--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Friday, October 13th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: The House GOP will meet to pick a new speaker today after Steve Scalise dropped out on Thursday night.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The other candidate, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, seems to be the frontrunner, but the conservative may not have the votes to unite the party's various factions.
--:-- John Bickley: Israel told the United Nations that they must evacuate northern Gaza before their military launches a potential ground invasion in the area.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Several groups have said evacuating the one million Palestinians who live in northern Gaza would create a humanitarian crisis.
--:-- John Bickley: Pamphlets dropped in the area said, quote, "you must evacuate your homes immediately and go to the south of Wadi, Gaza."
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to reports, Hamas told residents to ignore the warning and stay in their homes.
--:-- John Bickley: A truck sporting digital billboards circled the Harvard campus this week broadcasting the names and photos of students who allegedly supported statements blaming Israel for the brutal Hamas attacks
--:-- Georgia Howe: The words "Harvard leading anti" were emblazoned on the van and a slideshow of the students was displayed.
--:-- John Bickley: The nonprofit group Accuracy in Media organized the display.
--:-- Georgia Howe: One of the largest health care worker strikes in U.S. history may soon come to an end.
--:-- John Bickley: The union representing Kaiser Permanente's frontline workers reached a tentative agreement with the health care provider today, gaining major ground on their disputes over staffing levels and pay.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Kaiser and the Health Care Worker Union came back to the bargaining table on Thursday, just over a week after 75,000 nurses, medical technicians, and support staff walked off the job and began a 72-hour strike.
--:-- John Bickley: Terms of the agreement weren't immediately brought to light, but Kaiser has acknowledged what the union called crisis-level staffing shortages.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Negotiations between the studios and the union representing thousands of actors on strike in Hollywood have fallen through again.
--:-- John Bickley: Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers put out a statement earlier this week saying that the gap between them and SAG is too great
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, has been on strike since July.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The union put out a message to its members on Thursday saying that it is with profound disappointment that we report the industry CEOs have walked away from the bargaining table after refusing to counter our latest offer.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Actors' Union went on strike weeks after writers did on May 2nd.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The Writers Guild of America strike ended almost five months later on September 27th.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Members of that union ratified its agreement this week.
--:-- John Bickley: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill earlier this week, dubbed the Ebony Alert Law, that adds new protocols for searching for missing Black youth, and it takes effect on January 1st.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The law essentially creates an electronic alert notification system, much like Amber Alerts, specifically for black children and young women ages 12 to 25.
--:-- John Bickley: Supporters of the bill say it needed citing data showing a lower amount of media attention for missing black brown and indigenous people
--:-- Georgia Howe: A Maine woman was killed after a mast broke and fell down on the deck of a historic ship sailing off the coast of the Pine Tree State earlier this week
--:-- John Bickley: She has now been identified as 40-year-old Dr. Emily Mecklenburg of Rockland, Maine.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Three other people suffered injuries when the mast fell.
--:-- John Bickley: The Coast Guard is investigating why the mast snapped in what the guard described as non-windy conditions.
--:-- Georgia Howe: More than 30 people were on board at the time of the incident.
--:-- John Bickley: A local man who used to own a similar vessel told News Center Main that while these ships are very well maintained, they're still old.
--:-- Georgia Howe: They're inspected on a regular basis by the Coast Guard, oftentimes having them take a plank off or something to see what the framing is like.
--:-- John Bickley: When I was in the association, there was a lot of back and forth about making sure that everybody was keeping things good and safe.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
--:-- John Bickley: To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
