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Speaker 6 (01:28):
It is Thursday, July ninth. Your forecast from the seventy
seven WABC Weather Center. Sun and clouds this morning, humid,
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Tonight nover night pop up storms possible, low seventy four,
and then Friday, mostly cloudy, humid again, high eighty nine.
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one and clear in crescoll Over in New Jersey, and
it's seventy and clear right outside our Midtown studios.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
This at least the top five.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
At five, the blame game begins over that crumpled Midtown tower.
Oh no, that explosive diarrhea outbreak, It's made it here.
What a weird moment in a Long Island cemetery. The
most entertaining town meetings in Cranford, New Jersey, and an
artist cashes in in the most unique way on Taylor
Swift's wedding. All right, let's get into it. At five
(02:25):
ZHO four, construction crews continuing to install temporary supports to
shore up that thirty seven story high rise on the
east Side that sparked fears of a possible collapse when
crews discovered those buckling columns inside. It has not shifted
since Tuesday, so that's good news. Yesterday many tenants and
residents in that neighborhood were allowed back inside their evacuated buildings,
(02:48):
including guests at the Hampton. And then these were tourists
from out of town who had to leave all their
suitcases stuff behind.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
It's a very much headache, very much headache.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
So we didn't have no poll.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
So you know, you've been money that you really don't
that you didn't put.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
In your budget.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Now they did a quick fix on this. By noon yesterday,
temporary shorings and beams have been installed from floors eighteen
through twenty three, and by last night work was proceeding
on the thirteenth floor. Official say Cruz working their way
down floor by floor installing those shorings all the way
down to the ninth floor. The Department of Buildings last
(03:23):
night saying that building is stable now. According to Metro Laft,
they're the developer overseeing this conversion project. This was a
Pfizer office building they're headquarters. Now they're converting it into condos.
They say the columns likely buckled under the weight of
newly expanded upper floors. Now the company said part of
the floor sagged by about four inches, but maintains the
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building was never in danger of collapsing. In fact, they
put out a statement yesterday they say this incident is
nothing more than a typical construction mishap. That's how they
view it. But Mayor Mom Donnie, he doesn't see it
that way.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
All.
Speaker 11 (04:00):
We are going to be conducting a full investigation as
to how we got to this point because this is
not a necessary consequence of an office to residential conversion. This, however,
is clearly a breakdown in that process.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
And we're hearing from at least one of the workers
who was inside that building as this building was being
shored up.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You know, it could be that the piece was constructed wrong.
You know, That's what went through my head. Maybe it
was installed wrong. Maybe there was too much weight that
was put on the floor botton.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, apparently at some point we'll know the answer to
that question. Five oh six. Thank god, this guy's in custody.
This is the gunman, well, we should say, alleged gunman
who fired at that family celebrating Fourth of July having
a barbecue Coney Island on Saturday, eight people shot. NYPD
announcing the arrest of forty four year old Robert Smith
(04:47):
yesterday and connection to the incident that left eight people,
including four children, with gunshot wounds. Here was the grandmother and.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
That's always shooting till long around here, and it doesn't
matter what time it day, could be during the daytime, nighttime, whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
That was the grandmother of a twenty one year old
victim who remains in critical condition. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisias,
there was a family barbecue happening at the time when
this gunman allegedly fired through this crowd, at this crowd
through a fence. Smith being charged with multiple counts of
attempted murder. There are no details yet on a motive
or how police linked Smith to this crime. Up in
(05:26):
the Hudson Valley yesterday, just tragedy of seven year old
girl hit and killed by a bus in Munsie. Now
we don't have a whole lot of details, but rama
Bo police say this incident is under active investigation.
Speaker 13 (05:39):
There's no suspected alcohol or drug involvement and there's no
criminal charges being looked into at this time.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Cops unsure who's at fault. They do say that they
do not think the driver was speeding at the time.
Speaker 13 (05:51):
The child seven year old girl from Munsie and the
driver of the school bus is a twenty eight year
old mail from Munsie.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah, mess pronounced that girl dead at the scene. Drugs
alcohol suspected as contributors to the incident. The accident is
being investigated by the Rambopope Police Crash Investigation Unit. WABC
News Time five to ZHO nine. Democrat Graham Plattner, who
was the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine. He officially
dropped out of the race yesterday. Doesn't come as a surprise.
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He had suspended his campaign a few days earlier amid
a sex assault allegation from a woman. He ranted on
for about eleven minutes in his goodbye speech, saying he
was getting off the campaign.
Speaker 14 (06:33):
I intend to file my paperwork to withdraw.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
The Democrat, announcing his decision following a recent sex assault allegation.
In the video, Plattner railed against the political establishment maintained
his innocence.
Speaker 14 (06:45):
Those in power, who have the ability to do so,
are using these allegations as an excuse to take away
all of the things that we need to run a campaign.
We are going to lose all of the things that
any campaign needs on the basic level simply to function.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, so he's out the president, President Trump weighing in
on this.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Surely good question of whether or not you believe the woman.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A lot of people say big falsehoods.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
It's uh, he's in a vine.
Speaker 14 (07:20):
He's in a vine.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
The main Democratic party had announced in a statement posted
to x that they had voted to hold a nominating
convention now to choose a new nominee. Platner's problems appeared
to come to head following a report in Politico where
a woman who dated Platner accused him of forcing her
to have sex with him almost five years ago despite
repeated objections. Now Platner has denied those allegations, but several
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top Democrats quickly withdrew their support for him, called him
to end his campaign, which apparently he is going to do.
The unbattled Plattner had faced a bunch of questions before that.
By the way, it was the only thing, including claims
that he had a Nazi tattoo covered up. There were
some Democrats in Maine who were upset that he dropped out.
Speaker 13 (08:01):
Hotel nice try buddy, but get up.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We have to go with what we have.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
So apparently those papers will be drawn up today where
he'll withdraw from the campaign officially. Five eleven. Let's go overseas.
Still a mess in the Middle East. Iran's Revolutionary Guard
says it launched attacks on US bases in Kuwait and
Bahrain overnight and retaliation for recent American strikes on Iran
that was overnight as well. It warned, if the US
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aggression continues, the response will be to expand to other
US bases in the region.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But we've already won militarily. They every little, never little.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Left, and they want to make a deal so badly.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They called it a little while ago. They want to
make a deal so badly.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
That's the president of the Board Air Force One. He
is back at the White house this morning. Came in
about one point thirty this morning. He says the strikes
were retribution for Iran strikes on ships and the straight
of her moves. So they're just following back, vollowing back
and forth if it missiles at each other.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Crazy to be out of yes, so agrees sare a
little bit out of count joint, but they want to
make it do the badly.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
US Suncom reports American air strikes were conducted inside Iran.
News Nations Robert Sherman isn't cut.
Speaker 15 (09:14):
For the second consecutive night, American forces are striking Iran.
According to Iranian state media, there have been explosions in
southern Iran along the Strait of Hormus, which is in
line and in keeping with what we have seen these
strikes look like in the past, coming from Central Command,
targeting military infrastructure, air defense systems that exist along that coastline,
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but also any launch capabilities that had historically been used
to target commercial ships.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Now, the President had been in Turkey the last couple
of days for the NATO summit, and reporters were asking
them yesterday during a press conference, saying, Hey, do you
think what's happening in Iran. It's been successful for the US.
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 16 (09:53):
When you say not a success, it's a tremendous success.
As a fake news likes to say how well they're
doing it doing terribly. They have three hundred and fift inflation.
When the war started, they had like six percent. They
want to make a deal, but they don't know how
to make a deal, and then they go around shooting
ships at night. I like that the Iran war has
been a tremendous military success. And you know, I can
(10:14):
only answer the question by saying they're not going to
have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
And the President again overnight on that flight back home
to Washington, says he thinks the ceasefire is over between Iran.
So what's next, We just don't know. And crude oil
prices sort about seven percent higher yesterday with the potential
for more US strikes against Iran. Chris Brigatti is the
chief investment officer at SWBC and shared his insight as
(10:40):
to what will happen if the straight offor Moves is
once again closed to shipping traffic.
Speaker 17 (10:44):
I do think the inflation picture is not over with yet.
We still expect to see some impacts because oil experts
are telling us the fact that it's going to take
several months, probably closer to a year to really get
everything lined up again with regard to distribution, refinery operation,
and transportation, even through an open straight of horror moves.
So ultimately, I don't think inflation picture is over with.
(11:06):
I expected to be stick here longer for hire as
the narrative, and I expect that to be a foreseeable future.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
All right.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
So those gas prices have gone down, of course, the
worries is they'll go back up again. And what we
should talk about NATO, because that's why the President was
in Turkey. He says the summit was successful. He says
leaders he met with her doing a great job for
their country, and he called them all smart people.
