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Hurricane Zeta hit the coast of Louisiana. It hit with winds up to 110 mph. It is close to being able to be labeled a Category 3.

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Hurricane Zeta is battering southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi with high winds, heavy rain and a life-threatening storm surge, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The Category 2 storm made landfall with winds of 110 mph, though it had weakened to a Category 1 storm with 90 mph winds as of 9 p.m. ET, the hurricane center said. Zeta is moving quickly at 25 mph as it heads into southeastern Mississippi and that speed is expected to increase Wednesday evening.

The eye of the storm passed over New Orleans at roughly 7:30 p.m., according to CNN crews in the city. Winds were beginning to pick back up after the eye's passing, according to a tweet from the New Orleans government.

A weather station in Golden Meadow reported a wind gust of 110 mph, while the New Orleans Lakefront Airport has seen winds gusting more than 50 mph.

In New Orleans, emergency medical services responded to a high-voltage electrocution fatality related to a downed power line, according to a tweet from New Orleans EMS. The city's office of emergency preparedness said it is tracking many downed power lines, trees and other debris in roadways.

More than 700,000 customers are without power in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, according to poweroutage.us. In New Orleans alone, Entergy New Orleans is reporting more than 80,000 power outages, according to

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Hurricane Zeta is battering southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi with high winds, heavy rain and a life-threatening storm surge, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 2 storm made landfall with winds of 110 mph, though it had weakened to a Category 1 storm with 90 mph winds as of 9 p.m.

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Philadelphia police shot and killed a black man wielding a knife, sparking overnight protests and violence. The incident was caught on camera and is now an example of fatal force used by the police. Riots have broken out and 30 cops have been injured from these riots.

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Philadelphia sees more protests and looting as authorities investigate police shooting of Black man with knife

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Protesters took to the streets for a second night after officers in Philadelphia shot and killed a Black man who was holding a knife in an encounter city officials say raises questions.

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Violent protest occurred in Philadelphia, after an armed black man was shot by police. Protests became violent Monday night, when cops were being attacked by protesters throwing objects such as bricks, rocks, and water bottles. A specific cop was run over by a protester driving a truck, creating a total of 30 cops injured in Monday night's protest.

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Police in Philadelphia clashed with protesters late Monday night just hours after a Black man armed with a knife was shot and killed by two officers in the western part of the city, reports said.

Philadelphia Police Sgt. Eric Gripp said the shooting occurred at about 4 p.m. after officers responded to a call about a man with a weapon, Fox 29 reported. He said the officers were "immediately met with a male who was carrying a knife."

Gripp said the man appeared to disregard orders to drop the knife. A video emerged that purported to show the moments before the shooting. The man's mother could reportedly be seen chasing after her son and asking police not to open fire. The video showed the man, identified in reports as Walter Wallace Jr., walking towards the officers prior to the shooting. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that police said the officers drove the man to a nearby hospital after the incident.

The police department and city's district attorney vowed to look into the shooting.

The incident sparked anger in the community. Protesters took to the streets and called the shooting another example of police officers killing a Black man. The Inquirer reported that these protesters marched to a city police station where officers lined up behind metal barricades. The report said that some protesters were seen throwing various objects and several officers were injured after being hit. At least one police vehicle was set on fire.

Samantha Melamed, a reporter for the Inquirer, posted an image of a man holding a toddler while facing a police officer. She tweeted that the man told his 3-year-old son, "This is what racism looks like. Take a look."

Police said it was unclear how many times the person was shot but Walter Wallace Sr., the man's father, told the paper that he believed his son was shot 10 times. He told the paper that his 27-year-old son had mental health issues and was on medication.

"Why didn't they use a taser? His mother was trying to diffuse the situation," he said, according to the paper.

