Good Morning Australia!! - Twelve are confirmed dead in the London Tower fire, but it's expected to get worse - A pro-gun US Congressman is shot and critically wounded - Telstra cuts Aussie jobs - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The London Fire Brigade confirms twelve people died in the massive fire that consumed the Grenfell Tower apartment block in North Kensington.  But they warn that the death toll will likely get worse - up to 600 people lived there, mainly young families, and few are accounted for.  The hours have passed with horrifying stories of people trying in vein to save their children.  Firefighters are using drones to try and inspect the upper floors of the 24-storey council building even as flames continued to burn into the evening, 20 hours after the first calls came into the fire department.  Area hospitals are jammed with 64 injured residents, including 18 to 20 in critical care.  Hero firefighters worked through heat, dehydration, and exhaustion, many who got there at 1:00 AM and refused to leave the scene until the flames were extinguished.

There are concerns about a lack of coordination to secure shelter for the families who managed to get out of Grenfell Tower.  Labour Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea Judith Bakeman said, "There's been so many cuts, there aren't enough people to deal with this."  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn agreed:  "If you deny local authorities the funding they need, then there is a price that's paid," he said in an interview with LBC Radio.  In the vacancy of council help it seems that area churches have stepped up, with many survivors gathering at the Latymer Christian Center and Notting Hill Methodist church where food and water is being distributed, and volunteers are seeking clothing for families that fled in their pajamas.

Jeremy Corbyn is also concerned that former Housing Minister Gavin Barwell delayed a fire safety review that followed another Tower Block fire in 2009.  Mr. Barwell lost his constituency in last week's election and has since been promoted to advisor to PM Theresa May, but successive Tory housing ministers have failed to act on the report since 2013.  "I believe we need to ask questions about what facilities and resources have been given to local authorities that have tower blocs in the area and, frankly, most do.  We need to deal with this –we need people to be safe living in high rise buildings," said Mr. Corbyn, who is calling for fire sprinklers to be installed in high-rise tower blocks.

A US lawmaker is in a critical condition after an angry gunman showed up at a Congressional baseball team practice outside Washington, DC and opened fire.  Because Rep. Steve Scalise is in a leadership position, Capitol Hill Police accompanied the Republican team to park to provide security - two officers were wounded as they engaged the gunman, 66-year old James T. Hodgkinson of southern Illinois, mortally wounding him.  Stunning video taken from a mobile at the scene captured the sound of shots ringing out, and Scalise lying immobile in the middle of the pitch.

The social media pages of Hodgkinson show he comes from the Left side of US politics, volunteering for Sen. Bernie Sanders in last year's presidential campaign.  Sen. Sanders denounced the shooting.  Rep. Scalise's congressional web page boasts of his pro-gun political stance and battles with former President Barack Obama who tried to prevent crazy people from getting guns and shooting, oh I don't know, congressmen.  Also wounded was a lobbyist for the powerful Tyson Chicken company, who was playing on the Republican team.  Lawmakers vowed they would not be deterred by armed violence, and the annual Republicans versus democrats baseball game will go on as scheduled.

But Scalise and the lobbyist were only two people shot in stupid, violent America today.  Across the country in San Francisco, a parcel delivery worker brought a gun to work and killed three people before police confronted him and he turned the gun on himself - four dead.  The Gun Violence Archive says more than 6,800 people have been shot and killed in the US so far this year.

Telstra plans to cut 1,400 jobs to deal with falling revenue.  The cuts will amount to about four percent of Telstra's staff.  An industry analyst interviewed by the ABC believes that workers in administration, customer service, and network operations are the most at-risk, especially as those jobs are being replaced by automation.  Telstra also aims to defend mobile market share by spending A$3 billion on its network, while looking to find growth by investing in new businesses such as mining, healthcare and cloud computing.