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There was a mixture of excitement and nervousness Monday, as nearly 600 spellers kicked off the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee with a test. The preliminary test is made up of 12 spelling words and 14 vocabulary words.“I think it was fun, but also stressful in a way because it was difficult,” says speller Tommy Cherry of Florida.Cherry says he’s happy with how he did. His friend, Arik Karim, feels the same.“I think I learned a lot from it,” Karim, who is also from Florida, says.The friends help each other study. “There's just going to be a lot going on, so sometimes I think it's good to like take a break and, you know, just get to study,” says Karim.The two met at last year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, but they hadn’t seen each other since. They were able to connect at this year’s competition. “I like socializing with a lot of people who I have a lot in common with,” Cherry says.They’re looking forward to hitting the stage again.“I feel pretty confident, considering that, yes, we do have a list that we study from, and I think I'm well acquainted with the words that we receive,” Karim says.The spellers will take the stage Tuesday for the second round of preliminaries. The spelling round combined with Monday’s test will determine who moves on in the competition. See if you can pass Monday’s preliminary test by taking it 1359

This week, Felicity Huffman and 13 others agreed to plead guilty in the college admission scandal, hoping to get a lighter prison sentence. But for those standing their ground, including actress Lori Loughlin and more than a dozen others, prosecutors issued additional charges against them. Those charges include fraud and money laundering, which can bring up to 20 years in prison. Justin Paperny, who is dubbed as “prison coach” for his work in helping people prepare for prison life, was hired by several people involved in the college admission scandal to help them get ready to spend time behind bars. “Well they never imagined in a million years they'd be caught up in a federal indictment,” Paperny says of his clients. Paperny’s advice to those involved: if you did it, own it. “If you're a defendant and you're guilty, you should run not walk to the U.S. Attorney's Office,” he says. White collar criminals can easily survive minimum security prison life, Paperny says. His past clients tell him prison isn't even the hardest part. "They've told me, in retrospect, that the easiest part of the sanction was federal prison,” he recalls. “That the time before they went in was incredibly harder."A judge will decide how long each defendant serves, and history shows judges look kindly on plea deals. Sentencing could happen in several weeks, at the earliest. 1378

The Pentagon confirmed Monday that a national guardsman has died about a week after he had been diagnosed with COVID-19.The New Jersey Army National Guardsman had been hospitalized since March 21. The guardsman is the first U.S. service member to die of the coronavirus."Today is a sad day for the Department of Defense as we have lost our first American service member – active, reserve or Guard – to Coronavirus," Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in a 470

This week, 120,000 people in northern California went without power. It was the latest round of precautionary outages by the state’s largest utility company. PG&E says the outages were necessary to prevent downed power lines from sparking more wildfires. Last month, more than 2.5 million Californians were in the dark due to preemptive blackouts.Now, state regulators are investigating whether the forced outages were warranted.“Some people in California in October were out for eleven days straight without electricity,” says Mark Toney Executive Director of TURN Utility Reform Network in California. “That is unheard of. Unprecedented.”Public utility companies are regulated state by state. There are no federal laws guaranteeing or giving residents the right to electricity and gas service. Generally, experts say in times of emergencies like hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires, some utilities can pull the plug on services in the interest of public safety as was claimed in California.“In California, they’re only supposed to do it as a last resort,” says Toney. That’s not to say that customers don’t have any rights. In some colder places, it may be against the law for utilities to turn off electricity or gas if they are needed for heating between November 15th and March 15th even if the bills haven’t been paid. “People only have the rights that they fight for,” says Toney. “That’s how it’s always been.”Investigators in California are looking at whether PG&E properly balanced the need to provide reliable service with public safety.One thing consumer advocates recommend is getting familiar with the consumer utility bill of rights in your state and municipality. If service is shut-off improperly, they say to document financial losses and file claims against the utility companies or with the public utilities commission. 1861

The Virginia Beach gunman appeared to target supervisors in his department in the early moments of a shooting spree that left 12 people dead on Friday, according to a survivor of the attack and a city councilman.Authorities in Virginia Beach say they are still working to determine what motivated DeWayne Craddock to bring two handguns into his municipal office last week and begin shooting.In the meantime, the survivor and the councilman described how Craddock walked down a hallway past a number of employees on the second floor of Building 2 before firing his first shots inside of the building, in an area where senior engineers and supervisors sat."He was looking for specific people apparently, at least at first," said Louis Jones, a Virginia Beach councilman and former mayor whose grandson, Jack Jones, was interning in the public works department and working on the second floor when the shooting occurred.Craddock, a longtime engineer in the city's Department of Public Utilities, submitted a short letter of resignation the morning of the shooting. He wrote that he was giving his two weeks' notice "due to personal reasons," and that "it has been a pleasure to serve the City," according to a copy of the email released by the city on Monday.City Manager Dave Hansen said on Sunday that questions around Craddock's employment status were part of the continuing investigation, but that Craddock had not been fired before Friday, and that there were "no issues of discipline ongoing."The city redacted the names of the person or people Craddock sent the email to. But a colleague of Craddock's told CNN that Richard Nettleton, a 28-year employee of the city who was killed in that back office area, received the letter.Jones, the councilman, said that his grandson was alone in an office on the second floor just after 4 p.m. on Friday when the gunman came to the door, looked at him, and then turned around, proceeding farther down the hallway.Soon after, Jones said his grandson heard a first shot fired. The 21-year-old is being credited for potentially saving lives as he ran down the hallway screaming "gun, gun, gun," and "everybody get out," the councilman said in an interview.Mike, an engineer who worked in Building 2 who would only give CNN his first name, said that he and his colleagues were first alerted to danger by a woman's scream from the back part of the second floor, where the engineering supervisors sat."I heard a scream and we all started going toward the scream. And then we heard gun shots," he said.Nettleton and Katherine Nixon, both longtime engineers with the city and supervisors in the public utilities department, sat in the back area of the second floor hallway. They were killed in the shooting.Nixon was not in Craddock's chain of command, according to a city official.Randy Allen, another supervisor of the gunman's, was not injured during the shooting, according to a city official. It's not clear where Allen was at the time of the shooting.Allen declined to comment to CNN when reached over the weekend.Another official, Stephen Motley, is listed on the city's organizational chart as a Utility Engineering Manager in the Department of Public Utilities. CNN has reached out to Motley for comment.Four people were hospitalized after the shooting. They have not been identified.On Friday, in the first news conference after the shooting -- a time when details in an investigation are still usually fluid -- Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera said Craddock entered the building shortly after 4 p.m. and "immediately began to indiscriminately fire upon all the victims."In subsequent news conferences, however, Cervera has declined to comment when asked if the shooter had targeted any victims. On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Beach Police Department said she could not discuss the ongoing investigation.Authorities have interviewed city employees who survived the shooting as they've worked to piece together the gunman's movements inside the building, according to police.Before entering the building Friday afternoon, Craddock shot and killed a contractor sitting in a car parked outside, authorities said. Craddock used two handguns in the shooting, one of which was equipped with a suppressor, which witnesses said dampened the sound of the gunfire.Even after beginning his rampage, Craddock appeared to spare some city workers he came across, while shooting others.Ned Carlstrom, who works in the billing section of the city's water department, 4530