Here are 3 big things you need to know—

One — Hurricane Melissa has killed over two dozen people in the Caribbean.  That's according to multiple reports.  Melissa brought heavy winds and rain to The Bahamas overnight.  It caused devastating flooding to Cuba after slamming Jamaica on Tuesday.  Hurricane experts say Melissa is the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. 

Two --- About 17-hundred General Motors workers in Michigan and Ohio are now out of a job.  The automaker cited a slowdown in the electric vehicle market as the reason for the layoffs.  Detroit's electric vehicle plant saw around 12-hundred job cuts while 550 jobs at an Ohio battery cell plant were impacted.  Wednesday's layoffs follow the company's announcement last week that 200 salaried positions would be eliminated at its global tech campus in Detroit. 

And number three ---    A new poll shows Andrew Cuomo gaining some ground on Zohran Mamdani in the race for New York City Mayor with less than a week to go until the election.  The latest Quinnipiac poll shows Zohran Mamdani leading by ten-percent in the race.  He holds 43 percent of the vote, compared to 33 percent for Cuomo, and 14 percent for Republican Curtis Sliwa.