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A JetBlue flight made an emergency landing in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday after suffering a flight control issue en route from Cancun, Mexico, to New Jersey. Jet Blue and the FAA said the plane experienced a sudden drop in altitude, resulting in injuries to some passengers. The airline did not disclose the number of injured parties or the severity of their injuries. Local media quoted Tampa Fire Rescue as saying that around 15 to 20 people were taken to hospitals with injuries that were not life-threatening.
To celebrate Halloween, the White House opened its gates on Thursday to younger guests. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted trick-or-treaters on the South Lawn. Children, parents, and families got to meet the first couple and collect full-sized candy bars. The guest list included military, law enforcement, foster, and adoptive families, as well as administration staffers with children.
Lawmakers in Washington are out of session amid the stalemate surrounding the month-long government shutdown. New York has declared a state of emergency to dip into local money to provide for $40 million in meals statewide for those who rely on SNAP benefits. Trump is also calling for Republicans to use the so-called "nuclear option" to slash the Senate's 60-vote threshold to a simple majority.
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To celebrate Halloween, the White House opened its gates on Thursday to younger guests. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted trick-or-treaters on the South Lawn. Children, parents, and families got to meet the first couple and collect full-sized candy bars. The guest list included military, law enforcement, foster, and adoptive families, as well as administration staffers with children.
Lawmakers in Washington are out of session amid the stalemate surrounding the month-long government shutdown. New York has declared a state of emergency to dip into local money to provide for $40 million in meals statewide for those who rely on SNAP benefits. Trump is also calling for Republicans to use the so-called "nuclear option" to slash the Senate's 60-vote threshold to a simple majority.
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00:00Welcome to NTV Good Morning.
00:04Here are today's top stories.
00:06We're now one month into the government shutdown.
00:09Some areas are planning to use local funds to pay for food stamps.
00:13And President Trump is now calling for Republicans to slash the Senate's 60-vote threshold,
00:18a move Democrats tried during Biden's first two years.
00:21Two people are dead in New York City as torrential rains lashed down on the city last night.
00:27Forecasters issued a wind advisory through midnight tonight.
00:31Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says his department is cracking down on illegal commercial driver's licenses,
00:38why he says the problem is rampant and what he plans to do about it.
00:42An accused killer now faces two murder indictments,
00:46including the June shooting of a congressional intern in Washington, D.C.
00:50Around 9 out of 10 people haven't heard of it, but about 90% are at risk of it.
00:56We'll have what you need to know about a recently defined medical condition with Dr. Marshall Runge.
01:02And Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says ICE will not pause operations on Halloween.
01:08That's in response to a request from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
01:12The price of candy is surging this Halloween as parents and kids alike prepare for a night of trick-or-treating.
01:19We've got that and more.
01:20This is NTD Good Morning.
01:33Live from our global headquarters in New York City, here are Stephanie Acox and Carrie Dunst.
01:39Good morning. Thanks for joining us.
01:41Today's Friday, October 31st. You're watching NTD Good Morning.
01:43Today's top news, the death toll in the Caribbean from Hurricane Melissa has risen to at least 49.
01:50Yeah, the hurricane has swept past Bermuda and it is still moving north.
01:54Haiti suffered the most casualties even though it wasn't directly hit.
01:58Authorities say 30 are dead and 20 missing after torrential rains and widespread flooding.
02:04In Jamaica, officials confirmed that they had 19 deaths and hundreds of thousands are still without power.
02:10After the island took the brunt of this Category 5 storm, satellite images showed flattened homes and stripped trees all across Jamaica
02:18as crews cleared the roads and the search efforts continued.
02:22In Cuba, more than 700,000 people were evacuated ahead of Melissa's arrival.
02:28The hurricane caused widespread damage to homes and crops, but no reported deaths there.
02:32Yeah, thankfully. And the U.S. has pledged immediate humanitarian aid to Cuba.
02:37Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday the U.S. will provide assistance directly as well as via local partners
02:44who are most capable of delivering the aid to those in need.
02:49And torrential rain in New York yesterday killed two people in the city.
02:53Yeah, the visuals coming in of flooded streets and water flowing down the stairs at subway stations.
02:59Flights were disrupted yesterday at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports as storms swept through the region.
03:05And down in Brooklyn, the streets turned into rivers with cars submerged and commuters wading through the deep floodwaters.
03:14Weather officials confirmed record-breaking rainfall in Central Park and LaGuardia Airport.
03:19And the National Weather Service issued coastal flood and wind advisories for all five New York City boroughs through midnight tonight.
03:27And a JetBlue flight made an emergency landing in Tampa yesterday after suffering a flight control issue.
03:34The passenger jet was en route from Cancun, Mexico to New Jersey.
03:38JetBlue and the FAA said the plane made a sudden drop in altitude, resulting in injuries to some passengers.
03:46Some were evaluated by medical personnel at the airport, and those needing more care were taken to a local hospital.
03:52The airline did not disclose the number of injured or the severity of their injuries.
