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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning again, thanks for being here this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
In the Big Three. Well, this is really scary.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're learning how bad it got at the Newark Liberty
International Airport. The air traffic controller's screen with all the
flight information and their communications, so they couldn't see the planes,
they couldn't talk to the pilots. It all went out
for sixty to ninety seconds last week.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Three forty three. I'm going a movie here because I
just got told that to approach lost all the raiders.
Three of the four radar screens went black and they
have no forty three to forty three whoeveryone else is
on frequency. I guess this is a serious issue because
I have one more arrival and now I have nobody
else coming in back.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, it's a serious issue, and it's a serious issue
that hasn't gone away. We're being told right now the
problems lasted every single day. That was last week. It
started Wednesday of last week. They're now saying it may
be months before flights can get back on schedule at
Newark Airports. In the meantime, jury's selection continues today in
(01:04):
the P. Diddy sexual assault and trafficking trial, and we
already know at this point, the defense the strategy is
the defense strategy.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
They're going to say and allege that these victims were
in a consensual sexual relationship and that these were not acts,
that they were not in agreement with.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is facing possible
federal charges for mortgage fraud, is now leading a national lawsuit,
a national federal lawsuit with other Democratic ags across the
country to stop Donald Trump's doge cuts.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
The justices have said, including liberal justices like Justice Kagan,
that this is truly insane and this is just the
latest such a lawsuit to retot try to limit what
this president can do.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'll tell you what, Donald Trump is apparently very serious
us about reopening the world famous San Francisco prison Alcatraz
that sits out there on an island in the middle
of San Francisco Bay, because he's already talking to federal
officials about reopening it soon.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I think, pretty darn quick. He's already ordered the the FBI,
the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Homeland Security
to get to work on this. That's going to involve
the National Park Service. But I think Secretary Bergen we'll
be ready to move out swiftly on this.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And now let's talk to Joe Burrelli, Managing director of
Chartwell Strategy Group and former Minority leader of the New
York City Council. Joe, I know this special election went
your way.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I'm sure you have to be happy.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Oh, definitely. I mean, if anything, I think the city
should be happy that we have a guy like Frank
Morana who comes in with decades of experience in the
political arena and a depth of knowledge a specific to
the south shore of Staten Island. He's hitting the ground
on day one, doesn't need the refresher course, doesn't need
the politics one oh one, doesn't need. You know how
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to be a city council member for dummies. So people
should be arresting quite easily knowing that this is a
guy who's going to represent them in city Hall.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It had to be frustrating for you when you were
in city Hall and you were a minority leader, so
you had some power. It's going to be frustrating for
Frank Morano unless the percentages that the majority has, the
Democrats have if he can do very little in there.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Can't he Look, it's also quality over quantity, right. I mean,
Republicans are always going to be the minority in our lifetime.
I don't see that changing, but you know, making sure
some Democrats get elected who have some common ground, some
grasp on reality, some idea of what people in the
outer borough space. I mean, that's that's really what it
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comes down to. I would break the City Council down
to a bunch of you know, wacky socialists who you're
never going to get through to bunch of Manhattan liberals
like the Upper West Side types who you know are
perhaps more well meaning than the socialists, but really don't
have a grasp of what it is to live on
Staten Island or in Southeast Queens or in the Northern Bronx,
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et cetera. And then there's just Democrats who have to
actually deal with with these neighborhoods who you can actually
find a lot of common ground, a lot of commonality,
and they represent a lot of diverse neighborhoods. It turns
out that you know, if you represent Southeast Queens, you
know your constituents who were likely Black Americans, care about
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home ownership, and care about safe schools and parks and
driving and the cost of congestion, prising and all things
like that. So it's going to be an uphill battle
for him, but it's finding out those commonalities that will
make him successful or make him not successful. Hey, I'm
betting on Frank, but you know he'll have a reelection to.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Face, you know, speaking of wacky socialists, I'm starting to
get concerned about Zori. Mom, Donnie. Every time you see
a new poll, he's rising in the polls. He's got
enough money to put TV commercials out, and he maxed
out on contributions.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Should we be.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Concerned, Yes, So Zoevern has a quality that we should acknowledge. Right,
he is a likable human. I mean, maybe you don't
like his politics, but he is a charming, nice person.
In fact, I know a lot of the Republicans will
probably I'll probably get shocked for saying this, but a
lot of the Republican members of the Assembly actually kind
of like him on a personal level. They played poker
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with him, like on Tuesday nights or whatever have you.
But he has that certain charm about him and ability
to bond with people who are not in great financial shape,
not in great safe neighborhoods, and he appeals to those people,
and that should worry someone like Andrew Cuomo and Eric
Adams because he is building momentum. Politics is more about
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trend lines. In fact, I taught this in my Cuney
Night class last week talking about polling, you know, and
I said that no one poll makes a difference. No
no one poll is the end all be all, And
what people in politics look for is trend lines. And
if you're looking at Zorin Mamdani's trend line, he is
gaining ground every week, every month in the polls. That
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should worry Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary. And I imagine,
you know, Andrew is starting to feel this this dream,
this thing that that these lefties are saying, you know,
don't rank evil, Eric, evil, Andrew, whatever it stands for, right,
it's don't rank Andrew Cuomo. And I think he's starting
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to feel the pressure from that movement where it's coming
and preventing him from hitting that fifty percent number he needs.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know, it's funny, from the very beginning, I've talked
to so many people and I'm trying to remember if
you said it, because so many very wise people in
politics said it's not going to be Eric Adams and
it's not going to be Andrew Cuomo. It's going to
be somebody else. I'm just hoping that somebody else is
in Zora Mamdani.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I hope, I hope, you know, given the opportunity, I mean,
I mean, Brad Lander might be a better pick than
Zora Mamdani.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
But I'm not sure that's true.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
I mean, neither one of them wants my endorsement.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I assure you that. But it's.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
It's going to be a dice roll. And it also
is going to come down to who filled the speaker
void in the next City Council. The speaker's term limited,
she's a candidate for mayor. Not gaining too much ground,
But you know, the speaker race is equally as important
for New Yorkers because it is the quarterback of the
city council, right, it is the shepherd of the wacky socialists,
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and whoever wins that it's going to have a lot
of power over New Yorker's lives.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Absolutely, Let's widen the scope a little bit because it
has a lot of effect on the city as well,
and talk about it's a little bit further away. But
the governor's race is also extremely important. The least Dephonic.
