Milton restrengthens to Cat. 5 Hurricane; Israel claims to have killed new Hezbollah leader

Welcome to Entity Evening News. Our top story tonight... Hurricane Milton strengthened Tuesday evening, maintaining its status as an extremely powerful storm. Forecasts suggest it could potentially double in size before making landfall in west central Florida late Wednesday. Residents are preparing for the impact. President Biden announces new funding to replace lead pipes across the U.S. It's part of an effort to ensure clean and safe drinking water. Jack Bradley reports from the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris proposing changes to Medicare that would cover long-term home care. Meanwhile, former President Trump's campaign denying new accusations that Trump maintained close ties with Vladimir Putin. This, and how the hurricane is affecting the presidential campaigns. With just 28 days left until the election, Entity's Dave Martin takes a look at who's leading in the crucial swing state of Georgia. Israel reports killing the new leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets into Israeli territory. Jason Perry reports. The new NATO chief says Ukraine could be facing its toughest winter yet. This, as he and Hungary's Prime Minister share opposing strategies to end the war. Arian Pasdar with the Ukraine update. This is MTV Evening News. Live from our global headquarters in New York City, here's Tiffany Meyer. Good evening and thank you very much for joining us tonight. I'm in for Tiffany today. Hurricane Milton has regained strength and is once again classified as an extremely powerful Category 5 storm as it approaches Florida. Hundreds of residents are facing evacuation orders and taking necessary precautions for their safety. Entity's Christina Corona tells us more. According to the National Hurricane Center, Milton has strengthened back to a Category 5 hurricane as it approaches Florida. As of Tuesday evening, the storm was approximately 480 miles southwest of Tampa, moving at 9 miles per hour with sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. President Biden announced that he has received updates from senior administration leaders overseeing the preparedness efforts for Hurricane Milton and continued efforts on Hurricane Helene. He noted that this storm could potentially be one of the worst Florida has experienced in a century. I directed this team to do everything you can to save lives and our communities, help our community before, during and after these extreme weather events and that's being done. Mayor Ken Welch of St. Petersburg, Florida provided an update on the serious dangers posed by the storm. There will be extremely high winds with this storm. We're expecting winds of over 100 miles per hour, winds we did not receive with Hurricane Helene. We're also expecting to receive between 10 to 15 feet of storm surge. That is an unprecedented level of storm surge and it's twice the level of Hurricane Helene's surge. Emergency management officials emphasize that if you live in an evacuation zone along the coastline, it's crucial to evacuate immediately. Governor Ron DeSantis provided an update on safety measures and requests. But this storm is going to go across the Florida peninsula and it's going to exit on the east coast of Florida into the Atlantic Ocean, likely still as a hurricane. So that is going to bring significant impacts all across the state. Florida DEM is currently in the process of completing 1,200 missions. So, so far you're looking at deploying hundreds of thousands of shelf-stabled meals, hundreds of thousands of water bottles, hundreds of thousands of sandbags, a lot of tarps and a lot of generators. With emergencies declared in numerous Florida counties and evacuations in progress, residents have created traffic jams on highways and interstates as they flee the storm's path. Cars were lined up at a gas station near Tampa on Tuesday, one day before Hurricane Milton is expected to impact the area. To be honest with you, if you're going to get gas, just get enough to sustain you for a period of time. And if you have generators, that's what everybody really should be doing, try to get some gas. But because situation is what it is right now, it's not going to be, it's not going to be food for everybody. However, Governor DeSantis emphasized that while some gas stations may be out of fuel, the state has fuel on standby with more on the way. We have 268,000 gallons of diesel, 110,000 gallons of regular gas on standby. That's just from the state. You know, you still have the fuel at the ports that are being brought in, but then we also have another 1.2 million gallons of both diesel and gas that are currently en route to the state. Asheville, North Carolina Mayor Esther Manheimer shares how her city is still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Well, things are a little bit better in terms of getting streetlights back on and certain functions of the city, but we still have a lot of people without water to their homes because our water system is still out of commission. And we have a lot of folks that still don't have power or communication connection. According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Milton could potentially double in size before making landfall in Tampa Bay on Wednesday. Christina Corona, NTD News. President Biden stopped