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Let's get to those morning need to know headlines Kristen. Ok. Well, an auto workers strike is looking more likely with just hours left before the deadline for contract negotiations. The contracts between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Ford and STIs are set to expire at 11 59 pm tonight. Yesterday. U A President Sean Fein said the union had a targeted strike plan and he said a final decision on which plans to strike will be made later tonight and announced at 10 pm. About 146,000 auto workers are represented by the union and if a strike occurs, it will be the first one in the union's history involving the three big auto makers. We'll have more on this story later in the show. An important story. Also hurricane Lee is heading north and will cause tropical storm conditions in Bermuda. Today, the national hurricane center says Lee will continue to weaken over the next three days. Residents in Maine and southeastern Canada are preparing for the storm to make landfall over the weekend. The center has issued a hurricane watch for the area. A tropical storm watch has been issued for coastal New England, which is still recovering from nearly 10 inches of rain earlier this week and a likely tornado that damaged power lines in Rhode Island and Connecticut yesterday, a prisoner who is on the run for nearly two weeks is in custody again this time in a maximum security prison and facing new charges. Danelo Caval who is serving a life sentence for first degree murder broke out of Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania on August 31st and evaded police for days before being captured. Early yesterday morning. Caval has been charged with felony escape and was arraigned yesterday morning. According to court records, his appearance is set for September 27. And after his court appearance, Tate was transported to the maximum security prison state correctional facility. Phoenix in Pennsylvania. A federal judge has declared the DACA immigration program illegal. The ruling will keep in place an existing rule preventing the federal government from accepting new applications but will allow the policy to continue for existing recipients. Deferred action for childhood arrivals or DACA is an Obama era policy preventing deportation of people who arrive in the US as Children known as Dreamers, Texas and eight other states sued to end the program arguing the Obama administration was not authorized to create it without congressional approval. The Biden administration has criticized the judge's ruling saying it disagrees with the court's decision and that it will continue to defend the DACA program from legal challenges. The Pentagon's Inspector General announced yesterday, it will create a new team to monitor us aid to Ukraine. The team members will work out of the US Embassy in Ukraine's capital of Kiev marks the first time the defense department's Inspector general had any staff based in Ukraine since Russia's War of the nation started. Last February comes after the Biden administration recently requested $24 billion in new Ukraine aid from Congress. And as Republicans raise skepticism and call for greater oversight. Hunter Biden has sued a former Trump White House aide over his alleged role in publishing e mails and personal photos of Hunter Biden online. The lawsuit accuses Garrett Ziegler of improperly quote, accessing, tempering, tempering with manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data that they do not own end quote. The lawsuit describes Ziegler and 10 other unnamed defendants allegedly accessed thousands of e mails photos and videos belonging to Hunter Biden and then spread them on the internet. Ziegler's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Hunter Biden is seeking a jury trial to determine damages and an injunction to keep Ziegler from accessing and tampering with his personal information. And a new study found that Gen Z is less likely than older generations to report that they have excellent mental health or that they're thriving and more likely to report feelings of negative emotions. Researchers from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation also found more than three quarters of Gen Z are about their future but less than half feel prepared for it. Researchers point to overall mental health declines across generations as a reason for the decrease. Noting that millennials and gen X members also reported worse mental health now versus a decade in the past year, you noticed your commute to work has gotten busier. Well, that's because it has new data from the US Census Bureau shows that the number of people working remotely dropped to 15% in 2022. Down from 18% in 2021 percentage of people driving to work increased to 68%. And the rate of people in car pools jumped to almost 9% last year. Signs that life is starting to resemble pre pandemic life. The rate of people using public transit also rose to just over 3%. The report found that the average time spent commuting jumped a full minute in 2022 to 26 minutes elsewhere. NASA said to release the findings of a years long study on unidentified anomalous phenomena or U. That's the government's new term for UFOs last year, the agency officially authorized studies to analyze data on U from the public and private sectors. But before you get your hopes up, a big alien reveal. NASA said the study's goal was to identify how data can potentially be analyzed to shed light on a NASA also stressed that the report is not a review or assessment of previous un identifiable observations. Well, meanwhile, in Mexico on Tuesday, a journalist is addressing a special session of Congress showed lawmakers what he claimed were 2 1000 year old fossils of alien bodies. Journalist Jamie Masan said the bodies were retrieved from Cusco in Peru and massing gave testimony under oath. But it's important to note that his previous, his previous claims have not been proven. Interesting.