Injuries in shooting in Washington...and police are searching for a suspect

Several people were injured by gunfire in a sports hall in the US capital, Washington, on Thursday, according to a local official.

City Council member Brooke Pinto indicated that the shooting occurred inside and around the hall, and said that “several people” were injured. She explained that the police are conducting a search for the suspect.

Washington Police announced, on the “X” platform, that they had deployed elements to the site of “a shooting that is still ongoing,” according to “Agence France-Presse.”

The authorities called on residents to avoid the area. The shooting occurred during rush hour, and required extensive police intervention. The gym is a little more than a kilometer from the White House.

Michael Carney was on a treadmill when the shots rang out. He told the Washington Sun that he heard a “bang,” then saw a person lying on the ground inside the hall with a head injury.

On Thursday, the New York City Fire Department announced that more victims had been found following the collapse of a three-story residential building, bringing the death toll to at least eight people, in addition to 19 others being injured, according to Agence France-Presse.

The building collapse on Wednesday in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn called for an emergency response from about 250 fire and rescue personnel.

Four people were taken to hospital in critical condition, according to the fire department.

Firefighters continued to work amid the rubble in front of what appeared to be another residential building whose walls collapsed.

An eyewitness, identified only as Anthony, told Pix11 News that he heard people screaming and a sound similar to the sound of a “bomb” exploding as the building collapsed.

Another witness, Melissa Orna, told the New York Times that “the whole building shook and then collapsed.”

New York City Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Al-Tijani explained in a press conference on Wednesday night that the building collapsed on top of a nearby construction site.

New York City Fire Department Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said on Wednesday: “We do not know how many people are still at the collapse site. This will be a long process,” she said, noting that there were seven children among the wounded.

American billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, welcomed the possibility of employing Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, in one of his companies if he leaves his position due to the recent crisis he was exposed to, saying that this matter “would be an honor for him.”

According to Bloomberg News Agency, Musk’s position came in response to a post on the “X” platform that called on him to hire Huang.

Musk's statements come in conjunction with a meeting of Nvidia's board of directors to discuss the company's future in light of the crisis surrounding its founder and CEO, after Huang admitted to having an extramarital relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy, according to reports.

The crisis escalated following a report published by the New York Times, which revealed the existence of a second relationship between Huang and one of the female employees working under his direct management.

Musk and Huang have a professional and knowledgeable relationship that extends for more than ten years, and the two also participated in the prominent visit made by US President Donald Trump to China earlier this year.

Musk had previously expressed his great admiration for Nvidia and its CEO, stressing in a post he wrote last March on the X platform: “I am a huge fan of Nvidia and Jensen, by the way, and the company’s market value is fully deserved.”

He added: “It is expected that the artificial intelligence companies SpaceX and Tesla will continue to order large quantities of Nvidia chips.”

NVIDIA is a major supplier of graphics processing units to Tesla, which it uses to train artificial intelligence models for self-driving and robotics. NVIDIA also provides computing technologies for driver assistance systems in Tesla cars, although the latter is working in parallel to develop its own electronic chips.