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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's the seventy seven WABC News Hour, Talking the news
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes, that's me, Good morning. It is Tuesday, August fourth year.
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seven and cloudy right outside our midtown studios.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
This is the top five and five.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Lots of questions about a death and a Newark Iiced
Attention Center. All eyes on the Michigan Senate primary today.
Some nine to eleven families say they want Mayor Momdannie
at the solemn ceremonies next month. Would you want to
pitch a tent in Central Park? An old abandoned movie
theater in New Jersey is getting a lot of unwanted attention.

(01:21):
Let's get into it. At five oh four. There were
protests last night. The will likely be protests later this
morning outside an ice attention center in Newark where a
Salvadorian immigrant who was in custody there died following a
medical emergency over the weekend. Now he was here illegally
crossing the border twice. D Win Lopez Cornero was transported

(01:44):
to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead over
the weekend. Now we're getting more details about this. The
official cause of death is pending. Demonstrators last night they
say they wanted to know more.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
We want this place to be held accountable. Workers inside
had to know that he was dizzy, that he was
not feeling well and not doing anything is very inhumane.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Cornaho's family says the thirty nine year old had been
living in the US for over twenty years when he
was taken into custody back in June. His mom says
that Cornejo called her to say he wasn't feeling well.
That was on Friday, and that he could not feel
his face or hand. Then, his mother said the next
morning he called again to say he felt worse and
that guards did not act until Cornejo had collapsed. His

(02:31):
mother says she received a call from University Hospital in
Newark that her son was there and passed away. His
mother says neither Ice nor the group running the detention
center contacted the family or his lawyer to say what
had happened.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
His mom was very concerned for him, and I had
to speak out and say give my son the medication,
but nobody was answering the phone.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Here at Delaney We Corneho has a twelve year old daughter.
Community organizers last night holding this vigil for him outside
Delaney Hall, State local leaders demanding an investigation now. He
was arrested back on June eighteenth, and Plainfield, New Jersey,
had been contained at Delaney Hall pending a removal hearing

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that would send him back home.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Had too many people who were killed by ice and
we've just moved on and we can.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
This has affected not only one family, but it's going
to affect more and more if we don't stand up
and say something.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Now, Ice nuts commenting on what exactly happened to him,
But what they are saying is he was in the
country illegally. He had been here for twenty years. He'd
entered the country initially in two thousand and six, was
removed to Al Salvador that year, and then he was
able to get back into the country again and was
arrested in Plainfield in New Jersey just in June five

(03:50):
over six. We have more information on that shooting that
took place late Sunday night. We were telling about it yesterday
up in Yonkers. So one person is dead for others
injured following the shooting and Yonkers it was a fifteen
year old. Police say who fired off the bullets on
Elm Street right at Saint Kasimir Street around ten o'clock

(04:11):
on Sunday night, and yesterday they held a press conference.
Now they think this is gang related, The shooting was targeted,
and they want to make sure there's not some sort
of reprise. I was a fifteen year old end up
with a gun like that. Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano speaking
out at a press conference, saying police have increased patrols
in the area. A twenty year old man was shot
in the back. Now he was the one that was

(04:32):
pronounced dead. The surviving victims, I mean all teenagers, fourteen,
a sixteen year old. They were taken to nearby hospitals.
Don't have a condition on them this morning, but as
of yesterday one was in critical conditions.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
All kinds of police activity here. So for those who
might think about were Talie Tory strike, they might want
to take again.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, that's what they're worried about.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
Now.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
Urban centers in America continue to deal with these issues.
Many of the laws that were placed the pass at
the sat Capital. Are you going to know who blamed?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Go to the state legislature. Now if you were in
that area of Yonkers over the last twenty four hours,
the police presence there is a major as they want
to make sure there's not some sort of retaliatory thing
and clearly what is a gang related issue. WABC News
time five to oh nine out to Washington State, where
National Guard members say the devastations from those Spokane fires

(05:28):
is just difficult to scribe.

Speaker 8 (05:30):
To a lot of places around the world, uh, and
not so good places around the world. And I can
I can tell you today that that's a war zone.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, so many have lost so much. At least seven
hundred structures have burned to the ground.

