NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Nov. 12)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stepping down, President Trump making a suggestion for his replacement, and President Trump threatening to double tariffs on Mexico over a migrant caravan heading toward the U.S. border. Some migrants say the midterm election results compelled them to make their way to the U.S. And the latest in the building collapse in New York City. Rescue operations conclude as the site is turned over to investigators. They're hoping to find the cause. Nikubani at the scene. Attorney General Todd Blanche announces the seizure of over $200 million in illegal drugs. He credits the success to an enforcement operation created by President Trump. Arlene Richards has more on the results. And a Microsoft outage affecting hundreds of thousands of users. Email and other workplace tools down. And a U.S. delegation meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky just a few moments ago. This comes right after they met with the Russian president in Moscow. Arian Pasdar has the latest. This is NTD Evening News. Live from our global headquarters in New York City, here's Cary Dunst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. President Trump is threatening to sharply increase tariffs on Mexico unless it stops a migrant caravan that's making its way toward the U.S. southern border. NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. President Trump threatening to double tariffs on Mexico if they don't stop a migrant caravan of around 1,500 currently heading to the southern border. Writing on Truth Social, the invasion of our country is taking place again. Huge caravans are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. Mexico must stop them now, and if they do not do so, the tariffs on Mexico will be immediately double. The Trump administration's repeatedly warned that That migrants traveling in caravans will not be allowed to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. unlawfully. Many of the migrants in the caravan are optimistic, though, that with Democrats winning the House, Senate and state level races in the midterms, a change in immigration policy will occur. At least the governor who won in Texas said she will open the way for us. And we are waiting for that. That is why we are heading up to see if we can achieve it. But Borders are Tom Homan says a change of leadership won't impact border security. Congress may be more blue. Blue? Texas may be more blue. But the White House is red, bright red. And again, President Trump created the most secure border in history. These caravans come to the border all they want. They're not going to be released into the United States. I am sure that the new governor is going to want to have security of this Texas border. And if they don't continue my policy, I will. Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum hasn't directly responded to the threat of tariffs, but she did say that the caravan now in southern Mexico is dissolving thanks to local authorities, and she wants them to return to their home countries. It's against the law in Mexico to transit that country, if you're from another country, without a transit visa. So they're breaking Mexico's law, too, so Mexico needs to step up. A caravan of that size we haven't seen since President Trump took office in his second term. Meanwhile, after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced his resignation, President Trump names Apple's Tim Cook to lead NVIDIA, the nation's second largest company by the former leader of the nation's largest company, Apple. That's after Huang resigned as head of NVIDIA after admitting to having an extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Now, Tim Cook was the CEO of Apple for 15 years up until this September. but still serves a leading role on their board, and he has not publicly responded to President Trump's remarks as of now. Kerry? All right, thank you, Jack. And in Congress, the chairman of the select committee on the CCP responds to the news of Jensen Huang's resignation. He's calling it an unfortunate end that could have been avoided, and he calls on the next leader to put national security first. The chairman and others are calling for an investigation into the scandal. The House Speaker weighing in as well. NTD's Melina Weiskopf has the latest. Jensen Huang has officially resigned from his post as the CEO of major chip company NVIDIA. It comes as lawmakers from congressional committees are calling on Huang to appear for a joint closed-door briefing to investigate the scandal. There's some members of Congress who have interest in questioning him, and I mean, if that's the will of the body, that's what will happen. But there still seems to me to be a lot of facts yet to be determined, so I'm reserving personal judgment on this, but it sounds like for him as an individual, he did the right thing for for the company and for the countries. The chairman of the select committee on the CCP said the prospect that the head of the world's largest company is a target for Chinese intelligence is troubling on many levels. Here's what kinds of questions the chairman said they're demanding answers to. Chinese intelligence targeting someone and there are questions as to what information were they seeking, what kind of privileged information that they have access to, what was the message that they were promoting in terms of influencing our national security policy. Now for some background, the United States at the beginning of the year conditionally approved Nvidia's export of their second most advanced AI chip, but advanced semiconductors have continued to reach China through third countries, according to