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A devastating Learjet crash in Florida kills all nine people aboard, Iowa's religious leaders aim to heal political divisions, and Nebraska data centers are under fire on Election Day eve.

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The Public News Service Tuesday afternoon update.

I'm Mike Clifford.

A private jet plummeting 450 feet per second.

Nose dived into a Florida roadway bursting into flames, killing all nine people on board.

It was a cataclysmic plane crash that Governor Ron DeSantis.

It looked like a missile going down.

CNN noticed the Learjet 60 was traveling from Austin, Texas to the Bahamas Sunday when it plunged from the sky.

It left a massive crater near passing cars in Palm Beach County.

No injuries reported on the ground.

Authorities have not identified the nine people killed on board or what might have caused a disaster.

The NTSB is investigating.

Meantime, faith leaders in rural Iowa are urging their parishioners to vote in tomorrow's midterm elections to create the change they want to see and help dial down the toxicity that has defined today's political landscape.

Voters in Iowa are weighing candidates based on a handful of issues, not least of which is how they plan to address Iowa's dirty water. lack of factory farm accountability, and the state's growing cancer rate.

Beyond those key health issues, Dave Kebschel, pastor of St.

Mark's Lutheran Church in Storm Lake, Iowa, is seeing his community react to changing U.S. immigration enforcement activity.

Out here, we have a Tyson plant, so immigration becomes a big issue.

A lot of our neighbors in farms and businesses are low on employees, and a lot of our friends have gone back either to Mexico or South America to the islands.

Kebschel says he's encouraging his parishioners to consider how their religious beliefs inform who they vote for, rather than allowing politics to shape their religion.

I'm Mark Moran.

And as Nebraska prepares for Tuesday's midterm elections, concerns are growing over whether expanding data centers could drive up household electricity bills.

A new state law gives public power suppliers the authority to require data centers to cover the full cost of their electricity service, including infrastructure upgrades.

David Linder, a 26-year resident of Bellevue, says he's already feeling the pinch of higher electricity costs.

My monthly electricity rate has gone from $174 to $230 a month.

That's more than a 30 percent uptick just in one month.

Crystal Blair reporting.

And next up, Washington voters are being asked tomorrow to keep or reject the state's so-called millionaire's tax, supporters of keeping it say its repeal would be costly for small-town residents.

State Senator Marcus Riccelli from Spokane calls the measure to repeal the tax initiative 645, a giveaway to the wealthy, at the expense of working families in eastern Washington.

My monthly electricity rate has gone from $174 to $230 a month.

That's more than a 30 percent uptick just in one month.

The law would love you an almost 10 income tax and household income over $1 million, expected to generate about $3.5 billion per year in revenue.

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Dolores Herta, who died last week at the age of 96, spent seven decades advancing human rights, one cause at a time.

Herta was born in the historic mining camp of Dawson, New Mexico in 1930, and went on to become one of America's most influential labor and civil rights leaders.

In recent years, she encouraged people, particularly Latino citizens and working families, to exercise their right to vote.

We know that democracy cannot work unless we all engage, and we have so many issues right now that are so important to all of us.

We have to let our voices be heard and invite other people to also join us, because democracy doesn't work unless everybody engages.

A public memorial service for Wurta is pending.

I'm Roz Brown.

And tribal college leaders in North Dakota say a $70 million gift to expand higher education in Indian country will be earth-shifting for institutions that have long operated with limited resources.

The American Indian College Fund announced a seven-year plan to strengthen tribal institutions backed by a gift from Yield Giving, the philanthropic organization of Mackenzie Scott.

Twyla Baker, president of Nweta Hidasta Saknicksh College, says in her 12-year tenure as president, she's never seen a gift this size.

Baker says it'll provide benefits well beyond her campus, supporting not only individual learners, but also communities and rural economies.

We can change lives with what we do on tribal college campuses.

An investment of this nature, you can almost not get a return on your investment.

Baker says every dollar invested in tribal colleges and universities returns $1.60 in tax revenue and public sector savings.

The funding will support scholarships, professional development, administrative resources, and broader institutional needs for TCUs around the country.

I'm Judith Ruiz Branch reporting.

Finally, instead of spending more than $268 billion to deport immigrants, Colorado could add nearly 20,000 teachers, 17,000 firefighters, and 15,000 nurses to its workforce.

Nationally, it's enough to cover the cost of medical care for 5 million veterans and a host of other programs.

That's according to a new calculator created by the Economic Policy Institute.

Senior economist Ben Zipperer says the cost of the Trump administration's mass deportation program could pay for what many American voters see as priorities.

Instead of funding mass deportations, we could pay for health insurance for nearly 12 million people or fund nearly 10 million public housing units or have paid parental leave for 6 million parents.

Instead, we're demonizing immigrants.

I'm Eric Galatas.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance says at least 30% of workers who care for seniors and people with disabilities are immigrants.

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