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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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 no Talking
the news with Noah on seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, that's me. Good morning. It is Wednesday, August fifth.
Your forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Sunny
and humid today, chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. The high
gwind to be eighty four. Tonight, overnight cloudy with a
stray shower, low seventy four. And then we'll do kind
of the same thing tomorrow Thursday, hot and humid, chance
of a pop up thunderstorm in the morning and again
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in the afternoon. The high eighty seven. If you're walking
out the door with us right now, sixty four and
cloudy and rambopo up in Rockland, it's seventy and partly cloudy,
and newarkover in New Jersey and it's sixty eight and
clear right outside our midtown studios.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
This is the top five.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
At five. There was a huge explosion in outer space.
This morning, Mayor Mom Donnie gets a Bronx cheer on
Staten Island. Wait, a Hudson Valley cop drove a getaway
car for her son along island. Mom is desperate to
find her son's ashes, and a loved New York News
anchor is ready to retire. All right, let's get into it.
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At five h four. Uh, I always think this outer
space stuff is kind of cool. So in abandoned SpaceX
Falcon nine rocket was scheduled to unintentionally crash into the
near side of the Moon. This was expected to take
place about two thirty five am this morning, and from
all accounts, it did so. This is a school bus
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size eight thousand pounds second stage booster. It had been
drifting in a chaotic orbit since launching a pair of
lunar Landers back in January fifteenth to twenty twenty five.
Peter King, who has been covering NASA for just decades,
he talks about the Moon and the rocket slimmy into it.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's the second stage of a Falcon nine rocket that
carried two privately funded lunar landers last year. Continued circling
the Earth at a very wide orbit. The trackers eventually
figured out would take it to the Moon. When that
Falcon nine second stage hits the Moon at at least
fifty four hundred miles per hour, it's expected to make
a crater that could be as much as one hundred
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feet wide.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, so I guess we're going to see pictures of
this soon. The impact point is locked onto the sunlit
western limb of the Moon, that's right near the Einstein craterle.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's interesting because Falcon nine second stages usually burn up
in the atmosphere, and instead this one had a wide
circle of the Earth that eventually was going to take
it to the Moon. Of course, it's not the first
time that human spacecraft have crashed into the Moon. A
number of ranger spacecraft back the sixties did that, and
four Apollo third stages were intentionally crashed into the Moon
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to test seismographs that were left on the Moon by
the Apollo astronautic All.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Right, so we'll get pictures of this, I imagine, very soon.
NASA says all of this, this crash anyway, post is
zero danger to the Earth out to Michigan, and everybody's
watching that primary for Senate. The Democratic primary anyway, votes
are still being counted in Michigan Senate primary. The primary
is extremely close. Progressive candidate abull Abdul al sa Ed
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spoke to supporters. There was about one am this morning
before the votes, before this primary had been called. Another
NBC is calling it for him, but nobody else is.
We should know.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Who the victor will be tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And the work starts. A knew elsi Ed is up
against establishment backed Congresswoman Hailey Stevens. She spoke out also
about one this morning.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
There is so much more that unites us. However much
we might disagree with our Democratic opponent, there is.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
So much more that unites us than divide.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now the race as divided the Democratic Party. There's fears
within the DNC that elsi ed victory would pull the
party further left.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
He is not a Democratic Socialist, by the way, but
he's been endorsed by a Democratic Socialists and they're worried
this is going to hurt their mid term hopes. You know,
they're hoping to win back Congress and regain control of
the House. In the Senate. Here was more from Haley
Stevens last nights. If we are going to win this thing,
which we are.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
We are going to have We are going to have
to get ready and show Mike Rogers what a little
sticket to him looks like.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
As of now, just a few thousand votes separate the
two candidates. President Trump's back to former Congressman Mike Rodgers,
who ran unopposed in the Republican primary. In a moment,
we'll head out to California where the FBI police are
trying to figure out why this gunman was hanging around
Trump golf course where he is set to speak today.
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We'll get into that in just a moment. For first
five seven, First check up traffic and transit on this
early Wednesday morning. Good morning, Joe Olan.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Hey, good morning. I'm good morning everybody from the Apple
Bank traffic desk. We're doing very well starting out here
this morning. Really have any problems at all. Everything moving
along very very nicely. It'll slow on the Crossbox Expressway
getting up to the third Avenue Hill. Doesn't look like
there's anything there so seeing at the cameras, but it
is very dark out so it's kind of hard sometimes
to see. But again, hitting westbound on the cross.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Do you think it's because of that rocket slamming into
the Moon that it's so dark out.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
No, I had nothing to do with it, but that
is probably one of the coolest things ever, that rocket
hitting the moon.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, you would think if something's hit at five fifty
four hundred miles per hour that it would do some damage.
That's just comparable.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
I'm just going to damage, but it won't do anything
to the Moon.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, it was not going to go to No. No,
it's still up there. I was looking when I drove there.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I should have led with that. The mood is still there.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
WABC News Time five oh nine. Let's go out to
California where this arm man was said to be creeping
around and monitoring security planning activities. He was arrested over
the weekend, but we only told about this yesterday with
a pistol ammunition. This was outside the Trump National Golf
Course in Los Angeles, where the President is set to
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speak today at a fundraiser. It was thirty eight year
old John Tail. He's from Downley, California, taken into custody.
Apparently some federal agents spotted him lurking in the area,
taking photos videos that he say he was monitoring security
planning activities there for the president ahead of his visit there,
Tail was also being investigated for twenty twenty five robbery.
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So when they took him into custody over the weekend,
they did a pat down, They recovered all kinds of weapons.
They did a search of his vehicle, all kinds of
weapons in there. Then they go to his home not
too far away, and yeah, guns, there's two radio signal devices,
forty five caliber pistol. Now the question is, oh, by
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the way, some high capacity magazines as well body armor.
And now question is was he planning to do something
against the president. Well, we don't know that much yet,
But here's a neighbor who says, all, this is a surprise.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
My son have seen him before. He said hello to
him one time. It's scary. You know, we live here.
We're not too far down from the house. But I
never got that vibe, you know, because it's like a family.
It was like a large like a good amount of
people living in their home. You don't know anybody that
was willing to go that far.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, good that they caught up with this guy. The
President's scheduled to attend a Republican National Committee fund raising
dinner today at this Trump National GUF club in Rancho
Palos before he heads off to Nevada. Five eleven, let's
bring it back home, let's go out to Newark, New Jersey,
were community members rallying around the family of an illegal
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immigrant who died while being detained in an immigration and
ice center in Newark over the weekend. The daughter a
forty one year old Edwin Lopez Corneo, She spoke out
yesterday should be just this girl is illegal. Everyone here
should feel welcome, not seen as criminals. Lopez Cornejo died
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of a medical emergency over the weekend. The exact cause
of his death remains under investigation, but his family says
he had called home on Thursday and Friday to say
that his face was numb, his hand was numb. He
suffered from diabetes, and now the family says they don't
think he was getting the care that he needed while
he was in this detention set. So the managed to
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close and release all the detainees and the Laaney Hall. Now.
His mother, speaking through a translator, claims DHS did not
provide the proper health care and that her son should
be alive today.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
He felt sick even to ask for a titan on
it will require a lengthy process, and sometimes we'll take
three days.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
To get over.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Now, the medical examiner has not come back with the
exact cause of death, but he apparently collapsed in the
detention center. May have been dead already before they wreshed
him to a nearby hospital where they declared him that seen, Yeah,
that's his daughter. Yesterday, five twelve, President Trump's picked to
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lead the Justice Department's been approved by a key Senate committee.
This happened yesterday. Todd Blanche won the support of Texas
Senator John Gordon by signing a deal to permanently rescind
that nearly two billion dollar AMP ANDDEE weaponization fund. So
now the vote will go to the entire sent.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
That weaponization fund is dead, and of course I expect
them to live up to that any future litigation.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, that fund was built as a way to compensate
those who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administry.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
This may sound like nitpicking to some, it's critically important
not only to me, but to other members of the Senate.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Now, this deal also narrows the scope of President Trump
and his family's audit immunity from the i R S
that was part of this deal as well. Senator Gordon
says the Anti Weaponization Fund is dead. He expects the
administration to live up to that in future litigation. But
Blanche is not a human just yet. He needs every
Republican vote when it goes before the entire Senate to
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be confirmed. That's because one senator has already said she's
not going to vote for him. That's a main Senator
Susan Collins. So if another Republican goes the way of
Maine Senator Susan Collins, Blanche will not be confirmed. Five
point fourteen. President Trump says a new round of peace
talks will be Iran's last chance to make a deal.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
The President said he called off massive strikes against iron
civilian infrastructure over the weekend at the urging of US
allies in the region.
