Thursday, September 26, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
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Thursday briefing: Election polls; Hurricane Helene’s path; Eric Adams indictment; government shutdown averted; Meta AI; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Hurricane Helene is closing in on Florida. |
| 0:05.0 | New York's mayor is facing federal charges. |
| 0:09.0 | And Meta's chatbot now sounds a lot like Judy Dench. |
| 0:13.7 | That's some of what we'll get to on the 7 from the Washington Post. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Rennie Srenozki and for Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:19.3 | It's Thursday, September 26th. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:24.0 | Number one, world leaders have been meeting with Donald Trump this week. |
| 0:32.0 | A lot of foreign leaders are in the US this week |
| 0:34.6 | to attend the UN General Assembly in New York and as part of their diplomatic trips |
| 0:39.6 | some have been seeking meetings with a Republican nominee for president. |
| 0:43.9 | Trump is scheduled to meet with the president of the United Arab Emirates, |
| 0:47.5 | Mohammed bin Zaid al-Nahyan, and British Prime Minister Kirst-Armer. |
| 0:52.1 | Trump also said he met the Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar at Maralago, |
| 0:56.4 | his private club and residence in Florida. |
| 0:58.6 | The meetings reflect an acknowledgement by a wide range of foreign governments that Trump may soon return to the White House. |
| 1:05.6 | Polling shows that the presidential election is very close. Vice President Kamala Harris |
| 1:10.6 | still leads by two points nationally, but she is leading in only three of the seven |
| 1:15.4 | battleground states that are most likely to determine the outcome of the election. |
| 1:28.2 | Number two, Hurricane Helene is expected to hit Florida's Gulf Coast tonight. I've never seen any like this, and it just started an hour ago. My God. |
| 1:34.7 | Helene is forecast to strengthen to an extremely dangerous category four storm |
| 1:39.4 | before it makes landfall at around 8 PM Eastern. It's an unusually large storm and forecasters say it could bring |
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