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Episode: 9 AM ET: Wisconsin shooting witnesses, TikTok fighting ban, Trudeau in trouble & more

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Duration: 00:06:43

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Police are starting to piece together what happened at the shooting at a private school in Madison, Wisconsin. Ukraine is claiming responsibility for an explosion that killed a Russian general. TikTok wants the Supreme Court to weigh in, as it’s just weeks away from possibly being banned in the US.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is having problems in his own government. Plus, there’s some wild weather coming to the western US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello from CNN, I'm Jo Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, December 17th.

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Police are starting to piece together what happened at the shooting at a private school in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday that killed a student and a teacher. Six people were also injured, including two students who were in critical condition.

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Police say a 15-year-old girl opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School before taking her own life. Her motive is still unknown, but a law enforcement official told CNN she expressed some of the problems she was dealing with in writing.

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This eight-year-old girl, who spoke to CNN affiliate WICS, is a student at the school.

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There was a teacher and she was screaming like, ah, my leg, help, help. Do you know that teacher well? Mm-hmm. What was it like to hear that? Were you scared? I was really scared and I was really sad.

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A candlelit vigil is scheduled for tonight, with the city's mayor and education officials expected to attend. Ukraine has taken responsibility for the explosion that killed Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow earlier today.

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CNN's Fred Plotkin is in the city.

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We are actually at the scene of where this explosion took place. And the Russians are saying this happened in the early morning hours of today as the general and an aide to the general were leaving that building.

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And Russians are indeed saying that they believe that the explosive device was hidden in an electric scooter parked right outside that building and that there were about 300 grams of TNT inside that explosive device.

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They have already said that they found remnants of that explosive device. And one of the other things that they've said as well is that they believe that it was detonated remotely.

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Kirillov headed Russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protections forces. He was wanted by Ukrainian authorities for allegedly using chemical weapons and had been sanctioned by the UK.

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A source says the Ukrainian security services is behind the killing, which Russia has described as a terror attack. TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in a fight over whether the app should be banned in the US in just a matter of weeks.

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As it stands, the social media company has until January 19th to find a new non-Chinese owner or be blocked from American app stores and internet services.

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But under the controversial law forcing the sale, the president will have one chance to extend that deadline for a year. TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has said it won't sell the app.

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Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is facing a political crisis, with some in his own government calling for him to step down.

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Yesterday, Chrystia Freeland, the country's deputy PM and finance minister, abruptly resigned, claiming she was being demoted after disagreeing with Trudeau over how to deal with President-elect Donald Trump's potential tariffs on the country.

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It's shaken Trudeau's minority government, especially as Freeland was seen as a potential successor to him. Ian Austin with the New York Times is based in Canada and says Trudeau is looking at ways to stay in power.

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There's a way to shut down Parliament for a period. He may well do that in the coming days. But there is always the possibility. He doesn't control the House of Commons in terms of its votes.

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And if another leftist centre party, the NDP, take against him, they could force an election at any point in time.

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Wild weather is set to hit the west today. That's next.

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I'm CNN tech reporter Claire Duffy. This week on the podcast Terms of Service, CNN business economics writer Elizabeth Buchwald. She's going to walk us through what we might want to consider buying now before prices go up under a Trump White House.

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Once he gets in the Oval Office, he can put tariffs into place. E-bikes are actually made in China.

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Really anything that just isn't produced in the U.S. Follow CNN's Terms of Service wherever you get your podcasts.

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Severe weather is being forecast for western parts of the country today. Red flag warnings have been issued for southern California, bringing gusty winds to an area already battling a mountain fire.

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And an ongoing atmospheric river is set to fuel another storm that will move across the northwest. For the details, here's CNN's Derek Van Dam.

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Yeah, that's right, Joe. More bad news for Southern California, especially the areas already battling the Franklin Fire near Malibu. Critical fire weather conditions have returned to the region.

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Winds will max out tonight and into early tomorrow morning, could gust over 60 miles per hour in some of the higher elevations of the mountain ranges just off the coastline. That will bring dangerous conditions to the region.

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Elsewhere, across the Pacific Northwest, another atmospheric river event bringing low elevation rainfall up to five inches and high elevation snowfall to the mountains impacting some of the highways and interstates.

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That's all for now. Our next episode is at noon eastern.

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Welcome to Times Square. Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are back together to ring in the New Year.

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That's not in my life!

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And anything could happen.

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Oh my gosh! So embarrassing! That's perfect TV!

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New Year's Eve Live starts at 8 on CNN.