NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 28)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, President Trump reveals America's space ambitions. He's creating a new space academy. And now the Space Force is helping the U.S. military in Iran. And what's next for America's space explorations? Chinese-made parts are inside many U.S. voting machines across the country. Homeland Security is warning those components pose significant risks to election security. Federal judge yesterday blocking the U.S. Postal Service's new rules for mail-in ballots. It comes just days after the Supreme Court allowed the Postal Service to propose those new rules. Arlene Richards has the details. Two thousand people still missing after this week's flash flood in Nepal. This includes almost a hundred Americans. Marian Pasdar has what the White House is saying about rescue efforts. And social media platform X says it has investigated a Chinese bot farm of 200,000 fake accounts. Some of the accounts have been posting anti-A.I. content targeting America. David Lam with the details. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Kerry Dunst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. President Trump creating a new space academy and awarding the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to NASA's Artemis II astronauts. He's highlighting how a revived space program matters to America's national security and interests. NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tao brings us more from the White House's North Lawn. And President Trump doubling down on America's space ambitions as he visits NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston today to honor the crew of Artemis II, who made a historic trip earlier this year around the moon. Fearless explorers that are very smart. American astronauts will return to the moon before the end of President Trump's term. And NASA will also send a nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft to Mars in 2028. Ultimately be a massive American starfleet, making space travel almost as common as ocean travel today. And these new explorations come as the president vows to bring America's space program into its golden age for national security. Our manifest destiny is to explore and settle this great unknown, carry forward the light of American liberty into the stars. It's an economic and national security necessity. A nation cannot be first on Earth if we're going to be second in space. After creating the Space Force during his first term, the president today signing an order to create the U.S. Space Academy, the first federal military academy created since the Air Force Academy in 1954. Space is the hot thing, but it will serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry, and it will attract, train and graduate the very best of our nation. Amid Operation Economic Outcast and the naval blockade against Iran, the president saying this week that the U.S. Space Force is watching every inch of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's now-destroyed nuclear sites. Today that function again in the spotlight. We fight very well. We're getting so much of our information from Space Force. You look at our blockade, which is incredible, it's so successful, being helped by space. And today, President Trump becoming the first sitting U.S. president to call astronauts aboard the International Space Station from the Johnson Space Center. Great Americans, great patriots, brave people. But this trip wasn't only about outer space, it had a political orbit of its own. The president texted also to boost State Attorney General Ken Paxton, who's running in a closed Senate race. The White House highlighting President Trump's record on both border security and tax cuts as Texans could help decide the control of the Senate this November. Reporting from the White House, Iris Tao, NDD News. And the Trump administration is moving to allow farmers and ranchers to process the food that they produce. On Truth Social, President Trump calls big processors a, quote, nasty monopoly. President posting, there are essentially four of them, a very non-competitive number, and they make life miserable for our wonderful farmers and ranchers. And I can't let that happen, can I? The president continued saying he was authorizing legal documents to be drawn up to give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food for companies control about 85 percent of domestic meat processing, their Cargill, Tyson Foods, JBS USA and National Beef Packing Company. And the National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on the near collision between a jet and President Trump's helicopter near D.C. The NTSB revealed radio communication failures may have impacted contact between the two aircraft on August 4th. The agency says Marine One failed two attempts to contact Ronald Reagan Washington National Air Traffic Controllers, and the seven-page report says that the first attempt was not received and the second one was broken and unreadable. The agency says the American Airlines jet came too close to the presidential helicopter after it took off. President Trump, of course, was unharmed, and in response to the report, the White House said they'll continue to work with the military and the FAA to ensure the president's safety. And the Justice Department today filing an appeal after a federal judge yesterday blocked the U.S. Postal Service's new rules for mail-in ballots. Antitese Arlene Richards has more. The Department of Justice on Friday quickly appealing a federal judge's order impacting mail-in voting. U.S. District Judge Indiri Talwani blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of its new requirements for mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections. The judge issued a 14-day restraining order Thursday, putting the new rules on hold while she considers whether to issue a longer-term injunction. The