NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 14)

Welcome to NTD Evening News, our top story tonight. President Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop striking each other's energy infrastructure. It comes as diesel prices surge, and Iran-backed Houthi terrorists are attacking Saudi energy infrastructure. And the Houthi terrorist group taking over strategic locations near a key shipping route in the Middle East. A senior economist calling it a very serious hit for Saudi Arabia. Jason Perry with the update. Hundreds of thousands have been banned from receiving federal loans over suspected COVID-era fraud. Jason Blair has the details. And New York and a dozen other states and cities suing over a Trump immigration rule. What the upcoming new rule would do to immigrants who are applying for green cards. And a second federal judge blocks new postal service rules for mail-in ballots, raising fresh questions over election security, as well as ballot access. And a new report by Anthropic reveals that CCP-linked hackers are using its AI model CLAWD as a tool of surveillance and transnational repression. We're going to speak with a cybersecurity advisor for analysis. 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 says Russia and Ukraine have now agreed to stop striking energy targets that as diesel prices climb above $6 a gallon. NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. President Trump says Ukraine and Russia have agreed to stop hitting each other's energy infrastructure. In a Truth Social post, Trump says Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian energy targets. Russia has agreed to do likewise. He says that the attacks on Russia's fuel infrastructure are contributing to the global diesel price surge, and argues that the Russia-Ukraine war, rather than the conflict with Iran, is primarily responsible. The national average for diesel is now above $6 a gallon, and that comes after Trump publicly called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking Russian oil infrastructure. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he's causing a shortage of diesel. There are plenty of other targets. Don't hit diesel fuel. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that Russia cutting back on diesel exports has been a major factor behind this price increase. Obviously, there's been a huge disruption in Russian diesel exports. They were a meaningful exporter of diesel. Today, they're not exporting any. Russia was a small exporter of gasoline. Now they've become a meaningful importer of gasoline. The White House is also pointing to developments in the Middle East. The administration says that Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz has been broken, with commercial shipping now increasing, although traffic remains below pre-war levels. And Iran-backed Houthi terrorists have separately targeted Saudi energy infrastructure and a key oil pipeline. Those attacks have added another layer of uncertainty to already volatile energy markets. But the stakes go beyond the price at the pump. Higher energy costs can feed into inflation, and that's just as the Federal Reserve prepares to meet this week on interest rates. Trump has been pressing the Fed to cut rates, even threatening to restrict trade with countries running a deficit with the U.S. if rates aren't lowered. So with the Fed weighing its next move and this new truce that the president's hailing between Russia and Ukraine not striking energy infrastructure, we'll see how this impacts And the discussion surrounding artificial intelligence continues. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi was on CBS yesterday with his thoughts on the industry. We're also seeing lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, weighing in on the topic. And it is Fiona G. reports. AI CEOs, including the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI, are now calling for checks on the development of this technology. House Speaker Mike Johnson weighs in on the topic in an interview on CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper. He's saying he thinks there needs to be in-depth conversation between the government and big AI developers. The problem is they all have a different prescription on what they say the regulation is supposed to be. The problem is they're all competitors. Each one of them wants to maintain an edge over the others. They need to take personal responsibility first, and we need to get them all in a room at the same time and agree on what the guardrails are. President Trump also reacts on Truth Social, writing, quote, One point that all parties agree on is that the biggest threat in the AI race is China. This technology will be built in other countries, including authoritarian countries. China. China, among others. And I am worried about how they will use it, how they will use it against free societies, how they will use it to repress their own people. We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us. And that's the challenge. It's national security balanced with the immediate security of making sure the models are safe. President Trump has pointed to China's refusal to curb its own AI development and writes on Truth Social, quote, This conversation comes after Anthropic released a report last week revealing that malicious actors, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, had used AI assistant Claude for espionage and the potential development of bioweapons. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Fiona Ji, NTD News. The White House Fraud Task Force announces 870,000 people have been permanently barred from obtaining federal loans over suspected fraud. This while the Justice Department charges dozens in cases totaling about 245 million in alleged fraud. NDD correspondent Jason Blair reports. We think it makes sense that if you were caught stealing from the American taxpayer, you shouldn't be able to benefit from these loans anymore. 870,000 permanently suspended from getting loans from the federal government as the Trump administration's White House Fraud Task Force targets suspicious COVID area Paycheck Protection Program loans. The message is simple. If you stole from the Paycheck Protection Program, if you created fake companies and lied about your employees, we know who you are. We will claw back the money. Vice President J.D. Vance says these suspended borrowers have also been tagged as having a high likelihood of committing fraud for other acts they've engaged in. This actually sets up a system whereby if you have a high suspicion of having defrauded the government, we're not going to make it easy for you to apply for these loans anymore. And Attorney General Todd Blanche announces new federal charges tied to hundreds of millions in alleged fraud also from COVID area PPP loans. We uncovered approximately $245 million in losses. There's a lot of people that have been implicated or charged, but so far we've charged over 80 individuals tied to this theft. Blanche gave a case example. Jamie Gray allegedly attempted to steal more than $55 million from taxpayer payers by filing hundreds of these loans. He claimed to own dozens of businesses that were in operation prior to the pandemic. But in every instance but one, these businesses didn't even exist. Blanche says the business that does exist had no knowledge of the suspect. These announcements are part of the Trump administration's broader crackdown on widespread fraud. And in just the last three months, Mr. Vice President, as you know, we have captured five of the most wanted fraudsters. They were on the run for a collective 4,000 days. We went to three separate continents and captured fraud totaling value of $2 billion. Patel says they hope to double the number of captures by the end of the year. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News. New York is leading a coalition of Democratic-led cities and states to sue the Trump administration over an immigration rule. The upcoming new rule would make it harder for some immigrants to obtain green cards or visas. NTD's Arlene Richards has more. Just last month, the federal government finalized a set of drastic and unlawful changes to our country's public charge rule, a rule that makes it possible for someone to be denied immigration status based on the likelihood of their need for public benefits. Set to go into effect this coming Friday, September 18th, the new public charge rule expands the list of public benefits that might count against green card or visa applicants. The Trump administration says people applying to become lawful permanent residents should not be depended on government programs such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers. New York City is leading a lawsuit by six cities and counties, including Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. New York State is leading a similar lawsuit by 23 states, including California and Illinois. They filed both lawsuits in federal court in Manhattan, New York. Leaders say the rule would strip New Yorkers of the public benefits they are entitled to. The states also say they would lose billions of dollars in federal funding if immigrants disenroll from public programs. They are asking immigrants not to disenroll without seeking advice from a lawyer. DHS responding to the lawsuit saying, quote, sanctuary states are terrified they will lose federal funds because hundreds of thousands of illegals and non-citizens might remove themselves from American welfare programs. We're shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome. A new blow to the Trump administration in its efforts to secure mail-in voting against potential fraud. Another federal judge yesterday blocking the Postal Service for now from enforcing mail-in voting rules. Under the rule, states must supply the agency with lists of mail ballot recipients and all ballot envelopes must bear unique barcodes. It also allows the Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots that do not comply with these new standards. District Judge Carl Nichols ruling the Postal Service likely exceeded its authority. He added that the rule would increase the risk that otherwise valid mail-in ballots would not be counted in the upcoming elections. President Trump has repeatedly called for safeguarding elections to maintain public confidence in