Over the weekend, did several interviews, and it sounds like
like she is definitely running. If she runs, does she
win the Republican nomination, and could she be governor?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Yeah, I I don't think she runs without the endorsement
of President Trump, So I think that obviously gives her
a huge leg up in any primary. Look, the Republicans
are in a good position, right. We actually have, for
the first time in generations, we have a generation of
elected leaders who are taking leadership roles in Washington who
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are battle tested and ready to govern New York State.
And I'll add a lot of people to that list.
I'll add obviously a Lease obviously Mike Lawler, but Anthony Diesposito,
Mark Molinaro, Lee Zelden. Right, this is an entire generation
of New Yorkers who were in their mid forties to
mid fifties who are able and willing and ready to
govern New York State. Right, We've never had that before.
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So I'm happy with anyone mentioned in taking leadership roles
in New York State going forward. But look, look, at
least would be a fantastic govern her. She is a friend.
She was going to take on the world literally in
the UN. And that's that's the amount of confidence that
the Republican Party has in her that there wasn't even
the remotest bit of pushback when President Trump named her
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as UN ambassador. In fact, people were getting their popcorn ready.
I think you're going to see some explosions from her
over the next couple of months at Kathy Hochel, who
is frankly, if you ask Democrats or Republicans, she ain't
doing a great job. So you know, there's a lot
of fodder there what happens in the Republican Party. I
think that this gets worked out before anyone enters the race.
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I think, by the way, again, if Mike Lahler is
the candidate, we are going to have a great time
running because he is in some ways, you know, as good,
if not better positioned, you know, given the geography of
the state, in some of his positions to be the governor.
So we're in a again, we're in a situation where
we have to pick from great choices. Then you have
Bruce Blakeman on Long Island, who's you know, governs more
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Republicans than any nowhere else in the country right now.
So I mean we have great choices, and I think
it's going to be an exciting time to be a Republican.
It's certainly hopefully going to be an exciting time to
be a Republican lobbyist and strategists.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah right, they're gonna get a lot of money. You're
absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Joe BURRELLI, Managing director of Chartwell Strategy Group and former
Minority leader of the New York City Council. Thanks Joe,
talk to you again next week. We all know about
balance of nature and how it can keep you healthy.
But now there's a new balance of nature for dogs.
We'll talk to the creators of Doctor Fido's Fido Nutrition
(10:34):
dog food topper next. I'm very excited about this. I
recognize doctor Douglas Howard as soon as I saw him.
You would all recognize him too. Chances are you have
his product in your house. He is the founder of
Balance of Nature and now Doctor Fidos, which we're going
to talk about in a moment, because also here is
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doctor Jake Vandyk, who is part of Doctor Fidos, a
very important part. We'll explain it a second. He's a
respected this is a hint, a respected veterinarian doctor Howard.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
This is exciting for you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I'm sure you get to expand your brand and talk
about how you came up with this idea.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
Well, and actually it's a whole new company. It's really
not balance in nature, I'll okay, but it's a doctor
Fidos has been fun. We It's really not a new idea.
It's something that all along, you know, I deal with
the health and the well being of people. And I
found many years ago that often that's your pet too,
because do you have a pet?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, well my dog just died unfortunately, so but yes,
we're planning on getting another one. But I always want
to have a dog in the house.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
And you make my point, and that was a bad day, yes,
and there's been sadness, But when you would come home
and that dog was wagging his tail, how'd you feel?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, wonderful? You look forward to it.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Yeah, it's part of your health, yep. And so when
I realized that people actually their health is also combined
with the health of their animals, I thought we got
to do this. And it's a long, longer story sometime
we'll get into how that really addressed with the dog
we had. But and then I, you know, doctor Jake
and I. I've known him since he was a tiny
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tad and he became a vet and we we said,
you know, let's do this then, so we adapted the
formula and then we formulated this to fit best with animals.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It sounds like you were left in a basket in
front of his house.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
That's everything that's wrong with me, wrong with me. He influenced,
is right?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All the good that's all new to hear? Well, good
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Talk to us about Doctor Fidos and what what what
are the working ingredients in it? And why is it
important to give to your pet?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That's great.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
So Doctor Fidos contains forty whole food ingredients, fruits, vegetables,
some spices that are really good, and a bunch of fiber.
And the relationship that doctor Howard and I have is
really beneficial to both of us because I'm concerned about
that day that my client's bring in a puppy to
the day that we put the dog to sleep, and
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everything in the middle needs to be better. And that's
really what motivates me to be part of this project
because I feel the benefit of balance in nature. I
take it myself and I've been given doctor fidos to
dogs for over two years and the results are amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Talk about the results. What are the results so far?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
So things that I notice in my practice with my
patients is just overall better health and if you can
think of it, they're experiencing it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, this is so important to families because I think
we all care about our dogs and our pets, and
we care sometimes more than we care about ourselves. We
want to keep them healthy. We just don't know how frequently.
And the thing is, we can't guarantee life. I can't
guarantee how long something's going to live, not even my patients.
You know, that's between you and God. That's how I
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put that one right.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
But what I realized in my practice finally was we
can deal with quality of life. God gils with God
deals with quantity. But if we can make that quality
of life the highest it is, then it makes everybody happier.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah. I wish I had your voice.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Man, if I had your voice, I'd be network, I'd
be more successful than I ever was.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I wish I had. I wish I had your face.
So I've been told I have a radio face all
the time. You have a face everybody recognizes.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I think everybody, as doctor Howard just pointed out, I
think everybody wants to have their pet be healthier.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
We just don't know how to do it. That's that's
the question that I get all the time. What should
I feed my dog? And when you go to the
grocery store, it's overwhelming because of all the choices that
are there, and unfortunately they're not great most of them,
and uh, there's there's not a lot of information out there.
So this product really does hit the spot. It fills
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the need for good nutrition in our pets.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And sometimes we think we're doing the best thing, but
some of the stuff on the market that's sold for
being healthy is just not healthy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
No, it's not.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
And the beauty of it is people afford what they
feed them what they can afford frequently. But it doesn't
matter what you're feeding you're at.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Your your pet.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Doctor Fido's Dog Topper food Topper improves the nutrition always.
It improves the quality of whatever you're feeding them.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The product's name, again is doctor Fido's Food Topper. And
here's a phone number you can call eight eight eight
three eight eight seven two nine seven. And it's very
clever because Fido is pH y t o S, which
is part of the active ingredients, but it also is fido, so.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Very good, very good by the marketing team. You can
also go to doctor Fidos d r p h y
t o S d r p h y t o
os dot com and they can order there.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Yes, they can get right on the phone on the
phone number. By the way, the last four last four
digits there spelled pause p a.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
W however eight eight eight three eight eight seven two
nine seven. Thank you both for coming in today. It's
been wonderful to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh yeah, the jingle, I forgot all about the jingle.