Speaker 8 (05:41):
People go in there and to just grapple with the
damage and grapple with the fact that their lives are
forever changed. Some of these folks may not recover. Some
of those folks may not rebuild in there. No, those
fires still burned. We are still in the fight. There's
still a lot of stuff smoking, There's still a lot
of danger. There's gonna be a lot of questions about
when can we get back. It's going to take some time.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Now. The even more awful part of this story is
one of those fires they think was purposely set. There
was an arrest over the weekend, Aaron Farranacci taken into
custody without incident after a judge approved a warren alleging
first degree arson.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
We took thirty seven year old Aaron Farnazi, a convicted felon,
into custody on a single charge of arson in the
first degree.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
His arrest follows a witness report to describes that they
saw someone saw I'm starting this thing.

Speaker 9 (06:31):
He noticed the mail was bending down near some grass.
At that point, the male stood up and looked very nervous.
According to our citizen witness, they saw smoke coming from
what they believed was the area that they had seen
the mail bending down by the side of the road.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Now so, more than seven hundred structures destroyed in the area,
but the full extent of the damage it's not going
to be known, probably likely for weeks. Let's go from
Washington to Michigan, where there is a big Senate primary today.
Congress Woman Hailey Stevens and Abdul al l Sayid spent
the final hours of Michigan's Democratic Senate primary Monday making

(07:08):
their closing pitches to voters ahead of today's primary. So
El Sayid is a progressive back by Senator Bernie Sanders
and other leaders on the parties left. He has spent
most of the campaign running against the Democratic establishment. And
on the other side is Stevens. She is a four
term congresswoman that's backed by Senate Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer.

(07:29):
The Old School and many Michigan's top Democrats have made
her electability and experience central to her case. Everybody's watching
this thing, including University of Toledo political science professor Sam
Nilson he's weighing in on what this race means, not
just in Michigan for the Democratic Party.

Speaker 10 (07:46):
Maybe kind of showing some cracks. We may be looking
at generational change in the Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I mean, I think we're already seeing that now.

Speaker 10 (07:54):
Younger Democrats, they don't remember Bill Clinton, they may not
remember Barack Obama anymore. Political time moves very fast, and
so they may be looking for people who, you know,
have a new outlook or a new approach to things.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
You know, it's amazing to watch about this primary. Tens
of millions of dollars have been poured in, much of
it from outside groups supporting Stevens. But the contest now
comes down to which candidate can assemble enough of Michigan's
Democratic coalition today to win the election.

Speaker 10 (08:22):
Michigan's very important. The Senate is really up for grabs
in November. The Michigan Senate race is very likely going
to be, you know, one of the key deciding races.

Speaker 11 (08:30):
Now.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Whoever wins the primary today, they'll face off against Mike Rodgers.
He's the Republican for a former congressman running unopposed in
today's primary five point thirteen. President Trump says he looks
forward to Todd Blanche being confirmed as the next Attorney
in General. He's picked ahead the DOJ had been stalled
by two Republican senators who wanted Blanche to issue a

(08:53):
formal order terminating the anti weaponization fund.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
He's going to do a great job. Everybody knows it,
and I understand there's been a sign off, but I
don't know what they agreed. I think Todd Blanche agreed
to reconfirm things that he's already said.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, so that was done on Sunday. But there are
Democrats like Chuck Schumer who are questioning this last second deal.

Speaker 11 (09:15):
And Republicans keep pretending that Blanch made real concessions on
the slush fund.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
The truth is he just gave up a fight he
had already lost in court.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
The one point eight billion dollar fund would have been
used to compensate January sixth defendants and others who say
they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department. Five point fourteen.
Let's head over to the war in Waran. President Trump
says Iran reached out to the US to stop a
planned massive strike that was set to take place over
the weekend. The president says he was also urged by

(09:46):
several Arab countries along with Iran to hold off those strikes.
No one's the.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Word begging, but somewhere in particular Aaran did not want
to be hit, and they said, we want to talk.

Speaker 11 (09:59):
We want to talk.

Speaker 12 (10:00):
About the strait.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
The president says he expects the Strait of Ormuz to
be completely opened by today while talks to make sure
Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon continue.

Speaker 12 (10:09):
We're talking about the straight the opening of the strait,
having it opened literally by tomorrow, completely open, and that's
phase one and phase two as we then will talk
about the nuclear capacity.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
This is not something that it doesn't happen. This is
the last chance for them to sign a good document.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Now, Iran this morning is denying that any talks are
being held with the US. Of course, Go is Fody.
He's the director of the National Union for Democracy in Iran,
and he's skeptical that any agreement will be reached. And
he says the president shoun go along with US.

