Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai was able to stand up and communicate on Friday, October 19.

Arrests made in shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala

[Updated at 5:55 a.m. ET] Six people have been arrested in connection with the shooting of Malala Yousufzai, the teenage activist who spoke out against the Taliban, though the main suspect still is on the loose, Pakistani police told CNN exclusively.

Suspect Atta Ullah Khan is on the loose, police say.

Police on Wednesday identified Atta Ullah Khan, a 23-year-old from the Swat district where Malala was attacked, as the main suspect. Authorities are searching for Khan, who was studying for a master's degree in chemistry, police say. The Taliban-heavy Swat Valley is in the northwestern part of Pakistan.
Six men accused of facilitating the attack were arrested, police said Wednesday. Also detained were Khan's fiancée, mother and brother, though they aren't accused of involvement in the attack, police said.
It's unclear whether Khan was at the scene and tried to shoot Malala or if he was considered the leader behind the plan to kill her.
Malala, who has become a global symbol of courage after being shot in the head by the Taliban for demanding education for girls, is currently receiving treatment at a hospital in Birmingham, England.
She stood with the aid of nurses Friday for the first time since the October 9 shooting and was "communicating very freely," according to the director of the hospital.  Malala can't speak because she has a tracheotomy tube inserted to protect her airway, which was swollen after her gunshot injury, but she is writing coherent sentences, said Dave Rosser, director of University Hospitals Birmingham.

Hurricane Sandy threatens east of Florida

Hurricane Sandy threatens east coast of Florida

Editor's note: Residents along the East Coast are being warned to be wary of Hurricane Sandy, whose forecast track takes it along the coast, from off Florida on Thursday to off the mid-Atlantic states and possibly as far north as Massachusetts by Tuesday.

The following are the latest developments.
[Updated 8:06 a.m. ET] Hurricane Sandy was moving Thursday morning between northeastern Cuba and the central Bahamas, the National Hurricane Center said in its 8 a.m. ET advisory.

Hurricane warnings are in effect for the Ragged Islands in the southeastern Bahamas as well as the central and the northeastern Bahamas. Warnings are also in effect for six provinces of Cuba.
Sandy remained a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds.
[Updated 7:54 a.m. ET] The Bahamas Department of Meteorology says Hurricane Sandy could produce storm surges of 5 to 8 feet on some islands.
[Update 7:07 a.m.] A tropical storm warning for Florida has been extended north to Flagler Beach, between Daytona Beach to the south and Jacksonville to the north, as Hurricane Sandy was moving off Cuba and toward the Bahamas on Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.

A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected in the area in 24 to 36 hours.
[Update 6:38 a.m.] Hurricane Sandy was moving off the coast of Cuba Thursday morning, having weakened slightly. The National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. ET update that the storm's maximum sustained winds were at 105 mph, down from 11o mph earlier Thursday.

[Update 1:56 a.m.]  Sandy claims one life in Jamaica and one in Haiti, media reports said.
[Updated 1:41 a.m.] Continuing to strengthen, Hurricane Sandy made landfall in southeastern Cuba early Thursday as a strong Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph and gusts to 115 mph, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reports.
[Posted 1:33 a.m.] Hurricane Sandy rapidly strengthened into a Category 2 storm off the southeastern coast of Cuba early Thursday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reports.

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