E Minus 9: Campaigning in Florida, Hillary Clinton lambasted FBI director James Comey for revealing the existence of a new trove of Clinton’s State Department emails backed up on a computer used by her aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner.

“It is pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election,” Mrs. Clinton said. “In fact, it’s not just strange; it is unprecedented and it is deeply troubling.”

Several reports said the Justice Department discouraged Comey from making the revelation, and told him it broke with department policy.

Comey’s letter to Congressional leaders revealed nothing about the content of the emails, or whether they had been previously read by investigators. His announcement is making a mess of Clinton’s final campaign days, as well as her efforts to turn the Senate and House Democratic.

Kurt Eichenwald writes for Newsweek that one reason Abedin had so many emails intended for Clinton was that the Secretary hated reading mail on a screen and had Abedin print them out, which was difficult on a State Department computer.

Donald Trump couldn’t be happier about the whole thing. “The FBI would never have reopened this case at this time if it were not a most egregious criminal offense,” Trump said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

A NY Times editorial said, “Comey’s failure to provide any specifics about a new, potentially important development, less than two weeks before Election Day, is confounding. As Mr. Comey put it in July, ‘The American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest.’ They deserve details even more urgently today.”

The Numbers:  Despite the uproar, The Times’ “Upshot” gives Clinton a 91 percent chance of winning the election, down one point from last week. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog says Clinton has an 81.1 percent chance to Trump’s18.9. The RealClear Politics average of polls has Clinton leading by 4.6 percent.

Mudville: Cleveland put it out of reach for the Cubs with a three-run homer in the top of the 7^th. Final, 7-2, Cleveland.

The Cubs are in trouble, trailing 3-1 in the series. They need to win the next three in a row. But Cubs fans are rabid and willing to part with their money. Tickets for last night’s game averaged $6,500. But with no chance of the Cubs winning the Series at home, tickets for tonight’s game 5 dropped to about $5,400.

Permawar: The Syrian Army launched a counter-offensive yesterday against a major push by rebels to break the government chokehold on Aleppo. The rebels had captured much of the western neighborhood of Assad, but the military hit back hard. The rebels have been pounded with rockets, artillery and airstrikes. Dozens of civilians have been killed.

Nation: Miami Marlins star pitcher Jose Fernandez was drunk and had cocaine in his system when he and two friends died last month in the crash of his boat into a jetty off Miami Beach, according to the medical examiner. — Native American protesters trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline say they will stay out there through the winter. It can hit 35 below zero.

Early and Often: After Donald Trump complaining for weeks that the election is rigged against him, at last, one Des Moines, Iowa woman has been accused of depositing early ballots at two polling stations. The suspect, Terri Lynn Rote, 55, told Iowa Public Radio that “the polls are rigged,” and just spur of the moment, she voted twice. For Donald Trump.

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