ruling is the latest development in a legal battle over President Trump's executive order aimed at changing how mail-in ballots are handled. Talwani scheduled a hearing for September 3. The Postal Service recently finalized rules requiring changes to ballot envelopes, including new markings and barcodes, as well as requiring states to provide voter information through a USPS electronic system. The rules were finalized after the Supreme Court on Monday lifted one of Talwani's orders blocking implementation of parts of the president's executive order. But the Supreme Court did not rule that the executive order is ultimately constitutional. Instead, the justices said the earlier challenge was premature because the Postal Service had not yet issued its final rules. After the Supreme Court ruling, the Postal Service moved forward with the new rules. The same coalition of states then filed a new lawsuit challenging the finalized rules, arguing that the executive branch had exceeded its authority and interfered with the state's power to administer elections. Judge Talwani has now temporarily blocked the Postal Service from enforcing portions of those rules for the November elections. The Justice Department is expected to appeal. The case is likely to continue through the federal courts as the midterm elections approach. Arlene Richards, NTD News. Homeland Security is flagging a major vulnerability in American elections. Chinese-made parts are actually inside many US voting machines. Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says that could be a way in for hackers. NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley reports. Parts of many voting machines used in the US are actually made in China, and Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says that poses an election security risk. He says companies that make more than 80 percent of US voting systems use Chinese-made components, writing in a recent letter to the White House Transparency Task Force, if a component is tampered with during the manufacturing, it could serve as a point of entry for hackers, allowing for the possibility of synchronized attacks across multiple machines and jurisdictions. The vendors told Congress that they use these Chinese parts because they have no alternatives. Last month, Mullen went even further, saying what foreign adversaries could do once they hack into these machines. We know that they can access what they consider the key to the back of these machines. We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. Intelligence files declassified last month claim the Chinese Communist Party worked to produce thousands of fake driver's licenses to let non-citizens vote for Biden, along with China's stealing, buying and hacking of voter data belonging to more than 200 million Americans. The People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history. The DHS is now requiring states to implement stricter voting security measures in order to receive federal grants from the Homeland Security Grant Program. That includes dropping systems that count votes off of barcodes and QR codes, moving to equipment that takes hand-marked paper ballots and running a random manual audit of at least 5 percent of ballots after every federal election. Analysts say this one is the most significant. That's never happened before in the United States. It's a big deal. It requires every jurisdiction to go to their paper and do a 5 percent sample, which, by the way, is way more larger than any pollster uses. So if these states want to be reimbursed for the November midterms, they need to implement these security measures. At the end of the summer recess, lawmakers will return to Washington, D.C. with a pressing to-do list, funding the government, digital assets regulations and plans to probe birth tourism. NTV's Melina Weiskopf has a look ahead. House lawmakers return to Washington next week with a top priority, preventing another government shutdown. Leadership plans to quickly tee up a vote on a temporary government funding bill. The Senate-passed stopgap would keep the government running until a month after the midterm election. Senate Republicans negotiated with Democrats on the final bill, which is supported by the White House. That's despite a provision that would block a Trump administration proposal, giving political appointees the power to approve or disapprove federal grants. It's potential to politicize the grant-making process and harm small, rural communities, our university, colleges and non-profit laboratories, our hospitals, our families and biomedical research in general. Lawmakers are also pressed to finalize the national defense bill. Meanwhile, Senate Leader John Thune vowed to take up key issues that remained unresolved before the week's long recess, including bills to regulate cryptocurrency, kids' online safety rules and a third party-line budget resolution. The White House's requested third reconciliation bill would include elements of the Save America Act, a grant program to incentivize states to strengthen voting requirements. Republicans are also aiming to probe birth tourism. And I believe that there's a compelling legal case to be made that these businesses that are facilitating this process, facilitating somebody coming in to the United States to give birth, lying on their immigration forms or on their visa forms, are engaging in a form of criminal conspiracy. And that's what we're going to get to the bottom of. Chairman Gill said foreign expectant mothers traveling for this purpose come predominantly from China and Russia. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskopf, NTV News. X, formerly known as Twitter, says it identified a massive number of fake Chinese accounts involved in influence operations. The accounts shared AI-generated cartoons depicting the detriments of AI data centers. And these David Lam reports. The X safety team is uncovering a bot farm with almost 200,000 suspected Chinese fake accounts. X says those accounts have been conducting influence operations targeting American users. Two hundred of those accounts were allegedly posting in a manner that could manipulate debate about American AI and energy policy. According to X, the posts talk about AI data centers driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. They also include AI-generated cartoons showing data center operators enriching themselves. This comes as a national debate continues over developing AI. The Chinese regime has made known its goal of being the global leader in tech. And the Trump administration is investing in technology for national defense and the economy in warning about foreign interference. Other nations are trying to get us to slow down and they're spending a lot of money on propaganda on press PR, trying to convince everybody that this isn't a positive thing. And if we don't do this, we're going to be left behind. X says, quote, We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our authenticity policy. David Lamb, NTD News. Over 500 people are confirmed dead, 2,000 still missing after this week's flash flood in Nepal. Among them are dozens of Americans. Red Cross says almost a 100,000 people are affected and in need of help. And today's international correspondent, Erin Pasdar, has the latest. Video from Nepal's Razuba district shows a hydroelectric dam bursting on Wednesday. Over 500 people are dead as of Friday and 2,000 are missing. A wall of ice, mud and rock collapsed into a mountain river, triggering the flash flood. Believe that at least 93,000 people are have been affected. At least 17,000 children are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. At least 14 children are confirmed dead. Sadly, many more remain missing. And we expect these numbers could rise. The United States is sending half a million dollars in assistance supporting emergency shelters. The aid also provides relief items, water, sanitation and hygiene assistance to flood affected communities. Almost a hundred American citizens are still missing. No American casualties have been confirmed. President Trump says he contacted Nepal offering support. State Department spokesman Tommy Piggott was on Fox News on Friday commenting on the situation. 90 Americans as of 6 a.m. this morning, currently unaccounted for. We have now seen five Americans being safely evacuated. That is up from yesterday. And we have at this point in time no knowledge of any U.S. citizen deaths. Aid is starting to reach some survivors in Nepal on Friday. In some cases, schools are being used as aid distribution centers. NGOs are handing out solar panels, clothes and basic hygiene items. In one location, a military training center is being used as a relief camp where helicopters bring people and supplies. Children separated from their families are being sheltered at relief centers as staff work to reunite them. Aryan Pasdar, NTD News. China's expanding hydropower program in Tibet now facing renewed scrutiny after that catastrophic flooding in Nepal. The scale of the destruction is raising questions about how the Chinese Communist Party's development of the Tibetan plateau could affect the downstream communities. Writing in the Nikkei Asia magazine, a professor of strategic studies at New Delhi's Center for Policy Research says upstream infrastructure can amplify the impact of extreme floods. He says China needs to share the upstream river data with Nepal in real time so that downstream communities can receive an earlier warning. China has already built several major dams in Tibet and is developing an enormous new project on the Yarlung Songpo River. Now, the project is being built in one of the world's most seismically volatile regions, adding additional concerns about the consequences of earthquakes as well as landslides. Scientists are warning that massive rock and ice avalanches could pose risks to dams all across the Himalayas. And coming up, New York is suing its last holdout sheriff over his refusal to end his partnership with ICE. And a chemical tank was deemed unfit nearly 10 months before it failed at a Washington state paper mill. The disaster killed 11 and investigators say the tank was never repaired. Hi, I'm Jane Seymour, and I spent years on TV playing a doctor. But I learned about the heartbreaking reality of heart disease and stroke when they touched my own life. My father nearly died before having a quadruple bypass and valve replacement that saved him. And my mom, who was my inspiration, suffered a stroke that took away her speech, her ability to move and ultimately her life. 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And essentially that gave law enforcement associations across the New York state the notice that on August 25th, they can no longer continue those 287G agreements with ICE. Those agreements allow local police associations to partner with ICE under their supervision to carry out some of the functions that they do in federal immigration enforcement. So we saw back on Wednesday, a bunch of county sheriffs said they were going to sue the state. We heard first from the Rennesselaer County Sheriff, Kyle Bergot, and he joined St. Lawrence County, Wayne County, Broome County, Madison County, Cattaraugus, Orange, Jefferson, Saratoga, Lewis, Franklin, Delaware, Fulton, Oswego and Cayuga counties. And Governor Hochul warned both those county sheriffs and others who wanted to join the lawsuit that if they continue with those ICE agreements, that she's going to come after them as well with Attorney General Alyssa James, Letitia James, through a lawsuit. Let's take a listen to what she had to say. Let me be clear, any police department or sheriff's office that disobeys this law, that maintains any agreement with ICE will face legal action. And to those suing us, those trying to block the implementation of this law, I say, bring it on. So