Thank you, Natalie. Natalie put up a little sign apparently.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Forget this too good.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You said you join us. Okay, you're gonna sing for us.
We'll go for it.
Speaker 11 (16:33):
Okay. Was a doctor had a dog? His name O
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p h hite t O.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And was his name? Oh I hope you have professional
singers for the Yeah, I've been told that before.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You're pretty good. All right now, let's give thank you
so much for coming in today. Thank you, yes, of course,
Doctor Douglas Howard founder of Balance of Nature and doctor
Fidos and doctor Jake Van Dyke, who is a respected veterinarian,
is teaming.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Up on this cause.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I can call it a cause because making our dogs
healthier is absolutely a cause. Thank you so much for
being here today now. Jacqulyn Carl with the eight thirty
News Good Morning.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
President Trump says he doesn't know what he'll talk about
with Canada's Prime minister today. Prime Minister Mark Karney is
scheduled to speak with Trump at the White House. The
high stakes meeting comes in the midst of a trade
war between the two countries, and ICE has reportedly started
moving detainees back into Delaney Hall and Newark despite a
lawsuit over safety inspections.
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Newark Mayor Ros Baraka says the city and courts have
not given any approval for the detainments, and he's working
with city attorneys to file an injunction to stop it.
Newark is a sanctuary city, so officials have recently been
in court trying to stop the detention center from returning
to operation. Baraka says fire and health inspectors have not
been given access to inspect Aleini All, adding inspections need
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to win tomorrow morning at age twenty five. Well, the
problems at Newark International are not going away anytime soon.
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John Nance ABC World News Aviation analyst is here next
to tell us how we got and what's next? John
Nance after a break.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, I know, I know. It's confusing.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What exactly is going on at Newark Liberty International Airport
and why aren't other airports in the area having similar problems?
For that, we go to John Nance, the Great John
Nance ABC News World Aviation analysts, the best in the
business and author. John, Thanks so much for joining us.
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We have so many questions, and I know our listeners
have so many questions about what's going on at Newark
right now. Maybe you can just start by explaining what
the problem seems to be.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Well, it's about a threefold problem, Larry. It's going to
be you, by the way. But not of these circumstances.
These nobody's crashed. But there's delays everywhere at Newark because
of these things. First of all, air traffic control, the
air traffic control resium that they lost, their radar, lost,
the ability committee with the airplanes. It's about a week
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ago for about ninety seconds. That's an eternity if you're
looking at the blank screen and you've got dynamic airplanes
that go in all over the place. When they got
it back, a number of them took leaves to just
calm down after a while. And you can you can
appreciate this if you know the pressures of their job. Well,
that meant they didn't have enough air traffic controllers to
bring the airplanes in and out, and so that put
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delays in immediately. Second runway has been taken out of
service for maintenance. And that's not going to be back
up for at least a month or so, and that
means that they've lost about a third of their capacity.
But take aust landings and then when you put that
all together with the ripple effects, which is the fact
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that you have all across the country with things that
are on planes that are coming in and out of Newark,
they get laid two, three, four hours and the whole
system begins to a stagger.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So here's what I don't understand. I know that Philadelphia
is the hub for Newark and running some of the
things there, and I know that there's other airports all
across the country that has the same equipment and the
same outdated equipment.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Why Newark, Well, I.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Think New York is simply one of the most busy airports.
It is definitely one of our most busy, busiest the
word I'm trying to find airport by the same token.
The fact is that when you put as much pressure
as they do on the equipment in any particular place,
you're going to have a breakdown at some point in time.
I'm not even sure that anybody knows precisely what happened
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the other day, because it actually was in the Philadelphia
facility that handles the southern portion flights coming in and
out of Newark. But anyway you look across the country.
Our first problem is this, we're three thousand people short
of what we should have. We had about fourteen thousand
air traffic controllers. We need about three thousand more. And
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when you consider how long it takes to bring somebody
and train them, and the fact that if you hire
one hundred people, maybe you'll get twenty. They can go
on through the course and that takes years. We've had
this problem for a long time. And this problem actually
comes right back to Congress's doorstep. They're the ones that
have not appropriated the money, and this has been going
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on for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You talked about the real concern, and I heard the
Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, talking about this last night
and he said, look, there's no chance of a crash,
there's no chance of an accident. We have backups for that.
That would make me feel great if that was true.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Is that true?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Well, that's a big glib, shall we say. Aviation safety
is a very delicately balanced situation, and it relies on
an awful lot of different things. That have to be
paid attention to all the time. So when you talk
about you know, I guarantee if that's what he was saying,
that you're not going to have any safety issue out
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of this. No, that's not entirely true. Now, what he's
trying to say is that we're backing off. They're backing
off on the number of flights in and out to
match the number of controllers that's where coming from, and
by doing so, they will not jeopardize the margins of safety.
I hope they're right. I certainly think they're on the
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right track with that. But by the same token, when
you disrupt anything in commercial aviation, you want a risk
that you are lowering, just to some degree, the margins
of safety. That doesn't mean you're going to guarantee an accident,
but it does mean that you've got to be even
more more careful about everything you're doing, certainly when it
comes into delays and people sitting out there on the runway.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It also sounded like the Transportation Secretary says he wanted
to fast track the process of getting new air traffic
controllers for some reason. That sounds like that's not a
great idea.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Well, all it's deceptive, and I think he's probably deceiving
himself a little bit on that. I know that's what
everybody would like to do. But the thing is is
to say, if you hire a hundred potential air traffic controllers,
no matter how well you have vetted those applicants, you're
going to have maybe twenty maybe twenty five of them
out the other end. And that's after maybe a year
of investment of money and time and everything else. The
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academy that they run there is world class, but it
takes about a year and a half to get an
air draffic controller to the point of being able to
see anything to an airplane anywhere at any time, and
then to get them up to full capabilities to be
trustworthy in a tower like Newark, for instance, or Chicago
hair that takes years.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Right, So how long is Nework going to be dealing
with this?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Well, I'm afraid it's going to be probably another couple
of weeks before we begin to see a little relief
in terms of the number of controllers in the facilities there,
so that we're not holding up the system based on
the lack of controllers. By the same token, the runway
won't be ready. I think until June. I'm not absolutely
positive about that, but you don't wonder his Like anytime
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we go down the road and you see a road
torn up and long lines of traffic, you wonder, why
do they have to do it now. I'm not sure
there is a better time to do it, but it
certainly does reduce the number of take office and landings
that they can They can do it in an hour
at it.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Luckily they have options here, so you would suggest LaGuardia
or JFK or Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
I couldn't tease you say, yeah, I get on Amtrak
and go to Philadelphia. But the thing is that JFK
is probably the best reliever for a shorter term or
you know, short hops cross the country a lot international
ones LAKEWARDI of course is they tried and true, even
though very pressed airport. But the pressure is on all
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the eastern airports right now, even Dulles for that matter
of scene increase traffic.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh that's interesting. So you think we're going to see
these similar problems at other airports.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
I don't think so. Well, I'll put it this way,
unless we have another sequence like this one where all
of a sudden they're missing that many people in the
tower and in the air traffic control approach and the
portrait facilities. Then no, it probably is sustainable. But you
see the sustainability that we've had so far as with
people working six days a week and tremendous amounts of overtime.