Speaker 18 (11:27):
Another focus at the summit is President Trump's push to
get NATO allies to boost their defense spending again beyond
already increased targets. Member nations revealed new military projects worth
billions of dollars to show their progress.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
That's, of course, that's of course one an Alice Barr,
the President on the sideline of NATO meeting with the
head of Ukraine talking about the fact that we're going
to help them with patriot missiles.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
A little Bertie.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Told me this about the fact that we'll give them
the right to make patriots know how to do it.
It's very complex, actually, but it's uh, you'll figure out
the complexity quickly.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Zelensky was there to meet with the President and he
said those meetings went well as well.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
We haven't informed the company of that yet, but that'll
kind of work out, all right.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Sure they'll be throughout, yeah, right, the President will be
back in over is the back of the White House.
Got back at about one thirty this morning. In a moment,
we'll head over to Kentucky and what is just this
strange story, right Mitch McConnell, we've been told, has been hospitalized.
Now we're hearing from his wife and the story just
gets stranger by the moment. We'll get into that in
just a moment, But first five fifteen, let's head over
(12:36):
to the seventy seven w ABC Sports desk. Good more
than justin Eller.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Good and wanting to you know him Laden. We will
start out in Queen's a five rountal rally in the
eighthlifted the mets to a six or two, went over
the Worlds in the middle game of a three game series.
Rickey aj Ewing hit his first career lead off armer
a four hundred and twenty foot The last to get
things going for New York started Christian Scott, allowed three.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Hitsome struck at five and five scoreless sinning.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
So up next for the Mets the lefty Sean and I,
who will get the start against Kansas City's Michael Waka
in this afternoon's a rubber game finale of this three
game series. First pitch from k C is scheduled for
one to ten pm. In Tampa Bay, the Yankees got
shut out three to nothing by the Rays in the
third game of a four game series, dropping a five
games back now of Tampa for first place in the division.
The Race have struck out the Yankees forty five times
(13:24):
in the first three games of the series.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Started Garrett Coles, charged with.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Three runs over six and a third innings of work,
gave up seven hit, struck out six, and walked one
on ninety seven pitches. Yankees manager Aaron Boone and bench
coach Brad Ausmis We're both ejected in the sixth inning
and New York has now lost eleven, it's passed to
thirteen games. Up next for the Yankees the finale of
this four game set against the Rays this afternoon, with
New York buying for a series split. Yankees have yet
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to pick an opener against Tampa's Drew Rasmussen in what
will be a one to ten pm first pitch from
Tropic Cano Field. Check in on to the World Cup
off day yesterday as we get set to open up
the quarter final, which this afternoon out in New England.
That it'll be France in Morocco getting things going tomorrow
afternoon out in Los Angeles, Spain and Belgium will get underway,
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and come Saturday evening five pm in Miami, Norway and
England before Argentina and Switzerland get going out in Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
My neighbor is from Morocco, Okay, And you realize how
nuts they are when you hang out with somebody who's
following the World Cup, who has since they're like, you know,
two years old.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I'm not sure I've ever done that before.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
It's insanity, Like he has everybody over his house is
from Morocco. They're all were in the Court of Jerseys, right,
and they're like way way more nuts than we are,
like about the Knicks or the Giants. It's an insanity
that I can't really explain.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
But it's fun to watch nationalism, baby, That's what it is. Yeah,
if we were good at Zacker, you'd see the same thing.
Maybe we would you arrive, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Mean, you know, you see the you see when we
go to the Olympics and we put a basketball team
up at the Olympics, meet every team by fifty points.
But like we're still packing the bars watching every game.
That's true, you know, watching every minute of every know.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Somehow it seems even more so with these with Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Of course, listen, you're in the quarterfinals. If you're Morocco
and you're looking at the teams left in this thing,
they have a shot.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
They have a shot. And when it comes to you know, the.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Size of these nations are the relevancy of these nations.
And I'm not knocking Morocco here, but you got Spain, Norway,
England or they can pull this off.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You know, in terms, day is the hardest game, right,
If they win this game, I think they have a
good shot.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You're playing in Bafe in France.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
This is the biggest game I mean, unless you were
playing defending champion Argentina. But yeah, those are the top
two teams in the tournament. So if you can get
past Spain, that's a big hill to climb.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Go out Morocco, Morocco shirt so I can join us party.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
We'll go over to your neighbors, get wasted later watch Morocco.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
That's your sports now, I'm I'm justin like on seventy
seven w.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
WABC News Time five to twenty. Let's head over to Kentucky.
It's been more than three weeks since Senator Mitch McConnell
was admitted to the hospital, and while questions about his
health remain unanswered, we're hearing from the senator's wife for
the first time in a statement that she sent to
w LKY, a TV station in Kentucky. A spokesperson for
(16:11):
Elaine Chow said that the Secretary was on a long
planned trip to China to support her family's philanthropic endeavors.
During the trip, she said she met with a number
of people, including the US ambassador. She says the senator's
health did not warrant an immediate return to the US,
so she's away while he's in the hospital. I don't
know how that would fly with your wife or husband.
(16:31):
Wouldn't fly with mime. Then they added that Chao has
since returned from her trip to China and is back
in the US. Her staff did not say if she's
been in touch with McConnell since returning home. Really, so
he's in the hospital and she's not by his side,
I think that's odd she left for the trip. It
gets even more bizarre. She left for the trip to
China on June twelfth. That's just two days after McConnell
(16:54):
was hospitalized, and there had been rumors that he was
found in his house on the floor. Now we don't
know if that's true. It remains on clear why McConnell
was hospitalized. Kentucky Governor Andy Basheer says he's been kept
in the dark.
Speaker 19 (17:06):
He still upset about that. We received no information, no updates.
If there's been any direct outreach, I'm unaware of it.
I don't want to speculate about anybody's health. The only
things that I know i've read and I can't verify.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah, I don't really understand why they're hiding this. It's
sort of like the same thing with Tom Kaine. Junior.
That was bizarre too, and their latest statement to this
station in Kentucky, McConnell's staff of the Senator said, the
Senator appreciates the outpouring of support he's receiving while he
continues to recover in the hospital, but they aren't saying
what exactly is going on with them. Five point twenty two.
Let's go over to Texas where the son of an
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illegal immigrant killed by ICE agents in Houston, demanding an
investigation today.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He did not deserve to die.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline
of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Rolando Sogaldo says his dad was in the process of
obtaining a work permit, was not a criminal, always drive
to a construction site when he was caught in what
the FEDS are calling a targeted enforcement operation, and I
spokesman says Lorenzo Sogado rammed their car, refused to follow orders,
and was shot when he tried to run over an
ICE agent. His son says, there's no way that his
(18:17):
dad did this.
Speaker 20 (18:17):
My father feared for his life as unmarked cars followed
my dad, who only wanted to get back to work.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
And he says his dad was in the process of
obtaining this work permit, was not a criminal.
Speaker 14 (18:28):
I dotted every I crossed, every te filled every document,
attended every appointment.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
He was close to obtaining his legal status.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
And now the family calling for an independent investigation into
that shooting. A video statement from the roommate and romantic
partner of Charlie Kirk's accused killer was played in court,
or more of it'll be played today. The police interview
with Lance Twiggs as part of the prosecution's case against
Tyler Robinson that's being laid out during this week long
(18:58):
evidence hearing that's taking place in Utah. Twigs video could
be huge, with Robinson reportedly confessing to Twigs about the murder.
Now on Wednesday, the defense objected to playing the interview,
saying it'll violate Robinson's right to a fair trial, but
the judge ruled it can be played with some redactions.
Now there was you know, as you've been hearing, Charlie
(19:19):
Kirk's widow, Erica Kirk, has been in the court room
for some of this. His parents, Kirk's parents have been
as well, and yesterday Donald Trump Junior was there.
Speaker 21 (19:28):
I'm there too, not only honored Charlie's legacy to support Erica.
His parents who were there, you know, seated all on
the road with us. It was it was just important
to be there.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Donald Trump Junior says he thinks this is a slam
dunk deal that you know that it is Robinson is responsible.
Speaker 21 (19:46):
There was so much stuff that, you know, amidst the
noise and the internet chatter that was laid out that
you know, I had never heard, and makes this case
very cut and drive.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The defense sounded very weak.
Speaker 21 (19:57):
The defense's only real tactic was seemingly to either stall
or try to not admit essentially any evidence whatsoever because
I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It would be too damning to their client.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
So at the hearings end, the judge will decide if
there's enough evidence against Robinson to proceed to trial. Five
twenty five, It continues to be a nightmare in Colorado.
