Chaos at the Jay-Z concert in the Bronx. A t-shirt gets a NJ man thrown off a flight.

Chaos at the Jay-Z concert in the Bronx. A t-shirt gets a NJ man thrown off a flight.

Imagine finding out your doctor is not really a doctor. Another East Side Legionnaires death

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Speaker 3 (01:27):
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This he's the top five chaotic moments at the jay
Z concert last night in the Bronx. The number of
New Yorkers contracting legionnaires continues to rise. We look back

(02:09):
at the life of Senator Lindsey Graham. Yet another report
that confirms the rent is two damn high in New
York and a new jersey Man details how he was
almost thrown off a flight for the shirt he was wearing.
All right, let's get into it at five to ZHO four.
There was some chaotic scenes at Jay Z's third and
final Yankee Stadium concert last night after a security breach

(02:32):
delayed the show down thousands of fans that were seen
outside the stadium waiting to get inside. A police source
says a large group broke through the security, prompting this
full lockdown to the stadium. They you know what it
was is they just tried to figure out, we get
the largest group of people we can and then we
bum rush the turnstiles, and that's what happens. So for
a while last night, the show was supposed to begin

(02:54):
at eight, nobody was allowed in or out of the stadium.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
They bum wrest Jayjune bumrush.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
People went past security, were not checked and got into
the stadium.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
They closed.

Speaker 8 (03:08):
Now gay tune, we went to Gate four, same thing happened.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, so fans for a while had no idea what
was going on because the show was supposed to begin
at eight pm. The gates reopened not until ten o'clock,
and then there was a ton of NYPD cops. She
had the stadium personnel slowly letting everybody out.

Speaker 7 (03:26):
I don't appreciate the unprofessionalism from Yankee Stadium's staffs.

Speaker 9 (03:30):
They were deausing us and they were laughing at us.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now JV eventually a jay Z Rather, JV is another rapper.
Jay Z eventually took the stage. It was about twelve
to fifteen this morning, so fans were anxiously awaiting for
the Hip Hop Icon because the nights before, the two
nights before, he had brought out his wife Beyonce nas
Alicia Keys during one night eminem for night two, and

(03:55):
the fans eventually got in. And even when I was
driving in this morning at two point thirty, he was
still on stage.

Speaker 7 (04:00):
There's no stab person outside. So you have thousands of
people who's been online. I chose not to be online
because I don't want to be tramped or anything like that.
But you have thousands of people that's been standing online
and every jake for the stadium is flown.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Okay, But in the end, jay Z did take the
stage and apparently was incredible. What is a full circle
moment for him? In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of
his seminole album Reasonable Doubt. It's the beginning of a well,
it's hard to even call it a tour, but he's
got a number of shows London, Paris, Los Angeles in
the months ahead. Of course, in New York is where
he's from and why he was so excited to be

(04:36):
up on stage there last night. While we're up in
the Bronx, cops searching for a group of men who
stabbed a forty six year old man to death in
the Fordham Heights section on Sunday. Police say they responded
to a nine to one to one call there was
about seven in the morning for a man who had
been stabbed. When they arrived, they found the victim multiple
stab woumbs to his arm other parts of his body.

(04:58):
Apparently some sort of verbal argument with a group of
mannes man saw the stabbing take place.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Tame ten guys, one guy become one party. Last nights
after that's nice time.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, I don't know that I understood exactly what he
was saying. But the victim was rushed to a local
hospital where he was pronounced dead. The victim's name has
not been released. The group of suspects ran off in
an unknown direction, no word on a motive of why
they jumped him and what that verbal fight was all about.
WABC News Time five away the number of New Yorkers

(05:35):
contracting legionnaires that went up over the weekend. New York
City Department of Health ordered thirty one buildings to drain
disinfect their cooling towers after testing positive for Legionella bacteria.
The Health Commissioner talking about the populations that he's most
worried about contracting the disease individuals over the age of fifteen.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Individuals were small.

Speaker 10 (05:58):
For me individually, I have a chronic lung disease.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Me have the populations. To my guess, New Yorkers in
the affected neighborhoods, mostly on the Upper East Side, say
they've been paying attention as close as they can.

