Hurricane Helene is moving through Georgia after making landfall in Florida. Kamala Harris visits the southern border in Arizona. And criticize a “Bridgerton” inspired ball that was instead a chaotic mess.

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Helene is moving inland after making landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane

Hurricane Helene weakened overnight on its path through Georgia, hours after making landfall as a Category 4 storm in the Big Bend region of Florida. The storm made landfall about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west-southwest of Perry, Florida, making landfall around 11:10 p.m. with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (230 kph), the National Hurricane Center said. At 1 a.m., the hurricane’s eye wall entered Georgia. By 2 a.m., maximum sustained winds had dropped to 90 miles per hour, making it a Category 1 storm.

Life-threatening storm surges, wind and rain remained threats, the National Hurricane Center said. As of early Friday, more than 3 million customers were without power in Florida and Georgia combined.

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A driver was killed after a sign fell on his car in Tampa, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Two people were killed when an apparent tornado destroyed a mobile home in Wheeler County, Georgia, an official said.

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Harris goes to the border

In her first trip to the southern border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris will talk about immigration — an issue on which Republicans have repeatedly criticized her. While in Douglas, Arizona, Harris will call for stronger security measures, such as fentanyl detection machines and more Border Patrol agents, while urging the Chinese government to crack down on companies that make the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl .

Republicans have labeled Harris a “border czar” and questioned why she has not made enough progress in securing the border in her four years as vice president. Harris, meanwhile, has attacked Trump over his efforts to end a bipartisan border funding deal earlier this year. Her criticism of Trump, as well as recent ads touting her record prosecuting transnational gangs and drug traffickers as California’s attorney general, are a notable attempt at rebranding with just weeks to go before Election Day . Read the full story.

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Alabama’s second execution with nitrogen gas

An Alabama inmate was executed yesterday using nitrogen gas, marking the second time in the state – and the country – that this controversial method has been used. The planned execution of Alan Eugene Miller by lethal injection was called off two years ago when prison officials struggled to gain access to a vein for more than an hour.

Miller, 59, was a former delivery worker who was convicted in 2000 of a workplace shooting. In a closing statement, he said: “I didn’t do anything to be here.” His death capped a particularly busy period of executions across the country, five of which took place in the past seven days. Read the full story.

Politics in brief

Adam’s indictment: New York Mayor Eric Adams is scheduled for trial today on charges including bribery, conspiracy to commit fraud and solicitation of a contribution by a stranger. A 57-page federal indictment alleges that Adams received more than $100,000 in free airline tickets and luxury hotel stays from wealthy Turkish nationals and at least one government official in a nearly decade-long scheme.

Murder-for-hire plot: The Biden administration does offers up to $20 million for information about a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accused of a plot to assassinate Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton.

Election results 2020: Smartmantic and Newsmax reached a settlement in the voting technology company’s election defamation lawsuit against the right-wing news channel, avoiding a trial scheduled to start Monday.

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• A state lawmaker from Texas promises to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for investigation following an NBC News investigation that found that a local medical program had obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without family consent.
• Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin spoke out after her abrupt departure from “Dancing With the Stars” and accused the show of “exploiting me for attention.”
• Southwest Airlines executives outlined a three-year vision to increase profitsincluding assigned seating, international partnerships and night flights.
• Hoda Kotb, a beloved mainstay of NBC News’ “TODAY” for nearly two decades, has announced that she will step down as co-anchor early next year.

Personnel choice: This ‘Bridgerton’ inspired ball was a chaotic mess

The Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball, which has no ties to the Netflix show, was supposed to transport attendees back to the Regency era – with the promise of live music, dancing, food and drinks. Instead, event attendees were confronted with a single violinist, an exotic dancer and reportedly undercooked meals. Online, people compared it to other chaotic, failed events like The Willy Wonka Experience and Fyre Fest. We spoke with participants of the fateful eventwho are urging organizers to issue refunds. — Daysia Tolentinoculture and trends reporter

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Wayfair is bringing back October’s Way Day – and NBC Select has all the details. Plus, these reporters tested five pairs of Hoka walking shoes over three months (and thousands of steps). Here’s what they found.

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