Storm Austen, Senate races and Social Security

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorStorm Austen, the first named storm of the season, is bringing gusts of fifty to sixty miles per hour to much of south Wales on Friday.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorExposed spots could see seventy, and an amber warning covers Cornwall, Devon and the Isles of Scilly from three to ten in the morning on Friday.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Met Office says roads, bridges, trains, flights and ferries could all be affected, and the exact track is still being determined.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSeventy miles per hour. Bro, that's a ferry doing a cartwheel.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIn Maine and Alaska, the Washington Examiner calls ranked choice voting a scam that could tip the Senate to Democrats.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMaine uses it for its Senate race, and Alaska uses it for all its federal and state general elections.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe program is projected to run short by twenty thirty-two, and the senators who arrive next year will be the first in four decades forced to deal with it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the Senate has until twenty thirty-two to find a fix. Fingers crossed it's not a Friday storm delay.