MN Mass Shooting, NYC Schools Ban AI and more

0:00Good morning to you. I'm Sarah Cider. It is Thursday, September 3rd. Here are your five things. Number one, the mass shooting. At least two people have been killed and several others injured after a person opened fire at a high-rise building in downtown Minneapolis. Now when police officers arrived, they say they found several victims and could still hear active gunfire going off. Some of the shots captured on the security camera of a nearby diner. Listen. Just a ton of rapid fire there when officers rushed inside. They say there was a haze in the air and another barrage of gunfires. Three officers were among the injured. Two of them hit by bullets as they exchanged fire with the shooter. I'm truly sickened by this level of violence.

1:00That feeling is tempered only by the courageous actions of the Minneapolis police officers who responded without hesitation, confronted an extraordinarily dangerous situation and worked to end the violence and restore safety. A source tells CNN that earlier in the day, police were called to that same complex for a dispute that may have been tied to an eviction. Officials are working to determine if that person was also the gunman who likely died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Two of the injured officers are said to have knife, non-life threatening injuries. The third was taken for surgery. All right. Number two, the oil transit. US officials tell CNN that 40 commercial ships made their way through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, escorted by the US military. And they were carrying 18 million barrels of oil. That's a wartime high and just two million barrels short of the daily average through the strait before the war. The operation came after a wave of strikes

2:05against Iran where the US said they hit roughly 60 targets, present from citing radar systems in particular. They were trying to see the ships because they can't see the ships. We're taking out a lot of ships they can't see because they have no radar because we blew it up and we blew up much more than their radar last. US officials say to pull off the risky transit operation, the US used a range of air scenes space assets to fend off waves of Iranian drone attacks and neutralize anti-ship cruise missiles. Still, energy companies are wary about sending their ships through that strait as this conflict shows no sign of ending. And oil remains roughly $35 a barrel more than before the war propping up gas prices. Number three, the deadlock. The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial will be back today for a six day of ruling deliberations after telling the judge twice now that they just haven't

3:09been able to reach a verdict. The nine women and three men have spent almost 30 hours trying to reach a decision, a unanimous decision. The judge acknowledged their hard work but then read them what's referred to as a dynamite charge, formally instructing them to re-examine their own opinions once again. Yes, in order to bring 12 minds to a unanimous result, you must examine the questions submitted to you with candor, with proper regard and deference and respect to the opinions of each other. It's your duty to decide the case if you can do it conscientiously. Now if the jury still cannot agree, Massachusetts State law prevents the judge from issuing that charge again unless the jury consents to it. And if they remain deadlock, the judge may eventually have to declare a mistrial, leaving open the possibility of having to do this all over again. Clancy's lawyer spoke briefly outside of court saying his client is worried and sad as she

4:12awaits the outcome. We'll be right back. Number four, the AI ban. New York mayor, Zoraan Mamdani, is leading the charge to ban the use of AI through eighth grade in the nation's largest school district. That's part of the one year moratorium. New York City schools will disable the AI components of more than 38 previously allowed programs that they say don't meet their new safety standards. High school students will have access to a limited number of AI tools, but they will also take AI critical thinking courses. And mainstream chat bots like chat, GBT and Claude will be banned for all grades. Teachers will, though, still be allowed to use AI for lesson planning, but not for grading or testing students. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way. I have yet to see a study showing

5:13that AI is beneficial for students in elementary and middle school, with the exception of course, of research sponsored by the very corporations that stand to profit. New York is among many communities pushing for stricter limits on screen time and AI use in response to the AI companies have started rolling out educational tools and funding AI training through teachers unions. All right, one last thing, America still in the thick of state fair season. We already gave props to Iowa's butter sculptures, but now it's Minnesota we turn to. And the focus is on the food as their fair runs through the Labor Day weekend. All right, among the new concoctions, an Apple donut ham grinder. It's a deep fried apple slice topped with ham, whipped ricotta and arugula. There's also a mustache pretzel for prime photo ops and an undeniable obsession with pickles. The deal with it cookie has white

6:17chocolate chips, finely chopped pickles and fresh dill all baked in there. Then there's the pickle pie filled up with chopped pickles, pickle juice and cream cheese plus a frosting of whipped ranch and chalula hot sauce. One of the top performers at the fair is actually the classic fried pickle ranging in, sorry, bringing in, get this 1.7 million bucks. Cheese curds, deep fried hot dogs and a stand that sells buckets of cookies are also big earners there. Rounding out the top five is a classic roasted corn. That's what I love. One local farm actually provides all of the corn for the fair about a quarter million ears and the owner tastes test about a dozen every day to make sure it's right. If you pick this with a machine, the machine actually comes in and squeezes the ear and

7:19abus the tender kernels and then just doesn't make a very pleasant looking ear. It doesn't affect the flavor, but it just doesn't look right. But it tastes right. Happy fair going to everybody. I'm Sarah Sidener, those are the five things that you need to know to get your day going. Now get going. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, host of the Chasing Life Podcast. Last week there was this important report that dropped that I think got a lot of attention. It's about football and there was this new study in the British Medical Journal, which estimates that of all the NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, about 878 players, at least 25% of them had confirmed CTE. That is the disease that is caused by repetitive hits to the brain. So CNN's resident NFL veteran, Koi Wire, he called me, we called fellow CNN sports anchor Andy Scholes, and

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