Internet Attacks

On Friday October 21, 2016 there was a major attack on the internet through "'Internet of Things'" devices like CCTV video cameras and digital video recorders. Krebs claims that the attack on Friday was a test run for cyber criminals. These criminals have been "training their attack canons" on an internet infrastructure company Dyn. Dyn provides critical internet services to Internet's top sites like Twitter, Netflix, Amazon and Spotify. At first people did not know who was behind the attack on Friday but a computer security firm quickly identifies that Mirari was one of the groups responsible. Mirari previously attacked Krebs and it released a source code for its strain of malware so that anyone could build there own code off of it. Many of the devices that were used as gateways were from the hi-tech Xiongmai Technologies. Xiongmai has said that they will not make a global recall until it is told to do so.

Missouri Senate Race Kander vs Blunt

According to The Gazette the race between Blum and Vernon in Iowa is still varying by seven points. This may not seem like the race is tight but Monica Vernon is closing in on Rod Blum since the last poll taken.

     The Missouri senate race was not a close one until recently. Jason Kander the democratic candidate released an ad showing him assembling a rifle blind folded in September 2016. Jason Kander is an Afghanistan veteran who was very active while he served to protect this country. Kinder was mainly involved in investigating gross suspected of espionage, corruption, and facilitating Al Qaeda. Kinder has been described as an outstanding leader by many of his commanders. Jason Kander is married and is the father of his son True. He graduated from Georgetown's Law school and has a B.S. from American university. He is currently Missouri's Secretary of State and has worked with both republicans and democrats to balance the budget without cutting taxes. Kinder has Raised over nine and a half million dollars and his top contributors are Simmons Hanly Conroy and the University of Missouri. Kinder has spent just over six million dollars and is left whit just under three million. Roy Blunt the republican incumbents raised just over fourteen and a quarter million dollars for his campaign he has spent about ten and a half million. His top contributors are the Crawford Group and Goldman Sachs. Blunt was also previously Missouri's Secretary of State and the governor but his political career in Washington DC started in 1996. Blunt opposes Obama Care, the priority of green energy, and higher taxes on wealthy individuals. Blunt stands with traditional Republican values socially and economically and he supports trump. Kander is now within one point of Blunt because of his campaign ads. Blunt's campaign ads are boring and dry while Kander's grabs the attention of everyone even the ones who don't live in Missouri.

Pika Testing in Miami-Dade

The CDC has released new testing recommendations for the Zika virus. These recommendations come after a response of Florida Governor Mike Rick confirming of local transmission in a Miami-Dade neighborhood. The CDC is suggesting that people not to travel to places with the virus circulating. The reason being is that 4 out of ever 5 people that get the virus don't know they have it. Zika has been a cause of microcephaly. This birth defect is when a newborn has a smaller head than the average size. Microcephaly can lead to learning disabilities and the fact that there is no vaccine or cure for the virus is why the CDC is recommending anyone pregnant women who live in the Miami area should get tested for the virus.

Chris Wallace

CBS News did a follow up article to Chris Wallace's interview with Fox News' Howard Kurtz once it was decided that he would be the final moderator for the presidential debate. Chris said that his role in the final debate is like the referee of a heavyweight championship. I dealt he says that if he does his job right people will tell him that he did well and would barely notice him on stage. Wallace says that his job is not to fact check the candidates he said that it is up to them to catch those on their own. He will try to do his best to dispel time evenly to each candidate. Wallace is a registered democrat and will be the first fox news general election debate moderator.

Blum Leads Vernon in Iowa

According to Roll Call an internal poll from Rod Blum's campaign showed that we was leading Monica Vernon, his democratic challenger, 52 to 36 percent. Roll Call says that the freshmen congressman routinely occupies one of the top spots on it most vulnerable House incumbents. Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in district 1 39 to 36 percent. This would make sense after seeing the fact that more money from the democratic side has been poured in for Monica Vernon's campaign. Vernon questioned Blum's internal poll about the accuracy and the reliance it had. 70 percent of the surveys were conducted by landlines and vernon says that this would cause their information to be inaccurate. Vernon is right to say that the data collected would be inaccurate because not many people have a landline today.

Trump Declares War on the Establishment

Earlier tonight Donald trump tweeted "Disloyal R's are far more difficult than a crooked Hillary." This came after Paul Ryan announced that he will not defend Trump and his campaign. USA Today reports that Trump feels like he can say whatever he wants now that "the shackles are finally off". This is bad news for the GOP because the party is no longer going to have a case for reuniting if Trump wants to talk about Republicans and how awful they are if he is running as a Republican candidate.

Delayed Deportations

The Obama administration has delayed more than 56,000 deportations proceedings of illegal immigrants from Central America since entering the states in 2014. Some cases have been pushed back as far as 2023. The New York Times reports that some of the cases that have been delayed have failed to appear in government offices to receive tracking bracelets. Several government officials admit that immigrants may never report for their court dates.