NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Oct. 11)

Our top story tonight, no survivors in yesterday's factory blast at an explosive plant in rural Tennessee. The community reeling from the loss. Homecoming celebrations turned into tragedies in Mississippi. Two separate shootings left at least six people dead and more than a dozen injured. Police say they have someone in custody in one of the incidents. A historic peace deal, new tariffs on China and a government still shut down. Inside the Trump administration's busy week, we take a look at latest moves from the White House and where the president is headed next. From government shutdown to foreign espionage and the Comey indictment, FBI Director Kash Patel gives insight into the bureau under his leadership in an exclusive interview with Armstrong Williams. And in football, a full slate of college action today, including a top 10 battle out in Oregon between the Ducks and the Hoosiers. Dave Martin joins us to discuss. This is MTV Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Thank you for joining us tonight. I'm Stefania Cox in for Arlene Richards. We begin with an update on that devastating blast at an explosives plant in rural Tennessee. The local sheriff in Humphreys County said yesterday's blast left no survivors. That was confirmed after 300 first responders scoured the remains at the site. Here's Sheriff Chris Davis. I can tell you that we've had more than probably 300 people. This variant done very delicate, very methodical things inside the scene. And at this time we have recovered no survivors. Again, it's a great loss to our communities. Davis said Friday, 18 people were missing and today said it could be assumed anyone who was inside the building is now deceased. The explosion left a smoldering wreck of twisted metal and burned out vehicles at an accurate energetic systems plant, which supplies and researches explosives for the military. The sheriff says it could be days, weeks, or even months before foul play is ruled out. Vigils today and yesterday honor those lost. And over in Mississippi, two separate shootings last night. Authorities say at least six people are dead and many more injured. In downtown Leland, a shooting after a high school homecoming football game killed four people and injured more than a dozen, according to state Senator Derek Simmons. No arrests have been announced yet. Meanwhile, in Heidelberg, police are investigating a shooting at the town's high school campus during a Friday night homecoming game. Two people were killed and one of the victims, according to Governor Tate Reeves, was an expectant mother. An 18-year-old is in custody. Governor Reeves says the state is assisting the investigation and will give updates when available. With a ceasefire officially in effect in Gaza, President Trump announced last night that he's planning a visit to the Middle East to mark the peace agreement alongside other world leaders. Trump added that he'll be coming back Tuesday for a White House ceremony honoring the late Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last month. Yeah, I mean, I'll be there because I'll be going to, I think, well, I'll go to Cairo. I think that's where we're going, as opposed to the place of the signing. And we have a lot of leaders from all over the world coming to, you know, they've been invited. And then I'm coming back, I believe it's Tuesday night, for Charlie Kirk, a friend of mine, a friend of all of ours, a friend of a lot of the people right here. And we're giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And with the government shut down now in its 11th day, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he's directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to, quote, use all available funds to get our troops paid on October 15th, saying they have already identified the funds with which to do this. Trump urged Democrats to open the government, saying he will not allow them to, quote, hold our military and the entire security of our nation hostage with their dangerous government shutdown. Democrats say that any deal to reopen the government must include several priorities, including an extension of Obamacare subsidies. President Trump announced on Friday that the U.S. will be imposing a new 100 percent tariff on China starting November 1st. That's after China hiked up restrictions on rare earth exports, a move that Trump calls a moral disgrace. NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has that story. President Trump announcing that China will pay an added 100 percent tariff on top of what they're currently paying to the U.S. That's as he's calling out the CCP for being very hostile and sinister with their new export controls on rare earth elements. On Truth Social, Trump wrote, Starting on November 1st, 2025 or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China, the United States of America will impose a tariff of 100 percent on China over and above any tariff that they are currently paying. Also, on November 1st, we will impose export controls on any and all critical software. This would bring tariffs on China up to 130 percent, 10 percent reciprocal tariff, 20 percent