| Wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, Hurricane Zeta eyeballs the Gulf Coast and more news to start your Wednesday. |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Good morning Daily Briefing readers! It's Jane bringing you Wednesday's headlines. | | Los Angeles Dodgers fans are celebrating after their team won the biggest prize in baseball. Fire officials in California are hoping for relief from the wildfires that are razing parts of the state. Meanwhile, the Gulf Coast is bracing for Hurricane Zeta. | | Here's today's news: | 'This is our year': Dodgers defeat Rays in Game 6 to win first World Series title since 1988 | | The Los Angeles Dodgers walked away with the ultimate prize in baseball Tuesday night, holding the World Series championship trophy for the first time in 32 years, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays, 3-1 to win the World Series in six games. "This is our year," said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. "These players right here showed what toughness is all about. Resiliency." The win was marred, however, after third baseman Justin Turner, who was yanked out of the game in the eighth inning after being notified that he tested positive for COVID-19, returned to hold the trophy and sit in the front row of the team picture. The Dodgers and their families underwent rapid PCR tests, and will again Wednesday along with contact tracing without knowing if they'll have clearance to fly back to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Taco Bell is handing out free tacos Wednesday thanks to Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts' stolen base in Game 1 of the World Series against the Rays. | | • | 'It's an unfortunate endpoint': Dodgers' World Series win marred by Justin Turner's return to field for celebration | | • | Free food alert: Get a taco at Taco Bell for World Series stolen base | | President Trump appeals to women at Michigan rally; Melania Trump slashes Dems, media in Pennsylvania | | President Donald Trump made an appeal to women voters at a rally in the battleground state of Michigan Tuesday, one week before Election Day: that he would help their husbands recover from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Moments earlier, Trump was touting his support among women, claiming that they would back him in the presidential election because "they want security, they want safety, they want law and order." First lady Melania Trump hit the campaign trial for the first time since 2019 Tuesday, traveling to battleground Pennsylvania to sharply attack Democrats and the media in her first solo appearance at a Trump rally in 2020. Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway accompanied her to the event in Atglen, Chester County. The first lady made it clear once again that she fully shares with her husband and his base the same loathing for rival candidate Joe Biden, for the media, and for Democrats, who she described as "wasting taxpayer dollars on a sham impeachment" while "Donald" worked to protect the country from the killer virus. | More election news: | | | Wind-driven wildfires to cause more concern in Southern California | | More than 100,000 California residents have been forced by fire out of their homes, and even more are without power as wildfires continue to rage in the southern part of the state, fed by strong winds which are expected to subside by Wednesday. There's no wet weather in the forecast yet, but fire officials remain hopeful for rain to soak the dry brush that is quick to ignite. Officials are investigating whether electrical equipment may have sparked the Silverado Fire, which forced 70,000 Orange County residents to evacuate and severely injured two firefighters. The fire had blackened 11,200 acres by Tuesday and was 5% contained. The Blue Ridge Fire had charred more than 15,000 acres as of Tuesday and was 0% contained. Officials have issued a windblown dust and ash advisory, warning that strong gusts of wind could spread hazardous particle pollution from recent wildfires. | | | Hurricane Zeta eyeballs Louisiana's gulf coast | | After weakening to a tropical storm after coming ashore Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Zeta regained hurricane strength early Wednesday as it charged toward a projected afternoon landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. Zeta carried top winds of 75 mph, a weak Category 1 hurricane, but the Hurricane Center warned of "additional strengthening" ahead of landfall. It was centered over the Gulf of Mexico and moving northwest at 85 mph, about 320 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and 355 miles south of New Orleans as of 4 a.m. CDT. Zeta broke the record for the previous earliest 27th Atlantic named storm that formed Nov. 29, 2005. It's also the 11th hurricane of the season. | Marchers call for justice after couple shot by police in Illinois | | Ahead of the expected release of footage from the fatal shooting, social justice organizations from Chicago, Milwaukee, Kenosha and St. Paul are expected to attend a march in Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday afternoon, calling for justice for a Black couple who were shot by police . Marcellis Stinnette, 19, was killed, and his girlfriend, 20-year-old Tafara Williams, remains hospitalized after both were shot by a police officer on Oct. 20 when the car they were in allegedly reversed toward him. Mayor Sam Cunningham said the city intends to release the video before a Thursday deadline, but will let Stinnette's family review it first. The city is about 15 miles south of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Jacob Blake, 29, was shot in the back multiple times as he was getting into a car, triggering unrest in the city and sparking protests around the nation. | | | More news you need to know: | | | And finally: | | Approximately 176,200 people were diagnosed with a blood cancer in the U.S. in 2019. This dad did a pushup for each one of them. Watch his story in this inspiring video from Humankind. | | | | | | | |
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