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Good morning.

I'm James Holman from the Washington Post

and this is the Daily 202 for Friday, October 12th.

In today's news, Michael has reduced from a hurricane to a tropical storm,

but at least six are dead and hundreds of thousands are still without power.

Dina Powell passes on the chance to be UN Ambassador, and President Trump looks to diffuse trade tensions

with China by agreeing to a meeting with

Shizhin ping next month in Buenos Aires? But first, the big idea. The Turkish government has told US officials that

they have audio and video recordings to support their conclusion that Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist

Jamal Keshogee was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Sources say that the recordings show a Saudi security team

detained Khashoggi in the consulate

after he walked in on October 2nd to obtain an official document he needed before his upcoming wedding.

Then they killed him and dismembered his body.

The audio recording in particular provides some of the most persuasive

and gruesome evidence that the Saudis are responsible for Koshogi's death.

One person with knowledge of the recording tells my post colleague Shane Harris that you can actually hear

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