tariff due to China's fentanyl crisis. And now this latest 100 percent tariff. It's because the CCP is announcing new restrictions on exporting rare earth elements and other materials which are used to make electronics from iPhones to missile defense systems. And the U.S. heavily relies on rare earths, of which China has an abundant supply. That was out of the blue, out of the blue. They came up with this whole import export concept and nobody, nobody knew anything about it. This is not something that I instigated. This was just a response to something that they did. And they didn't really aim it at us. They aimed it at the whole world. President Trump wrote on Truth Social, Some very strange things are happening in China. They're becoming very hostile and sending letters to countries throughout the world that they want to impose export controls on each and every element of production having to do with rare earths and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it's not manufactured in China. This comes as the firings of federal workers are underway. The director of Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vogt, posted on X saying the RIFs, reduction in force, have begun. Congress has continually failed to pass a budget bill resulting in this shutdown. And with a shutdown, the president is granted the authority to decide what gets funded. President Trump has promised to use this as an opportunity to cut wasteful spending, targeting specifically Democrat programs and the people they employ. And we'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. The White House has not named the specific agencies affected. And these layoffs are separate from the furloughs. About half of the federal workforce remains furloughed as of today. Reporting by Jack Bradley, NTD News. Thanks to Jack for that report. And as President Trump vows to impose sweeping tariffs on China, the regime's malign practices are once again in the spotlight. The question is, if the U.S. decided to use the same tactics across the board as the Chinese Communist Party does on them, how would Beijing react? NTD Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people. Are you concerned about national security threats related to China? Absolutely, I am. In fact, right there in Oklahoma, we have several farms that have been owned by China. I think the state government is tweaking that to where that can't be any longer. But nevertheless, there's reason for them confiscating those farms. I think if the tariffs would actually get us out of the grip that China has on it, I would definitely be for the tariffs. A lot of farmland by military bases, I think that's beyond just buying farmland. Very concerning to me. Oh, I definitely think it's a major threat. Stealing our technology and taking it home, we need to guard that and not being able to allow that to happen. I think we've been asleep at the wheel in an effort to bolster goodwill internationally. But I was a student at the University of Minnesota in graduate school, and this was in the 80s, a lot of Chinese students, and they were nice to visit with and so forth. But I think we gave them a lot of technology. I do think we need to be cautious. Let's say reciprocity across the board. Do you think China's going to allow that? If we do the same thing to them, do you think China's going to allow that? No way. They're not going to allow us to buy anything next to a Chinese military base, so to speak, if it even exists. And we shouldn't allow them to do it. I don't know what they're going to do. I don't think they like it and I think they want to take some measures. I'm sure there's going to be some back and forth, but I really do hope we extend our country's interests. And it is protecting specifically the land around our military bases. I doubt if they will. They're pretty centralized decision making and planning. We're a democracy, a republic, so it's harder for us to be all on the same page. I can't see that they probably would because they are used to winning over us. And so, let me just say it this way. I don't think they're going to let that happen without some sort of recourse. I don't see them doing that. They've never really stood up to any demands from anyone. They've pretty much done what they wanted to do and everybody else has just took it. Sam Wong, great discussions and insights there in that report. From a historic Middle East peace deal to new operations targeting crime in U.S. cities, the Trump administration has been active on multiple fronts. Next, we have NTD's Daniel Monaghan with your White House Week in Review. President Trump brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a deal that will see all hostages finally freed. What do you guys have to say to President Trump? Thank you. We ended the war in Gaza and really, on a much bigger basis, created peace. It's not an exaggeration that none of it would have been possible without the President of the United States being involved. Many around the world, from global leaders to outlets like the Washington Post, called for Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. I've stopped eight wars, so that's never happened before, but they'll have to do what they do. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised Trump's role as an amazing orchestration speaking on Fox News. I think President Trump is now moving into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were. On Tuesday, President Trump welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to the White House for his second visit in five months. Trump called Carney a great man and tough negotiator. So then, what's holding things up? If he's a great man and you want to do a deal with Canada, why aren't you? Because I want to be a great man too. The President also issued proclamations for Leif Erikson Day and Columbus Day, celebrating the explorers who helped shape American heritage. He sailed his three ships, the Nina de Pinto and the Santa Maria, across the Atlantic Ocean. At the White House, Trump hosted a roundtable on Antifa, which he recently designated as a domestic terrorist organization. We are following the money. Money never lies. And that's what it's going to take to bring down this network of organized criminal thugs, gangbangers and, yes, domestic terrorists. So we're going to be looking very strongly at the people that are funding these operations. These are not people that write out their signs in a basement that believe in something. These are paid anarchists. Meanwhile, National Guard troops rolled into Chicago this week. We've launched a historic campaign to take back our nation from the gangs and the street criminals, violent repeat offenders, illegal alien lawbreakers. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago officials have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the deployment. They're carrying long guns, automatic weapons. They're coming to downtown Chicago, Michigan Avenue. What is the purpose of that? A federal judge on Friday said she will temporarily block the deployment. The government shutdown continued this week. We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you. Each day, our case to fix health care and end the shutdown gets better and better, stronger and stronger. And President Trump met with Finnish President Alexander Stubbe at the White House. I want to congratulate you for what we have seen in the past 24 hours in Gaza. Thank you. I think it's a historic deal. This is what diplomacy is at its best. The two leaders finalized a deal for the Coast Guard to acquire up to 11 Arctic icebreakers. Finland will build four ships, while U.S. shipyards will construct seven more, creating billions in investment and thousands of skilled trade jobs for Americans. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi reported over 560 arrests and around 145 illegal guns seized in operations in Memphis, saying that just getting one child rapist off the street made the whole operation worth it. Daniel Monaghan, NTD News. Thank you, Daniel. Next, former President Joe Biden has started on radiation therapy and hormones as part of his treatment for prostate cancer. He was diagnosed in May. His team says the illness is aggressive but hormone-sensitive, meaning it's likely to respond to treatment. We wish him a speedy recovery. Coming up, FBI Director Kash Patel opens up on the government shutdown, the Comey fallout, and January 6th in an exclusive interview with Armstrong Williams. That and more when we come back. Each and every one of you. What you've been waiting for. Get tickets now at GenYum.com. 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How is the government shutdown impacting federal agencies? What's the most significant counterintelligence threat facing the nation? And what really happened on January 6, 2021? In an exclusive interview, FBI Director Kash Patel sat down with Armstrong Williams for an in-depth discussion on these topics and more. Here's an excerpt. How are you impacted by the government shutdown, especially if it's long and protracted? How will that impact your mission? So the beauty of the FBI is that the men and women put this mission first and foremost. And we are accepted from the overall shutdown because of the national security and law enforcement mission that we have. So do they still get their pay? Well, that's the problem. That's the biggest problem. They work. They don't get their pay now. Until this is resolved. Until it's resolved, they'll get their full back pay. But you have to recognize. Can someone work with the same enthusiasm, knowing that members of Congress are still getting paid and all other non-essentially essential employees are not getting paid? Can they still do their job at the same level? It's my job to motivate them to do so. But here's the thing I've learned. I don't really need to motivate them. They've come in with an enthusiasm from the field office visits I've done throughout the country in my seven months that people who have been here for decades have told me they haven't seen or had. They said they have now been able to do what they signed up to do at the FBI because the red tape's gone and we're letting them be good cops. So I think the enthusiasm is there and that speaks to the president's leadership and our leadership here at the FBI. Which brings us to this. What is the most significant counterintelligence