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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. The war in Gaza is intensifying. Gaza health authorities say a new wave of Israeli strikes has killed at least 56 people. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports. NPR producer Anas Baba watched funeral processions in central Gaza. Funerals are nonstop.
Families are waving goodbyes, the last farewell for their beloved. The Israeli military called it a precise strike on Hamas militants plotting attacks inside a mosque. Across from the mosque is the hospital morgue. There was no need for any ambulances to carry all of the death. They just carried it away from the one gate to another. Hakima al-Jamal saw her father take his last breath as he was carried out of the mosque. She says, enough world, enough. Tomorrow will be a complete year of war.
Israel's military is deploying more troops near the Gaza border to protect memorial ceremonies marking one year since the Hamas attacks. Daniel Estrin, NPR News. Florida is preparing for what's expected to be another major hurricane. Just days after Hurricane Helene hit the state, Milton strengthened into a hurricane today in the Gulf of Mexico.
Daniel Pryor from Central Florida Public Media reports. Milton is expected to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday before it rips across the tourism hub in the Orlando area. Florida Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie says he's preparing his team for not only more power outages than with Hurricane Helene, which led to hundreds of thousands of outages, but also for evacuations. And I have the state emergency response team preparing
for the largest evacuation that we have seen most likely since 2017, Hurricane Irma. The state's resources that have been deployed to North Carolina to help with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts have been sent back home to Florida ahead of Milton. Governor Ron DeSantis has placed 51 counties under a state of emergency ahead of the storm.
For NPR News, I'm Danielle Pryor in Orlando. 30 days before Election Day, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, won't say if former President Donald Trump lost in 2020. NPR's Luke Garrett reports. ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asks Speaker Johnson whether he can unequivocally say President Joe Biden won in 2020 and Trump lost.
Johnson calls the question a gotcha game by the mainstream media. We're not going to talk about what happened in 2020. We're going to talk about 2024 and how we're going to solve the problems for the American people. When pressed, Johnson says there's no question Biden is the sitting president. The speaker was also asked if he would certify the 2024 election results if Trump lost. I'm going to follow the Constitution. Article 2 of the Constitution is very clear. Congress has a very specific role and we must fulfill it.
In 2020, Johnson played a key role in the legal effort to overturn Trump's losses in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The effort failed, but Johnson voted against certifying now-President Biden's win. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington. This is NPR News in Washington.
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