What to know now:
1. Trump on immigration: Donald Trump delivered a long-awaited speech on immigration Wednesday, and if you were looking for the talked about "softening" on the issue that Trump seemed to telegraph this past week, you would have been disappointed. In fact, Trump doubled down on a hard line for those in the country illegally. The speech came hours after he met with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto. According to Trump, he and Pena Nieto discussed the wall Trump has been proposing to build to keep undocumented aliens out of the country. Pena Nieto said they had talked about the wall and he told Trump Mexico wouldn't pay for it. Trump said financing didn't come up.
2. Storm warnings issued: Tropical storm and hurricane watches and warnings have been posted along Florida's Gulf coast as Tropical Storm Hermine threatens the state. The governor of Florida is warning residents to brace for heavy rains and high winds.
3. Polls tighten: A new poll shows Donald Trump gaining on Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton in a national poll. Clinton is at 48 percent in the new Fox News poll, with Trump at 42 percent. The six point gap is roughly half of the lead Clinton had earlier this month. According to Fox, if the Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates are included, Clinton's lead is only 2 percentage points.
4. Clinton sent email after leaving office: NBC News is reporting that after Hillary Clinton left the State Department she used her private server to send an email to officials at the department about a nuclear energy deal with the United Arab Emirates. The email was one of more than 800 pages of emails provided to the Republican National Committee in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for documents sent from the server after Clinton left the State Department.
5. Strawberries and Hep A: Strawberries are being blamed for an outbreak of hepatitis A. The frozen strawberries from Egypt have sickened 55 people in six states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. Infections have shown up in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
And one More
No more preseason speculation, college football starts Thursday. This weekend fans will be treated to games Thursday through Monday. Some of the big ones include Alabama vs. USC and Texas vs. Notre Dame.
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