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Speaker 1 (00:00):
WABC New York, WRCR Haterstraw one O seven one WLR,
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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 Elick, Sports and no Talking
the news with Noah on seventy seven WABC.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh Yeah, that's me. Good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
It is Wednesday, July fifteenth. Your forecasts from the seventy
seven WABC Weather Center. Mix of sun and clouds today,
We're gonna flirt with one hundred degrees tonight, overnight partly cloudy,
low seventy seven, and then Thursday sun and clouds warm again,
high ninety five. Now, if you're walking out the door
with Thos right now, seventy seven and clear in Clarkstown.

(00:47):
Up in Rockland, it's seventy eight and clear. And Ridgewood
over in New Jersey, and it's seventy seven WABC degrees
right outside our midtown studios.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
This is the top five and five.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
There is a murder mystery in the Bronx City Council
members get set to debate a horse and carriage band Today,
should we skip eating fruits and veggie, so we don't
get that dreaded parasite some surprising places where legionnaires has
now been detected and a Hudson Valley family is really
sorry they rented out.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Their house for the weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
All right, let's get into it. At five oho four.
The big story of the day will be heat again.
We'll be right near one hundred degrees here in the
city and combine that with the smoke from the Canadian
wildfires again, they'll blanket the skies of the Northeast through at.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Least the end of the week.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
And that, paired with the hot, humid conditions expected during
the same time, gonna make it a little bit difficult
for breathing for some today.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Just make sure you work, walk with water, and probably
cover your face, especially your children's face, keep them protected.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Okay, As we deal with the start of this heat wave,
Mayor mom Donnie revising the death toll from the last one.
He announced yesterday that five people died in the city
during the July fourth holiday heat up, Remember that one
that was really bad. That is revised from the total
was three before New Jersey is total is around thirty

(02:16):
dying from that heat wave.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
If you see someone on the street that looks like
DZ or his fout's faint whole Help nine one one
is always the best way to call someone that is
about to faint.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, that's the Emergency Office of Emergency Management, just saying hey,
you know, just take it easy. Over the next couple
of days, same drill we did last time. Check in
on senior as people like that. Make sure everybody's okay.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
I have one disease, so it's very hard for me
to breathe, so my best thing is to just stay
in the air conditions.

Speaker 7 (02:43):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
So there'll be a slight haze in the air. We
may have seen it a little bit yesterday. The fault
is it's going to be a little bit thicker today.
And again it's those Canadian wildfires, which I totally don't
have to be honest with you. I don't have an
understanding why they have been unable to put those things out,
But here they are again this summer, just like they
were last summer.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
We'll see it in the air again today.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Five five up to the Bronx cops have a murder
mystery to solve. Their police searching for the gunmen who
shot and killed a thirty nine year old Hudson Valley
woman who was in the Wakefield section of the Bronx.
This was just after midnight on Tuesday. Julia Anderson, coming
home from work, shot twice in the chest as she

(03:24):
sat in her jeep Grand Cherokee on Murdoch Avenue. The
shots apparently fired through the passenger side window. Police say
the gunman fled the scene on a moped. He remains
at large. Family members say that she was a hard
working woman who worked with people with disabilities as their job.

Speaker 8 (03:43):
She only comes home at twelve o'clock in the night
and usually she comes up with Jerry and making some
kind of little noise. That's something I know she's home.
But then I was like I was one day what happened?

Speaker 7 (03:55):
I saw the vehicle across the street and I saw
the door open. I guess they wanted the game.

Speaker 9 (04:00):
And that's all I know.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah, there's are Julia's family members, friends, co workers say
she was just an incredibly nice person. They say they
have no idea who would have a bee for there.

Speaker 10 (04:10):
I failed it so much for that world.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
This mom.

Speaker 10 (04:12):
When I heard and us that you're doing know, I
think I was on Allahak accoupitable. But all I can't tell.
She's a very very.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Nice question, man, so loved ones say she was just
a month away from her fortieth birthday.