Speaker 13 (10:48):
Talks are talks collapse, Missiles fly, targets are heads, The
Strait of Hormones remains closed. The Runian population gets exhausted
again and again and again over things not going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, we'll have to wait and see what actually happens
with these talks. In a moment, we'll tell you about
how maybe Iran is behind this new wave of cyber
attacks that have been hitting water systems across the country.
We'll get into that story in just a moment. For
first five to fifteen, let's let head over to the
seventy seven w ABC Sports desk.

Speaker 14 (11:21):
Good more than Justin Allock, Good morning to you know
him a leaden. A lot of baseball news to get
to here ahead of yesterday's trading deadline, but first check
in on the Yanks. In the Bronx lost thirteen to
seven to the Cardinals in the opener of a three
game series. After coming back from a six run deficit
earlier in the game. Newcomer Luis Carcia Junior went deep
for the first time as a Yankee at two run

(11:42):
drive that gave New York a seven to six lead
in the seventh Coarse he has started at first base
and went too performed for being obtained from Washington. On Sunday,
Ryan Command and Jose Cabaliro opened in the seventh with
back to back homers for the Yankees. Off Ryan Stanek,
Austin Wilson a two run shot in Trent Trisham had
a solo homer in the fifth after New York trailed
six to start. Pam Schlittler allowed four runs and four
hits in three innox his second short start this season.

(12:05):
The right hand or tattter career high with five walks.
He did strike out six. Up next for the Yankees,
now three and a half games back in Tampa Bay
for first place in the East. The lefty Ryan Weather
starts tonight in the middle game of this three game
series against the Cardinals. First pitch from Yankee Stadium. He's
scheduled for seven o five pm. And let's rejoice and
know him all Laden today should be in an mel holiday.
Yankees are planning on calling up top prospect George Lumbard

(12:26):
Junior today after optioning yes, you guessed at shortstop Anthony
Volpey do triple A. He just didn't have the stones
to be up here in the big leagues.

Speaker 11 (12:35):
Know him later.

Speaker 14 (12:35):
The club also optioned outfielder Jason Didn't get to go. Actually,
you know he's going to Triple A. Boy's he going
Triple A. Scranton Wilksberry. Oh, scared they're sending him down
to the minor leagues after being in the major leagues
now for several seasons in a row.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Does he still get paid?

Speaker 14 (12:49):
Yeah, the same amount of money you get, you get
certain amount of options, So I would imagine this is
probably it has to be one of the last of
his options to be sent down, and then you can
do you can you have to engage in another option
to bring him back up. So you need Uh, there's
a lot of ins and outs and intricacies that come
with sending guys down, especially if they've had the service

(13:09):
time that Anthony Volpi has had in the leagues a lot. Yeah,
and now you send him down for making way for
top prospect George Lumbard Junior, who the Yankees are also
very excited about, the same way they were cited about
Anthony Volpe when they first brought up Anthony Volpi to
the big league. And yeah, we all remember very well
how underwhelming this tenor has been. We'll try it again

(13:30):
with a Lombard. You should see him at shortstop today
afore at the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Very exciting stuff there.

Speaker 14 (13:37):
They also did send down Jason Domingez down to Triple
A A. They had to make room on the active
roster for out there at outfielder I should say Haleo
Romo Ramos, Yankees acquired from the Giants earlier in the day.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
As for the police, we'll have somebody to hang out with
in scram because it's not a lot to do.

Speaker 14 (13:52):
Yeah, him and Domingo is exactly. One doesn't speak very
good English, but then the other ones from New Jersey.
But yeah, at the end of the next span, yeah,
because that's fine. As for the Mets, they're up yesterday.
We'll open a three game road series against the Indians tonight.
Sean and I will get the start in what will
be a six forty PM first pitched in Cleveland. The
Mets also dealt right handed Clay Holmes and outfield the
Tyrone Tellers of the Chicago Cubs for infielder Jefferson Orojas

(14:14):
after making his conversion from a lever with the Crosstown
Yankees to start with the Mets. The thirty three year
old Homes, who has missed two months because of a
broken leg this season, compub with three two six ERA
across forty starts and two seasons in a Queens. He
is a free agent at the end of this season,
so you know, in a pipe dream, you could see
him back here in New York next year. Elsewhere around
the MLB ahead of yesterday's trade deadline, the Boston Red