the results. Recent cases, such as large-scale voting by non-citizens in New Jersey, have highlighted those concerns. And the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen taking over strategic locations near a key shipping route in the Middle East. A senior economist calling it a very serious hit for Saudi Arabia. NDD's Jason Perry has the update. Iran-backed Houthi terrorists seen celebrating on Monday after the group took over parts of Western Yemen. The group recently launched a major offensive operation against the Yemeni government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia. The Houthis say Saudi Arabia has been launching airstrikes against the group. The Houthis have now taken control of several towns and strategic locations in Yemen, including Parum Island at the entrance of the Bob al-Mandeb Strait, which is a strategic shipping route near Saudi Arabia. A senior economist explaining how the Houthi advances affect Saudi shipping. It puts an additional pressure on Saudi Arabia, because so far it could sort of bypass the Strait of Hormuz, which is blocked by Iran, by going through the Bob al-Mandeb, but now with the Houthi attacks, this sort of leeway is blocked as well, or coming under additional strain. So that is obviously a very serious hit for Saudi Arabia. And she says even though the Houthis, quote, seem small, they have a significant impact on the world economy. A spokesman for the Houthis on Monday say they launched missiles and drones at a Saudi Arabian air base. And a separate attack last week knocked out Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline, which allows Gulf oil exports to bypass the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. Riyadh blames the attack on Iran-backed fighters in Iraq. Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday saying the U.S. is keeping close tabs on the situation. We've been in constant contact with the Emiratis, the Saudis, and others who are affected in the region. So it's something the United States administration is very much on top of. We've also been engaged in direct conversations with the Houthis themselves. But we're going to keep on monitoring it, making sure that America's best interests are represented. Jason Perry, NCD News. Western leaders are reacting to Russia striking a Ukrainian passenger train. It was just one mile from the border of Poland, a NATO member. And Kiev confirms a plan by President Trump to stop attacks on energy infrastructure. And D.D.'s international correspondent Ariane Pasdar has the latest. The strike on a passenger train in Ukraine yesterday shows how desperate Putin has become. He thinks that he can stop us from supporting Ukraine. NATO Chief Mark Rutte says the alliance will increase support for Ukraine after Russian strikes on targets less than one mile from NATO territory. Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone hit a passenger train shortly after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other European diplomats used the same line. The train was on a route which is often being used by foreign delegations returning from Kiev. And when it comes to hybrids, also here. Putin knows very well that he will not be able to divide us. We have all the response options we need. The foreign policy chief of the European Union taking a similar stance as the NATO chief. It is clearly meant to scare Western countries from supporting Ukraine, from going to Ukraine to show support. I think the question for us is what do we take from that message? I think we should act the opposite. We should show that we are there for Ukraine and we are not scared off. And in more positive news, Russia and Ukraine could be moving closer toward peace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commenting on an announcement made by President Trump who says both Moscow and Kiev agreed to pause strikes on energy infrastructure. There is also now a strong proposal from the United States for a mutual cessation of strikes against critical infrastructure. And if this can become the first de-escalatory step, a step toward ending Russian strikes against our critical infrastructure and our retaliatory strikes in response, then Ukraine is ready to support de-escalation. President Trump says global energy prices are going to drop if such attacks stop. Arien Pastar, NTD News. Coming up, a Sacramento woman is allegedly killed after months of stalking. DHS says the suspect was in the country illegally. The department now criticizing California's sanctuary policies. And California touting new laws with nation-leading child protections targeting social media. 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A woman was allegedly shot and killed outside a Panera Bread in Sacramento last week by a 22-year-old man DHS says was in the country illegally. The suspect is accused of stalking and harassing her for months and violating a restraining order. NTD's Christina Corona has the latest. 