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Here's a mom My younger daughter came and she told
me she was going to my heart and now you're
gonna come out.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah, so so far, no signs of that individual on
the moment that they apparently have video and some pretty
clear pictures.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
So it's just a matter of time. Five oh seven.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
First check up traffic and transit on this early Wednesday morning.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Good morning, you'll know on Hey, good morning.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I'm good morning everybody from the Apple Bank traffic desk.
If you're coming Inbown on Long Island Expressway. More than
seven states all the rate. We're off to a great start,
and he can get to an east facing window. The
sunrise is absolutely spectacular.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Sporting We in an east facing window. No, I don't
think we are right?

Speaker 11 (05:09):
Is this?

Speaker 3 (05:09):
I'm looking? We got all the buildings that way there. Yeah,
that's a bummer.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh well, okay, it is really like every It's like
it's like a sunset, like every color in the uh
the great spectrum ismrges just tease us at that we
can't see see here where the traffic center is three
blocks from the ocean.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
That's pretty nice. Just make it even worse for us.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
All right here we are trapped in the hot and
muggy and disgusting midtown Manhattan.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
As you get to the general waves breaking on the beach, beautiful,
that's just great. Will you go enjoy that?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Five oh nine, the city Council gonna hold a public
hearing today regarding its build to ban horse carriages. And
it seems as though there are more lawmakers on board
with us. You had Mayor mom Donna yesterday saying he
supports bringing the industry to an end, but he he
is concerned there may not be enough in this bill
to help the workers who would lose their jobs.

Speaker 12 (06:04):
Worker protections in that transition are critical so that we
ensure that those who have been working in this industry
for years, some even decades also have a future that
they can look to of employment, of training, of development.
And I think that there is a path forward.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
So banning horse carriages here in the city, of course,
has been a controversial issue for.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
A number of years.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Resurfaced after that teenager who was visiting from India was
killed in a horse and buggy accident last month, and
then you had a horse that died from eating a
poisonous plant in Central Park. And so that's why you're
hearing all of.

Speaker 12 (06:40):
Us again, whether they are development programs, training programs, whether
there are also the questions of how to phase out
that industry. And I think that there is an opening
for us to have that conversation while we sunset this industry.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, so the bill up for consideration aims to help
workers train for new jobs in different fields. Now, coming
up after five thirty, we're gonna hear from the head
of the union who represents the horse and carriage drivers,
who says this.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Bill is not good.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
We'll hear from him coming up after five thirty. Five eleven,
let's go down to Washington where Senator Lindsey Graham's sister
was sworn in to fill his South Carolina Senate seat
following his sudden death over the weekend. She was sworn
in yesterday. The ceremony for Darling Graham took place on
the Senate floor yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 13 (07:29):
And they will well and faithfully discharge the duties of
the office on what you are about to enter.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
So help you God, thank yeh.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
So, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster announced that the late
Republican senator's sister would serve in the role until the
term ends in January. Now, Lindsey Graham, who'd passed away
over the weekend due to some heart issues, seventy one
years old, he had won the primary back in June,
the South Carolina Republican primary, was easily on his way

(08:01):
to another term as senator. So now they'll hold a
special primary Republican primary in South Carolina on August eleventh
to pick a new candidate. But in the meantime, his
sister will hold that spot until a new senator is found.
And usually in South Carolina, Republicans win. While we're talking
about Lindsey Graham, there was a nice moment in Washington yesterday.

(08:25):
Besides just her taking the oath of office, you had
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan offering condolences to the late senator.
She opened her testimony before the House Appropriations Committee. She
reflected on Graham's role in her twenty to ten confirmation,
noting that he was one of just five Republicans to
vote in favor of her nomination those years ago.

Speaker 14 (08:48):
I want to express my gratitude towards him, not only
for his support, but for approaching the confirmation process with
the kind of seriousness that he did.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, nice little moment there, Washington. You don't get too
many of those five twelve.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Let's go overseize the war and Iran continues to be
a mess. President Trump's air strikes on Iran will continue
until he says it's not and they have fight.

Speaker 13 (09:12):
You know, it's like a great boxer. Have you think
you have a meet and then all of a sudden
he comes back and he gives you the shot.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
The President went on to say that the only way
to negotiate with Iran is through strength, and threatened that
the US could hit bridges and power plants.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
If Iran fails to negotiate.

