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Elon musk's twitter deal taking an unexpected turn today when musk himself announced the deal is moving forward. That's right. Elon Musk is buying Twitter for real this time or at least according to Elon Musk, we heard rumblings of this earlier today. Then late this afternoon must confirm the reports agreeing to buy the social platform for the agreed upon price of $44 billion dollars in an sec filing. This comes after musk trying to back out of the agreement claiming the company was not forthcoming about the number of spam accounts on the site. Of course, we will continue to follow this story very very closely now to the latest on the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. We now know that storm killed more than 100 people in florida. Rescue crews are still searching for survivors as ruined communities. Face rebuilding at least 54 people died in lee county alone, where Fort Myers is closed. About 430,000 people in florida are still without power, heartbreaking and deeply troubling. That's what the US soccer president is calling the findings of an independent investigation revealing systemic abuse and misconduct by coaches in the top tier of women's professional soccer investigators say they discovered a culture that span across teams with verbal and emotional abuse as well as sexual misconduct deeply rooted in it. The report also issued warnings that girls face abuse in youth soccer as well. The National women's Soccer League said it would immediately review the report, which it says will be a critical in implementing reform, flight attendants will get more mandated rest time between flights. Well rested crew members are important to safety And as we've seen too often recently, they are in the front lines or they're on the front lines responding to unruly passengers who could threaten the safety of flight and other passengers. The Federal Aviation administration will now require 10 hours between shifts of 14 hours or less. It's a move flight attendant unions have been fighting for since the 80s and some advocates still say this is not enough. And finally, on this world, animal day, some good news from down under Australia is committing to zero extinctions with a new plan to protect 30% of its land. The country has one of the world's worst records on extinctions, but it hopes to prevent any more species from dying out in the country with this new ten-year plan to protect its most threatened plants and animals. The plan brings Australia in line with more than 100 other countries that have made similar pledges. And the Supreme Court is only on day two of its new term, but it's already waiting into contentious political debates, including a case today on the landmark civil rights case, the voting rights act. Cheddars aerial Hickson has the latest on that from Washington, D. C. The Supreme Court start its term monday and got right to business and what's set to be a busy term. The court is hearing its second major case in two days and has decided to take up a new challenge that tests the limits of section 2 30 also known as the law that created the internet. Court watchers are trying to read the tea leaves from yesterday's oral arguments on a major case over when the federal government can regulate the use of wetlands. The case revolves around what exact the wetland is and the plaintiffs are seeking to change 50 years of government regulations enforcing the Clean Water Act. The justice seem torn between the two positions, and court watchers are anticipating a middle ground judgment between the two different positions on the case and today the justices hearing two different cases, one on veterans and their ability to access federal benefits and another case that is a major challenge to the voting rights act. In Merrill versus Milligan's long standing judicial decisions about Section two of the voting rights act, which bars election practices that deny or bridge the right to vote based on race, are facing a stiff challenge from the state of Alabama. Alabama has an electorate that is roughly 30% black, but in the states 2021 redistricting partisan redistricting officials reduce the number of majority black district to one. The state argues that it used race neutral criteria to draw the new district, so it is not a violation of the voting rights act, A lower court made up of mostly trump appointed judges did not agree saying that the map likely did violate the landmark civil rights law by reducing the ability of black alabamans to choose a candidate to their liking. The conservative wing of the Supreme Court chose to take up Alabama's challenge late last year allowing the state to use a new map for this year's midterms and again forget the new cases the court has decided to take on on its first day back. The court shows nine new cases for its docket with the biggest by far being a challenge to Section 2 30 of the communications decency Act, also known as the law that created the internet. Some background here. Section 2 30 was passed back in 1996 and it's credited for laying the Foundation for the World Wide Web that protects websites and social media platforms like facebook twitter and Youtube from being responsible for one what their users post. When it comes to civil lawsuits. The case, Gonzalez versus Google LLC is about Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23 year old woman killed in an ISIS terrorist attack. In paris. Back in 2015, Gonzalez family sued Google for hosting ISIS recruitment videos on Youtube and is thereby assisting ISIS. Now Gonzales Family argues that Google recommended ISIS videos to users in this case. The big question though, is whether Section 2 30 grants community to recommendations pushed by algorithms or only for editorial changes like physically removing content from the platform, politicians on both sides have called for reforms to section 2 30 during the trump administration. the former president criticized Section 2 30 as a law enabling online censorship of conservatives. But on the other hand, President Biden has called for reforms as well as Section 2 30 is seen as a liability shield for big Tech in Washington, Ariel Hickson, Cheddar news.