MPR News PM Update
April 26, 2021

Mostly cloudy skies tonight with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the southern part of the state. Lows in the mid-30s north, low 50s in the southeast. Tuesday, more clouds with continued chance for more showers and thunderstorms across much of the state. Highs in the low 50s north, near 70 in southeastern Minnesota. Get the latest on Updraft.

Police say everyone is safe after a student shot a gun multiple times inside Plymouth Middle School just before 9 a.m. this morning. 

Robbinsdale school district interim superintendent Stephanie Burrage says no one was hurt, and the student was taken into custody by law enforcement without using any force.

"The incident happened in a hallway outside of a bathroom. There were a few kids who did witness the incident, it was literally a few kids who witnessed the incident, I'm going to say to you - kids witnessed the incident," Burrage said. "I'm going to say again — any child that has to witness that at school, it's going to be a challenging day."

More than 700 students were at the school, and were sent home after the incident.

Minnesota learned today it will retain its eight congressional seats — but only by a razor-thin margin. 

The U.S. Census Bureau released new population figures showing that Minnesota’s population count was just large enough to keep all its current seats. There was speculation Minnesota would lose a seat because its population hasn’t grown as quickly as many southern states. 

Kristen Koslap, the census bureau’s senior technical expert for apportionment, said Minnesota’s eighth seat came at the expense of New York.

“If New York had had 89 more people, they would have received one more seat instead the last state that received their last seat. There are 435 seats, so the last seat went to Minnesota, and New York was next in line.”

The once-a-decade reapportionment of congressional seats is needed to account for population changes and to keep roughly the same number of people in each district. State lawmakers, and likely the courts, will now begin the process of redrawing Minnesota's political boundaries.

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