5 Things To Know For Your New Day — Thursday, September 17

Debated: Did you miss last night’s GOP presidential debate (or “Round 2” as we billed it here at CNN)? Well, here’s what you need to know: Carly Fiorina is for real; Jeb Bush was better (but notthat much better) and; for once, it wasn’t all about Donald Trump. The general consensus is that Fiorina won the debate, primarily because she took Trump head-on and looked much stronger because of it. Bush showed more life than he did in the first debate, but it’s unclear if that will be enough to fire up his lumbering campaign. Trump once again dominated the first part of the debate through insults and the sheer will of his personality, but that strategy became less effective as the debate went on because the focus started to shift to — believe it or not — policy and issues. Imagine that.

CHILE QUAKE

Shook: At least five people were killed when a major earthquake — 8.3-magnitude — hit Chile yesterday. The quake produced a nearly 16-foot wave, spurring the evacuation of a 1 million people and triggering tsunami warnings as far away as California, Hawaii and New Zealand. The earthquake damaged homes, caused power outages and led to snarled traffic in Santiago, which felt the quake at rush hour.

AHMED MOHAMED

Arrested: Ahmed Mohamed has a lot of offers to weigh this morning. Meet with Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg? Do an internship at Twitter? Or just hang out at the White House with President Obama? All of these cool things happened as a result of something not so cool. Mohamed wasarrested and handcuffed after some folks at his school thought the homemade clock that he brought was some type of bomb. So he was arrested, his story took over social media and voices of support for him poured in from around the world. If Mohamed does go to the White House to show the President his clock, he’ll first have to get it back from the police, who, as of last night, were still holding it as evidence.

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source: CNN.com