the attorney general is calling for the Rennesselaer County Sheriff to officially terminate his agreement and not enter into any more agreements. They essentially want proof of compliance. And they're saying that the public statements of both the Rennesselaer County executive as well as the sheriff point to the fact that they're not complying as well as the lawsuit. And, you know, there was originally 12 agencies that New York state identified that weren't in compliance with the local crimes, local cops, local crimes act. And Rennesselaer County is the only one that said we're not going to back down and we're going to sue the state. There was a little bit of a holdout seeing if Nassau County, under Governor Hochul's Republican challenger for the governorship, was going to direct the Nassau County sheriff to, you know, not comply. Ultimately, Nassau County did comply. It was just Rennesselaer County that says they're going to maintain the relationship. The last holdout sounds like building to quite a confrontation. So why is Bergow refusing to end the agreement and what's his legal argument? So essentially, he's saying the main argument is that the the law is a mischaracterization of what his police force does, and they're not really understanding why these agreements are necessary. So he's talking about what he calls the jail enforcement model. And we have some sound about what that is. Let's take a listen to that first. We participate in the jail enforcement model. Our deputies are not out driving around looking for undocumented immigrants. They are not conducting immigration checkpoints. They are not making immigration related traffic stops. They are not riding around our communities with ICE agents looking for people to arrest. Our participation occurs inside the Rensselaer County jail. And let me say it again, involving individuals who have already been arrested and brought into our facility. And he says that local sheriffs are independently elected constitutional officers and he says that Albany can't dictate which federal law enforcement tools they can use. And he expands on his argument. We have another clip right here. Take a listen to this. Sheriffs are elected by the people and they answer to the people, not the governor, not the attorney general. And regardless of the political party controlling Albany, I will continue to stand for the ability of locally elected sheriffs to do their jobs that the residents of their counties elected them to do. But I can't stand behind a governor that's trying to strip the duties of a constitutionally elected sheriff for political gain. That's what this is, in my opinion. So looking over the lawsuit, the sheriff calls this reverse commandeering. He argues, quote, if the federal government cannot commandeer states to advance federal ends, then states cannot commandeer local government or officials to obstruct those same ends, particularly in a field Congress has exclusively occupied. And then he does a turn on the name of the law. He says this is not local cops, local crimes. It's a statewide political override of county public safety judgments. So the state says that the county is bound by state law and that the federal 287G agreements have to be consistent with both state and local law. So it's a two court fight. 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But a new federal report released Friday says the chemical storage tank had been found not fit for continued service nearly 10 months before it catastrophically failed. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, inspections found significant thinning in parts of the tank's steel shell, warning there was a high likelihood of failure if the problems weren't corrected. But investigators say the tank remained in operation and was not repaired before the May 26 disaster. When it failed, roughly 900,000 gallons of an extremely hot chemical known as white liquor flooded the facility. The massive wave crushed vehicles, damaged surrounding buildings and poured into areas where workers were holding morning meetings. Eleven employees were killed, while several others, including a firefighter, were injured, some suffering serious chemical burns. The Chemical Safety Board says its investigation is still ongoing and it has not yet determined the official cause of the tank failure. 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And the fact that the president took this action, we see as starting the process of dealing with one of the known threats to our national grid. Yeah, now, the U.S. cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency says that there were over 100 attacks on water and wastewater systems just in the last month, just last month. So how much risk does our critical infrastructure, including the U.S. power grid, actually face? You know, there is there's a lot of risk in in the world today to our grid from many vectors, but certainly on this this transformer issue is, you know, the threat is a potential backdoor or some sort of a way to attack those transformers from outside the country. If you lose the transformers, then that can cause a catastrophic loss of our power grid, which is really what starts designating this emergency we've got in terms of in terms of your water issue. Again, the same thing starts applying. There is the ability for a nefarious actor to impact, you know, through the network or through actually going into the actual devices and the valves and switches that control our water systems to negatively impact. Yeah, it sounds quite daunting. So in light of this and the 100 attacks just last month, what do you see as the solution here? You know, carry out, I tell you, this this executive order is a great start to start looking at how do we actually pull the the devices that could be negatively impacted and could have backdoors from our grid. There are some other things, certainly. From Foundation for Infrastructure Resilience