NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 4)

Welcome to ANZD Evening News. Our top story tonight, President Trump sending Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner to Russia and Ukraine to present a new peace proposal. And the president hosting farmers and ranchers in the Oval Office today. He announces new executive orders that may cause immediate changes to the industry. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen in Ohio today meeting with ICE and local law He's highlighting a program that lets local authorities help enforce immigration laws. Jason Perry with the details. A mistrial declared today in the Lindsay Clancy case despite a last minute effort by the defense to stop it. Could prosecutors try the case again? Journalist Nick Shirley is taking matters to court suing California over what he calls the Stop Nick Shirley Act. He says the law violates First Amendment rights and allows fraud to be overlooked. David Lam with more. And Nepal's army rescues two survivors who were stuck in a tunnel for nine days after the flood last week. And the Chinese Communist Party allegedly received an alert minutes before the flood but chose not to issue an evacuation order. Marian Pasdar has the latest. 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 signs a new executive order today aimed at helping the farming industry. We now go live to NTD's Jack Bradley. He is at the White House. Jack, what did the president sign? Well, Kerry, President Trump met with farmers and ranchers at the White House signing a couple executive orders. One that allows them to process their own beef for the first time ever and sell it directly to consumers. The president says that currently there are only a few companies that have a monopoly on the processing market, putting an economic strain on these producers. Here's the president earlier. So for the first time ever, we're going to give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food. We're creating a program where small and medium sized and large ranchers can sell their products directly to consumers so that they don't have to go through the big four processes and middlemen. And along with this, the president was ordering his staff to require a country of origin label for beef so that consumers can know whether they're buying American made beef or not. The president also signing another executive order authorizing ranchers to shoot Mexican gray wolves. Now, prior to this, ranchers were not legally allowed to stop these wolves from killing their cattle en masse because they are on the endangered species list. And Jack, the new jobs report numbers are out and it's much better than was expected. So what's the president saying about that? Right. So those job numbers are at least two to three times higher than economists predicted. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that employers added 162,000 jobs in August. The White House attributes it to President Trump's tariff policies, bringing in new investments in American labor. Take a look. It's really one of the biggest blowout skyrocketing job numbers that we've seen in a long time. And if you go down into the details, you can see why it's people because of the tariffs are onshoring production. We have almost 90,000 people building factories right now, which is an unheard of number. Now, President Trump is using these numbers to call on the Federal Reserve now to cut interest rates. But inflation, which they're looking at, the Federal Reserve hovers around 3.4 to 3.7 percent. It's not at that 2 percent target yet that the Fed wants to see before it will even consider cutting rates. But President Trump is threatening the Fed that if they don't cut the rates, then he'll stop trading with countries that the U.S. has a trade deficit with. And whether that materializes, only time will tell. Wow. But 90,000 new factories, that is something. And Jack, President Trump announcing that he's sending U.S. special envoy Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner abroad to work on a Russia-Ukraine peace deal. What's the latest on this? Well, Kerry, keep in mind that this announcement comes one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin says that there's a chance of achieving peace with Ukraine. Now, it's very rare for either side to sound even mildly optimistic after talks have stalled earlier this year. Putin also says that he's in favor of restoring relations with the U.S. in full. So, President Trump now is sounding more optimistic that a deal can be made. Take a look. I sent Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner, the two great negotiators. They've done a great job. And we sent them over to see whether or not we can get something done. And there may be a good chance that we'll do it. Now, how this plays out, along with the Iran conflict and the economy, all of this will have an impact on how voters are going to take to the polls come November. And the first ever Republican midterm convention will be held next week in Dallas, and NTD will be all over that, following it on the ground. Historically, the midterms have not gone well for the president's party in power. But Republicans think that they can flip that. President Trump says that he'll allocate a significant amount from his super PAC to ensure that happens. Take a look. Well, I have, I think I have like close to a billion dollars in the super PAC, and I'm allocating probably four or five hundred million dollars. So I'll be spending. Yeah, we're going to spend a lot of money because we don't want to lose our country. And Kerry, Republicans hold a slim majority in the Senate and even slimmer majority in the House. So holding on to that lead will mean the difference between advancing the president's agenda in Congress