Speaker 11 (06:09):
I believe that if you're healthy, it's generally not going
to be too harmful, but if you have respiratory illnesses older,
I am old now.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
The City council speaker Julie Menon calling out City Hall
about how the mayor has handled this Legionella cluster in
her east Side district. She says by not immediately ordering
all towers to be disinfected, as she had advocated for
from the beginning. It's possible, she says, that more people
will become sick now. So far, thank god, nobody has

(06:38):
passed away like seven did last summer from that Legionella
outbreak in Harlem.

Speaker 12 (06:43):
I've been closing the windows, but my understanding is they've
remitted it.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
But I'm not taking any chances.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, the Health department still trying to determine which cooling
tower caused the outbreak on the Upper East he had.
Now there's some Legionella detections on the West side.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Now.

Speaker 13 (07:00):
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was among at
least thirty one buildings on Manhattan's Upper east Side testing
positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease in this
latest outbreak. The city Health Department on Friday, releasing that list,
ordering those buildings to clean and disinfect their cooling towers.
More than forty five people have been sickened in the

(07:22):
latest outbreak, but none have died. Seven people died during
an outbreak last year. The Health Department says legionnaires is
not transmitted person to person. People often contracted by breathing
in tiny droplets of contaminated water Julie Walker, New York.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Now the Ardsley on Central Park West in the nineties,
they decided just to test their cooling tower, even though
the legionnaire's outbreak had been confined to the Upper US
east Side, and when they discovered bacteria that causes the disease,
they notified the neighbors in the building, saying they planned
to flesh out and disinfect the hot water system. There
are more than fifty confirmed Legionnaire's cases across the cities. Again, thankfully,

(08:00):
so far no deaths. Five to eleven. Let's go down
to South Carolina. Lindsey Graham died very suddenly on Saturday
night at the age of seventy one. He passed away
in Washington, d C. It was a heart related issue.
President Trump says Graham was like a member of a
family to him. He mourned the death on NBC's Meet
the Press, which was where the South Carolina Republican had

(08:22):
been scheduled to appear on Sunday morning. A tough one
to lose.

Speaker 14 (08:26):
He was great, he was unique in every way.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Actually, the President said he spoke to Graham just hours
before his passing, saying other than sounding tired. He was fine.
He was on his way back from a trip to Ukraine.
President Trump describing the phone call, he sounded a.

Speaker 15 (08:42):
Little tired, but perfect.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
But it's a little bit tired. I had a right
to be man. He was a worker. I know, he
was really a worker. And you know he had a
unique ability.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
He was able to deal with Democrats and every if
I had a problem, a real problem, I wouldn't often ask,
but if I had a problem with a Democrat.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
He could now. President Trump spoke about Graham's legacy.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Got so many legacies.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
But one of the legacies is a Supreme Court justice
who is excellent, named Brett Kavanaugh.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's one of the legacies. That's a big legacy.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
South Carolina's editor Tim Scott talking about his friend Lindsey
Graham after his death. It is a morning of mourning
for me.

Speaker 12 (09:19):
It's a powerful reminder that life is fleeting, that we
are not here very long.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
And NBC News says emergency personnel responded to a call
for a cardiac arrest at Graham's Capitol Hill home on
Saturday night, and photographs show paramedics carrying a person on
a stretcher from Graham's home to an awaiting ambulance. Scott
Tim Scott says the death of Lindsay's Graham devastating to
everybody in South Carolina.

Speaker 12 (09:45):
He was just the kind of committed person that you
don't really appreciate how much how.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Committed he was to America.

Speaker 12 (09:54):
I can't think Jacob a more committed public.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Servant to this country. Man. Statement from Senator Graham's office
as the Senator's family appreciates prayers at this time, asked
for privacy during this incredibly difficult period, and I wrote
a long piece. You can head over to WABC radio
dot com. I was pretty friendly with the senator for
two years while I had hosted a show morning drive

(10:19):
show in Charleston, South Carolina, so you can read my
personal thoughts on the senator and a little bit about
his backstory, which if you don't know, is really a
fascinating one from the time he was born until I
wrote the article, from the time he was born up
until he got into politics, because he led a pretty
interesting life up till then. So you can check that
out at wabcradio dot com. Five thirteen Kentucky Senator Mitch

(10:44):
McConnell breaking his silence after he was hospitalized nearly a
month ago. News Nations Nicksmith reports the eighty four year
old released a statement yesterday along with a photo of
himself and his wife at the hospital.

