Isaias came ashore near Destin, Florida as a Category 2 overnight and weakened to a post-tropical cyclone while pushing through Alabama and the Southeast. Editors tracked rising water, flash flooding and mass outages affecting more than 900,000 customers, with the reported death toll climbing from two to at least four and Gulf oil output curtailed.
From the diesel import agreement with Putin announced the prior day, Trump blamed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high U.S. prices and said Ukraine should get a new leader who could make a deal, drawing criticism as a betrayal.
Afternoon attention turned to Erie, Pennsylvania, where police reported nine dead including the suspect in a mass shooting. By night, coverage shifted to a Houthi strike on Riyadh airport that Saudi authorities said killed 12 and wounded over 300, including an American, with Rubio condemning the attack and Trump weighing a response.