(14:36):
Sox are acquiring three time All Star catcher Adley Rutchman
into trade with the Baltimore Orioles. Philadelphia Philly swung a
deal for three time batting champion Luis Arise from the
San Francisco Giants, who also parted ways with left handed
Robberie Ray, who's being shipped to the San Diego Padres.
A lot of other movement around the league as well,
just not as a noteworthy that is your sports Noah Man,
I'm justin allic On seventy seven WABSA.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
WABC News Time five twenty one, New warnings from the
f VIPA is a new wave of cyber attacks or
hitting water systems nationwide, with at least seven states now
reporting IS attacks targeting their systems. Correspondent Brookschaefer has more.

Speaker 15 (15:11):
Federal officials say these cyber attacks have locked people out
of systems, even led to boil water notices in some places.
We know Michigan is now reporting cyber attacks on nine
of its water systems. Seven other states have reported similar incidents.
Minnesota authorities said thirty water systems in their state were
recently targeted. Officials in Minnesota those stressing these cyber attacks

(15:34):
did not impact water quality.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
So far, there's no evidence that these attacks have made
the water unsafe to drink, but investigators appointing their attention
to Iranian hackers. Two people have died of a cyclosporiasis
in Michigan. That's the exploding diarrhea thing that continues to
go around, Correspondent Kevin Wells.

Speaker 16 (15:54):
As the Michigan Department of Public Health says, as of
July thirtieth, there have been over eleven thousand reported cases,
nearly two hundred hospitalizations, and now two fatalities. According to
the medical records of both individuals who died, they had
significant underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by
cyclosporiasis and dehydration. Department said it would not be saying

(16:14):
anything more about the two deaths, but went on to
say that cyclosporiasis is generally not life threatening and deaths
related to it in the United States are generally uncommon.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Now, available information indicates that let us or salad greens
may be a potential source of the outbreak. And part
of thought is the workers who are picking that are
going to the bathroom in the fields. Isn't that nice
to know you? Or corn flakes this morning, however, or
eat a salad later today. However, there's no specific type
of produce grower or supplier that's been identified as the

(16:44):
source so far. Five point twenty three. President Trump continues
to say he's not happy with Janine Piro after she
dropped charges against a former olympian accused of damaging DC's
reflecting plagy. Judge was really vicious. Instead of going after
the people that did.

Speaker 12 (17:01):
It, the judge went after her and went after her department,
and I.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Guess she charged. The President says the case was obviously vandalism.

Speaker 11 (17:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Piro filed a motion on Friday to dismiss the charges
after prosecutors determined that the damage to the reflecting polls
liner was due to a contractor's botched work.

Speaker 12 (17:21):
And these guys knew what they were doing, and they
cut all the way along the base cut. We should
be proud of our monuments, so we should be proud
of our city. And you know, that was open before
they did the damage. I was opened, it never looked
more beautiful. It looked like a mirror.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
President Trump continues to claim that vandals damaged the reflecting
pool after it was renovated. Five point twenty four. Senator
Bernie Moreno says his former son in law, Ohio Congressman
Max Miller, should not continue to serve in the House
of Representatives. Courseponded Kelley O'Donnell reports that follows allegations of
domestic abuche, which Miller, by the way, denies.

Speaker 17 (17:59):
Congress and said his former wife, the daughter of Republican
Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio, has struggled with significant mental
health issues. The senator going public Sunday, describing the last
two years as pure hell Now.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Police reports that were obtained by ABC detail accusations of
physical abuse threats during their marriage. Miller, who's running for
a third term, by the way, says he's staying in
the race, not going a.

Speaker 17 (18:26):
Weldn Miller to step down, writing on social media, he
is a danger to my daughter and I hold my
breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter. If
there are any basic standards of character required, to hold
elected office. Max Miller fails them.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Five twenty four, a new poll from Fox News shows
that the race for Senate in Texas, Ken Paxton, the Republican,
is trailing Democrat James Tallarico. Experts say this cannot be
ignored by the Republicans campaign.

Speaker 18 (18:56):
You look at poles, we're looking for trends. This is
really the third concerning poll in a row.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Texas GOP consultant Vinnie and Michillo there says the polling
indicates that so called independence are breaking towards the Democrats,
which means Paxton needs to get a lot of Republicans
to the polls come November.