Speaker 16 (10:57):
His doctor says McConnell fell at his home last month,
where he was admitted to the hospital and recovered from
minor injuries. The doctor says he developed pneumonia early on
while at the hospital. McConnell said in the statement quote,
my doctors have confirmed that I didn't break any bones
or suffer a concussion. I didn't have a heart attack
or a stroke. I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages,

(11:17):
but I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Now, McConnell says while he understands his constituents expect their
representatives to work hard for them, he still has unfinished
business to complete before he retires. Come January five, fourteen,
Let's go Overseas attacks continue to escalate in the Middle
East as peace negotiations between the US and Iran appear
to have just totally broken off at this point. News

(11:41):
Nations Robert Sherman has more the third time.

Speaker 17 (11:44):
In the last week, American forces carrying out strikes on
Iran after commercial ship was hit going through the Strait
of Horror moves Iran retaliating into the daylight hours here
in the Middle East to Jordan, Kuwait, bob Rain, Qatar,
where we are in the sky above us. In the
early morning hours here, the UAE's air defense systems were

(12:04):
activated and even Oman came under fire, one of the
more extensive retaliations that we've seen now.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
US Central Command says the Strait of Hormus has opened,
while the Islamic Revolutionary Guard struck a commercial ship and
claim the strait is closed until further notice. Mike Watz,
who is the US Ambassador to the United Nations, says
the talks between the US and Iran have broken down,
and he says Iran is not living up to the
memorandum of understanding and all the options that are on

(12:33):
the table for that.

Speaker 18 (12:34):
Regardless of whether your party to some conflict, you cannot
start shooting in all directions, packing your neighbors, attacking civilian shipping,
civilian infrastructure, throwing mines and international waterways.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard announced it was closing oil
shipping lane in the Strait because a vessel was traveling
on unauthorized route. He had more to say about that.

Speaker 18 (12:59):
So I performeds based MoU Iran is not living up
to it and all options are on the table. We
saw that from our great US military overnight.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
All right, So Iran this morning claims attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, O'man,
and Jordan, saying it hit US military sites and retaliation
for Washington's renewed bombardment of its southern coast. The exchange
of fire comes a day after the US military set
hit at least one hundred and forty targets in Iran
and Tehran launched for totalitory attacks on Bahrain. So it

(13:32):
is a mess and continues to be a mess in
the Middle East, and in a moment we will continue
to be overseas. Another runner has been gored in Spain's
Running of the Bulls. We'll get into that, and as
an American, we'll get into that story in just a moment.
The first five sixteen. Let's head over to the seventy
seven WABC Sports desk. Happy Monday, Good morning, justin Elloch.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
Maybe I should include that in my sports up date here,
nor I think typically a sporting event I think it is.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
If you're running away from a bull, that is.

Speaker 8 (14:01):
A sport running of the ball, and the American gets
org by the ball, that clearly overpower as a human being.
But these symbeciles, really, I mean, just idiots. Continue to
go out there and do this after you agree with you.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
But I would love to do it anyway when you
would love to jump out there and run this now
you can a ball? No, No, I mean I realize
it's stupid, yeah, and that I could be killed, but
it sounds like it would be a fun event to
take part.

Speaker 9 (14:30):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
They moved me from centerfield to the corner outfield like
back in college because because I wasn't fast enough to
cover center field. So if I'm not fast enough to
cover center field of a Division III college baseball team,
that I'm not, I don't think I'm qualified to do
the running.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
That may be right, and you may be right right
it was nice. No, And I mean, well, I would
you know how they jump the fence and they put
their legs up in the air when I would do
that out Yeah, you get out of the way, sure
you would you in your cute little your cute little
outfit that they make you wear right. Meanwhile, back on Earth.

Speaker 19 (15:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Exactly, I'll read your eulogy.

Speaker 9 (15:05):
How about that? Now?