insiders who spoke with the Epoch Times. Now at the heart of the scandal is a Singapore-based company by the name of Megaspeed, which is currently under investigation for allegedly smuggling chips to China. Megaspeed has said that it would continue to cooperate with the investigation and said that it takes compliance with U.S. export laws extremely seriously. Now, the alleged spy at the heart of this is a woman by the name of Alice Huang, who in 2023 was a controlling shareholder of Megaspeed. So as for what lawmakers want outside of this investigation is to close loopholes, eliminate smuggling, and protect high-end chips to prevent the U.S. from enhancing China's AI capabilities. Many of these provisions lawmakers want to include in the annual National Defense Authorization Act that's now working its way through the Senate. That will restrict chip access to China that I strongly support, and I think we're going to work hard. To make sure that those provisions make it in to the final version. Now this tactic of spying employed by the CCP isn't new. It's commonly known as a honey trap. The chairman of the select committee on the CCP described this as a tried and true method that exploits people's vulnerabilities, and he said clearly they were exploited here. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskopf, NTD News. And NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's admitted affair with an alleged Chinese spy is raising national security questions in D.C. An expert says the real risk may have been access to policy information rather than the technical secrets alone. NDD's Jason Perry takes a closer look. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's admitted affair with an alleged Chinese spy has raised national security questions. According to New York Times reporting on U.S. intelligence assessments, the suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang allegedly had the task of gathering intelligence on Jensen Huang and U.S. AI chips. She was also allegedly tasked with trying to encourage NVIDIA to make its its most advanced chips available for China. According to procurement records, a military-linked Chinese university bought two of NVIDIA's powerful H200 AI chips last month from another company, and that Chinese university was able to purchase NVIDIA AI chips while being on a U.S. export blacklist. Some U.S. lawmakers say access to NVIDIA's most powerful AI chips can accelerate China's development of AI systems for weapons design, intelligence analysis, and military modernization. In a recent interview on NTD, Chinese espionage specialist Nicholas Efthimiadis said the chips continue to reach China through third countries, such as Singapore and Malaysia. He calls the flow an open secret in China, and he also notes that the U.S. Department of Justice has made related arrests. Efthimiadis adds that the real prize in a case like this is not the technical secrets themselves, but access to policy information and the ability to influence that policy information. He says Alice Huang was in a great position to collect information and then provide it to the Chinese Communist Party. Meanwhile, NVIDIA said on Sunday that its board has no reason to believe that either U.S. national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised. Now Congress is wanting answers. We need a classified briefing made available to members of Congress as it relates to the NVIDIA situation. And to the extent that our national security has been compromised, the American people deserve answers. And we're going to work to make sure that happens. Jason Perry, NTD News. And today's news certainly leaves NVIDIA's future and the AI industry in the gray area. NVIDIA stock prices drop as it looks for a new leader. NTD's David Lam reports. As the CEO of tech powerhouse NVIDIA resigns, who will take the helm? On Thursday, NVIDIA says its executive vice president and CFO Colette Kress will step in as interim CEO as the company looks for a permanent successor. It's considering both internal and external candidates to succeed Jensen Huang amid investigations into the co-founder. Kress joined Nvidia in 2013 and has decades of experience in finance roles at major tech companies. She also worked at Cisco, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments. Finding a replacement for Huang could be difficult. Speculations show Ian Buck and Renee Haas as potential candidates. There's Ian Buck, who is a fairly high-ranking VP. He was the guy who helped turn these graphic chips into uses for general computing purposes, including AI. There's also, externally, Rene Haas, the head of ARM, who was a longtime former employee of NVIDIA. And, you know, he's very technical. Technically, savvy is running a company at the moment, but that company is also a fairly significant partner for NVIDIA, so that might complicate on the business front. President Trump saying on social media, quote, Now that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take his place. Tim Cook of Apple. A legend replaces a legend. NVIDIA shares dropped 4.3% on Thursday following news of Huang's resignation. NVIDIA will report its Q3 fiscal year 2027 earnings next Tuesday. David Lam, NTD News. And American taxpayer dollars flowing to violent gangs and foreign adversaries. That's according to the Department of Labor's inspector general. The department unveiling its first ever most wanted fraud fugitives list with 16 individuals linked to $60 million in suspected fraud. Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito joined Steve Lantz to discuss the findings. Watch Capitol Report tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern. And a widespread Microsoft outage is disrupting email and other workplace services today. Users reported trouble accessing Outlook email, Microsoft Teams, its workplace chat and video meeting app, and other Microsoft 365 services. Now, according to Down Detector, more than 130,000 reports of Outlook problems came in earlier today. Some users couldn't send or receive emails, while others couldn't access their inboxes at all. Microsoft says some servers unexpectedly went offline and that causes the connection problems that happened across multiple regions and put additional strain on its systems. The company has been restarting affected servers and redirecting traffic to restore the service. Microsoft says an earlier Teams outage in North America has been resolved, but it has not confirmed that Outlook is fully restored. And law enforcement's getting tough on drug traffickers who use the dark web. Today, the Justice Department announces the results of what they call the largest international law enforcement operation. NTD's Arlene Richards has more on that. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday announcing the results of a law enforcement partnership targeting drug sales on the internet. This operation resulted in over 350 arrests worldwide, the seizure of drugs, weapons, and over $234 million in illicit proceeds. Operation Tornado was organized through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement Team, or J-CODE, in coordination with the Homeland Security Task Force and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, or EUROPOL. This operation represents the sixth and the most extensive internationally coordinated action since President Trump created J-Code back in 2018. Blanche says through Operation Tornado, federal prosecutions are being conducted in more than 30 districts across the United States. Some of the results include 5.7 metric tons of drugs seized, including 354 kilograms of fentanyl, which they say is enough lethal doses to kill 177 million American citizens. He credits President Trump for creating the enforcement team J-Code in 2018. Blanche provides an example of the type of individuals targeted by this operation. 35-year-old Jonathan Gonzalez of South Bakersfield, California, was arrested after being identified as an alleged dark web narcotics vendor under the name Speedy Pharma. He is charged with shipping methamphetamine, black tar heroin, Cocaine and potent K2 paper to multiple addresses across the country. At this individual's residence, federal law enforcement seized nearly 50 pounds of methamphetamine, over 380 grams of black tar heroin, over 580 grams of cocaine, over 40,000 in cash, and three and a half grams of fentanyl. Blanche says that amount of fentanyl was potentially lethal enough to kill over 1,700 people. Because of the various domestic and international partnerships, law enforcement is identifying and taking down criminal networks trafficking drugs all across the Internet. They have also successfully traced unlawful financial transactions, seized 209 firearms, and $230 million in cryptocurrencies and cash. Arlene Richards, NTD News. Coming up, one person is dead, four are injured after a gunman opened fire at a Washington, D.C. gym. The suspect later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police investigate the motive. And the Department of Health and Human Services is putting millions of dollars towards studying a new treatment for PTSD in veterans. 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And again, we do have those updated numbers. We have eight people dead, two of them children, one 9-year-old girl and one 10-year-old boy, so very tragic, as well as 18 people injured. Four of those firefighters who are helping out here with the whole search and rescue operation and we have one person in critical condition. Earlier the mayor as well as the fire commissioner and the department of buildings holding a press conference giving us an update highlighting the extensive operation the investigation that is happening not just into this building right there but into the construction site that was next door. We will find out what happened, and we will share that information with New Yorkers. There are five main entities involved with this construction site who are associated with approximately 100 other sites across the city. Our Department of Buildings is commencing sweeps of those sites today. Investigations and interviews are ongoing, so all of that information will have to come together once we're able to get a better and clearer picture of what goes on the floor as debris is moved away. Now, the impact on the community, of course, is quite extensive. I spoke to John Williams, he works in this deli right in front of me actually right across from the site where everything happened. He witnessed it all go down. This is what he detailed what he saw yesterday so let's take a look at that. I've been living here 35 years so to see this happen you know to me it was a monstrosity to watch it with my own eyes. To see the the bricks collapsing from the building and then to see the building just suddenly after the bricks collapsed not even a minute or two later. The building just collapsed and went to pure rubbish. So, So, I mean, what else could I do? I actually said, God, please, you know, I hope nobody's in that building. Many people have been displaced. The city and the Red Cross have actually opened a YNCA around here for people who have been displaced. Residents can receive temporary housing and any essentials that they need, like food. Now the FDNY wrapping up its search as of 3.37 p.m. on Thursday, confirming there are no more victims. The site has been turned over to the Department of Buildings and the NYPD for further investigations. Nikubani, NTD News, New