Speaker 18 (19:14):
I'm doing very poorly among women, very poorly among.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
People one hundred and thirty years old.

Speaker 18 (19:19):
Very difficult to figure out who independents are because different
voters come in and out of identifying themselves as independent.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yehnam. Then Chilo says he thinks it's too late to
get those independents to swing back to Republicans. Former Transportation
Secretary Pete Buddha Judge says he's really thinking hard about
another run for the White House. In twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 7 (19:39):
In a new podcast interview, Boodhajidge said becoming a father
has changed how he weighs the personal and family impact
of seeking higher office. Early Democratic primary polling places him
among the parties leading potential contenders, though the twenty twenty
eight race is still well over a year away from
its first primary. Bootajig also used the interview to discuss
issues including artificial intelligence, the national debt, and the ongoing

(20:03):
conflict involving Iran, while criticizing President Trump's handling of the war.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I'm Chris Karancio. Five twenty six, NASA announcing a target
lift off date of September twelfth for launching the next
astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The day was
moved up from November. This mission comes with the sum
lore because it's Crew thirteen. They have the dubious distinction
of being the first NASA mission numbered thirteen since the

(20:28):
successful failure of Apollo thirteen back in nineteen seventy.

Speaker 19 (20:31):
I am honored to serve as the commander for Crew thirteen,
alongside Luke, Josh and Sergei, and we are really looking
forward to this mission.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
That's the commander, Jessica Watkins. Two NASA astronauts plus a
Canadian astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are heading up on
Crew thirteen for a long duration science expedition. Now, the
interesting sideline of this story is you have a Russian
cosmonaut who's going up with a Canadian astronaut who's of
Ukrainian descent, and so as you think that's going to

(21:04):
cause any problems, are Ukrainian and a Russian on board
the International Space Station. We don't need a conflict hundreds
of miles above the.

Speaker 20 (21:11):
Arm into human there's actually very seldom an issue. And
so from my perspective, working astronaut to astronaut, engineered to engineer,
technician to technician, there's no issue. Especially in the space community,
there is no issue. And you know, by the way,
that's what I have consistently noticed in my career, as it.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Won't be any problems up in space.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
It's the seventy seven WABC News Hour, Talking the News
with Noah Laiden, All the news you need to know
with Joe Nolan, Traffic, justin Elik Sports and now talking
the news with Noah on seventy seven WADC.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yes, that's me. Good morning, It is Tuesday, August fourth.
Your forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center mix
of some in collouds today, a nice day on the
way eighty four Tonight overnight partly cloudy, low seventy and
then Wednesday, sun and clouds in the morning, chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. High eighty three. If you are
walking out the door with us right now, so happy

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you are sixty five cloudy in Brookhaven out on Long Island.
It's sixty three and clear in Alpine over in New Jersey,
and it's sixty seven and cloudy right outside our midtown studios.
WABC News Time five forty some nine to eleven families
defending Mayor Mom Donnie's inclusion in this year solomn Rememberance
ceremony after that online petition asked him not to attend.

(22:36):
Elizabeth Miller's firefighter father was killed in the nine to
eleven attacks well twenty five years ago. Now she's been
attending the annual remembering ceremony in Lower Manhattan since she's now.
He actually almost the age he was when he died,
which is just wild to think about. She thinks Mayor
Mom Donnie should be allowed to come to the ceremony.

(22:57):
Focus should be on where are we in this world?

Speaker 15 (22:59):
Twenty five years later, Mayor mom Donnie has assured nine
eleven families that he wants to be there to honor
loved ones, and I think he should be allowed to
do that.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Now, I will point out she's saying. She's not saying
she's some great fan of his, but she's speaking out
after an online petition that is garnered what's now more
than seventy thousand signatures from the public asking the mayor
to stay away. It was Giovanni Galante. You remember he
was on with Sid on Sid and Friends in the
morning asking people to sign this petition to keep the

(23:29):
mayor away. We felt that having Mandanmi there would.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
Show disrespect to our family members because of the people
he supports.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, now that's growing by the day. And then you
had Mayor mom Donni. He was asked about it again
yesterday about whether he was going to attend the nine
to eleven ceremony.

