More than 100 Americans are dead after Hurricane Helene, a powerful Category 4 cyclone, made landfall in Florida last week. What made Helene unusual compared to previous major hurricanes is that communities hardest hit sit hundreds of miles from the coast. Dozens of people in Georgia and South Carolina are already confirmed dead, while at least 30 people in Buncombe County in North Carolina — where the city of Asheville is located — have already been confirmed dead. Where is the media coverage? Where are President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris? Unfortunately, the death toll is expected to rise as emergency crews finally reach impassable areas. The storm was especially devastating for mountain communities in north Georgia and the Carolinas because it had already been raining there for nearly a day — rain from a separate storm system — when Helene barreled through the region, bringing with her hurricane-force winds and torrential downpours. The cumulative impact caused mudslides and historic flooding while falling trees cut power to millions of Americans. Many of the Appalachian communities already forgotten were cut off from the outside world: no electricity, no running water, no internet, and no cell phone service. At one point, all four interstate entrances and exits into the city of Asheville were cut off. The flooding even wiped away entire communities. Interstate 40 near the Tennessee-North Carolina border is also impassable after one side of the highway fell into the raging Pigeon River. And dozens of people had to be rescued from a hospital roof in eastern Tennessee. A beautiful region of the United States has, in many areas, been permanently damaged. The impact is already being compared to what happened after Hurricane Katrina. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) described the destruction, saying it "looks like a bomb went off." North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), moreover, said Helene was "one of the worst storms in modern history." But there was a burning question on social media over the weekend: Where is the media coverage? Where are President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris? It's true the media is finally covering the story. But the problem that people expressed on social media over the weekend is that the coverage, especially on Friday and Saturday, did not match the magnitude of the unfolding disaster. — (@) As of Monday, the president and vice president have tweeted about the storm a handful of times combined. Additionally, Biden has approved "Major Disaster" declarations for Florida and North Carolina, and FEMA has deployed just 800 personnel to the region, according to CBS News. Harris also cut short a campaign trip to receive briefings on Helene.Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is stepping up. Launching "Operation Blue Ridge," the Florida Republican deployed his state's resources to help with recovery efforts. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Georgia on Monday, where he will meet with local officials and help distribute disaster relief supplies. As rescue operations continue over the coming days and weeks, it will be difficult to comprehend the scope of the death and destruction. AccuWeather's preliminary estimate of total storm damage and economic loss is between $95–$110 billion. If you want to support recovery efforts, consider donating to Mercury One, Samaritan's Purse — which is located in Boone, North Carolina, a mountain town devastated by Helene — or other official charitable organizations assisting in the recovery. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Idaho Governor Brad Little applauded the Boise State women's volleyball team for dropping out of a match against a team that features a transgender player.As Blaze News previously reported, San Jose State University women's volleyball is off to its best start in program history with a 6'1" male player on its team.The Idaho governor was responding to a statement from Boise State Athletics, announcing the team would "not play its scheduled match at San Jose State on Saturday, Sept. 28."No formal reason was given by the school."I applaud Boise State for working within the spirit of my Executive Order, the Defending Women’s Sports Act," the governor wrote. "We need to ensure player safety for all of our female athletes and continue the fight for fairness in women’s sports. — (@) 'Idaho’s hardworking, talented female athletes deserve a fair playing field.'The governor recently issued an executive order directing the state's board of education to follow all rules in relation to having only women play in female sports. The executive order, the Defending Women's Sports Act, guarantees female students in Idaho "equal opportunity in sports and school to the fullest extent," per Fox News.Republican Senator Jim Risch also praised the move from Boise State."Kudos to Boise State for taking a stand for women in sports! Idaho’s hardworking, talented female athletes deserve a fair playing field where they can compete and WIN," the senator wrote on X.Boise State became the second school to withdraw from a game with SJSU.Southern Utah pulled out of a match after the team told tournament officials they did not want to play against the undefeated squad. It was not confirmed whether transgender player Blaire Fleming was the reason for the cancellation, though.SJSU and its transgender player, Blaire Fleming, have been shrouded in controversy for weeks, causing several involved in the sport to speak out. The mother of a Nevada Wolfpack player recently expressed concern about her daughter playing against the male athlete."They have worked so hard for this, and to have that stripped away, to play with a male athlete, is unthinkable," Idaho mom April Chainey told the Daily Signal.Chainey's daughter Carissa Chainey is scheduled to play SJSU on October 26.As well, Fleming's SJSU teammate Brooke Slusser has agreed to join a lawsuit against the NCAA for not protecting women in sports.Slusser had shared an apartment with the male player (and other females) and was even placed in rooms with Fleming for road games.