or an even larger block from Democrats going forward. Kerry. All right. A lot out of the White House today. Thank you, Jack. Next, as Jack had mentioned, the Republicans are heading to Dallas next week for their first ever midterm convention with less than 60 days until election day. Hear from RNC co-chair Casey Crosby on what's at stake and how the party is preparing for November night on Capitol Report at 7 p.m. Eastern. And an update now on the Lindsay Clancy case. The judge determining the jury is deadlocked, declaring a mistrial today. Clancy's defense attorney then losing a bid to the state's highest court after requesting that they block the mistrial entities. Arlene Richards has more under the statute in the case law. I don't feel I have any choice but to declare a mistrial. Judge William Sullivan excusing a deadlocked jury on Friday, but not before Lindsay Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, made a last ditch effort to block the judge's declaration of a mistrial. The judge had made the declaration after reading a final note from the jury foreman. The note said, quote, It is with a heavy heart that we report that we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to. But the defense asked the judge to get further clarification. Judge may first require the jury to return verdicts on those charges upon which the jury can agree and direct that such verdicts be received and recorded. Reddington wanted the jurors to be asked individually how they voted on each charge. He then asked for this. So I want an opportunity to take an appeal to the single justice if the court has that opportunity. The trial judge gave him one hour to appeal the mistrial to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Reddington pushed for the appeal on the grounds that a single juror had refused to follow the law on reasonable doubt. The defense, believing the other 11 jurors, were prepared to dismiss the charges against Clancy. The state's highest court immediately denied the request and then the jurors were dismissed. Judge Sullivan has suggested that the case could be retried later this fall and agreed to let Reddington submit arguments against the mistrial. A new hearing on the matter is scheduled for September 29th. Arlene Richards, Entity News. Next, Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen in Ohio to meet with local authorities on immigration enforcement. He highlights a program called 287G and that allows local authorities to enforce certain immigration laws. Entity News' Jason Perry has more. It's frustrating to me because every single death that happens at a hand of an illegal is 100 percent preventable because a person shouldn't be here. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen on Friday holding a roundtable meeting in Ohio with ICE and local law enforcement. Mullen highlights what's called the 287G program, which allows local authorities to enforce certain immigration laws. One of President Trump's 2025 executive orders requires ICE to use the 287G program to the maximum extent permitted by law. The program currently has over 2,400 agreements with law enforcement agencies in 39 states and two U.S. territories. Mullen also explaining how counties with sanctuary policies impact other counties around them. It doesn't stay in that county. It bleeds into counties like Warren County and they have to deal with the issue. And so just because you're a sanctuary state or sanctuary county doesn't mean you're doing injustice. You're actually causing harm. You're harboring and abating the criminals that are going just outside your area too and they're flooding our streets. Luke Alphalter from the Columbus, Ohio ICE field office raises a similar issue. He notes that Interstate 70 runs through Columbus. So although Columbus is not the largest city, we get a lot of transit traffic, including boats and trafficking that travels on the interstate. And Columbus seems to be a stopping point for a lot of activity. So much of our activity, like you were saying, doesn't originate in Ohio and doesn't originate with decisions that the people who live in Ohio make. It's brought to our area by other jurisdictions and then people have to deal with it while it's in Columbus. He adds that he has a relatively small office in comparison with the area it covers. But he says that cooperation from federal, state, county and local partners has been a force multiplier to help his office do its job. Jason Perry in TV news. The FBI is expanding its most wanted fraudster list. The bureau adding three fugitives which are accused of major fraud worth tens of millions. Here's more on that. The FBI is adding three fugitives to its most wanted fraudsters list, bringing the current roster to 12 people accused of major fraud. The bureau launched the new list in June, highlighting cases involving millions of dollars in alleged fraud. One of the three new additions is Turkish national Onur Simsek, who the FBI accuses of running a defense contract fraud scheme targeting the U.S. Department of War. The FBI says he used a Florida company as a front, allegedly selling military parts made in Turkey, while falsely claiming they were made by an approved U.S. company. The Department of War says the alleged deception could have compromised national security by allowing potentially substandard components into the U.S. military supply chain. Another new addition to the fraud list is Bernhard Fritsch, who was found guilty of defrauding investors. Prosecutors say he lied about the financial performance of his company StarClub. Prosecutors estimate he scammed investors out of nearly 27 million dollars. The FBI says Fritsch fled to Mexico and is now believed to be living in Germany. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in federal prison. The FBI is also seeking Munyit Singh Bedi, a 65-year-old grocery store owner accused of stealing more than $600,000 in federal food assistance benefits. The FBI says Bedi used an Asian grocery store in Tacoma, Washington, to swipe customers' SNAP benefits and give them cash instead of food, keeping part of the money for himself. The FBI believes he is now residing in India and is offering up to $150,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction. FBI Director Kash Patel says four people previously placed on the list have been captured. Look, President Trump and the Vice President stood up their anti-fraud task force, and in just the last five weeks, Trey, the FBI has captured four of the most wanted fraudsters in the world on three different continents, totaling two billion dollars in money that was supposed to be allocated to our elderly and our children. They include individuals accused of Medicare fraud, COVID-19 relief fraud, and scams related to the Feeding Our Future child nutrition program. Patel says the FBI will continue targeting major fraud cases around the world, saying, quote, we're not slowing down. Next, the Chinese national was arrested after allegedly voting illegally in Massachusetts. If convicted, prosecutors say he faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and deportation. NDD correspondent Jason Blair has more. A Chinese national was arrested for allegedly voting in the 2024 presidential election. Court filings say that Yuping Sun used the identity of another Chinese national in Massachusetts who had legal permanent residence status and then registered to vote online. Sun then submitted an early voting ballot for the 2024 election on October 31st under the victim's name. Later, Sun anonymously reported the victim he was impersonating to government agencies for voting illegally. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says this criminal illegal alien allegedly committed voter fraud so he could vote in the 2024 presidential election. Election security is national security. Only American citizens should be electing American leaders. If you're illegal and attempted to vote or you tried to vote illegally for someone else, we will find you and we will charge you. In July, Secretary Mullen said DHS had identified about 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania. DHS says these numbers are preliminary and reviews are still ongoing. Everybody should know that their vote counts and we have individuals that are voting that shouldn't be. It counts, it cancels out someone that should be. There have been several other similar cases this year including an illegal immigrant from Colombia who was sentenced in August to three years in prison after pleading guilty to committing identity theft and illegally voting in a scheme that spanned more than 20 years. The DHS says these cases are part of the Trump administration's broader focus on stopping non-citizens from voting in American elections. Reporting in Washington, D.C. Jason Blair at 2D News. The Supreme Court has granted an emergency appeal from Republicans in a dispute over campaign advertising prices. The ruling allowing both parties to purchase cheaper TV ad spots ahead of the midterm elections. Now the justices paused a lower court decision ruling in favor of Democrats. They argued that cheaper broadcast ads should be limited to candidates. The National Republican Congressional and Senatorial Committees had argued that the appeals court had acted too soon. The GOP claiming broadcasters were already charging them higher rates, straining budgets. Now the decision follows a Supreme Court ruling in June that removed limits on parties spending money in coordination with the candidates. Now under federal law, candidates pay discounted rates for TV time in the run-up to an election. In March, the Federal Communications Commission determined certain party-coordinated ads are entitled to those prices as well. And next week in Dallas, the Republican National Committee's first ever midterm convention. NTD Capital reports Steve Lance and White House correspondent Iris Tao will report live from Dallas, bringing you the latest updates, in-depth analysis and conversations with newsmakers on the November elections. Hear directly from Republican lawmakers and candidates and tune in to President Trump as he takes center stage. Coming up, journalist Nick Shirley taking matters to court, suing the state of California over what he calls the Stop Nick Shirley Act. He says the law violates First Amendment rights and allows fraud to be overlooked. David Lamb has more on that. And a new landmark could soon rise in the nation's capital, the Trump administration preparing to break ground on a massive triumphal arc honoring America's military history. Pillow's second annual mega sale is finally here. Get our patented premium MyPillows that adjust to your exact individual needs to give you the best sleep of your life. When I got MyPillow, I'm asleep almost immediately. I stay asleep at night and I wake up more well rested in the morning. Now for the lowest price ever. King's $19.98, Queen's only $18.98. And Gee's A Dream bedsheets, the best sheets in history, for as low as $29.98. 