Structure that we would say we need to take a look at, such as, you know, physical attacks to our grid and and some other type of ways to to to bring down our power grid, such as even even the sun with a geometric disturbance. But in our in our mind. Our grid is our nation's greatest asset, and if we lose the grid, we we actually it is catastrophic to us in terms of operations. And so the ability to take concrete actions from a national level, we see we see as as really important and would actually encourage the government to take some further steps in terms of, you know, I deem our security of the grid as a national imperative and organizing to respond to that grid by planning, you know, at the local, state and federal levels to deal with this type of attack. Absolutely, it it seems like national leadership is needed on this issue, and it seems that much of what the Trump administration is doing across many sectors is modernizing outdated or potentially underinvested infrastructure. But being that energy is privatized, how should the government help to modernize our power supply? Yeah, thank you. We would certainly see that as a coalition with government working with industry, with government working with the men and women that man our utilities and provide the power that we need. You know, you hit the nail on the head is is our power comes from, you know, utility providers throughout this nation. And we would say that synchronizing and coordinating the planning actions of all of those utilities and the people that affect power, what takes national leadership and national guidance and the setting of national standards in how we should protect and defend our our grid assets. Yeah, well, with three thousand of them, it will be a bit of a herding cats project, but you can see how essential it is to our safety and our security. General Luke Reiner, thank you so much for joining us this evening. You bet. Thank you. Our pleasure. And next, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is moving to stop potentially improper Medicare laboratory payments. Now, the agency is saying it has prevented more than one point six billion in payments since the beginning of President Trump's second term. According to CMS, that includes over seven hundred and thirty million dollars in savings from over one hundred and fifty lab providers which are suspected of the fraud after they were removed from the Medicare program. Now, the agency says those labs were suspected of billing Medicare for tests that were actually never performed. In one instance, the owner of a consulting company enrolled 14 labs that billed Medicare more than twenty four million dollars. According to CMS, those services could not have been performed because none of those labs were actually operational in the first place. Now, CMS says its Medicare fraud prevention efforts have resulted in record breaking forty two billion dollars in savings in the fiscal year of twenty twenty five. Next, Walmart has settled a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department, the DOJ suit accusing the retailer of fueling a nationwide opioid epidemic by unlawfully dispensing prescriptions from its pharmacies. Now, that settlement comes after the DOJ sued Walmart in twenty twenty for allegedly violating the Controlled Substances Act. According to the complaint, Walmart knowingly filled thousands of controlled substance prescriptions that were not issued for legitimate medical purposes. The lawsuit also alleged Walmart failed to report hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders to the Drug Enforcement Administration, which is required. Now, according to the complaint, Walmart's actions helped fuel the prescription opioid crisis. Terms of this settlement weren't immediately immediately available. And an unlikely issue emerging as a sticking point in U.S.-Mexico trade talks, cheese. Washington says a new trade agreement between Mexico and the European Union could restrict American producers from using familiar names like Parmesan and feta on cheese that's sold in Mexico. Now, the dispute is part of a broader list of non-tariff trade barriers that the U.S. is pressing Mexico to address. Here's more on that cheese story. The U.S. government has sent Mexico a list of at least 15 non-tariff trade barriers. One of the sticking points is surprisingly cheese. Mexico imports its cheese mainly from the United States. However, the EU-Mexico agreement would extend a lot of protections for European cheeses and restrict the names that American producers are allowed to use on their labels. The United States has long defended the use of what it calls common names for cheeses. So these are labels such as Manchego, such as Parmesan, which are products that it exports into Mexico. The EU, however, defends the names of cheese that's originally from some of its countries as protected denominations of origin. So, for example, they say that Parmigiano-Reggiano can only be produced in certain regions of Italy, that feta can only be produced in some parts of Greece. So U.S. cheese exporters say that it's confusing for consumers to read a label that says something like imitation feta or Asiago style cheese when that cheese is essentially the same. And they say this is hurting their sales. European producers, however, argue that the cheeses made in the U.S. are completely different, that they have no way of controlling the quality and that if cheeses are sold under these labels, it's impacting their own brands. Now, the cheese dispute is one of at least 15 non-tariff barriers Washington is asking Mexico to address as these two countries continue their trade talks. And the Treasury is moving to stop a bank in the UAE from accessing the U.S. financial system. The department saying that the bank has allowed the Iranian regime access to the U.S. dollar. In addition to the bank, the U.S. sanctioned an Iranian bank manager working at the bank's Dubai