While puerto rico does not vote in the election, its been a political thorn in the president s side with democrats ripping him for not doing enough to help the island recover from Hurricane Maria. Today with some six million Puerto Ricans in the United States, President Trump moved to set things right. Almost three years to the day, Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico. Now the president is responding. I have to say in a very nice way, a very respectful way, im the best thing that ever happened to puerto rico. In the past, President Trump has criticized corrupt poll situations in puerto rico and complained the island had already received too much federal relief money. And then the issue of timing. Why not a year ago, two years ago, three years ago . Why now . Weve been working on it for a long time to get it passed. Very tough to get things passed with democrats where they dont want to see this happen. They probably didnt want to see it happen at this point. The award comes as the Biden Cam
Heres the bottom line, dvr this show, stick around for special report coming from new york city. Thats next. This is the fox news alert, im bret baier, coming to you from fox news World Headquarters from new york, with extensive coverage of the final day before the 2014 midterm election, thanks to our single sponsor, the first half hour of this show, well have limited special breaks, wednesday the day after election day, the entire show will be sponsored by norfolk southern, giving us a full hour with very limited breaks. And thats good, because thats a lot cocover. We begin tonight early voting data indicates around 17 Million People in 31 states have already voted. 435, all the seats in the house of representatives, up for a vote. 36, the number of senate seats on the line. And six, the net gain needed bring republicans to take control of the u. S. Senate for the next two years. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight with correspondents key states. We begin with carl cameron, live tonight
Sunday. For now. Breaking news on the fox report, we are hearing from the white house now that several governors are going their own way, they say the white house and federal Health Officials are not doing enough to protect americans from one of the deadliest viruses on the planet. At this hour, the list is growing. As states take matters into their own hands now. New york, new jersey, illinois, goi going above and beyond anything recommended by the cdc, by recommending a mandatory 21day quarantine for anybody entering our nation who may have had contact with an ebola patient. Floridas state Health Department has the authority to monitor people for 21 days when they enter the state from one of the three west african countries, they will have to submit themselves to being checked twice a day, those quarantines are sparking a backlash from the white house. Heres the wording the president s staff is using, warning governors who carry out the quarantines of, quote, unintended consequences.
Todays testimony before congress. And well begin with chief White House Correspondent ed henry and the late word, ed, on funding for the war effort. Good evening, brett, the house just voted to give the president the power and 500 million to train and arm the syrian rebels. But the struggle on another front. Theres three top defense leaders that say u. S. Ground troops should at least be on the table. His credibility on the line over whether hell stick to his promise of not sending u. S. Combat troops to iraq or steera, president obama visited u. S. Central command to try to close the door opened by his top military advisor general dempsey. The top military that has been deployed to iraq will not have a combat mission. As his own former defense flatly told cbs news the u. S. Cannot win without sending in combat troops. There will be boots on the ground if there is to be any hope of success and the strategy, and i think by continuing to repeat that, the president in effect traps 4i8s. T
Rice himself in a statement to espn. Questio quote, i have a lot of people praying for us. John harball briefly addressed the press last night. It changed things, of course, it made things a little bit different. The nfl has suspended rice in definitely, the league claims it never saw the tape and didnt even know about it. But tmz says thats not true. We are assured that someone from Roger Goodell, but there were people from the nfl who came and saw the video. I believe they actually turned a blind eye to it. And its a shameful story that the nfl knew that the Surveillance Video existed. Eric, theres no way that the nfl has not seen that video. Can i just do this . Look, believe me, im not defending anybody, Roger Goodell is a great man, i think he needs to get in front of the camera and explain this to everybodys that watching. He admitted he made a mistake, gave rice a twogame suspension. Surveillance types. Harvey levin, theres no one who came out and said, we showed this to a repre