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Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a drone attack that the Israeli military says killed four soldiers and wounded more than 60, including several who are in critical condition. Empire's Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv it's one of the most serious mass casualty attacks Hezbollah has caused in Israel. The drone attack took place in the central Israeli city of Binyamina. Hezbollah in Lebanon said it was targeting an Israeli military training base in the city.
Israeli rescue services say they treated more than 60 people with various degrees of injuries and that they were transferred to five hospitals. Israeli media said two drones had been launched and that Israel's anti-missile system intercepted one of them, but it was not clear why the other one was not intercepted. The Pentagon says it's sending an American air defense system to Israel following an Iranian missile attack two weeks ago. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
With just weeks to go until the election, both presidential candidates are on the campaign trail today, focusing on battleground states. Former President Trump is in Arizona, where early voting by mail and in person is underway. Early voting by mail and in person opened in Arizona earlier this week. So if you have a ballot, return it immediately. And if not, go vote. Get your you-know-what up and vote.
And Vice President Harris was in North Carolina today at a church this morning and then this afternoon at a rally in Greenville. So we have some hard work ahead of us, but we like hard work. We will win. She's courting black voters, especially black men. She's also encouraging people to cast their ballots as in-person early voting gets underway in North Carolina this week.
Floridians are struggling to recover after being hit with two hurricanes in two weeks. And here's Jacqueline Diaz has more from Hillsborough County. Shawna Thomas says she's lived in her Valrico home for two years. But she's not sure it's livable after heavy rains from Hurricane Milton caused the Alafia River to flood her neighborhood.
The river crested at more than 24 feet on Friday. That's considered a major flood stage according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It came in so fast and so hard that there was nothing that any of us could do. For now, she's sleeping in her car in the parking lot of Creekside Church of Christ. It's a strong community and we'll manage to get through one way or another. NOAA forecasts the Alifia to continue in the major or moderate flood stage through early this week.
Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News, Valrico, Florida. U.S. futures contracts are trading flat at this hour. Wall Street is closed tomorrow in observance of the federal holiday. This is NPR News.
