States have sued the Social Media platform, accusing it of helping to drive a mental Health Crisis among teenagers. A bipartisan group of 1a Attorney generals from across the country allege the company uses addictive features to hook children to the app. They also claim its intentionally misled the public about the safety of prolonged use. Tiktok has called the lawsuit disappointing. The platform is already battling a law passed by congress in april that would ban it from the us unless a chinese Parent Company agrees to sell it. Details now from New York. To sell it. Details now from New York to sell it. Details now from New York. , ,. , New York. The lawsuits from more than New York. The lawsuits from more than a New York. The lawsuits from more than a dozen New York. The lawsuits from more than a dozen states New York. The lawsuits from i more than a dozen states argue tiktok was deliberately designed to keep young people hooked on the service. The massively popular Video App is used
Illegally crushed its competition in online search any landmark ruling back in august. The Case Centres on google accounting for 90 of such inquiries in the united states, which is similar to other countries. One of the crucial ways it does so well is the more than 26 Billion in annual payments it is thought to make two Smartphone Makers to make two Smartphone Makers to beat their default search engine. The advertising around the search meant its latest results, alphabet reported a profit of 23. 6 Billion in the three months until the end of june. The us government says it is harming competitors and fully remedying these harms requires not only ending its control of Distribution Today, but also ensuring google cannot control the distribution of tomorrow. Google said in a Blog Post the melodies were radical and would have. To go through this now i am joined by the managing director. The key question i have is can or should google be broken up . You no back to should google be broken up
People are being urged to leave coastal and low lying areas of florida as Hurricane Milton, expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in a century, moves closer to the states West Coast. President biden has warned evacuating is a matter of life and death. These pictures are coming into us live from the state of florida. This is the sunshine skyway bridge, the gateway to Tampa Bay, normally a very busy road even early in the day but pretty much deserted now, clearly very exposed and certainly not somewhere anyone would want to be as the hurricane approaches. Although those winds and rain not being really fully felt yet, if we look at this picture of some Palm Trees you can see they are moving a little bit in the breeze but those winds will get stronger and stronger. The national Hurricane Center saying that milton is bringing sustained winds of around 155 miles per hour, as we look at this track. It was downgraded a short while ago to a Category Fourfrom Category short while ago
That time to get out is now maybe helene was just a rehearsal for whats to come. A helene was a surge, but milton is a monster this case is not about regulating the content that is shown to tiktok users. Its about tiktoks, old bad conduct, the damage being done to young people could be permanent Donald Trump has this. Desire to be a dictator. He admires strongmen and he gets played by them because he thinks that theyre his friends shares. They go yeah just like the beautiful city of Milwaukee Newsroom with Max Foster and Christina Macfarlane hello, a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the u. S. And around the world. Im Max Foster and im Christina Macfarlane. Its wednesday, october 9, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. On floridas West Coast. Were in a matter of hours. One of the strongest atlantic hurricanes ever will slam into the state millions of people are under either mandatory or voluntary Evacuation Orders of this hour with officials and Health Weather experts alike
Being taken care of. And it really is its unamerican, it really is. People are scared to death. People know their lives are at stake, all that theyve worked for, all that they own, all that they value. President Joe Biden Yesterday addressing misinformation on Helene Recovery efforts spread by Donald Trump and his allies. And that comes as Hurricane Milton is gaining strengthen in the gulf and expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours. Well have the latest Storm Track and a live report from florida straight ahead. Plus, a new book by longtime journalist, Bob Woodward, is putting Donald Trumps relationship with russian president vladimir putin back in the spotlight. And meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris continues her media blitz, making more high profile appearances with now less than four weeks until election day. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, october 9th. We are now 27 days until the president ial election. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for start