Trump heckled at Texas rally as GOP fights for votes; Isaias becomes a hurricane

A rough night for President Trump in Texas. Protesters repeatedly interrupt his rally as

Republicans fight to hold on to the deep red state. Plus, the Atlantic season finally has

its first hurricane. Isaias strengthens overnight, with the Gulf Coast now bracing for landfall

And more than 300 days away from home, the USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after

a record stretch at sea and a controversial deployment. The stories that matter. The facts you can trust. From across the country to around the world

This is Unbiased Updates from Straight Arrow. Hey everybody, I'm Christian Bryant. Thank you so much for starting your morning with us

Good to have you here. Let's get you caught up in these next 10 minutes or so. We begin this morning in Texas, where President Trump faced repeated interruptions from protesters

as he campaigned for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. The president is trying to help

Republicans hold onto a state that's become an unexpected midterm battleground. At least a dozen

protesters interrupted Trump's speech with police escorting some out of the venue. But Trump spent

plenty of time talking about things other than Paxton. He repeated his support for the death

penalty for drug dealers and again raised the possibility of Iran striking American cities

as he defended the war. And I said it the other day, let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles

on the way. Let them hit, you wanna see a horror show

You wanna see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles

and you wanna see some bad things happen? You wanna see a country that would be in free fall

We're not gonna let that happen. We protect our cities, we protect our country

We're not letting that happen. Trump also promised to award retired baseball star Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom

And in another detour, he claimed Secret Service and military officials had suggested turning his

West Palm Beach golf course into a presidential retreat, something he compared to Camp David

The Atlantic season now has its first hurricane. Isaias was upgraded overnight after rapidly getting stronger in the Gulf of Mexico

And it could reach Category 2 strength by early Friday, with winds of 110 miles per hour before making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast early Saturday

Forecasters are warning of dangerous storm surge from Mississippi to the Florida panhandle

Here's the National Hurricane Center's director. So we expecting multiple dangerous life impacts along portions of the northern Gulf Coast beginning Friday and continuing into the weekend That first risk is storm surge We have a broad area of the risk of life inundation from storm surge all the way from the mouth of the Mississippi River across the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast all of the Florida Panhandle

coastline and down into the Big Bend over to Yankee Town. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has

declared a state of emergency in 25 counties with mandatory evacuations now ordered in two

Panhandle counties. Alabama has also declared an emergency in 40 counties and the storm could

also change president Trump's weekend plans. He's been expected at Saturday's Alabama

Georgia football game in Tuscaloosa. But when asked Wednesday, whether he still plans to go

the president sounded less certain. Mr. President, a hurricane is forecast to hit the Gulf Coast

this weekend. Are you still planning to visit Alabama and go to the football game on Saturday? Well, hurricane and football. I love Alabama. I got to go to the game. I can't be awfully hard

Look, I mean, if there's an emergency, if there's a hurricane, I don't want to do anything to

take the focus of all of the great people that work on those things. You know

they have some tremendously great people. I don't want to take the focus

A Tennessee judge is ordering the state to preserve evidence from Krista Pike's

failed execution as new details emerge about her condition. Pike is now awake and talking nearly a

week after receiving two doses of a drug meant to kill her. Her attorneys say she's confused

can't move her arms or swallow, and is dealing with pneumonia and a blood clot. Just days ago

they were preparing for the possibility she'd be taken off life support. Now, they want to know

exactly what happened inside the execution chamber last week. The state still hasn't explained what

went wrong during last week's botched execution. And that brought Pike's attorneys to court Wednesday

asking a judge to order Tennessee to preserve evidence from the execution chamber

We don't know what they have because they won't tell us. And so the preservation order seeks

the broadest possible preservation of evidence. The judge sided with Pike's attorneys

ordering the state to save evidence from the execution. In light of the evolving situation

the court will pin and grant its own order, granting the motion to preserve relevant evidence

As a primary matter, we want all drugs, syringes, IV lines, tubing that are within the state's possession

needles catheters medical supplies restraints gurneys anything that was in the actual room Room needs to be preserved and maintained After the hearing attorney Randy Spivey described what Pike said when she regained consciousness

Our understanding was the first thing she said was, where am I and who are you

There's still a lot of cognitive confusion. And so I will say that she has wanted to know what's happened

I think she is angry and confused about everything right now. Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and murder of her 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slimmer

Slimmer's mother says her family has been denied justice and still wants Pike's death sentence carried out

Pike's lawyers are asking the governor to commute her sentence to life in prison

The governor has ordered a review of the failed execution, and Tennessee's prison chief has resigned

Prosecutors say they don't know whether Tennessee will try to execute Pike again

The FBI says it has foiled an ISIS-inspired plot to carry out a mass shooting at the Mall of

America in Minnesota. An 18-year-old suspect, Sheikh Doon Mohamud, was arrested Tuesday after

allegedly buying an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition from an FBI informant. Prosecutors

say he planned to use the weapon to open fire at an upcoming festival at the Mall

The FBI had been investigating Mohamud since 2024, when he began exchanging messages with someone he didn't know was a confidential informant

The messages this defendant allegedly sent to others were chilling. They document the idealization of ideologically motivated violence, a callous disregard for the sanctity of human life, a blind hatred of people of other faiths, and a cold commitment to carrying out his vision of violence in our community

According to court documents, Mohammed pledged his allegiance to ISIS leaders and claimed to have joined ISIS over a year ago

Prosecutors say Mohammed is believed to be a U.S.-born American citizen who refers to Somalia as his parents' homeland

They say agents went to his home last year after learning he had been sharing extremist material online, but his parents turned them away

The USS Abraham Lincoln is finally coming home. The aircraft carrier is set to dock in San Diego today after a deployment that stretched more than 300 days

The crew spent a record 265 straight days at sea, with the extended deployment drawing national attention amid reports of difficult conditions on board and mental health concerns

The Lincoln strike group was relieved in the Middle East in August and made a stop in Thailand before going home Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the carrier Wednesday to thank the crew for what he called a historic mission I realize I the only thing standing between you and home I also realize I the one

that I don't say this lightly. Actually, I never say this lightly, but I'm the one who

signed that orders book twice to extend you also. No, I am plead guilty a because of the

incredible effectiveness that you showcased on the battlefield and the necessity, but also

B, the mission required it, and C, because President Trump had full faith that you would

deliver on behalf of the American people, and you did. Hegseth also announced the Lincoln and its

strike group are receiving the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a military unit can

receive. The award recognizes 40 days of combat operations and a naval blockade against Iran

during Operation Epic Fury. Finally this morning, four astronauts are hurtling through space right

now on their way back to Earth. You're looking at the moment SpaceX's Crew-12 capsule undocked

from the International Space Station. On board are NASA astronauts Jessica Mir and Jack Hathaway

European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adano, and Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fideev. The four

spent eight months in space, bringing the station back to its full seven-person crew

after the previous mission ended early because of a medical issue on board. Now they're wrapping up

a 27-hour journey home. NASA and SpaceX expect the capsule to splash down off the California coast

later this morning. All right, before we head out this morning, here's what we're tracking

At 10.15 Eastern, Vice President J.D. Vance's Fraud Task Force joins federal officials to announce

new findings of alleged abuse in work visa programs. At 11, a federal judge hears arguments

over extending an order restoring White House access to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico. House Democratic

leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks in Brooklyn at 1 and at 1.30, President Trump is expected at an

event focused on American innovation at the Institute of Peace. We give you the headlines

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