Speaker 19 (15:06):
My god.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, it was such a nice guy, but a little stupid.
It was so crazy, a little, a little impulsive, yeah, predictable.
It was a bucket list.

Speaker 18 (15:18):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
At least maybe I'll just do that tomato fight thing, right,
that might be safe for you all. He died doing
what he loved, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Meanwhile, here with the news is the bullet.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well in real sports out in Washington, dun rises at
a two run trouble in the top of the eighth inning.
The Yankees their third straight come from behind victory over
the Nationals, the final score five to three to complete
the sweep New York, which has come which has one,
i should say four in a row overall for the
first time since June thirteenth to the seventeenth. Todd the
White Sox with our eighth win when trailing in the
eighth inning or later. For the most such victories in

(15:50):
the American League. They are six and thirty four when
trailing after seven innings, with half of the wins coming
in this series. Up next for the Yankees, they will
return after the All Star Break come Friday against the
LA Dodgers. Back at home in the Bronx, they sit
three games back to Tampa Bay heading into the break
in Queens, and That's fell three to two and ten
innings to the Red Sox. Effering a sweep at the

(16:10):
hands of Boston over the weekend, Francisco Lindor misplayed a
potential game ending double played grounder for an hour that
led to Boston's two run ninth inning New York loss
for the sixteenth time in twenty two games, and at
forty and fifty seven, matched its season low of seventeen
games under five hundred. Now they started the season with
the major league's highest payroll, had not been seventeen under
or at the All Star breaks since they were twenty
five and forty four in nineteen nineteen ninety five. I

(16:32):
should say Lindor hit an RBI double in the first
end homeward in the sixth up. Next for the Mets
will open their second half come Thursday, following the All
Star break, remaining in Philadelphia against the Phillies in the
only scheduled game of that day. Home run derby is
eight pm from Citizens Bank Park. In Philadelphia, you will
see hometown Ben Rice, the New York Yankees slugger of course,

(16:55):
in that competition, eight others across the league will compete
tonight again eight pm from Citizens Bank out in Filling
and then tomorrow night it's the All Star Game American
League versus Nationally eight pm from Citizens Bank. Toronto's Dylan
Ceased to start for the AL against Philadelphia's Christopher Sanchez
for the n Now check in on the World Cup

(17:16):
as well tomorrow three pm from Marlington. Your semi finals
will get underway France and Spain there and then Wednesday
you get the other semi final between England and Argentina.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
That's three pm from Atlanta and we'll go to the UK.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
Yesterday, Onyx Center to beat d Alexander Verev to win
his second consecutive title at Wimbledon, and Linda Naskafa on
the women's side of things, she defeated fellow check player
Carolina Moutroova in the final to claim her first career
Grand Slam at Championship. That is your sports, no man,
I'm justin on like on seventy seven way.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Thank you very much, Spencer, Spencer, justin traffic transit pet bullet. Okay,
you know what you can figure out? Five forty five
holp fun right, it is my day traffic transit. I
think this guy's name is Jill Nolan. You want to
hear something even funny? Or I always wanted to do
that too.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Oh, run the bulls? Yeah, of course, it's not too late.
Maybe next year we'll go. It is not out for me,
it is. I'm dumb. I'd last about ten seconds, but any.

Speaker 9 (18:18):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
I used to.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
I always really wanted to. Yeah, I win, it'd be
fun to do. Where's the one they do the tomato
thing or they throw tomatoes at it. It's way easier.
You just get hit with tomato. Yeah, let's do that
one next year.

Speaker 15 (18:29):
It's easy.

Speaker 20 (18:29):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, it doesn't have the same uniform though it's a
little different. No, and you just get hit by tomato.
Just get hit by but it looks like fun. Yeah,
WABC News Time five twenty two. Of course, as we've
been telling you, they've been doing the Running of the
Bulls in Spain.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
It's that time of year again in Spain. The sun
from Mean Festival and the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.
On the fifth morning of the eight day festival Saturday,
six bulls along with some steers, charged through a narrow
street on a two and a half minute run from
a pen to the bull ring, knocking down thrill seeking

(19:03):
humans along the way. One runner was pierced in the face.
Twelve more people needed medical treatment, I Donna.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Ward, Yeah, I'm not sure I wanted to do that.
Five to twenty three. Let's bringing it back home. Go
up to Maine. Graham Platner made it official that he
is dropping out of the US Senate race in Maine.
So now everybody trying to figure out what happens next.
University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabado tries to
figure out who might take his pledge.

