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Well torque night former classmates, teachers and alumni are gathering for a vigil in her memory. The flag outside of west catholic prep at half mass tonight. That is where people are gathering as we speak. The vigil just started. The community here is in mourning over the death of an academic and basketball stand out akyra was the youngest victim of the orlando nightclub massacre. She was there on a Family Vacation when her cousin and friend all three of them shot and held hostage by gunman oma...

Gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former classmates, teachers and alumni pour into the very same building to honor her memory. As the flags fly at half staff. Everybody wanted to be like her. Reporter monique barracks was murrays teammate on the ...

Right now the city of philadelphia lit up to honor the victims and survivors of sundays orlando massacre. You can see from skyfox rainbow lights shining from the ben franklin bridge tonight, and in center city both the Sirius Center and comcast building are lit up in rainbow colors. Philadelphia Community Coming together tonight to youngest victim who host her life when that gunman end fire. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Cun eightyearold akyra murray had draft from there west catho...

Downtown cedar rapids from the tnn tower cam. The river is going up swiftly it is expected to crest in about 24 hours at 23 feet. Now from your 24hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 morning news. Chris thank you for joining us now at 6 01 as so much, of course, of the focus is on the cedar, wapsi and its independence and toward anamosa. Lets start out with kyle. The good part with all this, it wont be terribly active for the next few days. No, it should be very quiet here for the rest of this ...

The victim, taken by four masked men. Over the next few days, the suspects called the victims father demanding ransom. That is according to this affidavit. The number kept going down from 500,000 according to the affidavit. The first ransoo pick up attempt was unsuccessful. The suspect couldnt find the money dropped off by the fbi. 20000 on september 3. The victim was returned to his family safe sleep. Safely. Three have been arrested and we are trying to figure out more about the timeline. At 1...

One of them at a school. All of this stuff online has some jefferson parents worried a mass shooting was being planned, perhaps involving multiple shooters who still want to carry it out. Im very worried. Im worried to the point that im about to pull my son out of this school until we know that our children are safe. Monday afternoon, Police Released a statement to ease the communitys concerns. They said, after talking with students and monitoring social media, authorities dont believe anyone el...

Activity around the area today. While nothing heavy is expected, there is a possibility that a few locations will exceed a half inch of rain. This cold front plus the clouds, should keep highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s today. Tonight, expect showers to rapidly dissipate as the heating of the day is lost and the front shifts southeast. Clearing sky after midnight should allow for upper 40s to push in over the northern half of the area with lower 50s elsewhere. Wednesday will be spectacular wi...

Tonight, right in the heart of campus. The Campus Ministry told the group its important to celebrate nathans life and also learn how to grieve. Using cell phones instead of candles, the group sent up their thoughts and wishes to nathan. Nathan was known as a popular guy around unis campus. He was a sophomore majoring in business. Nathans friends tell me theyll miss his energy and spirit. I also spoke to nathans soon to be step brothers. They didnt want to go on two tell me their family is still ...

Sending shockwaves through the republicans who control the obama to nominate a replacement, and democrats politics. Mark albert has the latest from washington. Reporter early sunday morning, the body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia arrived at an el paso funeral home. The flag is lowered to half president obama pay tribute to the court. You will no doubt be consequential judges and thinkers to serve on the reporter skully a was often seen as the keystone of high court, which frequently sp...

Madness. They have to whether they have ever voted before or not to come out and vote against donald trump and for me. Donald trump is literally inciting violence with his supporters. He is saying if you go out and beat somebody up, thats okay. I will pay the legal fees. There is something they can agree on. Common ground between the democrats who want to be president , both now taking on donald trump. Welcome to your world this morning. I am stephanie cy. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders blas...