The episode covers urgent global developments including a record-length U.S. Navy deployment amid deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a tropical storm threatening Hawaii, a deadly earthquake in Indonesia, election unrest in Zambia, and a controversial London drinking
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