Tommy Tuberville has added his voice to those leveraging criticism of FEMA’s Hurricane Helene response into presidential-election politics, though some of his points are open to dispute. “We give $20 billion a year to FEMA and unfortunately they have drained everything dry with all the illegal aliens coming in,

Republican candidate Donald Trump, who is in a tight race with Vice President Kamala Harris, said that the Biden administration had spent disaster funds on migrants.

As of 5 a.m. Sunday, Hurricane Kirk was located about 1,270 miles west of the Azores moving north-northeast at 23 mph with sustained winds of 105 mph. That keeps Kirk a Category 2 hurricane, having lost steam since it reached Category 4 level earlier this week and becoming the season’s third major hurricane.

Less than 10 days after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, the state is bracing for another potentially devastating blow from a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

Per an advisory shared at 10 a.m. EST on Saturday morning by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Leslie is currently moving toward the west-northwest at a speed of 7 m.p.h. "A northwestward motion with an increase in forward speed is forecast to begin by tonight and continue through Tuesday," according to the NHC.

The storm was located Saturday about 725 miles west-southwest of the southernmost Cabo Verde Islands and had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.