NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 18)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, President Trump banning three major news organizations from the White House. And the president also announcing that all 50 states will have access to most favored nation pricing for certain drugs through Medicaid. President Trump also announces that the U.S. has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland to have permanent control over the Arctic territory's security. Vice President J.D. Vance on the campaign trail, stumping for Iowa's GOP gubernatorial nominee Zach Lane. He says Iowa needs a governor who will stand up for American farmers, American farmland and American produce. And the Postal Service has paused work on a new system for handling mail ballots. The move follows a Supreme Court decision blocking President Trump's mail voting rules ahead of the midterms. A witness testifying in court says Chinese telecom giant Huawei concealed its business dealings in Iran, the latest development from the federal criminal trial against Huawei. And California is working on a first in America A.I. safety policy, including a potential kill switch for powerful A.I. models, Christina Corona reports. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Kerry Dutts. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. We have breaking news. President Trump announcing a new agreement with Denmark and Greenland, securing permanent control over security in the Arctic territory. More on this. We're now joined by NTD's Washington correspondent, Jack Bradley. Jack, tell us more about that. Yeah, Kerry, this is a very significant announcement. President Trump says that the U.S. has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland, giving the U.S. permanent control over Greenland security. This has been a very contentious issue for months, and the president just announced this within the hour on Truth Social, saying the U.S. will now begin the process of building a large military presence on Greenland and that this deal ensures that no U.S. adversary like China or Russia can ever put a base, have military presence or put sensitive investments into Greenland without getting U.S. approval first. So this deal, he says, comes at no cost to the U.S. and has no expiration date. And Greenland, as we know, sits at a very strategic location in the Arctic, allowing the U.S. military to see oncoming enemy forces at its northeastern flank. And this deal is something that the president has been working a long time to get, getting a lot of pushback from Denmark. But now it seems that's come to fruition, Kerry. Oh, wow. And Jack, the president also making a major announcement, a ban on three organizations at the White House. What can you tell us about that? Yeah. So this means that all of these outlets, reporters will lose their White House press credentials if it goes through. They won't be allowed into the briefings, the Oval Office, Air Force One or the pool that follows the president. He announced the three on Truth Social, saying, I am proud to announce that effective immediately I am banning fake news, CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House as a result of their constant reporting fake news. Media outlets shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering the president of the United States, the Trump administration or the United States of America. Other fake news media outlets to follow. Now that last part, other fake news media outlets to follow that, he said when he was asked more about this, he said that it would be New York Times or Washington Post potentially. But he elaborated more on this from the Oval Office. Let's take a look. It's really just cumulative stories over the last few years. You get sick of it and you call them and you tell them, I have very good experts like people behind me. Bobby Oz, they call and they try and explain things. They know that they know it. They know it as well as smart people. But they purposely write negative news and they do that because they want to try and diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration. And honestly, we've done a fantastic job. As of now, other outlets can still work inside the White House. Those three would have to report from outside and rely on footage and quotes from other outlets. He also says that Politico got an eight million dollar government subscription under the Biden administration and that propped up that site from going under. CNN responded with this statement following that announcement. CNN says, quote, CNN stands fully behind our White House team and their fair and accurate reporting. Should the ban, which President Trump threatened to go ahead, it would be an illegal assault on that fundamental and constitutionally protected right. So if this goes to court, the president says that the outcome will depend on the judge who he thinks shouldn't allow news outlets to report fake news all the time. We know that CBS and ABC both paid President Trump to settle cases and they settled for millions of dollars. He brought those against them for the reporting. Gary. All right. And Jack, the president also saying today that all 50 states will now have access to most favored nation pricing for