Last month, protests broke out in Lancaster, Pa., after a police officer fatally shot a man with a knife after his sister said she called police to get him involuntarily committed, leading to street protests and vandalism in what the mayor of the small Pennsylvania city of Lancaster called a "heartbreaking day."
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Philadelphia police shooting of armed Black man sparks violent clashes, at least 30 cops injured: reports

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The fatal police shooting of a Black man allegedly armed with a knife in the western side of Philadelphia sparked violent protests overnight, with at least 30 officers reported injured early Tuesday. Hundreds of people took to the streets to protest the Monday afternoon shooting of 27-year-old Walter Wallace, calling it another example of police officers killing a Black man.

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Thieves steal 6 million gloves, meant for hospitals. $1 million worth of medical gloves were stolen in Florida a few nights ago. Security cameras show the thieves loading all of the boxes into their truck and leaving within a few minutes. While the reason to this crime is still unknown, it is still devastating to the first responders who need these to protect their patients from Covid.

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Thieves have stolen over 6 million gloves meant for first responders at Florida hospitals

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- Thieves have stolen over 6 million gloves, worth $1 million, meant for first responders at Florida hospitals.

Medgluv, a supplier of medical gloves to the national health care industry, said it received the shipment at its office in Coral Springs on Friday night. On Sunday night, surveillance video shows thieves backing a truck up to the shipping container and hauling off the personal protective equipment. It took only a few minutes.

"We've had hospitals asking for this product on a daily basis waiting for this to arrive," said Rick Grimes, Medgluv's vice president of sales and marketing. "It's heartbreaking in so many different ways."

He did not elaborate on whether the company thought the theft was lucky timing or an inside job.

Local police are investigating as well as federal authorities because the medical-grade exam gloves were federally registered.

Grimes said the company was "crushed." He added, "These are not just consumers. These are friends. We play an important part in the role of health care."

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Thieves have stolen over 6 million gloves meant for first responders at Florida hospitals CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- Thieves have stolen over 6 million gloves, worth $1 million, meant for first responders at Florida hospitals. Medgluv, a supplier of medical gloves to the national health care industry, said it received the shipment at its office in Coral Springs on Friday night.

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In Poland, riots are happening because of a new ban on abortions.

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WARSAW -- "Poland is an example for Europe and the world", chanted the hundreds of pro-life activists gathered outside the Constitutional Court in Warsaw last Thursday. Their outburst of enthusiasm came after the court had ruled to almost completely ban abortions.

But Tuesday, as yesterday, streets in large cities and small towns across Poland are blocked by not hundreds, but tens of thousands, mostly women, who are outraged by that restrictive court ruling.

Today is the sixth day women came out with placards reading "My body's not an incubator", "This is war," and Poles are beginning to take this protest further, beyond the anti-abortion law -- to vent their anger at their rulers. Marta Lempart, one of the demos' leaders says, "Now it's not about abortion alone, it's about freedom in general and abortion has become a symbol of it."

Many in Poland are referring to the swelling protests as the Women's Revolution. Poland has not seen such a manifestation of nationwide solidarity in years. During Monday's protest, taxi drivers stopped their cabs and blocked road junctions, the so-called 'ultras' -- soccer fans who take pride in being macho stadium hooligans -- marched with the women. The town of Krakow was a scene of rare defiance -- riot police, there to contain the demo, changed sides and took off their helmets, dropped their shields and marched alongside the protesting women.

It is common knowledge in Poland that it's not only the conservative, right-wing government that is behind the ban, but particularly bishops of the influential Catholic Church. On Sunday demonstrators took their anger to the churches across the country and disrupted services.

Laws imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19 ban public gatherings of more than 10 people and provide authorities with a justifiable excuse to send in police to break up the swelling demos.

Several dozen people have been detained and fined, but at least for now, police actions have been restrained. Helmeted, shield-wielding riot police control the demos, but seem to be there mostly to intimidate.

Up until last Thursday, Poland's abortion law was a compromise that worked. Pro-abortionists saw it as too restrictive, pro-lifers considered it to be too liberal, but both accepted it ever since the law was passed in 1993.

