Leaked photos published by the Daily Mail show the scene inside Stephen Paddock's room at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.  CNN highlighted part of the image to indicate a "bump stock."
Will Trump back bump stocks ban?
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The shooting at a congressional baseball practice reminds us of something we too often forget: We are one country, and we’re all in this together. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.

1. Congressional shooting

And there is still no sign of Stephen Paddock’s motive for indiscriminately shooting at thousands of people at a country music festival, killing 58. But we have learned a few other things. One, he was shooting at more than just people; he also fired on a fuel tank at the nearby McCarran International Airport. Authorities say there was “zero” chance of an explosion. Secondly, someone named Stephen Paddock reserved a room at a Chicago hotel overlooking Grant Park during Lollapalooza back in August, but no one ever checked in.

Read an in-depth account of the shooting from CNN’s Mallory Simon of 10 Las Vegas survivors and their six hours of hell.

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Survivors remember bodies, blood in Vegas
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President Donald Trump hasn’t been able to dismantle the Affordable Care Act through legislation, so he’s moving to undermine the health care law via other means. Trump plans to stop crucial Obamacare subsidies that help low-income enrollees pay for their health care. The dramatic move threatens the law’s future, because doing so could force insurance companies to raise rates or even leave the Obamacare exchanges altogether. Almost 6 million people, which is more than half of all Obamacare enrollees, qualify for the cost-sharing payments, which cost the feds about $7 billion this year.

2. Democratic National Committee

ISFAHAN, IRAN - MARCH 30:  A worker walks inside of an uranium conversion facility March 30, 2005 just outside the city of Isfahan, about 254 miles (410 kilometers), south of capital Tehran, Iran. The cities of Isfahan and Natanz in central Iran are home to the heart of Iran's nuclear program. The facility in Isfahan makes hexaflouride gas, which is then enriched by feeding it into centrifuges at a facility in Natanz, Iran. Iran's President Mohammad Khatami and the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Gholamreza Aghazadeh is scheduled to visit the facilities. (Photo by Getty Images)
Explaining the Iran nuclear deal
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The wine country fires in Northern California are some of the deadliest in the state’s history. At least 31 people are dead and hundreds remain missing nearly a week after this disaster began. Homes searches are starting, and in some cases authorities are finding bodies burned beyond recognition. “Some of them are merely ashes and bones,” Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano said. The biggest fires are far from being contained, and the weather won’t be ideal for fighting them this weekend, with winds predicted to be gusty through Saturday.

3. The Weinstein effect

Tropical Storm Nate is headed to Mexico after killing 22 people in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras. The storm will make another landfall on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula before hitting open sea again. Nate is then expected to get stronger and hit late Saturday or early Sunday somewhere along the Gulf Coast – possibly New Orleans, where the drainage pumping system isn’t at full strength – as a Category 1 hurricane.

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Tropical Storm Nate threatens Gulf Coast
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We’re nearing the tail end of the peak part of hurricane season, and this one has been a doozy. Puerto Rico is still suffering in the aftermath of Maria, with water and electricity in short supply. Now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company’s solar power unit could fix the island’s power crisis for the long term.

Russian efforts to meddle in American politics did not end at Facebook and Twitter. A CNN investigation of a Russian-linked account shows its tentacles extended to YouTube, Tumblr and even Pokémon Go.

5. Fried potatoes study

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators met this past summer with the former British spy whose dossier on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign spawned months of investigations that have hobbled the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Information from Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 officer, could help investigators determine whether contacts between people associated with the Trump campaign and suspected Russian operatives broke any laws.

CNN has learned that the FBI and the US intelligence community last year took the Steele dossier more seriously than the agencies have publicly acknowledged. James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, said in a January statement that the intelligence community had “not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable.”

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller testifies before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on oversight during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 19, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB        (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Mueller's team met with Russia dossier author
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A family of five held captive by the Taliban for almost five years has been freed. An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children were freed by the Pakistani army. The wife and husband – Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle – were kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012. Coleman was pregnant at the time. They had two more children while in captivity. Pakistan was able to free the family after their kidnappers moved them from Afghanistan over the border into Pakistan. It’s unclear when the family will head home; Boyle refuses to board a US military plane over fears he’ll be arrested. Boyle was previously married to the sister of Omar Khadhr, a Canadian who was imprisoned for 10 years at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and later sued the Canadian government.