certain drugs through Medicaid. What does this mean for the cost of prescription drugs, especially for elders? Right. So this is actually pretty significant because all 50 states, blue and red, have signed on to this along with D.C. and Puerto Rico. And they'll now see the most favored nation pricing on drugs covered by Medicaid. So most favored nation pricing means getting the best terms that the seller gives to any other country. Manufacturers in times past have often sold drugs, the same exact drugs at much cheaper prices to countries with government price controls. We're talking Canada, the U.K., Germany, Japan. And then after they sold to them at much lower costs, they would recoup that cost by selling at much higher prices to the U.S. But the president is calling that global freeloading and saying that that ends today for Medicaid. Take a look. The other nation prices had to go up very substantially, double, triple. They ultimately had to agree and they agreed. We were using tariffs. If they didn't agree, we were going to use tariffs to make sure they did it. We were paying three times more for the exact same drugs that other countries were paying. And then when those drugs are made in this nation, we were subsidizing every other nation. They were getting a free ride on what we were paying, what our 70 million poor citizens were paying through Medicaid for these drugs. That is over today. Now, the president has moved forward to implement these most favored nation drug pricing since he's come back to office in his second term. And prescription drug prices since he's been back have fallen. They've fallen more than four percent since President Trump took office, which is the steepest yearly drop in more than 60 years. The White House credits its most favored nation deals to that and as well as Trump RX, the government website where you can check the price of your drug with the most favored nation status to see if you're getting the lowest cost at any time. Gary. All right. Thanks for all those updates, Jack. And both parties are on the campaign trail, making their case to voters with a little over six weeks until the midterm elections. Vice President J.D. Vance was in Council Bluff, Iowa earlier today. He's telling Iowans to choose the nominee who wants to create a better future for their state entities. The energy reports. Are we going to send a man who has fought for Iowa farmers every single day because he is an Iowa farmer? Vice President J.D. Vance out on the campaign trail, stumping for Iowa GOP gubernatorial nominee Zach Lane, according to Lane's campaign website. He's a sixth generation Iowan, a farmer and a businessman. He's running on a platform of supporting Iowan farmers and their land and making Iowa healthy again. Vance says helping farmers cultivate American land ensures food security, which is critical to national security. He's going to take on the corporations and the foreign buyers who treat Iowa farmland like it's at sale for auction instead of belonging as the birthright of the people of Iowa. We are growing American food on American farms for American families. The vice president also gives his support to Chris McGowan and Representative Ashley Hinson in their U.S. House races. Lane is up against Democratic nominee Rob Sand. He's a state auditor campaigning on growing the economy and strengthening public education, among other goals. The last time Iowa elected a Democratic governor was back in 2006. President Trump won Iowa in the 2024 presidential election by over 13 percentage points over Kamala Harris. The president has endorsed Lane as governor and says that the nominee is a defender of Iowa's agriculture, farmers and ranchers. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Fiona Gee, NTD News. And voters are officially beginning to cast their ballots in some states ahead of the midterm elections. Virginia has begun early voting and Minnesota and South Dakota are taking absentee ballots in person. And Jason Perry has the update. Early voting has officially begun in Virginia on Friday, and voters in Minnesota and South Dakota can cast absentee ballots in person. Broader early voting is scheduled to begin in more states in the coming weeks. A college student in Fairfax, Virginia, was among the first to vote. I got here, I want to say, around 720 and there's only two guys in front of me, but I did end up being the first official voter because I voted a little bit faster than those two guys. So. And she thanks her history teachers for teaching her how important it is to vote. Poll workers in Virginia attend to two other voters while they were in their car. This is convenient. It only takes a few minutes. I think we've rarely had to wait more than 30 minutes, but we don't care. We would we would have waited if we had to. This year's midterms include governor's races in 36 states and state legislative races in most states. It will also determine whether Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House and Senate. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court blocked President Trump's plan to tighten regulations on mail-in ballots. Attorney General Todd Blanche saying this after the court's decision. Of course, we're going to comply with the Supreme Court's decision, as we always do. That doesn't mean that we're not going to do everything in this administration that we can to make sure that there are free and fair elections. And again, there's this there's this constant pressure and this this effort by the media and by mostly by Democrats that somehow doing that is a bad thing. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer releasing a statement after the Supreme Court's decision, saying, quote, Trump's plan to make it harder to vote was obviously unconstitutional. The Supreme Court had no choice but to make the right decision. The situation has sparked debate over how mail-in voting will unfold during the November 3rd midterm elections. Jason Perry, NTV News. And the U.S. Postal Service is pausing the development of mail-in voting computer systems comes after the Supreme Court blocked President Trump's rules for how the USPS should be handling mail ballots. The Supreme Court decision means states will continue sending out mail ballots in this midterm election under the same methods that they've used for years. Postmaster General David Steiner, he says he doesn't get to decide what rules the Postal Service has to follow, adding, quote, there's an injunction, so we're not doing anything. Under President Trump's executive order, states would have had to provide the Postal Service with lists of mail ballot recipients and all ballot envelopes would have required to carry a unique barcode. Ballots that fail to meet those standards or are linked to voters not on those lists would have been denied delivery. Next, ActBlue, the main fundraising platform for Democrats, is back under the Microsoft. Republican-led report accuses the platform of purposely using inadequate fraud safeguards, thereby accepting illegal foreign donations. NTV's Melina Weiskopf has the story. The House Judiciary and Oversight Committee has accused ActBlue of covering up foreign donations. Chairman Jim Jordan wrote the problem with ActBlue's passport verification process. It doesn't require a valid U.S. passport number. He points to a letter from ActBlue, which states that the passport entry requires a certain number of characters, but doesn't check the entry against a government database. ActBlue called the report a political stunt and posted a video disputing the claims. And ninety nine point nine nine percent of every dollar ActBlue process came from a donor with either a U.S. address or U.S. passport number. The report comes after a hearing in June when ActBlue's CEO pleaded the fifth numerous times. Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question. The GOP alleges that ActBlue supervisors brushed off fraud analysts' concerns about certain transactions possibly being foreign. The analysts were told to give donors the benefit of the doubt. ActBlue just turned a blind eye to any possibility of foreign influences. Democrats have dismissed the probe as an attempt to undermine faith in elections, while Republicans have said taking steps to root out fraud will boost confidence. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskopf, NTD News. Global Internet monitors say a Chinese Internet security firm helped Iranian authorities collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. They say this likely violates U.S. sanctions. Iran's so-called Persian Gulf Straits Authority, or the PGSA, vets ships and then collects tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. Now, the Treasury Department sanctioned it in May for extorting vessels and providing support for the IRGC. Now, NetBlox, which is a cybersecurity watchdog, it tells Fox News that the PGSA lost its web security credentials after it was sanctioned. Now, this made its website difficult to access securely through the standard Internet browsers. NetBlox says a Shanghai-based Internet security firm called Trust Asia restored the Iranian agency's web security credentials for about four days in August. This allowed the PGSA to continue collecting tolls. Trust Asia later revoked those credentials. NetBlox, as well as former U.S. sanctions officials Jeremy Panner, warn that Trust Asia may have violated U.S. sanctions on Iran. The discovery comes amid the Trump administration's Operation Economic Outcast, and that targets Iran's global partners through secondary sanctions. And a book signing event in the nation's capital last night shed light on the dangers of communism. The new book, America, 100 Years War, argues that America's ideological battle against communism remains ongoing. And Sam Wong has more on that. Communism, by definition, is evil and it's illegitimate. From the rise of socialist ideologies in U.S. elections to influence campaigns coming from the Chinese Communist Party. The battle against communism did not end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Communists are very directed. They're they know what they want to destroy. So they go after the church. They go after religious belief. They go after the family. They go over traditions and they go after the ideas industry, particularly the education system. Dr. Bradley Thayer lays out a staunch warning in his new book, America's 100 Years War, how to win against communism. He says the ideology has evolved and is making its way into