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These are human beings. They will burn out. We all
will do that after a while, and no matter how
good the money is, you've got to get people a rest.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Absolutely, John Nance, always great ABC World News aviation analysts
and author. Thanks so much for.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Your time anytime.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Ry Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
John New bill could ban petty cabs, you know, the
highly decorated pedal operated taxis that play loud music to
attract tourists from being near Broadway theaters.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Now you got it.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Natalie Migliori gets the Beat on the Street about the
petty cabs.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Next.
Speaker 11 (27:01):
Now it's sevent ten Wars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Well, there is a bill that could.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Ban petty cabs.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
They are the highly decorated loud bikes you see on
the street to keep them away from Broadway plays. But
Natalie has her beat on the street in a moment.
But before we get to that Natalie, I wanted to
play a talkback to you because you apparently are very
popular with the talkback people. The MVP of Menty in
the morning is Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
There you go, take it away, MVP.
Speaker 12 (27:40):
All right, thanks Lyer. That's great.
Speaker 13 (27:41):
From around now, some way, somehow, petty cabs had become
an unofficial fixture of Manhattan's landscape. Whether you're at the
mouth of Central Park near Columbus Circle or in the
heart of Times Square in the middle of the day,
you can always find a guy trying to sell you
a ride on the back of a bicycle. Now two
New York City councilmen are hoping to be and then
from loitering outside Broadway theaters, New Yorkers seem to be
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on board.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
Yeah, I think that would be great. They're really loud
and annoying.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
I've seen people complain about it in front of the theaters.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The traffic also a loud music and all that, and
they shouldn't.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
You can't even go up forty eighth Street because there's
people walked all over the place and you got like
zig zag around, but defian standing in the middle of
the street because nobody else is around.
Speaker 15 (28:23):
Because they're harassed people. You know, somebody come and ask
me for a taxi. They say, oh, i'll take you
till you come over here, coming, I'll take you. And
some people like they can't walk, they're not from here.
The tours, they jump into the bike and then when
they get there they get charged.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
Yeah, charge a lot. We'll get to the money in
a second. The legislation introduced by council members Keith Towers
and Eric Podger would restrict petticabs from operating within fifty
feet of theaters. Some people on board but seem sympathetic
to these guys. Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
But they need to make a living.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's just like they can cape working just not charging
a lot or being around with low music.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I guess it's always a way to make a liv
bit if you do it right way.
Speaker 14 (29:05):
Yeah, everybody needs to make a living. They're out there hustling.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I wish it was a less.
Speaker 14 (29:10):
Annoying way of making a living, but everybody gotta do
what they gotta do.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
You know, well, they if they're making a libit, they're
making a really good living. Believe me, I'm not against them.
It's fine. For them to make a living, but they
should be like regulated.
Speaker 13 (29:25):
Times Square Alliance president Tom Harris says the measure is
a great first step, and he hopes they can work
together with the council to address all the challenges peddicaps
bring to the neighborhood. One of those challenges might be
the lack of transparency when it comes to how much
these rides cost.
Speaker 14 (29:40):
A lot of people come back and they're complaining because
they get ripped off. They think that they're going to
get charge a certain price and then they get charged
like five hundred dollars just to go to Central Park.
Speaker 15 (29:48):
They don't know because back in their country sometimes the
petticad might be cheaper than a tax limo. So they
come here thinking that, oh, yeah, I'll take that one,
you know, for a ride, and then you know, they
got a surprise. Yeah all the time, go you another one.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We don't worry.
Speaker 15 (30:01):
We'll take credit card with tape maym and with tape.
Speaker 13 (30:02):
Pay anything now. Larry, I am seldom left speechless, but
when I met Terry from Dallas visiting New York for
the first time, she had to reach deep into her pockets.
After hitching a ride on one of these pettycabs.
Speaker 16 (30:16):
It was great until I got the bill. It's a
thousand dollars much a thousand him riding us around for
Tom Square, Central Park and then back to our hotel
in Midtown?
Speaker 12 (30:27):
Did you pay it?
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (30:28):
I mean yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 12 (30:30):
Did he discuss price with you beforehand?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
No?
Speaker 16 (30:32):
No he did not, And I was not expecting that.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
What did you think?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Maybe it would cost you?
Speaker 16 (30:37):
Maybe one hundred and fifty two hundreds, definitely not a thousand.
Speaker 12 (30:42):
How do you feel after cheated?
Speaker 16 (30:44):
Like I got robbed? This is my first time in
New York, trying to see as much as I could
see and experience as much as I could, and that's
what it got you. Yeah?
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Would you come back to New York?
Speaker 16 (30:55):
Yeah, but I wouldn't do a pettycab.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
There.
Speaker 13 (31:00):
You have it extensive but not going to be allowed
in your theaters.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
If this goes through, Larry Well, I feel so much
for her. She just got ripped off.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I wish she could report the guy, but she probably
paid and didn't get the information. I hope she did.
Natalie will be back tomorrow morning at eight point fifty.
We need cheap stuff, and lots of it. According to
Rich Lowry from the National Review. Why we talked to
him next was obvious why we need cheap stuff? Plus
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And good morning again, thanks for being here this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
In the Big Three. Well, this is really scary.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're learning how bad it got at the Newark Liberty
International Airport. The air traffic controller's screen with all the
flight information and their communications, so they couldn't see the planes,
they couldn't talk to the pilots. It all went out
for sixty to ninety seconds last week.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Three forty three. I'm going a movie here because I
just got told that to approach lost all the raiders.
