Its 4 00 in New York. A major hurricane, the largest city under indictment, ukraines president at the White House right now, and just 40 days to go until Election Day in america. No shortage of big stories, big news on multiple fronts today. Down in florida, Hurricane Helene is bearing down on the Gulf Coast threatening to bring surging waters that officials warn are, quote, unsurvivable. It is currently a category 3 but expected to strengthen before it makes landfall later today. Well get an update at 5 00 eastern. Then Vice President harris has just wrapped remarks in a joint appearance with ukrainian President Zelenskyy. One of the biggest Foreign Policy crises facing President Biden and the next american president right into the 2024 president ial contest. Donald trump lashing out at ukraines leader, making claims that could have come straight out of the mouth of Vladimir Putin. Well have all those stories and much more over the next two hours. We begin with the stunning News Right
Elections the countrys president wants a 3rd term but the opposition says thats unconstitutional and hope boycotting the vote. A michael welcome to the program the death toll from an earthquake off the coast of turkey is rising as rescuers rushed to find survivors in the rubble more than 20 people are now confirmed dead and several 100 others injured the magnitude 7 quake struck in the aegean sea between the greek island of some of us and the Turkish Coast much of the damage is in the Turkish Coastal city of is near where several buildings were brought to the ground. Its a race against time rescue workers in izmir are trying to find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building suddenly cheers from the crowd. Someone was found. But others were unable to escape. But. I thought that the ground had shattered you cant think in that moment all you can try to do is get out everything was collapsing around us our building stayed intact but we were really panicked and managed to get out at t
Talked to one of the residents in the area this morning who i was asking him when i got here to the know exactly where the statue was because its no longer here and he was shocked because he was like wow i run by here every morning and its no longer here which is really strange to not see it so last week and the leaks weeding up the weeks leading up to this day. Well people in the area and protesters were calling for the removal or loot removal. Of the sir Francis Drake sculpture that was because of the according to them, sir Francis Drakes controversial past and saying that he had ties to slavery. Now hundreds of people last week take to the streets and demonstration asking not only for the removal of a sculpture out here but also they wanted removal from street signs as well as park locations. They even like you mentioned aria got that petition online and thousands of signatures. Well there so again residents waking up this morning to the removal of that sculpture again were going to
Been working through the day with Governor Newsom and his administration through their unified command efforts in california. We have developed a plan which will be implemented this weekend. All passengers and crew will be tested for the coronavirus. There are 3,500 people on board this ship. The Vice President says that anyone who needs to be quarantine forward a positive test will be placed into isolation. Where might that cruise ship come ashore. There are several noncommercial ports where the vessel could drop anchor. Tom is joining us from outside the state lab in richmond where those tests were processed. What do you think are some of the possibilities that Health Officials are looking at . Reporter when you say noncommercial port, i assume that means, or one should assume that means, a port that doesnt handle cruise ships and things like that. There are plenty of ports in the San Francisco bays that could easily handle this boat. Lets look at a few numbers. This boat is 950 feet
Starbucks on the corner of antioch street and mountain blvd at around 00 30am in the morning. This is video of 2 growing memorials, theyre honoring the man who died. The victim suffered a fatal blow to his head when he chased after the suspect who sped off in a getaway car. We spoke with a Business Owner in the area and she describes what she saw. And i saw the car racing by that. Stole his computer and they were going so fast. It was disturbing because ive been in this business for 17 years and ive never seen a car go that fast and it was going so fast and made a lefthand turn and screeched around there. I was on the phone to my daughter and i told or something i dont know whats going on that that car just went like a bat out hail. And today we learned the 2 suspects have been arrested in connection with this but we have yet to learn who exactly they are back to you. With the survivors and the truth and were armed not just with the law was are true. Attorneys for a man who says he was