Speaker 13 (09:30):
Next week, it gets really bad for them, because next
week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges.
The only way you can negotiate with these people is
through strength, and the only strength as military strength.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Now this comes as the US has reimposed the naval
blockade of the straighth Horror Moves launched strikes against Iran
for a fourth straight day. President Trump, though yesterday walked
back those plans that would charge a twenty percent toll
fee in the straight horror moves.

Speaker 15 (10:00):
Wealth states are going to invest a tremendous amount of
money into the United States, and that was very satisfactory
to me. I think it's actually much better.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, so he said, he pulled back on that toll
idea after having some pretty productive conversations with Middle East leadership.

Speaker 15 (10:15):
Think anybody should be able to charge your fee for
the UH, for the Strait, or for any other straight
relationship in terms of other sections of the world. I
don't think anybody should be really in that position.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
All right, So, it RAN's Islamic Revolutionary Guards says last
night they destroyed US weapons in Kuwait and Bahrain. US
Treasury Department has issued new sanctions against Iran, targeting several individuals, entities,
and vessels. And then overnight Israel struck a gaza and
held at least seven people there. In the Israeli security

(10:49):
cabinet approving a budget four hundred and forty three million
dollars that'll establish thirty four new settlements in the West Bank,
all that taking police in the last twenty four hours.
In a moment, we will head up to Maine, where
there's lots of talk about this shooting involving an ICE
agent and an illegal immigrant.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
We'll get into that in just a moment.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
For first five point fifteen, let's head over to the
seventy seven WABC Sports desk.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Good morning, justin Elle.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
Good morning to you, noel Leyden start out here in Philadelphia.
The American League is the winner of the twenty twenty
six AM the All Star Game, shutting out the National
League four to nothing. The AL scored three first inning
runs off Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Christopher Sanchez, thanks to
the Yankees Cody Bellinger, the MVP of the game, and

(11:36):
Ben Rice, Pellinger delivered a to run single in Rice
added an RBI single of his own. The Ale continue
to dominate from there, taking a no hit bid into
the fourth inning before the Met Swan Soto singled for
the NL, one of just three hits on the night
for the Senior Circuit, and the Junior Circuit pulls out
the fort to nothing win. Yankees open their second half
action come Friday, when they welcome in the LA Dodgers

(11:58):
for the opener of a three game weekend series. As
for the Mets, remain in Philadelphia to open a three
game series with the Phillies beginning until tomorrow. Night said
of the World Cup semi finals yesterday out in Arlington,
Spain advanced to its first World Cup finals since winning
in twenty ten, with a two to nothing victory over France.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Where was ambape man? They just shut down the French offense.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
I mean, listen the entire World Cup, You've been hearing
about this Spain defense. Yeah, so you've been hearing about
Spain's got the best defense and.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
The world goal throughout the entire World Cup. If I'm
not mistaken, that's only one one goal scored on that
you would you would know better than I think that's right.

Speaker 7 (12:33):
But yeah, I mean, consensus has been that Spain has
had the best defense in the tournament. They won it
in twenty ten, which isn't you know in terms of
World Cup not so long not so long ago. And yeah,
a very relevant team, a very good team. They were
expected to get to this point by most experts and analysts,
and here they are, you know, I mean, I'm not

(12:55):
sure they were supposed to beat France that easily because
they really skated.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Wasn't victory? Did you watch that?

Speaker 7 (13:03):
I watched most of the second half of it.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, they were never in the game. They never know.

Speaker 7 (13:08):
I mean it was really you were just waiting for
the game to end at a certain point.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
And uh so, you know, France goes back to, you know,
really just being a tourist attraction.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
People and not a soccer powerhouse exactly.

Speaker 7 (13:21):
I mean, nobody really likes s Cargo.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Let's be honest about they. I mean, they just pretend
to know exactly.

Speaker 7 (13:28):
They will have to play in this third place game
in Miami coming up on Saturday. Spain will face either
defending champion Argentina or England on Sunday in the final
at MetLife and East Rutherford, And that semi final will
take place this afternoon from Atlanta three pm. England and Argentina,
that is.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Your Sport's not gonna win that one.

