News Wrap: Lawyer says Christa Pike 'angry and confused' following botched execution

Amna Nawaz:

In the day's other headlines, Christa Pike's say she's -- quote -- "angry and confused' after regaining consciousness following her botched execution last week.

Speaking outside a court in Nashville today, they said the 50-year-old is very aware of what happened -- quote -- "up to a point" and that her prognosis remains unclear.

Randy Spivey:

She has a blood clot in one of her arms. She has pneumonia. She is not able to swallow, and we do not know what, if any, functions she will regain in her arms. But we do know that there's a long road ahead.

Amna Nawaz:

At a hearing earlier, a judge ordered that the state preserve evidence from the execution chamber and all communication records related to the failed procedure. Pike survived two doses of a lethal injection more than 30 years after she was sentenced to death for torturing and killing her classmate, Colleen Slemmer.

In Arizona, a congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to repair campaign signs this summer. Democrat Bernadette Greene Placentia told The Phoenix New Times that she was hit in the head in a parking lot in August and later awoke to find a man on top of her. The trucker and small business owner said she reported the incident to the police two weeks later.

In a statement provided to the "News Hour," her campaign says Greene Placentia -- quote -- "hopes that by speaking about her experience, others will know they're not alone."

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Isaias is expected to strengthen into a hurricane tomorrow morning, making it the first such storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. Satellite video shows the newly formed storm churning off the eastern coast of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of about 65 miles an hour.

The potential hurricane is forecasted to make landfall late Friday, bringing heavy rain and high winds to portions of the Gulf Coast through the weekend. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has already declared a state of emergency for 25 counties in the Panhandle and Big Bend regions.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is expected to arrive at its home port in San Diego tomorrow after a record-setting deployment as part of the U.S. war with Iran.

Pete Hegseth:

What the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group did, no other carrier strike group has ever done.

Amna Nawaz:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the ship today, praising what he called -- quote -- "the best team in the world" and saying they -- quote -- "changed the arc of history." He then awarded the entire carrier group the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest such honor for a group of service members.

The Lincoln spent more than 250 uninterrupted days at sea, setting a modern record amid reports of poor conditions on board.

In Ukraine, local authorities say at least 25 civilians were killed in the latest Russian missile and drone attacks. Explosions thundered over the capital of Kyiv overnight, as Moscow kept up its constant barrage on the city. In the northern city of Pryluky, a Russian missile flattened a five-story apartment building.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned of a massive strike ahead of time, but the country's worn-down air defenses struggle to repel the attacks. He also posted this video, saying Ukraine's forces responded by hitting a number of Russian targets, including two oil facilities.

The Trump administration and international health authorities are asking Russia to provide more information about an unconfirmed case of the plague. Speaking to reporters today, the head of the World Health Organization called for, as he put it, timely, complete and transparent information sharing regarding the death of a lab worker in Siberia last week.

Russian authorities have been relatively tight-lipped on the matter, though they did say today that there's no risk of an epidemic and that they've shared the latest information on the case with the WHO.

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for their work on so-called mirror image molecules, those that look and behave alike, but cannot be superimposed on one another. Henri Kagan from France and Kenso Soai from Japan solved a century-old mystery on how chemical reactions can be used to favor a single molecule over the other.

Their work is hugely important for developing pharmaceuticals. After his win, Soai explains how the science works.

Kenso Soai, (through interpreter):

It's often compared to right and left hands. When two people shake hands right hand to right hand, that's a normal handshake. But if one person offers the opposite hand, it means something completely different. It's the same with amino acids when they bond together.

Amna Nawaz:

The Nobel Committee called the pair's findings a feat, saying that no one else has been able to achieve what they have other than -- quote -- "life itself."

On Wall Street today, stocks pulled back from recent records. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 350 points. The Nasdaq slipped by about a quarter of 1 percent. The S&P 500 also closed in negative territory.

Still to come on the "News Hour": we report from Georgia on two critical elections for Senate and governor; political strategists break down the state of play ahead of the midterms; and Israel marks three years since the deadly Hamas terror attacks.