03:58Local media quoted Tampa Fire Rescue as saying about 15 to 20 people were taken with non-life-threatening injuries.
04:05The FAA is still investigating the incident.
04:09We're now one month into the government shutdown, with food stamps set to lapse.
04:13Some local governments are resorting to emergency measures.
04:16President Trump is calling for Republicans to use the so-called nuclear option to bypass votes needed from Democrats in the Senate.
04:25NTD's Melina Weisskopf reports.
04:27Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., out of session amid a stalemate and a month-long government shutdown.
04:34It means that tens of millions of American families will struggle to keep food on the table because the SNAP program benefits will run dry.
04:42It means that WIC assistance, that's women, infants, and children, the nutrition programs, will be at risk of running dry.
04:51It means that Head Start centers, which serve 60,000 children nationwide, will be at risk of closure.
04:58New York has declared an emergency to provide 40 million meals statewide for those who rely on SNAP benefits.
05:05It comes as a federal judge weighs ordering the federal government to tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to avoid a lapse in the food stamp program.
05:16This is Congress's fault, not his fault. This is Congress's fault.
05:19So when it comes to SNAP, the only solution here is we need to appropriate the money.
05:24Senator Hawley is pushing a bipartisan bill to fund the program until the shutdown ends.
05:29But Republican leadership hasn't put the workaround bill on the floor.
05:33It's a bill I'd happily support and vote for.
05:36And as soon as Thune would let Hawley put it on the House floor, it will pass. Plain and simple.
05:43Leader Thune says Republicans' short-term funding bill already addresses SNAP benefits.
05:49And we've tried to do that 13 times.
05:52And you voted no 13 times.
05:56This isn't a political game.
05:58These are real people's lives that we're talking about.
06:00And you all have just figured out, 29 days in, that, oh, there might be some consequences.
06:08Thune says while talks at the leadership level are stalled, it appears bipartisan talks with rank-and-file Democrats are gaining steam.
06:16President Trump, though, is done waiting for Democrat buy-in.
06:19He's now calling for Republicans to slash the Senate's 60-vote threshold, called the nuclear option.
06:26On a late Thursday post, he wrote,
06:28It is now time for the Republicans to play their Trump card and go for what is called the nuclear option.
06:33Get rid of the filibuster and get rid of it now.
06:36Democrats tried to eliminate the filibuster during Biden's first two years, but two Democrat holdouts rejected the move.
06:43It would allow for the majority party to pass any legislation on a simple majority vote.
06:49Some warn it could erode constitutional guardrails that keep the Senate as a deliberative body.
06:55Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Wisecup, NTD News.
07:02And as the government shutdown enters Day 31, major disruptions are starting to hit airports across the country.
07:08Vice President J.D. Vance is warning of a disastrous holiday season if flights are not back on track soon.
07:14Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy yesterday expressed his concern about air traffic controllers who haven't been paid during the shutdown.
07:21I think as each day goes beyond that last paycheck that didn't come, the stress gets bigger.
07:30And as I'm trying to expand the number of controllers that we have in our airspace, you guys know we're about 2,000, 3,000 air traffic controllers short.
07:38This makes it way harder for me to get new controllers to come in and to keep the controllers that I do have working in the airspace.
07:47The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday reported delays of more than two hours at Orlando Airport,
07:5390-minute delays at Washington National Airport, and 20-minute setbacks in Dallas, all tied to staffing shortfalls.
08:01Flight tracking data showed nearly 6,000 flights were delayed and more than 1,000 canceled, with one in five United Airlines flights affected.
08:10Duffy said air traffic controllers are now on track to miss their second paycheck.
08:14The Department of Transportation says it's taking aggressive new action to remove unqualified and illegal truck drivers from America's roads.
08:22Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned states yesterday that refusing to comply could mean millions lost in federal funding.
08:30Here are the details.
08:32Speaking in Washington, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced what he called a crackdown on non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses,
08:40those typically issued to foreigners operating in the U.S. on work permits.
08:44He said his department found many of them have been issued unlawfully.
08:47For example, it would look like a foreigner has a work permit that expires on one date,
08:54but the commercial driver's license would not have an expiration date.
08:58He also said some states have been issuing CDLs to illegal immigrants.
09:02So you have an illegal alien, a foreigner, who might have a work permit,
09:05but they're getting a commercial driver's license that indicates that they're a U.S. citizen.
09:09Duffy said his department has already pulled $40 million from California and could withhold even more
09:15if the state refuses to follow federal rules requiring English proficiency and proper documentation.
09:21California is less than cooperative, and we're in the process of going through a review,
09:28and we have the opportunity to pull $160 million of additional dollars from the state of California.
09:35A spokesperson for the California Department of Motor Vehicles said earlier that the Trump administration
09:39has no legitimate basis to withhold funds.
09:42Secretary Duffy also said the DOT is working with Homeland Security to find and remove unqualified drivers from the roads.
09:49It's a partnership that you see from government, secretary to secretary,
09:54because President Trump has indicated he wants us all to work together.
09:57We are not working in silos. We're working as one federal government.
10:01One complaint that has emerged over the years is that there simply aren't enough U.S. citizens
10:06who want to work as commercial truck drivers.
10:08Several companies have reported a shortage of people wanting to take long-haul jobs.
10:13Duffy dismissed these claims, saying illegal labor is actually driving down pay and affecting safety.
10:18There's a lot of Americans who want to get behind the wheel of a big rig.
10:24These are and have been really great-paying jobs.
10:27But when you will bring someone in who doesn't have a driver's license, they'll drive that truck for a much lower rate.
10:35Duffy says the DOT will continue to pressure states and CDL schools.
10:39He said his department's review of illegally issued CDLs is almost at a close,
10:43adding that many states have been willing to comply.
10:45An FBI saying has rocked Mississippi's law enforcement ranks.
10:52Fourteen officers, including two county sheriffs and a chief deputy,
10:56now face federal charges in what investigators call a Delta drug conspiracy.
11:02Acting U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner says the officers allegedly took bribes to protect drug routes
11:08running through the Delta and into Memphis, turning badges into shields for traffickers.
11:13The early morning raids yesterday exposed what prosecutors describe as systemic corruption spanning multiple departments.
11:22The probe began after drug dealers tipped off agents that officers were demanding cash for protection.
11:29Local officials called the scandal a tough blow to public trust,
11:33saying it could take a long time to rebuild confidence in those sworn to serve.
11:38Still to come, it's day six of early voting in New York City's mayor race.
11:42Polling shows Zoran Mamdani is still leading Andrew Cuomo by at least 10 points.
11:47That and more, coming up.
12:01Welcome back to NTD. Good morning. I'm Stefania Cox.
12:04We're now almost a week into early voting in the New York City mayor's race.
12:09Polling shows Zoran Mamdani is still leading Andrew Cuomo by at least 10 points.
12:14NTD's Arlene Richards has the latest.
12:17As the early voting deadline approaches on Sunday for the New York City mayor's race,
12:22new polling shows that Zoran Mamdani still has a commanding lead,
12:26despite earlier polls showing Andrew Cuomo cutting that lead in half.
12:30Three new polls were released on Thursday as Mamdani and Cuomo picked up new endorsements.
12:36An Emerson College poll shows 50 percent of likely voters in support of Mamdani,
12:41followed by 25 percent for Cuomo and 21 percent for Sliwa, with 5 percent still undecided.
12:47Meanwhile, a Marist poll released overnight found Mamdani with a 16-point lead over Cuomo at 48 percent to 32 percent.
12:56Sliwa trailed behind at 16 percent.
12:59And finally, a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday showed Mamdani's lead over Cuomo
13:04narrowing from 20 points to just 10 at 43 percent to 33.
13:09But the numbers aren't slowing down the candidate's last push for votes.
13:13All three candidates have been making final pitches to voters around the city before Election Day on Tuesday, November 4th.
13:20Cuomo picked up a handful of endorsements Thursday, including from former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg,
13:27Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi of Long Island, and Republican Hudson Valley Congressman Mike Lawler.
13:33Mamdani's latest endorsement came Wednesday morning from the United Bodegas of America.
13:38Despite expressing concerns about Mamdani's plan for city-run grocery stores,
13:43members now stand behind Mamdani, saying he wants to make the city affordable for everyone.
13:49Mamdani has said there's room for both sorts of establishments in the city.
13:53Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa picked up an endorsement on Wednesday from the New York Young Republican Club.
13:59He took his campaign underground Thursday morning, holding a news conference at the 57th Street subway station in Midtown.
14:06Cuomo has been calling on Sliwa to drop out of the race, saying a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani.
14:13But Sliwa remains defiant about staying in the race.
14:17With more than 372,000 ballots cast during early voting so far, voter enthusiasm remains high for this election.
14:25And with six days to go until the polls close, it remains to be seen whether the pollsters got it right.
14:31Arlene Richards, NTD News.
14:33And Election Day 2025 is coming up in just four days.
14:39NTD's Steve Lance and Tiffany Meyer will bring you our live special coverage of all the biggest races,
14:45from New York's mayoral election to the governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia.
14:49Tune in on Tuesday, November 4th at 7 p.m.
14:52to get the latest election results with live analysis from our data reporters and our on-the-ground teams.
14:57That's Tuesday, November 4th, starting at 7 p.m. only here on NTD.
15:01Don't miss it.
15:03And the New York City mayoral election takes place next Tuesday, as we just saw.
15:08If it were to go, as the polls are currently showing, the next mayor of New York City,
15:14and of course America's largest city, would be the Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani.
15:18Joining us to discuss the rise of Mamdani and the repositioning of socialism in America is Kay Rubichak.
15:24She's an author and a survivor of communism.
15:27Kay, thanks for joining.
15:28Your family has escaped communism not once, not twice, but thrice.
15:34And when you see socialism on the rise, I presume it's very confronting for you and your family.
15:39So what do you think's behind it?
15:40Well, I think because there's not a clear understanding of what socialism is these days,
15:47the education has really been softened on what these terms of socialism and communism and
15:53youth these days have been taught that that's something of the past and that that couldn't
15:59couldn't happen in America.
16:00But it's really not the case and that socialism is very much, of course, it has changed during
16:07in modern, in our modern times, but people are falling for it because they are also desperately
16:13looking for changes.
16:15People are upset with establishment and different forms of problems in society.
16:20They're looking for change, but they're not understanding what they're getting when they
16:25vote for socialism.
16:26Yeah, they're looking for change, but potentially you're suggesting that they're looking for it
16:30maybe in the wrong place.
16:32So I'd like to get a sense of who are the Democratic Socialists of America?
16:37The Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA, I think a lot of people look at them as a
16:42political party or a political platform, but they're not.
16:45The Republican Party, the Democrat Party, they are trying to group people together, bring
16:52people of different backgrounds and beliefs together to form a form of coalition and to
16:58lead a country, lead a nation or lead a city.
17:01But the Democratic Socialists of America really is an ideological platform.
17:05They have an ideology where people are required to think in a certain way.
17:11When you think of ideology, people might think of a religion.
17:15It gets down to that type of thinking where you have to really believe in it.
17:19And that's when you start to put aside some of the things that happened in the past and
17:25say, well, that won't happen because I'm so caught up in this belief.
17:30So it can become irrational.
17:33And that's what we've seen in other countries where they've tried socialism, where rationality
17:37goes out the window and so many mistakes, lives have been made, countries have been ruined.
17:42It's just been absolutely devastating.
17:44And that's because of this belief that socialism can create a heaven on earth through collectivization.
17:53And that's what it comes comes back to.
17:55So that's the DSA is very open in advocating that.
18:00And we're seeing that one of the candidates for New York City is an open member and active
18:05member in that DSA.
18:06So that is certainly a concern for me.
18:09Yeah.
18:09When I saw Erica Kirk on stage in Mississippi, it struck me that she repeated one of Charlie
18:15Kirk's favorite phrases that are rights such as rights to property, rights to freedom.
18:19They don't come from the government, they come from God.
18:23And that shows kind of a difference as you're describing of opinion.
18:27And in his seminal book, 1984, Orwell talks about this concept of newspeak, where you change
18:32the definition of a word.
18:34Why do you think communism's modern presentation is harder to recognize?
18:38And is there any examples of like this newspeak concept that you've observed?
18:44Yes.
18:45I think there's been, it's been really quite well documented and we just need people to
18:49be more aware and we need it in our education system.
18:53Florida has started to teach the history, the real history of communism.
18:58And that's where you see what communism, socialism leads to communism.
19:02And people get confused by thinking, well, communism was tried in the past and it never succeeded.
19:09But actually it's socialism that was tried.
19:12Communism was always the idea of getting a heaven on earth, as they put it in their ideology.
19:19But it's, it's been watered down to even be empathy.
19:24Now socialism has been aligned with terms like empathy, inclusion, diversity, really pulling
19:32together all of the, the ideologies and the, the wishes from the far left to push that into
19:42through intellectualism.
19:43So they really intellectualize this and want people to follow that belief system.
19:49And that's what we're seeing bubbling up through education, where the youth are really falling
19:54for socialism.
19:54The numbers have just gone through the roof.
19:56They're really desperately looking for something and they're looking for faith and meaning.
20:03But unfortunately, some of them have been wooed by socialism and we really need to help
20:08them understand the true nature of socialism.
20:11Yeah.
20:11I want to come back to that in a moment, but I want you, you described like bubbling up through
20:15the education.
20:16And for those who study the many, many times socialism has been tried and failed.
20:21They talk about this concept in the West, as opposed to the military takeover of socialist
20:27regimes, about this long march through the institutions.
20:31What is that all about?
20:33So in the 1950s, 1960s, it became pretty clear to the communists and the socialists that they
20:39couldn't take over America in a kinetic war, in a violent revolution, as they did in other
20:47countries such as Russia and China.
20:49They realized that they needed another way.
20:53And so there was a German scholar who said, we need a long march through the institutions
20:58to take a cultural control where the culture would be shifted through the intellectuals, through
21:05the education systems and associated institutions, where they would bring in socialism quietly and
21:15make it very strong rooted into the foundation of the education system.
21:20And that's where it can be harder to shift because they've been working on this for more than 50
21:26years in America.
21:27And they called it the long march through the institutions.
21:30And it was popularized through the intellectual elite on the left.
21:35And that's what we're seeing now when we see the school systems being so caught up in the DEI
21:44and all of these terms that come up on the surface.
21:47But the roots are in that socialist core and drive through the institutions.
21:51And that's what needs to be pulled out, not just the curriculum on the surface or the names
21:57of the classes, but to really look at this dangerous ideology and have that taken out at its core.
22:05Well, it's a fascinating discussion and something I'd like to continue to speak with you on.
22:09We'll have to do this again and explore it potentially after the election and watch what happens here
22:13in the city.
22:14Kay Rubachek, thank you for joining us.
22:17And an update in the June murder of a congressional intern in D.C.
22:23U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro says a third suspect has been charged.
22:26NTD's Daniel Monahan has more on that and a related homicide.
22:3118-year-old Naquan Antonio Lucas has been charged for the June 30th murder of 21-year-old
22:36congressional intern Eric Tarpini and Yakum.
22:39Lewis was also charged in a second indictment for the July 4th murder of 17-year-old Zoe Kelly.
22:44U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro says two innocent souls were taken from their families.
22:50In what I believe were predictable homicides, based upon the behavior of these individuals
22:56and the records that everyone knew about.
22:59Pirro accused D.C. leadership of having their priorities mixed up.
23:04But the D.C. Council is more interested in protecting young criminals under the guise of
23:10protecting the innocence of youth.
23:12It's time for them to start protecting the citizens of the district.
23:18The U.S. Attorney says the consequences of treating criminals with kid gloves are devastating.
23:23We're having victims five blocks away, 79 rounds on the ground.
23:29This is normal behavior in D.C.
23:32No more excuses from this counsel.
23:34Lucas, also known as Kwan, appeared before Judge Dana Dason yesterday in D.C. Superior Court
23:41for his arraignment on both indictments.
23:44Lucas pleaded not guilty.
23:4617-year-old Kelvin Thomas Jr. and Naquan Lucas' brother Jalen Lucas, also 17, were arrested in September.
23:53They were charged as adults on counts of first-degree murder while armed in connection with Tarpini and slaying.
23:59Meanwhile, the Trump administration is intensifying its push to combat high levels of crime in the nation's capital.
24:06A new recruitment campaign is seeking elite federal officers for the streets of D.C.
24:11Vacancies need to be filled at ICE, the DEA, and the U.S. Park Police.
24:15In March, Trump issued an executive order to make the District of Columbia safe and beautiful.
24:21The order created the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, which is made up of various federal agencies
24:27carrying out both law enforcement and beautification efforts.
24:30Daniel Monaghan, NTD News.
24:33Buckingham Palace says Britain's King Charles has started a process to strip Prince Andrew of his titles
24:39and has given him notice to move out of his mansion.
24:42The move comes by the king amid a renewed focus on his brother's association with disgraced financier
24:48and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
24:51Allegations against Andrew were thrust back in the spotlight since the recent publication of a posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre.
24:59She wrote that Andrew sexually assaulted her while she was a teen.
25:04Andrew has said he's never met her and has repeatedly denied all allegations.
25:08Buckingham Palace says the censures are needed even though he continues to deny those allegations.
25:14Earlier this month, Andrew gave up use of his titles in a move to try to end renewed scrutiny.
25:20An act of parliament is required to formally remove Andrew's title as Duke of York.
25:26And coming up, around 9 out of 10 people haven't heard of it, but about 90 percent are at risk.
25:32We're going to tell you what you need to know about a recently defined medical condition with Dr. Marshall Rungi.
25:41And Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says ICE will not pause operations on Halloween.
25:46That's in response to a request from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
25:50Those stories and more, coming up.
25:51Welcome back.
26:04And today we are talking about cardiovascular kidney metabolic syndrome with CKM.
26:10You might say, what is that?
26:12It's a fairly new term.
26:13It was officially recognized by the American Heart Association in 2023.
26:17It's a condition that combines heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, as well as obesity, all into one framework.
26:25And it might be more widespread than you think.
26:27Today we're welcoming Dr. Marshall Rungi, a cardiologist and special advisor on medical affairs at Michigan University.
26:34Doctor, can you describe what CKM is?
26:37Yes, well, you did a pretty good job of it.
26:39Hit the highlights, right?
26:40It's this compilation of several different potentially lethal diseases that come into one.
26:48And really the underlying driver of this is obesity, which leads to type 2 diabetes.
26:54And type 2 diabetes is one of the biggest causes of renal failure.
26:57But people had not thought that, well, if I have this, I'm prone to having renal failure.
27:03So I think it's important.
27:04A lot of this study was about raising awareness because people understand, well, maybe I'll need dialysis.
27:10And, you know, that frightens a lot of people.
27:12So the idea is for people to really focus on their healthy habits, to lose weight, to reduce their risk of diabetes, heart disease, and kidney disease now.
27:22But how widespread is it?
27:23Because obesity itself is fairly widespread.
27:26But now that it encompasses so many other conditions potentially, I mean.
27:30Well, the estimates in the United States are that obesity is approaching 50% of the population.
27:37Oh, my God.
27:37And type 2 diabetes goes right along with that.
27:42And kidney disease, when you add all those things together in the risks, it's more than half of Americans who are subject to this potential problem.
27:52Now, Dr. Arangi, you described obesity as the leading component.
27:57But it is a perfect storm situation where all of these various, you know, potentially fatal conditions, when they all come together, it creates what has been recognized as a totally new sort of framework.
28:11What are the main symptoms that people should look out for, of course, besides obesity?
28:15Well, they can have symptoms of diabetes, which generally are thirst, having to go to the bathroom a lot, having an insatiable appetite, and fatigue, generally fatigue.
28:30And it gets worse the more of these syndromes you have together.
28:33And I know there are a few stages as this kind of coalescing conditions progress.
28:41But what are the risk factors at various stages?
28:43Well, you're absolutely right to start with.
28:47And the risk factors are with obesity, with diabetes, you tend to be less able to exercise, less able to control those underlying risk factors, which have led the person to this in the first place.
29:02So, and their diabetes is treated often with multiple medications, renal failure.
29:08There's no really good treatment for it, except to reduce your risk, or control your risk.
29:14Now, in terms of treating CKM specifically, you had just mentioned the treatments for diabetes, per se.
29:20Is this getting like a new protocol for doctors that they should look for this as more of this perfect storm situation than the, you know, component parts that underlie CKM?
29:32Yes, and I think that's important for doctors, and it's important for them to communicate to the people they're seeing.
29:39So, it's an opportunity to really raise awareness, and I think an opportunity to think about how we can all be healthier, which has many components to it, some of which is medications.
29:50Kind of an ironic thing to be talking about on Halloween, but we will enjoy Halloween, but we certainly, you know, should keep this in mind as we go into the holiday season, right?
30:00And we don't get carried away.
30:01Well, that's true.
30:02And also, now that we've seen, you know, there's new hope potentially for recognizing how these different diseases interact, but is there new awareness or new information about prevention with this CKM?
30:15Well, there's lots of efforts going on to improve the availability of healthy foods.
30:22There's lots of emphasis on trying to encourage people to walk, just to walk.
30:26If you walk in, you don't have to walk 10,000 steps a day to get any benefit.
30:303,000 steps is plenty.
30:3210,000 is better.
30:33You don't have to run the marathon like on Sunday, but exercise and diet is the foundation.
30:40But I will say that there are medications that these newer weight loss drugs, which are being used, they were developed for diabetes.
30:47They're good for diabetes.
30:48They're good for reducing heart risk, but they're also good for obesity.
30:52Those things all kind of fitting together.
30:53And the jury's out about kidney disease with those new drugs.
30:56So exercise, potentially talk to your doctor about some of these weight loss protocols.
31:01Are there any other treatments, particularly that come to mind for CKM that may not be as specific to, again, those constituent parts, but to this new danger?
31:11Yes.
31:12And I think some of that is hydration.
31:15You know, to take something very simple, just like your water bottle I saw earlier.
31:21There you go.
31:22Take it everywhere.
31:22But people ignore the importance of hydration, and it's important in all things, but it's really important in kidney disease.
31:30So people won't have anything to drink because they're worried they'll have to go to the bathroom, and sometimes that's exacerbated by diabetes, making you need to go to the bathroom often.
31:39But hydration, I think, is something that's underappreciated.
31:43Have you noticed this condition more in recent times, or is it just that the study has pinpointed something that has been around a long time?
31:51I think it's brought it to awareness.
31:53And so typically, if you went to your doctor and had a screening blood panel and had an abnormality in your blood test for diabetes, that would show up.
32:03But a lot of people will say, well, you know, maybe you just need to drink more fluids.
32:07And so I think this does bring an elevated recognition of the risk of kidney disease in particular.
32:14Yeah, so if I'm a patient, I'm seeing you, maybe I don't have this condition, but you're starting to see that this could become a risk if I don't have some lifestyle changes.
32:24You mentioned hydration.
32:26You mentioned getting steps.
32:27What are some just common things that are just generally going to bring all of your markers down besides those two things?
32:34Well, I'm going to veer into something that I think is really interesting, all this interest in longevity that's around.
32:41So it turns out that one of the most important drivers that we don't think about is sleep, and that is getting the appropriate amount of sleep that you need every night.
32:48I know I'm talking to two people who get up very early in the morning.
32:51We do.
32:52You know, regular sleep habits that you go to bed about the same time, get up at about the same time, get your seven and a half or eight or eight and a half hours of sleep.
33:00It turns out that's an important driver of longevity, and it's an important driver of being able to exercise, being able to control your diet and avoid these high-sugar, high-carbohydrate diets.
33:13So I wanted to bring that up because that's recently become, if you look at all the data on longevity, sleep is one thing that just pops up to the top.
33:22And have you seen or have there been studies on that show specific cases of improvements with people with CKM and how they've been able to make better gains through having this kind of framework?
33:35Yes, absolutely.
33:37So if people who have CKM, if they lose weight however they do it, if they exercise more, control their diet, if they use medications, their risk of diabetes comes way down, and sometimes it goes away entirely.
33:50And with that, the risk of having kidney disease goes way down because between diabetes and hypertension, those are the two major drivers of kidney failure in the United States.
34:01And just as we finish up, you mentioned getting good sleep.
34:06That's not what you think about when it comes to physical things you can do.
34:09So what should people be aware of to try to allow themselves to get, obviously going to bed earlier, but some people try to go to bed early and they're just not able to fall asleep.
34:19So what are some of the environmental things or otherwise that are preventing quality regeneration at night?
34:25Well, I think a big part of it, I know it's true for me, it's probably partly true for you, is screen time.
34:32So, you know, whether it's your phone or whether you're working late on professional things or just cruising the internet or watching TV, those things all keep your brain activated.
34:44They add a half an hour at least to the time it takes for you to get to sleep.
34:47So if you were able to stop those a couple of hours before you go to your sleeping time, you'll fall asleep easier.
34:56Now, there's no simple solution to sleep.
34:58I wish there was.
35:01Gosh, but it's good to get a good start on thinking about it and from there you can take action.
35:05It's all about implementation and then you just see what works and go from there, right?
35:09Yes.
35:10You could be a spokesperson for me.
35:12Well, it's a very helpful picture.
35:14Thank you so much for your time today, Dr. Marshall Rangi.
35:17Appreciate it.
35:19All right, and next, Homeland Security says death threats against immigration officers have increased 8,000% this year.
35:26A new report shows a rise in online threats, stalking and harassment targeting ICE agents and their families.
35:33The DHS says they arrested an illegal immigrant living in Dallas earlier this month for posting a video on TikTok allegedly offering $10,000 for the murder of ICE agents.
35:43Other incidents include threatening phone calls and social media posts against officers and their spouses.
35:50DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says political rhetoric demonizing ICE agents has contributed to the surge in violent threats and assaults.
35:59White House says critics have likened ICE agents to the Gestapo and the secret police.
36:05Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says ICE will not pause operations on Halloween.
36:11That's in response to a request from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
36:15And today's Jason Blair has that story.
36:18Kristi Noem was asked about Governor J.B. Pritzker's demand about pausing ICE operations for Halloween.
36:25She did reply with a very non-hesitant no.
36:29Here's some of what she said.
36:31The fact that Governor Pritzker is asking for that is shameful.
36:37And I think unfortunate that he doesn't recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we're bringing criminals to justice and getting them off our streets,
36:45especially when we're going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season.
36:52And on Thursday morning, J.B. Pritzker made this a focus of a press conference about not having ICE operating on Halloween.
37:00Here's some of what Pritzker had to say.
37:02No child in America should have to go trick-or-treating in fear that they might be confronted with armed federal agents and have to inhale tear gas.
37:12I honestly can't even believe that I have to make this plea.
37:15And also while speaking, Secretary Noem touted how thousands of illegal immigrants were arrested during Operation Midway Blitz.
37:24The operation started early in September and focuses mainly on the Chicago area.
37:30Here's Kristi Noem commenting on that as well.
37:33Since the beginning of Midway Blitz, ICE and CBP and our state partners have arrested more than 3,000 illegal aliens,
37:42including rapists, murderers, and gang members that have been brought to justice.
37:47And listen, we don't want any of these individuals out on our roads.
37:50And we don't want them in our communities.
37:51And we especially don't want them behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler when they can't speak our language.
37:57They don't understand our laws.
37:58Noem also highlighted how the department is cracking down on illegal immigrant drivers, especially those that drive commercial trucks.
38:10Thanks to Jason for that report.
38:11And breaking this morning, FBI Director Kash Patel said the FBI has thwarted a potential terrorist attack in Michigan.
38:19Multiple people have been arrested and they were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend.
38:24No more information was provided, so we'll keep you updated as this information comes in.
38:30And coming up, this Halloween, it's going to cost more to fill those candy bowls.
38:34We're going to break down what treats are getting more expensive.
38:37We'll be right back after the break.
38:38Stay with us.
38:51Welcome back to NTD Good Morning.
38:53Today is Halloween, and to celebrate, the White House opened its gates yesterday to some of its youngest guests.
39:00President Trump and First Lady Melania greeted trick-or-treaters on the South Lawn.
39:05Children, parents, and other types of families got to meet the first couple and collect full-sized candy bars.
39:12That's the good stuff.
39:13The guest list included military, law enforcement, foster and adoptive families, as well as administration staffers with their children.
39:20The South Lawn was transformed with jack-o'-lanterns, skeletons, and, of course, some spooky music as kids in costumes made their rounds.
39:28The celebration marked a return to full-scale festivities for Trump.
39:32His last Halloween event at the White House in 2020 was scaled back due to the pandemic.
39:36This year's celebration came just after the president's overseas trip, where he met with leaders from Japan, South Korea, and China.
39:45Talking about giving out candies, this Halloween, it's going to be more expensive to prepare candy for kids trick-or-treating.
39:52According to Serkana and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of chocolate, it's gone up nearly 30% over the past year, and it's up nearly 80% from 2020.
40:01Candy and gum overall have also surged 39% since February of 2020.
40:06According to a Finance Buzz study, a 100-piece bag of assorted Halloween candy will cost Americans more than $16, which is up roughly $9 five years ago.
40:16Yeah, the poor harvest and the climate conditions in West Africa, that led to a global cocoa shortage, and that, along with new tariffs and wider grocery inflation, it's believed to be the culprit in the candy price surge.
40:29Americans are still stocking up despite the surge in prices, but according to Finance Buzz, more than half of Americans say the surge in candy prices altered how much money they plan to dish out this Halloween, and I guess how much candy each kid will get.
40:43I mean, it takes you a while just to eat one candy, surely, anyway, so they should be okay.
40:48Yeah, that dovetails right into our appropriately timed obesity segment with Dr. Rungi just before, but, you know, for Halloween, you can let your hair down a little bit and have a good time.
40:59You know what else is this weekend?
41:00It's really a big weekend in New York because not only do you have Halloween, which is a fan favorite, of course, but you have the New York City Marathon.
41:08And I have to take a moment to give a shout-out to Chen Chi from our staff.
41:14He's going to be running.
41:15It's his second marathon.
41:16He did the Philadelphia, so we're all rooting for him to have a good time in the New York City Marathon.
41:21We'll possibly report back about that.
41:24Okay, a patch of bright orange pumpkins has appeared at Legoland Windsor in the UK, but most of them are not real.
41:31That's right.
41:32They're built from tens of thousands of Lego bricks as part of the theme park's Halloween celebration.
41:37We're here at Legoland Windsor's very first pumpkin patch, Lego pumpkin patch, and we've created this from themed pumpkins, Lego pumpkins, and real pumpkins.
41:47So there are nine Lego pumpkins.
41:49They weigh 103 kilograms for nine of them.
41:52They have 44,686 bricks, and they took 134 hours for the model makers to make.
41:58The pumpkin patch is part of the resort's annual Brick-or-Treat Halloween event, which features themed sculptures, performances, and decorations across the park.
42:08Creating the models required careful planning to turn square pieces into what looks like curved-shaped pumpkins.
42:16In Windsor's town center, shop windows are filled with pumpkins and seasonal decorations.
42:21And for children and parents visiting the park, Halloween is all about the costumes, pumpkins, and playful scares that can turn ordinary places into scenes of imagination.
42:32And there you go.
42:33Halloween.
42:34It all started as a Celtic festival back in the day.
42:39And, yep, spread far and wide.
42:42It sure has.
42:43It's certainly taken root in my family and my town and everywhere else across the country.
42:48And apparently, as you say, across the world, I know people are planning, you know, kids are kind of not really doing much in school.
42:54They're wearing their costumes.
42:56I know the kindergartens and all, you know, we used to have these parades of the children and the parents get to come and watch.
43:02You know, it's really the older kids, they like to have their parties.
43:05So it's really a blast for everybody.
43:08And after celebrating Halloween this weekend, most Americans will get an extra hour of sleep.
43:13That's very well appreciated, isn't it?
43:15Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, and our clocks will fall back one hour.
43:20The time change also means our days will be shorter and nights will be longer as the official start date of winter gets closer.
43:27Yes, you'll get an extra hour of sleep on Sunday, but it might be one of the most disliked times of the year.
43:33According to this new poll, the APNORC poll finds that actually only 12% of Americans like changing clocks twice a year, while nearly half oppose it.
43:43And if forced to choose either of the two changes, most say they'd rather keep the longer daylight in the evening.
43:49That kind of makes sense.
43:50Although this poll is conducted this October, only about 1,300 adults say how they feel about it.
43:58So, you know, we wonder what you think.
44:00You've got to take this survey with a grain of salt.
44:03But it seems like most people would rather have the sleep in the evening or the daylight in the evening than have the daylight in the morning.
44:11So it's nothing like rising early.
44:13They do promote that.
44:15What do you think, Steph?
44:16All right, that's my opinion.
44:17You want the hour of daylight in the afternoon, or would you rather have the hour of daylight in the morning?
44:21I like it in the morning.
44:23I think it's great.
44:24But, you know, this practice actually began in Europe, the daylight savings.
44:27It was during, and also in the U.S., that was during World War I.
44:33That was all to save fuel and power.
44:35In the U.S., states are not required to, by law, to fall back or spring forward.
44:41In Hawaii, most of Arizona and some territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean,
44:45and they do not observe daylight savings time at all.
44:48Well, can you not observe daylight savings time if your locality does?
44:52Can you just say, I'm not joining that meeting at that time because I choose to not observe daylight savings?
44:59You might just have to try it out and see.
45:00You'd be a bit of a contrarian at that point, right?
45:03Put your vote in.
45:04Make everybody else sort of change their timing to suit you, or they just might not meet with you.
45:10Just be a good Halloween trick.
45:13There you go.
45:13No treat.
45:15All right.
45:15We've got to wrap up our show now, but be sure to stay tuned for NTD News Today at 10 a.m. Eastern Time coming up.
45:21That's right.
45:21Alice Tong will be there.
45:22And for round-the-clock original news coverage, you can visit us at NTD.com.
45:26You can also use our NTD app.
45:28Thanks for watching.
45:29I'm Carrie Dunst.
45:29I'm Stefania Cox.
45:31Have a great weekend.
45:32Happy Halloween.
45:32Happy Halloween.
45:40Happy Halloween.
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