Speaker 11 (10:44):
I want to give him every last chance before decapitation.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Very tough to do what we have planned still planned,
that's corresponding Chris Polone, who reports the President also called
the Iranian regime irish yesterday after they denied that they
were in peace talks with the US.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
No Run insists it is not negotiating with the US.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
When they're talking, they don't like saying that they're talking,
so I say, wait, we're in talks.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Big deal. Trump says a closed critical shipping lane could
reopen today. Oil prices dropped on the news.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
In a post on truth Social the President said, whether
Iran wants to admit it or not, the two sides
are talking about the Islamic or Republic not having a
nuclear weapon. Apparently those talks will continue or probably have
continued already this morning overseas. In a moment, we'll head
over to Spokane, Washington, where those wildfires continue to do
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a lot of damage. We'll get into that story in
just a moment. For first five point fifteen, let's head
over to the seventy seven w ABC Sports desk. Happy
hump Day, Good morning, Justin Ellick.
Speaker 12 (11:48):
Haffey, hump day, Good morning to you know them all.
Laden start out here in the Rocks. George Lombard Junior
homered an a memorial big league memorable big League debut,
and the Yankees beat the Cardinals true to nothing in
the middle game of this three game series. In the
fifth inning, Lombard drove and O two sweeper from starter
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Hunter Dobbins into the left field seats for his first
career hit because he completed his first home run trot
in the majors, his parents they'd hug in the stands.
Did you see that nice scene out at Yankee Stadium? No,
I'm Layden.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Last night I did. And you know what's interesting is
how often this happens, that their first How many times
players have where they get up first time in the
majors and they get a hit or they hit a
home run. I feel like it happens often.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Not that often, but yeah, I mean it's definitely a
big story when it does happen, so you're for sure
hearing about it. I mean, I'm thinking it was maybe
his third a Bad, his third career at Bad. He
goes deep and gives the Yankees a one to nothing lead.
I mean, that's a pretty big deal when your major
league gave you. And yeah, so it was a nice
scene out at Yankee Stadium seeing his parents in this
stands as well. And then a fun fact for you,
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his younger brother making his minor league baseball debut last
night also went deep in his minor league faceboot debut.
So it's all in the family for the Lombards last night.
Congratulations to George A. Lombard and his younger brother, for
it had matter and he helped.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I think he was trying to steal the thunder from
his older brother by hitting a homer in the minors.
Speaker 12 (13:15):
Well, I don't think so, nom Lyn, And I think
he was just trying to help the Yankees win a
ball game, because like.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Mom and dad, look at me. I know my brothers
and the majors. You know.
Speaker 12 (13:23):
No, I don't think so. Okay, I think the younger
brother maybe got a you know, a text for a
FaceTime for post game. But I don't think.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
But yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 12 (13:35):
I think playing for the Yankees the Yankee Stadium and
putting it on, putting them up one to nothing in
the sixth inning with a big solo shot is a
bigger deal than a minor league. But hey, congrats to
his younger brother as well. It's a big deal.
Speaker 13 (13:45):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
He did help Brian Weathers pick six strong innings as
well by starting an ending double inning, ending a double
play in the second inning, ending double plays in the
second and the fifth. He was smooth at a short
something we haven't seen in a while there for the Yankees.
Just as from Junior, also homeward in the second as
he Yankee's won for the tenth time in sixteen games.
David Bednar got four outs for his twenty fifth save
in twenty seven chances to complete in New York's AO
(14:06):
best twelfth shutout. Pub Next for the Inks, still three
and a half games back in Tampa Bay for the
first place in the East, Well Warren will start Tonight's
series finale rubber game up this three game set. First
pitch from Yankee Stadium is scheduled for seven oh five
in Cleveland. Luise Torrents had three hits, including a three
run homer in the second inning, then drove in four
runs as the Mets defeat of the Indians six to
two to snap a three game losing streak. Boba Chet
and rookie Carson Finge also went deep for the Mets,
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and Sean and I all allowed two runs on seven
hits and five walks, will strikeing out seven and six innings.
Nate Lavender worked an inning and a third hit lists
in his major league debut before code I Sanga just
shifted to a short relief role, pitched a scoreless ninth
club Next for the Mets, Christian Scott will get the
start in tonight's middle game of this three game series
against the Indians. First pitch from Cleveland. They scheduled for
six forty pm. That is sports. Noah Man, I'm justin
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all got seventy seven thirty second.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
WABC News time five to nineteen out to Washington where
a man suspected of starting one of those massive wildfires
and spoke can appeared in court for a hearing yesterday.
The judge setting bond for Aaron Farranacci's conditions respect.
Speaker 14 (15:07):
To the release conditions.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
So the corple adopt the one million dollar bond.
Speaker 11 (15:10):
That's already in place, end up all the proposed release
conditions as suggested. That's the prosecution.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Aaron Pharranacci was arrested by a SWAT team member. This
was a Monday after a witness said he saw him
acting suspiciously near where one of the fires began over
the weekend. Pharranacci appeared and spoke in court remotely from
jail where the charges were ready. Actually spoke to the judge.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
They do they stay for.
Speaker 15 (15:34):
The record of your true name and date of birth.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Aaron Forrest Baron Lauchie.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Marsh ten.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay thirty seven year old resident being held on a
million dollars bond charged with first degree arson, and things
haven't gotten a whole lot better. There more than seven
hundred home, businesses and buildings have been completely burned to
the ground already. National Guard official that are on the
scene have described the affected neighborhoods as looking as just
a complete war zone, and approximately sixty thousand to seventy
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thousand in the Spokane area have been placed under mandatory evacuations.
Is more than ten thousand other structures are actively threatened
at this hour five twenty one. While we're talking fires,
in eighteen month investigation into the deadly January twenty twenty
five fire in Los Angeles has been concluded. News Nations
(16:30):
Blake Berman has more on that the.
Speaker 16 (16:31):
Eaten fire, which claimed the lives of nineteen people damaged
over nine thousand homes, was caused by a faulty transmission tower.
The out of service electricity pylon quote ejected hot metal
particles that filled the receptive fuel beds consisting of dry
vegetation below the towers. Now the tower belonged to and
(16:51):
was managed by Southern cal Edison, who said of the findings, quote,
we have taken our potential role in the start of
this fire seriously from the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Cal Edison says, it's reviewing that report that was the
release yesterday five point twenty two from California out to Ohio,
where Congressman Max Miller filing an ethics investigation into himself yesterday.
As the calls for him to resign have been mounting,
Miller is facing some pretty serious allegations of domestic abuse
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from his ex wife, Emily, the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno.
She says that Miller threw scalding hot water at her,
held a gun to her head, broke their toddler daughter's collar.
Baum Miller denies all these allegations and has filed a
defamation lawsuit against his wife. I have never abused our daughter.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Before I go through the facts with you today, understand
one thing. Every one of these allegations traces back to
a single source, my former wife.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now, The Hill reports there are growing numbers of Republicans
that are incredibly concerned about Congressom Miller and if he
should pull out of the November Bowett, the head of
the Department of Homeland Security, making his first visit to
the US Mexico border. Yesterday, Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen toward
the border wall new technology aimed at preventing illegal crossings.
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He spoke exclusively with News Nations Ali Bradley about some
of the conversations see had to the border.
Speaker 17 (18:21):
Why wouldn't we go into that area, Why wouldn't we
build those relationships. Why wouldn't we work with those governors
and find a common ground? Is saying if you want
to work with us, great, If you don't, we're still coming.
Speaker 18 (18:32):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
What he's talking about is over the weekend, he engaged
with Democratic and Republican governors at the National Governors Association meeting,
urging states to cooperate with ICE, which he said would
lead to safe and lower profile arrest and detowartations across
the contrary five point twenty three while we're down in Texas.
Ever since Democrat James Talerico beat Jasmine Crockett in the
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Democratic primary, there has been speculation about whether her back
or would turn out in support. A new poll of
black voters now found overwhelming support for Tallarica.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Almost nine out of ten planned to vote for James
Tallerko in the fall.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Pollster Mark Jones there says that tallar rica will need
that and more to beat Republican Ken Paxton. It won't
be easy easy. The poll also found an overwhelming majority
of black voters believe the Democratic Party in Texas has
taken them for granted for too.
Speaker 17 (19:25):
Long, and they say that Chasmin Crockett's lost in the
March primary will not depress their turnout.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Now, there was a poll that came out. There's so
many people watching this race closely because it's so close,
But the latest poll from Fox News Surprise has tallar
Rico up three points over Republican Ken Paxton. Of course,
it's only August five, twenty four. California voters is going
to decide this November whether to require ID to vote.