threat facing our country domestically, in your opinion, right now from what you see every day? The PRC. Explain. So the Chinese, and particularly the CCP, engage in the greatest level of espionage against the United States of America. And particularly troubling is how they acquire lands and real estate in and around military bases. Particularly troubling, as you have now known, is public salt typhoon and vault typhoon, where there's penetration of our telecommunication infrastructure. Particularly troubling is how the Chinese are going after our critical infrastructure systems, our water, our energy, and our electrical grid infrastructure systems. We know they've penetrated them. We, the FBI, have been able to produce record numbers, as I highlighted earlier, counterintelligence arrests of this espionage activity. But we need a whole of government approach. We need to work with the interagency and we need to get out there and harden our infrastructure, work with mainland China and the PRC, as I've asked them to do, on shutting down not just fentanyl precursors, which are killing Americans in record numbers, but also on their espionage activity. And other nations are doing the same, just not at the same level, to include the Iranians and the Russians and DPRK. Let's bring this home. James Comey, a former director of the FBI, is being accused of lying to Congress on two counts. There are agents who testified that Mr. Comey did use a source inside the FBI to leak information to the press. There are agents who are still in this building that were loyal to him, who did not want to see this indictment go forth. The Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, just announced that not only are they going to bring the full charges against Mr. Comey, that is only the beginning of people that they are targeting in the same manner. Your thoughts on where you sit as the current FBI director, seeing one of your colleagues, who also was the director of this place, being indicted. And what does this mean going forward for the FBI in the Trump White House? This is the only thing we haven't talked about. It's the restoration of trust the American public has in the FBI. Don't take my statistics for it. You know it. It was cratering. It was at all-time lows over the prior two directors. The restoration of trust comes in my work with Congress, congressional oversight, production of documents, and transparency. That's a piece of it. That's a big piece of it. When we produced 33,000 pages and the prior two directors only produced four and 13,000 respectively, that's a big difference of investigations of consequence. Everything from JFK to the Charlie Kirk assassination and everything in between. We're making ongoing productions like never before seen so the American people can see, touch, and feel it, not be told what happened. As to, for me particularly, an individual who is a victim of a weaponized system of law enforcement, a politicization of law enforcement, literally had subpoenas served on me for no legal basis whatsoever. I will never, in this seat, launch an investigation without the appropriate legal and factual basis to do so and I do not make those decisions. In other words, whereas the people that accuse you of weaponizing the FBI to do the president's bidding is just not true. No, what America should do is look at the people that made those accusations and ask themselves the one simple question that the majority of the media doesn't want to face, did Russiagate happen? No. And what happened, what did I uncover when I led that investigation, when I was a chief investigator on Capitol Hill, is that a political party hired a foreign intelligence asset to make up information, then get it to the FBI and the FBI knew and has now admitted it knew the information was false and the source was bad. Even so, they went to a federal secret court, applied for a warrant on their political opponent and lied to that federal court to obtain that warrant. If you can't come to terms with that, then you have no opinion or basis to stand on to attack our integrity and the leadership I have at the FBI. Look at the individuals that did that. Ask yourself the tough question in the mirror, not you, the fake news media. I want to prop these people up and say we're the ones weaponizing government. It is the height of hypocrisy to have someone accuse us of doing that when they are the ones that created that maniacal system to satisfy their own egos. They're just pissed that we figured it out and the guy that figured it out is now the director of the FBI and the attorney general is a great partner and she's right. We're just warming up. How do you balance your attorney general got a lot of pushback when it seems as though that they were threatened to punish free speech? Even people on the right became very concerned about what is the bar? Because even if the speech that you hate is what separates America from everyone else, how do you balance all this against? Look, it's simple. We will defend your right for free speech to the maximum extent of the law. If that free speech turns into violent activity, you will be arrested. That's it. That's the difference. You can have