branch. According to the Treasury, the Iranian bank bank has served as a critical financial hub for Iran's armed forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Department also sanctioned a Hong Kong based front company that it says has helped launder funds for a sanctioned Iranian exchange house. Now, the announcement comes as part of U.S. efforts to economically isolate Tehran. Earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant announced Operation Economic Outcast. Now, according to Besant, the department, the effort is aimed at cutting the remaining financial lifelines that sustain the Iranian regime. And the Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, signaling more actions on inflation. Here he is speaking at the Fed's annual retreat today in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective. Clearly and at sufficient speed. Otherwise, we have worked. That's our job, that's our mandate and that's our charge. Investors are looking for clues from the annual gathering about the outlook of interest rates and inflation. But Warsh says he doesn't want to provide forward guidance on future rate decisions. The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate, of course, of ensuring maximum employment while keeping inflation stable. The Fed chair notes that the labor market is currently well and stable, but numbers on inflation are more concerning. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, the one I talked about earlier, 12-month change in the PCE price index stands at 3.7 percent, the six-month change a little above four. The comparable measures from the CPI index are also elevated as our core measures, both the PCE and CPI. None of these measures are perfect, but they all tell a similar story. Inflation is running above our 2 percent target. The Fed's predominant focus right now should be on prices. On the general economy, Warsh says it appears to have strengthened over the past months and remains resilient. He says broad financial conditions are not restrictive and consumer spending has been healthy. Following Warsh's comments, market observers now expect about even odds of a rate hike at the Fed's next meeting from September 15th to the 16th. More are betting on a rate hike by the December 8th to 9th meeting. And Uber has rolled out a new feature that's designed to give families peace of mind. The ride share giant now has a live stream option and that would let parents watch their child's trip in real time. Now, this feature is part of Uber's teen accounts product. Once activated, the live stream will be shown through the driver's front facing camera. According to Uber, both the driver and the teen will be notified when the video is being watched. 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This is the way to buy glasses. See now, pay later with Select Specs. Next day delivery and deferred payment options only at SelectSpecs.com. For your sports news, we're joined by this guy. Indeed, he's Dave Martin. Thanks for joining, Dave. What an introduction. Thank you. All right, look, we got some NFL, we got some baseball, but the college eligibility saga continues. What's the latest on that one? All week long, this is going to continue. The latest here, the ACC joining the Big Ten, Big Twelve and SEC in binning professionals looking to return to play for their football and basketball teams on both men's and women's. Now, that includes anyone who is declared for the draft and did not withdraw. Anyone who signed a pro contract or anyone who was on a pro on the on a pro team roster. Now, the SEC, of course, you remember they were the first to do this just earlier this week, but they did it just for football. This came after a news about a pair of undrafted NFL rookie free agents that had agreements to play for LSU and SEC school. Should they get waived? Now, these two players have gotten a judge's ruling that at least temporarily allows them to play for a fifth season this upcoming year. It looks like that judge is going to make sure this definitely happens. A temporary restraining order is prohibiting the SEC from enforcing this new rule, the anti-pro rule, I guess you'd call it, at least until their case is heard. And that case is scheduled to be heard on September 3, which is two days before LSU's season starts. They play Clemson there on the 5th. Now, that case is one of more than a dozen cases nationwide challenging the ruling of getting a fifth season for some of these guys. So we're definitely going to keep following them for the next couple of weeks here, because it's coming really soon, like two weeks away, really, from college football. Or I'm sorry, one week away from college football Saturday starting. Yeah, it seems to come down to the lot, to the wire with the NCAA. And you got that weird thing where you got the transfer, transfer portal. You need to commit to that before the bowl game. So it's it seems like there's some room for maybe it's some leadership in NCAA chaos. It seems like in college sports somehow right now. But it makes for great news, doesn't it? It does. And of course, trying to figure this out and explain it is working up. I'll say that. And the Trump administration has their Save American Sports Act, or I think I butchered that one. But I'm looking forward to that one. The Save Save American Sports. And what's the what's the essence of that, essentially? Well, that's going to they're actually going to get a fifth year. You get five, five years to play five seasons is essentially what it is, among other things. But you can only transfer once without having to sit out a season. That's like the big caveat because the transfer puts you in the transfer portal, which is like the free agency for college sports. That's where you maximize your value. Some players do it every single year. That's probably not going to happen under this. So we'll see that. I'm sure it's going to be challenged in court. All