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Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's west coast, expected to make landfall this morning. Milton threatens to cause potentially lethal storm surge. NPR's Sergio Martinez Bertran has the latest. Millions of residents living in Tampa, Sarasota and Fort Myers are under mandatory or voluntary evacuations ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. But time is running out for those who have yet to leave. Yes, in my case, yes. Are you going to stay here in the city?
Juan Domingo says he is staying in Fort Myers because there's nowhere else to go. Many hotels in the area have shut down and evacuated guests. And although Governor Ron DeSantis says there's no fuel shortage, many gas stations in the Fort Myers area have run out of gasoline.
Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Fort Myers, Florida. Cleanup and recovery efforts continue in areas that were damaged by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago, causing more than 130 deaths. FEMA officials say that misinformation about the government's response to recent disasters is hurting the effort.
In hard-hit Asheville, North Carolina, Mayor Esther Manheier agrees. It's astonishing to me that in a moment, in a crisis like this, for so many individuals, that anyone would spend time spreading hate, spreading lies, and making anti-Semitic hate speech against me or any other person who is Jewish in this situation. Governors and local officials in communities hit by Helene say the Biden administration is helping,
and has offered whatever assistance they might need to recover.
Hundreds of students at UC Berkeley walked out of classes Tuesday to protest Israel's ongoing war against Hamas and other groups. The demonstration was met by a small counter-protest of pro-Israel students. From member station KQED in San Francisco, Azul Dahlstrom Ekman has more. Pro-Palestinian students are demanding the university divest financially and academically from Israel and calling for an end to the conflict there.
Zaid Youssef is a law student at UC Berkeley. We stand with the people of Palestine. We demand an end to this violence that has escalated from just Gaza to the West Bank, to Lebanon, to Yemen, to Iraq, to Iran. Israel is...
questioning and causing the instability of the entire Middle East. About half a dozen students draped in Israeli flags showed up to counter-protest, carrying signs demanding the return of hostages still held by Hamas. Tensions ran high as students on both sides screamed at each other, a year after Israel began bombing Gaza in response to the October 7th attack by Hamas. For NPR News, I'm Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman in Berkeley.
U.S. futures are flat and after hours trading on Wall Street, when Asia-Pacific market shares are mixed, down 6% in Shanghai. This is NPR. Brazil's Supreme Court says X, formerly called Twitter, may resume operations there. The social media site had been blocked in Latin America's market as owner Elon Musk and Brazilian regulators fought over disinformation and freedom of expression.
NPR's Carrie Khan has the story. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alessandro de Moraes ruled that the social platform could immediately return to its activities. That was only after Elon Musk complied with the high court's orders to take down accounts it deemed harmful to Brazil's democracy. Authorities accused X of engaging in criminal activity to disseminate hate speech and fake news.
The months-long feud between Justice Moraes and Musk came to a head five weeks ago when X was shut off in Brazil. Musk claimed he was being illegally censored and refused to comply even as tens of millions of Brazilian X users moved to rival platforms. The company relented, taking down offending sites, paying outstanding fines and naming local legal representation. Carrie Khan, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.
The Justice Department is suing the parent of L.A. Fitness, alleging the company discriminates against people with disabilities. DOJ says L.A. Fitness has failed to make adjustments to its chain of gym facilities.
Qantas Airways is apologizing for showing an R-rated movie during a recent flight from Sydney to Tokyo. The film was displayed on every screen in the passenger cabin until airline staff, responding to complaints, were able to turn it off and put on a family-friendly program. The Australian-based carrier blames the problem on technical issues. This is NPR News.
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