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Some lawmakers call it the Safe at Work Act, while opponents are calling it the Stop Nick Shirley Act. The journalist himself taking matters to court, claiming the new California law allows corruption and fraud to be overlooked. NDD's David Lam reports. Journalist Nick Shirley is suing the California Attorney General and Secretary of State after the state passed a privacy protection law. The law is intended to protect information of immigration service workers from being posted online, but Shirley says it violates free speech rights under the First Amendment. And why specifically make immigration support service providers a protected class inside of California. Shirley is known for investigating organizations and hospices that allegedly defraud taxpayer money through government programs. Excuse me, let's see if they can just answer our questions really quick. Hello, can we ask you a quick question? Driving out in a brand new M8, they can't get out that easy. How can I get an M8 as well? Should I open up a hospice? In March, he said his team uncovered more than $170 million in fraud in California. He calls the new law the Stop Nick Shirley Act. That's quite literally, they are then going to be able to give me a written demand, a piece of paper saying, hey, you cannot publish that video. And if I do, I will get a $4,000 fine. And if you do too, you will also potentially get a $4,000 fine. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law in August and it will come into effect in October 2027. California Assembly Member Mia Bonta introduced the bill. And my bill and the Safe at Home program defines this as sharing personal information with the intent to incite imminent to great bodily harm or place someone in objectively reasonable fear for their personal safety. Shirley says he is not seeking money through the lawsuit, but rather defending First Amendment rights. He anticipates the legal process to play out over the course of months or years. David Lam, NTD News, California. And staying in California, Los Angeles schools banning AI. Los Angeles Unified, which is the nation's second largest school district, is barring all students from using generative AI this school year. The move reversing a policy that allowed older students to use it after completing a digital literacy course. The school board did not vote on the policy. District administrators put that ban in place on their own. Board members say they weren't informed in advance. Now, the change comes days after New York City schools announced a similar one year ban for grades pre-K through eight. More than three dozen states have issued AI guidance for schools, but there's still no national standard for how the tech should be in classrooms. And travelers across the country are packing their bags for a busy Labor Day weekend. American roads and airports expecting a surge in travel. Now, the TSA says it's ready to screen more than 17 million people. The agency expects passenger numbers to be 8.5 percent higher than last year. Airfare will be pricey, though. AAA data shows average roundtrip tickets are up 2 percent compared to last summer, with an average roundtrip ticket costing $750. Now, travelers flying to popular Labor Day destinations like Seattle, Orlando and Boston will see ticket prices up nearly 20 percent compared to this time last year, averaging $790 per roundtrip. Drivers should also prepare for heavy traffic and high gas prices. AAA says the national average is at $4.14 a gallon. That's up four cents from last week. And coming up, a new jobs report shatters the expectations. The U.S. adding 162,000 jobs in August. That's more than two and a half times what economists had predicted. President Trump calling for lower interest rates now. And today kicks off the Labor Day holiday weekend, as we just heard. 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Economists were expecting a net gain of 65,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate would tick up to 4.2%, but new jobs in the report released today blew away those expectations, coming in at more than two and a half times what economists had projected. And unemployment stayed at 4.1%. Healthcare and social assistance added over 28,000 jobs, and local government education gained nearly 42,000. Now the August results marked a sharp rebound from July's tally, which was revised up to 21,000 jobs gained from a 23,000 job loss. June was also revised upwards, adding 31,000 positions, and that's up from the original estimate of 20,000. Here's White House economic advisor, Kevin Hassett. This number skyrocketed so much more than we expected. To put it in perspective, Bloomberg surveyed 77 economists and said, what do you think the jobs number is going to be? And this blew past every single one of them. All 77 got the number wrong and by a lot. This number is four standard deviations above the average of their forecast. This is one of the best numbers relative to expectation that I've ever seen. And the reason, if you dig into it, is that the policies are working. And so, for example, President Trump's tariff policy and his big, beautiful bill have made it so people should be building factories. Well, the number of people building factories has gone from about almost nothing under Joe Biden to about 90-something thousand people who are now building factories because they're onshoring production and they're expensing the factories. And weighing in on the latest jobs report, the president says the numbers are great, breaking all estimates by double and triple. He is now calling on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates because, quote, the USA is much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago. A strong country means a lower interest rate. It's a better credit. President Trump also says the U.S. should have the lowest interest rate of any country, as it did in the old days. He's also threatening to just stop trading entirely with countries where the U.S. runs a deficit, calling it a better option than tariffs. President writes, quote, high interest rates put the USA at a very unfair disadvantage, and I won't allow that to happen. And staying with that theme, today is the kickoff to the Labor Day weekend. To many, it means the end of the summer, back to school, barbecues, as well as the return of