October 10, 2024
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More than 3 million without power after Hurricane Milton slams Florida, causing deaths and flooding . . . Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida as a Category 3 storm, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, whipping up a barrage of tornadoes and causing an unknown numbers of deaths. It compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit. The storm tracked to the south in the final hours and made landfall Wednesday night in Siesta Key, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Tampa. The situation in the Tampa area was still a major emergency as St. Petersburg recorded over 16 inches (41 centimeters) of rain, prompting the National Weather Service to warn of flash flooding there as well as other parts of western and central Florida. Associated Press
Hurricane Milton spawns destructive, deadly tornadoes before making landfall
Double-barreled hurricane crisis exposes FEMA's chronic leadership, staffing problems . . . On the eve of Hurricane Milton's landfall on a disaster-weary Florida, FEMA, the nation's disaster relief agency reported a stark shortage of frontline workers available to be deployed: just 8% its vaunted Incident Management personnel were still available. The stunning declaration in Wednesday's Daily Operations Briefing exposed the longtime impact of FEMA's expanding work on unrelated missions like COVID funerals and illegal immigrant services, a crisis created by a worker shortage, a workforce morale issue and the reality of burnout from a increasingly frenetic natural disaster pace. Just the News
Anderson Cooper gets hit by flying debris live on air while covering Hurricane Milton
Alligators are stalking homes in floodwater
Politics
Republicans Appear Poised to Take Control of Senate, New Poll Shows . . . Control of the Senate appears likely to flip from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party this fall, as one of the nation's most endangered Democrats, Senator Jon Tester of Montana, trails his Republican challenger in his bid for re-election, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College. Democrats currently hold a 51-seat Senate majority. But with Republicans already set to pick up a seat after the retirement of Senator Joe Manchin III, an independent from West Virginia who caucuses with Democrats, the party cannot afford to lose additional seats. New York Times
Woodward Book States Biden Blames Obama For Russia Invading Ukraine: He 'F***ed Up' . . . President Joe Biden blamed former President Barack Obama for Russia invading Ukraine in 2022, according to a new book from Bob Woodward, saying that the former president's weakness in 2014 led to Russian President Vladimir Putin feeling emboldened to go further. During a moment of political upheaval in February 2014, Russian soldiers, wearing uniforms with no insignias, seized government buildings throughout Crimea. Russia illegally annexed Crimea the following month. Daily Wire
Biden Raged At Netanyahu For Killing Top Hezbollah Terrorist: Book
Harris Campaign Walks Back 'Knucklehead' Tim Walz's Call To Eliminate Electoral College . . . The Harris campaign walked back Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's Tuesday claim that the Electoral College "needs to go," saying that it is not an official campaign position. "I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that's not the world we live in," Walz said at a campaign fundraiser in California. The campaign clarified later that the Harris-Walz ticket is not advocating for eliminating the Electoral College. Washington Free Beacon
Even the vice presidential candidate is not aware of what Harris' platform is.
Harris electric school bus program gave $395k to Chinese manufacturer who became a major donor . . .Vice President Kamala Harris's billion-dollar Clean School Bus program provided funding to Chinese EV manufacturer BYD Company's subsidiary in the United States, according to federal filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Months later, the subsidiary's top executive, a Chinese national, wired $50,000 in support of what is now Harris's presidential campaign. BYD Americas was selected in late 2022 to receive $395,000 under the administration's Clean School Bus program, which was spearheaded by Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan, EPA documents show. Washington Free Beacon
Trump ends speculation on another debate: 'There will be no rematch'
The former president is turning down both invitations from Fox News and CNN. He must like his internal polling.
Trump heads to blue states with stops at Madison Square Garden, Coachella . . . Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden arena in New York City and will hold a rally near Coachella, California on Saturday as he heads to two blue states in the final stretch of the presidential election. The plans for the rally at an iconic Manhattan venue, home of the NBA's New York Knicks and the NHL's New York Rangers, were confirmed by two Trump campaign officials. Politico
Very strange. He needs to rent a decent place in Pennsylvania and live there.
VP Harris covers mouth, says 'it's a live broadcast' after stumbling through Hurricane Milton speech
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Weird.
Culture
Republicans look for campaign edge by calling out Democrats on gender-identity issues . . . During the Biden administration, Democrats have embraced the gender-identity movement on multiple fronts including transgender athletes in girls' sports, puberty blockers and locker room access, and Republicans want to make sure voters know about it. Ads linking Democrats, including Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, to the transgender agenda are running in battleground states as well as those with competitive congressional races, offering a real-time test of the issue's potency with voters. Washington Times
Lawmakers vow to fight Trump if he restores Confederate base names . . . Lawmakers from both parties are vowing to fight back if former President Donald Trump makes good on his pledge to put a Confederate general's name back on an Army base if he's reelected. Trump's Friday endorsement of changing the name of the Army's Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg — undoing the work of a congressional renaming commission — and the bipartisan backlash signal a fresh culture-war fight between him and Congress if he's victorious in November. Politico
International
An attack on Iran would be 'lethal' and 'surprising,' Israel's defense minister warns . . . Israel's defense minister warned on Wednesday that his country's retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be "lethal" and "surprising," while the Israeli military pushed ahead with a large-scale operation in northern Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants. "Our strike will be lethal, precise and above all, surprising. They won't understand what happened and how. They will see the results," Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said during a speech to troops. "Whoever strikes us will be harmed and pay a price." Politico
Money
Trump Pledges to End 'Double Taxation' of Americans Abroad . . . Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he supports lowering taxes on U.S. citizens who live abroad, marking a new attempt by the former president to win support from an often-overlooked group of voters. The U.S. has an unusual system for taxing its citizens on their total income regardless of where they earned it and where they live, making America alone among major countries with such a rule. Other countries use systems that base taxation on where people live. Wall Street Journal
You should also know
CBS' Gayle King fed Ta-Nehisi Coates questions . . . CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King is facing new allegations of journalistic malfeasance amid uproar over the network's response to Tony Dokoupil's tense interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. The pro-Palestinian activist was discussing his new release, The Message, on Monday when Dokoupil accused Coates of being an 'extremist' and slammed him for not including an Israeli perspective. Coates has since accused the journalist of 'commandeering' the interview. But he then went on to claim, 'Gayle came behind the stage before we went [on] and she had gone through the book, and I'm not saying she agreed with the book. "She was like, 'I'm gonna ask you about this. I'm gonna ask you about that.'' Daily Mail
The CBS newsroom is divided over Doloupil's interview of Coates, which some thought to be just a tough grilling in contrast to King's softballs.
Guilty Pleasures
Walz walks away from cafe counter without paying . . . Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) walked away from the counter at a cafe without paying, with Walz's daughter revealing that "someone will be up" to pay. Video footage posted to X appeared showed the two men walking away from the counter after Walz's daughter tells them she will "wait" for the tea and informs a worker behind the counter that a campaign staffer is coming to the counter to pay.
Arrest those two men! My God, the plague of people walking out without paying has reached the Democrat elite.
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