Too many shootings this week (and every week).
Too many shootings to include in Morning News today. This was taken after the QFC shooting on Broadway and Pike. Sam Osborne

Five People Were Shot at a Black Lives Matter Protest in Minneapolis Last Night: Gunmen wounded five people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration outside a police station, where activists had gathered to protest the police shooting death of 24-year-old Jamar Clark two Sundays ago. Police are looking for three white male suspects.

SPD Will Increase Night Patrols After Capitol Hill Drive-by Shooting: And three of the people shot outside the QFC on Pike and Broadway have been discharged from Harborview Medical Center. Five people in total were injured by gunshots or broken glass early Sunday morning.

The Seattle City Council Approved a 2016 Budget, But Killed 12-Week Paid Parental Leave: Socialist city council member Kshama Sawant lodged the one "no" vote against the entire budget. Heidi has more here.

The Council Also Killed a Municipal Broadband Pilot: But Upgrade Seattle is working on next steps to garner more public support.

Western Washington University Classes Are Canceled Today Because of Alleged Hate Speech Targeting Students of Color: "I need to be VERY clear here: we are not talking the merely insulting, rude, offensive commentary that trolls and various other lowlifes seem free to spew, willy nilly, although there has been plenty of that, too," WWU President Bruce Shepard wrote in a message to students and faculty. "No, this was hate speech. These are likely crimes in my view (and in the view of those in the criminal justice system we immediately involved)."

Which aisle for E. coli?
Which aisle for E. coli? a katz / Shutterstock.com

A Washington E. coli Case Has Been Linked to Costco Chicken: The Washington Department of Health has named "Chicken Salad made with Rotisserie Chicken" as the culprit.

Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett End Water Shortage Plans: "Heavy rains in late October and early November led the three cities to declare that water supply conditions were getting back to normal," the cities announced in a press release. "The state remains in a declared drought, but the recent rains on the west side of the Cascades have saturated the ground, filled reservoirs and generally reset the water supplies to normal conditions."

UW Study Finds Coal Trains in Columbia River Gorge Pollute Nearly Twice as Much as Regular Freight Trains: Which poses a problem for communities by the tracks if three new coal export terminals are permitted in Washington and Canada.

Microsoft's Latest Diversity Numbers Show a 2.2 Percent Drop in Women Employees: In a Monday blog post, Microsoft's general manager of diversity and inclusion wrote that the reduction in women employees had to do with layoffs in hardware facilities overseas. At the same time, Microsoft reported a doubling of black corporate vice presidents and increased female representation on its senior leadership team. The company remains 46 percent white and male. Only 18 of 155 executive positions are occupied by women.

South Lake Union Will Get High-Tech Traffic Lights Next Year to Cut Down on Congestion: Mike Lindblom at the Seattle Times reports that "adaptive signals" will assess traffic and signal green lights accordingly. Still, the lights "can’t cure the thickest 5 p.m. gridlock, when there are too many cars, pedestrians, trucks and streetcars to give everybody a clear path," Lindblom writes. The SLU signals will be funded by $13.1 million from the recently approved Move Seattle levy.

Where do crows roost at night? Hint: not a cemetery.
Where do the city's crows roost at night? Hint: not a cemetery. Charles Mudede

KUOW Investigates: Where Do Seattle Crows Go at Night? Reporter Ashley Ahearn went on a ride-along with University of Washington crow expert John Marzluff to track Seattle crows to their nighttime roosts.

Turkey Shot Down a Russian Warplane Near Syria: NATO is holding an emergency meeting today to discuss what happened. "The incident occurred as Russia and the West were slowly edging toward some manner of understanding to unite forces to confront the Islamic State in the wake of the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian charter flight over Egypt that together killed 354 people," the New York Times reports.