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1. Fire gutted a Missouri home for the elderly and mentally ill Monday morning. At least 10 people died, 24 others were injured. The cause is under investigation.
2. Nine people died in a deadly fire at a Dominican Republic nightclub. Police say the blaze broke out early Monday morning after the club had closed. The victims all worked at the club.
3. The US military says an F-16 jet crashed in Anbar province in Iraq. The military did not release information on what caused the crash or the status of the pilot. A witness says he saw the jet flying erratically before it went down.
4. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. A cart and horse delivered the official tree to the First Lady this morning in Washington. It reaches 18 feet tall and is from a tree farm in Pennsylvania.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. gut : VERB To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain.
2. erratically : ADV Something that is erratic does not follow a regular pattern, but happens at unexpected times or moves along in an irregular way. "Erratically" is the adverb form.