22-year-old Rohit Rohit allegedly shot 38-year-old Shalini Thakur outside a Panera Bread in Sacramento last Tuesday after months of allegedly stalking and harassing her. Thakur had a restraining order against Rohit in May. DHS says Rohit entered the U.S. through Arizona in 2023 and was arrested by Border Patrol before being released. Federal officials are now questioning whether California's Department of Homeland Security California's sanctuary law, SB 54, limits when state and local law enforcement can assist federal immigration authorities. However, the Newsom administration disputes that sanctuary policies played a role, saying the case instead raises questions about stalking, domestic violence, and enforcement of restraining orders. California gubernatorial candidates have differing views on the law. It is constitutional. The state has a right to police, do policing authority, not the federal government. Federal government has a right to do immigration enforcement, but they don't have a right to do public safety. Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton told Fox. If elected governor of California, would you be able to end the state's sanctuary status? Yes, because exactly as Tom said there, the sanctuary law itself, SB 54, passed in 2017, allows for cooperation between state and federal law enforcement when you've got crimes involved. Not even crimes as serious as this one. It's a long list of crimes, going right down to relatively trivial ones. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office says deputies don't have access to immigration status information and tried twice to contact Rohit after the alleged restraining order violation. Rohit later died by suicide during a police standoff. Christina Corona, NTD News. Six individuals are facing charges over allegations of voter fraud and illegal voting. The Justice Department announcing indictments in California, Kansas and Louisiana. Three individuals in Los Angeles are accused of paying people to sign petitions for ballot initiatives using stolen identities of registered voters. In Kansas and Louisiana, two non-U.S. citizens have been charged for illegally voting. Another individual in Louisiana charged with fraudulently registering an ineligible voter. In announcing the indictments, Attorney General Todd Blanch said, quote, And the governor of California signs what he calls nation-leading social media child protection laws. The state also targets AI, coming at a time when countries around the world are competing in artificial intelligence. NDD's David Lam reports. California Governor Gavin Newsom signs 13 bills, calling them the strongest chatbot and social media child safety laws in the nation. One of the things that I'm very impressed by is the details in these bills, particularly on the independent verifications, the auditing as it relates to the enforcement side as well and how we're establishing a framework, including establishing the number of the bills, frameworks within the Department of Justice, within the AG's office, so that we can really enact a more aggressive posture. The new measures could penalize social media companies up to $1 million per child if they are found negligent in causing harm. One of the bills is Adam's Law, named after a 16-year-old who ended his life last year after ChatGPT coached him how to commit suicide. Adam was working on getting his driver's license. He was excited for our family trip to Hawaii that was happening just a few months before we lost him. We miss him so much. Newsom's office says the new laws strengthen safeguards for companion chatbots, prohibit social media platforms from offering addictive features to users under 16, and expand privacy protections for children. And that is why parents across not just California, but frankly, the globe, are crying out for help, and begging for regulation. What kids are really searching for through their screens is just that connection and a sense of belonging. Technology should help foster those things, never exploit them. Twelve of the bills were authored by Democratic lawmakers, and one by Republican Assembly Member Josh Hoover. The governor also signed separate measures for independent evaluations of AI systems and establishing a registry of auditors. David Lam, NTD News, California. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has seized a dozen domain names of illegal websites that sell non-consensual celebrity deepfake videos. Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg announcing the seizures. In our message to the people who are creating and publishing this content, what you are doing is a crime. We are investigating, and we will support survivors in taking down this content and seeking accountability for those who break the law. Our office is committed to putting an end to this dangerous and criminal conduct. Bragg's office says authorities identified more than 1,200 victims whose likenesses were used to create explicit AI-generated content without their consent. The district attorney adds that the sites were accessible in Manhattan and across New York State. Bragg's office says investigations into deepfake pornography websites and content creators are ongoing. And some New York residents will receive an electric bill rebate later this month. Over 8 million households are eligible to get the refunds, which will continue until December. New York Governor Kathy Hochul setting