Abortion was allowed only if the pregnancy was a result of a criminal act, when pregnancy posed a serious threat to a pregnant woman's health or life, or when there was high probability of a serious and irreversible fetal malformation or an incurable lethal disease.

Now the Polish Constitutional Court decided that terminating a pregnancy in case of serious fetal abnormalities was unconstitutional and violated an article that guarantees the right to life.

The Polish government seems shocked by the scale of the protests and is visibly at a loss of how to deal with the unrest. Poland's rulers realize that these large-scale demos are not a one-off, localized protest -- they encompass the entire country and are growing. The ban on abortion has become a unifying factor bringing together people who have otherwise been on opposite extremes of the political spectrum.

What is most worrying to the ruling authoritarian Law and Justice party is that the new abortion law has become only one of the reasons for protesters to take to the streets.

Every day more people are joining in, furious how the government is drifting away from European Union values, how it mishandled preparations for the second wave of COVID-19, angry at how the ruling party is unashamedly taking over the judiciary and at how it imposes its conservative values on schools. The ripple effect stretched out far beyond abortion -- it even encouraged dissatisfied farmers to block streets with their tractors.

With protests getting out of control, the Polish government has a dilemma of whether to backtrack and lose support of its hard-line, religious, electorate or to suppress the ongoing protests forcefully.

For now, it is buying time, evading responsibility by saying that the abortion ban was a decision of the Constitutional Court, an institution independent of the government. That, however, is a risky excuse given that the court was taken over by the ruling party in an undemocratic way.

The Catholic Church, which has enormous influence on Poland's current rulers, issued a statement saying the Catholic Church is not Poland's lawmaker, so it had no influence on the Constitutional Court's ruling. The court itself claims to have been true to the letter of the constitution, which protects all life as sacred, so it did what it had to.

The abortion-spurred unrest of the last six days may result in a shakeup in Poland. The Catholic Church is losing support with numbers of faithful on the decline. Polls indicate that the ruling Law and Justice populists are steadily losing popularity. Their anti-European Union stance, incompetence and mishandling of the pandemic is beginning to be noticed even by their most faithful voters.

Magda Bryla, one of the organizers of protests in Warsaw, told ABC News that the women are planning to hold a strike this Wednesday. "We have asked all women to consider not going to work tomorrow." Bryla went on to say, "If anyone can stop this steamroller, this destructive administration, it's us, women. We feel nationwide support and we would disappoint everyone if we backed off. Our opponents call us barbaric savages worshiping the civilization of death -- and that alone is good enough reason to express our anger. All we are asking for is basic dignity and for human rights to be observed. Tightening the abortion law even further is unacceptable. Women will be afraid to have children, there will be real tragedies."

In a nationwide address today, Poland's Prime Minster Mateusz Morawiecki defended the Court's ruling and appealed to the protesters for "calm and reason". But the women, and men who support them, are unlikely to hear his call.

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WARSAW -- "Poland is an example for Europe and the world", chanted the hundreds of pro-life activists gathered outside the Constitutional Court in Warsaw last Thursday. Their outburst of enthusiasm came after the court had ruled to almost completely ban abortions.

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Tropical strom Zeta makes its way to the US coast. Hitting Mexico as a catorgey 1 hurricane now has Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in a hurricane warning.

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Tropical Storm Zeta makes its way toward the US coast after slamming into Mexico as a hurricane

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After slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, Tropical Storm Zeta is heading toward the Gulf Coast -- and residents are bracing for its impact.

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3 factors will determine if trump wins North Carolina again.

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Opinion: These three factors could determine if Trump wins North Carolina again

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Douglas Heye writes that several factors will determine if conservative enthusiasm for President Trump is enough to guarantee him a victory once again in North Carolina. These include, but are not limited to, effective campaigning in rural areas and successful mobilization of registered party voters.

