NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 11)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Today marks the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks. The nation mourns and recites the names of the nearly 3,000 lives lost. And commemoration events held in New York, Pennsylvania, and D.C., President Trump honoring the fallen at the Pentagon and the heroes who answered the call. At the Ground Zero 9-11 Memorial in New York City, families return to hear the names of their loved ones lost 25 years ago and now. A new generation being asked to carry their stories forward. Niku Bani has the story. A Chinese man working as a CBP supervisor is modifying government computers without authorization. FBI documents show he allegedly swapped out the components for money. David Lamb with more. A new anthropic report reveals that the Chinese Communist Party uses American AI systems to target and surveil overseas dissidents. The report gives concrete proof of China's transnational repression campaign. Fiona Ji reports. And the CIA releases several dozen presidential briefs with government intelligence about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda leading up to the 9-11 attacks. This is NTD Evening News. Live from our global headquarters in New York City, here's Cary Dunst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. Today marks 25 years since the 9-11 terror attacks. President Trump at the Pentagon honoring those nearly 3,000 Americans killed in the attacks and the heroes who responded. NTV's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. 25 years later, the names are still being read. Vicky Yancey. The faces are still remembered. And at the Pentagon, the nation is still making the same promise, never forget. We will never, ever forget. President Trump marking the 25th anniversary of September 11th at the Pentagon, remembering the 184 people killed when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the building and the thousands more murdered in New York and Pennsylvania. September 11th reminded us of the terrible power of hate. The 25 years since have shown us the even greater power of the American spirit to endure and prevail and to win. The president also remembering the Americans who ran toward the danger and the first responders who entered the buildings in rubble, knowing they might not come back out. On days like 9-11, we learn what a country is truly made of. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was serving in the Bush administration when the attacks happened. She recalled the moment she first saw the Pentagon, realizing America would never be the same. There was no doubt the United States of America was at war. President Trump paying tribute to the many that served in the war on terror over the last 25 years to today. For 25 years, our best and bravest have kept America safe. And we salute the service members working right now to ensure the world's number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran will never, ever have a nuclear weapon. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warning that the threat that America faced that day did not simply disappear. He says vigilance remains the price of freedom, stopping the Iranian regime from funding terrorism and developing a nuclear weapon. Over the past six months, we have laid waste to the world's most prolific state sponsor of terrorism. The United States has killed their leaders, destroyed their air force and their Navy rests at the bottom of the sea. A quarter century later, the country has changed, but the sacrifice of those who died and the courage of those who responded remain at the center of the nation's memory. Jack Bradley, NTD News, Washington. And New York marks the 9-11 anniversary at Ground Zero, honoring those lost and those still living with the aftermath. And Denise Mikubani has this story. I'm here at the Ground Zero 9-11 memorial ceremony and behind me, family members and first responders are commemorating 25 years since 9-11. Vice President J.D. Vance is also in attendance as the morning begins with a procession of pipers and drummers into the memorial. At each key moment of the attacks, the ceremony pauses for a moment of silence. A bell marking the time, a reminder of what happened here 25 years ago. Then the reading of the names. Eric L. Bennett. One by one, family members named the nearly 3,000 people lost on 9-11. George John Bishop. And for those who lived through that tragic day, the memories remain vivid. Well, I remember very well the feelings of that day and the sense of shock and surprise. And then quickly it began to be clear just how many families would be bereaved, how many people would be lost. It's very meaningful for them to be here when they hear the name of their loved one read aloud. But for a generation born after the attacks, 9-11 is history. So 25 years later, the question is, how do we keep that memory alive? Never forget is an action. And as a father of a now five-year-old, it means even more to me about ensuring that what happened on that tragic day never happens again. But what is it that Americans should never forget? Because the most horrible event that everyone saw was the exact same event that sparked so much service, so much sacrifice on the part of people who wanted to help. Strangers helping strangers and a city coming together. It was New Yorkers just saying