aside around $1 billion for this program, people will receive between a $100 and $200 rebate, depending on their income level. Now, the refunds are part of the Protecting Our Wallets Energy Rebate, or the POWER program. Only those who filed a New York State resident income tax return for 2024 would qualify for the program. New York's electric bill now ranks third highest in the nation. It's up 12 percent in a year and 62 percent above the U.S. average. Coming up, a new report by Anthropic reveals that CCP-linked hackers are using its AI model Claude as a tool of surveillance and transnational repression. We're going to speak with a cybersecurity advisor for expert analysis. And scientists discover a massive T-Rex trackway in North Dakota. They're seeing images of their footprints for the very first time. 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Join the movement at feedingamerica.org slash act now. Welcome back to NTD Evening News. I'm Kerry Dunst. While some use AI to do research for their exams or find nearby tourist hotspots, malicious actors are using it to spy on people around the world, even here in the U.S. That's according to a new report by Anthropic. China-based accounts aligned with or tied to the Chinese Communist Party are using Anthropic's AI model, Claude, as a tool of surveillance and transnational repression. Joining us now is Rex Lee. He's a cybersecurity advisor to MySmartPrivacy and a tech journalist. Rex has advised major corporations and government agencies on tech espionage by the Chinese regime. Rex, thanks for joining. Anthropic says they've banned accounts that they believe are linked to a CCP-aligned intelligence operation that targets Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, Catholics across Asia, and others as well. These accounts were collecting personal information, info on religious venues, details about the target's activities. So how concerning is it that AI is being used to this end, in your view? Well, it's very concerning. The one thing that we have to look at is the underlining business model that's supporting most AI-infused apps and platforms today, which is surveillance capitalism itself. So that means that all of our apps and platforms on our phones, our computers, have all been infused with AI today, whether it's Claude or ChatGTP or Microsoft's version of AI or Apple. All of these apps and platforms are infused with AI today, but they are being supported by a targeted advertising business model rooted in surveillance capitalism, enabling the developers to monitor, track, and monetize the end user, while bad actors can also take advantage of these capabilities to also do the same thing through the apps. They can even compromise the apps and operating systems today like Android, iOS, and Windows to launch attacks on networks and critical infrastructure. Yeah. And as we were discussing, the targeted Falun Gong practitioners and companies affiliated with them, like Shen Yun Performing Arts or even this very station, NTD, the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong, this peaceful mind-body meditation practice, in 1999 after its popularity exploded. So is AI now making it easier for the CCP to carry out this repression within and outside of China, in your view? Yes. These practices go back to, I think the public very first heard of political indoctrination and ideological manipulation through the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal over about 10 years ago. I was a former advisor to the US Senate for Facebook Cambridge Analytica, and it was based on exactly what the Chinese Communist Party is doing today and has been doing, and also Russia and other bad actors. You can utilize these features within these apps to manipulate people through political and ideological indoctrination. AI takes it one step further. A lot of people don't know this, but there's a technology that was discovered in 1966 by MIT AI researcher Joseph Weizenbaum, which was AI indoctrination called the Eliza Effect, which was the name of the very first chatbot. So again, you can use the Eliza Effect to start to politically indoctrinate people or indoctrinate them with ideological ideology and so forth. But also you can utilize the technology to track and identify groups of dissenters or targeted political groups. We saw this regarding the Facebook Myanmar scandal as well, where Facebook users were targeted by the government, and that led to genocide as reported by Amnesty International. But AI simply takes it to another level. Yeah, and that's so interesting that it goes back all the way to the early 1960s with this first chatbot you're discussing, Eliza. Now these identified regime-aligned accounts, they're being banned. Is this an issue that needs more attention from our federal government and federal law enforcement, or does it really rest with the platforms and the AI providers themselves? Well, it depends. It's really on the AI providers themselves to regulate these accounts, but it's becoming more and more impossible to manage or secure the accounts the way they're set up. So I'll give you an example. The Chinese 50 Cent Army utilizes AI-infused bots and synthetic engagement