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Baseball game to resume after shooting; Haiti's first lady returns home to plan husband's funeral; concerns rise amid new cases and less vaccinations
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THE SAN DIEGO PADRES AND WASHINGTON NATIONALS WILL FINISH THEIR GAME TODAY AFTER IT WAS SUSPENDED BECAUSE OF A SHOOTING OUTSIDE NATIONALS PARK. VIDEO SHOWS THE CHAOTIC SCENE UNFOLDING MOMENTS AFTER SEVERAL LOUD POPS WERE HEARD IN THE BALLPARK. FANS COULD BE SEEN RUNNING FROM THEIR SEATS WHILE PLAYERS FROM BOTH TEAMS HUSTLED TO THEIR DUGOUTS. SOT "We thought it was fireworks at first. People, couple people started running, and then as we saw more and more people running and then we heard more shots that when we realized it was real so everyone started (inaudible)." POLICE SAY THE INCIDENT WAS A SHOOTOUT BETWEEN PEOPLE IN TWO CARS. FOUR PEOPLE WERE INJURED, INCLUDING A WOMAN WHO WAS ATTENDING THE GAME. 

HAITI'S FIRST LADY IS BACK IN HAITI TO PLAN HER HUSBAND'S FUNERAL. WEARING A BULLETPROOF VEST - MARTINE MOISE WAS GREETED BY THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER AND OTHER MEMBER'S OF HER LATE HUSBAND'S ADMINISTRATION. THIS IS HER FIRST TIME IN THE CARIBBEAN NATION SINCE THE JULY 7TH ATTACK THAT KILLED HER HUSBAND, PRESIDENT JOVENEL MOISE. THE 47-YEAR-OLD WAS JUST RELEASED FROM A MIAMI HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS BEING TREATED FOR GUNSHOT WOUNDS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE ATTACK. STORY 3 TITLE SUPER: COVID CONCERNS 

 THIS SUMMER MIGHT BE FADING AWAY. HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE MAJOR CONCERNS AS THE DELTA VARIANT OF THE CORONAVIRUS IS SPREADING AND MANY ARE NOT GETTING VACCINATED. THE U-S SAW AN AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 26-THOUSAND NEW COVID-19 CASES OVER THE LAST WEEK, A 67-PERCENT HIKE FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK, ACCORDING TO DATA FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SOT Dr. Anand Swaminathan/Emergency Room Physician “What we’re seeing right now is a lot of young people getting sick from Covid and not just that they’re developing very severe disease and needing to be hospitalized in the ICU, which is happening. But also there’s the effect of long Covid that these young kids are going to have that we don’t fully understand at this point.” CONTVO IN RESPONSE TO THE RISE IN COVID-19 CASES, SOME AREAS ARE BRINGING BACK MASK GUIDELINES INCLUDING PARTS OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA.