Code Lumen Tv good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We begin with breaking News Right now, Hurricane Helene is churning in the Gulf Mexico is currently a category two strength, but is expected to become a major hurricane before it slams into florida. Later tonight, officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surges of up to 20 feet plus new York City mayor Eric Adams indicted sources say the mayor is now facing at least one federal what criminal charge this morning, investigators took his phone and are searching his residence and later on defending a racist post. Reads the Gop Congressman Clay higgins stands by his ugly comments, Calling Haitian Migrants Thugs and Quote Slapstick gangsters Breaking News but we do begin with the breaking News Right now, a tropical storm conditions are lashing florida. It is going to get worse though as Hurricane Helene barrels toward the southeastern united states, we are seeing flooding already hours before the
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Drop them in the chat room. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment in with the coronavirus especially more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots are voting early and as we are talking about our usual voting methods so many things have moved to on line and people are asking will voting become digital as well . I want to start the conversation by asking why would you even want to on line voting and i will say im coming from Seattle Washington where we have a robust mailin ballots system and its quite easy. I think the appeal is enormous. In theory its largely been attempted in this country for military servicemembers and it could be used for people with disabilities who f dont have a lot of access to the polls. I think if we somehow had a robust on line Voting System that would drastically increase participation and the bigger question than how we would get there. This country doesnt have great numbers of people who show up on election day and many people are so engaged. They are
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Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt we start with a win for microsoft, beating amazon, oracle, ibm in that 10 billion defense contract with the pentagon known as jedi. Morgan has been covering this story from the beginning a lot of news over the weekend. A lot of news over the weekend on this. This was a downright dog fight between microsoft and amazon two years, laden with controversy. What is the joint enterprise defense structure. Theyll unite the u. S. Military within a single data framework, an umbrella cloud for all of the militarys current clouds. Up to 10 Year Contract with ceiling value of 10 billion amazon, microsoft, and earlier in the competition, ibm oracle, even google vying for this microsoft saying we look forward to expanding our Longstanding Partnership with dod, support our men and women in uniform at home and abroad. With our latest unique and differentiated azure cloud capabilities amazon saying were