hateful speech that I don't agree with or you don't agree with. And you and I see it all the time. We're victims of it all the time. But that doesn't make it a violation of the law. And that's how we balance it. We don't make it personal. We never take it personal. And the men and women here at the FBI who run these cases and adjudicate these decisions and the intel analysts and the support staff that come into work every day, they know that. I see it. I feel it every day. I walk around this building. I meet the folks that are doing it and I engage with them at a personal level. Something I'm told my prior predecessors didn't do because I want them to have a connection to leadership and the mission that we are leading, which is a mission-first approach to defend the homeland and crush violent crime and bring record-breaking transparency to the FBI. You know, we know the Senate hearing is a kangaroo court. It's political theater. And obviously you're a human too. Yep. And you pushed back, obviously. They accuse you of being the most dangerous person to the mission of the FBI from those confirmation hearings. If you could do things differently, would you? Or what is it, would you like to clarify on the record that the Democrats and their agenda accused you of? I wouldn't do a single thing differently. I would just ask the media to ask their audience, why is it that the people that continue to attack me can't understand the basic fact that we have proven that they weaponized law enforcement? And do you want to know why they call me dangerous Armstrong? Because I am, to their fabricated, weaponized system of government. And we are going to bring down the entire disease temple. And they know that I know what happened. And so their best line of attack is to get the fake news to make personal assaults onto me. And here's how I know, more than anything else, that I'm over the target. The louder they are, the more they scream, the more they don't have a factual point to levy against me. I know I'm doing my job and I'm not going anywhere. I want to come to January 6th. It is intriguing that 250 FBI plain clothed agents were inside the Capitol on January 6th. I saw the president's tweet to get to the bottom of it. Who placed them there? What were they doing? Were they inciting violence? What can you tell us, Mr. Director? This is a great example of the president's initiative to solve all the answers on January 6th. And it's another example of our transparency efforts. Pursuant to the president, we investigated the matter and found out why FBI agents were placed there in the first place. And it turns out we found documentation and witnesses and whistleblowers that said we were forced to go there to do riot control. Armstrong, do you know what the FBI does not do ever? Riot control. We don't do that. So the prior leadership sent 250-some-odd men and women into a situation they're not trained for, put them in harm's way, put the individuals out there in harm's way. And also, those individuals have collectively responded or said beforehand that they were forced to go there. They didn't volunteer to do that. Do you believe them? That's their word, not mine. That's what they reported. That's what they wrote down at the time of and stated. And we made those productions of Congress, which is the only reason you know it. Because I'm the only director that's willing to work with Congress to get this information out there. And so I think we are in a better position than we have ever been in terms of transparency because of President Trump's initiative to be that way, but also to fully investigate matters of great public importance like January 6th. And we're going to continue on all of those matters while we execute the mission of safeguarding this country. And that's the thing I want people to take away the most. If you focus on one thing, that was a knock at Congress. How are you doing the other thing? Because the FBI does double duty all day long. They do triple duty all day long. That's how good they are. And when you let them do the work and not hover over them and micromanage them, they're out there doing this. Summerheat, Viper. They're doing Operation Not Forgotten. Things we haven't even talked about. Tribal land law enforcement in record numbers. Seeking and finding international terrorists in numbers that we've never seen before. This is what they're doing all day long. And Congress, or at least some of the people in Congress, don't want to hear about the successes of this FBI because they're the ones that participated in building a corrupt FBI. You can watch this full episode of the Armstrong-Williams show on NTD or epochtv.com. Coming up, in football, a full slate of college action, including a top 10 battle out in Oregon between the Ducks and the Hoosiers. Dave Martin joins us to discuss. And with digital devices everywhere, how can we protect our vision? 