Fox News Poll

According to a Fox News Poll on national job approval ratings, Congress hasn't reached an approval rating of fifty percent since February of 2009. This make me wonder how is congress rating so low and has it ever been higher than sixty-six percent. Congress' current approval rating is a staggering fourteen percent. This makes you wonder how will the general election turn out for Congress and what will their approval rating will be after a few months. President Bush's lowest rating was twenty-six percent. His approval rating leaving office was thirty-four percent. President Obama's approval rating is currently fifty-three percent and this overall percentage is right above the independents rating of the president.

"I had a feeling I was going to get shot"

Two weeks ago police sergeant Allen Brandt was shot in the line of duty after responding to report of shots fired. It was just passed midnight and he was inked with his four kids reading them a story. After he was finished with the story he told his wife and kids that he had a feeling that he was going to get shot. Later that night in the middle of the gun battle that was all sergeant Brandt could think about. Sergeant Brandt was wearing body armor and took a bullet in the chest. He also took five in a leg and a piece of shrapnel in an eye. After the surgery there were many complication which continued to deteriorate and died later that day. The criminal that was arrested had a lengthy criminal record and was charged with tampering with evidence, attempt of murder, vehicle theft, and firearm theft. The candlelit vigil was held outside of the Fairbanks Police department.

Pence Plane Crash

Governor Mike Pence was involved in a plane on crash on Thursday October 27, 2016. A full investigation was done and is still underway but the main cause of this crash was that there was bad weather. New York times report that it was racing very heavily Thursday night. The plane was coming in for a landing and over shot the runway. After running through an arrester bed, a section of crushable concrete at the end of the runway, the plane came to a full stop. Governor Pence said that everyone was ok and that he would get back on the campaign trail as soon as the next day. LaGuardia did have a major backup due to this incident. Both runways were closed for  two hours and then the undamaged on would open back up. The Port Authority of New York and NewJersey recommend all passengers scheduled for departures on Friday to check with their airlines for any changes.

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.