Speaker 21 (23:45):
I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first
responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing
alongside them.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Now back to Elizabeth Miller, who says she thinks the
mayor come she says more has to do with the
fact that she doesn't want the debate over the mayor
to overshadow the true reason that everybody's there. The focus
really shouldn't be on who's there who's not there. It
should be on our loved ones. So as of now,
the mayor says he has plans to be there. Five

(24:17):
point forty two. The NYPD searching for three men who
forced their way into a Bronx apartment. And we told
you about this story yesterday, but there's more to it.
They assaulted this woman. They stole almost four hundred thousand
dollars worth of jewelry and cash and other belongings from
her home. And I asked this question yesterday and I'll
ask it again today. Who has that much money and

(24:39):
jewelry in their home? It doesn't make a lot of sense,
But that doesn't mean it should be ripped off from her.
The three men entered her fourth floor apartment in high Bridge.
This was she was home alone. There's a ring a
camera footage of these men walking up and down the stairs.
After they broke into her home, they tied her up,
They tied her hands together, they put a blindfold over her. Also,

(25:03):
they physically hurt her as well. Now the neighbors say, okay,
they haven't caught up with these guys. She would be
worried that they're going to come back. But it seems
as though, now I don't know this for a fact,
that it was targeted, that they knew this woman had
a lot of cash in her home.

Speaker 22 (25:16):
Being like here alone, like that scares me enough in
the daylight, so imagine being older at night.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
That's like terrifying to me. Like that could happen to
me anytime.

Speaker 17 (25:26):
God for a bid, but like it's just really scary.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
To think about. Now, this took place in a building
near Ogden Avenue West one hundred and sixty eighth Street.
Those men at large and people in this woman's building
are uneasy about that.

Speaker 22 (25:39):
That definitely does make me more concern from you know,
my mom and you know my sisters, because you know,
I usually have my my family around me, but you know,
it's just you know, worries and it makes me for
that avitach my mom.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Now, what's interesting is they haven't told us much about
this woman herself. That she suffered multiple injuries though and
taken to Lincoln Hospital and is in stable condition. And
the cops asking anybody with information. They released that doorbell
camera video. By the way, if you recognize any people
drop a dime on them, give them a holler. Five
point forty four. While we're in the Bronx, one more

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crime story of fifty year old was shot and killed
yesterday while he was riding a moped. This was in
the Nest neighborhood. Shooting took place on Sagamore Street. They
had it was kind of an awful scene. So he's
shot and killed and they have this blanket over his body,

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and then the family members are told about what took place.
They raced downstairs to see what's going on. The neighbors
say they were jolted awake by the gunfire that took
place yesterday morning.

Speaker 23 (26:45):
Oh my god, jump out my dad yellow.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
And then short time later, these family and friends they
gather at the scene. They did not tell us his
last name. They identified him as Ray and the office
of the Medical Exam took his body away, but it
was there for a while and so they were there
to stare at the body, which was not a pleasant
scene to watch.

Speaker 23 (27:06):
He's a family friend, yeah, and it was just so random,
like we didn't even know what happened.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
We just woke up and found out he was a
decent guy.

Speaker 11 (27:14):
I told him last how my slim was that full
o black this morning on his mornings that go under
the rain, and we talked and I don't understand that
is how this happened.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yes, now the question was this targeted? We don't know
because so far police have not caught up with the gunmen.
In a moment, we will head out to Long Island,
where arbors are really worried about a disease going around.
We'll get to that story in just a moment. Verse
five forty five. Let's head over to the seventy seven
w ABC Sports desk. Here's justin Ella. I think you know.

Speaker 14 (27:45):
I'm the Leyden Sports sponsored by Morgan Apeelospoilers go to
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Foiler's the worlds best Bill Laboilets start out here in
the Bronx. Yankees lost thirteen to seven at the Cardinals
in the open of a three games yet I, after
coming back from a six to run deficit earlier in
the game, newcomer Luis Scarcia Junior went Dea for the
first time as a Yankee at two run drive that
gave New York a seven and six lead. In the seventh,

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he started at first base and went two for four.
After being obtained from Washington on Sunday, Ryan mcmannon Jose
Cavaliero opened the seventh at back to back homers for
the Yankees off Ryan Stanek. Austin Wells had a two
run shot and Trent Frisham had a solo homer in
the fifth, after New York trailed six to nothing. Started
Cam Schultler allowed four runs and four hits and three innings,
his second shortest start this season. The right hander tide
a career high with five walks, He did strike out six.