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For the Tigers, that was their first loss of the season. Meanwhile, the Big 10, number one Ohio State, won at 17th ranked Illinois, 34-16. Buckeyes now 6-0 overall, 3-0 in the Big 10. And the ACC, we had an upset here. Pittsburgh upset, 25th ranked Florida State, 34-31 in Tallahassee. That is the third straight loss for Florida State. Now this is the team that beat Alabama in the Open way back in August. Going on right now, we got two big games going on right now. Number three, Oregon again, hosting number seven, Indiana. This game is now tied at 20 early in the fourth. And we've got the Red River rivalry, Texas, unranked Texas against number six, Oklahoma. Texas though, with a lead 13-6 right now. Tonight, guess what? We've got more games on here, Steph. Oh gosh. Michigan ranked 15th here at USC. Both teams have just one loss in that one. Then we've got a trio of SEC games. Florida at number five, Texas A&M. Number 10, Georgia is at Auburn. And South Carolina is at number 11, LSU. So I've got a busy night ahead. I was gonna say, how do you get any sleep? It's gonna be a long night on the couch, I'll tell you that. But it sounds fun. OK, so let's look at baseball news, because Seattle advanced to the ALCS last night, thanks to a marathon 15 inning, 3-2 win over Detroit. That lasted nearly five hours? I mean, that was such an incredible game. I don't think the fans in Seattle sat down the entire five-hour game. And it was high leverage inning after high leverage inning. At no time did either team had a lead of more than one run. I mean, Seattle tied it at two in the bottom of the seventh. Then it would be tied for like three hours in real time before they finally won the 15th. Meanwhile, both teams had numerous opportunities to score, but just couldn't. I mean, the Mariners are in first and second in the bottom of the 12th and the 13th. Couldn't score in either one. Finally, in the bottom of 15th, and I thought after that Detroit was surely going, but then finally in the bottom of the 15th, Seattle first and second. Again, no outs. This time they got a run, and that was it. You almost forgot what Detroit starting pitcher Tarek Skubal did. Six innings pitch to start the game. He struck out 13 batters. He could have just one run. At one point, he struck out seven straight batters. That is a playoff record that his team ended up losing. So the Mariners now advance to the ALCS. They will face the Toronto Blue Jays starting on Sunday. All right. Well, let's look next at the National League playoffs because the Cubs and the Brewers will be playing a winner take all game five tonight in Milwaukee. Yeah, Chicago versus Milwaukee. Cubs will start Drew Pomerantz on the mound, who's normally a reliever. Brewers were undecided last I saw, probably on who was starting. That might signal I think both teams are actually going to have like a bullpen game. You're just going to see a whole bunch of relievers going in there. But Milwaukee's best option out of the bullpen, I think that Jacob Mizorowski. Now, he is that rookie who made the all-star team after just a few starts earlier this summer. He's had kind of an up and down season ever since, though he was very good in game two when he scored three scoreless innings. Anyway, that game starts at 8 p.m. Eastern time tonight in Milwaukee. The winner faces the Dodgers in the NLCS. So I'm looking forward to that one, too. I'm kind of hoping it doesn't go 15 innings. I mean, that was a long night. Oh my gosh. Once you start watching, you can't stop, you know? Right. Until you get a winner, you know? Yeah. Otherwise, it feels like it was a waste of several hours. Right. Well. So you got to be committed. You do. Okay, let's talk about being committed. Let's look at the Olympics and gymnastics star Simone Biles. She's been asked repeatedly about when she'll compete again in the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Is she given a definite response? Well, her answer has been consistently non-committal. I'm sure it's hard to pass up competing in her home country right now, but she is 28 years old. She'll be 31 in the Olympics, which is not young for a gymnastics star. But she was recently in Argentina, and she was asked about mental health, as well as her plans for 2028 Olympics. Let's actually listen to what she said there. So mental health and the topic of conversation surrounding that is still a really, really big stigma around the world, and especially in the US, because it's not talked about enough. So I think the first step in breaking that stigma is having conversations around it and seeing how we look at it and stop thinking of it as a weakness and thinking more of it as you deserve that help. And I think we've started doing that, and we've started having global conversations around mental health and that conversation. And I think so many more athletes are speaking up and speaking out about what they're going through and telling their stories. And I'm still currently in therapy. I go once a week because it's just become part of my daily routine. I used to kind of hate therapy and really scared of therapy and being deemed as weak, and now I know it's just strong and I'm getting the help that I deserve. So I'm not sure what 2028 looks like, but I will be there at some capacity. I just don't know right now if it's on the floor or in the stands, but definitely want to go and be a part of that movement. Yeah, so Biles, very decorated gymnast. She's won 11 Olympic medals, 23 World Championship gold medals here. So we'll have to obviously wait and see. It sounds like she's waiting and seeing what her plans are for the 2028 Olympics right here in LA. Yes, that would be great to see her here. Let's look at NFL news. Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed last week's game against Houston with a hamstring injury. So what's his status, though, for tomorrow? Yeah, he is listed as out for tomorrow as well. Jackson was injured a couple weeks ago in the game against Kansas City. It's a big deal for the Ravens. I mean, he's a two-time NFL MVP. Last year, he was a runner-up for MVP. They struggled without him last week. They lost 44-10 to Houston. I don't know how they got that. But Baltimore, they've got a bye week, then the week after. So it probably makes sense to give them another couple of weeks to heal. I mean, these hamstring injuries can be very tricky, of course. Now, elsewhere in the league, the 49ers will be without Brock Purdy at quarterback. He's got a toe injury. They'll also be without a number of their wide receivers. Ricky Pearsall, JaJuan Jennings, Brandon Ayoc are all listed as out. Mack Jones will be the one to start a quarterback for them. I don't know who he's going to be throwing to. But anyway, Washington also, they've ruled out their top receiver, Terry McClurin, for Monday night's game against Chicago. He's got a quad injury. So just an FYI for all of your fantasy football teams. Well, I noted, right? I mean, my weekend's already set in play, right? I checked it all on Friday. But we'll be seeing how the weekend goes. All right. Well, I just want to give you the most updated information. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. I heard it right from the source. Dave Martin, great to have you on. Thank you, Steph. All right. And as digital devices take up more of our daily lives, how can we keep our eyes healthy? In this next episode of Vital Signs, Dr. Rani Banik, a neuro-ophthalmologist and practitioner of integrative medicine, sits down with Brendan Falun to share tips that you can use to protect your vision and what, he says, most people don't know about corrective lenses. You mentioned these near-focused tasks, like using devices. Could you say a little bit about what the effect is of devices, particularly on children developing myopia? Absolutely. And I think to explain, it would be best to illustrate with an eye model, if that's okay. Please. For, yes, for the audience. So in this eye model, I've shown this before in previous programs. So basically, when we look at the eye, we just see the very front part of the eye. But there's a lot of, there are many structures inside the eye. So I'm going to give you a peek inside that there are many, many structures inside the eye. But I'm going to show you one area in particular as I take apart the eye model. This brownish area here is called the ciliary body. And that is contiguous with the iris, which is the colored part of the eye. But there's a muscle in here called the ciliary muscle, the ciliary body muscle. And it's responsible for accommodation. And what that means is basically when we're looking at different distances, our ciliary muscle contracts at different amounts to help us focus images properly onto the back of the eye. So for example, if we're looking at distance, the ciliary muscle is more relaxed and we're focused for far distance. When we're looking at something either at near, let's say about 14 inches or 33 centimeters, or even at intermediate distance, for example, our computer screen, that ciliary muscle has to contract. So that accommodation process is going on. And we think that when someone is accommodating quite a bit, that may be a trigger in children for the eye to elongate and to get longer leading to myopia. So going back to your question, Brandon, you mentioned about near tasks, you know, what could this link be between increased near work and myopia? It's because the ciliary muscle back here is constantly accommodating and it's basically causing a trigger in the eye to elongate. That's what we believe. That's the theory out there. It's constantly tight. Constantly. Exactly. It's constantly working. And normally, you know, I'll give you some perspective. If you think back to our ancestors in the hunter-gatherer, you know, stage of civilization, most of the time our ancestors were looking in the distance. They were looking far off into the distance. They were, you know, they were monitoring for any threats in the environment. And very little of their world was up close. You know, they didn't read. They didn't usually write for long periods of time. Maybe they did some near work like gardening, things like that. But the vast majority of time for our ancestors was spent looking far in the distance. So this shift from looking in the distance primarily to now most of our world, especially because we're on devices, is right here. And that means that the ciliary muscle is constantly inactive, leading to this trigger of myopia. So this is kind of like an adaptation or a maladaptation to the circumstance of being constantly looking at devices and being near focused excessively. Exactly. And