York. In a deadly shooting in Washington, D.C., left one person dead, four others injured this morning. The suspected gunman later died inside a nearby apartment after a standoff with the police. NTD's Christina Corona has the details. One person is dead and four others injured after a gunman opened fire inside a gym and continued shooting at multiple locations in the surrounding area Thursday morning. The shooting happened just before 8 a.m. at Vita Fitness in the Logan Circle neighborhood about a mile from the White House. Officers immediately were dispatched to this area. They were on scene within 30 seconds. Once they arrived on the scene, they did locate an adult male that had been shot. However, multiple other calls came out for additional gunshots and victims. At this time, we have located a total of four individuals that were shot here on the scene and transported and one individual who is deceased here on the scene. Police have identified the suspect as 55-year-old Matt Wade Lambert, who lived in the condominium building above the gym. The deceased victim is 46-year-old James Stewart, the manager of the building. Police say Lambert returned to his seventh-floor apartment and fired a rifle from his balcony, wounding four people below. He also broke a gas line and started a fire. Investigators found gasoline and other flammable materials inside the apartment. The building's sprinklers helped contain the flames. Just moments ago, while communicating with that individual, officers heard a gunshot. As a response to that, officers forced entry into the apartment. When they did that, they located the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound. Police say Lambert died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators recovered three firearms inside the apartment, a handgun, a rifle, and a shotgun. Investigators are examining a possible connection between the shooting and an ongoing dispute involving building management, maintenance issues, and the condominium association. One of the four surviving victims remains in critical condition. Christina Corona, NTD News. And Republican Paul LePage has won a seat in the House of Representatives. LePage will represent Maine's 2nd Congressional District after Democrat Matthew Dunlop conceded last week. LePage had already declared victory on November 4th before the AP called the race this afternoon. A ranked choice count started earlier this week after neither candidate had won more than 50% of the vote in the first round. LePage served as Maine's governor from 2011 to 2019 before losing a bid for another term in 2022. The Republican has served as Maine's state auditor since 2022. The page will take the seat of Democratic Representative Jared Golden. Golden has represented the district since 2019 and announced last year that he wouldn't be seeking re-election. And a new leader and a new warning. Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, chosen to lead House Republicans in the next Congress, he says Democrats will use their new majority to go after the GOP, speaking on Fox News. There'll be every committee. There'll be a third impeachment. They can't help themselves. They're going to go after everyone in the cabinet. We've already seen that with Secretary Hegseth. They're going to go after people in the private sector, which I think is ridiculous. They've already sent hundreds of letters out to people in the government, outside the government. And then, of course, Sean, I think what they're probably going to also do, I think they're going to go after whoever they think our nominee is going to be. Will they go after Vice President Vance? Will they go after Secretary Rubio, Governor DeSantis, Governor Youngkin, Senator, whoever they think might be our nominee? I think you'll see them target them because for the Democrats, it's all about politics and going after their political opponents. Jordan says Republicans must use their final weeks in the majority to fund the government, deal with the debt ceiling and take up permitting and FISA legislation. He also pointed to 35 incoming House Republicans calling them a younger generation that will help re-energize the party. He added that President Trump can still veto the bills that are passed by a Democratic Congress. Jordan says House Republicans will push back in every committee. And the Trump administration is putting millions to study ibogaine as a potential post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for military veterans. It's part of a federal push ordered by President Trump in April to speed up research into new treatments for the disorder. Today, Secretary Collins and I are announcing new investments with a focus on veterans and other Americans who continue. The struggle with PTSD, with substance use disorders, and other serious mental illnesses. Health and Human Services announces a $4.9 million investment to study whether Ibogaine is effective at treating PTSD, especially for veterans. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says veterans have told us Ibogaine changed their lives. Their experiences demand serious scientific investigation. We will pursue the evidence, confront the risks, and put affordability at We'll be at the center of this work. Ibogaine is a powerful psychoactive compound that comes from the root bark of iboga, a shrub native to Central Africa, and it's illegal in the U.S. Beyond a Texas-based company that operates in Mexico and has a hospital there. Has treated more than 3,000 patients, 6,000 doses of Ibogaine. The HHS says the money doesn't pay for patient treatment or human trials, and it isn't FDA approval. Today's commitment is not a conclusion that Ibogaine is safe or effective for PTSD. It's a commitment to generate reliable evidence, be completely transparent about what the science shows. And expand access only if the data support it. However, if the studies show promise, more awards are expected. Ideally, over the next several months, the clinical trials, the first phase, will show they're safe enough to be used more broadly. Kennedy also says an additional effort will be announced by the end of the year to explore Ibogaine as a potential treatment for substance use disorder. Jason Blair, NTD News. Coming up, with NVIDIA's CEO stepping down amid scandals, what's the impact on the U.S.