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Good Wednesday afternoon. President Biden’s “garbage” gaffe has added a new twist to the race for president with six days to go, record Halloween heat is expected for millions, and two Yankees fans have been banned from Game 5 of the World Series after interfering with a catch.

Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown.

Harris says she “strongly disagrees” after Biden’s “garbage” remark

Vice President Kamala Harris has distanced herself from President Joe Biden’s comments after he appeared to refer to supporters of former President Donald Trump as “garbage,” in a gaffe that has stirred controversy less than a week before the election.

“Listen I think that first of all, he clarified his comments,” Harris told reporters today. “But let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.”

Biden’s comment happened during a video call for Latino voter outreach on Tuesday, and came in response to the joke made at Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said during yesterday’s call, pausing a moment before continuing on. “His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it’s un-American.”

Biden and the White House later clarified his remarks, saying he was specifically talking about Hinchcliffe’s joke, and not all Trump supporters.  

Trump has seized on Biden’s comment, telling a crowd in North Carolina today: “You can't lead America if you don't love Americans. You just can’t. And you can't be president if you hate the American people, and there's a lot of hatred there.”

Trump and Harris blitz through battlegrounds of North Carolina and Wisconsin

The two presidential candidates are holding dueling events in a pair of critical battlegrounds today.

Trump and Harris each spoke this afternoon in North Carolina, and this evening, the two rivals will both hold rallies in Wisconsin, where Trump is set to appear in Green Bay with former Packers quarterback Brett Favre.

Harris will also visit Pennsylvania’s capital Harrisburg this afternoon. The vice president’s battleground blitz comes after she made her closing argument last night at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., to undecided voters.

Also today, Harris has picked up the endorsement of actor and former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

More on the 2024 election:

A judge has extended the mail-in ballot application deadline in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County after a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign.

The Supreme Court has allowed Republican officials in Virginia to go ahead with a plan to remove 1,600 alleged noncitizens from the states voter rolls.

An 18-year-old was arrested in Florida after police said he intimidated voters with a machete.

Record heat expected for Halloween, severe storm threat tonight in Midwest

Unseasonable warmth is spreading east today, with temperatures surging 10 to 30 degrees above average for the eastern third of the country.

Record highs will likely be set today in dozens of cities, including Cleveland, Flint, Detroit, Green Bay, Syracuse, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Louisville.

When Halloween arrives tomorrow, the warmth could break records from eastern Pennsylvania through New York and up to Maine, with highs in the 70s and 80s.

Also today, 16 million people are at risk of severe storms across the central Plains and parts of the Midwest, especially later this afternoon and tonight.

Yankees fans banned from Game 5 after Mookie Betts interference

Two New York Yankees fans will not be allowed to attend tonight’s Game 5 of the World Series after they were ejected for trying to pry a foul ball out of the glove of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts on Wednesday night, the team said today.

“These fans will not be permitted to attend tonight’s game in any capacity,” the Yankees said in a statement, calling their interference with Betts “egregious and unacceptable.”

One of the fans, season ticket holder Austin Capobianco, told ESPN he was prepared for just such a moment. “We always joke about the ball in our area,” he said. “We’re not going to go out of our way to attack. If it’s in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up.”

“I know when I'm in the wrong and as soon as I did it, I was like, ‘Boys I'm out of here,’” Capobianco added. “I patrol that wall and they know that.”

What else we're watching:

Flash floods have left at least 94 people dead in southern and eastern Spain, authorities said.

U.S. strikes on multiple ISIS camps in Syria on Monday killed up to 35 ISIS operatives, U.S. Central Command announced today.

The U.S. economy grew at a strong 2.8% annualized pace in the third quarter, but still came in below economists’ expectations.

The suspect in the murder of a woman at a luxury Hamptons spa and resort was found dead in Pennsylvania, police said.

An attorney for Lyle and Erik Menendez said he will ask California Gov. Gavin Newsom for clemency for the brothers, after the Los Angeles County district attorney recommended they be resentenced.

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