in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to promise new jobs and clean water. It's part of his Investing in America series, and that's where he travels the U.S., particularly midwestern regions, to tout his economic plans. NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more from the White House. President Biden was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday, where he announced new funding in his effort to replace every lead pipe in the U.S. within 10 years. Biden is allocating $2.6 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law for drinking water upgrades and lead pipe replacements. That's on top of the $15 billion that has already been allocated for lead pipe replacement. The Biden administration says that the funding is meant to provide clean drinking water and union jobs. Wisconsin has an estimated 340,000 lead pipes, the 10th most of any state. There are about 9 million lead pipes that are used to bring drinking water to homes across the country. Corroding lead pipes can lead to lead poisoning and can have negative physical and mental side effects. Here's President Biden on this on Tuesday. We're finally addressing an issue that should have been addressed a long time ago in this country. The danger the lead pipes pose to our drinking water. President Biden postponed his trip to Angola and Germany because of Hurricane Milton. He'll oversee preparations for and the response to the hurricane. Biden is ordering those in the path of the hurricane in to evacuate now, saying it's a matter of life and death. Biden declared an emergency in Florida on Monday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is now working to evacuate individuals via ambulance from hospitals and health care facilities. While bracing for Hurricane Milton, Florida is still recovering from Hurricane Helene, but FEMA is caught in the middle of controversy and what the White House is calling misinformation. The White House says that people are spreading misinformation that FEMA funds used to help hurricane victims are being diverted to house illegal immigrants. Those who do it, do it to try to damage the administration. Well, let's please take care of ourselves, but it misleads people. It puts people in circumstances where they panic, where they're really, really, really worried. I think we're not being taken care of. FEMA also oversees the housing of illegal immigrants through its shelter and services program, which received $650 million this year. Now, some congressional Republicans in the House have introduced legislation that would do away with that program and divert those funds to recovery relief for the hurricanes. Reporting from the White House, Jack Bradley, NTD News. As Hurricane Milton churns toward Florida, it's also impacting campaign events. Former President Trump expressing concerns that the storms could affect the November election. Meanwhile, his campaign works to fend off new allegations about Trump's relations with Vladimir Putin. NTD's Iris Tao has more. As Milton re-intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane, at least two events featuring former President Trump have now been postponed. That includes a virtual town hall with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a forum with Latino voters, both originally scheduled for Tuesday. This year's hurricane season is expected to stretch into November. And Trump, in an interview released on Tuesday, says no one can predict how the storms will impact the November election. We have a big lead in Florida. And in North Carolina, we were leading solidly. Nobody can really predict what these storms are having. And I hate to say help because people are dying and they're dying. And that's more important than anything we're talking about, actually. Meanwhile, Trump's campaign is working to push back against new reports by journalist Bob Woodward, who, citing unnamed sources, suggests that Trump called Vladimir Putin seven times after leaving office and sent him COVID-19 test machines during the pandemic in 2020. While Vice President Kamala Harris says Trump held an adversary when Americans needed relief, the Trump campaign said none of these made-up stories are true and that Woodward's book belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore. Trump's running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, also defended Trump, saying on Tuesday... Have I talked to Donald Trump about his calls with Vladimir Putin? No. I've never had that conversation with Donald Trump in my life. But if Donald Trump, even if it's true, look, is there something wrong with speaking to world leaders? No. No? Is there anything wrong with engaging in diplomacy? Next, Trump is set to campaign in Pennsylvania on Wednesday with remarks in Scranton and a rally in Reading. Reporting by Iris Tao, NTD News. Vice President Kamala Harris wants to expand Medicare benefits to cover at-home senior care. She mentioned the proposal during an interview on ABC's The View. NTD correspondent Jason Blair reports. It would be for the first time expanding Medicare to include long-term care at home. This would give the option of home care instead of sending someone to a nursing home, which potentially would be less expensive. It's the vice president's latest proposal in her plan to lower health care costs if she were elected in November. Harris described her own experience with