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Up next for the Yankees, now three and a half
games back in Tampa Bay for first place in the East,
the lefty Ryan Weathers starts tonight in the middle game
of this.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Three game series against the Cardinals.

Speaker 14 (28:36):
First pitch from Yankee Stadium miss cheduled for seven oh
five pm. The Yankees also plan on calling up top
prospect George Lombard Junior today after optioning shortstop Anthony Folpy
to Triple A. The club also optioned outfielder Jason Demingez
to Triple A Scranton wilkes Berry after last night's lost
to the Cardinals to make room on the active roster
for outfielder Helio Ramos, whom the Yankees acquired from the

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San Francisco Giants earlier yesterday. As for the Mets, they
were off yesterday and we'll open a three game road
series against the Indian Senati Sean and I will get
the starting bow. Will be a six to forty PM
first pitch from Cleveland. The Mets also dealt right hander
Clay Holmes and outfield of Tyrone Taylor to the Chicago
Cubs for infield of Jefferson Rojas, after making his conversion
from reliever with the Crosstown Yankees. To start with the Mets,

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The thirty three year old Homes, who has missed two
months because of a broken leg this season, compiled with
three two six ERA across forty seasons or forty starts
I should say two seasons in Queens. Elsewhere around the MLB,
I had yesterday's trading deadline. The Boston Red Sox are
acquiring three time All Star catcher Adlete Rushman in a
trade with the Baltimore Orioles. The Philadelphia Phillies swung a
deal for three time batting champion Luisa rise From That's

(29:41):
a huge deal. A lot of moving moving around there
for the Phillies as well. Bryson Stott will move to
a third base, Alec Bohm will move to first base,
and Bryce Harper there will move back to his original
position in right field. I know you care a lot
about these those Philadelphia Phillies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
know they're making a push to win a World Series
before we down to baseball for a couple of years.

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How about that?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, yeah, the playing pretty good ball?

Speaker 16 (30:04):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (30:05):
They are?

Speaker 23 (30:05):
They are?

Speaker 14 (30:06):
You've got to make a push? Is now's the time
to do it? And the Giants also part of waves
with left handed Robbie Red He's getting shipped to San Diego.
That is your sports No. I'm sponsored by Pete Morgan,
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I'm Justin Alick on seventy seven.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Wa WABC News Time five fifty. Have you ever been
out to the American Dream Mall? Out in East Rutherford,
New Jersey. It's this huge mom. It's got stores like
a normal mall, but it's got an amusement park of
water park and ice skating rink, an aquarium, five museums,
three miniature golf courses. So you can imagine what it

(30:43):
was like there yesterday when the power went out all
of a sudden and none of that stuff was able
to function. We were going to the water park, but
it was shut down. So till four hours.

Speaker 22 (30:55):
I came all the way from Florida trying to go
to shopping and you know, to Tomaw everyone's rushing off.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I see fireman going upstairs. Yes, so a localized power
adage caused some of the areas of the center to
be without power. Most of the stores closed because they
did not have the power on, they couldn't do business.
They expect, this is what they told us last night.
American Dream expects to be fully operational when they open
this morning. Five point fifty one. Mayor Mom Donnie now

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giving folks an extra month prove their exempt from the
city's new second home tax that is set to a
take effect later next year.

Speaker 21 (31:31):
The seventeen thousand homeowners who received the U maybe subject
two letters have all the information they need and also
have the time to be able to inquire with any
questions as well as appeal.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Now, why should you have to prove that your exemple.
Shouldn't the city have to approve that you have to pay?
I think it shouldn't be that the way around. But
exemption applications are now due September seventeenth for the tax
on second homes of non resident New Yorkers that are
worth more than five million.

Speaker 21 (31:58):
If a New Yorker does not appeal this Bytember eighteenth,
they still have until March to appeal this to the
Tax Commission before this tax is actually ready.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
What a hassle if you're not supposed to be taxed.
The city sent some seventeen thousand homeowners to alert them
they may qualify for being hit with the extra tax,
which is being designed to help fill a huge budget
hole here in the city. Governor Hochel yesterday looking to
bring the Olympics back to the Empire State. She was
in Lake Placid yesterday touring facilities there. You know, they

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held the Olympics there once many years ago. She was
meeting with some of the team USA athletes who were
on board with bringing the Olympics back to New York.