Three of the four radar screens went black and they
have no forty three to forty three whoeveryone else is
on frequency. I guess this is a serious issue because
I have one more arrival and now I have nobody
else coming in back.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, it's a serious issue, and it's a serious issue
that hasn't gone away. We're being told right now the
problems lasted every single day. That was last week. It
started Wednesday of last week. They're now saying it may
be months before flights can get back on schedule at
Newark Airports. In the meantime, jury's selection continues today in
(01:04):
the P. Diddy sexual assault and trafficking trial, and we
already know at this point, the defense the strategy is
the defense strategy.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
They're going to say and allege that these victims were
in a consensual sexual relationship and that these were not acts,
that they were not in agreement with.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is facing possible
federal charges for mortgage fraud, is now leading a national lawsuit,
a national federal lawsuit with other Democratic ags across the
country to stop Donald Trump's doge cuts.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
The justices have said, including liberal justices like Justice Kagan,
that this is truly insane and this is just the
latest such a lawsuit to retot try to limit what
this president can do.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'll tell you what, Donald Trump is apparently very serious
us about reopening the world famous San Francisco prison Alcatraz
that sits out there on an island in the middle
of San Francisco Bay, because he's already talking to federal
officials about reopening it soon.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I think, pretty darn quick. He's already ordered the the FBI,
the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Homeland Security
to get to work on this. That's going to involve
the National Park Service. But I think Secretary Bergen we'll
be ready to move out swiftly on this.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And now let's talk to Joe Burrelli, Managing director of
Chartwell Strategy Group and former Minority leader of the New
York City Council. Joe, I know this special election went
your way.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I'm sure you have to be happy.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Oh, definitely. I mean, if anything, I think the city
should be happy that we have a guy like Frank
Morana who comes in with decades of experience in the
political arena and a depth of knowledge a specific to
the south shore of Staten Island. He's hitting the ground
on day one, doesn't need the refresher course, doesn't need
the politics one oh one, doesn't need. You know how
(03:05):
to be a city council member for dummies. So people
should be arresting quite easily knowing that this is a
guy who's going to represent them in city Hall.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It had to be frustrating for you when you were
in city Hall and you were a minority leader, so
you had some power. It's going to be frustrating for
Frank Morano unless the percentages that the majority has, the
Democrats have if he can do very little in there.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Can't he Look, it's also quality over quantity, right. I mean,
Republicans are always going to be the minority in our lifetime.
I don't see that changing, but you know, making sure
some Democrats get elected who have some common ground, some
grasp on reality, some idea of what people in the
outer borough space. I mean, that's that's really what it
(03:51):
comes down to. I would break the City Council down
to a bunch of you know, wacky socialists who you're
never going to get through to bunch of Manhattan liberals
like the Upper West Side types who you know are
perhaps more well meaning than the socialists, but really don't
have a grasp of what it is to live on
Staten Island or in Southeast Queens or in the Northern Bronx,
(04:14):
et cetera. And then there's just Democrats who have to
actually deal with with these neighborhoods who you can actually
find a lot of common ground, a lot of commonality,
and they represent a lot of diverse neighborhoods. It turns
out that you know, if you represent Southeast Queens, you
know your constituents who were likely Black Americans, care about
(04:36):
home ownership, and care about safe schools and parks and
driving and the cost of congestion, prising and all things
like that. So it's going to be an uphill battle
for him, but it's finding out those commonalities that will
make him successful or make him not successful. Hey, I'm
betting on Frank, but you know he'll have a reelection to.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Face, you know, speaking of wacky socialists, I'm starting to
get concerned about Zori. Mom, Donnie. Every time you see
a new poll, he's rising in the polls. He's got
enough money to put TV commercials out, and he maxed
out on contributions.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Should we be.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Concerned, Yes, So Zoevern has a quality that we should acknowledge. Right,
he is a likable human. I mean, maybe you don't
like his politics, but he is a charming, nice person.
In fact, I know a lot of the Republicans will
probably I'll probably get shocked for saying this, but a
lot of the Republican members of the Assembly actually kind
of like him on a personal level. They played poker
(05:32):
with him, like on Tuesday nights or whatever have you.
But he has that certain charm about him and ability
to bond with people who are not in great financial shape,
not in great safe neighborhoods, and he appeals to those people,
and that should worry someone like Andrew Cuomo and Eric
Adams because he is building momentum. Politics is more about
(05:55):
trend lines. In fact, I taught this in my Cuney
Night class last week talking about polling, you know, and
I said that no one poll makes a difference. No
no one poll is the end all be all, And
what people in politics look for is trend lines. And
if you're looking at Zorin Mamdani's trend line, he is
gaining ground every week, every month in the polls. That
(06:17):
should worry Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary. And I imagine,
you know, Andrew is starting to feel this this dream,
this thing that that these lefties are saying, you know,
don't rank evil, Eric, evil, Andrew, whatever it stands for, right,
it's don't rank Andrew Cuomo. And I think he's starting
(06:37):
to feel the pressure from that movement where it's coming
and preventing him from hitting that fifty percent number he needs.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know, it's funny, from the very beginning, I've talked
to so many people and I'm trying to remember if
you said it, because so many very wise people in
politics said it's not going to be Eric Adams and
it's not going to be Andrew Cuomo. It's going to
be somebody else. I'm just hoping that somebody else is
in Zora Mamdani.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I hope, I hope, you know, given the opportunity, I mean,
I mean, Brad Lander might be a better pick than
Zora Mamdani.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
But I'm not sure that's true.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
I mean, neither one of them wants my endorsement.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I assure you that. But it's.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
It's going to be a dice roll. And it also
is going to come down to who filled the speaker
void in the next City Council. The speaker's term limited,
she's a candidate for mayor. Not gaining too much ground,
But you know, the speaker race is equally as important
for New Yorkers because it is the quarterback of the
city council, right, it is the shepherd of the wacky socialists,
(07:39):
and whoever wins that it's going to have a lot
of power over New Yorker's lives.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Absolutely, Let's widen the scope a little bit because it
has a lot of effect on the city as well,
and talk about it's a little bit further away. But
the governor's race is also extremely important. The least Dephonic.