This huge fire still burning business owners people in southern
Colorado near the Aspen Acres. They say they're worried about
just getting back to business. They're homes fires, hoping firefighters
(20:31):
will be able to gain containment of this thing. But
it's only what seventeen percent contains something like that, This morning,
at least that was the number last night. This man
works at a barbecue and a dispensary spot off the
interstate where this fire is, and he says, business, of
course is evaporate.
Speaker 22 (20:47):
Well, we get a lot of travelers, so we don't
have travelers coming through gas stations for shut down. Our
restaurant next door is completely shut down. It's a barbecue restaurant,
so they can't smoke their meat.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
This fire has gone through ninety six thousand acres, two
hundred and sixty structures, homes destroyed. Even though some people
have been allowed back into their homes, several thousand more
are still waiting. This worker at the barbecue says, just
not get so we don't.
Speaker 22 (21:12):
Have anybody stopping through. I literally have fifteen customers yesterday,
so I mean it's definitely taking a hit on our.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Business and firefighters just having a hard time containing this,
saying five point twenty six. Texas is looking to ban
foreigners from using American surrogates to have their babies, putting
spotlight on the issue of birthright citizenship.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Tourism is an illegal practice that exploits the extraordinary hospitality
that the United States and Texas offered millions.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
That State Senator Lois Colehorst, who is leading a hearing
in Texas on the issue of so called birth tourism,
data on how often this happens. It's kind of foggy
at best, but surrogacy agencies are private and the government
does not collect data. But conservative groups are framing the
debate as one that threatens national security.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Unfortunately, thousands of foreign travelers come to the United States
under false pretenses to give birth and secure citizenship for
their children. A Chinese billionaire used American surrogacy to father
over one hundred children.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
And now the Texas Governor Greg Abbott directing state officials
to immediately launch an investigation into a state hospital for
allegedly seeking to profit from birth tourism practices that he
says have been taking place for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It's the seventy seven WABC News Hour, Talking the News
with Noah Laden, All the news you need to know
with Joe Nolan, Traffic, Justin Elick, Sports, and now talking
the News with Noah on seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Yes, that's me, Good morning. It is Thursday, July ninth.
Here forecasts from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center, sun
and clouds. This morning, gonna be humid again, thunderstorms likely
this afternoon, the high eighty five tonight, overnight pop up
storms low seventy four, and then Friday is going to
be mostly cloudy, humid as well, and then the high
of eighty nine. If you are walking out the door
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with us right now, so happy you are seventy partly cloudy,
and Smithtown out on Long Island, it's seventy one and clear.
And Creusco over in New Jersey and it's seventy and
clear right outside our midtown studios. WABC News Time five
forty we told you that we got word that Bonnie Tyler,
you know, total eclipse of a heart singer, she passed
away at seventy five. Just getting a statement from the family.
(23:37):
They say that their heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly
passed away in Portugal last night as a result of
an illness that she was being treated for, but apparently
a shock. They she hadn't been you know, seriously, or at
least that's what the statement says at seventy five years old.
Of course, as more info comes into us, we'll pass
it on to you. Five forty one. New York City
(24:00):
has now two hundred and seventy three confirmed cases of
that notorious explosive diarrhea parasite you may have been hearing
about the According to the New York City Health Department,
the city is seen an increase in cases compared to
the previous years. Three hundred and one people sick and
so far for the entirety of twenty twenty six. The
number includes people who both recently traveled internationally. I guess
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most almost all these people have traveled internationally, and that's
the thought, is where they got it. The department still
investigating where and how the infected people may have been exposed.
They're working in conjunction with the CDC, the FDA, and
other health departments. Doctors say, you know you don't want
to catch just because it's not fun.
Speaker 20 (24:42):
It was usually start about a week after consuming the
contaminated food or water, and symptoms could last at least
a week. Usually it's more severe in compromised patients and
in the elderly.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Now, the state of New York also has one hundred
and twenty five cases since May one. Just three weeks ago,
the CDC reported fewer than eighty cases. Statewide, So clearly
people getting sick. Hence the second, Oh, I should point
out this is someone who had it. So she explains
what it's like.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Since the second to today.
Speaker 20 (25:16):
When I weighed myself this morning, I've lost ten pounds.
I'm scared to eat because the minute that anything hits
your stomach, you are in so much pain.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Okay, So symptoms include severe cramping, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, watery,
explosive diarrhea. While some who are infected never exhibit symptoms,
others need to be hospitalized. Now. This affection is usually
contracted during travel outside the US, as a result of
consuming food or water that's been contaminated with feces. It's
more common in tropical areas. That woman you just heard from,
(25:51):
she had traveled overseas five point forty three. New York
City is warning people to stay out of the ocean
at least a dozen beaches because of elevated bacterial levels
after all the rain this week, New York City Health
Department advising against swimming. The advisory even applies to waiting
in the water, but there have been no announcements that
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we can tell on the beach. In fact, at Coney Island.
There was only one small sign warning people not to
go in the water.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Oh my god, fish for more. Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Because the most information is power here exactly.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Yeah, so health officials just see have a sense of
how bad it is. They say the average bacterial level
is approximately twenty per hundred millimeters, but after all that
torrential rain, the bacteria sat at around two hundred and
twenty seven, more than ten times higher. An infectious disease
expert help make sense of the health risk.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
The most common problem is swallowing the water and getting
a gastrointestinal illness, virus or bacterial infection.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
It can be.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Irritating to the eyes and to the ears, and as
a general rule, it's you know, it's not very esthetically
pleasing to think that you're swimming in contaminated water.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
That sounds disgusting. Most of the swimmers are a lot
of them seem to be tourists from out of town,
and Cony Island din't seem to know anything about this.
Speaker 22 (27:09):
Ocean's the ocean to us were not around too much,
so dirty ocean still still the ocean.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah, we're used to freshwater, so that's terrible.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
That's heartbreaking, and now we can't go in because of bacteria.
If I would have had gone in there and get
an infection, oh my god, you know, like what's going
on here now?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
The amazing part of these people still win in a
lot of them even after hearing about that and one
more health story. Cooling tower testing it continues on the
Upper east Side as the number of Legionnaire's disease cases
continues to grow. As of ten o'clock last night, thirty
six reported cases, twenty two hospitalizations, no death so far.
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Health officials say the most common way to get sick
is from breathing missed from a contaminated cooling tower. It
can spread multiple city blocks. The city began testing cooling
towers in three zip codes on the Upper east Side
one double O seven five, one double O two eight,
and one oh one two eight. Officials say only about
one hundred and sixty cooling towers have been tested so
(28:09):
far as they try to figure out exactly where this
Legionella bacteria is coming from. Of course in New York
has one more information.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I don't feel the same, but I gotta go to work.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
They was giving off flies the other day about it.
Speaker 23 (28:19):
This is crazy I mean hearing about legionaires, but I
didn't know where it was, and.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I'm scared.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
We have.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
The Mayor's office plans to release a list of all
the buildings that tested positive for Legionella bacteria in the
coming days. In a moment, we'll head out to Long
Island for a wacky moment in a cemetery. We'll get
into that in just a moment. For first five forty five,
let's head over to the seventy seven w ABC Sports
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to build from Boilers. To start out in Queens, a
five run rally in the eight flifted the Mets to
a sixty two win over the Royals. In the middle
game of the three game series, rookie a j Ewing
at his first career lead Offpharmer a four hundred and
twenty foot blast to get things going forward New York
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and started Christian Scott fill out three hits, struck out
five and five scoreless innings. Up next for the Mets
to love that Sean and I work at the start
against Kansas City's Michael Waka in this afternoon's rubber game
finale of this three game set. First pitch from k
C is scheduled for one to ten PM. In Tampa Bay,
the Yankees got shut out three and nothing by the
Rays in the third game of a four game series,
dropping a five games back now of Tampa for first
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plays in the Division. The Rays struck out the Yankees
forty five times in the first three games of this series.
Starter Garrett Cole was charged with three runs over six
and a third innings of work. He gave up seven hits,
struck out six, and walked one on ninety seven pitches.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone and bench coach Brad Ausmis were
both dejected in the sixth inning, and New York has
now lost eleven of its.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Past thirteen games.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Up next for the Yankees the finale of this four
game set against the Rays this afternoon. With New York
buying four a series, Splint and Yankes have yet to
pick an opener against Tampa's Drew Rasmussen and what will
be a one ten pm, first pitch from Tropic Caana Field.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
How many games back are they now?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
They are five games back now, okay, so that's doable.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
They got to turn they you know what, they'll use
the All Star break to put the team back together.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, like a little rest.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Maybe they'll figure it out. I guess I'm not that
Maybe back after the All Star break. Yeah, maybe, I
don't know. I mean, you know, really, the only starting
pitcher in the last time through the rotation that has
come out and pitched like we've lost eleven of our
past thirteen games was Cam Schultzler, who came out and
put a stoppage to it in the opener of this
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four game set against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
But in Garakle wasn't bad last night.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
But again, you know, when the bats are going this cold,
striking out forty five times in three games, you're gonna
need some special stuff on the mound from these starting
pitchers to shut down these opposing offenses.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
And you're not. You're just not seeing it.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Let me see, I'll give you the glasses half full.