hello, New Yorkers saying hi to each other, New Yorkers wanting to greet each other. And for that to be an everyday thing was really meaningful to everyone, including myself. And this year, the ceremony is also recognizing another part of the story. A seventh moment of silence honoring those who died in the years since 9-11 from related illnesses and injuries. A toll that now surpasses the number of people killed on September 11th itself. Nico Bonnie, NTD News, New York. Thank you, Nico, for that. Next, the passengers and crew members of Flight 93 were remembered today on the 25th anniversary of 9-11. In a separate ceremony, the Department of Homeland Security says its mission is to make sure that an attack like this never happens again. And today's Jason Perry has the details from both events. People gathering in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. This memorial in Shanksville is located where United Airlines Flight 93 tragically crashed on September 11th, 2001. Passengers on that flight fought back against the terrorist who hijacked the plane and intended to hit a target in Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaking at the event. The sister of one of the passengers on Flight 93 sharing her thoughts. Flight 93 exhibited some of the best of humanity. And I also encourage all of us to try and find, you know, my sister and the other 39 passenger and crews some of that courage and live for them. On the same day, Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen attending a 9-11 memorial event in Washington, D.C. I serve with true patriots. The Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2002 after the 9-11 attacks. Our mission is to make sure it never happens again. No matter how big or how small that lead might be or that phone call that needs to be returned, we're going to do it because we don't know what that will go to next. We can't afford to miss one opportunity to prevent it from happening again. Mullen adds that so far during President Trump's second term, they've arrested 2,150 terrorists inside the United States. Jason Perry, NTD News. And from the ashes of 9-11, America found strength in unity. NTV's Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. speaking with people about their memory of that day. 9-11, we all saw the towers came down. Where were you at the time? And what was your first reaction? I was at work and the first thing I thought of was a small plane. And then I headed out into the field in Rochester, New York, and all of a sudden another one hit and everybody knew what happened. I had to tour a lot of the stuff because I was a FEMA employee. We went up to Fresh Kills. They found a stewardess's shirt, a blouse when we were up there, when they were going through the rubble. There was flags flying in all of the tents. It was a very, very patriotic time, but it was so somber. A friend of mine, or my brother, was the week before. He was at the Trade Towers. He's got his pass and he was with Marsh McClellan and the people he had met, they were, most of them were killed. Well, so I wasn't born at the time, but I've obviously heard stories. My parents and like grandparents and everyone who was there will come out and like try to do like the stairs for 9-11. Like the 110 floors of the towers and everything in honor of those that we lost. For those of us who didn't get to see 9-11 while it happened, what are some of the things we should understand about that day? The world came together behind the United States after it happened, but that didn't last very long. The biggest takeaway from that, that I wish it had lasted a lot longer. What they've done afterwards in honoring them, I've been through a few times and it really is very solemn and it's just a very lovely memorial for the people that died. I would hate for it to take another catastrophic event for the country to be united, but I feel like we can unite over things such as this, like it's a shared history of the nation. We're stronger together than we are divided. If we could all come back together as a nation, we would be completely unbeatable. That's why we win every Olympics we go to. That is why we feed all the countries of the world. That is why we win all the wars and free others because of our unity. And the CIA is declassifying dozens of presidential briefs on al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden dated before the 9-11 attacks. John Ratcliffe calling it, quote, an act of exceptional transparency and says it's the agency's single largest collection of presidential briefs ever released. The files show tracking of bin Laden and his support system and they detail concerns of possible threats to target in the U.S. A September 12, 2001 report indicates that the 9-11 attacks had been in the works for two years and also targeted the U.S. Capitol. A December 1998 report describes conspirators evading security checks during a trial run at a New York airport and that some in bin Laden's network received hijack training. And coming up, we're going to speak with a military first responder who worked for a week on site to help rescue people from the ruins of Ground Zero. Welcome back to NTD Evening News. I'm Cary Dunst. We now stay with our coverage of 9-11 and we welcome into the studio Larry Provost. He was a military first responder to World Trade Center on that fateful day. Welcome, Larry, and thank you for joining us. I know that for you and for many of your colleagues, this is a painful day, but a very meaningful day. I want to start with your experience because you rushed to New York City on that day when you got the call. What happened for you on that day? Absolutely, Cary. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here, especially on this important day for our nation. Drove down from Syracuse, New York, made it down in about four hours. Usually it takes much longer, but made it down here and linked up with a group of military volunteers that actually gathered at Mike Bloomberg's campaign headquarters. There were about 150 of us and proceeded down to the site and remained for the first seven days, mainly doing digging and so forth, bucket brigades and the like. And it was a very, very difficult experience, but an experience I think in so many ways that every American wanted to do. We just were the ones that were able to do it, but we certainly felt the weight of what happened to our nation and we felt the weight and the support of everybody behind us. I was on 24th Street and it felt like another planet in the distance with this big black plume. You were there and that two or three miles was like a vast ocean. Nobody really could go in if they weren't supposed to be there. You were there doing the hard work. What were those shifts like on the first day and the second day for you? What did you experience? What were you actually doing on the ground there? If anybody remembers the movie from the early 80s, the day after, it was kind of like that movie. It looked like a scene out of Dresden or one of those World War II movies where the cities were bombed and consisted mainly of bucket brigades and the air was just filled with ashes and soot and dust. And we didn't have particular shifts. We worked as hard as we could for as long as we could. Sometimes we had to be pulled off the sites because of the worry of a falling building and so forth. That kind of contributed it. Sometimes you would nap during the day if that happened. And so we could continue to work into the night. So it really was a matter of working as hard as we could for as long as we could because we really felt that we would be able to find somebody alive. And that really was the paramount idea during that first week. And it was a search and rescue. What did you experience? A lot. And a lot of us did everything from the recovery of people to helping to just clear pathways to find more people and so forth. It was very, very difficult work in retrospect, but it was something that we wholeheartedly believed in. And even if we weren't able to find people alive, in some way, hopefully, it brought some closure to the families and maybe even our country. And you did this work, I believe, for 10 days straight. I presume the whole experience is quite surreal and the memories sort of bleed into each other. But when you were not at the site, what was your experience in encountering New Yorkers who were clearly themselves suffering from trauma and PTSD? Absolutely. Yeah, I was there for the first seven days. And honestly, I'm not sure if anybody could have handled this like the city of New York did. The people in New York, they were so supportive. I will never forget one person. We had a very, very in-depth discussion at Chelsea Piers where I slept a couple of nights. And this person said to me, he said, you and I come from opposite ends of the spectrum, but none of that matters anymore. What matters is helping our city out. And so just feeling that. And when we would come out of the site, people would just be there cheering us. And I remember everything from McDonald's bringing down food, AT&T to bringing down free telephones because there were no working telephones down there. I mean, it was just like, not in the whole city, but the whole country was behind it. Even though we really didn't have any news, you automatically felt it. And it was, while we certainly don't wish that what had happened had actually happened, one of the things that we do miss is just that spirit that our country, and I think especially the city of New York had. Now that you have these 25 years of distance from that formative experience of your life, how did that change the trajectory of your life? You were, of course, enlisted in the military. What happens to you after 9-11? Quite a bit of change after September 11th. My original plan had actually been to go to law school, and I deferred that so that I could go to Afghanistan in 2002 to 2003, and then I went to Iraq 2004, 2005. So it definitely, and I never went to law school, so it did change the trajectory of my life in that way. But I also think, and I think for many Americans as well, it changed our trajectory in the way that we thought. I think from the late 90s idea of, I'm okay, you're okay, it went more to, no, there is right, there is wrong, there is good, and there is evil in this world. And I think it was very important for President Bush to make that distinction, and maybe Giuliani to make that distinction as well, that we're right and they're wrong. So I think it was definitely a different trajectory of our mind frame as well. And like myself, you have the remnants of the Cold War in your childhood, and then this becomes a very different type of confrontation where the enemy is not really known, it's not one particular country. As someone who served in the