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b"On today's show:\\xa0\\xa0 first, an update on the Hurricane Florence the damage wrought by Hurricane Florence on the East Coast. The cost to rebuild will be exacerbated by Donald Trump's trade war -- an additional 10% tax\\xa0 on $200 billion in Chinese imports, which home builders in the Carolinas charge will raise the costs of the recovery for all. A federal judge in Georgia has ruled that state election officials can continue to use 100 percent unverifiable touchscreen voting systems in the crucial November midterm election. While the judge made clear she was very sympathetic to the concerns of plaintiffs seeking to force the state to the hand-marked paper ballot systems, she appears to have bought into the defendants' argument that a switch to paper ballots this late before the November midterms would result in chaos at polling places. Republicans are in a panic to push through the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the November midterms, on the heels of allegations by Palo Alto University psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh and a friend by the name of Mark Judge sexually assaulted her during a party more than thirty years ago. Salon's HEATHER DIGBY PARTON analyzes the controversy, the GOP response, and Kavanaugh's ugly history as a Republican operative. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' with more news on the ongoing fallout from the deadly Florence, the even larger and deadlier Typhoon Mangkhut that ravaged The Philippines and China, and an update on the natural gas pipeline explosions in dozens of homes near Boston late last week..."