Speaker 19 (19:33):
Democrats finally got a little bit of good news from Maine.
This certainly doesn't compensate for the fiasco that we've seen
unfold in that state thanks to Graham Platner.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
But he's he's filed early.

Speaker 19 (19:48):
He had planned to do it on Monday, which was
the last possible day, and you know, occasionally there's traffic
and you miss things.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
So apparently someone got to him and talked sense to.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Him, I butchered Larry's name. It's Sabota more from Larry.

Speaker 19 (20:01):
The Democrats need every day they can get to pick
his replacement, and they only have a couple of weeks,
and they have to hold a convention in there somewhere,
or they're planning on holding a convention.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
So Platner dropped out.

Speaker 19 (20:14):
The state Party issued a kind of application form for
this particular Senate seat, and these applicants are even going
to write an essay.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, it seems like a lot of Democrats want that spot.
When they did, who put your hands in the air
if you want to run for the seat? It seems
like almost every Democrat in the main raise their hand
five point twenty four. You know, this story got kind
of buried on Friday because it's a summer Friday, not
for any particular reason, but the Pentagon released forty new
UFO files with infrared footage describing unusual flight behavior. More

(20:51):
than that from Tom Dempson.

Speaker 21 (20:52):
An infrared sensor aboard a US military platform captured a
UAP in the sky. That video lasts over twenty seconds
before the object subtly disappears from view. And also an
account from astronauts aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle back in
nineteen ninety six. Three images released by the Department of

(21:12):
War show an unidentified object in low Earth orbit, with
the object appearing to rotate.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Now I was looking at some of this, I wasn't
so impressed. But the drop also includes debriefings from the
Apollo fourteen and Apollo seventeen missions. Five twenty five, Let's
go out to southern California. We got a big update
overnight on a big fire in southern California.

Speaker 9 (21:33):
You have made significant progress on the Summit Fire and
the former progress has been stopped. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
That is the Los Angeles County Fire Department head Marco Rodriguez.
He says the fire there, which has been burning in
northern La County since Friday, now fifteen percent contained a
couple of buildings. Almost twenty seven hundred acres have been destroyed. Thankfully,
they've been able to so far save all the homes.
But this thing is sparking cific.

Speaker 9 (21:58):
The winds are coming into the area and also a
potential of thunderstorms. So we're just being cautious and making
sure that we don't have any reignition or any other spots.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah. One firefighter has been heard battling this huge player.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
It was a minor injury.

Speaker 9 (22:11):
The person was taken to a local off throw and released. Nothing.
No major injuris as far as this fire.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, and authorities keeping an eye on possible strong winds,
monsoon like storms that could bring rain, but also lightning
that could reignite the fire or spark new ones. That's
some of the fears that this morning and five twenty six.
Over in Colorado, they're still fighting that huge Aspen Acres
fire in southern Colorado. No, over the weekend, you had

(22:40):
both of Colorado's senators checking out the fire from above.

Speaker 14 (22:44):
The story of volunteer firefighters who came to fight these
fires while they were losing their own houses in the
community is a real inspiration for I think all of us.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, that Senator Michael Bennett. There are at least three
hundred and thirty seven homes more than eight hundred and
fifty strike structures destroyed in the Pueblo and Custer County
fire so far.

Speaker 15 (23:05):
So many the houses up there, it's like a miracle
they were spared. Was because somebody put the time in.
That's not a bunch of money, it's not a bunch
of time, but they hardened the area around there and
defended the perimeter of their home.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
It's now the seventh largest in Colorado history, this fire
in terms of size, having burned through more than ninety
seven thousand acres five point twenty seven in the Los
Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Neighbors growing more and more
frustrated after weeks of dealing with the warehouse fire and
its aftermath. I remember this is this food warehouse where

(23:40):
they could not get to the fire for a week
it was burning, and in this neighborhood they closed their windows.
The smoke, the stench so bad. Now it's the rotting food,
like millions of pounds of rotting food. They had been
unable to really clean up. So there was a meeting
with Mayor Karen Bass, and this crowd was not happy
with her when she took the state. They both.

