny," Kogan told CNN.
Former clients
After the hearing, Wylie said he was happy both Republican and Democratic lawmakers had attended.
"Although Cambridge Analytica may have supported particular candidates in US elections, I am not here to point fingers. The firm's political leanings are far less relevant than the broader vulnerabilities this scandal has exposed," his written testimony read.
Among lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee questioning Wylie were Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Ted Cruz of Texas. Both have operated campaigns that were Cambridge Analytica clients.
Cambridge Analytica announced earlier this month that it was shutting down its operations and would announce bankruptcy proceedings.
Controversy around Cambridge Analytica's alleged misuse of Facebook data raised a host of new questions about the social media giant's role in the public discourse and elections, and helped prompt renewed scrutiny in Washington, where last month Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before committees in both houses of Congress.
On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Cambridge Analytica was under investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
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People have tried to stop lava from flowing. This is why they failed
(CNN)There's no way to stop lava.
"The flows cannot be stopped, but people have tried in the past," said Benjamin Andrews, director of the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Flows can and have been diverted, though. The most famous example, Andrews cites, was in 1973 when the Eldfell volcano exploded on Heimaey, a small island in Iceland.
"In that event, huge pumps were used to spray the advancing lava with seawater -- but this effort did not stop the flow, rather it redirected the flow and prevented it from inundating the harbor," he said, adding that portions of some towns were overrun with lava. One person died as a result of the eruption.
In other cases, Andrews said, bombs were used in attempts to divert a lava flow without success.
Challenges
Andrews described several challenges in stopping lava flow.
For starters, lava is dense.
"It may flow like sticky syrup, but is more dense than cement," he said. This means there's no point in putting up Jersey walls in front of a flow because the lava will "bulldoze them out of the way."
Some have thought to spray the lava flow with water, hoping it'll cool and freeze the front of the flow. But the extreme heat behind the crust, which is still molten, will allow the flow to continue.
Andrews did say that flows can be diverted, but then there's the problem of where the diverted lava goes.
"This problem is most easily illustrated with the example situation where I divert the lava flow to save my house but as a result the lava flow destroys someone else's house," he said. "As a result of these two factors, lava flows are generally not stopped or diverted."
The aftermath
The lava has flowed. The damage is done. Now, there's getting rid of the rock that's left from the flow.
"In most instances the rock is left in place," Andrews said because the volume of rock and the effort required to break it apart and remove it is generally cost-prohibitive.
But sometimes, it needs to be done. Like in October 2014 when the Kilauea volcano erupted, lava crossed over a major road called Cemetery Road, according to County of Hawaii Public Works Department. Crews removed the lava that blocked the roadway and a restoration project began. The solidified lava became an attraction for a while, CNN affiliate KHNL reported in 2015. The project to remove the lava and restore Cemetery Road began in October 2015 and was completed in December 2015. The project, public works said, was completed within the $150,000 budget.
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