Speaker 7 (13:47):
I'm going with.

Speaker 12 (13:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
I think England. You know, I watched England in their
last game against Norway and they looked very solid. Norway
didn't look that good obviously, but you know, I mean
England looked like the much much better team away and
we'll see. I mean, you know, I think I'm rooting
for Argentina, but I think.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
My Gut's telling me that anyone's gonna come Opel.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
But obviously I know nothing about soccer, so so we
won't take Kevin that disclimber in there.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, all right, back to you.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
WABC News time five to nineteen. President Trump meeting with
Iraq's new Prime minister at the White House yesterday, sitting
alongside Ali al Zaidi. He's the President called the new
leader a good person.

Speaker 15 (14:29):
A short period of time, he's changed that country so much,
especially toward their thinking about the United States.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, the President says, new oil partnerships with Iraq are
expected to be announced.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Really, so they have a great leader, the new prime minister.

Speaker 15 (14:43):
He's a great leader. I think he's going to be
there for a long period of time. I mean, it's
very important to me to have somebody get in there
that can do the job and do it well. And
we have a fantastic champion.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
So the President called the bilateral meeting with the prime
minister great, decided that they would add an on planned
lunch on to their meeting as well. Yesterday five point twenty,
Let's head up to Maine where the Independent Centator there,
Angus King, calling for a full transparent, open investigation into
Monday's fatal shooting of a man by an ICE agent there.

(15:16):
The main independent senator says he spoke to Homeland Security
Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen then learned that there's no bodycam
video of what happened.

Speaker 16 (15:26):
We've been told that body cameras would be widely distributed.
The secretary told me that they're on order, that they
have been distributed widely across the country, but not everywhere,
and apparently not in beddeford Man.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Now. DHS officials say the man's rove in the direction
of an agent Monday, causing the agent open fire, killing
the twenty six year old from Columbia. They say more
details will be released in the coming day.

Speaker 16 (15:53):
What did he do with his vehicle? Were officers threatened?
Were the threats rising to the level that justified deadly force?
That's what this investigation is all about. We don't yet
really know what happened, but to ensure that we find
out what happened, and that if there were actions that
were unjustified, that those who committed those actions will be

(16:16):
held accountable.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
And a third person has died after an encounter with
immigration agents. News Nations Colin McShane.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Has the story.

Speaker 9 (16:23):
It happened in sane augustin Florida. There was a man
running from an encounter with immigration officers and this man
was struck and killed by tractor trailer. So it is
the third death in a week that in some way
does involve encounters with ICE officers. Comes as the Trump
administration now shifts its policy on immigration enforcement, today suspending

(16:45):
most vehicle stops by ICE officers after two deadly shootings
that involved motorists.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
WABC News Time five twenty two. Palestinian activist Mackmood Khalil
going to sue the federal government several private groups, alleging
they were part of a conspiracy to suppress criticism of
Israel through a coordinated campaign to docs jail and ultimately
deport student activists like himself. The civil rights suit that

(17:11):
was filed in court yesterday names the Heritage Foundation, which
is a conservative think tank, as the architect of what
it describes as an ongoing conspiracy to silence members of
the pro Palestinian movement by smearing them as anti Semites.

Speaker 11 (17:26):
I don't want anyone to go through what I've been
through right now, because if they can't target someone for
the pro Palestine speech. They can target anyone in this country,
whether they support Palestine or not.

Speaker 17 (17:38):
Now.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
A spokesperson at the White House calls this lawsuit complete nonsense.
The suit comes as Khalil's deportation case appears headed to
the Supreme Court. Five twenty three. President Trump going to
address the nation prime time speech tomorrow. He confirmed that
election integrity. You'll be among what he will cover in
this address.

Speaker 15 (18:00):
Big news. It's really really big news, and our country
has to shape up.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
The President will reportedly claim that disclassified intelligence reveals a
foreign nations plot to interfere in the twenty twenty election.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
We're going to be talking about Thursday is.

