10 things you need to know today: October 1, 2016

1. Police release video of fatal officer shooting of California man

After four nights of protest in El Cajon, California, a suburb of San Diego, over Tuesday's fatal police shooting of Ugandan-born Alfred Olango, authorities released two sources of footage of Olango's death on Friday. Neither video was recorded by official police cameras and much of the footage is silent. The grainy clips make it difficult to decipher Olango's behavior before he was killed, though it is clear the police officer responsible — who was summoned to the scene by Olango's sister out of concern for her brother's frame of mind — fired the fatal shots within 40 seconds of encountering the unarmed, mentally unstable man. The officers involved have been placed on administrative leave and no charges have been filed to date.

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2. Clinton leads Trump by 5 points in post-debate poll

Hillary Clinton has maintained her lead over Donald Trump in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Friday. In the poll's first iteration since the two candidates debated for the first time Monday, Clinton leads Trump 43 percent to 38 percent in a head-to-head race. When third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are factored in, Clinton's lead shrinks by a point, 42 percent to 38 percent. Clinton's lead in the Reuters poll has held fairly steady all September, though it is slightly higher than the RealClearPolitics average, which shows Clinton's lead at 2.9 percent in a two-way race.

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3. Hillary Clinton calls Bernie Sanders supporters uninformed basement dwellers in hacked audio clip

Hacked audio of Democrat Hillary Clinton speaking with donors about her then-primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, in February shows the nominee describing Sanders' supporters as uninformed and idealistic "children of the Great Recession" who are "living in their parents' basement." In this election, Clinton says, Republican candidates traffic in xenophobic nationalism while, "on the other side, there's just a deep desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare, that what we've done hasn't gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as far as, you know, Scandinavia, whatever that means, and half the people don't know what that means, but it's something that they deeply feel." The clip, leaked earlier this week and publicized by Politico Friday night, also hears Clinton sympathizing with basement dwellers who see little economic opportunity in their future and thus find a Sanders-style "revolution" enticing.

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4. Chinese yuan joins the IMF's basket of reserve currencies

China's yuan on Saturday was added to the International Monetary Fund's basket of reserve currencies, a win for the country's growing economy. Other elite currencies currently in the basket are the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the Japanese yen, and the Euro, which replaced the German deutsche mark and the French franc in 1999. This inclusion is "a milestone in the internationalization of the [yuan]," said the People's Bank of China, the Asian nation's central bank, "and is an affirmation of the success of China's economic development and results of the reform and opening up of the financial sector."

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5. Trump's microphone had 'issues' during debate, debate commission announces

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday there were problems with Donald Trump's microphone at Monday's debate, confirming statements Trump made earlier in the week. "Regarding the first debate, there were issues regarding Donald Trump's audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall," the commission wrote, without offering any additional details. Trump complained about the mic again Friday evening, suggesting there may have been intentional sabotage. Trump and Hillary Clinton are scheduled to meet again on Oct. 9 for the second debate, though Trump has implied the microphone incident has caused him to reconsider his participation.

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6. Syrian, Russian airstrikes damage Aleppo's largest rebel-held hospital

The largest hospital in the rebel-held part of Aleppo, Syria, was heavily damaged Saturday by airstrikes using barrel bombs and perhaps also cluster bombs. The strikes were conducted by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as well as Russian troops; and a second, smaller hospital was also damaged. This news comes after France and Britain lobbed accusations of war crimes at Russia over its Syria policy during a United Nations meeting earlier this week. Also this week, a Syrian monitoring group reported Russian strikes in Syria have killed more than 9,000 people, while Russia announced plans to send more warplanes to the war-torn Mideast nation.

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7. Ivanka Trump targets working moms in her first campaign ad appearance

Donald Trump released a new TV ad on Friday which stars Ivanka Trump and targets women voters, a demographic among which his rival Hillary Clinton holds a generous lead. The spot cuts clips of Ivanka with stock footage of happy moms and their children as the eldest Trump daughter explains her father's plans regarding "the most important job any woman can have," motherhood. "My father will change outdated labor laws so that they support women and American families," Trump says. "He will provide tax credits for childcare, paid maternity leave, and dependent care savings accounts." The clip is part of a $7.5 million ad buy for the Trump campaign and will air on channels including TLC, Lifetime, and Bravo.

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8. First cases of Zika-related microcephaly reported in Southeast Asia

Health officials in Thailand announced Friday two babies have tested positive for Zika-related microcephaly, the birth defect that causes abnormally small heads and malformed brains. Though Thailand has confirmed 349 cases of the mosquito-borne illness since January — with 33 of those cases in pregnant women — this marks the first time cases of microcephaly tied to Zika have been reported in Southeast Asia. Thailand's announcement came a day after U.S. officials advised pregnant women against non-essential travel to 11 Southeast Asian countries, and two days after U.S. lawmakers passed a spending bill allotting $1.1 billion to the fight against the virus. There is not yet a known treatment for Zika.

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9. Historic Rosetta space probe goes silent, thumps down on comet

After over a decade of observing comets in the cosmos, the historic Rosetta spacecraft executed a planned crash on Comet 67P around 7:20 a.m. Eastern time on Friday. While the touchdown was a gentle 2 miles per hour, the probe was never designed to land and its intentional crash cut off transmissions to Earth. While researchers had determined Rosetta's mission was at an end as it followed Comet 67P to the outer leg of its orbit, taking the probe away from its solar power source, Rosetta leaves behind overwhelming amounts of data still to be analyzed. The probe was the first to orbit a comet and opened a new era of understanding the universe's origins. "There is no mission in the future that will do anything like Rosetta," said Christopher Carr, head of one of Rosetta's instrument teams.

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10. Bon Iver releases third album, with decidedly different sound

Bon Iver's first album in five years dropped Friday, an offering Pitchfork reviewer Amanda Petrusich described as "an unexpected turn toward the strange and experimental." Titled 22, A Million, the album is the band's third full-length record and features 10 songs with symbol-heavy titles, like "715 - CRΣΣKS" and "21 M♢♢N WATER." The folksy guitar of Bon Iver's 2007 debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, is largely replaced with electronic sound effects on the new album, which makes for what NPR calls "surprising turns and richly contrasting elements." The album is available via Spotify and Apple Music.

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