to set up millions of fake accounts. So even if you can identify a handful of accounts, you're not going to be able to identify all of the accounts or the source because of AI-generated bots and synthetic engagement. That's been taking place even before the bots were infused by AI. Bots and synthetic engagements have always been a problem with these social media platforms, AI platforms. Again, we've already integrated AI into nearly every app and platform, so nothing is secure. You don't just happen to use an Anthropix cloud. This is a problem with ChatGPP or any other app or platform that's been infused with AI. And to kind of flip this on its head a little bit, you mentioned the 50 Cent Army and how each member of that can use AI to then, through this synthetic engagement you're describing, sort of clone themselves to then create all of this noise and trying to gather data. There was one instance where some sensitive information from the CCP actually went into Claude. Is there any potential loopholes to sort of use this engagement against the CCP, or what other solutions might there be to try to counteract these efforts from the CCP? The problem is we've opened our markets up to AI-infused app developers from China and Russia like DeepSeek AI, ByteDance, Tencent, and Badoo, and so forth. They haven't done the same for the U.S. They don't open their markets up to us. Again, you can't get a Facebook account in China because of the surveillance and data mining capabilities of these platforms. They even design their AI-infused platforms differently. If you look at Dolin, the TikTok of China, it's designed to be safe for the end users. It doesn't use addictive design. They're encouraging the end users to learn more about academics, advance themselves athletically, and so forth. They're going to be more competitive. In China, you don't hear about the AI apocalypse like you do in the United States because they're adopting and weaponizing AI to further their competitive advantage in the marketplace, whereas in the U.S. just this very day, all that you see is how AI is going to end humanity. That's actually not true. Then one more other thing regarding enforcement, we have existing consumer child protection laws, child endangerment laws that aren't being enforced by the FTC. If you wanted to control this today, you don't need new laws like COSA. You just need the FTC and state AGs to start enforcing consumer and child protection laws and treat these companies like any other company. If their AI is dangerous and it can be weaponized like this, then the FTC needs to step in and remove these products from the marketplace until they can be designed to be safe. AI didn't design itself to be dangerous. It was designed that way to support surveillance and data mining, utilizing addictive design as the driving force behind that. Understood. Well, a lot to look out for. You do offer some solutions. Just enforce the laws that are already on the books. Rex Lee, thank you so much for sharing your analysis. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me on. And should artificial intelligence be regulated? And what are some of people's biggest concerns about it? NDD Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people. What are some of your concerns about AI? Well, I'm scared of it coming after me and just taking over the world. I feel like it's rapidly growing really fast, and I'm kind of scared that it's going to turn into like a zombie apocalypse kind of thing. The AI pictures are a scary thought. That is a very scary thing, and I hope we can figure out how to know the difference between real pictures and fake pictures. I really, really hope we can protect our children. We have technology now that's very powerful. It can hack into different AI systems. It can hack into other tech stacks and things like that. And I think that's a security threat. Back then, you probably needed some sort of video editing skill to come up with some fake content. Now you can just prompt and get it out. And so I do think regulation in terms of putting the content out definitely should be there. I am on social media, and it's getting to the point where we can't— sometimes we can't tell whether it's AI generated or— So I've listened to a song, and I found out later it's not even a real person. It's like the human factor is being pulled out of everything, and to me, I just think that's so bad. Should AI be regulated? I think it should. I think it should be regulated. If it's not regulated, then people can do whatever they want. So they can do as much for good as as much as evil, so. I grew up with Terminator, so yeah, it's going to go— it could go a long way. It could be used for evil, and I hope we can regulate that. There should be regulation in such that AI-generated content should be labeled as such to prevent misinformation and a bunch of other problems. I think Congress needs to step up and regulate the AI industry because you can't have an industry regulating itself. Congress needs to step in and do their job. And the U.S. bond market has hit a critical threshold, the 10-year Treasury yield rising to 5% today. The rise could mean higher borrowing costs for Americans, including mortgages, car loans, and other types of credit products. The 5% threshold was briefly reached in 2023. Before that, it has not been at this level going back to 2007. The 10-year yield is a key benchmark for borrowing costs, and its recent surge has pushed up rates for consumers, businesses, and the U.S. government itself. The bond market sell-off has been driven by several concerns, such as rising energy prices, interest rate expectations, as well as the war with Iran and growing government debt. Mortgage rates are already feeling the impact. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to over 6.7% last week. That's up from around 6.1% at the start of the year. And President Trump is doubling down on his plan to give American adults $5,000 dividend checks if Republicans win the midterms. President says the payments will happen 100%. It's $5,000 to all adults in the country, and we can easily handle that because we're taking in so much money. We've never done better. The Democrats can't make that pledge because it'll all go to hell right away. If Democrats get in, you'll go into a depression. If we get in, we will continue this incredible situation. I mean, we have the strongest. We're the strongest we've ever been. We have trillions of dollars coming into the country. And the $5,000 is going to everybody. I made that pledge. I always keep my pledge. House Speaker Mike Johnson says Congress would have to act before the payments go out. The plan would cost roughly $1.3 trillion if all 245 million adult U.S. citizens received that full payment of $5,000. Now, Democrats and some Republicans, they're warning that sending out the payments could increase inflation and the national debt. However, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says that the payments would not come from taxpayers or from the federal deficit, saying the administration could earn that money that President Trump wants to pay out. And Amazon is pausing operations with 21 Air. That's the cargo carrier that operated the plane involved in last week's deadly Miami crash. Amazon says it made the decision after reviewing the circumstances surrounding the crash. The Boeing 767 overran the runway at Miami International Airport on September 6th, and it struck vehicles killing five people. Five others were also hurt. Now, the plane barreled roughly 1,300 feet past the end of the runway. The NTSB says the pilots considered aborting the landing after the aircraft touched down. Investigators found one pilot warned the other that they were coming in too fast shortly before landing. The investigation is also expected to examine the aircraft's ownership history, the weather conditions, maintenance records, as well as 21 Air's operations. And in what's being called a first, the discovery of many massive T-Rex footprints have been revealed, and it has scientists tap dancing with excitement. Here's more on that. Take a look at what researchers say is the first adult Tyrannosaurus Rex trackway ever discovered. Images of the fascinating footprint find were revealed by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which uncovered the massive tracks on federal land in North Dakota back in 2025. Scientists say the site features four T-Rex tracks in succession, two left and two right, led by an impressively clear print featuring three visible digits. Researchers estimate the tracks to be roughly 66.5 million years old and speculate the gigantic carnivore was lumbering between 3.5 and 4.5 miles per hour. The museum says while isolated footprints have previously been attributed to adult T-Rex, this is the first time scientists have described a sequence of tracks believed to have been left by the iconic predator. Speaking of a track, maybe that's where a group of minibike enthusiasts should have done their mini-hoggin and hot-doggin, because doing what LAPD officers described as illegal motorized minibike activities in the middle of a public bridge led to what you see here, minibikes busted in a minibike bust. The department said more than 70 people were blocking the bridge, doing tricks and weaving through traffic on the motorized bikes, which were impounded after police responded. They said since many of the participants were minors, the focus was on education and getting them home safely. Finally, a teeny tiny kitten is now home safe after leading sheriff's deputies in Tampa, Florida on a couple of harrowing foot chases on the median of a busy highway. 