Speaker 24 (32:36):
Lake Placid is the only US city those two Winter
Olympics nineteen thirty two and nineteen eighty, and everyone knows
one of the greatest moments in Olympic history was the
Miracle on Ice nineteen eighty right here.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Well, she's right about that. She announced an exploratory committee
to analyze the impacts of hosting the twenty forty two
Olympics in both Lake Placid and here in the city.
The governor says she hopes for the committee to report
back their findings soon so then they can make a pitch,
kind of like they did for the FIFA World.

Speaker 24 (33:08):
Cop Yeah, it's been an incredible year, incredible year for
sports and our athletes and our visitors all across the
state of New York. And that is why I'm proud
that my administration has invested over seven hundred and fifty
million dollars to keep these facilities, all the order facilities,
top notch, world class, and that is why the world
is paying attention. The athletes want to be here.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Okay, so that'd be kind of cool. Twenty forty two.
I'm trying to decide why I still be around. It's
twenty zwo. I'm not going to figure that out out
too Long Island, where arborous and state officials are urging
residents to watch for signs of Laurel wilt. It is
a fungal disease that is killing trees across Long Island,
in the Laurel family of trees, and it's led to

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a quarantine in five Long Island towns. So apparently this
is a big deal. A lot of trees are going
to be cut down. The disease has been detected in
the towns of Huntington, Babylon, Smithtown, Islip, Brookhaven and which
are these trees are now part of the Laurel wilt
quarantine District. Here's an arborist who can explain it a
little bit better maybe than I can.

Speaker 11 (34:12):
I've looked at a handful of trees that have it
up in the Hopog area. In the Huntington area, we
have a lot of big sassafras on the island. I
was looking at one that might be the state champ.
It is tremendous up in Huntington and it's got it.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yeah, So Laurel wilt is spread by a small beetle
that affects trees and the laurel family, And according to
the DEEC, the two native plant species mainly affected are
sassafras and spice brush, which I apparently there's a lot
of this on Long Island, so a lot of this
may be cut down.

Speaker 11 (34:44):
Look and laurels, the cherry laurels. All these laurels, the
skip laurels that everyone has in their yards are not
actual laurels. They're in the rosy ac, they're in the
rose family. You can't plant new ones, you can't move
the wood. It's to contain it.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yes, So signs of the effect which they're seeing now
includes leaves that turn wilted or brown, dark streaking or
stains beneath the bark, and small holes in the tree.
And it's all from this insect. So this is not good.

Speaker 11 (35:12):
If you have an affected tree, you're gonna have to
take it down.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
So they're saying, hey, reach out to the local conservation
group in your area. If you live, especially in these
towns Huntington, Babylon, Smithtown, Icelip and Brookhaven. What would you
think about taking a night out of camping in Central Park?
So New Yorkers can spend a night camping in the park,
not just Central Park, but a bunch of barks throughout

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the city for free as part of the park's program,
and they provide tents, campfire, some'mores, and over super overnight
supervision for free. The experience is available through a rough
lottery that's run by the Parks Department. About nine hundred
to one thousand people will be selected to take park.
The campfires are started without matches, so you can see

(35:59):
what that's like. And it's park rangers who run the
soule things, so you could you just have to show up.
You don't even have to put the tent up, which
is kind of cool.

Speaker 23 (36:07):
I think the coolest thing is getting a totally new
way to experience New York City parks.

Speaker 19 (36:10):
Yeah, it's a really big deal for the kids. Even
the parents just kind of pride ourselves on not using
matches or lighters. We use the flint and steel pretty
much exclusively and that always gets a really great reaction.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Now, parks staff set up the camp sites, they build campfires,
they lead nature walks at night, They provide the s'mores
at the end of the night at the campfire.

Speaker 19 (36:27):
Camp fire with smores a scary story maybe and a
night hike.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Typically we walks.

Speaker 23 (36:32):
Into way your own bedding or sleeping bag, and you
can have this incredible outdoor experience completely free.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Okay. So the part is though, of course you're in
central parks, so you're worrying a little bit about security there.
Sometimes things happen, so rangers say they stay on duty
throughout the night to supervise the camp sites and ensure
your safety.

Speaker 23 (36:52):
The railings are there all night long, and we're not
allowed to sleep. We're on duty, so we're keeping an
eye on things and keeping everybody safe. To get to
be in the park overnight when nobody else is a
and all the animals come out, it's such a special
and unique experience.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
That sounds like fun.

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Speaker 3 (37:38):
Is going on here