-China AI race? We're going to talk with a national security advisor specializing in unrestricted warfare. And a U.S. delegation meeting separately with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine on the same day. Erin Pazdar has the latest on the peace talks after the break. He said we'd never give in to a meltdown. Never babysit with a screen. We said we'd We never let the toys take over. We never leave the house looking. We never let them out of our sight. Cars get hot fast, and kids can be at risk. Always stop, look. Being a cowboy, I don't know anything different from when I was three or four years old. I did tough things. I thought everybody knew how to do tough things, and if you didn't, I didn't have time for it. I had a very successful career at a very young age, and life was fast. I was preparing physically. I wasn't doing anything mentally on the inside. And then I got hurt. 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Welcome back to NTD Evening News. I'm Cary Dunst. We tune into the latest now in the NVIDIA scandal. Jensen Huang stepping down as CEO this morning after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, and President Trump recommending that former Apple CEO Tim Cook replace Huang. Joining us now is Casey Fleming. He's chairman and CEO of Black Ops Partners Corp. He's a national security advisor specializing in unrestricted warfare, as well as the author of The Red Tsunami. The silent storm killing your freedom. Casey, thanks for joining this evening. Leaving the pulpier aspects of this story aside for a moment, I want to hone in on the US-China AI race. How impactful is Huang's resignation and what's NVIDIA's place in the race? Well, it's very impactful. Losing a CEO, that's the direction of the company. It's the company that he founded decades ago. So losing him is significant to NVIDIA and to the AI race that's going on. Now, the AI race is extremely important. It is the Manhattan Project of our time. Most people are not aware, but they are in World War III today. And really, who wins the AI race is basically going to dictate the world. It's extremely serious what has happened. All right, let's move our attention to Megaspeed with that context you just laid out. That's where the alleged spy, Alice Wong, was an executive. What do we know about Megaspeed and what do we presume their motives were here? Well, the motive is always espionage. Whenever you steal technology, you don't have to spend the time or the money to develop it. And you become on par with your target overnight because now you have the technology that's stolen or the intellectual property. So it erases the element of time and the investment dollars. To put you exactly on par with your target slash enemy, that's who we are to the Chinese Communist Party, in a very rapid fashion. So that's really what the core is. It's espionage at its core. Megaspeed is just a cover for somebody playing in the industry, a, quote, equal player, trusted player, and so on. But everything to do with China and the Chinese Communist Party has everything to do with With unrestricted warfare, which is their strategy to destroy the free world and America along with it. And anybody needs to understand, especially a CEO of an AI company, for golly sake. I mean, he knew what he was doing. That's my opinion. He knew what he was doing. Thank And he knew that he had the keys to the castle and that people would be coming for them. So it's a grave error. you I personally would like to see him played out. for I like the investigations. And I'm going to use a very strong word called treason having if he's found guilty of passing trade secrets and violating trade restrictions for the higher end AI chips. me. Yeah, that is a very strong word and a very serious one. Now, Jensen Huang appeared to have significant access to President Trump as well. With all this coming to light, are there concerns over that access? Well, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, Trump flew Air Force One full of technology and other CEOs to Beijing in his last visit to China. And so, you know, he's got that relationship with all those CEOs that is absolutely under the microscope at this point. Remember, it's about the American people. It's about our freedom and our independence going forward. And, you know, he swore an oath to protect that. I'm not saying that he hasn't. I'm saying it's under the microscope. All right. And I want to hit on another issue that's tied to the AI race, data centers. If the CCP could make such a brazen power play as to get to the CEO of then the world's most valuable company, they've now fallen to number two after this scandal. What might the CCP be doing to counter data centers here in the US? Well, data centers are the processing, the compute power for AI. So what the Chinese Communist Party does, and it's not separate from any of the other movements the CCP is doing on American soil, the level of infiltration and subversion to the American people and the American country is beyond most people's comprehension. But they fund all these movements, and they've got AI-powering bots through social media to say, we don't want data centers near us. If they can retard the growth of data centers, they retard the growth of AI in the United States. All right. And to kind of continue on this thread, following all the technology headlines of the day, Microsoft had this major outage today, Microsoft's admin center, saying a number of their servers became unexpectedly unavailable, and now they're actively working to bring them back into service. Your thoughts on that? That's called cyber warfare. Oh, fair. And what that shows is that your enemy is showing them, it's sending a message that this is what we can do. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what we can do. I have a background in cybersecurity and cyber warfare. That's exactly what it is. You'll hear from Microsoft, likely they'll say, oh, it was a software glitch. We'll write it off as a software glitch. They do that for number one, the stock price, and number two, they do that to arrest everybody. Everybody's mind is your data safe and so on. But from your enemy's perspective, which is Iran and China behind Iran, and to a lesser degree in this, Russia's part of it as well as North Korea, it's called the axis of aggressors. That's really what's behind it. And after the Iran war, it's Iran basically saying, this is a message to you. Wow. And with President Trump going for that trilateral with Russia and China very soon, the plot continues to thicken. Casey Fleming, thank you so much for joining us this evening. Thanks for having me. In the White House, warning Democrats that threats against Trump administration officials could cross the line into criminal behavior. This comes after Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia urged White House officials to, quote, lawyer up. What do everyday Americans make of all this? NPD's Sam Wong went out onto the National Mall to hear from the people. Right now we're hearing some Democrats urging Trump admin officials to lawyer up. What do you think about that? I don't have an opinion right now on that. I think that's going to go tit for tat. I think there's a lot more that needs to be done in this country than going after either side of the aisle. Well, if it's going to be more of the same, they probably shouldn't do it. It's not going to do us any good. We're going to be right back to the same thing in two more years. You know, and then the presidential election, you know, who knows. But no more back and forth. Go to work, do your job, get stuff done, and just stop this foolishness. That's a distraction. from the nature of the problems. This is part of the problem that we're facing where all the people are trying to do is to make one party look bad or the other party look bad. Every single president did things that I didn't like. Right, and every single congressman stands up for certain things that I don't like. I just want them to unify on certain issues that are clearly what the American people want. What should the next congress prioritize instead? Well, getting everybody back on their feet, lowering the gas prices, create more jobs. Closing the war down and just get us on a better path as a nation. Stop this division. We've had enough of that. We don't need no more of that. Everybody's angry at ICE. How about getting angry at the politicians who created laws that forced so many people to be... uh... forcibly deported. Why can't we come to some agreement on what should happen so that people can back ice and they'll act in our benefit as opposed to becoming an enemy that is the way so many people are presenting them. Well, health care I think would be uh... would be on the top list just to see how much uh... you know these hospitals and how much these pharmaceutical companies are charging the American consumer. And a U.S. delegation is in Russia today meeting with President Vladimir Putin and after that they went over to meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to find the middle ground and try to find an end to the war. Territorial disputes remains the thorny issue. NTD's international correspondent, Erin Pazdar, has the story. US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are at the Kremlin on Thursday. A day prior, they were in Abu Dhabi for trilateral talks with Russia and Ukraine. European officials were not part of the talks, an ongoing issue in the peace process. Russian President Vladimir Putin now saying he's open to include Europe in the talks, but only under certain conditions. ...to have a dialogue with Europe. We have never been opposed to having in dialogue with Europe, but we've always said that the presence of any foreign troops in Ukraine is absolutely unacceptable to us, as we believe it poses a threat to the security of the Russian Federation. And what do we hear from Europe? That once a peace agreement is signed, they will immediately deploy troops in Ukraine. Please work with your European allies so that they finally decide whether they want peace or war in Ukraine. This is absolutely unacceptable to us. Kushner suggests directly involving Europe in the talks with Russia would help resolving those issues. We've seen a big change with the Europeans, and we think there's a very strong momentum and desire to engage together. And we're very confident that if we move to a multilateral format, that we'll continue to make progress to resolve the issues. The trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi. We're heavily centered around security guarantees to make sure the fighting won't restart after a possible peace deal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy now saying much of those talks were about security guarantees for Russia. Zelenskyy appears critical of such guarantees for Russia. We