If Prop thirty nine passes, voters would need to show
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their idea at the polls or provide part of their
ID for mail in ballots.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Folks that are sick and tired of the conspiracy, or
sick and tired of people saying, oh, the election is rigged,
then give those people what they've been asking for, give
them voter ID and it will shut them up.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
The group Reform California, it's led by Republicans. It would
strengthen and secure elections by verifying citizenship and requiring yearly
reports from election officials will make it more difficult.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Oh and by the way, it doesn't really secure our
elections more.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
California elections are already secure.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
That's the group common cause he doesn't like this at all.
They oppose Prop thirty nine, saying it would make voting
harder for millions of people across the state. Five twenty
five home owner association foreclosures have risen alongside broader financial
pressures that have been facing homeowners across the country. Correspondent
Marky Martin has more.
Speaker 19 (20:47):
According to The Wall Street Journal, in the first quarter
of twenty twenty six, nearly sixty four hundred properties in
the United States were foreclosed on as a result of
an HOA filing. That's up forty percent from two years ago.
Many states, hoas can place a lean on a home
and eventually foreclose even if the homeowner is completely up
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to date on their mortgage. The hoas increasingly turned to
lawyers to collect unpaid fees, leading to foreclosures and in
some cases, even arrest warrant.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Lawmakers and several states are considering reforms that are aimed
at curbing Association's enforcement authority. And while we're talking in
real estate, the Music City real estate party seems to
be over for anyone trying to sell a home. Nashville
saw a huge real estate boom during COVID. Well fast
forward today and the Music City has quietly become the
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second toughest place in America to sell a house Miami
number one, by the way. A report from the realty
firm Redfinn finds sellers outnumber buyers in Nashville by a
staggering one hundred and twenty eight percent. Boy, I would
like those odds if I was a buyer. Of course,
buyers love.
Speaker 17 (21:54):
This, Buyers that are getting out there right now and
making demands about this is what I expect from this purchase, or.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Having a lot of success with sellers.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That really need to move product now. Some of these
numbers hold true across the country right now, not as
much as the Nashville but sellers outnumber buyers and nationwide
by forty eight percent, at least they did in June,
of course, so that was apparently, you know, the interest
rates are incredibly high, but if you're looking for a
good bargain, apparently now it's time to get one.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
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 Ellick, Sports and no Talking
the News with Noah on seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes that's me. Good morning. It is Wednesday, August fifth.
Your forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Sunny
and humid today with the chance of an afternoon thunderstorm,
the high eighty four tonight and overnight cloudy with a
stray shower, Low seventy four. And then Thursday, hot and
humid again with the chance of a pop up thunderstorm
in the morning and again in the afternoon, high eighty seven.
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If you're walking out the door with us right now,
so happy you are. Sixty four cloudy in Rambopo up
in Rockland. It's seventy and partly cloudy in New Workover
in New Jersey, and it's sixty eight and clear right
outside our midtown studios, WABC News Time five point forty.
The love of a mama may have gone a little
too far. The Mountain Vernon's Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety
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arrested yesterday after allegedly being the getaway driver for her son,
who is accused of shooting at a rival gang member
over the summer. Forty nine year old Jennifer Lackard and
her twenty year old son, Chase were rusted at their
home yesterday. Her son is an alleged gang member. He's
accused of opening fire from a vehicle back on June
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twenty ninth outside the Bronx Criminal Courthouse. He had bad aim.
He did not hit anybody, but when he went to leave,
apparently his mother was the getaway driver. You can't make
this stuff up. Prosecutor speaking out in Bronx Criminal Court yesterday.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 14 (24:05):
How you gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Should I should point out this is somebody talking about
that shooting. Not to prosecutor.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
How you gonna should right right next to the courthouse, Yeah,
that criminal court.
Speaker 17 (24:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I maybe to go to fire or open fire. Criminal
courthouse is probably not a place to do it. Jennifer
Lackard is accused of being behind the wheel at the time,
driving away to help her son flee the scene.
Speaker 15 (24:27):
She really fonded when questioning her pluestion Mark, she says,
you can't Disney stand out.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Fuck, the time has to be blanch.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yes, So her son Chase allegedly told his mom to
wait for him outside the building, and prosecutor say she
knew that why she was waiting for her son. Now
her attorney spoke out in court yesterday defending her.
Speaker 18 (24:46):
Miss Blacker Pats for twenty years dedicated that professional life
to the help chealing of impacts.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Jennifer Lackard has been the Deputy Commissioner of Wellness for
the City of Mount Vernon since twenty twenty. She's been
lauded for some of her work with reentry programs, who
serve two terms on Community Board nine up in the Bronx.
Her son. He has a history of the NYPD. They
know about him five forty two. This is just a
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heartbreaking story out of Yonkers. So we told you earlier
this week that a fifteen year old opened fire on
a Yonker Street. This was Sunday into Monday. What do
we at? I think it was Sunday into Monday, And
yes it was. It was Sunday into Monday and he
shot four people. Now three of the people he was
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aiming at. This was a gang related thing. The fourth
person who he hit and killed was somebody who had
nothing to do with what was going on. It was
twenty one year old Brandon Garcia, who was on his
way to see his adoptive mom in Yonkers, his birth mother,
and he was just in the wrong place at the
wrong time. And his family, his adoptive Aarrens Carlos and
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Rosa Garcia, they spoke out yesterday about their heart.
Speaker 18 (26:03):
Ay.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He was.
Speaker 20 (26:05):
He was gonna come home on Wednesday. This Wednesday, we
bought him a nice car and he was doing well.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
He had a nice girlfriend.
Speaker 20 (26:14):
And it's just it's not fair.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It have to be justice.
Speaker 20 (26:17):
It's gotta be justice.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Gotta do something now. The fifteen year old who fired
off the weapon, he's behind bars. He hit a fourteen
year old girl in the leg, a fifteen year old
boy in the stomach, another fifteen year old in the leg.
But it was the twenty one year old Brandon Garcia
who he shot and killed. It was he was just
in the neighborhood. He just happened to be passing by
in the wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 18 (26:38):
I used to go in.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
This is his sister speaking out yesterday.
Speaker 18 (26:41):
I used to go in his room every day and
play Fortnite, and he taught me how to play games
and stuff. He used to come in my room and
dance and saying I'll just miss him.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
None of this, of course, will make sense. But the
Yonkers gang unit believes this shooting on Sunday night into
Monday with some sort of game initiation. But now you
have the Garcia family who's left her just total heart.
Speaker 20 (27:04):
As he took mine away for no reason at all.
And how do you do this? How do you wake
up in the morning, How do you feel right now?
Killing my son and hurting other children?
Speaker 14 (27:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Awful, just awful. Five point forty four Out Too Long Island,
where a mom there making an emotional plea to the
public after she accidentally lost the cremated remains of her
son while she was making plans to move out of
her home. Suzanne Saganix says the ashes of her son, Raymond,
(27:37):
were misplaced. This was last Thursday, she was finalizing the
sale of her home in Hawpog. Raymond died in twenty
twenty two at the age of thirty. And she says
that somebody's probably seen this bag and she just wants.
Speaker 14 (27:49):
A bag, which is really, really really like somebody to
find this and send them to me.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You just send them to me, Okay. So she describes
that the ashes were kept inside a court sized ziplock bag,
along with a memorial card bearing Raymond's photo and his name,
as well as some beads from Beating Hearts, which is
a group that supports families who've lost loved ones to overdoses.
And that's how he died. And so she says she
(28:20):
went back and followed her trail of the day that
she thinks the ashes went missing. She visited her attorney's
office in Green Lawn, a TD Bank branch on the
Jericho Turnpike in Comac, and then she went to Smithtowntown
Hall that day. So she says, hey, it could be
at any of those places.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
It's all really very special to me.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I don't have him anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I don't know where they are.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
I have no idea.
Speaker 13 (28:45):
There are identifiers in the bed with his picture and
his name.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, so she's just devastated. She says, the thought of
leaving Long Island with the only physical connection to her
son gone just heart wrenching. Yeah, no doubt it is.
In a moment, we will head out to Staten Island
where Maye mom Donnie got a Bronx cheer last night.
We'll get to that in just a moment. First five
forty five, let's head over to the seventy seven w
(29:12):
ABC Sports desk and he was justin Ella.
