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We start in Pennsylvania where a jury convicted the man who killed 11 people at the tree of life synagogue in Pittsburgh and now he could be executed. Robert Bowers was found guilty on 63 federal charges including 11 hate crimes resulting in death. Bowers committed the deadliest anti Semitic attack in us history. This case will now move to the sentencing phase. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and at one point, Bowers offered to plead guilty if the death penalty was taken off the table but prosecutors said no several southern states are cleaning up after being hit with dangerous weather. At least five people are dead, three were killed after a tornado hit the small North Texas town of Perryton. Yesterday, one died after a tornado touched down in Florida. Just look at these images and in Mississippi, a tree killed a man as the storm through that state. Meanwhile, a heat advisory is in effect from southern Texas through southern Louisiana into the weekend. The National weather service says the heat index could exceed 110 degrees. This increases the risk of heat stroke and exhaustion. So you want to be really careful and in Iowa, the State Supreme Court delivered a surprising ruling that goes against the governor's promise to ban abortions. The Iowa Supreme Court is declining to reinstate a law that would have largely banned abortions in the state. Iowa's Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has been pushing to reinstate that ban. This decision keeps abortion legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy blocking the law that would have banned the procedure once heart activity is detected, which is usually before most people even know that they're pregnant or around the sixth week of pregnancy. Reynolds says the fight is not over. She says her administration is now considering other options. And a panel of FDA advisors voted unanimously to recommend the current COVID-19 vaccine should be updated to target Ron sub variants. They're recommending abandoning the bivalent vaccine which was created to target the original Coronavirus strain and the Macron variant, the panel says newly formulated shots should be made available before a possible increase in cases. Vaccine makers said they should be able to deliver by the fall. And according to the FDA, the elderly and young Children who haven't been vaccinated yet are most at risk. It also notes COVID boosters could become an annual routine just like the flu. Later this year, the CDC will release guidelines for who should get the updated shots. And when new research shows nearly one in five US, adults have been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives. The CDC and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education collaborate on this research and they note that depression rates vary by state. On the low end, you have Hawaii where 12.7% of people have been diagnosed in West Virginia. However, the rate is 27.5%. Researchers also say there was considerable geographic variation in the prevalence of depression with the highest state and county estimates of depression observed along the Appalachian and southern Mississippi Valley regions. The data also shows higher depression rates among women and people between the ages of 18 to 24 compared to people 65 older.