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Here are the headlines. You need to know health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike for their third and final day today, the 75,000 workers are looking for higher pay better benefits and an end to short staffing. While Kaiser Permanente said Wednesday that a tentative agreement was reached on some issues. The union says there have been no bargaining sessions scheduled since then yesterday. The White House said President Joe Biden supports the striking workers. The will officially end tomorrow at 6 a.m. The union said earlier a five day strike in November is possible if a deal is not reached. Former president, Donald Trump has weighed in on the race for house speaker in a post on truth social last night, Trump called House judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, quote strong on crime borders, military and our second amendment writing this quote. He will be a great speaker of the house and has my complete and total endorsement. Here's Jordan's reaction to the former president's endorsement. I appreciate the president's endorsement. He's the leader of the party. He's going to be our presidential nominee and I think he's going to be our next president. So I appreciate that. But we're focused on the key thing is our colleagues and I'm talking with you. We got from Freedom Caucus to people in the middle to committee chairs to Jeff Van, who was Democrat four years ago, we got all kinds of across the board support and we're just going to keep working. Jordan also said that he does not support removing Congressman Matt Gates from the Republican caucus after Gates led the effort to oust Kevin mccarthy. The first vote for speaker is expected next Wednesday. A witness claims former President Trump revealed potentially sensitive information about us military capabilities to a foreign businessman. That's according to an ABC report as a part of the investigation into classified documents at Mar a Lago Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt testified to special counsel, Jack Smith's team about a meeting with Trump in 2021. He said the president allegedly discussed the number of nuclear warheads us submarines carry and how close they can get to the Russian fleet without being detected in a new court filing Wednesday. Trump's attorneys asked the judge to delay the classified documents case to at least mid November of 2024 citing a lack of access to documents. President Biden is defending his administration's decision to allow wall construction at the US southern border saying Congress refused to reappropriate wall funding to be used somewhere else. I ask you one question on a border wall, a border wall when money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate to redirect that money. They didn't, they wouldn't. And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what is appropriate. I can't stop that. No. Earlier this week, the Biden administration waived 26 federal laws to allow construction of about 20 miles of border wall. Congress appropriated the funds in 2019. Before President Biden's term began, the law requires the construction to be finished. This year. Jailed women's rights advocate, Nas Mohammad Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting against women's oppression in Iran. Mohammadi is one of Iran's leading human rights activists who has championed women's rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran. There were nationwide protests in Iran last year. You may remember after the arrest and death of a 22 year old woman who was accused of not wearing a hijab in line with Iran's rules. The Nobel committee said the motto adopted by demonstrators, women, life, freedom. Quote suitably expresses the dedication and work of Narjes Mohammadi while Nargis was in prison. At the time of the protests. The committee said quote from prison, she expressed support for the demonstrators and organized solidarity actions among her fellow inmates. More than 70 million rolling candies were recalled yesterday after a seven year old girl died due to choking the US consumer product safety commission said yesterday the recalled candies pose a choking hazard to kids. They include more than 70 million units, units of slime liquor, sour rolling liquid candy and more than 145,000 units of rolling candy by Turkish company Cocoa Candy. The candies dispensed flavored liquid from a tube through a rolling ball which poses a choking hazard if that ball becomes detached. The cocoa candy which was linked to the child's death was sold in two ounce containers at stores across the United States from May of 2022 to March of this year. Officials have asked people to keep the candies away from Children and to contact the manufacturer for a refund. For more information on the recall visit. CPSC dot GOV info is also on your screen. Former Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald is suing the school for wrongful termination. Fitzgerald filed the $130 million lawsuit yesterday after three months after he was fired in the wake of hazing a scandal at the school's athletic program. Fitzgerald's attorneys claim there was not adequate evidence that the coaching staff knew about the reported hazing. In response. Northwestern says multiple current and former players claim that Fitzgerald was aware of hazing including some claims of nudity and sexualized acts. A hearing is scheduled on December 7th