Look how they started the season. They had a great run. Yeah,
so that tells me that, you know, the Pats have
gone come back.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Have you ever heard of So there's this guy on
the team. He hasn't played in a few weeks. His
name is Aaron Judge. He's won three MVP Awards. I said,
Aaron bon Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know you take
a guy like that out of the line up fifty
home runs a year and drives in and help forty runs.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I mean I'll get back when I mean Carlos stan.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Still has to go through screening, wait till after the
All Star break everything.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Guys aren't even standing up out of their chairs, no
late and they're getting wheeled around in wheelchairs.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Could be where she could be a Mets fan.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Yeah, that's true about that.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
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Speaker 6 (32:01):
News Time five point fifty out to Long Island, Huntington,
the Huntington Cemetery, just a stranger moment there. This thirty
one year old is seen throwing rocks onto the street
from the edge of the cemetery. Three cars driving by
were hit by the rocks, and one of the rocks
hit a nearby dance studio. Here's one of the women
(32:23):
who saw this thirty one year old. His name is
Michael LaRock, and it's funny that his last name is
lo Rock, and he was throwing rocks. Thankfully, everybody's okay.
But she says it was bizarre because she saw him
throwing rocks and then all of a sudden, she said,
my guard got hit by one.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
I saw this guy on like behind the fence in
the cemetery throwing things. I couldn't see what it was
being thrown at the time, but then I saw him
wind up for a shot as I was passing by,
and then suddenly I hear like a thud on the
back windshield.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, so that's when she realized, Oh, I've been hit.
Speaker 12 (32:58):
I'm glad that it was my back windshield and not
my front, and I'm glad that I wasn't hurt, but
I am frustrated and angry because why why knee?
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Yeah, and she called the cops. I'm sure the other
drivers did as well. Rock ran through the cemetery to
get away from the cops. He knocked over a tombstone,
started fighting with the responding officers before he was taken
into custody. Faces as a sleut charges including cemetery desecration, menacing,
and criminal mischief. He'll be arranged at a later day.
(33:31):
Five point fifty two Mayor Mom Donna yesterday unveiling a
major plan that's expected. He says, take the MTA bus
system to a whole new level.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Less waiting, faster trips, and buses that arrive when they're
supposed to. We are also making sure that bus lanes
stay clear.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
He didn't talk about free buses yesterday, remember that was
one of his campaign promises. But the plan, dubbed next Stop,
is expected to speed up city buses by twenty percent
and shortened commutes by average six minutes each way. That's
a big deal if it works. Part of the plan
includes identifying fifty priority bus corridors for improvements, adding bus stops,
(34:09):
seating all door boarding, and installing real bust time arrival displays.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
By the time a year rolls around, you have saved
more than two days of commuting time.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That means breakfast with your family.
Speaker 11 (34:22):
It means having the time to argue balls and strikes
in your kid's Little League game.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
The city has committed nearly nine hundred million dollars over
the next five years to carry out that plan. Clean
up efforts continue in New Jersey after a number of
severe storms over the weekend. You know there's still people
in New Jersey who don't have powerful When the lights
went out on Saturday, arly fourth on Saturday storms. So
one of the places that was hit really hard was Paramus.
(34:47):
A lot of down trees there. A state of emergency
remain in effect in Paramus.
Speaker 24 (34:52):
Just see hickory trees and oak trees that are I
mean extremely strong trees to either be uprooted. Some of
them are snapped right off. I mean in oak side.
It's good change. So on the tops of the trees.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Right off we have they have all kinds of cruise
cleaning up everything all over Paramus Street parking in the
Bergen County town prohibited his cruise work to remove following branches.
I Meanwhile, across the Garden State, about eight thousand customers
have no power as they try to get it back
on this PGA golf instructor says local courses have been
impacted as well.
Speaker 24 (35:23):
There's three golf courses in the area. Got Pramise Golf Course,
you got Ridgewood Country Club, very prestigious club, and then
you've got Orchard Hills which is a nine hole golf course.
All three of them sustained a lot of damage.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Yah, they're still cleaning that up today. Five point fifty four.
While we're in New Jersey, a Cranford township committee meeting
taking an unusually weird turn after multiple disruptions during the
public comment session. The mayor there, her name is Kathleen Prutney.
She's calling for an end to antics after a chaotic meeting.
(35:56):
Apparently Cranford has attracted some weirdos. Who you know they
have you've never been to a town meeting. Usually what
they do is they'll have a public comment moment where
the everybody's sitting on a day, I saw the city
council members and then regular folk like you and I
get to stand up and ask about things like, you know,
when are you going to fix the swimming pool in
town or something like that. But what's happened is like
(36:18):
these strange people have showed up to make these meetings
way more entertaining. I think about my early days as
a reporter when I used to have to cover these
town meetings. I would have lived to have these people
show up because they were so boring. So one of
the people showed up at the Cranford town meeting on
Tuesday was dressed as a giant purple bong and he
dealt identified himself as Bong Hollio, and he addressed the
(36:43):
council with a baby dressed as a bong, and then
he's sang a Lizzo song before he was told to
shut the hell up.
Speaker 23 (36:50):
I'm oh, you no time, You're wasting Your time is
up off the sound system.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
I was trying to find more tape for him, because
I could have listened to him forever, but I could.
The mayor doesn't find this funny at all. She says,
you know, people want to make comments, and these guys
are ruining it, But I would argue the otherwise, that
guy's making it a whole lot more entertaining. And mile
marker one hundred and thirteen point three on the New
Jersey Turnpike in Secaucus, that's where a Jersey City couple
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had a baby boy.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Last week.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Kristen Fast was in labor with her husband driving her
to the hospital on the turnpike. But when they got
to that mile marker, baby Archer could not wait any
longer to come out, and so they ended up delivering
him on the highway.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
So I think we were in.
Speaker 23 (37:41):
The car for maybe ten minutes, and I said, this
baby is coming now. The JULA said pullover, hang up,
call nine one one. So we did that. ALX called
nine one one. The operator started walking him through what
to do.
Speaker 25 (37:56):
Yeah, next thing I know, I get in the back
seat and we're making sure she's comfortable and I looked
down and that baby's he's like he's ready to go.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
And then moments later in New Jersey State trooper his
name is Freddy goog Kayama. Now let me get that right,
guya kana. He responded to a nine to one one
call to help out this mother give birth.
Speaker 25 (38:17):
Cop comes, He puts on his gloves and he was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
He was great.
Speaker 23 (38:20):
I said, are you an EMT. He didn't answer, so
I said, you're not an empt I'm in danger. He
was fine, very calm.
Speaker 25 (38:30):
They said, you got to clamp that cord right away.
Do you have anything? Do you have like a string?
And I like panicked and looked in the front. Just
had an iPhone cable. So he just clamped the cord
with an iPhone cable.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
Came.
Speaker 23 (38:43):
They said, what is this?
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Yeah, that's pretty great. So the the loving and kindness
from the state police who helped out of me, everybody
wanted to show them a love, you know. They drove
him to the hospital and we'll hear. I'll let her explain.
Speaker 25 (38:57):
There are three policemen who showed up. I said, I
would love to be with her in the mbulance and
they were amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And they drove our car for us to the hospital
so nice, which was so nice. They valeated it.
Speaker 23 (39:06):
They paid for our valet and archers healthy.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
He's thriving. He's a Jersey boy through and through.
Speaker 23 (39:11):
I don't think you get more Jersey than being born
on the New Jersey turn.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
He definitely done. Good job done by mom, Dad and
those state troopers as well. Five point fifty seven traffic transit,
all the sevens. Here's Jill Nolan.
Speaker 26 (39:25):
Being born on the Jersey Turnpike, that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Isn't that awesome?
Speaker 26 (39:28):
Yeah, that's awesome. I was laughing too about your Crawford story. Yeah,
you did that too. You went to did the town
meetings early in your career?
Speaker 6 (39:35):
Oh god, the worst job did you do?
Speaker 14 (39:37):
Those?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 26 (39:38):
Ten dollars if they used your cut on the radio
stage they got and you got fifteen if they used
it the second.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Time, right, And it would always be like they were
fixing the pool steps and I had to sit for
like a half hour and listen to that and somehow
turn that into an interesting story.
Speaker 26 (39:52):
And there was always some guy in the crowd that
would argue with him. No matter what they said, he'd
argue with right.
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Speaker 1 (02:00):
This at least the top five.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
At five, the blame game begins over that crumpled Midtown tower.