Speaker 22 (24:00):
We have issued thousands of boxes of food, grocery cards
and hygiene kits. We have offered cash assistance the impacted
house mass.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, I don't blame these neighbors. They are fed up.
They want to know when they can expect to stop
smelling millions of pounds of rotting food. They want a
timeline for the cleanup process.

Speaker 16 (24:25):
When you're worried about an ammonia league, the ammonia is upcron.

Speaker 22 (24:31):
For those of you who are here representing us, I
would like for you to sleep where we leave till
you can experience what we have to go through.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
So many feel the response from the city and the
warehouse operator. It is lineage Logistics has fallen in way Sure.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
It's the seventy seven w WAVC News Hour, Talking the
News with Noah Laden, All the news you need to
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Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yes, that's me. Good morning. It is Monday, July thirteenth.
Your forecasts from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Mix
of sun and clouds today, the high's gonna be eighty
four and then we're gonna turn it up a little
bit tonight and overnight clear low seventy one, but Tuesday,
sunshine warmer, the high going to be ninety five. If
you are walking out the door with us right now,

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it's sixty seven, partly cloudy and new roachhell up in Westchester.
It's sixty three and clear in East Windsor Over in
New Jersey and it's sixty seven and clear right outside
our Midtown studios. WABC News Time five forty one. For
all the bad stuff people say about the Big Apple,
still everybody wants to live here. Housing prices just hit

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another record high in the city. I mean it's pretty expensive.
It's definitely a premium to live in New York, but
it is a very nice city.

Speaker 9 (25:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
So alarming new numbers from the real estate firm Corkorin
show that in June, median rents in Manhattan search to
numbers we have never seen before. The average in Manhattan
now five two hundred and ninety five dollars a month.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's like a.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Studio or a one bedroom. Brooklyn also hit a record
high four three hundred and fifty dollars a month for rent.
Both of those numbers up eight percent from the same
time just a year ago. The landlords are out running
social welfare programs.

Speaker 11 (26:21):
It's not like I'm you know, like, let's love the landlord,
but I mean they provide a service, they're doing it
for a profit.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah, So New Yorker is saying, look, you know you
live in New York, You got a pay.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
They're constantly raising the rent every year.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
People don't get increases in salary. You should just put
in a freezer for a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
So those record high prices have extended to the Bronx
and Queens as well. We Go Park one of the
hardest hit now. The average rent prices for one bedrooms
there they searched twelve percent from May of last year
to May this year, and studios were up more than
twenty percent there.

Speaker 21 (26:57):
Most New Yorkers have rent burdens that are matchable along
with rising rates of inflation.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Everyday necessity z yes.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
So New York City Comptroller Mark Levine says that the
problem is simply just supply and demand. There's just not
enough apartments for everybody who wants. This is a crisis.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Rents are going up everywhere for one simple reason. We
don't have enough housing.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
We are seeing the average cost of housing easy three
quarters of a million per unit and sometimes more than
a million per unit.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
And it's insane. Levine calling on lawmakers now to streamline
regulations make sure office to residential conversions continue. Even after
last week's construction incident at the old Pfizer Building on
East forty second Straight, five forty three. Just a tragic
weekend on a basketball court in Harlem, thirty five year

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old Canoe Rockford. He was a talented basketball star who
made it from the streets to Brooklyn to the European
basketball leagues. He played college ball at Fairley Dickinson. He
played in the Pro was in nine countries for years,
and then was shot dead at the Kingdom Basketball Tournament
in Harlem on Friday. He wasn't even playing there, he

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was just there to support some of his friends. Police
are looking for the shooter, who also injured two others
Now Canoes family. They held a vigil last night on
the basketball court he used to play in in Brooklyn.
It's crazy.

Speaker 20 (28:23):
I had somebody reach out to me from England, from France,
even Jamaica.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Somebody called me from Portugal.

