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Thats inside story. Hello, im ray suarez. Were just a few weeks away from the midterm elections but the dust has not settled in state by state battle over what you have to carry in the polls to prove youre you. When indianas i. D. Law made it to the Supreme Court of the United States, the justices ruled there is no clear evidence that demonstrating that those laws harm voters. Those who push to change voter i. D. Requirements in state after state say that the measures are meant to prevent voter fraud. What those same legislature has not provided is the evidence that voter fraud happens very mu...

Officials fear this could be a super spreader event. Were also following Tropical Storm sally as it closes in on the gulfs coast, expected to be a hurricane when it makes landfall sometimes tomorrow morning. Lets go to meteorologist chad myers. Good morning to you, chad. Its going to become a hurricane. The question is how bad and how directly is it expected to hit new orleans . Well, it depends. If the storm goes a little bit farther to the left in the cone, then new orleans gets a tremendous amount of rain. Also more surge. And maybe a foot of rain. We know because of the pumps that have to ...

Today, fentanyl is now driving the unprecedented number of drug overdoses in the United States. Joining me now to discuss the Opioid Epidemic and other issues is the director of the White House Office of National Drug control policy, dr. Rahul gupta. Thank you for coming to Washington Post live. Dr. Gupta thank you for having me. Appreciate it. The fentanyl overdoses are in evolution from the prescription pain meds epidemic from the early 2000s. Talk about that evolution and where does fentanyl come from and what is the administration doing now to stop it coming into the country . Dr. Gupta as...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome good morning, everybody. Im john walsh, im with the Washington Office unlike america and its my behalf or to want me to this mornings event on the International Impact of the u. S. Trend towards Marijuana Legalization. This is the sixth event in the brookings series on Legal Marijuana. It again in october 2012 with an eye to what might happen if, in fact, the states of colorado and washington voted to approve Legal Marijuana. In fact, that it happened. Weve had a series of events since then about federalism i...

Serious and lifethreatening weather conditions are expected as early as tomorrow evening from outer banks to new england. New york, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia and North Carolina plus the district of column yeah have already declared states of emergency. A Tropical Storm warning is in effect for parts of florida. Well have more updates on sandy later in the program. Right now i want to turn to politics. This, my friends, is 26. 86. 26. 86, not a hunl amount of money. Certainly not enough for a spiffy new iphone 5. It will get you plenty of itunes downloads. Not enough to take the whole fa...