right. Let's move to where the rules are much clearer. The NFL for professional actual professional football, even though college is quasi professional. What's going on? The season's almost here. The preseason continues tonight. Week three of the preseason. We got some regional rivalry games, which really already started, actually, the Washington Commanders against the Baltimore Ravens going on right now. Ravens had that new head coach in Jesse Minter replacing John Harbaugh, who was there for nearly two decades. Then at 7 p.m., we got the Florida rivalry game. Tampa Bay Buccaneers playing the Jacksonville Jaguars. And then just half hour after that, Kerry, we've got the big one. New York Giants versus New York Jets at MetLife at MetLife Stadium. I know you're going to be watching this one for sure. So those are three of the 10 games that are on tonight. The final one is going to be Minnesota Vikings at the Denver Broncos starting at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Then tomorrow we got two more games. Detroit Lions at the Indianapolis Colts starting at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. And it's 6 p.m. Chicago Bears at the Tennessee Titans. And that will conclude the preseason. The regular season then begins on Wednesday, September nine with a Super Bowl rematch. The Seattle Seahawks hosting the Denver Broncos. So hopefully, Kerry, your fantasy football league starts soon. You know, I'm sure if you check your email, I bet your commissioner started it anyway. All right. That's my guess. It's always going to be giant stadium to me. But let's move on to baseball. They completely demolished that stadium, just so you know. All right. It's MetLife Stadium. Not quite giant stadium anymore. Just just to be clear. OK, but to Kerry, he's still living in the past. I almost made a Jimmy Hoffa remark. We're going to just totally move on. Let's talk about baseball pennant race. Yanks, Yanks, Red Sox. We've got a big rivalry series this weekend. The big really baseball is the biggest rivalry going on right now. This is going to be in the Bronx. This is a big one. Both teams are really are angling for playoff position. Yankees have a two game lead over the Red Sox right now. Both have a sizable lead, though, over the third wildcard team. That's the Cleveland Guardians. So both are probably, you know, expected to make the playoffs. It's really just a matter of a position. This is going to be a four game set, though. I'll say the Red Sox take three out of four. The teams will be tied. The Yankees take three out of four. They'll have a much more comfortable four game lead tonight. It's going to be the Yankees starting Kim Schlittler on the mound against the Red Sox. Patrick Sandoval. That game starts very soon here, 715 Eastern time. And tomorrow we got a day night doubleheader. Also tonight, we've got the Yankees ace Tarik Skubal back in Detroit to face his old teammates. The game actually just started a few minutes ago. Dodgers second best record in baseball. You know, the Detroit Tigers five and a half games out of the final wildcard spot in the American League. So a lot going on in baseball right now. And just on our outro, I know that the Royals were on a streak. What's the latest? Well, the streak ended that night. OK, I'm not going to report on them again. Clearly, my report. I was going to ask if they grew mustaches to keep the momentum going. All right. They lost, but then they won. So now they're they're they're like nine games out of the playoff spot, even though they're like 15 games below 500. I don't know. I don't they would have to win about their next 27 games to have a legit shot at the playoffs at this point. But my condolences, there's always next year. We've been seeing that for a while. That's true, though. Thanks, Dave. Great stuff. Thank you, Gary. And stick around, Dave, because I think you're going to really enjoy this next one here. We've got from amazing animal portraits to a furry friend being rescued with the help of none other than cheese. We begin overseas in London. Let's check it out. It's a celebration of the beauty of our natural world. Take a look at some of the top images shortlisted for the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition from a peering polar bear peeping through a seal's icy breathing hole to this split second escape by a butterfly as an African bullfrog lunges for its next meal. These are just a handful of the photos from a record breaking 65,000 entries into this year's competition. A hidden little lichen dragon Katie did spot it in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. The intertwined lives of a rhino and an oxpecker in South Africa and a young leopard chasing a squirrel up a tree in Botswana are among more of the stunning sneak peek photos released from the competition's 100 winning images. Winners will be announced in October, and the full set of photographs will be showcased in London at the Natural History Museum. Now, back across the pond in Los Angeles, a cargo plane had its brakes locked up during landing, blowing four tires. Video shows the Boeing 737 partially catching fire as it landed at Los Angeles International Airport. DHL, who chartered the plane, says luckily no one was hurt. And thanks to cheese, no dog was hurt in the rescue taking place. In this last story, when police in Tampa, Florida, were called to save a small dog stuck in a drain, officers put cheese in a bucket and lowered it down, hoping the dog would take the bait and jump in. Sure enough, the cheese did the trick and the very good boy hopped in and the officers pulled the bucket up to safety. Animal Control checked out the furry fella, and he's already been adopted. And that is all for today's news. But for around the clock coverage, you can always visit us at NTD.com or you can use our NTD app. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Cary Dunst. Be true and kind and hold the line.