The Great America Show - October 09, 2024


Mid-Day Update： October 9, 2024

Hosted by
John Fawcett Lou Dobbs
Mentioned
Donald Trump Milton Lee Smith
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ON HIS WAY TO A NOVEMBER VICTORY Mid-Day Update： October 10, 2024

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

171.6

Word count

475

Sentence count

26


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Hurricane Milton bears down on the west coast of Florida, more than 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate the area as it approaches land. A major campaign rally at New York s Madison Square Garden has been booked by President Donald Trump for later this month as he enters the final stretch of the campaign.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, October 9th.
00:00:05.440 Hurricane Milton is battering towards the west coast of Florida.
00:00:09.060 Milton was centered early Wednesday at about 360 miles southwest of Tampa with the maximum sustained winds of 160 miles an hour.
00:00:16.400 This according to the National Hurricane Center.
00:00:18.820 As it closed in, more than 1 million people in coastal area regions remained under evacuation orders,
00:00:24.820 those fleeing for higher ground battling clogged highways and shuttered gas stations across the state.
00:00:29.320 Further rattling, a region still recovering from devastating impacts of Hurricane Alene less than two weeks ago.
00:00:36.420 Tampa Bay, which is home to 3.3 million people, is expected to get the eye of the storm.
00:00:41.640 The National Hurricane Center predicted Milton, a monstrous Category 5 hurricane,
00:00:45.940 during much of its approach would likely weaken but remain a major hurricane when it makes landfall on Wednesday night.
00:00:51.600 President Trump is in his final 26 days until Election Day on November 5th looking to poll blue states.
00:00:58.700 A major campaign rally at New York's iconic Madison Square Garden has been booked by President Donald Trump for later this month
00:01:05.860 as he enters the final stretch of 2024.
00:01:08.800 The rally at Madison Square Garden is part of President Trump's attempt to flip some of these deep blue states red in the 2024 election.
00:01:16.300 President Trump drew about 16,000 fans for a celebratory gathering at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island last month.
00:01:23.780 And in the Bronx, President Trump held a rally over the summer, delivering about 10,000 Trump supporters to Cortona Park,
00:01:31.300 which had a permanent allowance of only 3,500 people.
00:01:34.840 Madison Square Garden hosted the DNC in 1924, 1976, 1980, and 1992, also hosting the RNC in 2004.
00:01:45.840 For President Trump to be holding a rally in Madison Square Garden, which will hold over 20,000 people,
00:01:52.140 must show his internal polling that he's got a chance in New York.
00:01:56.260 New report out from medical watchdog group Do No Harm shows that hospitals in the U.S.
00:02:01.240 earn nearly $120 million in four years for performing gender transition treatments on nearly 14,000 children,
00:02:09.560 ready for this, under the age of 18.
00:02:12.120 The new watchdog group showed that between 2019 and 2023,
00:02:16.700 as many as 5,700 minors underwent sex chain surgeries,
00:02:20.520 while 8,500 used puberty blockers or sex hormones.
00:02:23.640 Folks, America is heading down a bad path, and I think there's only one way to save us,
00:02:27.720 and that's on November 5th.
00:02:29.400 Please be sure to join us today for The Great America Show.
00:02:31.800 Our guest is author Lee Smith.
00:02:34.140 Lee has a new book out.
00:02:35.220 It's titled Disappearing the President, Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic.
00:02:40.900 Join us for that today on The Great America Show.
00:02:43.020 I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:02:45.140 Have a great day, folks.