Speaker 20 (28:31):
These are the places that he played it and everybody
is reaching out and nobody has anything negative or bad
to say about king.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Hundreds of people turned out to honor him last night
at Brooklyn's win Gate Park, letting go of balloons, lovingly
overwhelming his mother, brother and sister. He was Triplet's part
of a triplet. So now unfortunately down by one.

Speaker 20 (28:50):
He went down, and I was expecting him to come
back home.

Speaker 10 (28:53):
Well, the fact that he had, but he put the
community and the people plus them saying he was a
positive man, positive brothers. You know you're gonna miss him.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yea Canoe was just the pride of the neighborhood. So far,
police don't have a lowle lot to go on, don't
have a modi why we try.

Speaker 20 (29:09):
To get to the youngsters to put these guns down.

Speaker 11 (29:11):
These very essential for the gun finds his turn the
streets up.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Ken who's name should be known.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
He died unnecessarily and it's not fair. It is Ratten. Yeah,
that was his mother last night. Again, police have made
no arrests. In a moment, we'll head over to Sheep's
Head Bay in Brooklyn, where a new shelter for homeless
men causing a whole lot of outrage this morning. We'll
get to that just a moment, but verse five forty five,
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Speaker 3 (31:28):
W ABC WABC News Time five forty eight. Let's sit
over to Brooklyn, New York City, planning to move more
than one hundred vagrant men into a shelter in Brooklyn.
It's in Sheepshead Bay, the former gold Star in It
was converted last year into a shelter for homeless family.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
There is absolutely nothing wrong with homeless people a homeless shelter.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
It is not about that, it is where it is placed.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
We are also concerned because these are our neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
We have people in the neighborhood not happy at all.
New York Post is reporting that fifty five family who
live there now are being moved out to make way
for one hundred and ten male vacrants who haven't been
vetted for criminal backgrounds, including sex offenses. The facility faces
a popular park for families and children. Brooklyn councilwoman Ina

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Wernikov sent a scathing letter to the Department of Social
Services last week, claiming that loitering, drugs, and criminal activity
go hand in hand with single mail shelters, and they
don't want in the neighborhood there to.

Speaker 7 (32:27):
Bring awareness because a lot of people will live in
this community do not even know that it is a
homeless shelter coming here now.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
The Homeless Department telling the New York Posts that fewer
families are entering the system and that they're now trying
to address a stigma against single adult men shelters because
they are experiencing homeless in bigger ways than families are.
So they're trying to do that while maintaining a good
neighbor policy. But in this neighborhood, and Chief said, Bay,

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I don't want that shelter there. Five point fifty. Let's
go up to the Bronx where drivers who stop or
park in bus lanes or at bus stops are going
to get warnings. Starting today, the MTA launching a sixty
day warning period for its automated bus lane enforcement program
on two Bronx routes, the BX eleven the BX seventeen.

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During that time, drivers who illegally stop or park in
bus lanes or block designated bus stops will receive warning
notices that'll tell them that the next time this thing
could be a fine. After the warning period ends, they'll
start handing out what our pricey tickets, as they should
because you shouldn't be blocking a bus lane.

Speaker 11 (33:35):
I'm hoping that it gets better, because when you promote change,
you just got to slow with it for a while.
But foot starts working, you know, and maybe they'll get
people to stop being in the parking lane. Thing parking
in front of the bus stop.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, you're just slowing down the buses which could be
slow already. The cameras are designed to identify vehicles that
illegally park or stand in bus lanes or obstruct bus stops.
Five point fifty one. So I'm a member of the
city council pushing legislation to ban live fish as prizes
at fairs and carnivals. Queen's City Council member Vicki Palladino

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says living animals should not be treated as novelty. She
says she was inspired to introduce the bill after an
incident in Whitestone that saw a group of teen boys
allegedly torture a fish they had won at a carnival.
I don't know if they still do this, but I
was a kid. You remember that ping pong game where
there would be a whole bunch of fish bowls and
you would have to bounce a ping pong into the

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fish bowl, and if you did, then you got to
take the fish bowl with the fish home, and then
invariably that fish would die a couple days later, mobly
from the pounding of the ping pong balls. Event organizers
who would violate Vicky's law would face one hundred dollars
fine for the first defense and up to two thousand
dollars for repeat offenses. If passed, the city would join Berkeley, California,

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along with the states of Connecticut and Iowa, wh will
also prohibit the practice of selling those goldfish at FAI
five point fifty two. Let's go out to Long Island
where cops there arrested a Shirley man after they say
he was involved in a road raid confrontation that turned
physical on the William Floyd Parkway over the weekend. Suffolk

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County police say forty one year old Michael Nelson punched
another driver during an incident near Sunrise Highway. It was
like three in the afternoon. The victim was taken to
the hospital with injuries and he's gonna be okay.

