Day: October 8, 2024

Florida’s West Coast is bracing for the impact of Hurricane Milton which may have been downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane but has all officials and residents very worried. The greatest fear, besides high winds, is a possible new record storm surge which could reach fifteen feet high. Milton is expected to make landfall near Tampa Bay late Wednesday or very early Thursday. FOX’s John Saucier speaks with Bob Van Dillen, FOX Weather meteorologist reporting from Tampa, who says the storm surge concerns are very real and residents are heeding the warnings. Click Here To Follow ‘The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition’
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Florida’s West Coast is bracing for the impact of Hurricane Milton which may have been downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane but has all officials and residents very worried. The greatest fear, besides high winds, is a possible new record storm surge which could reach fifteen feet high. Milton is expected to make landfall near Tampa Bay late Wednesday or very early Thursday. FOX’s John Saucier speaks with Bob Van Dillen, FOX Weather meteorologist reporting from Tampa, who says the storm surge concerns are very real and residents are heeding the warnings. Click Here To Follow ‘The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition’
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Hurricane Milton has regained strength ahead of its expected landfall tomorrow night along Florida’s west coast. Palestinians evacuating northern Gaza say they’re being shot at by the Israeli military. China imposed tariffs on some imports from the European Union in a tit-for-tat response to bans on its electric vehicles. We’ll break down a new CNN analysis about both presidential campaigns’ tv ad strategy. Plus, a new report from the CDC details how significantly social media is linked to teen’s mental health.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a fourth division had joined the eight-day-old ground operation seeking to dismantle Hezbollah targets and infrastructure. Meanwhile, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told officers that the successor of assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “was probably also eliminated”. He spoke hours after Nasrallah’s former deputy, Naim Qassem, insisted the Iran-backed group had overcome the recent “painful blows” from Israel and that its capabilities were “fine”. We hear from former peace negotiators and to young Israelis and Palestinians about the chances of an end to the violence. Also on the programme: We hear from Florida, as what could be the biggest storm in a century approaches; and the mountaineer who almost died, stranded in the Indian Himalayas, on the moment danger struck. (Picture: Smoke rises following Israeli military strike on Khiam town, near Lebanese Israeli border, Lebanon Credit: STR/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports residents on Florida’s Clearwater Beach are getting ready for Helene with a mix of resignation and fear.

5PM ET 10/08/2024 Newscast
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On today’s “Post Reports,” we look into why Republicans are waging legal battles to disqualify mail-in ballots, and why rhetoric against mail voting might actually hurt their presidential candidate. Read more: Since 2020, the Republican Party has waged a nationwide legal campaign to reject mail-in ballots . From Wisconsin to North Carolina to Nevada, Republicans say much of their litigation is aimed at enforcement of election law, down to the letter. But critics see a strategy that has nothing to do with election integrity — and everything to do with disqualifying voters who cast ballots by mail, an overwhelming majority of whom support Democrats. At the same time, Republicans are also ramping up their get-out-the-vote operations, which include pushing their supporters to use mail-in ballots . On today’s “Post Reports,” Elahe Izadi speaks with democracy reporter Colby Itkowitz about Republicans’ efforts to get mail-in ballots thrown out in Pennsylvania, and about the have-it-both-ways strategy they’re employing in this election. And we hear from an election official in Pennsylvania’s Lycoming County — a GOP-leaning area in the center of the state — who’s sick of the fighting. Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy, with help from Sabby Robinson and Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter. Thank you to Griff Witte and HyoJung Kim. Subscribe to The Washington Post here .

Panelists discuss Russia’s broader strategy beyond Ukraine, including efforts to expand the conflict through cyberattacks and arson across Europe, as well as possible election interference in the United States.