The Great America Show - October 09, 2024


Mid-Day Update： October 9, 2024


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

171.60405

Word count

475

Sentence count

28


Summary

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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

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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.