Over the weekend, did several interviews, and it sounds like
like she is definitely running. If she runs, does she
win the Republican nomination, and could she be governor?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Yeah, I I don't think she runs without the endorsement
of President Trump, So I think that obviously gives her
a huge leg up in any primary. Look, the Republicans
are in a good position, right. We actually have, for
the first time in generations, we have a generation of
elected leaders who are taking leadership roles in Washington who
(08:30):
are battle tested and ready to govern New York State.
And I'll add a lot of people to that list.
I'll add obviously a Lease obviously Mike Lawler, but Anthony Diesposito,
Mark Molinaro, Lee Zelden. Right, this is an entire generation
of New Yorkers who were in their mid forties to
mid fifties who are able and willing and ready to
govern New York State. Right, We've never had that before.
(08:52):
So I'm happy with anyone mentioned in taking leadership roles
in New York State going forward. But look, look, at
least would be a fantastic govern her. She is a friend.
She was going to take on the world literally in
the UN. And that's that's the amount of confidence that
the Republican Party has in her that there wasn't even
the remotest bit of pushback when President Trump named her
(09:12):
as UN ambassador. In fact, people were getting their popcorn ready.
I think you're going to see some explosions from her
over the next couple of months at Kathy Hochel, who
is frankly, if you ask Democrats or Republicans, she ain't
doing a great job. So you know, there's a lot
of fodder there what happens in the Republican Party. I
think that this gets worked out before anyone enters the race.
(09:36):
I think, by the way, again, if Mike Lahler is
the candidate, we are going to have a great time
running because he is in some ways, you know, as good,
if not better positioned, you know, given the geography of
the state, in some of his positions to be the governor.
So we're in a again, we're in a situation where
we have to pick from great choices. Then you have
Bruce Blakeman on Long Island, who's you know, governs more
(09:58):
Republicans than any nowhere else in the country right now.
So I mean we have great choices, and I think
it's going to be an exciting time to be a Republican.
It's certainly hopefully going to be an exciting time to
be a Republican lobbyist and strategists.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah right, they're gonna get a lot of money. You're
absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Joe BURRELLI, Managing director of Chartwell Strategy Group and former
Minority leader of the New York City Council. Thanks Joe,
talk to you again next week. We all know about
balance of nature and how it can keep you healthy.
But now there's a new balance of nature for dogs.
We'll talk to the creators of Doctor Fido's Fido Nutrition
(10:34):
dog food topper next. I'm very excited about this. I
recognize doctor Douglas Howard as soon as I saw him.
You would all recognize him too. Chances are you have
his product in your house. He is the founder of
Balance of Nature and now Doctor Fidos, which we're going
to talk about in a moment, because also here is
(10:55):
doctor Jake Vandyk, who is part of Doctor Fidos, a
very important part. We'll explain it a second. He's a
respected this is a hint, a respected veterinarian doctor Howard.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
This is exciting for you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I'm sure you get to expand your brand and talk
about how you came up with this idea.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
Well, and actually it's a whole new company. It's really
not balance in nature, I'll okay, but it's a doctor
Fidos has been fun. We It's really not a new idea.
It's something that all along, you know, I deal with
the health and the well being of people. And I
found many years ago that often that's your pet too,
because do you have a pet?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, well my dog just died unfortunately, so but yes,
we're planning on getting another one. But I always want
to have a dog in the house.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
And you make my point, and that was a bad day, yes,
and there's been sadness, But when you would come home
and that dog was wagging his tail, how'd you feel?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, wonderful? You look forward to it.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Yeah, it's part of your health, yep. And so when
I realized that people actually their health is also combined
with the health of their animals, I thought we got
to do this. And it's a long, longer story sometime
we'll get into how that really addressed with the dog
we had. But and then I, you know, doctor Jake
and I. I've known him since he was a tiny
(12:14):
tad and he became a vet and we we said,
you know, let's do this then, so we adapted the
formula and then we formulated this to fit best with animals.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It sounds like you were left in a basket in
front of his house.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
That's everything that's wrong with me, wrong with me. He influenced,
is right?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All the good that's all new to hear? Well, good
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Talk to us about Doctor Fidos and what what what
are the working ingredients in it? And why is it
important to give to your pet?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That's great.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
So Doctor Fidos contains forty whole food ingredients, fruits, vegetables,
some spices that are really good, and a bunch of fiber.
And the relationship that doctor Howard and I have is
really beneficial to both of us because I'm concerned about
that day that my client's bring in a puppy to
the day that we put the dog to sleep, and
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everything in the middle needs to be better. And that's
really what motivates me to be part of this project
because I feel the benefit of balance in nature. I
take it myself and I've been given doctor fidos to
dogs for over two years and the results are amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Talk about the results. What are the results so far?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
So things that I notice in my practice with my
patients is just overall better health and if you can
think of it, they're experiencing it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, this is so important to families because I think
we all care about our dogs and our pets, and
we care sometimes more than we care about ourselves. We
want to keep them healthy. We just don't know how frequently.
And the thing is, we can't guarantee life. I can't
guarantee how long something's going to live, not even my patients.
You know, that's between you and God. That's how I
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put that one right.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
But what I realized in my practice finally was we
can deal with quality of life. God gils with God
deals with quantity. But if we can make that quality
of life the highest it is, then it makes everybody happier.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah. I wish I had your voice.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Man, if I had your voice, I'd be network, I'd
be more successful than I ever was.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I wish I had. I wish I had your face.
So I've been told I have a radio face all
the time. You have a face everybody recognizes.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I think everybody, as doctor Howard just pointed out, I
think everybody wants to have their pet be healthier.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
We just don't know how to do it. That's that's
the question that I get all the time. What should
I feed my dog? And when you go to the
grocery store, it's overwhelming because of all the choices that
are there, and unfortunately they're not great most of them,
and uh, there's there's not a lot of information out there.
So this product really does hit the spot. It fills
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the need for good nutrition in our pets.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And sometimes we think we're doing the best thing, but
some of the stuff on the market that's sold for
being healthy is just not healthy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
No, it's not.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
And the beauty of it is people afford what they
feed them what they can afford frequently. But it doesn't
matter what you're feeding you're at.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Your your pet.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Doctor Fido's Dog Topper food Topper improves the nutrition always.
It improves the quality of whatever you're feeding them.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The product's name, again is doctor Fido's Food Topper. And
here's a phone number you can call eight eight eight
three eight eight seven two nine seven. And it's very
clever because Fido is pH y t o S, which
is part of the active ingredients, but it also is fido, so.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Very good, very good by the marketing team. You can
also go to doctor Fidos d r p h y
t o S d r p h y t o
os dot com and they can order there.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Yes, they can get right on the phone on the
phone number. By the way, the last four last four
digits there spelled pause p a.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
W however eight eight eight three eight eight seven two
nine seven. Thank you both for coming in today. It's
been wonderful to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh yeah, the jingle, I forgot all about the jingle.
