WATCH LIVE: White House press sec­re­tary Karine Jean-Pierre holds brief­ing

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White House press sec­re­tary Karine Jean-Pierre is hold­ing a press brief­ing at 1:30 p.m.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden announced yes­ter­day that he would need con­gres­sion­al approval to fund res­cue and relief efforts in the after­math of Hur­ri­cane Helene. The death toll has topped 130, with hun­dreds still miss­ing.

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Mean­while, with thou­sands of dock­work­ers on strike, the White House is care­ful­ly weigh­ing its options in an effort to get the sup­ply chain under con­trol. In addi­tion, the con­flict between Israel, Hezbol­lah, and Iran has esca­lat­ed in recent days. Israel has now begun a ground oper­a­tion in Lebanon. …