5. Trump in Asia

Leaders in the Catalonia region wanted to declare independence next week, but Spain’s highest court says not so fast. The country’s Constitutional Court suspended a meeting of Catalonia’s regional parliament set for Monday, where the region’s president was expected to formally make the declaration. Voters in Catalonia overwhelming OK’d a referendum on independence almost a week ago (despite violent clashes with police). But Spain’s government says the vote was illegal. It’s not clear at this point if the Catalan parliament will still meet, in defiance of the court’s action.

People wave 'Esteladas' (pro-independence Catalan flags) as they gather during a pro-independence demonstration, on September 11, 2017 in Barcelona during the National Day of Catalonia, the "Diada."
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans were expected to rally to demand their region break away from Spain, in a show of strength three weeks ahead of a secession referendum banned by Madrid. The protest coincides with Catalonia's national day, the "Diada," which commemorates the fall of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714 and the region's subsequent loss of institutions and freedoms.
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How Catalonia's independence crisis unfolded
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The furor over the sex assault allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is growing. Police in both New York and London are investigating him. And now he faces another public accusation of rape. Actress Rose McGowan, via several Twitter posts, accused Weinstein of raping her. She also alleged she told the head of Amazon Studios about the matter, but nothing came of it. Amazon did not respond to requests for comment from CNNMoney. Amazon and the Weinstein Co. are partners on two forthcoming streaming TV series.

TODAY’S NUMBER

Prize winner

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this morning to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

FILE - in this Sept. 13, 2017 file photo activists of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) protest against the conflict between North Korea and the USA with masks of the North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, right, and the US president Donald Trump, left,  in front of the US embassy in Berlin, Germany. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Geneva-based group "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons." (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)
2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner announced
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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“I cannot be more remorseful about the people I hurt, and I plan to do right by all of them”

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, apologizing after a New York Times story detailed numerous sexual harassment accusations against him. But he also plans to sue The Times over the article.

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NYT: Weinstein accused of sexual harassment
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“I don’t think I’m being fired today.”

BREAKFAST BROWSE

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More bucks to binge

Your Netflix fix is going to cost you a little bit more. The streaming and DVD-by-mail company is raising the price of its standard and premium services.

‘Almost Like Praying’

Lin-Manuel Miranda doesn’t want you to forget about Puerto Rico, so he and 22 of his musical friends got together and put out a song so you won’t forget.

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'Hamilton' creator: Make noise for Puerto Rico
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Musical majesty

Nominees for next year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction are out, and they include Bon Jovi, Kate Bush, Nina Simone, LL Cool J and 15 others.

Out of this world

Running out of exotic places to visit? Maybe you can grab a seat on an Amazon-affiliated company’s rocket that will take tourists to space by 2019.

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Watch Blue Origin test crash a pod in the desert
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Home sweet home

Want a different kind of place to live? How about a 2,100-square-foot home, made of shipping containers, in a starburst-like design, smack in the middle of the desert

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The nitty-gritty

Want to write about Detroit? That’s cool. But a native wordsmith says, please, leave the word “gritty” out of it.

It doesn’t matter if you win or lose …

WHAT’S FOR LUNCH

Blown away

The monthly jobs report comes out later this morning. Economists expect Hurricanes Harvey and Irma will have a big impact on the numbers.

TOPSHOT - A man rides his bicycle through a damaged road in Toa Alta, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 24, 2017 following the passage of Hurricane Maria.
Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed on September 23, 2017 to evacuate people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of collapsing because of flooding from Hurricane Maria. / AFP PHOTO / Ricardo ARDUENGORICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images
2017 hurricanes could cost over $200 billion
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Nuking the deal

NUMBER OF THE DAY

That’s how much seven trips by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on government planes cost taxpayers.

Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin waits after a meeting with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski        (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Mnuchin faces scrutiny over latest report
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AND FINALLY …

A dog named Blue thought the moon was her missing ball. Her owners didn’t tell her otherwise. (Click to view)

Steam-roller vs. giant gummy bear