Speaker 12 (29:15):
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and Peerless Boilers. Go to Pierless Boilers dot Com. I
want Dylanair you Peerless Boilers. The world that's built Bowlers
out in the Bronx. George Lombard, junior homeward in a
memorable big league debut and the Yankees beat the Cardinals
chewed or up and in the middle game of this
three game set. In the fifth inning, Lombard trove and
(29:36):
too sweeper from starter Hunter Dobbins into leftfield seats for
his first career hit as he completed his first home
run trot in the majors. Lombard's parents hub in the stands.
A nice moment there at a Yankee stadium, and his
three hundred and ninety foot shot gave New York for
two to nothing lead made him the first Yankee shortstop
at homer in his major league debut. He also helped
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Ryan Weathers pitch six strong innings by starting in an
inning ending double plays in the second end the fifth.
Jessis and Junior also homered in the second as the
Yankees won for the tenth time in sixteen games. David
Bednar got four outs for his twenty fifth save and
twenty seven chances to complete New York's al best twelfth shutout.
Up next for the Yankees, still three and a half
games back in Tampa Bay first place in the East,
(30:16):
Will warn we'll start tonight series finally, rubber game up
this three game set first pitch from Yankee Stadium. He's
scheduled for a seven to five pm in Cleveland. Lewis
Torrens had three hits, including a three run homer in
the second inning, and drove in four runs as the
Mets defeated the Indians sixty two, just and at the
three game losing streak. Boba Schett and rookie Carson Benge
also went deep for the Mets, and Sean and I
allowed two runs on seven hits in five walks while
(30:38):
striking out seven and six innings. Nate Lavender worked and
inning in a third hit listen his major league debut
before Code I Singa just shifted to his short relief
role pitched a scoreless ninth Up next for the Mets,
Christian Scott. We'll get the starting Tonight's middle game of
this three game series against the Indians. First pitch from
Cleveland is scheduled four six forty pm. That's a sports
sponsored by Pete Morgan Appels four Luscoda pills boilers dot
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Speaker 3 (31:05):
WABC News Time five forty nine out to Long Island,
where neighbors reacting to the arrest of a former medical
student following what was a police involved shooting there. Locals
say this is unexpected for the suspect, who's identified as
twenty seven year old Adrian Thompson.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
I can't believe this.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Adrian, I knew a very mild man, a young man.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
But Agent is such a beautiful kid. He was brought
up respectfully. Well, let me give you the backstory. This
happened late Monday night in Westbury when cops received reports
of a man with a knife who was threatening people. Now,
the responding officer shot Thompson in the face. He's currently
being treated at Nasal University Medical Center. But everybody who
(31:49):
knows them say this is not the guy they know.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
The gunsunt went straight through my mom's window and then
like Kurt went straight through my room and went to
like two walls, straight through my rope and right where
it like shaw I was like inches away from there.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
You should talking about one of the bullets fired by
police went into her house. In this case, Adrian arigned
at his bedside on two charges of menacing a police officer,
mayor Mom Donnie. He was on Staten Island last night
for National Night Out that was celebrated all across the country.
Last night's people come out to hang out with police officers,
(32:25):
get to know their neighborhood cops. And as he took
the stage on Staten Island last night, he was booed
so badly that the speech he gave he shortened it.
I mean, there was no doubt he was going to
speak longer. Well here, I'll let you hear what is ali.
Speaker 15 (32:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
At one point he speaks through the booze and he
calls out Staten Island artists, activists of course, great sitting friends,
in the morning. Friend Scott Libato, who was in the
crowd screaming, maybe louder than anybody else was. It's a
(33:06):
little hard to make out. So anyway, he gave the speech,
but you could not hear it. Maybe it was twenty
five thirty seconds by the time he got on the
stage and back off again. He saw clearly that he
was not welcome there. And then after he left the stage,
Scott Lobato suffered cardiac arrest during this event at Midland Beach,
(33:28):
and what were being told is he collapsed but was
alert when he was taken away by an ambulances in
the hospital this morning. Of course, we wish him well.
Five point fifty one. Speaking of being booed, former Mayor
Eric Adams getting a cold welcome in the Midwest. He
has been he has a job where he tries to
push for AI data centers. So he was speaking in
(33:52):
support of a proposed AI data center in Wisconsin. Okay.
So the former mayor has been working as a business
consultant since leaving city Hall. Now, people who are in
this crowd who saw Mayor Adams said they wanted to
know why they sent was they described as a criminal
(34:14):
to represent AI.
Speaker 15 (34:15):
I don't know what thought bringing on a pretty high
profile person with financial crimes on the record was a
smart idea for pr to the already opposed data center,
but not a good choice.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, so construction of new AI data centers no doubt.
You probably know this continues to be pretty controversial topic
at local town halls across the country. Adams has paid.
He's a consulting advisor to this developer, PNK Group. That's
according to a company spokesman. Five point fifty two. Okay,
they started putting those annoying stickers on the cars of
(34:48):
people who do not move for alternate side of the
street parking sweepers. These stickers. They did this for a
while years ago, but the stickers were so hard to
get off that New Yorkers were like, Okay, you gave
me the punishment of a ticket for not moving my
car for alternate side of the street parking, but now
you've made me even more miserable with this dopey sticker. Well,
(35:08):
for some reason they brought these dopey sticker bits back
and they claim they adhesive is not as intense as
they once were. Here's City council member Gail Brewer who
likes the idea of these stickers. She says, this is
part of the punishment for not moving your car for
an alternate side of the street parking. But I would
argue the ticket is the punishment. That's enough, the thing
that you want to shame them into not having the
(35:30):
car there.
Speaker 21 (35:30):
I want to shame them. I definitely want to shame them.
I think they decide I'm may not get a ticket
because there aren't that many cops, or if I get
a ticket, it's cheaper than the garage.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Now, under this new bill, sanitation workers are allowed to
place these neon stickers, which are about eight by eleven,
on the windows of the cars that remain parked during
scheduled street cleaning. So it's up to the sanitation workers
to decide who gets one of these stickers.
Speaker 21 (35:54):
It's not vandalism, it's particular.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
It kind of feels like vandalis't think.
Speaker 21 (36:00):
It's not as hard to get off as the sticker
we had before. The sticker would leave a mark of adhesive.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, So sanitation officials say the goal is simple to
get drivers to move their car so crews can properly
clean the streets. Now, you do have some drivers who
say they're okay with this because they say, Hey, if
I got to be up in their early morning to
move my car for alternate side of the street parking,
other drivers should be as well.
Speaker 14 (36:22):
We have to get everyone to move in order for
the cleaning to be you know, effective. So yeah, I
think this will probably help. It better never happened to
me because I will be sure to move my car
all right.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Five point fifty four City Council announcing a comprehensive review
now on e bikes to improve safety following w what's
been a huge spike in e bike crashes over the
last decade. City Council members say there's been five hundred
e bike related collisions so far this year in the city.
That's up more than thirty percent year.
Speaker 19 (36:55):
Today, we owe New Yorker streets that are safer to walk,
safer to bike, safer to drive.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Just as we all share the city, we all share
the roads.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
The Council will be holding a hearing this will come
in late September on seventeen bills that were related to
e bike safety. Members say the legislation involves removing illegal
e bikes. That's a big part of it. There's so
many of them, making legal ones safer and holding companies
pushing dangerous e bike speeds accountable for some of these accidents.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
The worst tragedies have been caused by devices that are
not legal to operate on our streets. They go thirty
forty fifty miles an hour and should have never been
in our city.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
And I'm amazed by the ones that go really fast
like that because usually the person has no helmet on.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
And this legislative package will draw clear lines to ensure
that the illegal devices come off our streets, the legal
ones are safer, and the companies who profit from dangerous
speeds are held accountable.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
All right, So that's official hearing that'll come on September seventeenth,
and it is officially the end of an area in
New York City And at PIX eleven News, Katie Kitie
Tong Kydie Tong, who's been on TV here in New
York City for just about ever and now it's yesterday,
she's going to retire from the news industry. She now
has been doing the news at WPIX at five and
(38:18):
ten on the weekend. She says her last day will
be August thirtieth. I you know when I looked back.
I was trying to get how long has she been
at WPIX. She's been there since the nineteen nineties. But
you remember she did all that time on ABC from
she was on ABC from eighty one to ninety one.
But she's been at PIX for thirty four years. By
(38:38):
the time goes by fast. I never would have guessed that.
By the way, she looks fantastic, and I was like,
how old is she? She's gonna be eighty years old. Now.
She didn't speak out about this yesterday. She just put
out a statement that she's ready to retire. She did
talked about being in the business when she was inducted
into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame last year.
Speaker 21 (38:58):
This is truly an amazing honor, especially since I never
aspired to be a broadcast journalist.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
No, I wanted to be a college professor. Yeah, so
she's been in the news business as an anchor since
nineteen eighty one. Incredible.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, that's me. Good morning. It is Wednesday, August fifth.