military, how did that change your worldview? You talked about the moral right and wrong, but how did that change your understanding of sort of the geopolitical spectrum, especially as somebody who served in Afghanistan and Iraq? Yeah, it's a great deal. It's really interesting. One of the things that actually happened before September 11th, I had interviewed a gentleman who was a World War II veteran. He'd actually won an Academy Award as a non-professional actor. And the last thing he told me before I left his house was you have to study international affairs, and this was just a couple of months before. So I think the idea of we can be supportive of America, and obviously we should be, and you should know and love the country that you're fighting for by learning everything you can about it, but at the same time, learning everything you can about other cultures and other nations as well. If anything, it helps us, but it helps us to have a better understanding of them, hopefully build some bridges wherever we can, but at the same time to be able to show that, hey, in many ways, we have something fundamentally better to offer over here. And as you watched the events unfold today, the various memorials, how do you react to that? Obviously, you've seen this now 25 times, but this being a milestone year, what is your emotional state on this day when you see these ceremonies? It's definitely a mix of emotions, Kerry. There's a mix of, I would say, being very, very proud. I can say today, just as it was 25 years ago, that I've never been prouder to be an American. At the same time, there's a little sense of warning that as time goes on, what will it be like as people forget, increasingly finding people that don't have a memory or weren't even born on September 11th. And I think that's why it's important to continue to tell the story of not just what we went through, but what the families went through and what our country went through and how we also came together. Yeah, and over the march of time, the nation is writing its history as we go. And this morning, I interviewed a gentleman who said, September 11th is like the Pearl Harbor Day. And I want you to sort of reflect on sort of having that Pearl Harbor Day of our generation and sort of how that has impacted your own life. I think it's very much a Pearl Harbor Day for our generation, but in some ways it's actually not. And Pearl Harbor was purely military target. This was an attack, not just against the military at the Pentagon, but this was an attack mostly against innocent civilians, people that used hundreds of innocent people on airplanes to kill thousands of innocent people. And I think there was just a huge distinction in that regard between Pearl Harbor. And I think that's why it's important as Americans and as people and as Western civilization to study the ideologies that we are up against and what we can do to defeat them. Well, Larry Provost, this has been such a meaningful conversation. We really appreciate you marking this day with us here at NTV. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you, Kerry. Honored to be here. And at the South Tower of the World Trade Center in crashing down on that morning of September 11th, lower Manhattan was a sea of panic. As Larry shared, hundreds of thousands of people had to race against time to flee the island. And it was against this backdrop that the largest sea evacuation in history unfolded. A 2011 mini documentary called Boat Lift captures the course of action on the water on that fateful day. Here's that story. It's a story of untold resilience. It's a story of the largest boat lift in history. Immediately following the 9-11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, half a million people were stranded in lower Manhattan, unsure what will happen next and if there will be further attacks. Every mode of transportation out of Manhattan was shut down. All the subways were shut. Tunnels were all closed. They closed the bridges. They closed everything immediately. Boats became the only way in or out of lower Manhattan. So we decided to make the call on the radio. Available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard aboard a pilot boat from New York. Anyone want to help with the evacuation of lower Manhattan, report to Governor's Island. In the hours that followed, over 150 vessels of all different sizes, shapes and forms converged on the piers of lower Manhattan. Among them were passenger ferries, tugboats, merchant ships, private vessels and fire departments and police department boats operated by some 800 American mariners. My wife was there and I turned around. I says, I've got to go do something. Just like that. She looked at me. She says, what are you going to do, you maniac? I says, I'm going to take the Amberjack up into the city and help. She says, but what if they're attacked again? I says, well, then that's something I have to live with. I says, I have to do what I have to do. I says, and nobody can stop me right now. Even if I save one person or I rescue one person, that's one person less that will suffer and die. It's just human nature. You see people in distress on the seawall in Manhattan begging you to pick them up. You have to, you have to pick them up. Captains who participated in the boat lift say the dust was unbelievably strong in lower Manhattan and the size of the rescue was unlike anything they have ever witnessed. We went back and forth all day long, carrying boat loads as many as our boat would hold. And it's a lot of people, a lot of people. In under nine hours, the boats moved as many as 500,000 civilians to safety. This was bigger than the Dunkirk evacuation in World War II, when 338,000 Allied troops were evacuated over a course of nine days. Mariners who participated in the boat lift say they feel honored to be a part of it. No training. This was just people doing what they had to do that day. That's the greatest thing I ever did with my life. The greatest day that I've ever seen in all my boating. I mean, my life on the water. 