Speaker 15 (18:17):
It doesn't get bigger, because without free and fair elections,
you don't have a country. We'll be discussing other things too,
but it's going to be a very big annauscement.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
The President will reportedly be joined by FBI Director Cash Betel,
Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, among others. The President
has repeatedly claimed the twenty twenty presidential election was stolen
and rigged. Two Supreme Court justices testifying on Capitol Hill
yesterday about their annual budget request to Congress. Justice amy

(18:48):
Cony Barrett talked about the impact that threats have had
on her and her family. Is the Supreme Court asked
for more funding to increase security around Supreme Court justice.

Speaker 18 (18:58):
They have required me to my children to think about
and see things that children should not have to see
or think about. One example is when threats to my
life were particularly intense a few years ago, around the
time of the Dobsleek.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Justice Elena Kagan. She joined Barrett as they appeared before
this House Appropriation sub committee that handles Supreme Court spending
and mark the first time since twenty nineteen that Supreme
Court justices have testified before cons.

Speaker 18 (19:25):
Also been reported in the news that roughly six weeks ago,
I was the victim of a swatting incident. At that point,
my teenage son, one of my teenage sons, opened the
door to go out with friends and saw in our
street it was full of police cars.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
And unfortunately this has happened a number of times.

Speaker 14 (19:44):
We have occasionally put up the perimeter offenses. We don't
like that. We want to express a commitment to be
open and transparent to the public, as I know other
governmental institutions do as well. Occasionally we have found it
necessary given the threat level.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Now the High Court requesting a boost of over fourteen
million dollars for the next fiscal year to increase security
for the nine justices five point twenty five efforts to
make daylight saving time permanent moving forward now, the hous
has passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would set the
clock to the time currently observe from March to November.
Supporters say it would help farmers, improve public house reduce

(20:24):
car crashes in crime. Florida Senator Rick Scotty introduced similar
legislation in the Senate.

Speaker 19 (20:30):
So what this is going to do is give every
state the opportunity to pick. But we're not going to
go We're not going to go back and forth twice
a year where everybody has to change their clocks and
get used to different sleep patterns and things like that.
So some say might want a different time have had
it now.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Opponents have argued year round daylight saving time would push
sunrises beyond nine am in the middle of the winter,
making it dangerous for kids who are getting on school buses.
The House bill now heads to the Senate for consideration.
Doctors vising people to take bagged salads off their menu
for the time being to reduce the chance of getting

(21:06):
that parasite that has sickened thousands of people, sometimes known
as explosive diarrhea. Health officials now saying a potential source
for the illness could be lettuce in salad greens. This doctor,
doctor Josh McConkie, says he treated countless cases of severe
diarrhea in the er over the weekend. So his advice,

(21:27):
he says, is pretty simple.

Speaker 17 (21:28):
If you are going to buy lettuce you want to
have a salad, you need to buy the entire head.
You need to peel off the first three layers and
wash extremely well. My recommendation do not buy any bagged
salads at all.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Now, of course, what did I have for dinner last night?
A huge salad, Doctor maconkey says. Right now, just about
all the veggies and fruits should be cooked. And if
you need to eat fresh food, he says fruit, he says,
choose those that are smooth on the outside because they're
easier to wash. So bag salads fruits. They think was
behind this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
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 Elick, Sports and no Talking
the news with Noah on seventy seven WABC.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yes, that's me, Good morning. It is Wednesday, July fifteenth.
Your forecasts from the seventy seven WAEBC Weather Center. Mix
of sun and clouds today, another hot one. We're gonna
flirt with one hundred degrees tonight and overnight party cloudy,
low seventy seven and then Thursday, sun and clouds warm again,
high ninety five. If you're walking out the door with
us right now, so happy you are seventy seven and