American discourse and institutions. Communists have the most unpopular ideas, but they're the best at imposing them. In the 20th century, communism was responsible for the deaths of roughly 65 million to more than 100 million people worldwide. The largest portion of that death toll comes from China. Thayer argues that an important step in America's victory against communism is recognizing its illegitimacy, starting with the CCP. The Chinese Communist Party is, in every sense that matters, a product of Soviet imperialism. It was Lenin who generated it. And we should think of the Chinese Communist Party today as a colonial government. Today, the CCP poses major challenges to the United States on geopolitical, economic and technological fronts. We're here in Washington, D.C. The pressure is always to accommodate the Chinese Communist Party. AI is clarifying because we have to treat them like the Soviet Union. We didn't give the Soviets uranium. We didn't help them with ballistic missiles. We didn't help them with targeting. What we did is we choked them out economically. We choked them out financially. And that's how we took them down. Thayer argues that a Chinese identity rooted in 5000 years of civilization is a vulnerability for the CCP. He adds that calling attention to the regime's corruption and human rights violations is critical. We should have a tribunal, for example. Chinese-Americans or the larger diaspora population can hold the CCP on trial for the crimes they've committed against the Chinese people. Sam Wong, NTD News, Washington, D.C. And coming up, California moving to speed up its A.I. oversight. Governor Gavin Newsom says the state is working on a first in America A.I. safety policy, which would include a potential kill switch for powerful A.I. models. And a nonprofit dedicated to building affordable homes, Habitat for Humanity celebrates its 50-year anniversary. David Lamb brings us to one of its chapters while a build-a-thon of homes is in the making. Looking for a healthy and smooth-tasting brew? 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She entered into opposing traffic because she was approaching a red light where cars were stopped and she didn't stop. At full force, she plunged into that Metro bus, killing two individuals. Prosecutor says Bailey Lynn Rios was speeding and impaired when she drove her 2004 Ford Exposition the wrong way down a busy avenue. She allegedly struck another vehicle before plowing into a city bus. Now, this incident was followed by another deadly event. A TV news helicopter covering the crash went down and caught fire. The pilot, a reporter and a man on the ground all died. The fire also destroyed at least four cars and two storage containers. Rios, meanwhile, being held on $4 million bail. And she is due in court today. Next, California Governor Gavin Newsom taking new action on artificial intelligence. He says an executive order will speed up what he calls a first in America, a safety policy. And today's Christina Corona has more. California Governor Gavin Newsom is moving to speed up oversight of artificial intelligence, including a potential kill switch for powerful A.I. models. His new executive order calls for independent safety checks and audits of A.I. systems. Dramatically speeds up our new law, creating a framework for truly independent safety checks, independent verification organizations, as well as moving the timeline up for oversight of A.I. auditors up by a full year. The order also brings together experts who will have two months to recommend changes to California's A.I. safety laws. That includes third party reviews of A.I. systems and more reporting of serious incidents. The CEO also begins an effort to tighten our safety and security requirements for powerful A.I. systems as well as models, laying the foundation for requiring third party safety verification on an ongoing basis, as well as more mandatory reporting of incidents like the hugging face hack in advancing efforts to create an emergency shut off, otherwise known as an A.I. kill switch. The announcement comes as some A.I. researchers are warning about the risks of rapidly advancing technology. Former anthropic and open A.I. researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job and warned unchecked A.I. could wipe out civilization. There is a substantial probability that this technology could kill everyone. One of the anthropic models was trying to pretend to be someone it wasn't, to get some code approved, to get some change approved. There's many ways a model can make itself manifest in the world. The governor's also calling on the federal government to adopt stronger A.I. oversight. Christina Corona, NTD News. And two more of the nation's largest health care systems, New York University Langone Hospitals and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have agreed now to stop providing sex and gender related procedures to children. NYU and UPMC have settled Department of Justice investigations into potential violations of federal law over so-called gender affirming procedures on minors. These include handing out puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, as well as performing surgical procedures. Each hospital will also pay out a settlement