THE SHOW NOTES: Hurricane Milton, October 7th, & Kamala Has No Answer

Welcome! Today marks the one year anniversary of Hamas’s attacks on southern Israel.

LOLOL: Thom Tillis is roasting Kamala Harris. - X

NEW: Kamala Harris appeared on a podcast with a previous episode titled “Welcome To Slut Camp.”

HEADLINE: New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Trump-Harris race tightens after Vance debate 'win' - Yahoo

HELENE: A group of about 100 volunteer helicopter pilots is flying around 400 relief missions a day over North Carolina - CNN

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Hurricane Milton

The state of Florida is expecting the largest evacuation since 2017 as a surging Hurricane Milton barrels towards the Tampa Bay region.

The category five storm is carrying 150+ mph sustained winds and has doubled in intensity over the past 24 hours. The storm is projected to hit just 10 days after Hurricane Helene devastated much of the area leaving massive amounts of debris sitting on the side of the road.

DeSantis: “You get hit with a major hurricane, what’s going to happen to that debris? It’s going to increase the damage dramatically.” When one Florida County refused to follow DeSantis’ order that landfills be open 24/7 to get as much debris off the street as possible, DeSantis ordered the gates ripped off.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moodey: “You probably need to write your name in permanent marker on your arm so that people know who you are when they get to you afterwards.”

Meteorologist Alex Boreham: “Why is #Milton strengthening so quickly? Part of the reason is the inner core's size. The radius of maximum wind of 18km is relatively small, and radar has the look of the dreaded pinhole eye. Smaller core means less work/latent heat release needs to be done to drop pressures”

Kamala Has No Answer

CBS’s Bill Whitaker pressed Kamala Harris for answers on how she would pay for her economic agenda. It was bad.

WSJ: Putin’s ‘Merchant of Death’ Is Back in the Arms Business. This Time Selling to the Houthis.

Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants.

The 57-year-old, whose life reportedly inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie, “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, spent decades selling Soviet-made weapons in Africa, South America and the Middle East before being arrested in 2008 in a U.S. law-enforcement sting operation.

Since his release, Bout has joined a pro-Kremlin far-right party and won a seat in a local assembly in 2023, seemingly turning the page on his days as an arms broker. But when Houthi emissaries went to Moscow in August to negotiate the purchase of $10 million worth of automatic weapons, they encountered a familiar face: the mustachioed Bout, according to a European security official and other people familiar with the matter.

Full story at The Wall Street Journal (paywall).

Scott Jennings on CNN

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Franklin Graham on Helene Recovery

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