25 years on, the story of the 9-11 boat lift continues to inspire us. And thanks to Jason for that report. Coming up, a new anthropic report reveals that the Chinese Communist Party uses American AI systems to target and surveil overseas dissidents. The report gives concrete proof of China's transnational repression campaign. Welcome back to NTD Evening News. I'm Cary Dunst. A new report from Anthropic reveals that foreign malicious actors use AI system Claude to monitor and target individuals and groups. According to the report, multiple malicious actors misusing the AI platform have direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party and they are acting on behalf of the Chinese regime to collect information on dissidents as part of a transnational repression campaign. Here's NTD's Fiona Ji with details from the report. Anthropic's report covers malicious activities from the last nine months and it lists actors ranging from suspected financially motivated criminals, politically motivated individuals, and commercial spyware vendors, all the way to state propaganda institutions and state-sponsored groups. The report says that cases range from, quote, a network of fake dating apps designed to defraud users to surveillance systems built to identify and monitor dissidents. A notable section of the findings reveals how users with links to the Chinese Communist Party use Claude to gather information and then build profiles of overseas dissidents. Targeted groups include Tibetan Buddhists, Catholic leadership, and Falun Gong, which is a spiritual practice brutally persecuted by the CCP since 1999. The report says the users instructed Claude to comb through domestic and overseas platforms for birthdates, birthplaces, immigration dates, and social media profiles of individuals. They also use the AI system to conduct reconnaissance on religious or lawful protest venues. In one specific case, the report finds that an instructor working at an American institution that's affiliated with Falun Gong was surveilled as part of the CCP's campaign of repressing Falun Gong overseas. Essentially, malicious actors are using Claude to replace teams of multiple intelligence collection workers. Now, just one single operator can input instructions into Claude, which then aggregates information from all online sources on its own. The report explicitly states that these are concrete acts of transnational repression. Anthropic says it has taken action to ban the threat actors' accounts and track their digital footprints to prevent further misuse. The tech company urges AI developers and governments to understand the risks of AI and to work to create safeguards. The AI race has been at the forefront of many geopolitical discussions, and the findings of this report are particularly pressing considering the Trump-Xi summit in Washington DC is scheduled for September 24th. Reporting from Washington DC, Fiona Ji, NTD News. Next, a Huawei engineer caught spying on a fiber-optic telecom firm at a major trade show in Chicago over two decades ago. Witnesses testified about the incident in a Brooklyn court Thursday as lawyers from both sides examined evidence in the criminal trial against Huawei. The Justice Department accused the Chinese tech giant of stealing U.S. trade secrets to grow its business, among other charges. Huawei has denied all of the allegations. NTD's Juliet Song has the story. Teresa Harmon designs custom exhibits for conventions. She testified that at a Chicago trade show in 2004, she spotted an Asian man with a camera at Fujitsu's booth after hours. Fujitsu is a fiber-optic telecom firm. On display are the company's most advanced products, which took years to develop. The director of competitive intelligence at Fujitsu was soon alerted. In the camera, he saw photos of equipment from Fujitsu and its competitors, including Cisco, Nortel, and AT&T. The Asian man turned out to be a Huawei engineer named Yibin Zhu. Huawei later said the man was acting alone and had been fired, adding he was a junior engineer. However, the indictment noted the man's resume stated he was a senior engineer at the time. In separate testimony, former Huawei employee Linda Schneider recalled a company meeting that concerned her. Around 2011, a Huawei engineer from China said he had found an Amazon Web Services patent and could implement it in Huawei products. Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform and a competitor of Huawei. Schneider said the engineer was excited about his discovery. But she panicked because engineers are not supposed to read and implement other companies' patents, which are protected by law. When she told the Chinese engineer this, he was confused, saying they were encouraged to read and use patents. She believes the direction came from Huawei management in China. A Chinese man who worked as a Customs and Border Protection supervisor is accused of illegally modifying computers used by Homeland Security at land borders. He allegedly swapped out the components. NDD's David Lam reports. The FBI announces that CBP Supervisor Terry Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese man, was seen on security footage in January making alterations to several DHS computers. He was arrested and later admitted to having replaced computer parts with cheaper parts during overnight shifts. The criminal complaint says Liu traded the original government computer parts for credit to a retailer receiving offers of $200 per processor. This comes as the FBI identifies counterintelligence and espionage from the Chinese Communist Party as a threat to the U.S. According to the FBI, Liu had IT-related duties but was not authorized to modify computers and was told specifically not to do so. In 2025, CBP personnel found computers with non-standard processors, memory, and hard drives. Many of them were connected to the Border Protection Network. Liu is charged with theft and damage of government property involving 46 computers at three border facilities in Maine. The government estimates that replacing all 46 computers would cost more than $100,000, not including configurations. David Lam, NTD News. And it's been one year since Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University. The memorial was held on campus yesterday marking the somber anniversary supporters and members of Turning Point gathered to reflect and pay tribute. NTD's Christina Corona tells us more from Orem, Utah. We're here at Utah Valley University where just one year ago, Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on this campus. Today, friends, supporters, and special guests are honoring Charlie's life and legacy. Tonight, Turning Point USA held an event called Freedom Built to Last Memorial honoring Charlie Kirk, featuring special guest speakers including Glenn Beck, Michael Knowles, Christian author Frank Turek, and several TPUSA representatives. He's known for a folding table on campus talking to one person at a time, listening to somebody who came there to humiliate him, treating that kid like a man that he knows was made in the image of God. Glenn Beck said the assassination was not political. I saw kids standing in line to be baptized. I saw people go back to church. I saw people buy a suit because they didn't have a suit and they thought, I've got to go to church and I want to dress up. Bibles sold out. This whole movement crossed the oceans in hours. That's not political. That's the almighty God. Political commentator Michael Knowles also reflected on Kirk's lasting influence. He was the most important and effective political activist of our generation. And so, because he was political, he mattered to all of us. A bronze statue of Charlie Kirk seated in a folding chair was unveiled on stage at the campus. Some attendees told NTD what they admire most about Charlie. Definitely his dedication to the cause. He definitely believed in what he was doing and he was determined until the end to do it. He was somebody who wasn't afraid to speak even though it got him killed. But also, he promoted civil conversations with people in a world of violence and shouting and just serious verbal abuse. Definitely just that he's willing to debate anybody and that he's always had a kind demeanor. One year later, supporters here see Charlie's legacy continues to live on. Reporting from Orem, Utah, Christina Corona, NTD News. A California man has been arrested for allegedly paying L.A. homeless to sign ballot initiative petitions using stolen identities. He now faces two felony identity fraud counts. NTD correspondent Jason Blair has more. The Justice Department arrested and charged James Brass of California with identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud. Brass is accused of running a ballot petition fraud scheme in L.A.'s Skid Row. Allegedly, he and others paid homeless people to sign ballot initiative petitions using stolen identities of registered voters. They're preying on the homeless population there. Obviously, you have a very vulnerable group there and they're willing to do basically anything for a few bucks. And so, he's using them to commit fraud. Also, two of Brass' alleged employees, Jatisha Heron and Courtney Price, were charged in the case. All three face a conspiracy count. Brass and Price also face an identity fraud count. Mr. Brass and his co-conspirators, they had access to registered voters' information on an application and they were able to bring up those voters' names and then they were paying homeless people to sign in those voters' names. And the reason that's important is because he only got paid if he collected a signature from a valid registered voter. Bo'Keefe Media Group went undercover and caught the alleged scheme on camera. So, do you want to sign? Okay, the first one. I'm Joseph Albright. Okay. The first name? Joseph Albright. How much are you going to pay him? I'm giving him $2 right now for whatever he gave me. $2? Yeah. Bill Asaley also said the Justice Department knows who hired and paid Brass, but that information won't be released while the investigation is still ongoing. Jason Blair, NTD News. Next, we take a look at the inflation data. Monthly consumer prices rose 0.4% in August, mostly because energy prices are staying high. Energy prices overall rose 2.1% last month. Under that category, gas prices up almost 4% and that accounted for more than a third of the overall rise in the consumer price index. Food prices, they stayed fairly flat. Monthly core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, was up 0.3%. Consumers and businesses are feeling the high energy costs in the middle of the U.S.