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Sam Gordon is a very talented football player. She is upset that she feels unwelcome on her team. She even hears parents yelling "beat the girl". Sam decided to sue her school to make a girls football but even of she wins she wont get to play on fridays because she is a senior.

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Sam Gordon's staggering football skills made her famous at age 9. But they didn't make her fully welcome on the field.

As the only girl in a tackle football league in Utah, she heard parents from opposing teams urge their kids to "beat the girl."
ALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM WINS IN FINAL SECONDS AFTER 9 LATERAL-PASS PLAY
"I had a target on my back, and it was in the shape of a ponytail," said Gordon, now 17. "It was awesome to prove to them that I'm more than just a girl in pads. I'm actually a football player."

Viral videos viewed by millions of her playing catapulted Gordon to a place in the country's most popular sport, including the ESPN awards and Super Bowl commercials. But very few other women have gotten a toehold in football.

To help change that, Gordon went to court.

She sued her school district and two others for refusing to create a girls' football program under Title IX, saying many girls like her don't feel comfortable playing with boys and some are even harassed. One player who testified said she was forced to change in the boys' locker room at away games and often faced discriminatory treatment by her male coach and teammates.

But plenty of girls want to play, Gordon said, pointing to an all-female league she started with her father six years ago that's drawn hundreds of girls from the Salt Lake City area.
PARALYZED SOUTH DAKOTA HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR SCORES TOUCHDOWN IN ONE OF TEAM'S FINAL GAMES
The districts and state athletic officials are pushing back in court, though. They argue a girls football program would be unsustainable and require new infrastructure they shouldn't be responsible for.

Closing arguments are set for this week. The school districts and state athletics association either declined or didn't respond to requests for comment.

Gordon's push to expand access to the sport to more women comes as concerns about youth and professional football players getting injured has reached a fever pitch. She said the league has made minor adjustments to prioritize safety such as removing punt returns, kickoffs and kick returns from the game to limit plays that can often result in injuries.

Jen Welter became the first woman in an NFL mentoring program for coaches when she joined the Arizona Cardinals' training camp coaching staff in 2015. This year, there are eight female assistant coaches in the league, including the San Francisco 49ers' Katie Sowers who became the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl last year.

Football is considered "America's game," but it is one of few sports that doesn't have gender parity at any level, from the peewees to the pros, in terms of opportunity or compensation, Welter said.
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"For a girl to play on a boys team, she is the exception," Welter said. "Yet when you see a women's tackle team or a girls' tackle team they're all in it together. We encourage that in all sports so why would football be so different?"

Some other opportunities for girls who want to play football are starting to open up. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL announced in May that women's flag football will become a nationally recognized college varsity sport by 2021. That opportunity could be life changing for young girls and their path toward receiving a college education, Welter said.

"That changes everything," she said. "Because now that we've seen life trajectory changing opportunities in football, that means it's a viable dream and goal."

Even if Gordon wins her lawsuit, she may not get a chance to play for her school under the Friday night lights. She's a high school senior now, so she'd get one spring season at best.

But even if she doesn't get to play with her school's jersey, she said, the lawsuit would still be worth it for the girls who come after her.

"For them to get the opportunity to go and play and to ... destigmatize girls playing contact sports and being tough and rowdy," she said. "It's more than just football, and I would be proud to be a part of that."

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Female football star sues for schools to offer girls' teams

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2 Major fires in Southern California make large amounts of evacuations and left 2 firefighters left in serious condition.

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Two major out-of-control wildfires in Southern California have spurred mass evacuations and left two firefighters critically injured as the region faces more dangerous fire weather conditions Tuesday.

The Silverado Fire in Irvine started early Monday morning before growing to some 7,200 acres with 0% containment.

"This is a tough fire," Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy told reporters Monday afternoon. "We're experiencing very high winds, very low humidities. This is a very hazardous job."
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Another blaze, the Blue Ridge Fire, grew to some 6,600 acres by Monday night as it threatened hundreds of homes in Yorba Linda. That blaze is also 0% contained.