Oh no, that explosive diarrhea outbreak, It's made it here.
What a weird moment in a Long Island cemetery. The
most entertaining town meetings in Cranford, New Jersey, and an
artist cashes in in the most unique way on Taylor
Swift's wedding. All right, let's get into it. At five
(02:25):
ZHO four, construction crews continuing to install temporary supports to
shore up that thirty seven story high rise on the
east Side that sparked fears of a possible collapse when
crews discovered those buckling columns inside. It has not shifted
since Tuesday, so that's good news. Yesterday many tenants and
residents in that neighborhood were allowed back inside their evacuated buildings,
(02:48):
including guests at the Hampton. And then these were tourists
from out of town who had to leave all their
suitcases stuff behind.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
It's a very much headache, very much headache.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
So we didn't have no poll.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
So you know, you've been money that you really don't
that you didn't put.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
In your budget.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Now they did a quick fix on this. By noon yesterday,
temporary shorings and beams have been installed from floors eighteen
through twenty three, and by last night work was proceeding
on the thirteenth floor. Official say Cruz working their way
down floor by floor installing those shorings all the way
down to the ninth floor. The Department of Buildings last
(03:23):
night saying that building is stable now. According to Metro Laft,
they're the developer overseeing this conversion project. This was a
Pfizer office building they're headquarters. Now they're converting it into condos.
They say the columns likely buckled under the weight of
newly expanded upper floors. Now the company said part of
the floor sagged by about four inches, but maintains the
(03:46):
building was never in danger of collapsing. In fact, they
put out a statement yesterday they say this incident is
nothing more than a typical construction mishap. That's how they
view it. But Mayor Mom Donnie, he doesn't see it
that way.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
All.
Speaker 11 (04:00):
We are going to be conducting a full investigation as
to how we got to this point because this is
not a necessary consequence of an office to residential conversion. This, however,
is clearly a breakdown in that process.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
And we're hearing from at least one of the workers
who was inside that building as this building was being
shored up.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You know, it could be that the piece was constructed wrong.
You know, That's what went through my head. Maybe it
was installed wrong. Maybe there was too much weight that
was put on the floor botton.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, apparently at some point we'll know the answer to
that question. Five oh six. Thank god, this guy's in custody.
This is the gunman, well, we should say, alleged gunman
who fired at that family celebrating Fourth of July having
a barbecue Coney Island on Saturday, eight people shot. NYPD
announcing the arrest of forty four year old Robert Smith
(04:47):
yesterday and connection to the incident that left eight people,
including four children, with gunshot wounds. Here was the grandmother and.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
That's always shooting till long around here, and it doesn't
matter what time it day, could be during the daytime, nighttime, whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
That was the grandmother of a twenty one year old
victim who remains in critical condition. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisias,
there was a family barbecue happening at the time when
this gunman allegedly fired through this crowd, at this crowd
through a fence. Smith being charged with multiple counts of
attempted murder. There are no details yet on a motive
or how police linked Smith to this crime. Up in
(05:26):
the Hudson Valley yesterday, just tragedy of seven year old
girl hit and killed by a bus in Munsie. Now
we don't have a whole lot of details, but rama
Bo police say this incident is under active investigation.
Speaker 13 (05:39):
There's no suspected alcohol or drug involvement and there's no
criminal charges being looked into at this time.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Cops unsure who's at fault. They do say that they
do not think the driver was speeding at the time.
Speaker 13 (05:51):
The child seven year old girl from Munsie and the
driver of the school bus is a twenty eight year
old mail from Munsie.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah, mess pronounced that girl dead at the scene. Drugs
alcohol suspected as contributors to the incident. The accident is
being investigated by the Rambopope Police Crash Investigation Unit. WABC
News Time five to ZHO nine. Democrat Graham Plattner, who
was the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine. He officially
dropped out of the race yesterday. Doesn't come as a surprise.
(06:21):
He had suspended his campaign a few days earlier amid
a sex assault allegation from a woman. He ranted on
for about eleven minutes in his goodbye speech, saying he
was getting off the campaign.
Speaker 14 (06:33):
I intend to file my paperwork to withdraw.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
The Democrat, announcing his decision following a recent sex assault allegation.
In the video, Plattner railed against the political establishment maintained
his innocence.
Speaker 14 (06:45):
Those in power, who have the ability to do so,
are using these allegations as an excuse to take away
all of the things that we need to run a campaign.
We are going to lose all of the things that
any campaign needs on the basic level simply to function.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, so he's out the president, President Trump weighing in
on this.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Surely good question of whether or not you believe the woman.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A lot of people say big falsehoods.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
It's uh, he's in a vine.
Speaker 14 (07:20):
He's in a vine.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
The main Democratic party had announced in a statement posted
to x that they had voted to hold a nominating
convention now to choose a new nominee. Platner's problems appeared
to come to head following a report in Politico where
a woman who dated Platner accused him of forcing her
to have sex with him almost five years ago despite
repeated objections. Now Platner has denied those allegations, but several
(07:42):
top Democrats quickly withdrew their support for him, called him
to end his campaign, which apparently he is going to do.
The unbattled Plattner had faced a bunch of questions before that.
By the way, it was the only thing, including claims
that he had a Nazi tattoo covered up. There were
some Democrats in Maine who were upset that he dropped out.
Speaker 13 (08:01):
Hotel nice try buddy, but get up.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We have to go with what we have.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
So apparently those papers will be drawn up today where
he'll withdraw from the campaign officially. Five eleven. Let's go overseas.
Still a mess in the Middle East. Iran's Revolutionary Guard
says it launched attacks on US bases in Kuwait and
Bahrain overnight and retaliation for recent American strikes on Iran
that was overnight as well. It warned, if the US
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aggression continues, the response will be to expand to other
US bases in the region.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But we've already won militarily. They every little, never little.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Left, and they want to make a deal so badly.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They called it a little while ago. They want to
make a deal so badly.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
That's the president of the Board Air Force One. He
is back at the White house this morning. Came in
about one point thirty this morning. He says the strikes
were retribution for Iran strikes on ships and the straight
of her moves. So they're just following back, vollowing back
and forth if it missiles at each other.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Crazy to be out of yes, so agrees sare a
little bit out of count joint, but they want to
make it do the badly.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
US Suncom reports American air strikes were conducted inside Iran.
News Nations Robert Sherman isn't cut.
Speaker 15 (09:14):
For the second consecutive night, American forces are striking Iran.
According to Iranian state media, there have been explosions in
southern Iran along the Strait of Hormus, which is in
line and in keeping with what we have seen these
strikes look like in the past, coming from Central Command,
targeting military infrastructure, air defense systems that exist along that coastline,
(09:35):
but also any launch capabilities that had historically been used
to target commercial ships.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Now, the President had been in Turkey the last couple
of days for the NATO summit, and reporters were asking
them yesterday during a press conference, saying, Hey, do you
think what's happening in Iran. It's been successful for the US.
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 16 (09:53):
When you say not a success, it's a tremendous success.
As a fake news likes to say how well they're
doing it doing terribly. They have three hundred and fift inflation.
When the war started, they had like six percent. They
want to make a deal, but they don't know how
to make a deal, and then they go around shooting
ships at night. I like that the Iran war has
been a tremendous military success. And you know, I can
(10:14):
only answer the question by saying they're not going to
have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
And the President again overnight on that flight back home
to Washington, says he thinks the ceasefire is over between Iran.
So what's next, We just don't know. And crude oil
prices sort about seven percent higher yesterday with the potential
for more US strikes against Iran. Chris Brigatti is the
chief investment officer at SWBC and shared his insight as
(10:40):
to what will happen if the straight offor Moves is
once again closed to shipping traffic.
Speaker 17 (10:44):
I do think the inflation picture is not over with yet.
We still expect to see some impacts because oil experts
are telling us the fact that it's going to take
several months, probably closer to a year to really get
everything lined up again with regard to distribution, refinery operation,
and transportation, even through an open straight of horror moves.
So ultimately, I don't think inflation picture is over with.
(11:06):
I expected to be stick here longer for hire as
the narrative, and I expect that to be a foreseeable future.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
All right.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
So those gas prices have gone down, of course, the
worries is they'll go back up again. And what we
should talk about NATO, because that's why the President was
in Turkey. He says the summit was successful. He says
leaders he met with her doing a great job for
their country, and he called them all smart people.
Speaker 18 (11:27):
Another focus at the summit is President Trump's push to
get NATO allies to boost their defense spending again beyond
already increased targets. Member nations revealed new military projects worth
billions of dollars to show their progress.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
That's, of course, that's of course one an Alice Barr,
the President on the sideline of NATO meeting with the
head of Ukraine talking about the fact that we're going
to help them with patriot missiles.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
A little Bertie.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Told me this about the fact that we'll give them
the right to make patriots know how to do it.