find this approach a bit strange because for 30 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Europe treated Russia well. And Europe try to have as much trade as possible, as much cooperation as possible, and as good relations as possible with Russia. Kushner and Witkoff are now set to leave Russia to meet with Zelensky next and continue the talks. Erin Pazdar, NTD News. The Press And just a few moments ago, Kushner and Witkoff arrived in Dublin for their meeting with Zelensky. They briefly addressed the media after their arrival. Here's what they had to say. We've also been working very, very closely over the past several months with Europeans and I think that that's been very important. I think what I would say, at least what we're hearing from people, is that people would like to see this war end. This war has gone on for a long time. Obviously, it's impacted a lot of people and I think that we're very focused on what the future can bring. A late exit from a global tournament, U.S. soccer has pulled its boys team from the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Qatar. They're citing security concerns in the Gulf. The region has been on high alert since U.S. strikes on Iran began in February. FIFA says the decision followed the U.S. government's Level 3 travel advisory, but that its own security assessments have not changed. Players learned of the move yesterday, just hours after FIFA released the team's 21-man team roster. The U.S. team was scheduled to open against Montenegro on November 21st. Under tournament rules, U.S. soccer faces a fine of at least $24,000 for withdrawing so close to kickoff. The tournament opens in Doha next week, and the American Cancer Society is out with new screening guidelines for prostate cancer. The organization now recommends that men at average risk get screened every two years, starting at age 50. Meanwhile, black men and those with a strong family history are encouraged to get an annual screening starting at the age of 45. At age 70, individualized decision-making is recommended for all men. The American Cancer Society says strong evidence shows screening with a PSA blood test significantly reduces the risk of dying from the disease. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the U.S. And after nearly a week of searching, a mom finally got to embrace her teenager who got lost in Australia. Here's the touching reunion. This is the emotional moment a teen and his mom are reunited by rescue crews after he'd been missing for six days in the Australian wilderness. Victoria Police shared videos showing the team spotting the 17-year-old who appears overjoyed to see them overhead. According to 7 News Australia, William, who reportedly has autism, went for a walk while camping with his stepbrother and didn't return. Quickly, authorities launched a massive search effort and after scouring the area for days, found William lying near a creek and airlifted him to safety. A warm hug from mom isn't the only happy part of this story ending. Police say William is in good spirits and relatively good health despite being missing for nearly a week. In Ohio, officers race to the scene of a fiery car crash where the driver is still trapped inside. With smoke pouring from the SUV, cops from the Fairfield and Hamilton Police Departments work to get past the airbag and get that driver away from the flames. And after a few moments, success, as we see the officers working together to carry the woman off to the side of the road. In a post, police say these quick actions undoubtedly saved a life. One final rescue. Check out this bobcat caught upside down on a barbed wire fence as it appears fur from the back leg got snagged causing the wild animal to get stranded in this awkward position. Animal services and the Martin County Florida Sheriff's Office showed up and helped free the female feline. Once safely away from the fence it was taken to a local animal hospital to get checked out where they determined the cat it's okay. So they took her back to the spot near near where she got caught and let her back out into the wild. Nothing says I'm happy to be home quite like a big, toothy smile. And coming up in the NBA, Warriors guard Steph Curry leaving last night's game in pain. How long will he be out and how will the team fare without their star? Dave Martin joins us with the report. 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Now, he was diagnosed with a right oblique abdominal tear. He'll be reevaluated in two weeks, so minimum he's out for two weeks at least. ESPN is actually reporting the Warriors are bracing him to be out for a month. That hasn't been confirmed by Golden State. This happened at last night's game. Curry seemed to be, like, grabbing at his side while he was playing. Right after hitting his three-pointer with, like, seven and a half minutes left, though, he, like, yelled at—actually yelled out in pain. They took him out of the game immediately. He did not return. Even though the guy is 38 years old now, he's still—he's off to one of the best starts of his career. He's averaging 28 points per game. That's 10th in the NBA, hitting 46% of the threes. Now, this guy is the all-time leader in career-made three-pointers. This is his career-high start from 46%. He's never had a higher percentage of three-point makes in his career. Meanwhile, the Warriors are up to an 8-4 start, despite Jimmy Butler still not playing. He tore his ACL, of course, last January. Kristaps Porzingis has said he's stepping away from basketball, too. So those are two all-stars they're already without. But they're 8-4 up right now. If he's only out for two weeks, maybe they can survive. We'll have to see. But, of course... Everybody likes Steph