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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Florida is attempting to recover after being hit by Hurricane Milton this week. Residents who had fled the storm are returning home to see what's left. The state is opening more fuel sites as people make the trip on crowded highways.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urges everyone be careful. We have continued to see, unfortunately, some fatalities as a result of things like downed power lines. So please continue to exercise caution as you recover from the storm. He says the schools will reopen on Monday and power has been restored to more than 2 million customers.
The website Power Outage U.S. says more than one million Florida homes and businesses are still without electricity. Vice President Harris and former President Trump have been campaigning in the swing state of Nevada, hoping to shore up support as mail-in ballots go out for delivery. Trump will attend an event in Las Vegas this afternoon. Harris was in the city for a town hall earlier in the week, speaking to Latino voters.
Christopher Alvarez of member station KNPR reports. Amanda DeJesus is a Democrat from Las Vegas who rallied in support of the vice president ahead of the town hall. She's interested in Harris's plan to provide first-time homebuyers with down payment assistance. Everything is expensive. Everything is going really, really high. So I believe she has a couple of policies and stuff that she wants to put in place for economy issues.
like first-time homeowners. At the town hall, Harris also touched on her plan to expand the child tax credit. Child care costs in Nevada are among the highest in the country. Later today, Trump will join an Hispanic roundtable near Las Vegas focused on the economy.
For NPR News, I'm Christopher Alvarez in Las Vegas. The U.N. says efforts to evacuate patients from hospitals in northern Gaza were delayed again yesterday because of heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants.
NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Tel Aviv the fighting is also preventing critically needed food from reaching the area. The UN says a convoy of ambulances dispatched from the south of Gaza was blocked Friday by the Israeli military despite earlier being given the green light to enter the area. The Israeli military ordered a mass evacuation of northern Gaza a week ago including several hospitals to root out Hamas militants particularly around the Jabalia refugee camp.
The UN's World Food Program says that kitchens and bakeries in North Gaza were forced to shut down because of Israeli airstrikes, ground operations and evacuations, and that no food aid has reached the north since October 1st when the main crossings into the area were closed. The WFP says the only functioning bakery in North Gaza caught fire after being hit by an explosive device. Jackie Northam, NPR News, Tel Aviv. This is NPR News in Washington.
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