football. But let's take a beat and give thanks to the men and women who built this country with their blood, sweat and tears. Joining us now is John Gardner. He's an entrepreneur with two decades of experience in American manufacturing. He's also the author of the book Manufacture Local, How to Make America the Manufacturing Superpower of the World. John, welcome. While manufacturing, of course, is but one part of blue collar work, it's certainly emblematic of Labor Day and building and creating with one's hands. Your company makes specialized cutting tools. So what does Labor Day mean for you, your workers, as well as your customers who use those tools? Well, there's 12,638,000 American manufacturers celebrating Labor Day this weekend. And I think my guys are happy to have a three day weekend. We've had we had a record month in July in sales and everybody's worked really hard and we're looking forward to having a three day weekend. I think that there's a lot of activity in the manufacturing sector right now. And, you know, as far as the future of employment in the factory sector in America, you know, Deloitte and the Institute of Manufacturing came out with a study in 2024 saying that there would be three point eight million needed manufacturing jobs by 2033. And there was a poll of American manufacturers and 65 percent of them said people, good people, good workers, trained, skilled workers was their number one concern, not not not not tariffs, not loans, not China, not trade deficits, good people. So I think there's a bright future for manufacturing employment in America. Wow, that's that's shocking that that's their number one concern when all those other things you listed, like China, AI, all these things that that having the right skilled labor. And now let's dig into that. And by the way, congrats on your good sales numbers. That's always awesome to hear. Now, let's dig into manufacturing some more. The Trump administration unveiled what they're referring to as the Foundry School, and that's intended to prepare those skilled workers that you were referencing and build back American manufacturing. And as you pointed out, it's estimated we need about four million skilled workers by 2033. So what's the significance, in your view, of this initiative or, say, just more programs for college loans and getting more people access to college? Yeah, the the this is the Foundry School is really kind of a seminar for administrators. If you look at the curriculum, it was built by Stanford. They're inviting industry leaders, entrepreneurs, technicians and engineers, you know, who's not on the list are CNC machinists and tool and die and welders, you know, and CNC programmers and people who are actually going to fill these one point nine billion dollar jobs. It's kind of like a hospital training a bunch of administrators to focus on billing and regulations and, you know, site development and stuff, but not training the surgeons and the nurses. So I think it's useful. I think that we do need a generation to understand factory planning and site layout and how to pick a site for a shipyard as opposed to, you know, not knowing that. I think that's useful. But as far as filling the one point nine million or three point eight million jobs that will be coming down the pipeline, you know, the types of skill sets we need, I made a long list, the tool and die making, the grinding and squaring off a cutting tool, indicating a part and squaring machine, reading a blueprint, speeds and feeds and different materials, chip control, relief groups. I mean, on and on that seminar is is not going to be doing is Vanderbilt. All these universities are kind of it's kind of like a seminar. So I don't think it's the solution, as Obi-Wan Kenobi said in Star Wars, these are not the droids you're looking for. You know, in juxtaposition, what China does to get their skilled workers down in twenty nineteen, the Chinese State Council pulled about fifteen billion dollars out of its unemployment insurance to fund and train fifty million workers in three years. Fifteen million in the first year. Beijing's new apprenticeship program in twenty twenty one pays a company up to five thousand one per apprenticeship per year for one to two years. They have bonuses. If you get you know, if you get certified in different skills, up to three skills a year, they pay the worker for doing this. You know, the state council's notice in June 18th, twenty twenty six was enforced at the end of the year. A firm that does not lay off people gets a 30 percent of the last year's unemployment insurance premiums back. So they call it subsidizing, but we subsidize plenty of industries. We subsidize universities. We subsidize all kinds of subsidized banks by having the SBA back loans, 90 percent. So in my book, I propose we have both military style signing bonuses to draw in high school students in the manufacturing industry because you learn on the job trade schools. I'm not even that big of a fan of them because, you know, making one part with 30 kids is totally different going in a shop and doing twenty thousand parts in production. You know, experience in manufacturing is the only and best way to learn. So I that was a big part of my book. And I feel I'm very passionate about because that's how I learned. And that's how my dad learned. And we start off in a shop at 18 years old. That's how my engineering manager learned 18 years old in the shop. The number one thing we need to do is bring shop class back to high school starting in sophomore year. So these kids come out of here with the skill sets I just read out instead of having to wait and go to a trade school and all that stuff. So I don't know if that helps define what I think needs to be done, but. Less theory, more hands on. You had me at Obi-Wan