Thank you, Natalie. Natalie put up a little sign apparently.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Forget this too good.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You said you join us. Okay, you're gonna sing for us.
We'll go for it.
Speaker 11 (16:33):
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Speaker 2 (16:43):
And was his name? Oh I hope you have professional
singers for the Yeah, I've been told that before.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You're pretty good. All right now, let's give thank you
so much for coming in today. Thank you, yes, of course,
Doctor Douglas Howard founder of Balance of Nature and doctor
Fidos and doctor Jake Van Dyke, who is a respected veterinarian,
is teaming.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Up on this cause.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I can call it a cause because making our dogs
healthier is absolutely a cause. Thank you so much for
being here today now. Jacqulyn Carl with the eight thirty
News Good Morning.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
President Trump says he doesn't know what he'll talk about
with Canada's Prime minister today. Prime Minister Mark Karney is
scheduled to speak with Trump at the White House. The
high stakes meeting comes in the midst of a trade
war between the two countries, and ICE has reportedly started
moving detainees back into Delaney Hall and Newark despite a
lawsuit over safety inspections.
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Newark Mayor Ros Baraka says the city and courts have
not given any approval for the detainments, and he's working
with city attorneys to file an injunction to stop it.
Newark is a sanctuary city, so officials have recently been
in court trying to stop the detention center from returning
to operation. Baraka says fire and health inspectors have not
been given access to inspect Aleini All, adding inspections need
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to happen before a certificate of occupancy is issued. The
GEO Group, which runs the facility, says it does have
a certificate of occupancy. Natalie mcliori WOR News.
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to win tomorrow morning at age twenty five. Well, the
problems at Newark International are not going away anytime soon.
(18:53):
John Nance ABC World News Aviation analyst is here next
to tell us how we got and what's next? John
Nance after a break.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, I know, I know. It's confusing.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What exactly is going on at Newark Liberty International Airport
and why aren't other airports in the area having similar problems?
For that, we go to John Nance, the Great John
Nance ABC News World Aviation analysts, the best in the
business and author. John, Thanks so much for joining us.
(19:27):
We have so many questions, and I know our listeners
have so many questions about what's going on at Newark
right now. Maybe you can just start by explaining what
the problem seems to be.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Well, it's about a threefold problem, Larry. It's going to
be you, by the way. But not of these circumstances.
These nobody's crashed. But there's delays everywhere at Newark because
of these things. First of all, air traffic control, the
air traffic control resium that they lost, their radar, lost,
the ability committee with the airplanes. It's about a week
(20:01):
ago for about ninety seconds. That's an eternity if you're
looking at the blank screen and you've got dynamic airplanes
that go in all over the place. When they got
it back, a number of them took leaves to just
calm down after a while. And you can you can
appreciate this if you know the pressures of their job. Well,
that meant they didn't have enough air traffic controllers to
bring the airplanes in and out, and so that put
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delays in immediately. Second runway has been taken out of
service for maintenance. And that's not going to be back
up for at least a month or so, and that
means that they've lost about a third of their capacity.
But take aust landings and then when you put that
all together with the ripple effects, which is the fact
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that you have all across the country with things that
are on planes that are coming in and out of Newark,
they get laid two, three, four hours and the whole
system begins to a stagger.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So here's what I don't understand. I know that Philadelphia
is the hub for Newark and running some of the
things there, and I know that there's other airports all
across the country that has the same equipment and the
same outdated equipment.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Why Newark, Well, I.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Think New York is simply one of the most busy airports.
It is definitely one of our most busy, busiest the
word I'm trying to find airport by the same token.
The fact is that when you put as much pressure
as they do on the equipment in any particular place,
you're going to have a breakdown at some point in time.
I'm not even sure that anybody knows precisely what happened
(21:36):
the other day, because it actually was in the Philadelphia
facility that handles the southern portion flights coming in and
out of Newark. But anyway you look across the country.
Our first problem is this, we're three thousand people short
of what we should have. We had about fourteen thousand
air traffic controllers. We need about three thousand more. And
(21:57):
when you consider how long it takes to bring somebody
and train them, and the fact that if you hire
one hundred people, maybe you'll get twenty. They can go
on through the course and that takes years. We've had
this problem for a long time. And this problem actually
comes right back to Congress's doorstep. They're the ones that
have not appropriated the money, and this has been going
(22:18):
on for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You talked about the real concern, and I heard the
Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, talking about this last night
and he said, look, there's no chance of a crash,
there's no chance of an accident. We have backups for that.
That would make me feel great if that was true.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Is that true?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Well, that's a big glib, shall we say. Aviation safety
is a very delicately balanced situation, and it relies on
an awful lot of different things. That have to be
paid attention to all the time. So when you talk
about you know, I guarantee if that's what he was saying,
that you're not going to have any safety issue out
(23:02):
of this. No, that's not entirely true. Now, what he's
trying to say is that we're backing off. They're backing
off on the number of flights in and out to
match the number of controllers that's where coming from, and
by doing so, they will not jeopardize the margins of safety.