Both blazes promoted mass evacuations of more than 100,000 people throughout Orange County as fast-moving flames caused freeways to close.

One home was reported damaged. There are over 700 firefighters battling both blazes.

Pat McGrath, 78, told the Los Angeles Times she was making breakfast when a stranger pounded on the front door of her home in Irvine to inform her of the evacuation orders.

"I just panicked. I started crying," McGrath said. "I'm cold, I'm hungry, I'm stressed and I don't know what to do."
SANTA ANA WINDS: WHAT ARE THEY?
Two firefighters were critically injured battling the Silverado fire near Irvine, according to the county's fire authority, which didn't provide details on how the injuries occurred.

They each suffered second- and third-degree burns over large portions of their bodies and were intubated at a hospital, officials said.

"They're gravely injured," Fennessy told reporters. "We're doing all we can for them."

Fire officials said all air support was grounded due to the high winds, which also made water drops from helicopters ineffective.
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE FORCES EVACUATIONS OF 60,000 IN ORANGE COUNTY AS GUSTY WINDS BLAST REGION
In Yorba Linda, a group of residents in one neighborhood worked alongside fire crews Monday night to battle the flames from the Blue Ridge Fire.

Sean Callahan told FOX11 he was there for another fire in the community back in 2008 and was ready to help his neighbors with the latest threat.

"We hopped back into action like we did with all the neighbors [in 2008] that aren't going to let their neighbors down," Callahan said Monday night.

When the fire started, Callahan and a group of his friends and neighbors started hosing down the area near where his father lives.

"We got the hose out and the fire actually wrapped around the canyons and hopped over, and once it hit my dad's neighbor's house, we got the hose out and CalFire was up here and we split the hydrant, and he told us where to go and what to do and we had one house, he [the firefighter] had the other," he told FOX11.

Utility Southern California Edison reported to the state's Public Utilities Commission that is was investigating whether its equipment might have sparked the larger of the two Orange County blazes.

The utility said a wire that lashed a telecommunications line to a supporting cable may have struck a 12,000-volt SCE conducting line above it. The utility had cut power to customers in the region to prevent equipment from being knocked down or fouled by debris in the winds and sparking wildfires.

Dangerous conditions stretch into Tuesday across most of Southern California, where red flag and high wind warnings have been posted by the National Weather Service (NWS).
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Forecasts called for Santa Ana winds up to 50 to 80 mph at times over much of Southern California, with some of the strongest gusts howling through Orange County.

High winds have knocked down trees in mountain areas, with residents cutting apart trees blocking escape routes in case evacuations were ordered.

Joanne Hubble, who lives deep in Harding Canyon, told the Orange County Register the winds ripped away the roof on her garage.

"It's a big mess out here, it's all around us," she told the paper Monday.
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Two major out-of-control wildfires in Southern California have spurred mass evacuations and left two firefighters critically injured as the region faces more dangerous fire weather conditions Tuesday. The Silverado Fire in Irvine started early Monday morning before growing to some 7,200 acres with 0% containment.

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The United States and India have reaffirmed their defensive and security relationship

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The United States and India have reaffirmed their defensive and security relationship, as Washington continues to rally allies in Asia amid concerns over increased Chinese military activity in the region.

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Coral Reef taller than The Empire State building, about 1,600 ft. tall. Discovered in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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A "massive" new reef measuring 500 meters (about 1,600 feet) has been discovered in Australia's(CNN) - Great Barrier Reef, making it taller than some of the world's highest skyscrapers.

Scientists found the detached reef, which is the first to be discovered in more than 120 years, in waters off North Queensland while on an expedition aboard research vessel Falkor, ocean research organization Schmidt Ocean Institute announced Monday.