Speaker 21 (35:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Nelson's been charged with harassment and he's got a court
dat ahead of him. That as Long Islanders say, these
road rage incidents seem to happen all too often.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
That's terrible. It shouldn't be happening me. Is he scared?
You know, I have a daughter that's you know, driving,
I don't want hard to get hurt.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, of course not. The arrest comes two months after
another violent road rage incident in the area. Back in May.
Police say one driver stabbed another driver in the neck
during a confrontation in Mastek.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
I think people got to relax. You got to take
a huge show, build a lot of honk and a
lot of beeping.

Speaker 11 (36:03):
People don't have the patience for people to go out
of green light, you know, take their time and everything
like that.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
People just really they're an invasion around here.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Yeah, Triple A says aggressive driving continues to just be
a huge, widespread problem, not just on Long Island, but nationwide.
Research sited by Triple A finds that ninety two percent
of drivers admit to engaging in at least one aggressive
driving behavior, while eleven percent admit to violent actions such
as intentionally bumming into another vehicle. It's hard to imagine

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people do that, but they do.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
It makes me want to move back to the city.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Well, you know, coming from the city, this is more
nonsense out here than there is out there going to
I feel get worse because of suwheer and traffic.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
No, we've had our share of violent incidents here in
the city. Out to New Jersey, where a man there
says his T shirt nearly got him kicked off a
United Airlines flight. Sam said was on a flight traveling
from Atlanta to Newark last month while wearing a T
shirt that said bombing kids is not self defense. He

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sade is of Palestinian descent, says the T shirt holds
a deeper meeting and advocates for children in Gaza now
while a flight attendant saw the T shirt as he
boarded the flight and told Saddad that he would have
to take it off or he'd be booted from the fly.

Speaker 10 (37:25):
I was very confused, and the guy asked him to
get off the plane up and he was like, hey,
the flight attendant finds your shirt offensive. And I was like,
I was like, why these are the choices? Either do
you change your shirt or you can't get on the slight?

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, I mean you know when you wear a shirt
like that, I mean, what do you expect. I'm not
just saying that one. There's tons of others that a
flight would ask you to change as well. So Das
says he was confused, though, when a supervisor pulled him
off the plane just after boarding. He said he didn't
think there was anything offensive about the T shirt, and
he felt humiliated and upset. Now he did opt to
change your shirt because he needed to get on the

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plane home. When he got to the airport at Newark,
he wanted a deeper and longer explanation.

Speaker 10 (38:04):
Keep saying like, you can see the shirts offensive. I
was like, I can't see how the shirt is offensive.
She's like twenty twenty six. I was like, I know
what year it is. Do you think kids shouldn't be bombed?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Their kids should be bombed? Like what are you offended by?

Speaker 18 (38:14):
Now?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
A United spokesperson said in a statement that this customer
flus schedule after changing his shirt, and they say, as
per the airline's rules, which is posted on his website,
United has the right to deny to transport passengers who
are not properly clothed or whose clothing is lewed up,
scene or offensive. They regularly do this, but Sades says

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he's going to consult with lawyers now he wants to sue.

Speaker 10 (38:39):
You know, at the end of the day, it's this
shirt to me is very clear that I think bombing
kids is wrong, regardless if you're a Palestinian or if
you're from Mobile, Alabama.

Speaker 12 (38:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Sodez says he has filed an official complaint about the
incident with the United States Department of Transportation and when
it comes to the T shirt at the center of
the situation, and he says he'll continue to wear it.
Thanks for listening to The News Hour with Noam Leyden.

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