The risk of a major port strike in the next 24 hours could impact more than bananas ... but that's just one item potentially impacted! Here’s the SCOOP ... your cheat sheet for the week ahead.  

✓ 2:00: Hurricane Helene.  

✓ 3:00: NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s unique contribution to hurricane relief efforts.  

✓ 8:00: A major East Coast Port Strike on the horizon.     ✓ 12:00: Sectors impacted: big box retailers, furniture, bananas, asparagus and more.  "According to the American Farm Bureau, 1.2 million metric tons of bananas go through the ports that could be on strike next week, representing about one quarter of the nation’s bananas." (CNN)   ✓ 15:00: How could the White House get involved? The Taft-Hartley Act.     ✓ 17:00: This week's vice-presidential debate and the prominence of the VP’s role.     ✓ 20:00: We shift to foreign affairs.     ✓ 21:00: High-profile targeting of leader of Hezbollah, a designated terrorist organization.     ✓ 22:00: We hear from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech at last week’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).     ✓ 26:00: We hear from the new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during his speech at UNGA.    ✓ 30:00: Lastly, we hear from Ret. Lt. Gen. HR McMaster, a former White House National Security Advisor.  

✓ 36:00: 175 attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East during the last year.  

✓ 39:00: The first musician represented in the U.S. Capitol at Statuary Hall.  

SHOW NOTES: 

A Dockworkers Walkout Would Close Ports From Maine to Texas and Slam the U.S. Economy (The Wall Street Journal) 

The Taft-Hartley Act 

Johnny Cash Statue Now in Capitol Hill (SmartHER News)  

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