caregiving while on ABC's The View on Tuesday, saying that she took care of her cancer-diagnosed mother. Harris and Walz are in the middle of a media blitz this week. Harris sat down with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes for an interview, which aired on Monday night. Many are calling it the toughest one the Democratic nominee has done so far, with Whitaker pressing Harris on some key issues, like immigration. The CBS journalist asked Harris if it was a mistake to loosen the border policies as much as she did. SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN, R-KY, House Minority Leader Candidate for President-Election It's a longstanding problem. And solutions are at hand. And from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions. What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place? I think the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem, OK? But the numbers did quadruple. And the numbers today, because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. But should you have done that? We have cut the flow of fentanyl by half. We need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem. JEFFREY BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT Also, CNN announced that Harris and Trump have until Thursday, October 10, to agree to a second debate hosted by the network. CNN sent both candidates invitations on September 21. So far, Harris has agreed, and Trump has not responded. Trump also has publicly stated that he will not do another debate before the election. Early voting in Arizona starts on Wednesday, and mail ballots go out. Harris is planning a campaign event on Thursday in Phoenix, the day after, where, according to her campaign, she will rally up people to get out and vote. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, Entity News. And now joining us at the election data hub is Entity's Dave Martin. Dave, one of the closest votes in the 2020 presidential election was the swing state of Georgia, which President Joe Biden won by just 12,000 votes. What are the polls showing right now? Thank you, Don. Yeah, very close race still. It was close between Trump and Biden earlier this year. Right now, it's close between Trump and Harris. But since you asked, let's actually compare the polling in Georgia between now and what it was four years ago using the same pollster, so we can kind of get an apples-to-apples comparison here. So we're going to look at Quinnipiac between September 2024 and September 2020. As you can see here, the September 2024 polling shows Trump with a five-point lead over Harris. You rewind four years ago to September 2020, Biden with a three-point lead over Trump. So that's actually an eight-point swing in favor of Donald Trump over that four-year period. Now, surprisingly, in looking at the state demographics, instead of actually race playing a part of this, it was more like some age groups, specifically young people and middle-aged voters seem to make up the difference here. So let's take a look at that. These are Georgia voters ages 18 to 34. Now, you look in 2024, they've got a slight lead for Donald Trump, just two percentage points ahead of Kamala Harris. But you rewind four years, look at this, Biden, a 27-point advantage over Trump among young voters. So that is a 29-point swing in favor of Donald Trump among young voters. Now, how about the middle-aged voters here? Trump, a 16-point lead over Harris in September 2024. You rewind four years, and these middle-aged voters, ages 50 to 64, they actually had Biden with a two-point advantage here. So another big 18-point swing for Donald Trump among those two age groups. So of course, what could be causing this? Well, the voters' top concern for several years now has been the economy. So this same Quinnipiac poll that polled all these also asked people who they thought would do a better job with the economy. And let's start here with 2024 among young voters here, ages 18 to 34. Not a huge surprise. Trump, a 10-point lead over Kamala Harris. Now, rewind four years ago, and they had Biden with an eight-point lead over here. So that's an 18-point swing for Donald Trump among young people. Now, how about the middle-aged voters, ages 50 to 64? Currently, Trump, a 21-point advantage here over Kamala Harris. You rewind four years, and you look back at Biden. And actually, Trump, this is one of the few times he led in this poll, a five-point lead over Biden here. So that's a 16-point swing in the four years among the middle-aged voters on the economy. So that's kind of what's going on in the state of Georgia right now. Back to you, Don. Dave, as always, thank you very much for joining us. Next, Israeli forces said they have killed the new leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon. This announcement comes as Israel and Hezbollah continue to exchange intense fire across their borders. NTD's Jason Perry has the story. On Tuesday, the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon fired over 100 rockets into northern Israel. Most of them were intercepted, according to an Israeli official, but some got through, hitting this residential building near Haifa. In this event, the number of injuries is very little, and that is due to the proper behavior of the residents, Home Front Command, the rescue services, the ambulance services. I would like to say that the commands of the Home Front are lifesaving. And today was proof of that. The Home Front Command issues safety guidelines for Israelis in times of war, including restrictions on gatherings and denouncements of school closures. In another development, Israel's defense minister, Yoav Galant, said on Tuesday that the new leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group is probably dead. Hashem Sefadin apparently led the terrorist group for just over a week after Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed at the end of September. This thing has a dramatic effect on everything that happens. There is no one to make decisions. There is fear. There is panic. There is an erosion of the Hezbollah organization. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, also noted the progress they've made. We've degraded Hezbollah's capabilities. We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself, and Nasrallah's replacement, and the replacement of his replacement. Hezbollah's deputy chief said in a televised address that the terrorist group's capabilities were still intact, and that he also supports efforts to achieve a ceasefire with Israel. This comes as Israeli forces reported killing six more senior Hezbollah commanders on Monday, who were among 50 Hezbollah terrorists Israel reported killing in a series of airstrikes. And Israeli troops continue their ground offensive into Lebanon, finding more weapons along the way. Here you can see the boxes full of rockets, which were intended to be fired toward Israeli territory. And they also found an underground tunnel that crossed about 10 yards into Israeli territory. Also on Tuesday, Iran's foreign minister commented on Israel's possible response to Iran's recent missile attack on the country. He said any attack by Israel will result in a more powerful response. He also said Iran is fully prepared for war. Jason Perry, NTD News. Russia and Ukraine today accusing each other of torturing prisoners. That's as the new NATO chief says Ukraine could be facing the toughest winters since the start of the war. NTD's international correspondent Aryan Pasdar has the update. Ukraine says Russia launched two ballistic missiles and 19 drones in an overnight attack on the southern Odessa region. The attack allegedly caused fires on three floors of this apartment building. No casualties have been reported. But in Kharkiv, two people are reported dead and 30 more injured after an alleged Russian attack on Tuesday. I heard a shattering sound and glass splinters were everywhere. Kharkiv lies only some 18 miles from the Russian border. It has been a frequent target of attacks since the conflict started. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says a ceasefire is best solution for Ukraine at this point. A ceasefire. Because we are convinced that you cannot win that war on the battlefield. Simply you cannot. Hungary is currently holding the EU's rotating presidency. Orban suggested that Europe's strategy of aiding Ukraine is not working, saying the bloc should change course. This comes as the new NATO chief Mark Rutte said this on Tuesday. Ukraine could be facing its toughest winter since the full-scale invasion began. But unlike Orban, Rutte did not talk about a ceasefire. To the contrary, he says NATO has to do more to support Ukraine. The more military support we give, the faster this war will end. Meanwhile at the United Nations, a representative for Russia said this about Ukraine. There are numerous facts of arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, intimidation, cruel treatment. And the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights made similar allegations about Russia. Instances of torture are taking place on a daily or weekly basis. He added that July was the deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine since October of 2022. He says that's mostly due to a large-scale attack by Russia on July 8. Ariane Pastor, NTD News. Coming up after the break, justices appear open to keeping Biden's ghost gun regulation. Hear arguments today. They expressed skepticism toward arguments that the rule should be overturned. 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The government's attorney argued that firearm kits are ready to assemble so they can be regulated like ready-to-use guns. She likened the kits to a bicycle without pedals, one justice likening it to an omelet. Some eggs, some chopped up ham, some chopped up pepper and onions. Is that a western omelet? No, because again, those items have well-known other uses to become something other than an omelet. Would your answer change if you ordered it from Hello Fresh and you got a kit and it was like turkey chili, but all of the ingredients are in the kit? Yes, and I think that that presses on the more apt analogy here. The attorney representing gun owners and makers argued the ATF's interpretation of the Gun Control Act redefines parts kits as ready-to-use guns, but the justices appeared skeptical. For example, with looking at the jigs, because really what is being done is that jig is being regulated because the same piece of metal can either be a frame or receiver. But I thought readily convertible was in the statute. Readily convertible is in the statute under Part A. Okay. It is not in the statute under Part B. And just a few months ago, justices did pull back the power of federal agencies to be able to interpret laws. As for the broader debate around gun laws in the country, this issue has actually taken a backseat to other hot button issues on the campaign trail. Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week, once again, reiterated that she's a gun owner as a way to try to push back on former President Trump's claims that if she's elected, she'll confiscate guns. Now, Vice President Harris says she does support an assault weapons ban, but she's done a 180 turn on her policy stance with regards to a so-called government buyback program. Following today's oral arguments, the Supreme Court is likely to rule on this gun regulation sometime next year. Now, there's another social issue on the docket. That is, the ACLU is seeking to overturn state bans on gender transition procedures on minors. 24 states currently ban minors from getting hormone treatments or sex changing surgery, reasoning that there are health risks involved, such as preventing brain and bone growth, infertility, and more. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskopf, NTD News. Senator Mike Lee of Utah has sent a letter to his fellow Republican senators outlining his proposal for procedural changes to GOP leadership. The next Senate Republican leader will have to win support of the right flank of the conference to become the successor of Senator Mitch McConnell. The GOP may regain control of the Senate and will elect a new conference leader after McConnell steps down in November. The two frontrunners are Senators John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas. Thune has been in the Senate since 2005 and has served as Senate Minority Whip since 2021. Cornyn has been in the Senate since 2002 and previously served in the Texas Supreme Court. In Senator Lee's letter to the GOP conference today, he proposes that the next leader create a schedule for considering appropriations and require at least four weeks of debate before votes on on-demand bus packages. In a significant shakeup for New York City's leadership, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright has resigned today. And Mohammad Batty, the mayor's chief liaison to the Muslim community, has been arrested. NTD's Chris Bobb has more. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, second in command, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, has resigned today amid the mayor's indictment. In her place, Mayor Adams has appointed the I'm elevating to the position of First Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer. Wright's resignation adds to a growing list of key officials who have left or been terminated in the past two weeks, including Rana Abbasova, the director of protocol in the mayor's office for international affairs, and Winnie Greco, the director of Asian affairs. Mayor Adams' chief liaison to the Muslim community, Mohammad Batty, resigned on Monday and has today become the first member of Adams' former staff to be arrested in connection with the indictment. He faces charges of witness tampering and destruction of evidence. Not one person that has decided to do something else with their life said Eric is because so much is going on. Not one person. Not one person. People come in and out of government and I am just, I'm sorry? Why is that? With 300,000 people, you think that's a startling amount? Now a new poll published on October 4th by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion shows that 69% of New Yorkers, including 71% of Democrats, think Mayor Eric Adams should resign. From New York City, I'm Chris Bobb. More than a dozen states and Washington D.C. are suing TikTok. They allege the app is harming kids' mental health by making it too addictive. NTT's David Lam reports. TikTok is facing lawsuits which allege that the app is targeting kids for profits. The lawsuit stemmed from a national investigation into the popular short video app. A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from many states, including New York, California, Kentucky, and New Jersey, launched the investigation in March 2022. All of the complaints were filed in state courts. The way it's made, it's meant to have anyone and everyone just get sucked into it. So if we have them change their algorithm so we don't do that, then it's probably not going to be the product they want it to be. The lawsuits take issue with TikTok's endless content scrolling and challenge videos that sometimes encourage risky behaviors. The lawsuits also claim TikTok deceives users and parents. The complaints accuse TikTok of knowingly having an algorithm that traps young users to use it for hours and addictive features that lead to anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia, and others. In response, a TikTok spokesman said they disagree with the claims and believe many of them to be inaccurate and misleading. He said TikTok endeavored to work with the attorneys general for more than two years. Washington D.C. alleges that teens are frequently exploited for sexually explicit content through TikTok Live. D.C. says the app is operating an unlicensed virtual economy by allowing people to gift TikTok coins to live streamers. But it sounds to me like Twitch. Twitch has something very similar where people stream and then people donate money. So just depends, I guess it depends how they're requesting that money. TikTok could also be banned in the