actually, that's one of the strategies we use when we're addressing myopia, progression of myopia. We do encourage our patients, especially children, to spend less time focused up close. So whether that be taking breaks, if they're doing any device work or computer work or reading, even reading a book, for example, for hours on end will stress that muscle of accommodation, that ciliary body. So any kind of near task is going to recruit that muscle and cause this accommodation process. Rather, again, going back to what I said earlier, taking frequent breaks is important to reduce the near demand. So instead of reading for three, four hours on end, whether it's a device or screen or book, schedule breaks every 20 to 30 minutes and let your eyes relax and look off into the distance. So you're relaxing that ciliary muscle. In ophthalmology, we call this the 20-20-20 rule, which is basically every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break by looking at an object 20 feet away. So either look at something way across the room or maybe look out the window to allow that accommodation to relax, and then you can resume your near activity. The other thing that I think is really important, and perhaps a lot of people in the public are not aware of this, is that if someone is myopic, let's say their prescription, myopia is basically a prescription that's in the minus range. So minus one, minus five, minus 10. These are examples of myopic prescriptions. If someone is myopic and it's a relatively mild degree of myopia, let's say minus five or less, their natural focal point is actually here, like very close to their face. So if they're wearing their glasses or contacts for reading, that's really not necessary because they're naturally able to focus here. So I always tell parents of children who are myopic in that range of, again, up to minus five, that the children should take off their glasses for reading because what's happening is the glasses are prescribed for distance and the child's wearing the glasses and then they look from distance and now they're reading, wearing that distance prescription, that ciliary muscle has to work even harder to help them focus. So basically it's really, really important for parents to realize this, if a child is prescribed myopic correction, wear it mainly for distance and try to avoid them wearing the glasses or contacts for reading or computer use. Following on from that, Dr. Banik, I understand that there's this circumstance where a person over a period of time will be repeatedly assessed and have their correction for their glasses raised, but that this isn't necessarily needed and that this can actually progress their myopia. Could you speak a little bit about that? Yes, and actually I've had that experience myself. I've lived through that experience. To see that full interview and others on how to optimize health, go to ept.ms forward slash vital signs. Vital signs offers general health information, not intended as medical diagnosis or advice. Please consult your doctor before undertaking a new health regimen. Brendan Falun there. Next coming up, a new documentary examining censorship in America, premiering in Washington, D.C. We'll hear from interviewees featured in the film about why it's important for people to pay attention. And Academy Award winning actress Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79. 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She's also known for films such as The First Wives Club, Something's Gotta Give, and Father of the Bride. Keaton appeared in more than 60 films, including eight with director Woody Allen, and she won an Oscar for Best Actress for 1977's Annie Hall. She was also known for her personal style that favored androgynous looks, turtleneck sweaters, and her trademark hats. Despite her well-publicized romances, Keaton never married. She's survived by her two children, daughter Dexter and son Duke, both of whom she adopted in her 50s. In an independent documentary exploring the attack on free speech, making its debut in the nation's capital, NTD Sam Wong has more on the screening of God Complex, the rise of America's censorship machine. On Thursday, a new independent documentary titled God Complex was screened at the Burke Theater in Washington, D.C. Produced by Big Picture Originals, the film delves into how powerful institutions work with big tech companies to control narratives online. It explores censorship in America and explains why it considers the issue significant. The censorship industrial complex is the set of institutions that range from government, private sector, civil society, and media that all shape the distribution of news and information on social media. Once you get into the business of having a government tell people what they can't say, The film also traces the source of censorship and control of information to despotic regimes like the Chinese Communist Party. Those who survived tyranny said they're seeing a recurring pattern. God Complex premieres on October 16th and it will be available to watch online for free. Sam Wong, NTD News, Washington, D.C. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Stefania Cox. Have a good night. NTD