Hey, this is Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

It's Tuesday, September 20th, and this is your morning wire afternoon update.

At least eight people were hospitalized Tuesday after part of a top floor of an apartment building

collapsed in the Chicago area.

Local news reports that the 36-unit apartment building experienced an explosion just before

9.30 Tuesday morning.

The southwestern border of the U.S. saw more than 2 million arrests of illegal immigrants

in one year for the first time ever.

That number does not include the estimated 800,000 plus Godaways, migrants who were able

to cross without being detained.

Hurricane Fiona left most of Puerto Rico without electricity, and over a million people

without water in the Dominican Republic.

Fiona is now a Category 3 hurricane, but is expected to intensify and become a Category 4.

It is now heading towards Turks and Cacos.

The White House is defending President Biden's record on inflation and deficit spending as

we enter the final stretch of the 2022 midterm elections.

White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein told Fox News Monday that the administration's

fiscal policy has not contributed to record high inflation.

And the answer based on over a trillion dollars of deficit reduction is no.

That doesn't negate the point that inflation is too high, which it is.

And we're doing everything we can to help.

The last couple of months have been arrested.

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