I hope they're right. I certainly think they're on the
(23:22):
right track with that. But by the same token, when
you disrupt anything in commercial aviation, you want a risk
that you are lowering, just to some degree, the margins
of safety. That doesn't mean you're going to guarantee an accident,
but it does mean that you've got to be even
more more careful about everything you're doing, certainly when it
comes into delays and people sitting out there on the runway.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It also sounded like the Transportation Secretary says he wanted
to fast track the process of getting new air traffic
controllers for some reason. That sounds like that's not a
great idea.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Well, all it's deceptive, and I think he's probably deceiving
himself a little bit on that. I know that's what
everybody would like to do. But the thing is is
to say, if you hire a hundred potential air traffic controllers,
no matter how well you have vetted those applicants, you're
going to have maybe twenty maybe twenty five of them
out the other end. And that's after maybe a year
of investment of money and time and everything else. The
(24:22):
academy that they run there is world class, but it
takes about a year and a half to get an
air draffic controller to the point of being able to
see anything to an airplane anywhere at any time, and
then to get them up to full capabilities to be
trustworthy in a tower like Newark, for instance, or Chicago
hair that takes years.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Right, So how long is Nework going to be dealing
with this?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Well, I'm afraid it's going to be probably another couple
of weeks before we begin to see a little relief
in terms of the number of controllers in the facilities there,
so that we're not holding up the system based on
the lack of controllers. By the same token, the runway
won't be ready. I think until June. I'm not absolutely
positive about that, but you don't wonder his Like anytime
(25:11):
we go down the road and you see a road
torn up and long lines of traffic, you wonder, why
do they have to do it now. I'm not sure
there is a better time to do it, but it
certainly does reduce the number of take office and landings
that they can They can do it in an hour
at it.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Luckily they have options here, so you would suggest LaGuardia
or JFK or Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
I couldn't tease you say, yeah, I get on Amtrak
and go to Philadelphia. But the thing is that JFK
is probably the best reliever for a shorter term or
you know, short hops cross the country a lot international
ones LAKEWARDI of course is they tried and true, even
though very pressed airport. But the pressure is on all
(25:53):
the eastern airports right now, even Dulles for that matter
of scene increase traffic.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh that's interesting. So you think we're going to see
these similar problems at other airports.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
I don't think so. Well, I'll put it this way,
unless we have another sequence like this one where all
of a sudden they're missing that many people in the
tower and in the air traffic control approach and the
portrait facilities. Then no, it probably is sustainable. But you
see the sustainability that we've had so far as with
people working six days a week and tremendous amounts of overtime.
(26:25):
These are human beings. They will burn out. We all
will do that after a while, and no matter how
good the money is, you've got to get people a rest.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Absolutely, John Nance, always great ABC World News aviation analysts
and author. Thanks so much for.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Your time anytime.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Ry Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
John New bill could ban petty cabs, you know, the
highly decorated pedal operated taxis that play loud music to
attract tourists from being near Broadway theaters.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Now you got it.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Natalie Migliori gets the Beat on the Street about the
petty cabs.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Next.
Speaker 11 (27:01):
Now it's sevent ten Wars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Well, there is a bill that could.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Ban petty cabs.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
They are the highly decorated loud bikes you see on
the street to keep them away from Broadway plays. But
Natalie has her beat on the street in a moment.
But before we get to that Natalie, I wanted to
play a talkback to you because you apparently are very
popular with the talkback people. The MVP of Menty in
the morning is Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
There you go, take it away, MVP.
Speaker 12 (27:40):
All right, thanks Lyer. That's great.
Speaker 13 (27:41):
From around now, some way, somehow, petty cabs had become
an unofficial fixture of Manhattan's landscape. Whether you're at the
mouth of Central Park near Columbus Circle or in the
heart of Times Square in the middle of the day,
you can always find a guy trying to sell you
a ride on the back of a bicycle. Now two
New York City councilmen are hoping to be and then
from loitering outside Broadway theaters, New Yorkers seem to be
(28:04):
on board.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
Yeah, I think that would be great. They're really loud
and annoying.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
I've seen people complain about it in front of the theaters.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The traffic also a loud music and all that, and
they shouldn't.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
You can't even go up forty eighth Street because there's
people walked all over the place and you got like
zig zag around, but defian standing in the middle of
the street because nobody else is around.
Speaker 15 (28:23):
Because they're harassed people. You know, somebody come and ask
me for a taxi. They say, oh, i'll take you
till you come over here, coming, I'll take you. And
some people like they can't walk, they're not from here.
The tours, they jump into the bike and then when
they get there they get charged.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
Yeah, charge a lot. We'll get to the money in
a second. The legislation introduced by council members Keith Towers
and Eric Podger would restrict petticabs from operating within fifty
feet of theaters. Some people on board but seem sympathetic
to these guys. Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
But they need to make a living.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's just like they can cape working just not charging
a lot or being around with low music.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I guess it's always a way to make a liv
bit if you do it right way.
Speaker 14 (29:05):
Yeah, everybody needs to make a living. They're out there hustling.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I wish it was a less.
Speaker 14 (29:10):
Annoying way of making a living, but everybody gotta do
what they gotta do.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
You know, well, they if they're making a libit, they're
making a really good living. Believe me, I'm not against them.
It's fine. For them to make a living, but they
should be like regulated.
Speaker 13 (29:25):
Times Square Alliance president Tom Harris says the measure is
a great first step, and he hopes they can work
together with the council to address all the challenges peddicaps
bring to the neighborhood. One of those challenges might be
the lack of transparency when it comes to how much
these rides cost.
Speaker 14 (29:40):
A lot of people come back and they're complaining because
they get ripped off. They think that they're going to
get charge a certain price and then they get charged
like five hundred dollars just to go to Central Park.
Speaker 15 (29:48):
They don't know because back in their country sometimes the
petticad might be cheaper than a tax limo. So they
come here thinking that, oh, yeah, I'll take that one,
you know, for a ride, and then you know, they
got a surprise. Yeah all the time, go you another one.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We don't worry.
Speaker 15 (30:01):
We'll take credit card with tape maym and with tape.
Speaker 13 (30:02):
Pay anything now. Larry, I am seldom left speechless, but
when I met Terry from Dallas visiting New York for
the first time, she had to reach deep into her pockets.
After hitching a ride on one of these pettycabs.
Speaker 16 (30:16):
It was great until I got the bill. It's a
thousand dollars much a thousand him riding us around for
Tom Square, Central Park and then back to our hotel
in Midtown?
Speaker 12 (30:27):
Did you pay it?
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (30:28):
I mean yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 12 (30:30):
Did he discuss price with you beforehand?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
No?
Speaker 16 (30:32):
No he did not, And I was not expecting that.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
What did you think?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Maybe it would cost you?
Speaker 16 (30:37):
Maybe one hundred and fifty two hundreds, definitely not a thousand.
Speaker 12 (30:42):
How do you feel after cheated?
Speaker 16 (30:44):
Like I got robbed? This is my first time in
New York, trying to see as much as I could
see and experience as much as I could, and that's
what it got you. Yeah?
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Would you come back to New York?
Speaker 16 (30:55):
Yeah, but I wouldn't do a pettycab.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
There.
Speaker 13 (31:00):
You have it extensive but not going to be allowed
in your theaters.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
If this goes through, Larry Well, I feel so much
for her. She just got ripped off.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I wish she could report the guy, but she probably
paid and didn't get the information. I hope she did.
Natalie will be back tomorrow morning at eight point fifty.
We need cheap stuff, and lots of it. According to
Rich Lowry from the National Review. Why we talked to
him next was obvious why we need cheap stuff? Plus
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