U.S. in January. That's if China-based parent company ByteDance doesn't sell TikTok by then. U.S. lawmakers stated national security concerns, saying that the Chinese communist regime could spy on Americans with the app. Probably should separate themselves from China entirely and then maybe have like their own subsidiary in the U.S. and have them run TikTok or they should sell their business and it probably would end up working out. Honestly, I haven't given it a ton of thought. All I know is that my kids can't use it. I've made my decision as a mom. Beyond that, yeah, I don't know. We need to test out some different ways. Both TikTok and ByteDance are challenging the federal law in an appeals court. David Lam, NTD News, California. We have breaking news right now. The FBI has arrested an Afghan man for allegedly plotting an election day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S. The Justice Department said that 27-year-old Nasir Ahmad Tahiti of Oklahoma was inspired by the Islamic State. 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Most of them were intercepted, but some hit a residential building near Haifa. Israel's defense minister also said that the new leader of Hezbollah appears to be dead. President Biden postponed his upcoming travel to Germany and Angola this week due to Hurricane Milton. His administration also issued a new rule to replace water lines containing lead within 10 years. Vice President Kamala Harris made three high-profile media appearances on popular shows and announced her new plan requiring Medicare to cover home care for seniors. Meanwhile, Hurricane Milton led former President Trump to postpone his virtual town hall scheduled for tonight with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Now, with Election Day just under 30 days away, the final opportunity is nearing for candidates to reach undecided voters in key battleground states. Michigan in particular is a focal point. Both Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance are back campaigning in the state this week. Harris, meanwhile, was just there last Friday. Harris is also shaking up her media strategy, doing a media blitz to solidify those remaining votes. Joining us now to discuss is Armin Kurdian, political strategist and political policy analyst, and Lawrence Wilson, political reporter for The Epoch Times. Lawrence, I want to start with you here. So you've been following both the Trump and Harris campaigns attending their rallies. Harris was in Detroit last Friday. J.D. Vance was there today. Have you come across any undecided voters who attended both rallies? Lawrence, I see that you're just joining us now. Let me repeat the question to you. So I want you to start with, I know you've been following both the Trump and Harris campaigns in Michigan and attending their rallies. Have you come across any undecided voters who attended both? No, I have not. What are rally goers telling you then? Well, they're telling me that almost mirroring the things that their candidates are saying, the issues that they care about on the Trump side, you're going to hear a lot about the economy, especially grocery prices and the price of fuel. You're going to hear a lot about the border and illegal immigration. On the Harris side, the main issues that I hear from voters are access to abortion, which of course, Democrats across the board have made a key issue in this campaign. And honestly, they simply don't care for Trump. They talk about his character as a reason they wouldn't vote for him. And they don't like some of his policies. They've heard a lot about Project 2025, that policy proposal from the Heritage Foundation, and they believe Trump will implement it even though he has distanced himself from it. Now, Armen, when it comes to battleground states like Michigan, for example, what does polling tell us about those remaining undecided voters, do you think? Good evening. Well, basically it tells us there aren't a whole lot of folks who are undecided. But what we do know is there's a whole bunch of folks who really haven't necessarily been contacted or connected with. Remember, total turnout is probably going to be about 65%, 67% if historical norms continue. So really, it's not so much about undecided voters, because I think the vast majority of people know who they're going to vote for. And even that undecided amount is probably going to split one way or the other. So I don't know that that's necessarily a factor. But it's a question of getting out of those neighborhoods and turning the vote out and getting people to turn their ballots in and head to the polls. That is what is going to make the difference. Whoever's got the better ground game in these states is going to win. So Lawrence, you reported on how both Trump and Harris are trying to secure the votes of Michigan auto workers by promising to revive the state's auto industry. I was wondering if you could tell us about any parallels that maybe you're seeing between the campaigns when it comes to strategy and perhaps approach in Michigan? Well, they're both majoring on manufacturing and jobs. If you talk to leaders in the parties, and of course, you hear it from the candidates themselves and their surrogates, they'll talk about the economy, the economy, the economy. So they're both dialed in on that. They're both promising jobs, auto jobs, manufacturing jobs, but they're