USS Lincoln Returns After 321-Day Deployment; El-Sayed, Rogers Clash in Michigan Senate Race Debate | NTD Good Morning (Oct. 9)

The 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard USS Abraham Lincoln are returning home to Southern California after nearly a year at sea.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth flew out to the carrier on Wednesday to give the crew the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a unit can receive. The crew of the USS Gerald R. Ford returned in May from a 326-day deployment, the longest for an aircraft carrier in the past 50 years and a post-Vietnam War record. The Lincoln’s 322-day deployment was just shy of that.

Michigan’s Senate race turned combative on Thursday night as Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed clashed over the economy, the war in Iran, and more during a televised debate.

Hurricane Isaias is hurtling toward the Gulf Coast. It’s expected to strengthen briefly before making landfall Friday night. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office said it expects the hurricane to make landfall on the Gulf Coast on Friday evening, potentially bringing strong wind gusts and heavy rain to Georgia through Saturday.