and the Jedi mind trick. Now, look, J.D. Vance described onshoring as an element of national security as well. Is that something that you agree with? Do you see it that way? One million percent without, you know, without manufacturing, you don't have national security. You don't have an independent nation. You have a dependent nation. And right now we're dependent on our adversaries. And so, you know, we're part part of the every side about manufacturing the ISM index booming. Well, one of the five reads on the ISM is is is how late we are with supplying stuff. Well, being late to supply stuff, which President Trump called out Raytheon in January, saying the defense industry needs to make stuff faster, actually drives the ISM index up. It makes the index look better when there's a bunch of backlog. We're late doing stuff. So I think they're reading the ISM index a little funny, in my opinion, because they're reading the fever as a proof of health. Like no manufacturer thinks being late on good at being compressed. So I think that we have a lot of work to do on manufacturing, and I think it's exciting we're starting to tackle it. Yeah, I believe the number was 90,000 new plants being built as we speak. So we are moving in the right direction, it seems like from where we were maybe five years ago. Now, with AI being developed, there is concern about what this could mean for the manufacturing industry. So how do you see AI in, for example, your business and and how it will affect the more macro picture? Yeah, you know, that's a great question. So about 75% of all American manufacturers of all the 12 million 600,000 American manufacturers are 20 employees or less companies. So American manufacturing really is small manufacturing. And, you know, AI can be trained, we use it in my business to quote faster to, you know, do things faster programming faster, you know, before you'd have to handwrite G code programming for a CNC machine. Well, now you can train your AI to do that. And that that will, that will help a lot speed things up. And I think that it's very useful in the manufacturing industry to get a lot of this legacy fragmented knowledge, what I see is I'll get drawings for Navy parts from the 1980s. And nobody even knows what they are anymore. And they're like, hey, do you know what this is? And how can we track it down? Well, all that needs to be upgraded, because we kind of just left manufacturing by the wayside by following the economists at Stanford that are now designing this boundary thing. But, you know, so I think AI can be extremely useful in getting all this fragmented data easily available for these new workers, so they can easily access answers. And we're doing that in my company. Well, John, you paint a picture of common sense above theory and academia. I want to get your final thoughts on Labor Day. How are you and your family and your work, your, your co workers going to be celebrating this weekend? Well, my, you know, the year my daughter's grounded, so she, you know, volley volleyball season starts up and then, you know, schools in full swing, and we got trips and Christmas. So we're going to spend the Labor Day weekend cleaning the house and doing the chores that we were supposed to do, and then that we did. All right, well, with beef prices, potentially coming down, hopefully, you'll throw a few steaks on the barbecue after all that work, and you'll enjoy a day off. John Gardner, such a pleasure. Loved speaking with you. So great. All right, the next nine days after the devastating flood Nepal's army rescuing, thankfully, two survivors, they had been trapped for over 200 hours. And a new report says the Chinese Communist Party received an alert before the flood, but they chose not to issue an evacuation order. And it is international correspondent Arian Pasdar has the latest. The miraculous rescue of a flood survivor in Nepal being caught on camera on Friday. You can see first responders dragging out a man from a tunnel after he got buried on Wednesday, the week before, nine days prior. In total, Nepal's army says it managed to rescue two survivors on Friday. One of them was working at one of the hydropower projects when the flood broke loose. The survivor explains why he didn't manage to escape, like some of his colleagues. I was in the control room, so my responsibility was to save everyone's lives. I told everyone to run outside. After such an accident, I could not just run away alone. I had to save the others. The cousin of the other survivor gives her account of what happened on Friday when the surprising rescue took place. When the news came, I had just finished my prayers. I immediately called my sisters and thanked God for bringing my brother back safely. This is an absolute miracle. Nepal's army is now intensifying its search and rescue work. A spokesman gives an update on their recovery efforts so far. Our troops have been deployed in all the tunnels, seven tunnels in this area, and we have also deployed ground troops. So far, we have rescued more than 4,000 Nepalese people and more than 270 foreign citizens. And Chinese insiders are raising questions about whether the Chinese Communist Party failed to act on warnings of an incoming flood. An insider from within the Chinese regime told NTD Sister Media, the Epoch Times, that regime authorities had detected signals ahead of the flood. He says authorities had already detected the danger five minutes before the landslide reached the port, but they did not take it seriously, resulting in hundreds of people being buried. Ariane Pastor, NTD News. And the Trump administration plans to break ground on the Washington Arch over the next two weeks. It's part of President Trump's broader effort to leave his architectural mark on the nation's capital. The 250-foot-tall Memorial Arch would rise at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. President Trump proposed the arch design, which includes the words, One Nation Under God. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has given its early approval for the arch design. Now, the National Capital Area Planning Commission has greenlit the site and preliminary plans, but it has not given the final approval for the project just yet. Now, the commission is expected to take up the matter again this fall. The groundbreaking is set to begin amid an ongoing lawsuit. Three veterans and an architectural historian argue that the project requires congressional authorization. The Justice Department argues, however, that the suit should be just thrown out. And the California Art Club is hosting its annual show. They're highlighting traditional fine art and its lasting impact. This year, artists from around the world come together to celebrate the timeless beauty and enduring power of traditional art. NTD's Christina Corona has more. More than 200 paintings and sculptures are on display here at the Hilbert Museum in the City of Orange for the California Art Club's 115th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, showcasing traditional fine art and the skill of realistic painting. Founded in 1909, the California Art Club has spent 117 years training artists in the classical style, preserving traditional arts and time-honored skills. Something that, uh, it takes a lot of training, uh, classical training, and there's actually a renewed interest now with so many of our younger artists. That tradition can be seen in the techniques artists use to build their work, layer by layer. It's a layering technique, so you're putting your darks down first, and then you're kind of layering as you go. This year's exhibition also celebrates American history, marking 250 years of the United States and 175 years of California statehood. One gold medal winner looks back to the birth of the nation, depicting a historic site in Concord, Massachusetts. I chose this particular painting in a vertical format because I really wanted to highlight the trees, the majesty and the dignity of the trees, because I thought it was a great metaphor for the hopes and aspirations that our founding fathers would have had for the future of our country. For other artists, traditional painting brings historical stories to life while revealing the beauty in everyday places. The 115th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition runs through September 13th. Reporting from the city of Orange, Christina Corona, NTD News. Thank you, Christina. And coming up, former NBA player Ennis Cantor-Freedom filing a lawsuit after being ejected from a recent WNBA game. And at NTD's 8th International Piano Competition, a piece that asks pianists to reach beyond the ordinary. How Divine's Calling is bringing together Eastern and Western musical traditions and inspiring contestants to interpret its message in their own way. The NTD International Piano Competition has distinguished pianists celebrating the depth, discipline and expressive power of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire. Watch the semifinals and finals live worldwide on September 4th and 5th, Eastern Time. This is how I keep my joints happy. Omega XL is a powerful natural supplement backed by 40 years of clinical research. Take control of your pain like Cynthia Bailey. My knees in particular started giving me pain issues all the way back to my modeling days, from just running through airports, photo shoots. After taking Omega XL, I really started to notice how less stiff I was, especially my knees and my hip. Has Omega XL changed my life? Yes! 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It was very, very well liked because no matter what culture or what sort of walk of life you're from, I think people, they see it and they immediately understand what that energy, what that message is. And they're drawn to it because everybody kind of needs a little bit of that in their own life of, you know, the steadfast calmness and something to hold on to. It's definitely an inner peace in the midst of something very chaotic. And for a lot of people right now, the whole world is very, very chaotic. So I guess that's another reason why so many people are very drawn to this. Welcome back to NTD Evening News. I'm Cary Dunst. I'm without my wingman, Dave Martin, so you'll just get me for sports tonight. Former NBA player Ennis Cantor-Freedom, he is fighting back after a recent WNBA game ejection. Now, Cantor-Freedom filing a lawsuit yesterday over being tossed out and banned from future games. Cantor-Freedom sued Chicago Women's Basketball Operations, which operates the Chicago Sky. Now, the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, as well as the city of Chicago, also named in his complaint. The lawsuit alleges that three entities conspired to discriminate against Cantor-Freedom. He argues it was because of what he said and what he wore about gender identity and women's sports on his T-shirt. Security escorted Cantor-Freedom out of Wintrust Arena after a verbal altercation occurred between the former NBA player and Chicago Sky guard, Natasha Cloud. Now, the lawsuit states that Cantor-Freedom believed Cloud was, quote, motivated and triggered by the message on his shirt reading, and by his widely publicized viewpoint on protecting the integrity of women-only sports. And the WNBA commissioner Kathy Engelbert, she will retire at the end of this year. Engelbert became the league's first commissioner in 2019. She oversaw a period of major growth in women's basketball. During her tenure, the WNBA expanded from 12 teams, and now it is heading to 18 by 2030. It reached new highs in attendance, viewership, as