doing it with different strategies. Trump, his strategy has been to talk about tax incentives for people who manufacture their products in the United States, which he believes will draw manufacturers back to the country, particularly Michigan. He's talked about tariffs and a big tariff, 100% on automobiles, which he thinks will incentivize foreign makers to move more manufacturing here. And then of course, cheap energy, he wants to attract people with cheap energy. Harris talks about investments in manufacturing. And by that, she seems to be referring to things like the Chips in Science Act and some provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. And what that means is tax money going to support certain industries when she says she'll support communities that are involved in auto manufacturing. So Armen, you heard what Lauren said. If you could give us your analysis of these approaches, how effective do you think they'll be and why? Frankly, I think the most effective approach is the cost of doing business. Both talk about the importance of manufacturing. I think for the first time, Trump is the first Republican nominee for president who is not afraid to necessarily speak out about corporations who shift jobs overseas and are looking at cost cutting. But something which I would really like to see him talk about a lot more is deregulation and the overburdening of red tape. During his administration, through elimination of regulations and rules, which were basically just costing business a lot of money, it came to about $400, $450 billion in savings for these companies. Whereas during the Biden-Harris administration, we've seen like the $1.3, $1.4 trillion of additional costs that were levied on businesses. So keeping those jobs in the U.S., I mean, look at the UAW, more than 370,000 or so employees today by say 430,000, I think in 2018 was the last check. So very tangible impact on jobs and keeping those jobs in the country is going to be a big talking point for both of them. Lawrence, and can you tell us about the latest polls coming out of Michigan and how that compares to other key battleground states? Yeah, they're very similar actually. Michigan shows Harris up by about 2%. All the battleground states, and we're talking about Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, all of them are polling within that range, 1% to 2%. Harris leads in four of those states, Trump leads in two of them, all by 1% or 2% a piece. Now that number is within the margin of error for all of those polls. And that really means it's a toss up. They're running so close that the polling can barely separate them. And Armen, how critical is Michigan to Harris? Because we know that in particular, the issue of the Israel-Hamas war is a point of vulnerability for Harris among a segment of Muslim voters in the state. Does she need their vote or could she win Michigan without it? She really can't win Michigan without the union vote. I don't think it's a question at that point, are the inner cities going to turn out to vote for her? Obviously, there are paths to win the election if Harris loses Michigan, and there are paths if Trump loses Pennsylvania. But frankly, I think Pennsylvania is still going to be the key linchpin for both of them. But say, if Kamala Harris does not win the state of Michigan, if she loses that, then that really opens up a lot more pathways for Donald Trump to win if he wins Pennsylvania, or especially if he also wins Georgia at the same time. We're talking one or two electoral votes difference possibly. And there are several realistic scenarios for a 269 to 269 tie, which also can't be discounted. So I think we all want to avoid that and know who's going to win, hopefully just a few days after Election Day. And just one more thing here, Lawrence. I want you to talk to us about a Senate seat for upper grabs in Michigan. It's been held by Democrats for quite some time, but has a chance of flipping blue. Tell us about that race and what it could mean for the balance of power. Well, as viewers probably know, the balance of power is very close in the Senate. It's technically 51 to 49. In fact, it's only 47 Democrats and four independents who caucus with the Democrats. People like Bernie Sanders, for example, is one of them. So that means even a one seat shift could make a big difference here. Now, this race currently shows Elissa Slotkin, she's the sitting Congresswoman in Congressional District 7 here in Michigan. She's up by about five points. It has been higher than that in the past. She was leading by five and a half, six points a month ago. So Mike Rogers, former Congressman, who is the GOP challenger for this technically open seat because a senator has retired from Michigan. He's closing the gap slightly. The question is, can he build enough momentum in the next 30 days to tighten that up and go for victory? A lot of that, as we've heard, is going to depend on turnout. And if turnout on the Republican side is very high, he has a real chance, but he still has some ground to make up. Actually, Armin, I would like you to have the last word here. We're seeing Harris change up her media strategy after being criticized for her limited appearances. Now she's doing a blitz of interviews on both traditional legacy media and podcasts. How do you read this? Well, I think she's trying to play catch up at this point. She hasn't