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[0] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[1] It's Monday, October 3rd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] Authorities say that at least 88 people in Florida have lost their lives due to Hurricane Ian.
[3] Over 613 ,000 houses in the state still do not have electricity as of Monday.
[4] Florida Congressman Byron Donalds described the devastation on Fox News.
[5] We're devastated here.
[6] Fort Myers Beach, which is one of the large tourist destinations in the has just been obliterated.
[7] It looks like they fought a war on Fort Myers Beach.
[8] President Joe Biden is traveling to Puerto Rico today to survey the harm done by the hurricane and is set to make an official visit to Florida on Wednesday.
[9] Oil prices rose more than $4 a barrel on Monday, as OPEC announced a plan to cut oil production by a million barrels a day.
[10] This would be the largest reduction since the start of the COVID pandemic.
[11] Brazil's president, Jaya Bolsonaro, had an unexpectedly strong showing in his election Sunday, clinching his spot for a runoff, which will be held on October 30th.
[12] Bolsonaro's right -wing allies won 13 of the 27 seats up in the Senate.
[13] Brazil's currency and stock markets surged on the news.
[14] Sweden sent a dive team and the Coast Guard on Monday to investigate the cause of the Nordstream pipeline explosions.
[15] The Danish Energy Agency says both Nord Stream 1 and 2 have stopped leaking.
[16] Former CIA director David Petraeus, the general who led the U .S. forces in Iraq in 2007 and said this week that Russia cannot win its war against Ukraine.
[17] And if Russian President Vladimir Putin uses tactical nuclear weapons, the U .S. will lead NATO in an unprecedented attack against Russia.
[18] He is losing.
[19] And the battlefield reality he faces is, I think, irreversible.
[20] In other words, over the last seven months, President Zelensky and Ukraine have mobilized vastly better than has Russia.
[21] In other words, Ukraine has recruited, trained, equipped, organized and employed forces in comparatively better than Russia has.
[22] Hillary Clinton might be gearing up to run for the nation's highest office one more time in 2024 after her latest criticism of President Joe Biden.
[23] That's according to former longtime Clinton advisor, Dick Morris.
[24] I believe the person that's going to be to the Democratic nominee is none other than our friend Hillary Clinton.
[25] Ocean shippers are revealing another sign that the global economy is in dire straits, as U .S. shippers are seeing a 20 % drop in ocean freight orders for things such as machinery, household products, industrial products, and some apparel.
[26] According to CNBC, freight prices on one key route from Asia to the West Coast are now down more than 80 % from last year.
[27] And Google has stopped its Google Translate product in mainland China, saying in a statement it is due to low usage.
[28] Those are your drive -home updates this afternoon.
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