Your forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Sunny
and humid today, chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. The high
gwind to be eighty four. Tonight, overnight cloudy with a
stray shower, low seventy four. And then we'll do kind
of the same thing tomorrow Thursday, hot and humid, chance
of a pop up thunderstorm in the morning and again
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and newarkover in New Jersey and it's sixty eight and
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Speaker 4 (01:01):
This is the top five.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
At five. There was a huge explosion in outer space.
This morning, Mayor Mom Donnie gets a Bronx cheer on
Staten Island. Wait, a Hudson Valley cop drove a getaway
car for her son along island. Mom is desperate to
find her son's ashes, and a loved New York News
anchor is ready to retire. All right, let's get into it.
(01:24):
At five h four. Uh, I always think this outer
space stuff is kind of cool. So in abandoned SpaceX
Falcon nine rocket was scheduled to unintentionally crash into the
near side of the Moon. This was expected to take
place about two thirty five am this morning, and from
all accounts, it did so. This is a school bus
(01:45):
size eight thousand pounds second stage booster. It had been
drifting in a chaotic orbit since launching a pair of
lunar Landers back in January fifteenth to twenty twenty five.
Peter King, who has been covering NASA for just decades,
he talks about the Moon and the rocket slimmy into it.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's the second stage of a Falcon nine rocket that
carried two privately funded lunar landers last year. Continued circling
the Earth at a very wide orbit. The trackers eventually
figured out would take it to the Moon. When that
Falcon nine second stage hits the Moon at at least
fifty four hundred miles per hour, it's expected to make
a crater that could be as much as one hundred
(02:26):
feet wide.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, so I guess we're going to see pictures of
this soon. The impact point is locked onto the sunlit
western limb of the Moon, that's right near the Einstein craterle.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's interesting because Falcon nine second stages usually burn up
in the atmosphere, and instead this one had a wide
circle of the Earth that eventually was going to take
it to the Moon. Of course, it's not the first
time that human spacecraft have crashed into the Moon. A
number of ranger spacecraft back the sixties did that, and
four Apollo third stages were intentionally crashed into the Moon
(02:59):
to test seismographs that were left on the Moon by
the Apollo astronautic All.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Right, so we'll get pictures of this, I imagine, very soon.
NASA says all of this, this crash anyway, post is
zero danger to the Earth out to Michigan, and everybody's
watching that primary for Senate. The Democratic primary anyway, votes
are still being counted in Michigan Senate primary. The primary
is extremely close. Progressive candidate abull Abdul al sa Ed
(03:27):
spoke to supporters. There was about one am this morning
before the votes, before this primary had been called. Another
NBC is calling it for him, but nobody else is.
We should know.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Who the victor will be tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And the work starts. A knew elsi Ed is up
against establishment backed Congresswoman Hailey Stevens. She spoke out also
about one this morning.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
There is so much more that unites us. However much
we might disagree with our Democratic opponent, there is.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
So much more that unites us than divide.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now the race as divided the Democratic Party. There's fears
within the DNC that elsi ed victory would pull the
party further left.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
He is not a Democratic Socialist, by the way, but
he's been endorsed by a Democratic Socialists and they're worried
this is going to hurt their mid term hopes. You know,
they're hoping to win back Congress and regain control of
the House. In the Senate. Here was more from Haley
Stevens last nights. If we are going to win this thing,
which we are.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
We are going to have We are going to have
to get ready and show Mike Rogers what a little
sticket to him looks like.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
As of now, just a few thousand votes separate the
two candidates. President Trump's back to former Congressman Mike Rodgers,
who ran unopposed in the Republican primary. In a moment,
we'll head out to California where the FBI police are
trying to figure out why this gunman was hanging around
Trump golf course where he is set to speak today.
(04:58):
We'll get into that in just a moment. For first
five seven, First check up traffic and transit on this
early Wednesday morning. Good morning, Joe Olan.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Hey, good morning. I'm good morning everybody from the Apple
Bank traffic desk. We're doing very well starting out here
this morning. Really have any problems at all. Everything moving
along very very nicely. It'll slow on the Crossbox Expressway
getting up to the third Avenue Hill. Doesn't look like
there's anything there so seeing at the cameras, but it
is very dark out so it's kind of hard sometimes
to see. But again, hitting westbound on the cross.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Do you think it's because of that rocket slamming into
the Moon that it's so dark out.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
No, I had nothing to do with it, but that
is probably one of the coolest things ever, that rocket
hitting the moon.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, you would think if something's hit at five fifty
four hundred miles per hour that it would do some damage.
That's just comparable.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
I'm just going to damage, but it won't do anything
to the Moon.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, it was not going to go to No. No,
it's still up there. I was looking when I drove there.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I should have led with that. The mood is still there.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
WABC News Time five oh nine. Let's go out to
California where this arm man was said to be creeping
around and monitoring security planning activities. He was arrested over
the weekend, but we only told about this yesterday with
a pistol ammunition. This was outside the Trump National Golf
Course in Los Angeles, where the President is set to
(06:12):
speak today at a fundraiser. It was thirty eight year
old John Tail. He's from Downley, California, taken into custody.
Apparently some federal agents spotted him lurking in the area,
taking photos videos that he say he was monitoring security
planning activities there for the president ahead of his visit there,
Tail was also being investigated for twenty twenty five robbery.
(06:35):
So when they took him into custody over the weekend,
they did a pat down, They recovered all kinds of weapons.
They did a search of his vehicle, all kinds of
weapons in there. Then they go to his home not
too far away, and yeah, guns, there's two radio signal devices,
forty five caliber pistol. Now the question is, oh, by
(06:55):
the way, some high capacity magazines as well body armor.
And now question is was he planning to do something
against the president. Well, we don't know that much yet,
But here's a neighbor who says, all, this is a surprise.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
My son have seen him before. He said hello to
him one time. It's scary. You know, we live here.
We're not too far down from the house. But I
never got that vibe, you know, because it's like a family.
It was like a large like a good amount of
people living in their home. You don't know anybody that
was willing to go that far.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, good that they caught up with this guy. The
President's scheduled to attend a Republican National Committee fund raising
dinner today at this Trump National GUF club in Rancho
Palos before he heads off to Nevada. Five eleven, let's
bring it back home, let's go out to Newark, New Jersey,
were community members rallying around the family of an illegal
(07:45):
immigrant who died while being detained in an immigration and
ice center in Newark over the weekend. The daughter a
forty one year old Edwin Lopez Corneo, She spoke out
yesterday should be just this girl is illegal. Everyone here
should feel welcome, not seen as criminals. Lopez Cornejo died
(08:07):
of a medical emergency over the weekend. The exact cause
of his death remains under investigation, but his family says
he had called home on Thursday and Friday to say
that his face was numb, his hand was numb. He
suffered from diabetes, and now the family says they don't
think he was getting the care that he needed while
he was in this detention set. So the managed to
(08:29):
close and release all the detainees and the Laaney Hall. Now.
His mother, speaking through a translator, claims DHS did not
provide the proper health care and that her son should
be alive today.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
He felt sick even to ask for a titan on
it will require a lengthy process, and sometimes we'll take
three days.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
To get over.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Now, the medical examiner has not come back with the
exact cause of death, but he apparently collapsed in the
detention center. May have been dead already before they wreshed
him to a nearby hospital where they declared him that seen, Yeah,
that's his daughter. Yesterday, five twelve, President Trump's picked to
(09:14):
lead the Justice Department's been approved by a key Senate committee.
This happened yesterday. Todd Blanche won the support of Texas
Senator John Gordon by signing a deal to permanently rescind
that nearly two billion dollar AMP ANDDEE weaponization fund. So
now the vote will go to the entire sent.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
That weaponization fund is dead, and of course I expect
them to live up to that any future litigation.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, that fund was built as a way to compensate
those who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administry.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
This may sound like nitpicking to some, it's critically important
not only to me, but to other members of the Senate.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Now, this deal also narrows the scope of President Trump
and his family's audit immunity from the i R S
that was part of this deal as well. Senator Gordon
says the Anti Weaponization Fund is dead. He expects the
administration to live up to that in future litigation. But
Blanche is not a human just yet. He needs every
Republican vote when it goes before the entire Senate to
(10:14):
be confirmed. That's because one senator has already said she's
not going to vote for him. That's a main Senator
Susan Collins. So if another Republican goes the way of
Maine Senator Susan Collins, Blanche will not be confirmed. Five
point fourteen. President Trump says a new round of peace
talks will be Iran's last chance to make a deal.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
The President said he called off massive strikes against iron
civilian infrastructure over the weekend at the urging of US
allies in the region.