really availed herself well in any of these interviews that she's doing. I don't think they've been very substantive and she hasn't done well whatsoever. We're going to wait to see if there's going to be a tangible impact in terms of how she's able to defend her positions. Something that was said at basically the beginning of this interview was regarding Trump's likability, and that's a big reason why Democrats don't want to vote. Honestly, the two biggest voting blocks this October are going to be people who like Donald Trump and people who don't like Donald Trump. The people who like and don't like Kamala Harris are going to be in much smaller voting blocks. So really, it's a question of can Trump overcome his dislikability and get people to come out and vote for him? Kamala Harris is at least trying to seem more personable by going out and doing these interviews. So perhaps whether or not she answers the question well, it's just the fact that she's sitting down for interviews may actually work in her favor. We'll have to see. All right. Armin Kurdian, political strategist and policy analyst. Lawrence Wilson, political reporter for The Pock Times. Thank you so much both for joining us. Pleasure. Thank you. And with Hurricane Milton now closing in on Florida, do the American people feel confident about FEMA's handling of disaster relief entity? Sam Wong was out at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to hear from citizens. Are you confident in the government's ability to handle this upcoming disaster? Oh, absolutely. Well, the biggest problem that they are facing right now, though, is where Milton is coming in is in Florida, and they're dealing with a governor that does not want to deal with this president. I don't think they're prepared to fix another hurricane, especially with the size and the path that's going to go across Florida. No, I think it's going to take time and it might be a little too late once they get kind of down the road and they're not reacting quick enough for it. I feel like our government is still battling over things that they should have solved years ago. They're ready to go and do what they need to do. They always have been, you know, in the situation as it is. It's the ability to get to the aid to the people. So FEMA is facing a lot of pressure right now. There are reports saying that there is potentially mismanaging of funds and then now they're running out of money. Does this impact your confidence in the agency's ability to provide timely relief? I think so, and I think a large part of it has to do with the fact that there's going to be an election that our president isn't facing in right now and there should be some immediately, like, emergency, state of disaster stuff. But FEMA has notoriously been behind. FEMA isn't, you know, the workhorse. They're just there to provide the contractors and get everybody in line and get it on the road. And so if they can get politics out of the way, they would do a whole lot better. My uncle went through Hurricane Katrina and he lost his entire house, his boat, his boat business, the whole thing disappeared. And, you know, they had problems back then too. I don't think that they will handle it the way it needs to get handled, taking care of our own citizens. I think that it could be better. I think people need to put into perspective how long it takes to get things done and how much money it costs to get there. 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I'm flabbergasted. I had no idea this would happen. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, has won the Nobel Prize in physics. That's for his contributions to machine learning. He shares the prize with fellow pioneer John J. Hopfield, who made previous contributions that Hinton built on. Hinton says generative AI will have a huge influence. This will be comparable with the industrial revolution, but instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it's going to exceed people in intellectual ability. Hinton says nobody knows what that'll look like. He predicts much greater efficiency at work. His work on the backpropagation and his efforts from the 80s and 90s have built the foundation for everything that we know now as the modern AI field. AI researcher Hamoudi Nana says Hinton is one of AI's founding fathers, mentoring the next generation of AI researchers, including Ilya Sutskover. Hinton has warned AI poses an existential risk to humanity. In a 2023 video, he says superintelligence may come sooner than expected. I suddenly realized that maybe the computer models we have now are actually better than the brain, and if that's the case, then maybe quite soon they'll be better than us. When receiving the prize, Hinton said over the phone that he regrets his work, but... I would do the same again, but I am worried that the overall consequence of this might be systems more intelligent than us that eventually take control. The risks include economic collapse, human subjugation by machines, and even human extinction. The jury is still out on whether AI in our lifetime will get to that point where it's capable of literally taking over to such a degree that it could pose an existential threat to humans. Wazim Mirza is the host of the Future Tech Show. He says many experts are worried, and talk of Skynet coming to life as in the Terminator films is not going away anytime soon.