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I'm T.J. Manotok and this is your TFC News Now.
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Another tragic shooting, this time at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee,
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has left three children and three adult staff members dead.
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Local authorities say the shooting occurred on Monday morning at the Covenant School,
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a Christian school for students in preschool through grade 6.
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The female suspect, who officials say was a 28-year-old woman, was also killed by authorities.
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She entered the school armed with at least two assault-type rifles and a handgun.
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The motive for the shooting is yet to be known and the suspect has yet to be identified.
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The school has about 209 students and 40 to 50 staff members.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee had tweeted his condolences and asked for prayers for the school and the community.
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At an event at the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden took time to condemn the most recent mass shooting.
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I just want to speak very briefly about the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
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You know, Ben and I have been doing this our whole careers, it seems.
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And it's just, it's sick. You know, we're still gathering the facts of what happened and why.
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And we do know that as of now, there are a number of people who did not make it, including children.
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We go to Vancouver, where after almost a year since the Bayanihan Drive was launched for the building of a Filipino cultural center,
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community leaders are now moving the project forward.
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In several letters written by different groups, the Filipino leaders urged B.C. Premier David Ebi
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to make good on his commitment to build the first Filipino community center in the area.
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Part of Ebi's mandate letter to Filipino-Canadian legislator Mabel Elmore,
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when he appointed her last year as Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives,
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was for her to support the tourism minister in advancing proposals for a Filipino cultural center.
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We wrote to the leader, to Premier Ebi,
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for him to realize that project because he issued a statement that his government is willing to support the project of the Filipino cultural center.
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Elmore said she and tourism minister Lana Pofam will soon be meeting with members of the Mabuhay Housing Society.
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She hopes that a more concrete commitment will be announced by the government soon.
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And finally, baseball season is around the corner and a Filipino-American will be wearing the iconic Yankee pinstripes.
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On Sunday, the New York Yankees named 21-year-old Anthony Volpe as their opening day shortstop.
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Yankees!
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The Yankees drafted the New Jersey native in 2019 and has spent time in the Yankees minor league system
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before being invited to spring training this year.
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The team posted a video of how they, surprisingly, broke the news to the Philippine baseball player.
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Welcome to New York.
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The Yankees will open its regular season on Thursday at home against the San Francisco Giants.
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And those are our top stories for North America.
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You can catch more of our news online at news.abs-cbn.com.
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You can catch more of our news online at news.abs-cbn.com.
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And on the ABS-CBN News YouTube channel, I'm T.J. Manatok.
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Stay with us, Kapamilya!
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You can catch more of our news online at news.abs-cbn.com.