It's very complex, actually, but it's uh, you'll figure out
the complexity quickly.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Zelensky was there to meet with the President and he
said those meetings went well as well.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
We haven't informed the company of that yet, but that'll
kind of work out, all right.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Sure they'll be throughout, yeah, right, the President will be
back in over is the back of the White House.
Got back at about one thirty this morning. In a moment,
we'll head over to Kentucky and what is just this
strange story, right Mitch McConnell, we've been told, has been hospitalized.
Now we're hearing from his wife and the story just
gets stranger by the moment. We'll get into that in
just a moment, But first five fifteen, let's head over
(12:36):
to the seventy seven w ABC Sports desk. Good more
than justin Eller.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Good and wanting to you know him Laden. We will
start out in Queen's a five rountal rally in the
eighthlifted the mets to a six or two, went over
the Worlds in the middle game of a three game series.
Rickey aj Ewing hit his first career lead off armer
a four hundred and twenty foot The last to get
things going for New York started Christian Scott, allowed three.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Hitsome struck at five and five scoreless sinning.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
So up next for the Mets the lefty Sean and I,
who will get the start against Kansas City's Michael Waka
in this afternoon's a rubber game finale of this three
game series. First pitch from k C is scheduled for
one to ten pm. In Tampa Bay, the Yankees got
shut out three to nothing by the Rays in the
third game of a four game series, dropping a five
games back now of Tampa for first place in the division.
The Race have struck out the Yankees forty five times
(13:24):
in the first three games of the series.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Started Garrett Coles, charged with.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Three runs over six and a third innings of work,
gave up seven hit, struck out six, and walked one
on ninety seven pitches. Yankees manager Aaron Boone and bench
coach Brad Ausmis We're both ejected in the sixth inning
and New York has now lost eleven, it's passed to
thirteen games. Up next for the Yankees the finale of
this four game set against the Rays this afternoon, with
New York buying for a series split. Yankees have yet
(13:49):
to pick an opener against Tampa's Drew Rasmussen in what
will be a one to ten pm first pitch from
Tropic Cano Field. Check in on to the World Cup
off day yesterday as we get set to open up
the quarter final, which this afternoon out in New England.
That it'll be France in Morocco getting things going tomorrow
afternoon out in Los Angeles, Spain and Belgium will get underway,
(14:11):
and come Saturday evening five pm in Miami, Norway and
England before Argentina and Switzerland get going out in Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
My neighbor is from Morocco, Okay, And you realize how
nuts they are when you hang out with somebody who's
following the World Cup, who has since they're like, you know,
two years old.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I'm not sure I've ever done that before.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
It's insanity, Like he has everybody over his house is
from Morocco. They're all were in the Court of Jerseys, right,
and they're like way way more nuts than we are,
like about the Knicks or the Giants. It's an insanity
that I can't really explain.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
But it's fun to watch nationalism, baby, That's what it is. Yeah,
if we were good at Zacker, you'd see the same thing.
Maybe we would you arrive, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Mean, you know, you see the you see when we
go to the Olympics and we put a basketball team
up at the Olympics, meet every team by fifty points.
But like we're still packing the bars watching every game.
That's true, you know, watching every minute of every know.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Somehow it seems even more so with these with Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Of course, listen, you're in the quarterfinals. If you're Morocco
and you're looking at the teams left in this thing,
they have a shot.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
They have a shot. And when it comes to you know, the.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Size of these nations are the relevancy of these nations.
And I'm not knocking Morocco here, but you got Spain, Norway,
England or they can pull this off.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You know, in terms, day is the hardest game, right,
If they win this game, I think they have a
good shot.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You're playing in Bafe in France.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
This is the biggest game I mean, unless you were
playing defending champion Argentina. But yeah, those are the top
two teams in the tournament. So if you can get
past Spain, that's a big hill to climb.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Go out Morocco, Morocco shirt so I can join us party.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
We'll go over to your neighbors, get wasted later watch Morocco.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
That's your sports now, I'm I'm justin like on seventy
seven w.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
WABC News Time five to twenty. Let's head over to Kentucky.
It's been more than three weeks since Senator Mitch McConnell
was admitted to the hospital, and while questions about his
health remain unanswered, we're hearing from the senator's wife for
the first time in a statement that she sent to
w LKY, a TV station in Kentucky. A spokesperson for
(16:11):
Elaine Chow said that the Secretary was on a long
planned trip to China to support her family's philanthropic endeavors.
During the trip, she said she met with a number
of people, including the US ambassador. She says the senator's
health did not warrant an immediate return to the US,
so she's away while he's in the hospital. I don't
know how that would fly with your wife or husband.
(16:31):
Wouldn't fly with mime. Then they added that Chao has
since returned from her trip to China and is back
in the US. Her staff did not say if she's
been in touch with McConnell since returning home. Really, so
he's in the hospital and she's not by his side,
I think that's odd she left for the trip. It
gets even more bizarre. She left for the trip to
China on June twelfth. That's just two days after McConnell
(16:54):
was hospitalized, and there had been rumors that he was
found in his house on the floor. Now we don't
know if that's true. It remains on clear why McConnell
was hospitalized. Kentucky Governor Andy Basheer says he's been kept
in the dark.
Speaker 19 (17:06):
He still upset about that. We received no information, no updates.
If there's been any direct outreach, I'm unaware of it.
I don't want to speculate about anybody's health. The only
things that I know i've read and I can't verify.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah, I don't really understand why they're hiding this. It's
sort of like the same thing with Tom Kaine. Junior.
That was bizarre too, and their latest statement to this
station in Kentucky, McConnell's staff of the Senator said, the
Senator appreciates the outpouring of support he's receiving while he
continues to recover in the hospital, but they aren't saying
what exactly is going on with them. Five point twenty two.
Let's go over to Texas where the son of an
(17:42):
illegal immigrant killed by ICE agents in Houston, demanding an
investigation today.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He did not deserve to die.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline
of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Rolando Sogaldo says his dad was in the process of
obtaining a work permit, was not a criminal, always drive
to a construction site when he was caught in what
the FEDS are calling a targeted enforcement operation, and I
spokesman says Lorenzo Sogado rammed their car, refused to follow orders,
and was shot when he tried to run over an
ICE agent. His son says, there's no way that his
(18:17):
dad did this.
Speaker 20 (18:17):
My father feared for his life as unmarked cars followed
my dad, who only wanted to get back to work.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
And he says his dad was in the process of
obtaining this work permit, was not a criminal.
Speaker 14 (18:28):
I dotted every I crossed, every te filled every document,
attended every appointment.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
He was close to obtaining his legal status.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
And now the family calling for an independent investigation into
that shooting. A video statement from the roommate and romantic
partner of Charlie Kirk's accused killer was played in court,
or more of it'll be played today. The police interview
with Lance Twiggs as part of the prosecution's case against
Tyler Robinson that's being laid out during this week long
(18:58):
evidence hearing that's taking place in Utah. Twigs video could
be huge, with Robinson reportedly confessing to Twigs about the murder.
Now on Wednesday, the defense objected to playing the interview,
saying it'll violate Robinson's right to a fair trial, but
the judge ruled it can be played with some redactions.
Now there was you know, as you've been hearing, Charlie
(19:19):
Kirk's widow, Erica Kirk, has been in the court room
for some of this. His parents, Kirk's parents have been
as well, and yesterday Donald Trump Junior was there.
Speaker 21 (19:28):
I'm there too, not only honored Charlie's legacy to support Erica.
His parents who were there, you know, seated all on
the road with us. It was it was just important
to be there.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Donald Trump Junior says he thinks this is a slam
dunk deal that you know that it is Robinson is responsible.
Speaker 21 (19:46):
There was so much stuff that, you know, amidst the
noise and the internet chatter that was laid out that
you know, I had never heard, and makes this case
very cut and drive.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The defense sounded very weak.
Speaker 21 (19:57):
The defense's only real tactic was seemingly to either stall
or try to not admit essentially any evidence whatsoever because
I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It would be too damning to their client.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
So at the hearings end, the judge will decide if
there's enough evidence against Robinson to proceed to trial. Five
twenty five, It continues to be a nightmare in Colorado.
This huge fire still burning business owners people in southern
Colorado near the Aspen Acres. They say they're worried about
just getting back to business. They're homes fires, hoping firefighters
(20:31):
will be able to gain containment of this thing. But
it's only what seventeen percent contains something like that, This morning,
at least that was the number last night. This man
works at a barbecue and a dispensary spot off the
interstate where this fire is, and he says, business, of
course is evaporate.