Speaker 11 (10:44):
I want to give him every last chance before decapitation.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Very tough to do what we have planned still planned,
that's corresponding Chris Polone, who reports the President also called
the Iranian regime irish yesterday after they denied that they
were in peace talks with the US.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
No Run insists it is not negotiating with the US.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
When they're talking, they don't like saying that they're talking,
so I say, wait, we're in talks.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Big deal. Trump says a closed critical shipping lane could
reopen today. Oil prices dropped on the news.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
In a post on truth Social the President said, whether
Iran wants to admit it or not, the two sides
are talking about the Islamic or Republic not having a
nuclear weapon. Apparently those talks will continue or probably have
continued already this morning overseas. In a moment, we'll head
over to Spokane, Washington, where those wildfires continue to do
(11:38):
a lot of damage. We'll get into that story in
just a moment. For first five point fifteen, let's head
over to the seventy seven w ABC Sports desk. Happy
hump Day, Good morning, Justin Ellick.
Speaker 12 (11:48):
Haffey, hump day, Good morning to you know them all.
Laden start out here in the Rocks. George Lombard Junior
homered an a memorial big league memorable big League debut,
and the Yankees beat the Cardinals true to nothing in
the middle game of this three game series. In the
fifth inning, Lombard drove and O two sweeper from starter
(12:09):
Hunter Dobbins into the left field seats for his first
career hit because he completed his first home run trot
in the majors, his parents they'd hug in the stands.
Did you see that nice scene out at Yankee Stadium? No,
I'm Layden.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Last night I did. And you know what's interesting is
how often this happens, that their first How many times
players have where they get up first time in the
majors and they get a hit or they hit a
home run. I feel like it happens often.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Not that often, but yeah, I mean it's definitely a
big story when it does happen, so you're for sure
hearing about it. I mean, I'm thinking it was maybe
his third a Bad, his third career at Bad. He
goes deep and gives the Yankees a one to nothing lead.
I mean, that's a pretty big deal when your major
league gave you. And yeah, so it was a nice
scene out at Yankee Stadium seeing his parents in this
stands as well. And then a fun fact for you,
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his younger brother making his minor league baseball debut last
night also went deep in his minor league faceboot debut.
So it's all in the family for the Lombards last night.
Congratulations to George A. Lombard and his younger brother, for
it had matter and he helped.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I think he was trying to steal the thunder from
his older brother by hitting a homer in the minors.
Speaker 12 (13:15):
Well, I don't think so, nom Lyn, And I think
he was just trying to help the Yankees win a
ball game, because like.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Mom and dad, look at me. I know my brothers
and the majors. You know.
Speaker 12 (13:23):
No, I don't think so. Okay, I think the younger
brother maybe got a you know, a text for a
FaceTime for post game. But I don't think.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
But yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 12 (13:35):
I think playing for the Yankees the Yankee Stadium and
putting it on, putting them up one to nothing in
the sixth inning with a big solo shot is a
bigger deal than a minor league. But hey, congrats to
his younger brother as well. It's a big deal.
Speaker 13 (13:45):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
He did help Brian Weathers pick six strong innings as
well by starting an ending double inning, ending a double
play in the second inning, ending double plays in the
second and the fifth. He was smooth at a short
something we haven't seen in a while there for the Yankees.
Just as from Junior, also homeward in the second as
he Yankee's won for the tenth time in sixteen games.
David Bednar got four outs for his twenty fifth save
in twenty seven chances to complete in New York's AO
(14:06):
best twelfth shutout. Pub Next for the Inks, still three
and a half games back in Tampa Bay for the
first place in the East, Well Warren will start Tonight's
series finale rubber game up this three game set. First
pitch from Yankee Stadium is scheduled for seven oh five
in Cleveland. Luise Torrents had three hits, including a three
run homer in the second inning, then drove in four
runs as the Mets defeat of the Indians six to
two to snap a three game losing streak. Boba Chet
and rookie Carson Finge also went deep for the Mets,
(14:28):
and Sean and I all allowed two runs on seven
hits and five walks, will strikeing out seven and six innings.
Nate Lavender worked an inning and a third hit lists
in his major league debut before code I Sanga just
shifted to a short relief role, pitched a scoreless ninth
club Next for the Mets, Christian Scott will get the
start in tonight's middle game of this three game series
against the Indians. First pitch from Cleveland. They scheduled for
six forty pm. That is sports. Noah Man, I'm justin
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all got seventy seven thirty second.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
WABC News time five to nineteen out to Washington where
a man suspected of starting one of those massive wildfires
and spoke can appeared in court for a hearing yesterday.
The judge setting bond for Aaron Farranacci's conditions respect.
Speaker 14 (15:07):
To the release conditions.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
So the corple adopt the one million dollar bond.
Speaker 11 (15:10):
That's already in place, end up all the proposed release
conditions as suggested. That's the prosecution.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Aaron Pharranacci was arrested by a SWAT team member. This
was a Monday after a witness said he saw him
acting suspiciously near where one of the fires began over
the weekend. Pharranacci appeared and spoke in court remotely from
jail where the charges were ready. Actually spoke to the judge.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
They do they stay for.
Speaker 15 (15:34):
The record of your true name and date of birth.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Aaron Forrest Baron Lauchie.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Marsh ten.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay thirty seven year old resident being held on a
million dollars bond charged with first degree arson, and things
haven't gotten a whole lot better. There more than seven
hundred home, businesses and buildings have been completely burned to
the ground already. National Guard official that are on the
scene have described the affected neighborhoods as looking as just
a complete war zone, and approximately sixty thousand to seventy
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thousand in the Spokane area have been placed under mandatory evacuations.
Is more than ten thousand other structures are actively threatened
at this hour five twenty one. While we're talking fires,
in eighteen month investigation into the deadly January twenty twenty
five fire in Los Angeles has been concluded. News Nations
(16:30):
Blake Berman has more on that the.
Speaker 16 (16:31):
Eaten fire, which claimed the lives of nineteen people damaged
over nine thousand homes, was caused by a faulty transmission tower.
The out of service electricity pylon quote ejected hot metal
particles that filled the receptive fuel beds consisting of dry
vegetation below the towers. Now the tower belonged to and
(16:51):
was managed by Southern cal Edison, who said of the findings, quote,
we have taken our potential role in the start of
this fire seriously from the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Cal Edison says, it's reviewing that report that was the
release yesterday five point twenty two from California out to Ohio,
where Congressman Max Miller filing an ethics investigation into himself yesterday.
As the calls for him to resign have been mounting,
Miller is facing some pretty serious allegations of domestic abuse
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from his ex wife, Emily, the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno.
She says that Miller threw scalding hot water at her,
held a gun to her head, broke their toddler daughter's collar.
Baum Miller denies all these allegations and has filed a
defamation lawsuit against his wife. I have never abused our daughter.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Before I go through the facts with you today, understand
one thing. Every one of these allegations traces back to
a single source, my former wife.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now, The Hill reports there are growing numbers of Republicans
that are incredibly concerned about Congressom Miller and if he
should pull out of the November Bowett, the head of
the Department of Homeland Security, making his first visit to
the US Mexico border. Yesterday, Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen toward
the border wall new technology aimed at preventing illegal crossings.
(18:14):
He spoke exclusively with News Nations Ali Bradley about some
of the conversations see had to the border.
Speaker 17 (18:21):
Why wouldn't we go into that area, Why wouldn't we
build those relationships. Why wouldn't we work with those governors
and find a common ground? Is saying if you want
to work with us, great, If you don't, we're still coming.
Speaker 18 (18:32):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
What he's talking about is over the weekend, he engaged
with Democratic and Republican governors at the National Governors Association meeting,
urging states to cooperate with ICE, which he said would
lead to safe and lower profile arrest and detowartations across
the contrary five point twenty three while we're down in Texas.
Ever since Democrat James Talerico beat Jasmine Crockett in the
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Democratic primary, there has been speculation about whether her back
or would turn out in support. A new poll of
black voters now found overwhelming support for Tallarica.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Almost nine out of ten planned to vote for James
Tallerko in the fall.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Pollster Mark Jones there says that tallar rica will need
that and more to beat Republican Ken Paxton. It won't
be easy easy. The poll also found an overwhelming majority
of black voters believe the Democratic Party in Texas has
taken them for granted for too.
Speaker 17 (19:25):
Long, and they say that Chasmin Crockett's lost in the
March primary will not depress their turnout.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Now, there was a poll that came out. There's so
many people watching this race closely because it's so close,
But the latest poll from Fox News Surprise has tallar
Rico up three points over Republican Ken Paxton. Of course,
it's only August five, twenty four. California voters is going
to decide this November whether to require ID to vote.
