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Editors, USA TODAY 4:22 a.m. EST November 17, 2014

An undated handout photograph made available by the Special Emergency Response and Assistance (SERA) on Nov. 16, 2014 showing U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, otherwise known as Abdul-Rahman Kassig, at unknown location in Syria.(Photo: SERA / HANDOUT, EPA)

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1. Kassig's hometown reacts to his death

Indianapolis reacted with grief and anger over the Islamic State killing of Peter Kassig, the American aid worker who first went to the Middle East as a soldier, then as a student and finally as a humanitarian.The militant group released a video Sunday that shows Kassig was beheaded,

Kassig, 26, was captured Oct. 1, 2013, during an aid mission to Deir Ezzour, Syria. His parents, Ed and Paula Kassig, learned through a friend that he had been taken hostage but kept silent for more than a year at the insistence of his captors, who threatened to kill him if they went public.

2. Look up for the Leonid meteor shower


Get ready for some shooting stars. The Leonid Meteor Shower will peak from midnight to dawn on both Monday morning (Nov. 17) and Tuesday morning (Nov. 18). According to NASA, a waning-crescent moon will provide dark enough skies to view the meteors, which are actually leftover comet dust.

A meteor streaks through the sky over the Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California's Mojave Desert on Nov. 17, 1998.(Photo: Reed Saxon, Associated Press)

3. L.A. Auto Show kicks off

The Los Angeles Auto Show starts today, and a flurry of announcements ahead of the event indicate it could be one of its strongest years yet. Reflecting a changing and stronger automotive industry, automakers are pouring some of their newfound profits into product development. Last month, Cadillac announced that its newest, smallest performance cars will make their debut at the show — the ATS-V sedan and coupe. The announcement came only a day after Ford said the redone Explorer crossover SUV will make its first-ever appearance.

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4. Adrian Peterson has a grievance hearing

Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson, who was indicted in September on a felony charge for injuring his 4-year-old son, has a grievance hearing Monday over his reinstatement. He has refused to participate in a disciplinary hearing because the NFL reportedly wants to bring in outside experts, which is beyond what's spelled out in the collective bargaining agreement.

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson arrives at the courthouse with his wife Ashley Brown Peterson, for an appearance Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Conroe, Texas. Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson avoided jail time on Tuesday in a plea agreement reached with prosecutors to resolve his child abuse case.(Photo: Jason Fochtman, AP)

5. USA TODAY investigation on mental illness: Caring for a son with schizophrenia

In a series of stories this year, USA TODAY has detailed the human and financial cost of caring so little about the nearly 10 million Americans who are seriously mentally ill. It's a cost borne disproportionately by patients' families, and it is crushing many of them. The latest story in our series follows a mother who says she's lucky, even though her son's mental illness has driven her to bankruptcy, sidetracked her career and left her clinically depressed. Her gratitude makes sense only when you consider the state of America's system of mental health care.

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Laura Pogliano of Maryland talks about the difficulty of caring for her son Zac who has schizophrenia and has been hospitalized multiple times in the past five years.

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00:13 My son that Bryant holing analyst when he too and
00:16 he apparently gets. The creamy. Sex behavior changed a lot and
00:22 then I started to suspect that he would affect. We went
00:26 to a psychologist who thought maybe he was having some OCD
00:31 or anxiety. But the things that I was hearing at home.
00:36 Were very disconnected statement. There were. Statements of extreme fear and
00:43 then statements that were in the world. And then there's no
00:47 reason have a birthday. There's nothing to look forward to. Any
00:51 started saying that. No one was safe. And there was something
00:58 wrong with the whole world. He spent a lot of time
01:01 in this room isolated. And spent a lot of time in
01:04 the basement and then he would lock the door he was
01:06 in his room at the slot he was in the basement
01:08 with a lot and sometimes. When I got frantic consent what
01:12 are you doing down there because it would not open the
01:15 door to me for hours at a time. He would say
01:17 things like I'm teaching you a lesson in trust. I really
01:21 thought he was being an annoying teenager. Are dating me perhaps.
01:26 Because none of that meat fat. That's been hospitalized eleven times.
01:34 The shortest. Stay was seven days. The longest and more typical
01:39 stay with three month. He has paranoia. He has solutions. Sometimes
01:46 just the stress of daily living is enough to. Make him
01:51 very anxious. Make him a little paranoid right. Really we didn't
01:57 even began. Good recovery and till probably. You know in year
02:02 four. I think it's important for people to know that mental
02:09 health is not the famous mental illness. Sex condition. Schizophrenia and
02:16 others like it bipolar disorder. Depression with psychosis they are brain
02:23 disorders they are brain diseases. Patients like that are looking at
02:27 a ten year stabilization period. Sigmund Freud said. Over a hundred
02:34 years ago that the mentally ill want what all men want.
02:40 To work and for love. And when a doctor asked sack.
02:46 Was he headed in the right direction. He said yes. He
02:51 was at 22 year old man. Could anyone at a steady.
02:56 Life with a job and fail. To work until a lot.
03:02 The exact sentiment came up with mount. It's true a hundred
03:05 years later they just want whenever one else had.

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Weather:The national weather forecast for Monday calls for a big cold front that's moving toward the East Coast, bringing possible severe storms and tornado warnings.

Stocks: U.S. stock futures declined on Monday morning.

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