Speaker 22 (20:47):
Well, we get a lot of travelers, so we don't
have travelers coming through gas stations for shut down. Our
restaurant next door is completely shut down. It's a barbecue restaurant,
so they can't smoke their meat.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
This fire has gone through ninety six thousand acres, two
hundred and sixty structures, homes destroyed. Even though some people
have been allowed back into their homes, several thousand more
are still waiting. This worker at the barbecue says, just
not get so we don't.
Speaker 22 (21:12):
Have anybody stopping through. I literally have fifteen customers yesterday,
so I mean it's definitely taking a hit on our.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Business and firefighters just having a hard time containing this,
saying five point twenty six. Texas is looking to ban
foreigners from using American surrogates to have their babies, putting
spotlight on the issue of birthright citizenship.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Tourism is an illegal practice that exploits the extraordinary hospitality
that the United States and Texas offered millions.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
That State Senator Lois Colehorst, who is leading a hearing
in Texas on the issue of so called birth tourism,
data on how often this happens. It's kind of foggy
at best, but surrogacy agencies are private and the government
does not collect data. But conservative groups are framing the
debate as one that threatens national security.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Unfortunately, thousands of foreign travelers come to the United States
under false pretenses to give birth and secure citizenship for
their children. A Chinese billionaire used American surrogacy to father
over one hundred children.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
And now the Texas Governor Greg Abbott directing state officials
to immediately launch an investigation into a state hospital for
allegedly seeking to profit from birth tourism practices that he
says have been taking place for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It's the seventy seven WABC News Hour, Talking the News
with Noah Laden, All the news you need to know
with Joe Nolan, Traffic, Justin Elick, Sports, and now talking
the News with Noah on seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Yes, that's me, Good morning. It is Thursday, July ninth.
Here forecasts from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center, sun
and clouds. This morning, gonna be humid again, thunderstorms likely
this afternoon, the high eighty five tonight, overnight pop up
storms low seventy four, and then Friday is going to
be mostly cloudy, humid as well, and then the high
of eighty nine. If you are walking out the door
(23:15):
with us right now, so happy you are seventy partly cloudy,
and Smithtown out on Long Island, it's seventy one and clear.
And Creusco over in New Jersey and it's seventy and
clear right outside our midtown studios. WABC News Time five
forty we told you that we got word that Bonnie Tyler,
you know, total eclipse of a heart singer, she passed
away at seventy five. Just getting a statement from the family.
(23:37):
They say that their heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly
passed away in Portugal last night as a result of
an illness that she was being treated for, but apparently
a shock. They she hadn't been you know, seriously, or at
least that's what the statement says at seventy five years old.
Of course, as more info comes into us, we'll pass
it on to you. Five forty one. New York City
(24:00):
has now two hundred and seventy three confirmed cases of
that notorious explosive diarrhea parasite you may have been hearing
about the According to the New York City Health Department,
the city is seen an increase in cases compared to
the previous years. Three hundred and one people sick and
so far for the entirety of twenty twenty six. The
number includes people who both recently traveled internationally. I guess
(24:25):
most almost all these people have traveled internationally, and that's
the thought, is where they got it. The department still
investigating where and how the infected people may have been exposed.
They're working in conjunction with the CDC, the FDA, and
other health departments. Doctors say, you know you don't want
to catch just because it's not fun.
Speaker 20 (24:42):
It was usually start about a week after consuming the
contaminated food or water, and symptoms could last at least
a week. Usually it's more severe in compromised patients and
in the elderly.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Now, the state of New York also has one hundred
and twenty five cases since May one. Just three weeks ago,
the CDC reported fewer than eighty cases. Statewide, So clearly
people getting sick. Hence the second, Oh, I should point
out this is someone who had it. So she explains
what it's like.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Since the second to today.
Speaker 20 (25:16):
When I weighed myself this morning, I've lost ten pounds.
I'm scared to eat because the minute that anything hits
your stomach, you are in so much pain.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Okay, So symptoms include severe cramping, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, watery,
explosive diarrhea. While some who are infected never exhibit symptoms,
others need to be hospitalized. Now. This affection is usually
contracted during travel outside the US, as a result of
consuming food or water that's been contaminated with feces. It's
more common in tropical areas. That woman you just heard from,
(25:51):
she had traveled overseas five point forty three. New York
City is warning people to stay out of the ocean
at least a dozen beaches because of elevated bacterial levels
after all the rain this week, New York City Health
Department advising against swimming. The advisory even applies to waiting
in the water, but there have been no announcements that
(26:12):
we can tell on the beach. In fact, at Coney Island.
There was only one small sign warning people not to
go in the water.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Oh my god, fish for more. Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Because the most information is power here exactly.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Yeah, so health officials just see have a sense of
how bad it is. They say the average bacterial level
is approximately twenty per hundred millimeters, but after all that
torrential rain, the bacteria sat at around two hundred and
twenty seven, more than ten times higher. An infectious disease
expert help make sense of the health risk.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
The most common problem is swallowing the water and getting
a gastrointestinal illness, virus or bacterial infection.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
It can be.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Irritating to the eyes and to the ears, and as
a general rule, it's you know, it's not very esthetically
pleasing to think that you're swimming in contaminated water.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
That sounds disgusting. Most of the swimmers are a lot
of them seem to be tourists from out of town,
and Cony Island din't seem to know anything about this.
Speaker 22 (27:09):
Ocean's the ocean to us were not around too much,
so dirty ocean still still the ocean.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah, we're used to freshwater, so that's terrible.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
That's heartbreaking, and now we can't go in because of bacteria.
If I would have had gone in there and get
an infection, oh my god, you know, like what's going
on here now?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
The amazing part of these people still win in a
lot of them even after hearing about that and one
more health story. Cooling tower testing it continues on the
Upper east Side as the number of Legionnaire's disease cases
continues to grow. As of ten o'clock last night, thirty
six reported cases, twenty two hospitalizations, no death so far.
(27:46):
Health officials say the most common way to get sick
is from breathing missed from a contaminated cooling tower. It
can spread multiple city blocks. The city began testing cooling
towers in three zip codes on the Upper east Side
one double O seven five, one double O two eight,
and one oh one two eight. Officials say only about
one hundred and sixty cooling towers have been tested so
(28:09):
far as they try to figure out exactly where this
Legionella bacteria is coming from. Of course in New York
has one more information.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I don't feel the same, but I gotta go to work.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
They was giving off flies the other day about it.
Speaker 23 (28:19):
This is crazy I mean hearing about legionaires, but I
didn't know where it was, and.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I'm scared.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
We have.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
The Mayor's office plans to release a list of all
the buildings that tested positive for Legionella bacteria in the
coming days. In a moment, we'll head out to Long
Island for a wacky moment in a cemetery. We'll get
into that in just a moment. For first five forty five,
let's head over to the seventy seven w ABC Sports
desk and here's justin Ella.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
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to build from Boilers. To start out in Queens, a
five run rally in the eight flifted the Mets to
a sixty two win over the Royals. In the middle
game of the three game series, rookie a j Ewing
at his first career lead Offpharmer a four hundred and
twenty foot blast to get things going forward New York
(29:06):
and started Christian Scott fill out three hits, struck out
five and five scoreless innings. Up next for the Mets
to love that Sean and I work at the start
against Kansas City's Michael Waka in this afternoon's rubber game
finale of this three game set. First pitch from k
C is scheduled for one to ten PM. In Tampa Bay,
the Yankees got shut out three and nothing by the
Rays in the third game of a four game series,
dropping a five games back now of Tampa for first
(29:27):
plays in the Division. The Rays struck out the Yankees
forty five times in the first three games of this series.
Starter Garrett Cole was charged with three runs over six
and a third innings of work. He gave up seven hits,
struck out six, and walked one on ninety seven pitches.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone and bench coach Brad Ausmis were
both dejected in the sixth inning, and New York has
now lost eleven of its.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Past thirteen games.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Up next for the Yankees the finale of this four
game set against the Rays this afternoon. With New York
buying four a series, Splint and Yankes have yet to
pick an opener against Tampa's Drew Rasmussen and what will
be a one ten pm, first pitch from Tropic Caana Field.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
How many games back are they now?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
They are five games back now, okay, so that's doable.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
They got to turn they you know what, they'll use
the All Star break to put the team back together.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, like a little rest.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Maybe they'll figure it out. I guess I'm not that
Maybe back after the All Star break. Yeah, maybe, I
don't know. I mean, you know, really, the only starting
pitcher in the last time through the rotation that has
come out and pitched like we've lost eleven of our
past thirteen games was Cam Schultzler, who came out and
put a stoppage to it in the opener of this
(30:35):
four game set against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
But in Garakle wasn't bad last night.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
But again, you know, when the bats are going this cold,
striking out forty five times in three games, you're gonna
need some special stuff on the mound from these starting
pitchers to shut down these opposing offenses.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
And you're not. You're just not seeing it.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Let me see, I'll give you the glasses half full.