-Iran conflict. The national average for diesel topped $6 a gallon on Thursday after crude oil climbed back above $100 a barrel for the first time since May. And do Republicans have a fighting chance at the midterms? Unpack Trump's $5,000 promise plus highlights from the RNC convention tonight on Capitol Report at 7 p.m. Eastern time. And Ukraine keeps striking targets in Russia deep behind the front lines. Drivers in major Russian cities are seen waiting in line for gas again as Ukraine targets Russia's fuel supply. And today's international correspondent, Arian Pasdar, has the war update. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday posting these videos of attacks on targets in Russia. Zelensky says Ukraine struck seven different regions, A video posted on social media shows thick black smoke coming from the ozone warehouse in the Russian city of Saratov. The company confirms that the Ukrainian attack caused a fire at the center. And in St. Petersburg, dozens of drivers are seen queuing at gas stations as a fuel crisis is returning to Russia. Some gas stations have closed entirely, while others are only selling diesel. The local vice governor says the main reason for the shortages is logistical failures amid attacks on refining capacities. Russia experienced similar shortages in July when Ukraine first started targeting Moscow's energy sector. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, officials say Russian airstrikes injured eight civilians and caused a fire in a nine-story apartment building in Kiev on Friday morning. Moscow resumed attacks on the Ukrainian capital after a short ceasefire for a visit by a U.S. envoy. I'm so tired of this that I don't know what to say. I don't see anything positive. Things are only getting worse and worse. Zelensky says, quote, Russia's escalation with Shahed drones is gradually becoming increasingly terrorist in nature. The Ukrainian president adds that Ukraine's attacks on Russia's war machine are the appropriate way to respond. He's also calling on Western partners to increase sanctions on Russia. Ariane Pasdar, NTD News. And coming up in tennis, the U.S. Open is down to just four players, including a pair of Americans who will battle it out tonight. Dave Martin joins us with an update. Now for your sports news, we're joined by NTD's Dave Martin. Dave, we've got to start with the U.S. Open. The drama is really building now. You know, even though we don't have, you know, Carlos Alcaraz playing anymore, you know, he's always out. And Yannick Sinner did not even make the match. There's some exciting matches here. We're down to the men's semifinal action. Alexander Zverev, second-ranked Alexander Zverev, just won moments ago to advance the U.S. Open finals. This will be Zverev's third straight Grand Slam appearance. He also made the French Open finals and the Wimbledon finals earlier in the summer. Who he faces will be decided tonight. That's going to be the second men's semifinal match, pitting a couple of Americans against each other. It'll be ninth-ranked American Ben Shelton versus 12th-ranked Francis Tiapo. Both are coming off those incredible five-set wins earlier in the week. Shelton upset reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz a couple nights ago. Tiapo, he had that great escape, down two sets to love to win in five then on the same night over Alex Mickelson. Now, meanwhile, on the women's side, the finals are set for tomorrow. It'll be number one versus number two. Irina Sabalenka versus Elina Rebekina. Now, Sabalenka is a two-time reigning champion here at the U.S. Open. She's won four Grand Slams overall. However, Rebekina, she actually beat Sabalenka in the Australian Open finals. Who knows what'll happen here? Number one versus number two. This should be a good one. This is gonna be Saturday, 4 p.m. Eastern time right here in New York. And this semifinal between the two Americans, definitely something that should draw the nation's interest. But I want to move to baseball. Shoei Ohtani, what's the latest there with him? Yeah, Ohtani, boy, this has kind of changed this week. Earlier in the week, it was good news that he was coming back. Now, he's back on the injured list. He's officially on the Dodgers' injured list. If you remember, last week, after he had that four-strikeout game, he was wincing after that final strikeout. The Dodgers gave him four days off to recuperate. He then played on Monday this week, struck out a couple of more times, and reported afterwards his biceps issue was not getting better. So the Dodgers made the decision to put him on the injured list. Now, if you remember, Ohtani was also dealing with the knee soreness and the biceps issue over the last two months, which had been keeping him from pitching. Somehow, though, he had been able to hit. So the Dodgers, though, putting him on the injured list now, which is gonna keep him out at least 15 days. But you've got about two and a half weeks until the