fee. NYU agreeing to pay eight point five million and UPMC nine hundred and fifty thousand. This follows similar agreements with other hospitals. Investigations into other providers is still ongoing. And a nonprofit dedicated to building affordable homes, Habitat for Humanity, celebrating its 50 year anniversary. And it is David Lamb brings us to one of its chapters while a build-a-thon of homes was in the making. Hundreds of volunteers are helping to build affordable homes in this Walnut Creek neighborhood. Volunteers from all levels of experience coming together for this three day build-a-thon. The local Habitat for Humanity in California's East Bay region is organizing the event. It's a nonprofit dedicated to building homes. The last build-a-thon of this kind was held in 2017. We're looking to go all the way from Bear Foundations, all the way up through the full second floor. And that takes a lot of work. So we've got hundreds of volunteers out these three days helping us get there. I have been a regular volunteer with Habitat since 2010. And I can no longer count the number of sites or build-a-thons that I've participated in. Habitat for Humanity plans to build a total of 42 homes in the area. And as you can see, a lot has been done. You can see the structural foundation, the wooden beams. And I'm on the second floor of one of the structures. And it's pretty cool. The units range from one to three bedroom homes. And the mortgage is usually a percentage of the homeowners' monthly income. One thing that is really great about working volunteering at Habitat is when our homeowners are out here to do their hours towards their home and they get to see the site, they get to meet their neighbors, work alongside their neighbors. Housing is extremely expensive. It's very hard to find an affordable place even to rent. But to become a homeowner is a huge barrier. Very few people are able to do that. Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1976 in Georgia and has worked in approximately 70 countries. Now, the homeowners of these homes are actually putting in the work, at least 200 hours building the homes. In Walnut Creek, California, David Lam, NTD News. And coming up, President Trump announcing a new agreement with Denmark and Greenland getting full control of the Arctic Territory security. We have the analysis. 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People have been making jokes about this since he first started talking about Greenland, but he has been serious about it all along. This agreement is a massive blow to Chinese ambitions. China has been talking about ambitions in the Arctic for more than 10 years now, and Greenland was their secret aim. Everything he did was aimed at signaling to China, stay out of Greenland, stay out of the Arctic. Greenland is ours. You may not come here now. It's codified. There's a treaty. And as he said, I think four times in his true social announcement, this is forever. It is a permanent agreement. It is not going to expire. He said it every possible way you could. He's rightfully proud of having signed this. And you point out, you know, he in his style of negotiation, he kind of shoots for the moon and then maybe lands in the middle where he had always intended to go. And you're right also to point out that, you know, he was taking a lot of flack for making these these claims and these points that it was something that the U.S. should have some control over. And here we are. Now, a senior U.S. official told Fox News that the deal bars China, Russia, other non-NATO countries from establishing any military bases there. And it restricts adversaries from investing in sensitive sectors that could pose a U.S. national security threat. So will this deal be enough, though, to protect the U.S. from potential attacks from the Arctic theater? Yes, I think it will, because it includes building a military base. So there's kinetic power to back it up. I don't think you could get a I don't see how you could get a stronger diplomatic agreement than a than a forever treaty. And it and it gives the United States veto power in order for any foreign power to make an investment or or do anything that could be militarily sensitive in Greenland. They have to have prior written permission from the United States. And and, you know, this is an example of what President Trump has been doing since since the beginning of his second term. He is locking into place security arrangements to to guarantee the security of the United States. He's he's taking out potential adversaries one by one by one. And he's locking the the ones he can't take out. He's locking them out of sensitive areas like this. Yeah. And as the president said, not a dollar spent. So in a way, you kind of get the milk without buying the cow. Of course, there will be significant investment in building up those bases, as you point out. Now, this all comes as the U.S. prepares to host Chinese regime leader Xi at the White House for these bilateral discussions between trade, AI, human rights, China's support of Iran and Russia's war machines. There's a lot to discuss next week at the White House. So what are your expectations? Those meetings? I think she will come in feeling like he is in control and President Trump