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Dr. Christina Francis is the CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists — and she’s exposing the truth about media misinformation surrounding abortions and miscarriages. One tragic example of this is the recent story of Amber Thurman, which made headlines when Democrats began wielding it as a weapon to push the pro-choice agenda. They claimed that the late mother lost her life to Georgia’s pro-life laws that left them refusing to perform an abortion for her. What really happened is even more heart-wrenching. Thurman was mother to a six-year-old boy and decided to get an abortion after learning she was pregnant with twins. She made the trip to North Carolina from Georgia for the procedure, as she was too far along to legally be given the abortion in Georgia. After arriving back home in Georgia and taking the abortion pills, she fell ill and rushed to the ER with heavy bleeding and signs of an infection. While the doctors did give her antibiotics and performed a D&C, the procedure was not done in time to save her life. “She ended up dying, which is tragic all around,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” tells Dr. Francis, who agrees that it’s a tragic situation “that could have been avoided.” “I think that we can actually draw different, very different, conclusions than what the media and politicians are drawing from that,” Dr. Francis says. “As she said, she was pregnant with twins, which would increase her risk some of complications from abortion drugs.” “Because she got delayed by traffic, it said that the abortion facility could not hold her appointment for longer than 15 minutes. And so instead, a clinic employee offered her the abortion drugs. To me, that was the first red flag,” she continues, asking, “Where was the physician?” “Where was the person who could truly give her informed consent about the risks of those drugs?” she asks, noting that it wasn’t just the abortion clinic that failed her. The Georgia hospital that treated Thurman should have known immediately that she was showing signs of sepsis, which would require “immediate initiation of IV antibiotics and a D&C procedure.” “That’s the only way that you can get an infection like this under control, you cannot control it with antibiotics alone,” Dr. Francis explains, adding, “Every competent ob-gyn should know that.” While the media and politicians are claiming that this was due to Georgia’s pro-life laws, the doctors who took care of her aren’t even blaming Georgia’s pro-life laws. “Georgia’s law would not have applied to Amber Thurman for two reasons,” Dr. Francis explains. “Her babies were not alive when she presented to the emergency room, and Georgia’s law clearly states that it does not apply in situations where a fetal demise or the babies have already passed.” “Second of all,” she continues, “Georgia’s law has clear medical exceptions when women are facing life-threatening complications, that the doctors could have intervened immediately. So we need to be pointing fingers at the right things. We need to be pointing fingers at these abortion drugs.” Dr. Francis also notes that these infections are known to be caused by abortion drugs, and “over 30 women have died in the U.S. now, that we know of, since taking these drugs.” Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A 16-year-old male used a fake gun while trying to rob a man on a Philadelphia street late Sunday night.However, the victim had a real gun and fired it at the teen boy, wounding him and sending him to a hospital, WPVI-TV reported.The victim remained on the scene and was cooperating with police.The incident occurred just after 11 p.m. in the 2200 block of Emerald Street in the city's West Kensington neighborhood, the station said.The teen pressed what he told the 21-year-old victim was a gun to his back and added that he was robbing him, police inspector D.F. Pace told WCAU-TV. The teen was with another would-be robber, the station said.The 16-year-old told the victim to turn over his keys, his wallet, and any other valuables that he had on him, Pace added to WCAU. "At that point, the victim began to produce the items that were demanded by the robber, but he was also in possession of a legal firearm," Pace explained to the station.With that, the man turned and shot the boy once in the leg, Pace added to WCAU, adding that the other would-be thief escaped on foot.The wounded teen was taken to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children where he was in stable condition, WPVI said.The victim remained on the scene and was cooperating with police, WPVI added, while also noting that officers said a nearby Ring camera recorded video of the incident.Pace also told WCAU that the victim — who was uninjured — took back his belongings he had handed over after the teen dropped them.Responding officers also recovered a toy handgun that Pace said was used in the attempted robbery, WCAU reported."After the victim opened fire on the robbers, that gun was dropped, and it was recovered by police, and it is now in police custody, and we now know it to be a fake gun," Pace also told WCAU. "But again, having been pressed into the victim's back, there would have been no way for the victim to have known that."Police also said they took the teen into custody, WCAU reported.According to WTXF-TV, the victim was