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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Biden says the cost of rebuilding from Hurricane Milton alone could be $50 billion. And here's Mara Liason has more.
President Biden gave his daily hurricane update to reporters, saying that more than 3 million people lost power because of Hurricane Milton. but he said 50,000 power line workers from 43 states and Canada had come to Florida to help restore the lines.
He said he'd spoken to 50 to 75 officials from North Carolina to Georgia, including mayors and county executives, about the damage from Milton and Hurricane Helene. He said he'll be asking Congress for a lot of reconstruction funding, but he doesn't know exactly how much.
And he repeated his promise to the hurricane victims that the government will do everything it can to help them pick up the pieces and get back to where they were. Mara Liason, NPR News.
The U.S. is imposing more sanctions on Iran's energy sector to protest Iran's missile attack on Israel earlier this month. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports the U.S. is trying to persuade Israel not to hit Iranian energy sites in response.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has made clear there would be consequences for what he calls Iran's unprecedented October 1st attack on Israel. And so, he says, the U.S. is expanding sanctions on Iran's petroleum and petrochemical sector, adding 16 entities and 17 vessels to a U.S. blacklist. They include companies based in China and India.
The sanctions come as Israel vows to retaliate for the missile attack from Iran. The U.S. has been encouraging Israel not to strike nuclear or energy sites or do anything that would provoke a further response from Iran. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
TikTok is defending itself after confidential court records about the company were revealed by NPR and Kentucky Public Radio. NPR's Bobbi Allen reports the material shows how TikTok executives and staff discussed the app's negative effect on young people.
Kentucky Public Radio and NPR obtained dozens of pages of redacted court records as part of 14 states' child safety lawsuits against TikTok. The document showed TikTok released some tools to safeguard kids as a way of, quote, improving public trust. One company executive was quoted in redacted documents as saying that TikTok could get such a grip on young people.
that it could interfere with sleeping, eating, and even looking at someone in the eyes. In response, a TikTok spokesman says the material cherry-picks misleading quotes and takes outdated documents out of context. In a slide from a TikTok presentation, the company said after viewing about 260 videos, teens can start forming a habit. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
Wall Street higher by the bell with the Dow and S&P 500 closing at a record. The Dow is up 409 points, Nasdaq up 60. This is NPR News. This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to Nihon Haidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group made up of survivors from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings by the U.S. in World War II for its work toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.
120,000 residents of the two cities were incinerated or died in the months and years that followed the bombing as a result of burns and radiation. The Nobel Committee says it chose the group for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and efforts that they are never to be used again.
Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, is laying off 1,100 employees just outside Detroit effective tomorrow. And here's Andrea Hsu reports the layoffs represent only a part of the company's problems in the U.S.
The layoffs in Warren, Michigan, come as Stellantis ends production of the Ram 1500 Classic truck, which has been discontinued. The cuts were first announced in August, around the same time the company said it was delaying plans to reopen an idle plant in Belvedere, Illinois. a key promise made in contract negotiations last year.
The United Auto Workers Union has threatened to strike over the delay, blaming Stellantis for what it calls gross mismanagement. The automaker says a strike would be illegal, maintaining that market volatility and a slow adoption of EVs led to a shift in plans. As Stellantis grapples with declining sales, the company says it will be implementing layoffs across its footprint. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
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