Curry, right? Yeah, well, you've got OKC, San Antonio, and Denver all chomping at the bit. Maybe the Clippers, too. It's a very competitive conference, but it's debatable, and each generation is sort of different, but he could arguably be the best shooter of all time. I think so. Everybody thought it was Larry Bird, and Bird, of course, was great, but the three-pointer wasn't in vogue in the 80s. He only shot a couple of games. Curry, I don't know, 10 a game he probably shoots. It's a different game these days, for sure. Yeah, let's move now to baseball. The MVP awards will be announced tonight. Cy Young yesterday. A lot of good stuff coming out of baseball after the World Series. Absolutely. Of course, we're down to three finalists for each of these awards now. If you remember, Aaron Judge won it last year and the year before in the American League. Shohei Ohtani won it the year before in the National League and the year before that. Actually, the year before that, Ohtani won it in the American League. So he's won three straight MVPs of some variety. He might be a little bit hard-pressed when he's fourth straight, mainly due to injuries. Now this year he actually pitched a fair amount, more than he's done in the past couple of years. Had an 8-2 record, but he was shut down on July 3rd. He had an injury both to his knee and his biceps. Somehow he was still able to keep on hitting. But maybe not to the, I think eventually in September they put him on the injured list. He was clearly slumping. It seemed like he was succumbing to the injuries. Still ended up with 30 home runs as a hitter. For most people, that would be very good. Pete Crow-Armstrong, meanwhile, of the Cubs, is expected to be the winner in the National League. Now, he led the league in a number of offensive categories. Also, Brewer's second baseman, Brice Turang, leading the team to a World Series. He is also in the running as well. In the American League, Houston's Jordan Alvarez is the favorite to bring home the prize after leading the American League in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, a whole bunch of those, you know. percentage numbers, I guess, if you will, while hitting 42 home runs. Yeah, money ball. You know, money ball. The extra, the high math stuff that we now know in baseball. Also in the running, though, for the American League Trophy, Junior Caminero hit 42 home runs, just like Alvarez and Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals, who scored 45 bases. So those awards will be announced at the top of the hour here, so just a few minutes, 7 p.m. Eastern time. All right, and then as we move to soccer, Manchester United. Reportedly close to hiring U.S. men's coach Mauricio Pochettino. Can you do both? You have your pro, you know, thing, and then you have your national thing. You know, I don't think so. It's one or the other. I don't think U.S. soccer is going to be like, well, okay, we'll let you come back here for a little bit. I mean, they would love to, but no, you cannot do both. It's a full-time job. I don't know if it was like coaching the Olympics, you know. You would think it, but they actually have what they call a friendly exhibition this Saturday against Haiti. Manchester United reportedly is hoping to close the deal with him. Before that actually happens. Now, of course, this is bad news for U.S. soccer because he really had the team looking pretty good this summer. They had three wins in the World Cup, advanced to the round of 16 where they lost there. But we really had hope for the first time since I can ever remember that the U.S. was actually going to advance far in the World Cup. Now, U.S. striker Folarin and Balogun have spoken up saying if he had a vote, Poch Pochettino will stay on as manager, saying, quote, I think Poch has definitely raised the standard since he's been in charge. Now, after he had that successful run at the World Cup, he agreed to a four-year extension through 2030. This is back in August. That's what I thought. He did, but, you know... This is like if the Lakers or the Yankees come calling, right? Man U, sort of the legendary squad, right? They always build these exit clauses into the contract. These contracts literally are meant to be broken, I'm sure. But he has been very successful in the Premier League before, Southampton. Tottenham, Chelsea, and PSG. He took over as U.S. soccer coach in 2024. So I would certainly be sad to see this guy go, of course, as head coach, but we'll see what actually happens. It has not been confirmed yet. All right. What does the future prospects look like for U.S. soccer amidst all this? You know, it really has hinged largely on their coaching. You know, they haven't. Was it 2018? I don't think they even qualified for the World Cup. They've never won it before. Hosting helps, right? Hosting definitely helps, and we don't have to qualify, right? That's our only way of making it, otherwise, it seems. But our hopes were on Pochettino, I'll say that. All right, and in terms of getting back to Steph and the NBA, just one last thought on that. What are you looking at here in the West and the East? We're kind of up and running now. We've got a body of work about 30 days now. You know, the Warriors, obviously, they've won four titles with that core between him, Coach Kerr, Draymond Green. I don't know if they can keep up with these guys. They look like they had a good team going. I hope for two weeks they can hold it together and they get good news on Curry. That's what I'm hoping. All right. Thank you, Dave. Thank you. That is all the time we have for tonight's evening news. But join Steph and I tomorrow at 7 a.m. for NTD Good Morning. For Dave Martin, I'm Cary Dunst. Be true, kind, hold the line. Good night.