with his girlfriend at the time of the incident. - YouTube youtu.be Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) face off Tuesday in the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2024 cycle. When you live waist-deep in politics, it can be easy to assign outsized importance to vice presidential debates. It’s worth remembering that the people who haven’t yet decided who to vote for are the same kind who will not be spending their Tuesday night watching a governor debate a senator. This reality means these sorts of events more and more resemble a team sport, with different sections cheering for their man rather than watching to learn a little more about the choice. Of course, this time could be different. The race’s dearth of top-of-ticket debates, Walz and Kamala Harris’ bunker strategy, and the appearance that this is the last debate of the cycle combine to mean more attention than maybe ever before will be paid to the contest. Walz’s politically calculated lies fly in the face of the folksy 'Coach Walz' reputation Democrats have worked so hard to mint from scratch. In addition, the Trump campaign has entered popular culture so thoroughly that AI images and techno remixes can carry a contentious line about “eating the dogs” and “eating the cats” to a level of internet fame even those elusive undecideds can’t help but notice. That sort of viral success can work to overcome the reality a paywalled Rasmussen Report exposed: that only 1% of the presidential debate audience had yet to make up their minds. The reality for Democrats is that Walz has more to lose than Vance. While Democrats across the country have had to answer for presidential policy pronouncements Harris herself refuses to explain, Walz has joined his running mate in the shadows. An Axios analysis published Sept. 19 showed Vance beating Walz on media appearances many times over, on national TV (24-1), local TV (15-1), press conferences (12-0), and national newspapers (8-0). Worse yet, the man Democrats hoped to portray as a Homer Simpson-esque, all-American dad has repeatedly stumbled over a career spackled with politically calculated lies — just the sort of thing the Vance team will be prepared to remind the country about in the debate. Here are five that might be making an appearance Tuesday evening. Stolen valor. This is the most obvious line of attack, though the corporate media has done its best to claim it just ain’t so. Most reporters are so far removed from military service that weekends in the National Guard seemed indistinguishable from service in a combat zone. Unfortunately for the Democrats, a decade’s worth of interviews and speeches show Walz making explicit and false claims about his retiring rank, his reasons for resigning, and his nonexistent service in a war zone. His fellow soldiers have the receipts to back it up. What began as a major Democratic talking point quickly faded to the background. Memories of John Kerry’s swift boat escapades still sting. By the time he sat sheepishly beside his boss for their big Dana Bash interview on CNN, he excused a decade of stolen valor as a grammatical mistake. Then there’s that time he blamed the mayor of Minneapolis for the deadly rioting in the city. No joke. He went to the torched city, where a police precinct was among dozens of buildings destroyed by a criminal mob, and slammed city officials. When the mayor produced his text messages and phone calls begging for the governor to send in the National Guard, Walz’s people said those don’t count as a formal request. Grammar and formal requests. Truly amazing stuff. And then there’s the whole IVF thing. In-vitro fertilization is a big part of Walz’s identity. It featured prominently in his Democratic National Convention debut as a personally outraged story to highlight Republicans’ push to outlaw the fertility treatment. Democrat-aligned reporters lapped it up. NBC aired a story about his family’s “seven-year IVF journey.” Taxpayer-funded NPR called Walz “a new kind of reproductive messenger.” The problem is that the whole thing was a lie. Walz and his wife never used IVF, and none of their children were conceived through it. Further, no Republican of any note has called for outlawing the process. Yet another blatant political lie. Politically helpful lies are a near-constant for Walz. There’s that time he claimed schoolchildren in Minnesota didn’t miss more than 10 days of school during COVID. In reality, he ordered the schools closed for the rest of the school year. He also falsely alleged that Trump wants to create a government agency to monitor women’s pregnancies to prevent abortions. Walz said this agency was the brainchild of the conservative Project 2025. Trump has never suggested any such thing. Nor is there any mention of it in Project 2025’s proposals, which, in any case, are not a part of Trump’s campaign and have been repeatedly disavowed by the Republican nominee. None of these are folksy exaggerations. As the Spectator’s Ben Domenech pointed out in the magazine’s podcast, they bear no resemblance to, say, Joe Biden’s omnipresent yarns. They are all politically calculated lies, and they fly in the face of the folksy “Coach Walz” reputation Democrats and their media friends have worked so hard to mint from scratch. “If Walz were just claiming he used to wear an onion in his belt (it was the style at the time), his aggressive fictionizing would have a certain charm,” Domenech wrote. “Instead, it reads as a bizarre aspect to a newly nationalized political character, one who tells lies to gain advantage rather than just entertain the bored voter.” Together, they form a calculated habit. If Vance decides to lean into them Tuesday night, things could get spicy fast. 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