Hurricane Isaias Headed For Gulf Coast

0:00This briefing is brought to you by Easter Seals Disability Services. Real Belonging begins with all of us. Good morning everyone, I'm Kate Baldwin. It is Friday out to our 9th, Curier Five Things. Number one, the fur cam. The name of the storm is Eseis. And it's on the move and getting stronger fast, headed towards the Northern Gulf Coast with satellite imagery showing lightning flashes by the now category two. It is winds topping 100 miles per hour forcasters to say it could briefly jump to major category three hurricane status before making landfall later tonight. This will be the first US hurricane landfall in two years actually. People in Florida and Alabama are being told to prepare and get out now. Many seem boarding up homes and filling sandbags. Coastal communities could face up to seven feet of storm surge. 15 inches of rain is possible. And with this one, there's also a concern for tornado.

1:01Officials in Alabama are urging residents to follow coastal evacuation orders. It will deteriorate closer to midnight. It will get worse and worse. So definitely by 10 p.m. even in our area, we don't want to see anybody on the roadway unless it is absolutely necessary. With full fuel prices already so high, that's also something to watch here. Only 14% of US oil refining capacity lies in or near the storm's projected path, which is raising advocates are now about what happens if operations get knocked off line. You can follow the storm's track on the new CNN weather app. Number two, the Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee announced this morning that they have awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Human Rights Pioneer Navi P.L.I. for efforts to quote, promote peace and international law. She's had a long career. Gord and South Africa, she became a lawyer and defended Nelson Mandela. She served on South Africa's high court,

2:02where she played a big role in the anti-apartheid movement. Later, she was a judge at the International Criminal Court and on the International Tribunal that investigated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Navi P.L.I. is one of the great defenders of international legal principles in our time. Her distinguished career reminds us of the need to support, fortify and expand the global rule of law. Last year, she actually chaired the UN Commission that said Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, and finding the Israeli government rejected it. The committee also noted that they weren't able to get a hold of P.L.I. to notify her of the award. And the chair of the Nobel Committee asked during the announcement that she please pick up if she notices a call coming from a Norwegian number.

3:03So in case you're curious, Norway's international dialing code is plus 47. Number three, the debate fireworks. They were basically full on political brawls dressed up as campaign debates. It did not take long for the attacks to begin and get personal in a pair of debates for some of the most closely watched races this midterm, like in Michigan. The Democrat Abdul El Sayed went after Republican microaggers on health care inflation and the Iran war. Rogers in return attacked El Sayed's credibility and painted him as radical and dangerous. Here we are fighting the stupid war because people like him have been pushing for it for 20 years. When you've got an international problem, he's got to war for that. That's his approach. Every single situation, Iraq, Iran, and what other wars is he going to cheerly? That is dangerous. We cannot afford Abdul and we cannot risk his ideology. You're going to find out that this guy is not what he says he is. He is actually selling the best con I think I've ever seen.

4:04Michigan is a place the Democrats need to hold on to the seat in order to have a chance of winning the Senate majority. Another place for that, Georgia, and in Atlanta last night, the incumbent Democratic Senator John Ossoff, faced off with Republican challenger Mike Collins in a debate as well. This one turned ugly fast. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump. My opponent, a trust fund kid who's never had a job in his life. He wants to take control of this country with these weird and dangerous ideas with his radical friends. Those two are set to debate again next Tuesday with the same day that early voting begins in Georgia. Stick around for more. Whenever fall comes back around, it always feels like a fresh start.

5:06This year I've been layering in some styles from the new Louis Le Mans fall drop, because the weather is shifting and I find I have to be ready for the entire day and not just one part of it. Louis Le Mans fall line has some really versatile transitional pieces, so I can just wake up, throw on a matching set, add a jacket or a fleece, and head out, knowing that I'll feel comfortable enough to go wherever the day takes me. Check out the new fall arrivals in store and online now at LouisLe Mans.com. Number four, the Greek scandal, or you could also call this one the Gilfoil receipts, because a GOP donor says he is bringing them against the current US ambassador degrees, who's also the former fiancee of Don Junior. Here's the detail. The story comes from the Wall Street Journal, reporting that text messages show Kimberly Gilfoil tried to get a donor to pay off for $100,000 American Express Bill, days before her senate confirmation hearing to be US ambassador's grease, and pay that bill in a way that would not leave a paper trail. One message exchanged was reportedly said this, honey, please, I need you to get this done for me today.

6:13There was no question it was a quid pro quo. She knew she was nominated. She tried to cover it up, she wanted to paper it by coming up with this idea that it was for past consulting fees, and I wrote her that fake letter saying, here's for those fake consulting fees. That is Eric Dieter, the donor in question. The journal reports that Dieter did not make the payment, a lawyer for Gilfoil said the ambassador disputed the authenticity of the messages, but declined to provide specifics to the journal. He said that she had been paid to speak at events before her nomination, and was owed a balance for traveling to and supporting these patriotic events. Dieter says he didn't owe Gilfoil any balance. And one last thing, a story out of Minnesota and a boy who will be so bold to predict is going to win Halloween this year. Three, two, one. Whoa. That is 11 year old Dashdan, getting a fully tricked out Star Wars starfighter to attach to his wheelchair,

7:18complete with baby Yoda, a baby Yoda that moves. A nonprofit called Magic wheelchair built this Ford hymn. They do custom wheelchair costumes for families all over the country at no cost, and they absolutely knocked it out of the park, and will even suggest out of the galaxy for Dash, who has a rare form of muscular dystrophy. I recently finished watching every Star Wars movie. It was way cooler than I thought it would be, like honestly, it's very, very sick. Dash also does musical theater and power wheelchair soccer, but this Halloween, he will definitely, most definitely, absolutely 100% be the coolest trigger treater on the block. That is the story I take you into the weekend. I'm Kate Baldwin, those are the five things you need to know to get your day going. Then come back at noon Eastern for an all new episode of One Thing to keep you in the know about the biggest stories of the midterms.

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