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Speaker 1: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Krisner. The Associated Press is reporting and Israeli airstrike

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Speaker 1: hit Central Bay Route. A multi story residential building was hit.

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Speaker 1: Now Videos showed ambulances and a crowd gathered near the

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Speaker 1: building in a mainly Sunni district with busy thoroughfares lined

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Speaker 1: with shops. According to an official with the Lebanese Civil Defense,

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Speaker 1: one person was killed sixteen people were injured. Earlier, top

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Speaker 1: White House officials were saying that people are now safer

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Speaker 1: after the Israeli airstrike that killed the senior Hesbelah commander

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Speaker 1: in Lebanon over the weekend. Here is White House National

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Speaker 1: Security Communications Advisor John Kirby weighing in on the death

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Speaker 1: of Hesbalah's leader, Hassan Nosrala.

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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's mourning the loss of mister Israela,

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Speaker 2: a known terrorist, a guy with American blood on his

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Speaker 2: hands as well as Israeli blood on his hands. This

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Speaker 2: is a terrorist organization. He was a leader of it,

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Speaker 2: and I think people are safer without him walking around.

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Speaker 3: But they'll try to recover.

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Speaker 2: We're watching to see what they do to try to

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Speaker 2: fill this leadership vacuum. It's going to be tough that

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Speaker 2: much of their command structure has now been wiped out.

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Speaker 1: That's John Kirby, speaking earlier on CNN's State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: He went on to reaffirm the US's support for Israel.

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Speaker 1: Kirby also added that a diplomatic solution is the best

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Speaker 1: path toward de escalation and the best way to avoid

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Speaker 1: a wider war. Meantime, the US has acknowledged killing a

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Speaker 1: large number of terrorists in Syria. That story from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman.

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Speaker 3: The US military reports that over the past few weeks,

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Speaker 3: thirty seven terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State group were

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Speaker 3: killed in two attacks in Syria, including two senior members.

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Speaker 3: US Central Command says the first attack occurred September sixteenth,

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Speaker 3: with a second one occurring just this past Tuesday. The

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Speaker 3: US has around nine hundred soldiers stationed in Syria, along

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Speaker 3: with an undisclosed number of contractors. Dan Schwartzman, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Mean time, Israeli fighter jets bombed a seaport and several

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Speaker 1: power stations in Yemen. That's according to the IDF. This

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Speaker 1: follows a string of attacks this month on Central Israel

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Speaker 1: by Iran backed Houthi rebels. Four people have been killed

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Speaker 1: and thirty three injured. According to the Hoothy Media, the

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Speaker 1: world's largest container carrier is urging its customers to move

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Speaker 1: their cargo now ahead of a major dockworker strike this week.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Nathan Hagar has more from Washington.

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Speaker 4: MSc Mediterranean Shipping is telling its customers the talks between

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Speaker 4: the longshoreman's union and port employers may not be resolved

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Speaker 4: by this Monday's deadline. That would mean terminals begin to

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Speaker 4: close on Tuesday, delaying shipments on trucks and trains through

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Speaker 4: ports from Boston to Houston. Oxford Economics estimates a strike

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Speaker 4: could cost four and a half to seven and a

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Speaker 4: half billion dollars per week, an economic hit that would

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Speaker 4: be reversed once the shipments resume. In Washington, I'm Nathan

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Speaker 4: Hager Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Floodwaters threatened more damage in the US South as Hurricane Helene,

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Speaker 1: a storm that killed nearly a high hundred people, destroyed

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Speaker 1: homes and left millions without power. While the worst of

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Speaker 1: the storm has passed, floodwaters are still rolling out of

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Speaker 1: the mountains where they have devastated towns along the way

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Speaker 1: now that includes Ashville, North Carolina, and it's threatening South

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Speaker 1: Carolina's capital, Columbia. The floods have also cut people off

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Speaker 1: from supplies of freshwater. Here is the Governor of North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: Roy Cooper, describing the devastation of Helene in his state.

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Speaker 5: This unprecedented storm dropped from ten to twenty nine inches

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Speaker 5: of rain across the mountains, causing life threatening floods and landslides.

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Speaker 1: That was North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. Earlier, FEMA said

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Speaker 1: President Biden has approved disaster declarations for areas affected by

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Speaker 1: the hurricane. California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a contentious

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Speaker 1: bill on the safety of artificial intelligence more from Bloomberg's ed. Baxter.

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Speaker 6: Proponents set it up saying it would make sure that

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Speaker 6: companies AI models did not cause made your harm. It

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Speaker 6: was poised to be one of the most consequential pieces

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Speaker 6: of AI regulation in the US in recent weeks, though

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Speaker 6: it has divided the AI industry and new some rights.

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Speaker 6: In his veto message, while a well intentioned, it does

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Speaker 6: not take into account whether an AI system is deployed

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Speaker 6: in high risk environment, he writes, it could apply stringent

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Speaker 6: standards to even the most basic functions, saying such regulations

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Speaker 6: should be based on empirical evidence and science. He says

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Speaker 6: this one is not the best approach. In San Francisco,

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Speaker 6: I'm at Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: And that is news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Chrisner and this is Bloomberg