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Which goes from ninth to fourth after that incredible run there over the last two weeks at the U.S. Open. Ended yesterday by Alexander Zaverov. Zaverov, meanwhile, in the ranking, stays at number two, but now has a very considerable lead over third-ranked Carlos Alcarez. Alcarez, meanwhile, dropped 1,600 points after his quarterfinal loss to Shelton. Still ranks number three, though. Meanwhile, all-time great Novak Djokovic drops from fifth all the way down to 12th after his first-round exit. That was like two weeks ago now. And with him dropping out of the top 10 this week, this is the first time since 2002 that none of the big threes ranked in the top 10. That's Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal. Now, on the women's side, we've got a new number one, Alina Ravikina, who was previously number two but beat number one Alina Sabalenka on Saturday in the U.S. Open finals. So those two flip-flop at the top of the rankings, with Sabalenka now second behind Ravikina. Remember, Ravikina also beat Sabalenka in the finals of the Australian Open last January. So we've got a tight race there at the top of the women's. Men's rankings is kind of a little bit up in the air now with, you know, Sinner and Alcarez. They missed some time this year. It's not so clear. But Zverev has definitely taken the most of this opening, that's for sure, winning two of the last three majors. Well, the U.S. Open concluded. A great tennis season. Time for football. Let's talk about, unfortunately, Big Ten's crown jewel. Usually Ohio State couldn't get it done in Austin. Hook'em Horns took care of business. And a Manning, of course. So what do you think of that? I mean, it was exciting right to the last play of the game, though. Big Ten fan right here. In case you couldn't tell, everyone, yes. I only root for Ohio State when they don't play Penn State. You know, every other time I got to root for everybody else. I get it. I'm a Big 12 fan. I get it. But yeah, Longhorns trailed 23-3 entering the fourth quarter Saturday night. They scored 21 straight points unanswered. The final touchdown came with just 25 seconds left. And with Ohio State already having exhausted all three of their timeouts. So Texas goes from fourth to first in the rankings. Ohio State mean draw dropped from first to sixth after one point loss. Now elsewhere, Michigan moved back into the top 25 after their 17th win over Oklahoma. The Sooners dropped, meanwhile, 13 points now to number 24 after loss. But that wasn't as big of a loss as Oregon had. Or big of a drop, I should say. That the Ducks, who lost 39-31 at unranked. Oklahoma State fell all the way from sixth to number 21 in the country. Now meanwhile, this week's big game is going to include a SEC clash as eighth ranked Ole Miss hosts number seven LSU. Now this is Lane Kiffin's current team versus one of his former teams, I should say. He's had a couple here. Kiffin's exit last year, at least from the outside, seemed somewhat acrimonious. Now of course, any time two top ten ranked teams, especially from the same conference, team up, it's going to be a big get together. That's for sure. This one probably more so than you would think, you know, normally. The Kiffin Bowl, I guess we can call it that. LSU versus Ole Miss. I think calling it even a bit acrimonious is underselling the rivalry now between these two teams. Yeah, any time you leave and then you come back, you know, the knives are out, right? 20 years ago, Nick Saban left LSU. And boy, every time he came back with Alabama, he got it from the fans there. It's a rabid base. This game's going to be in Ole Miss. This will be the big game this coming Saturday. It'll be Saturday night at 7.30. And I presume they didn't bounce LSU out of the SEC. Because we just sort of never talked about it again. You know, LSU just kind of decided at the last minute, OK, we will not add these guys to our roster. They just used the situation. They stood down. As you do. SEC won. They said, you know, they used all that SEC money. That's a lot of money. All right, let's talk about tonight. Patrick Mahomes, he's an artist with the football, but he has suffered a major career season ending injury last year. Is he ready to go? What's the latest? He's starting. Here we go. We got tonight. Patrick Mahomes returns tonight for an AFC rivalry matchup. This is both Chiefs and Broncos actually get their previous starting quarterbacks back for this one. Both have been injured. Mahomes will start after tearing ligaments in his knee exactly nine months ago last December. There are plenty of questions regarding whether he'd be cleared in time to do so. Last season was one to forget for Chiefs fans that they missed a playoff for the first time in a decade. And the Chiefs also tonight debuted their big offseason get. That's Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Waccoh who ran for 135 yards for the Seahawks last February. Now, meanwhile, for Denver, they get back quarterback Bo Nix. Now, Nix, if you remember, he actually suffered that broken ankle in the playoffs. Denver ended up losing to New England in the Conference Championship game without him. So Broncos at Chiefs on ABC ESPN tonight starting at 8.15 Eastern time. So the NFL week, you know, they pretty much own from, you know, Wednesday all the way to Monday here. They're taking five days for their opening week. And yeah, we can't get enough of that, you know. They've got everything but Saturday. They start taking Saturdays in December. I think they give that to college football. They're Jewish. It's the Sabbath for them. They take off Saturday. All right, football's back. There's a lot to talk about. We'll be doing it every night. Dave Martin, thanks for joining. Thank you, Kerry. And that is all for today's evening news. Dave Martin, Kerry Dunst. Be true, kind, hold the line. See you soon.