playoffs begin, and the Dodgers will most likely be in the playoffs, the first place in the National League West. They won seven straight games overall. They've got an 11-game lead over second-place San Diego Padres. So the Dodgers actually play tonight in Miami against the Marlins. That game starts at 7 p.m., one of 14 baseball games on tonight. All right, so Ohtani not chasing stats this year, but potentially postseason action. We'll see what happens there. He's got enough stats, I'd say, for a while, right? He's good. He's good. All he wants is championships. He did the 50-50 club. He's got enough, I'd say. Let's talk about what I love to talk the most about, college football. What's happening there? Preview for this weekend. Yeah, well, there's one huge game on, I would say, this week, and it's in your favorite conference, of course, Eric Caray. That's gonna be Saturday night, tomorrow night, fourth-ranked Texas hosting top-ranked Ohio State. This is the third straight season these two have played. Buckeyes beat Longhorns in the 2024 playoffs. It was really in 2025. Then won a year ago in Columbus in the regular season. This one's gonna be played down in Austin, Texas, starting at 7.30 Eastern time. That's tomorrow night. That's the big one. There's plenty more games on here. We've got, starting tonight, 23rd-ranked Missouri plays Kansas in the border war, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Then tomorrow, Saturday at noon, 11th-ranked Oklahoma plays at unranked Michigan. Also, 6th-ranked Oregon plays at Oklahoma State. Then at 3.30, 12th-ranked Alabama faces Kentucky for an SEC massive. And in the Big 12, at the same time, 15th-ranked BYU faces Arizona. Then in prime time, already discussed, Ohio State taking on Texas. But at 7 p.m., 18th-ranked Tennessee plays Georgia Tech. Then at 7.30, 13th-ranked Texas Tech plays at Oregon State. And we've got a Big 10, Big 12 battle as Iowa State plays Iowa. Finally, at 10.15 tomorrow night, 20th-ranked Utah faces Arkansas. So pretty much all the rest of the ranked teams that I actually did not mention are playing teams that are well, they are prepared to, they're expected to win by a lot of points, we'll say that. As you do in college football. Much like you'd say Western Michigan over, was expected to do to Michigan last week. So who knows what those other games, but yeah, that's a whole mouthful I've got going on Saturday. There's a whole lot of games there, I can barely spit it out in a whole minute. So it should be a lot of fun. A lot of college football action. I actually have a sports headline for you, Dave, as the commissioner of our Anti-Defense Football League. I, the commissioner, or the owner of the Weston Social Distancers, have brought on a new general manager and analytics pro, Raymond Lee, has joined my squad. I think this really puts me in a good position, bringing in strong analytical background, a money ball approach. I just wanted to let you know. Look out, look out, Dave. I'm a little intimidated right now already. Well, you heard it here first. You and Raymond, I'm not going to touch you guys, all right? No trade offers to you two, all right? All right, Dave. Thanks for joining. Stick around for this one. Crazy caught on camera moments from a double police chase where a suspect abandons one vehicle, then he steals a cop car, and eventually crashes into a house. Here's what happened, Dave. This is the shocking moment a stolen police cruiser was crashed into a home by a fleeing suspect in Ohio. Moments earlier, the suspect was being pursued in a different vehicle after Dayton police say he sped through an earlier crash scene. Officers stopped the SUV and the driver fled, but circled back around, jumped in a running police cruiser and took off. The stolen cruiser's dash cam then showed it speeding through a neighborhood before slamming into the home. Police say the suspect was taken into custody following an altercation. Several officers were injured in the incident but were treated as a precaution and released. Two people inside the home suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The suspect is now facing multiple felony charges from the pursuit, and police say he's also a suspect in several other felony cases. Another pursuit, also in Ohio, also involving an alleged stolen vehicle, also ended in a crash after authorities say a suspect struck a police cruiser and took off. The chase ended after the vehicle flew past a Strongsville officer, clipped an SUV and struck a utility pole, sending sparks flying overhead before rolling over and coming to a rest in a parking lot. WOIO reports the driver was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and was taken into custody. Finally, no crashes in this one, just a crash course in good judgment. California Highway Patrol video shows an eagle-eyed trooper spot a car with no visible license plate, give chase, then mysteriously spot the same vehicle with a fully visible plate. CHP says the driver admitted to using a remote-controlled plate-hiding device specifically to blow through express lanes and tolls undetected. The patrol says illegal gadgets like these end up costing the drivers more in the long run. And that's all for today's evening news, but for round-the-clock coverage, you can always visit us at Entity.com. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Cary Dunst. Stay true and kind and hold the line.