Morning Wire - Tuesday's Afternoon Update | 9.20.22

Episode Date: September 20, 2022

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Hey, this is Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, September 20th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. At least eight people were hospitalized Tuesday after part of a top floor of an apartment building collapsed in the Chicago area. Local news reports that the 36-unit apartment building experienced an explosion just before 9.30 Tuesday morning. The southwestern border of the U.S. saw more than 2 million arrests of illegal immigrants in one year for the first time ever. That number does not include the estimated 800,000-plus gotaways, migrants who were able to cross without being detained. Hurricane Fiona left most of Puerto Rico without electricity

and over a million people without water in the Dominican Republic. Fiona is now a category three hurricane, but is expected to intensify and become a category four. It is now heading towards Turks and Caicos. The White House is defending President Biden's record on inflation and deficit spending as we enter the final stretch of the 2022 midterm elections. White House Economic Advisor Jared Bernstein told Fox News Monday that the administration's fiscal policy

has not contributed to record high inflation. And the answer based on over a trillion dollars of deficit reduction is no. That doesn't negate the point that inflation is too high, which it is. And we're doing everything we can to help. The last couple of months have been a respite. New York Governor Kathy Hochel said this week that New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be putting security cameras in all of the subways

after a pilot run that started this summer. New York City mayor, Eric Adams, announced Tuesday that the city will lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private sector employees on November 1st. This put the choice in the hands of New York businesses. The city began requiring almost all private businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace in December 2021. It remains the largest,

in the U.S. to have made vaccines mandatory as a workplace safety measure. The COO of Beyond Meat was arrested over the weekend for allegedly biting a man's nose during a fight after a college football game. Police say 53-year-old Doug Ramsey faces charges of terroristic threatening and battery. Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans Tuesday to start voting this week on whether to join Russia. The Kremlin-backed efforts to swallow up four regions could set up. the stage for Moscow to escalate the war following Ukraine's successes on the battlefield.

And the legal teams representing Twitter and Elon Musk deposed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Tuesday morning as part of Twitter's ongoing lawsuit against Musk. Dorsey was subpoenaed by Musk last month over documents related to the impact or effect of false or spam accounts on Twitter's business and operation. We're superously claiming less than 5% of fake or spam accounts, but in fact it is 4.5 times that number. This is a big deal. The trial is scheduled to start October 17th. Well, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.

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