The reef was first discovered on October 20, as scientists completed an underwater mapping of the seafloor of the northern Great Barrier Reef.

At 500 meters high, it is taller than the Empire State Building (381 meters to the top floor), the Sydney Tower (305 meters) and the Petronas Twin Towers (451.9 meters.)

Using an underwater robot named SuBastian, the team explored the reef on Sunday, and live streamed footage of the exploration.

Experts say that the base of the "blade-like" reef measures 1.5 kilometers wide (nearly 1 mile), rising 500 meters to its shallowest depth of 40 meters below the ocean surface.

Robin Beaman, who led the expedition, said he was "surprised" by the discovery.

"To not only 3D map the reef in detail, but also visually see this discovery with SuBastian is incredible," he said in a statement.

"This unexpected discovery affirms that we continue to find unknown structures and new species in our ocean," Wendy Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Ocean Institute, said in a statement.

"The state of our knowledge about what's in the ocean has long been so limited. Thanks to new technologies that work as our eyes, ears and hands in the deep ocean, we have the capacity to explore like never before. New oceanscapes are opening to us, revealing the ecosystems and diverse life forms that share the planet with us."

The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, covers nearly 133,000 square miles and is home to more than 1,500 species of fish, 411 species of hard corals and dozens of other species.

But the reef is facing a crisis -- recent studies have shown that it has lost 50% of its coral populations in the last three decades, with climate change a key driver of reef disturbance.

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'Massive' coral reef taller than the Empire State Building discovered in Australia

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A "massive" new reef measuring 500 meters (about 1,600 feet) has been discovered in Australia's(CNN) - Great Barrier Reef, making it taller than some of the world's highest skyscrapers. Scientists found the detached reef, which is the first to be discovered in more than 120 years, in waters off North Queensland while on an expedition aboard research vessel Falkor, ocean research organization Schmidt Ocean Institute announced Monday.

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court by the senate. She took her first oath already and will take her second oath on Tuesday, so she will be able to actually do things in the Supreme Court.

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Barrett would replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

With Republicans securing the necessary votes for the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas is expected to administer the official constitutional oath to Barrett at the White House later Monday night, a senior White House official told ABC News.

Supreme Court justices are required to take two oaths before they may execute the duties of their appointed office: the constitutional oath and the judicial oath. Recent tradition holds that at least one of the oaths is taken at the court itself.

Earlier Monday, President Donald Trump said the White House would "probably" host an event "later on this evening" if Barrett is confirmed.

"Not a large event," he said. "Just a very nice event."

Face coverings will be required for all those attending the event, a senior White House official said in a statement. The seated audience will be socially distanced and people "in close proximity" to the president will be tested in advance.

The White House has declined to comment on the timing of the event, the number of attendees or even where at the White House the event will be held.

The Senate floor vote is expected to take place about 7:30 p.m.

On Sunday, senators voted along party lines to quash a Democratic filibuster of Barrett to replace the late liberal icon, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined Democrats in the vote.

Murkowski had initially opposed moving a nominee so close to the election, saying "fair is fair" given that her own party had blockaded President Barack Obama's pick in 2016 to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia eight months before the election, but with Republicans securing the necessary votes for confirmation, Murkowski has changed course.

"While I oppose the process that has led us to this point," Murkowski said in a Saturday floor speech. "I do not hold it against her as an individual who has navigated the gauntlet with grace, skill and humility."

That move left Collins alone among the GOP opposition expected to vote against Barrett on Monday. Collins is in an extremely difficult fight for reelection in a moderate state where she has been lambasted for her past support of conservative jurists, including Trump's highly contentious nominee, Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
This is a developing news story. Please check back for updates. ABC News' John Santucci, Katherine Faulders, Ben Gittleson and Lauren King contributed to this report.

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Barrett would replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With Republicans securing the necessary votes for the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas is expected to administer the official constitutional oath to Barrett at the White House later Monday night, a senior White House official told ABC News.