well as merchandise sales, and launched a full-time charter flight program for all the teams. She also helped negotiate new media rights and labor agreements. And influencers are invading the U.S. Open tennis tournament. Impromptu photo shoots, interrupting the tennis tournament, even forcing an umpire to pause a match featuring a former world number one player. Here's more on that. Antics off the court, temporarily stopping play at the U.S. Open. This after a group of influencers were so disruptive while taking selfies in the stands, a chair umpire paused play during Naomi Osaka's match on Monday and told them to take their seat. Some tennis fans are frankly fed up. They take it over everywhere, the influencers. Why shouldn't they take over this? You should have the courtesy to the people who are competing and their families and guests. Point taken, says this content creator, who is offering up her humble apology. And I had the influencer light on me. I was the perfect stereotypical influencer, so I get it. Mary Ganka Chawla says all she wanted to do was have her picture taken during the Osaka match. This lovely usher or guard, I don't know what they're called, and she was like, she took the photo. I thought it was OK, and then I woke up to a storm. A well-deserved storm, but a storm regardless. Her moment went viral, landing her in newspapers and on the receiving end of some hate. Listen, I deserve, what do you want me to say? I deserve to get called out for what I did. I messed up. I can't do nothing. You caught me in 4K. It turns out not all tennis fans here think influencers like her are out of bounds. I think it's great. Oh, you do? Oh, totally. Tell me why. Just because it gives more publicity to the event. I find it tiresome. We're married. For me, it's part of the problem because you can't quite get away from it. So you'll have to agree to disagree. Yes, we do. Like a lot of things in our marriage. Jokes aside, former pro player Patrick McEnroe says folks are being just a little too hard on all these influencers. I consider myself a tennis purist, okay? So I love tennis. I love the competition. But let's be serious here. We're supposed to be upset that the U.S. Open in tennis is getting bigger, getting more popular. I say it's much ado about nothing. Of course, the influencer's got to learn to turn off their lights if they're on the stadium court, if it's during the match. Certainly critics of content creators worry the selfie culture has gone too far, that it may be cluttering artistic spaces as well. So here's this advice from a self-described sports influencer. I think the biggest piece of advice would be to learn the culture of the sport that you're getting to go to, whether it's the U.S. Open or the World Cup. And while a picture may be worth a thousand words, this influencer says it should also be kept in perspective. I hope people are like, they see that I messed up by taking a photo. But like, I didn't kill their cat. You know, like, I'm still a person, like, I'm sorry. All right, from tennis competition to music competition, the semifinals are underway at NTD's 8th International Piano Competition. And this round features a special piece that bridges eastern and western worlds of music. Contestants say its name shapes the way that they approach the music. NTD's Niku Bani has the story. I'm here at the semifinals of NTD's 8th International Piano Competition. Now, this round features a piece that is unique to only this competition, a commissioned composition named Divine's Calling. It's very stunning. It's sound, you know, the elements in it and the texture in it, the composer, I saw it's very soft and, you know, it's very traditional in a sense, but also it's just sounds so fresh. It's almost like if I'm playing in the clouds. Composed by Shen Yun Artistic Director Mr. D.F., the piece uses the western piano to express the spirit of Chinese classical music, blending two musical worlds into one. The sort of Shen Yun style of music, of art, of dance, very, is a very big inspiration for me because that character is the one that I, you know, you try to incorporate into just 10 fingers into one instrument. And the name of the piece, Divine's Calling, shapes the understanding and interpretation of the pianists who perform it. My opinion is a tribute to the gods, right? So I think that whatever sound I'm producing on the keyboard, ultimately I'm thinking upwards, right? And into the sky and, you know, into the horizon or whatever you want to call it. But ultimately I'm thinking of taking the sound and taking it, like putting it out, right? And, you know, into the heavens. Interpreted as kind of like the conversation between the moral and the immortal world, because there's a lot of bottom register, which might be describing like the earth. And it's like very top register, which might describe the divine callings from above. In the piece itself, some of those harmonies, it makes you feel like you're being lifted up. Like it makes you feel elevated and almost like you're being pulled to the heavens. And that calling can be deeply personal. For me, everyone has a calling. So the divine calls you to do something. You have a calling yourself to do something. For me, it's to play music and to make music, communicate through that, bring music to the people. The competition finals kick off on Saturday. Nikubani, NTD News, New York. Absolutely sublime. Thanks to Niko for that report. And a programming note for our viewers, the International Piano Competition continues today with the semifinals. The finals will be tomorrow. You can watch all the action on NTD.com. 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 download our NTD app. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Cary Dunst. Be true and kind. Hold the line.