(22:44):
clear in Clarkstown. Up in Rockland, it's seventy.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Eight and clear. And Ridgewood over in New Jersey and
it's seventy seven.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
And clear right outside our midtown studios WABC News Time
five Pin forty one. Gonna be a big day in
the City Council. They're gonna have a hearing today on
a band on horse drawn carriages in Central Park. And
there are some big names now really signing on to this.
You have City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who says that
she's in favor.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Of this bill.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Of course, It comes after the death of a teenager
from India who was visiting the city and was killed
in an accident horse and buggy accident in Central Park.
And then you add the accidental poisoning of one of
the workhorses that died in Central Park.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
The day has come for our city to begin the
transition away from horse drawn carriages as a tourist attraction
in Central Park for the safety of our residents, the
safety of visitors from all across the globe, and the
safety of the animals here at home.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Now you get the sense they're going to get it
done this time, so Menon said, an important part of
this legislation, of course, is guaranteeing future work for the
current union carriage drivers. That's the big stumbling blockair.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
He was visiting New York from India to celebrate his
high school graduation. Romanch's death was heartbreaking and infuriating, and
sadly it was preventable. At the same time, the path
forward must involve and protect workers who operate these carriages,
and I'm actively working on a plan to guarantee them

(24:18):
quality employment opportunities in the hospitality industry.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Now, one person who's not buying any of this is
Alexander Kemp. He's the administrative vice president at TWU Local
one hundred, which represents these horse and buggy drivers, and
he says this legislation, he doesn't believe it. He doesn't
think they'll find jobs for these people who are making
good livings. They're pretty decent livings right now.

Speaker 20 (24:43):
There are several layers of the industry. There are owners,
there are owner operators, there are horse owners. There are
dynamics to this industry that we represent that no one
is speaking to because the truth is is that then
they would have to acknowledge that their interest is to
get rid of the lovelihoods of these workers.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Wants to make sure that these people will be taken
care of. He doesn't believe this bill. Does that a
hearing on the bill, of course, it is set for
a little bit later this morning out to Long Island.
We told you this story yesterday about this grandmother in
Suffolk County who was seriously injured after her eight year
old grandson started her car and then when she saw

(25:20):
the car moving out of the driveway backwards backing up,
she raced out to save her eight year old grandson.
Like any grandmother, would do it as she did. She
was hit by this Honda on Wellwood Avenue. Police say
sixty three year old Gina Bennett was hit hard. I
mean she's in pretty serious condition by the open door,

(25:41):
the driver's open door, and she fell to the ground
hit her head on the pavement. Neighbors, a couple of
them were out there and they saw this all take place.

Speaker 13 (25:49):
I just saw the car afterwards, you know what the
door was like, totally like flipped oldeness on that.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
It was like, I don't know how that could happen now.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Neighbors say the boy told them his grandmother permitted him
to press the car start button, but the rest was
a terrible accident.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
We came down here because they had the road blocked off,
and we're just, you know, obviously curious to find out
what was going on.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, Bente was brought to Good Samaritan University Hospital, where
we're told she's still in serious condition. Neighbors say she
was bleeding heavily from her head. Her eight year old
grandson he was not injured.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
I just think it's tragic, you know, It's just I'm
very sad about it. You know, it's like somebody's life
changed in a day. I mean, they seem to be
nice people. They always had the little kids out in
the front playing and stuff.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, police just calling it a terrible accident. Of course,
we wish Bente well and hope she has a quick recovery.
In a moment, we'll talk about Captain Chelsea Sully Sullenberger.
Of course, he's the one who landed his plane successfully
on the Hudson in one of those great moments. He
made a big announcement yesterday, and we'll get to that

(26:55):
just a moment for first five point forty five. Let's
head over to the seventy seven w e BC Sports desk,
and he was justin Alick.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
Thank you no on the Layden Sports sponsored by Pete
Morgan to Phillis Porler's go to Pilosboilers dot com to
find a deal in near you. Phillis Bowler's the World's
Best phil Boilers set in Philadelphia. The American League is
the winner of the twenty twenty six m the All
Star Game, shutting out the National League four to nothing.
The AL scored three first inning runs off Philadelphia Phillies
starting pitcher Christopher Sanchez. Thanks to the Yankees Cody Bellinger,

(27:24):
the MVP of the game, and ben Rice Bellinger delivered
a two run single and Rice added an RBI single
of his own. The al continue to dominate from there,
taking a no hit fit into the fourth inning before
Juan Soto from the Mets single for the n O,
one of just three hits on the night for the
senior circuit. The Yankees open their second half action come Friday,
when they welcome in the LA Dodgers for the opener

(27:46):
of a three game weekend series. As for the Mets,
or remain in Philadelphia to open a three game series
with the Phillies beginning tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Now, I'm just curious.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
I know it's a big deal obviously to be picked
to play in the All Star Game, and it's probably
fun to play in the game itself, But do you
get anything for winning it? Does the AL players get
some sort of payday?

Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's a good question.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
I don't think so. No, there's no incentive anymore ever
since home field advantage in the World Series was stricken.
But that'd be an interesting google. Yeah, you know, I would.
I mean, Cody bellens Wer definitely get something for winning MVP,
that's for damn sure. Oh, yeap indeed and checking in
on the World Cup semi finals in Arlington. Spain advanced
to its first World Cup finals since winning in twenty

(28:26):
ten with the shooting up in victory over France, killing
Himbapa and France fifas top ranked team, We're trying to
become only the third team to reach three consecutive World
Cup finals. They instead will play in the third place
game in Miami come on Saturday. Spain will face either
defending champion Argentina or England on Sunday in the final
at MetLife State in East Rutherford. And that semi final

(28:47):
between England and Argentina takes place this afternoon three pm
from Atlanta. That is or Sports sponsored by Pete Morgan
Appelos Bowler's go to Pillows Borlers dot com to find
it doing the U Pilos Bowler's the World Best Bill
Bowler's I'm justin Elliphant seventy.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Seven, WABC News Time five forty nine. Captain Chelsea Sully Sullenberger,
who famously landed a plane on the Hudson here back
in two thousand and nine, revealed yesterday that he was
diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease He put a statement out saying,
I recently found out I've been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's early stage. He's seventy five years old. For now, he.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Says, this means a name may not come easily to me.
I forgot a story. I recently told an or I
don't sleep well. But he says he's in the beginning
of this journey. Boy, have all these people come forward
recently with these diagnoses. You had Bill Ritter, of course,
that was the Channel seven news anchor. Actor Danny Glover

(29:44):
he announced this as well. And I think it's a
good thing that they're coming forward and letting people know
because I think that opens the doors for more scientific
experiments and for other people to sort of just gather
and talk about what this is like. And doctors weighing
in on this announcement yesterday as well.

Speaker 21 (29:59):
I wanted to and him and others who have come
forward with this diagnosis to minimize the stigma, because that
has been one of the big batters.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, there's so many doctors doing research on this, but
they really don't know how to prevent it. There are
some medications that apparently helped the brain and people are
taking those.

Speaker 21 (30:20):
You also know that lifestyle interventions, including managing sleep, sleep, apnea, mood,
all of these have positive effects on the brain.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Now, I imagine, just like Bill Ritter when he announced
a couple of weeks ago that he is Alzheimer's Sullenberger
started to notice things and then went to the doctor
and said no, yeah, that diagnosed it as Alzheimer's disease.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Five fifty.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
The number of cyclopariasis cases here in New York State
keeps growing. This is this explosive diarrhea thing. The latest
numbers from the state Department of Health show five hundred
and seventeen cases statewide, including two hundred and seventy three
right here in the The New Jersey's reporting at least
thirty three cases. The intestinal illness is caused by eating

(31:06):
contaminated produce. So the thought is, maybe keep away from
the bagged salad and fruits and vegetables, or at least
really wash.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Them well before you eat them. Right now, The.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Symptoms include diarrhea, cramping, bloating, nausea, and fatigue. Now, the
good thing is you can't get it from anybody else.
You can only get it from eating the produce.

Speaker 19 (31:25):
We want to think things like lettuce, spinach, cal raspberry, strawberries,
fresh herbs, things of that sort.

Speaker 11 (31:33):
If you want to be safe, you want to cook
your vegetables, peeling fruits so that you only eat the
surface and washing can help.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, of course it comes at the time of year.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
You really want to eat those fresh roots because they're
fresh and they're grown locally. But the thought is washing
them really good and you'll likely be okay.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Five point fifty two.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
While we're talking health, City health officials say at least
seventy six buildings on the upper east side of Now
tested positive for the lead Janella bacteria in prettyliminary testing.
That number is more than double the thirty one cooling
towers previously reported last week, which includes now a bunch
of interesting places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Here was a tourist there yesterday.