will I fully expect him to do something as he did once before. While President Xi is there, he'll do something else on the world stage that will knock him off his balance. There is there are rumors flying about President Xi's health. They seem to be fabricated or unfounded. But there are rumors flying that he suffered a stroke a few days ago. So a lot of people will be looking to see whether he even shows up and whether he has full movement of both of his arms. And, you know, his speech is clear. I, I think that the the that President Trump will press him on things, especially on things like the agreement about artificial intelligence. That is the new Cold War era area of competition. That's where the weapons of the future will be designed. That's where the battles will be fought. And and there is a lot of suspicion that China is undercutting American development of AI. They're conducting public affairs campaigns trying to sap our interest in developing it. I think President Trump will find a way to combat those efforts. Yeah. As you point out, a lot of this anti data center movements, it does seem like there are some ties back from messaging back to Beijing. Now, in a rare show, though, of bipartisan support, as well as in honor of Lindsey Graham, the president now has the ability to tariff China up to 100 percent over its support for Russia. And that was leverage that he lost in the Supreme Court previously when he attempted tariffs. So he's fully bonafide now. Do you expect him to use that leverage? Oh, absolutely. Are you kidding? He's like a kid on Christmas. He can't wait to open that package. And he's got it just in time for the summit. He signed this Greenland deal just in time for the summit. Both of those things put Xi on the back foot when he when he gets here. The Supreme Court, the only thing they knocked down was they said you can't do this with presidential authority. So he went and he got congressional authorization to do it. And now China sees that the American people are united in their opposition to China, Chinese support for Russia. And and President Trump now is holding this very big stick that the Congress just gave him. Yeah, there have been very few of these bipartisan moments. But the Democrats, along with the Republicans, were gleeful in passing this. We saw Blumenthal, you know, giving honor to Lindsey Graham and giving that authority to the president. So a rare moment of bipartisanship. And I want to get your thoughts on how this meeting might differ than that previous one that was hosted in Beijing earlier this year. I think that I think that President Trump is entering this one in a position of much greater strength than he was earlier this year. Yeah, it does seem like things have moved along progressively now. China has done a really good job on their own front of keeping officials away from the topic of human rights. Some people feel like this could actually be an Achilles heel if all of that dirty laundry is openly brought up. It's always discussed behind closed doors at the designs of of the CCP. And this is a big fear for the CCP that if it gets confronted and exposed of these abuses against Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs and others, should this be a more fundamental issue in the negotiations? Oh, I think that it's a it's a club that we should beat them over the head with. One of the reasons people support the United States around the world is that we stand up for human rights and and it is something that we can hurl in the teeth of any communist country when they when they come here and they try to advocate socialism, which really is just advocating for Marxism. One of the things that we need to point out more and more to our own young people, our younger generations, is the dismal record of communist countries when it comes to human rights, whether it's Falun Gong or Tibet or or or evangelical Christians or Catholics or the Uyghurs, any of them. We need to make it clear because it's important for our people to understand that communist countries abuse people. All they want is power and they want the power in order to oppress people. And if they oppress their own people, they will oppress us if they ever get the chance. It's a very simple equation. Well, well put. Such an important point. Bart Marquois, thank you so much for joining us this Friday evening. Thanks for having me on. Next, a former employee at Senex Labs testified today that a circuit board sent to a Now, the circuit board was the heart of a cutting edge data memory storage tech that the company developed. The Chinese professor was later accused of stealing trade secrets from Senex for Huawei. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, lying to the FBI, and he returned to China. Zooming out that this testimony comes as the U.S. government is accusing Huawei of stealing trade secrets from U.S. companies, to which Huawei denies. And it is Juliet Song has highlights from the courtroom. Kenny Coker, a former Senex employee, testified that a circuit board sent to a professor in China came back warped and tampered with. He said the damage was most apparent around the section containing secrets about how the board's mini computer was designed. Coker said Senex was the only company that had developed such advanced data storage technology at the time. The Chinese professor said the board was broken by accident, but an expert who looked into it told the FBI that resistors had been carefully removed from the connector, indicating it was not broken by accident. That's according to a federal criminal complaint filed against the professor. What's more, it was returned with wires attached to the connector, indicating that someone had attempted to hack the board. The professor had been accused of stealing Senex technology to benefit Huawei. Around 2016, while working for Micron, Coker had a meeting with a Huawei representative. The meeting was to discuss jointly developing a data storage product. But in the middle of it, five or six Huawei engineers from China showed up and announced. Coker said they began asking questions about the development of solid state drives, which was unrelated to the purpose of the meeting. The questions were detailed and could have helped competitors design competing products. Coker said his boss was uncomfortable with the questions and shut down the conversation. Juliet Song, NTD News. And the Pentagon has released its sixth batch of declassified files on unidentified anomalous phenomena that what used to be called UFOs. Now, one of the files contains a video taken by a law enforcement officer in 2023. The footage shows unidentified flashing lights crossing the night sky in Colorado. Another file shows a Project Blue Book document from 1952. Now, Project Blue Book was a U.S. Air Force program to investigate the nature and the origin of unidentified flying objects. The file describes the Air Force's assessment of a witness, Delbert C. Newhouse, a naval officer and photographer. He reported observing 12 to 14 reflective objects and recorded the event on motion picture film. The Pentagon will release additional files on a rolling basis. And for the first time, residents in Russia-controlled territories in Ukraine are voting in Russian elections. Officials say some polling stations have already been affected by drone attacks. NTD's international correspondent, Arian Pasdar, has this story. Polling stations across Russia are open throughout the weekend to vote for Russia's lower house of parliament. It's the first parliamentary election since the start of the war over four years ago. Also for the first time, residents in Russia-controlled territories in Ukraine are voting in a Russian election. Everyone is confident that the voice of Donbass residents will be heard. All our problems, all our wishes, together with our candidates who will pass and implement them. Ahead of the election, the NHL's highest all-time goal scorer, Aleksandr Ovechkin, made headlines when he appeared in a political ad for the governing party that backs President Vladimir Putin called United Russia. The Washington Capitals player explained his decision. The thing about the video, I'm Russian. As soon as I'm done playing hockey, I'm probably going to, not probably, I'm going to stay there. I'm going to live there. My kids are going to live there, family. And the ongoing war is affecting the polling process in various locations. In the Krasnodar region, one polling station had to be moved after a drone attack shattered its windows. In the Luhansk People's Republic, 14 polling stations were switched to backup power after drone attacks damaged power lines. Meanwhile, the Kremlin also keeps attacking Ukraine, striking a passenger train on Friday. Officials say at least one civilian is dead and eight others injured. Footage shows the damaged train, debris from the attack and police officers at the scene. According to local officials in the Kharkiv region, the remaining passengers have been evacuated and the train is now stationary. Harry Mpastar, NTD News. Coming up in the NFL, will Kyler Murray play on Sunday? And what about the status of Baltimore's Zay Flowers? Dave Martin joins us with a fantasy football update. 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Do you expect the same quality of a game or what can we look forward to? I do, but I got to say there's a bit of possibly troubling information here. LSU's starting quarterback, Sam Levitt, is questionable to play, although it's unclear what exactly kind of injury he's dealing with. Looked fine in the win over Louisiana Tech last week, so maybe something happened in practice. But that is the big game tomorrow, starting at 7.30 Eastern time, being played in Oxford, Mississippi. LSU ranked number seven in the country. Ole Miss ranked eighth, Lane Kiffin's current team versus his former team. Meanwhile, the game's developing top 25 teams really start tonight. Fifth ranked Miami plays at Wake Forest at 7.30 Eastern time. Then at eight o'clock, 13th ranked Texas Tech plays at number 22 Houston. And then 21st ranked Oregon looks to rebound against Portland State with that game starting at 10.30 Eastern time tonight. Then tomorrow, a whole round of games start at noon with several going on. Second ranked Georgia plays Arkansas. Sixth ranked Ohio State hosts Penn State. And 14th ranked Penn State hosts Buffalo. And then at 3.30 Eastern time, we've got a whole lot more here. Texas A&M hosts Kentucky. Then we got unranked Florida State is at number 10 Alabama. 