Look how they started the season. They had a great run. Yeah,
so that tells me that, you know, the Pats have
gone come back.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Have you ever heard of So there's this guy on
the team. He hasn't played in a few weeks. His
name is Aaron Judge. He's won three MVP Awards. I said,
Aaron bon Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know you take
a guy like that out of the line up fifty
home runs a year and drives in and help forty runs.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I mean I'll get back when I mean Carlos stan.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Still has to go through screening, wait till after the
All Star break everything.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Guys aren't even standing up out of their chairs, no
late and they're getting wheeled around in wheelchairs.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Could be where she could be a Mets fan.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Yeah, that's true about that.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
We are still checking into the World Cup quarterfinals. They
get underway this afternoon four p I mean New England,
France and Morocco. Tomorrow afternoon in La it will be
Spained in Belgium. Saturday evening at five pm in Miami,
it'll be norwayan England and wrapping out quarterfinal action on
Saturday night it's Argentina and Switzerland. That is your sports
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Speaker 6 (32:01):
News Time five point fifty out to Long Island, Huntington,
the Huntington Cemetery, just a stranger moment there. This thirty
one year old is seen throwing rocks onto the street
from the edge of the cemetery. Three cars driving by
were hit by the rocks, and one of the rocks
hit a nearby dance studio. Here's one of the women
(32:23):
who saw this thirty one year old. His name is
Michael LaRock, and it's funny that his last name is
lo Rock, and he was throwing rocks. Thankfully, everybody's okay.
But she says it was bizarre because she saw him
throwing rocks and then all of a sudden, she said,
my guard got hit by one.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
I saw this guy on like behind the fence in
the cemetery throwing things. I couldn't see what it was
being thrown at the time, but then I saw him
wind up for a shot as I was passing by,
and then suddenly I hear like a thud on the
back windshield.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, so that's when she realized, Oh, I've been hit.
Speaker 12 (32:58):
I'm glad that it was my back windshield and not
my front, and I'm glad that I wasn't hurt, but
I am frustrated and angry because why why knee?
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Yeah, and she called the cops. I'm sure the other
drivers did as well. Rock ran through the cemetery to
get away from the cops. He knocked over a tombstone,
started fighting with the responding officers before he was taken
into custody. Faces as a sleut charges including cemetery desecration, menacing,
and criminal mischief. He'll be arranged at a later day.
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Five point fifty two Mayor Mom Donna yesterday unveiling a
major plan that's expected. He says, take the MTA bus
system to a whole new level.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Less waiting, faster trips, and buses that arrive when they're
supposed to. We are also making sure that bus lanes
stay clear.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
He didn't talk about free buses yesterday, remember that was
one of his campaign promises. But the plan, dubbed next Stop,
is expected to speed up city buses by twenty percent
and shortened commutes by average six minutes each way. That's
a big deal if it works. Part of the plan
includes identifying fifty priority bus corridors for improvements, adding bus stops,
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seating all door boarding, and installing real bust time arrival displays.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
By the time a year rolls around, you have saved
more than two days of commuting time.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That means breakfast with your family.
Speaker 11 (34:22):
It means having the time to argue balls and strikes
in your kid's Little League game.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
The city has committed nearly nine hundred million dollars over
the next five years to carry out that plan. Clean
up efforts continue in New Jersey after a number of
severe storms over the weekend. You know there's still people
in New Jersey who don't have powerful When the lights
went out on Saturday, arly fourth on Saturday storms. So
one of the places that was hit really hard was Paramus.
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A lot of down trees there. A state of emergency
remain in effect in Paramus.
Speaker 24 (34:52):
Just see hickory trees and oak trees that are I
mean extremely strong trees to either be uprooted. Some of
them are snapped right off. I mean in oak side.
It's good change. So on the tops of the trees.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Right off we have they have all kinds of cruise
cleaning up everything all over Paramus Street parking in the
Bergen County town prohibited his cruise work to remove following branches.
I Meanwhile, across the Garden State, about eight thousand customers
have no power as they try to get it back
on this PGA golf instructor says local courses have been
impacted as well.
Speaker 24 (35:23):
There's three golf courses in the area. Got Pramise Golf Course,
you got Ridgewood Country Club, very prestigious club, and then
you've got Orchard Hills which is a nine hole golf course.
All three of them sustained a lot of damage.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Yah, they're still cleaning that up today. Five point fifty four.
While we're in New Jersey, a Cranford township committee meeting
taking an unusually weird turn after multiple disruptions during the
public comment session. The mayor there, her name is Kathleen Prutney.
She's calling for an end to antics after a chaotic meeting.
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Apparently Cranford has attracted some weirdos. Who you know they
have you've never been to a town meeting. Usually what
they do is they'll have a public comment moment where
the everybody's sitting on a day, I saw the city
council members and then regular folk like you and I
get to stand up and ask about things like, you know,
when are you going to fix the swimming pool in
town or something like that. But what's happened is like
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these strange people have showed up to make these meetings
way more entertaining. I think about my early days as
a reporter when I used to have to cover these
town meetings. I would have lived to have these people
show up because they were so boring. So one of
the people showed up at the Cranford town meeting on
Tuesday was dressed as a giant purple bong and he
dealt identified himself as Bong Hollio, and he addressed the
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council with a baby dressed as a bong, and then
he's sang a Lizzo song before he was told to
shut the hell up.
Speaker 23 (36:50):
I'm oh, you no time, You're wasting Your time is
up off the sound system.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
I was trying to find more tape for him, because
I could have listened to him forever, but I could.
The mayor doesn't find this funny at all. She says,
you know, people want to make comments, and these guys
are ruining it, But I would argue the otherwise, that
guy's making it a whole lot more entertaining. And mile
marker one hundred and thirteen point three on the New
Jersey Turnpike in Secaucus, that's where a Jersey City couple
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had a baby boy.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Last week.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Kristen Fast was in labor with her husband driving her
to the hospital on the turnpike. But when they got
to that mile marker, baby Archer could not wait any
longer to come out, and so they ended up delivering
him on the highway.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
So I think we were in.
Speaker 23 (37:41):
The car for maybe ten minutes, and I said, this
baby is coming now. The JULA said pullover, hang up,
call nine one one. So we did that. ALX called
nine one one. The operator started walking him through what
to do.
Speaker 25 (37:56):
Yeah, next thing I know, I get in the back
seat and we're making sure she's comfortable and I looked
down and that baby's he's like he's ready to go.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
And then moments later in New Jersey State trooper his
name is Freddy goog Kayama. Now let me get that right,
guya kana. He responded to a nine to one one
call to help out this mother give birth.
Speaker 25 (38:17):
Cop comes, He puts on his gloves and he was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
He was great.
Speaker 23 (38:20):
I said, are you an EMT. He didn't answer, so
I said, you're not an empt I'm in danger. He
was fine, very calm.
Speaker 25 (38:30):
They said, you got to clamp that cord right away.
Do you have anything? Do you have like a string?
And I like panicked and looked in the front. Just
had an iPhone cable. So he just clamped the cord
with an iPhone cable.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
Came.
Speaker 23 (38:43):
They said, what is this?
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Yeah, that's pretty great. So the the loving and kindness
from the state police who helped out of me, everybody
wanted to show them a love, you know. They drove
him to the hospital and we'll hear. I'll let her explain.
Speaker 25 (38:57):
There are three policemen who showed up. I said, I
would love to be with her in the mbulance and
they were amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And they drove our car for us to the hospital
so nice, which was so nice. They valeated it.
Speaker 23 (39:06):
They paid for our valet and archers healthy.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
He's thriving. He's a Jersey boy through and through.
Speaker 23 (39:11):
I don't think you get more Jersey than being born
on the New Jersey turn.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
He definitely done. Good job done by mom, Dad and
those state troopers as well. Five point fifty seven traffic transit,
all the sevens. Here's Jill Nolan.
Speaker 26 (39:25):
Being born on the Jersey Turnpike, that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Isn't that awesome?
Speaker 26 (39:28):
Yeah, that's awesome. I was laughing too about your Crawford story. Yeah,
you did that too. You went to did the town
meetings early in your career?
Speaker 6 (39:35):
Oh god, the worst job did you do?
Speaker 14 (39:37):
Those?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 26 (39:38):
Ten dollars if they used your cut on the radio
stage they got and you got fifteen if they used
it the second.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Time, right, And it would always be like they were
fixing the pool steps and I had to sit for
like a half hour and listen to that and somehow
turn that into an interesting story.
Speaker 26 (39:52):
And there was always some guy in the crowd that
would argue with him. No matter what they said, he'd
argue with right.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
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