Speaker 11 (32:15):
Places like this.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
You know, everyone is paying to come in here, right,
so the finance.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
Is to you know, keep this place afloat.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
You're think they'll put that into you know, the infrastructure cleaning.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
She makes a good point.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Another popular museum was the Guggenheim that also was tested
positive right on Fifth Avenue. Some of the Impacted locations
include three private schools, a rehabilitation and nursing center, and
a church. Now the outbreak has sick and sixty three
that is as of last night, up three from the
night before, so it slowed a little bit. Hospitalizations have

(32:49):
decreased two from fifteen to twelve.

Speaker 19 (32:51):
Now hopefully this will be a good reminder that everybody
can be careful I take care of their eldics.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Yes, cases have been reported across several neighbor it's most
of them though on the upper east side Carnegie Hill, Yorkville.
Lenox Hill City Council member Lynn Schulman says a lack
of resources is also a reason why the Health Department
has not been enforcing a new law that mandates buildings
to proactively test cooling towers every thirty one day. She says,

(33:19):
it's time to get back to that.

Speaker 22 (33:21):
When we passed the bill, the previous administration thought it
was a good idea. This dohmh thinks it's a great bill,
and we just have to make sure that it gets enforced.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Now, that's as New Yorker starts to you a little
bit better about this, and now they know least there's antibiotics.
If you catch the surally it's flu like symptoms, you'll likely.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Be just fine.

Speaker 7 (33:41):
Disease.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
I mean, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
I just can't believe it.

Speaker 14 (33:44):
This is such an elegant, fancy building and it just
doesn't fit with our expectations.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
It doesn't matter apparently where you live. Five point fifty four.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Let's go up to Hudson Valley, where a homeowner there thought, hey,
I can make some serious coin by you seeing one
of those rental apps like Airbnb to put my house up.
This is one of these. There's a mansion. It's on
Sapphire Road in Monroe. It has gigantic pool in the backyard,
and they were renting it out for eighteen hundred bucks

(34:16):
a night. In The owner o Scherzelik, said he was
believed he was renting his seven bedroom home to a
family for the weekend, and he didn't find out un
till there was a party underway that he had actually
rented the house out to a party promoter. And hundreds
of cars showing up outside this house and they threw

(34:38):
this rocking party and in the process they did a
ton of damage to the home. Neighbors watched on as
just people kept more and more people kept showing up.
There was DJs out, they rented out a sound system.
They advertised this on Instagram.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Can't count the number of cars there were going up
and down our street, literally hundreds of cars.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
Now video of the after party, or i should say
after the party was over, show furniture overturned, trash covering
the home, debris around this beautiful pool, broken glass panels,
a one hundred and fifty year old baby grand piano
had its legs snapped off. The owner says the damage
extends well beyond some of the video that has been released.

(35:22):
He says, the walls, the couches, the beds, he says,
everything smells of marijuana.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
There's a leak in the ceiling.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
The sewer system was overwhelmed because there were so many
people using the bathrooms. And now, of course he wants
to know what he can do to get his money
back in money for the damage and repairs.

Speaker 18 (35:41):
We have to be really careful, especially now knowing that
this type of thing is going on.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah, you always have to be really careful who you
rent your I'll take you just never know. Five point
fifty five a free swimming program in the Big Apple
expanding thanks to new funding from the city Council Julie
men And she was up at Lehman Cobbage's pool yesterday
to give a one point five million dollar check to

(36:06):
the nonprofited group Wave Makers to teach more kids how
to swim in these.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
Hot summer days like we're seeing right now. We don't
want any young person to not be able to go
to a beach or a pool and be able to swim.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
You know, they should make this part of the school
curriculum that you learn how to swim, right. It's such
an important scale. The group says it has already taught
thousands of kids how to swim for free of public
pools across the city of Their long term goal is
to provide universal swim lessons for every second greator in
the public school system. Yeah, there should be money to
do that one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Thanks for listening to The News Hour with Know Them Leyden.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
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mornings at five on seventy seven WABC.

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