16th ranked SMU is at number 23 Louisville. We got number 17 Utah playing in-state rival Utah State. And finally, USC travels across the country to face Rutgers in New Jersey. 30 minutes later, 4.00 p.m., fourth ranked Indiana hosts Western Kentucky. And 18th ranked Iowa hosts in-state rival Northern Iowa. Then tonight at 7.30 Eastern time. Besides the big game in Oxford, number 11 BYU is at Colorado State. Then we got Oklahoma playing New Mexico. West Virginia playing number 25 Virginia. And then finally, 8.00 p.m. Number one, Texas plays UT San Antonio. Texas, of course, coming off that big win that you were talking about versus your Big Ten team, Ohio State. It was quite a thrilling fourth quarter. If you were looking for a fun game, it was it was kind of dead up until that time. Was it 20, 23 to three or something like that? And then somehow Texas rallies for three touchdowns and not the final 15 minutes get the win. So I have no idea. I'm sure it's going to be a raucous atmosphere that I can say that, you know, in Ole Miss tomorrow, I'm sure there's going to be some signs, maybe not positive signs for Lane Kiffin and his fans from his old team. But we'll have to see. I'm looking forward to watching. I wonder if this supposed injury is a little bit of a smokescreen, you know? You know, my last guest told me that there's rumors that Xi Jinping has had a stroke in the last two or three days. It sounds like they're taking the same strategy there. Would Lane Kiffin do something like that? It seems possible. There's a lot of a lot of back and forth this week between the two teams that that seems like something, you know, Kiffin would do. He's he's quite the gamer. I got to say that. All right. Let's shift to the NFL. There's some injuries to look out for. We've got Kyler Murray. Also, he's on the Vikings. We also have Flowers, who's on my fantasy football team. My my GM, though, is monitoring the situation very closely. It's good thing you've got a second person on that. That's a good Raymond Lee. That's a two person job here. Clearly. Yeah. Kyler Murray. He's been ruled out versus the Bears on Sunday. So Carson Wentz will get the spot in his place with J.J. McCarthy backing him up. Murray suffered a concussion in last week's game versus Green Bay. Wentz actually replaced him in that game through two touchdowns in the win. Elsewhere in the league, Raiders tied in. Brock Bowers returned to practice today, but is doubtful to play Sunday versus the Chargers. Bowers underwent a meniscus trim in his procedure on his knee back on September 8th. Raiders coach Clint Kubiak, though, is optimistic that if he doesn't play in week two tomorrow or Sunday, excuse me, he'll at least play by week three. And finally, in Baltimore, wide receiver Zay Flowers was doubtful for Sunday's game against the New Orleans. Now, Flowers has missed a majority of practices this week with a left hamstring injury suffered in the opener against the Colts last week, playing valiantly for Harry's fantasy football team. I'm sure for your sake, he's going to try to do his best, though. All right, we're looking at it by the minute to decide if we got to put in somebody else in the fantasy squad. Let's move to baseball. The pennant race now really coming down to the nitty gritty. Yeah, four teams have clinched playoff spots already. That's the Tampa Bay Rays, the Milwaukee Brewers, the L.A. Dodgers and the New York Yankees. Tonight, the Atlanta Braves could join the list as if they get a win. And that's a good win over Houston and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees. Then Atlanta clinches a playoff spot, not the division which they are actually leading right now, at least not yet. Now they share they are in the lead in the NL East by four games over the Philadelphia Phillies heading into today. Should they clinch today, which seems very inevitable at this point, at least sometime in the next few days, it'll be their eighth playoff appearance in the last nine seasons after missing out last year. They host Houston tonight at 8-10 Eastern time, while the Yankees are at the Diamondbacks starting at 9-4 Eastern time. All four of those teams I just mentioned looks like they are projected anyway, if the playoffs start today, to be in the playoffs. Playoffs start in less than two weeks. It's going to be September 29, I believe, on a Tuesday. So we're over time, but I still got to ask, can the Yanks count on Judge? What's the latest on that? Judge is, Judge is still, they're not quite sure what you're talking about. We'll probably find out more tonight to see if they play him or not. We have not yet found. So I don't know, Terry. It's not just don't know. Well, the Atlanta Atlanta fans have something to cheer about. New York fans, whether they have them or not, it looks like they have an opportunity to make a play in the postseason. At least they are in the postseason. All right. All right, Dave. Thanks for joining. We'll have a lot to cover on Monday once we report on all those games. So we'll do our homework. And that's all for today's evening news. Thanks for joining us for around the clock coverage. You can always visit us at Entity.com. For Dave Martin, I'm Kerry Dunst. Be true, kind, hold the line. Good night.