If Prop thirty nine passes, voters would need to show
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their idea at the polls or provide part of their
ID for mail in ballots.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Folks that are sick and tired of the conspiracy, or
sick and tired of people saying, oh, the election is rigged,
then give those people what they've been asking for, give
them voter ID and it will shut them up.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
The group Reform California, it's led by Republicans. It would
strengthen and secure elections by verifying citizenship and requiring yearly
reports from election officials will make it more difficult.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Oh and by the way, it doesn't really secure our
elections more.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
California elections are already secure.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
That's the group common cause he doesn't like this at all.
They oppose Prop thirty nine, saying it would make voting
harder for millions of people across the state. Five twenty
five home owner association foreclosures have risen alongside broader financial
pressures that have been facing homeowners across the country. Correspondent
Marky Martin has more.
Speaker 19 (20:47):
According to The Wall Street Journal, in the first quarter
of twenty twenty six, nearly sixty four hundred properties in
the United States were foreclosed on as a result of
an HOA filing. That's up forty percent from two years ago.
Many states, hoas can place a lean on a home
and eventually foreclose even if the homeowner is completely up
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to date on their mortgage. The hoas increasingly turned to
lawyers to collect unpaid fees, leading to foreclosures and in
some cases, even arrest warrant.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Lawmakers and several states are considering reforms that are aimed
at curbing Association's enforcement authority. And while we're talking in
real estate, the Music City real estate party seems to
be over for anyone trying to sell a home. Nashville
saw a huge real estate boom during COVID. Well fast
forward today and the Music City has quietly become the
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second toughest place in America to sell a house Miami
number one, by the way. A report from the realty
firm Redfinn finds sellers outnumber buyers in Nashville by a
staggering one hundred and twenty eight percent. Boy, I would
like those odds if I was a buyer. Of course,
buyers love.
Speaker 17 (21:54):
This, Buyers that are getting out there right now and
making demands about this is what I expect from this purchase, or.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Having a lot of success with sellers.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That really need to move product now. Some of these
numbers hold true across the country right now, not as
much as the Nashville but sellers outnumber buyers and nationwide
by forty eight percent, at least they did in June,
of course, so that was apparently, you know, the interest
rates are incredibly high, but if you're looking for a
good bargain, apparently now it's time to get one.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
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 Ellick, Sports and no Talking
the News with Noah on seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes that's me. Good morning. It is Wednesday, August fifth.
Your forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Sunny
and humid today with the chance of an afternoon thunderstorm,
the high eighty four tonight and overnight cloudy with a
stray shower, Low seventy four. And then Thursday, hot and
humid again with the chance of a pop up thunderstorm
in the morning and again in the afternoon, high eighty seven.
(23:03):
If you're walking out the door with us right now,
so happy you are. Sixty four cloudy in Rambopo up
in Rockland. It's seventy and partly cloudy in New Workover
in New Jersey, and it's sixty eight and clear right
outside our midtown studios, WABC News Time five point forty.
The love of a mama may have gone a little
too far. The Mountain Vernon's Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety
(23:27):
arrested yesterday after allegedly being the getaway driver for her son,
who is accused of shooting at a rival gang member
over the summer. Forty nine year old Jennifer Lackard and
her twenty year old son, Chase were rusted at their
home yesterday. Her son is an alleged gang member. He's
accused of opening fire from a vehicle back on June
(23:48):
twenty ninth outside the Bronx Criminal Courthouse. He had bad aim.
He did not hit anybody, but when he went to leave,
apparently his mother was the getaway driver. You can't make
this stuff up. Prosecutor speaking out in Bronx Criminal Court yesterday.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 14 (24:05):
How you gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Should I should point out this is somebody talking about
that shooting. Not to prosecutor.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
How you gonna should right right next to the courthouse, Yeah,
that criminal court.
Speaker 17 (24:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I maybe to go to fire or open fire. Criminal
courthouse is probably not a place to do it. Jennifer
Lackard is accused of being behind the wheel at the time,
driving away to help her son flee the scene.
Speaker 15 (24:27):
She really fonded when questioning her pluestion Mark, she says,
you can't Disney stand out.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Fuck, the time has to be blanch.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yes, So her son Chase allegedly told his mom to
wait for him outside the building, and prosecutor say she
knew that why she was waiting for her son. Now
her attorney spoke out in court yesterday defending her.
Speaker 18 (24:46):
Miss Blacker Pats for twenty years dedicated that professional life
to the help chealing of impacts.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Jennifer Lackard has been the Deputy Commissioner of Wellness for
the City of Mount Vernon since twenty twenty. She's been
lauded for some of her work with reentry programs, who
serve two terms on Community Board nine up in the Bronx.
Her son. He has a history of the NYPD. They
know about him five forty two. This is just a
(25:16):
heartbreaking story out of Yonkers. So we told you earlier
this week that a fifteen year old opened fire on
a Yonker Street. This was Sunday into Monday. What do
we at? I think it was Sunday into Monday, And
yes it was. It was Sunday into Monday and he
shot four people. Now three of the people he was
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aiming at. This was a gang related thing. The fourth
person who he hit and killed was somebody who had
nothing to do with what was going on. It was
twenty one year old Brandon Garcia, who was on his
way to see his adoptive mom in Yonkers, his birth mother,
and he was just in the wrong place at the
wrong time. And his family, his adoptive Aarrens Carlos and
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Rosa Garcia, they spoke out yesterday about their heart.
Speaker 18 (26:03):
Ay.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He was.
Speaker 20 (26:05):
He was gonna come home on Wednesday. This Wednesday, we
bought him a nice car and he was doing well.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
He had a nice girlfriend.
Speaker 20 (26:14):
And it's just it's not fair.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It have to be justice.
Speaker 20 (26:17):
It's gotta be justice.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Gotta do something now. The fifteen year old who fired
off the weapon, he's behind bars. He hit a fourteen
year old girl in the leg, a fifteen year old
boy in the stomach, another fifteen year old in the leg.
But it was the twenty one year old Brandon Garcia
who he shot and killed. It was he was just
in the neighborhood. He just happened to be passing by
in the wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 18 (26:38):
I used to go in.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
This is his sister speaking out yesterday.
Speaker 18 (26:41):
I used to go in his room every day and
play Fortnite, and he taught me how to play games
and stuff. He used to come in my room and
dance and saying I'll just miss him.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
None of this, of course, will make sense. But the
Yonkers gang unit believes this shooting on Sunday night into
Monday with some sort of game initiation. But now you
have the Garcia family who's left her just total heart.
Speaker 20 (27:04):
As he took mine away for no reason at all.
And how do you do this? How do you wake
up in the morning, How do you feel right now?
Killing my son and hurting other children?
Speaker 14 (27:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Awful, just awful. Five point forty four Out Too Long Island,
where a mom there making an emotional plea to the
public after she accidentally lost the cremated remains of her
son while she was making plans to move out of
her home. Suzanne Saganix says the ashes of her son, Raymond,
(27:37):
were misplaced. This was last Thursday, she was finalizing the
sale of her home in Hawpog. Raymond died in twenty
twenty two at the age of thirty. And she says
that somebody's probably seen this bag and she just wants.
Speaker 14 (27:49):
A bag, which is really, really really like somebody to
find this and send them to me.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You just send them to me, Okay. So she describes
that the ashes were kept inside a court sized ziplock bag,
along with a memorial card bearing Raymond's photo and his name,
as well as some beads from Beating Hearts, which is
a group that supports families who've lost loved ones to overdoses.
And that's how he died. And so she says she
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went back and followed her trail of the day that
she thinks the ashes went missing. She visited her attorney's
office in Green Lawn, a TD Bank branch on the
Jericho Turnpike in Comac, and then she went to Smithtowntown
Hall that day. So she says, hey, it could be
at any of those places.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
It's all really very special to me.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I don't have him anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I don't know where they are.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
I have no idea.
Speaker 13 (28:45):
There are identifiers in the bed with his picture and
his name.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, so she's just devastated. She says, the thought of
leaving Long Island with the only physical connection to her
son gone just heart wrenching. Yeah, no doubt it is.
In a moment, we will head out to Staten Island
where Maye mom Donnie got a Bronx cheer last night.
We'll get to that in just a moment. First five
forty five, let's head over to the seventy seven w
(29:12):
ABC Sports desk and he was justin Ella.
