AP Headline News May 31 2019 22:00 (EDT)

 

AP Radio News. I'm Jackie Quinn.

 

"This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach."

The mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia with a grim news that 11 people most or all of them city employees were killed in a workplace shooting at a municipal complex.

A gunman described as a city employee walked into the Virginia Beach municipal center Friday afternoon and opened fire. Virginia Beach police chief James Cervera says there were multiple fatalities.

"We have 11 deceased victims there at the scene. We have 6 more victims who were transported to area hospitals."

The gunman engaged in a shootout with police and was gundownned. I'm Mike Gracio.

The gunman worked for the public utilities department. Sheila Cook was in a nearby building grateful for a police lockdown.

"We heard shooting but we didn't think it was that close like in proximity of the building. So I just thanked God that they were able to alert us in time."

 

It looks like the search for a missing Houston girl presumed to have died at the hands of her mother's ex-boyfriend has come to an end. Houston's mayor says remains were found in Arkanso undergoing forensic testing.

"That were certainly have to bring some degree of finality to this family."

 

Immigrant advocates went to court today alleging the federal government is allowing migrant children at a Florida facility to languish in prison like conditions instead of returning them to families.

 

There's a new hope for a company's blood test to find cancer.

Grail says its test included 2,300 people 60% with cancer. It detected 55% of known cancers and gave false alarms for only 1%. It detected 76% of a dozen cancers that collectively account for newarly 2/3 of cancer deaths in the U.S. I'm Mike Hempen.

 

There's new flooding along the Missouri river. More evacuations ordered. This is AP Radio News.

 

An international expert on trade tariffs, C. Fred Bergsten says President Trump would be wrong to impose tariffs on Mexico to deter illegal immigration.

"The proposed tariffs on Mexico would amount to a major tax increase on American consumers and businesses."

Stocks plunged today. Our Rita Foley reports on the U.S. industries that would be affected.

Fruit, beer, SUVs and trucks are just a few of the things that will get noticeably more expensive if President Trump goes ahead with his plan to tax imports from Mexico. Companies that make or sell those items got hammered as Wallstreet opened. Among them, GM, Costco, Kroger and Chipotle. And the DOW closed down 354 points today.

 

Border officials in Texas says a group 116 migrants from Africa were arrested at the Texas border. I'm Jackie Quinn. AP Radio News.