Speaker 12 (29:15):
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and Peerless Boilers. Go to Pierless Boilers dot Com. I
want Dylanair you Peerless Boilers. The world that's built Bowlers
out in the Bronx. George Lombard, junior homeward in a
memorable big league debut and the Yankees beat the Cardinals
chewed or up and in the middle game of this
three game set. In the fifth inning, Lombard trove and
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too sweeper from starter Hunter Dobbins into leftfield seats for
his first career hit as he completed his first home
run trot in the majors. Lombard's parents hub in the stands.
A nice moment there at a Yankee stadium, and his
three hundred and ninety foot shot gave New York for
two to nothing lead made him the first Yankee shortstop
at homer in his major league debut. He also helped
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Ryan Weathers pitch six strong innings by starting in an
inning ending double plays in the second end the fifth.
Jessis and Junior also homered in the second as the
Yankees won for the tenth time in sixteen games. David
Bednar got four outs for his twenty fifth save and
twenty seven chances to complete New York's al best twelfth shutout.
Up next for the Yankees, still three and a half
games back in Tampa Bay first place in the East,
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Will warn we'll start tonight series finally, rubber game up
this three game set first pitch from Yankee Stadium. He's
scheduled for a seven to five pm in Cleveland. Lewis
Torrens had three hits, including a three run homer in
the second inning, and drove in four runs as the
Mets defeated the Indians sixty two, just and at the
three game losing streak. Boba Schett and rookie Carson Benge
also went deep for the Mets, and Sean and I
allowed two runs on seven hits in five walks while
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striking out seven and six innings. Nate Lavender worked and
inning in a third hit listen his major league debut
before Code I Singa just shifted to his short relief
role pitched a scoreless ninth Up next for the Mets,
Christian Scott. We'll get the starting Tonight's middle game of
this three game series against the Indians. First pitch from
Cleveland is scheduled four six forty pm. That's a sports
sponsored by Pete Morgan Appels four Luscoda pills boilers dot
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Speaker 3 (31:05):
WABC News Time five forty nine out to Long Island,
where neighbors reacting to the arrest of a former medical
student following what was a police involved shooting there. Locals
say this is unexpected for the suspect, who's identified as
twenty seven year old Adrian Thompson.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
I can't believe this.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Adrian, I knew a very mild man, a young man.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
But Agent is such a beautiful kid. He was brought
up respectfully. Well, let me give you the backstory. This
happened late Monday night in Westbury when cops received reports
of a man with a knife who was threatening people. Now,
the responding officer shot Thompson in the face. He's currently
being treated at Nasal University Medical Center. But everybody who
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knows them say this is not the guy they know.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
The gunsunt went straight through my mom's window and then
like Kurt went straight through my room and went to
like two walls, straight through my rope and right where
it like shaw I was like inches away from there.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
You should talking about one of the bullets fired by
police went into her house. In this case, Adrian arigned
at his bedside on two charges of menacing a police officer,
mayor Mom Donnie. He was on Staten Island last night
for National Night Out that was celebrated all across the country.
Last night's people come out to hang out with police officers,
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get to know their neighborhood cops. And as he took
the stage on Staten Island last night, he was booed
so badly that the speech he gave he shortened it.
I mean, there was no doubt he was going to
speak longer. Well here, I'll let you hear what is ali.
Speaker 15 (32:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
At one point he speaks through the booze and he
calls out Staten Island artists, activists of course, great sitting friends,
in the morning. Friend Scott Libato, who was in the
crowd screaming, maybe louder than anybody else was. It's a
(33:06):
little hard to make out. So anyway, he gave the speech,
but you could not hear it. Maybe it was twenty
five thirty seconds by the time he got on the
stage and back off again. He saw clearly that he
was not welcome there. And then after he left the stage,
Scott Lobato suffered cardiac arrest during this event at Midland Beach,
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and what were being told is he collapsed but was
alert when he was taken away by an ambulances in
the hospital this morning. Of course, we wish him well.
Five point fifty one. Speaking of being booed, former Mayor
Eric Adams getting a cold welcome in the Midwest. He
has been he has a job where he tries to
push for AI data centers. So he was speaking in
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support of a proposed AI data center in Wisconsin. Okay.
So the former mayor has been working as a business
consultant since leaving city Hall. Now, people who are in
this crowd who saw Mayor Adams said they wanted to
know why they sent was they described as a criminal
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to represent AI.
Speaker 15 (34:15):
I don't know what thought bringing on a pretty high
profile person with financial crimes on the record was a
smart idea for pr to the already opposed data center,
but not a good choice.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, so construction of new AI data centers no doubt.
You probably know this continues to be pretty controversial topic
at local town halls across the country. Adams has paid.
He's a consulting advisor to this developer, PNK Group. That's
according to a company spokesman. Five point fifty two. Okay,
they started putting those annoying stickers on the cars of
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people who do not move for alternate side of the
street parking sweepers. These stickers. They did this for a
while years ago, but the stickers were so hard to
get off that New Yorkers were like, Okay, you gave
me the punishment of a ticket for not moving my
car for alternate side of the street parking, but now
you've made me even more miserable with this dopey sticker. Well,
(35:08):
for some reason they brought these dopey sticker bits back
and they claim they adhesive is not as intense as
they once were. Here's City council member Gail Brewer who
likes the idea of these stickers. She says, this is
part of the punishment for not moving your car for
an alternate side of the street parking. But I would
argue the ticket is the punishment. That's enough, the thing
that you want to shame them into not having the
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car there.
Speaker 21 (35:30):
I want to shame them. I definitely want to shame them.
I think they decide I'm may not get a ticket
because there aren't that many cops, or if I get
a ticket, it's cheaper than the garage.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Now, under this new bill, sanitation workers are allowed to
place these neon stickers, which are about eight by eleven,
on the windows of the cars that remain parked during
scheduled street cleaning. So it's up to the sanitation workers
to decide who gets one of these stickers.
Speaker 21 (35:54):
It's not vandalism, it's particular.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
It kind of feels like vandalis't think.
Speaker 21 (36:00):
It's not as hard to get off as the sticker
we had before. The sticker would leave a mark of adhesive.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, So sanitation officials say the goal is simple to
get drivers to move their car so crews can properly
clean the streets. Now, you do have some drivers who
say they're okay with this because they say, Hey, if
I got to be up in their early morning to
move my car for alternate side of the street parking,
other drivers should be as well.
Speaker 14 (36:22):
We have to get everyone to move in order for
the cleaning to be you know, effective. So yeah, I
think this will probably help. It better never happened to
me because I will be sure to move my car
all right.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Five point fifty four City Council announcing a comprehensive review
now on e bikes to improve safety following w what's
been a huge spike in e bike crashes over the
last decade. City Council members say there's been five hundred
e bike related collisions so far this year in the city.
That's up more than thirty percent year.
Speaker 19 (36:55):
Today, we owe New Yorker streets that are safer to walk,
safer to bike, safer to drive.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Just as we all share the city, we all share
the roads.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
The Council will be holding a hearing this will come
in late September on seventeen bills that were related to
e bike safety. Members say the legislation involves removing illegal
e bikes. That's a big part of it. There's so
many of them, making legal ones safer and holding companies
pushing dangerous e bike speeds accountable for some of these accidents.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
The worst tragedies have been caused by devices that are
not legal to operate on our streets. They go thirty
forty fifty miles an hour and should have never been
in our city.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
And I'm amazed by the ones that go really fast
like that because usually the person has no helmet on.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
And this legislative package will draw clear lines to ensure
that the illegal devices come off our streets, the legal
ones are safer, and the companies who profit from dangerous
speeds are held accountable.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
All right, So that's official hearing that'll come on September seventeenth,
and it is officially the end of an area in
New York City And at PIX eleven News, Katie Kitie
Tong Kydie Tong, who's been on TV here in New
York City for just about ever and now it's yesterday,
she's going to retire from the news industry. She now
has been doing the news at WPIX at five and
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ten on the weekend. She says her last day will
be August thirtieth. I you know when I looked back.
I was trying to get how long has she been
at WPIX. She's been there since the nineteen nineties. But
you remember she did all that time on ABC from
she was on ABC from eighty one to ninety one.
But she's been at PIX for thirty four years. By
(38:38):
the time goes by fast. I never would have guessed that.
By the way, she looks fantastic, and I was like,
how old is she? She's gonna be eighty years old. Now.
She didn't speak out about this yesterday. She just put
out a statement that she's ready to retire. She did
talked about being in the business when she was inducted
into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame last year.
Speaker 21 (38:58):
This is truly an amazing honor, especially since I never
aspired to be a broadcast journalist.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
No, I wanted to be a college professor. Yeah, so
she's been in the news business as an anchor since
nineteen eighty one. Incredible.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
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