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Speaker 1 (00:00):
WABC New York, WRCR Hatterstraw 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 Laden, All the news you need to know
with Joe Nolan, Traffic, justin Elik, Sports and no Talking
the news with Noah on seventy seven WABC.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yes, that's me, Good morning. It is Thursday, July twenty third.
Or forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. A sunny,
beautiful day is on the way. The high going to
be eighty two tonight and overnight clear, a low sixty six,
and then we'll do it all over again for Friday, sunshine,
high eighty three. If you're walking out the door with
us right now, sixty in clear and Spring Valley up

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in Rockland, It's sixty three and clear in Patterson over
in New Jersey, and it's sixty six and clear right
outside our midtown studios. This is the top five at
five tiers for a soldier from Queens who was killed
in Jordan. Mayor Mom Donnie can't stop talking about BB Natanyahu.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
It ends up that five.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Places were hit by twisters. A New Jersey town is
essentially close today, and that con ed worker at your
door may be an imposter.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
All right, let's get into it.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
At five oh four, we got the news yesterday that
one of the four soldiers killed over the weekend with
Sergeant Angel Rampersad, who is from Ozone Park Queen. She's
among the US soldiers killed in an Iranian missile attack
on that US base in Jordan. The army releasing a
statement saying that the twenty eight year old, they said

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is believed to have been killed, but the family has
been told she was killed in action July seventeenth during
an enemy attack at the base. Rampersad was previously identified
as the missing and the family members they spoke out
yesterday this is her uncle and neniclose friend as well.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Faithful to her family and to her friends.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
I feel like right now everyone sees her as a soldier,
you know, rightfully, so you know she fought for this country.
But I think people need to recognize that she's still
just a teenager.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
And as words got around the neighbor neighbors into his
own park, some of them put up American flags right
on her block at ninety sixth Street.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
It's a tragedy.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
You know, you hate to see something like this happen
to a genuine hero.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
And these are good people.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
These are our neighbors, and we're all leaving our lights on.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Every house is leaving their lights on for her.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, mayor Mom.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Donnie releasing a statement yesterday that said Ramprisad's courage sacrifice
will not be forgotten. The Army says she enlisted in
March twenty nineteen, earned the Army Commendation Medal, the Army
Achievement Medal, two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Goods Service
Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal. This is somebody who

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really had excel.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
They see someone so courageous and so you know, dedicated
to the country that they love, and it's important to
look with in and find some of that in yourselves.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
He was watching the neighbors talk yesterday in Ozone Park
last night, talking just about how upset they were. Some
didn't know her at all, but came out to comfort
the family. And then you had President Trump. He attended
the dignified transfer of the four US soldiers killed in
those Iranian attacks over the weekend. He spoke to reporters
right prior to the ceremony.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, one of the hardest things to do for me,
It's one of the.

Speaker 8 (03:33):
Hardest things to do as a president, but it has
to be done.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
The four US service members were turned in flag drape
caskets at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It was
nineteen year old Isabella Gonzales, twenty five year old Tyler Freeman,
twenty eight year old Angel Rampersad were killed in that
Iranian missile hit their sleeping barracks in Jordan on Friday.
And then you had thirty year old Michael Swinton who

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died on Sunday while attempting to disarm a downed Iranian
drone in Iraq. President Trump shared a message to the
families of the fallen soldiers.

Speaker 9 (04:09):
We love you, We love your child, and that's what
they are to them. There their children. There's no games,
no nothing, that's their child and all you can do
is throw out your hearts.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
WABC News Time five nine. President Trump issuing a new
warning to Iran, writing on truth social yesterday that if
Iran shoots a ship in the straight HRM, who's the
US will respond by bombing one bridge or power plant
course mooned Jigrudi Davy reports that President Trump had earlier

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threatened to bomb Iran's Pickaxe Mountain.

Speaker 10 (04:45):
This is the underground site near one of Iran's key
uranium enrichment facilities. Iran has obviously said. Iran state media
has obviously said that that would be considered a major escalation.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
The president's comments come as the US has launched strikes
on Iran for twelfth twelfth straight nine.

Speaker 10 (05:04):
On the one hand, President Trump has made this threat
before and hasn't done anything. On the other hand, it's
also not clear whether there's anything significant in Pickaxe Mountain
for Iran's nuclear activity yet, or whether Iran has plans
to make it operational in the future. As Marco Rubio,
the US Secretary of State said at the Sea meeting
in Manila, the US doesn't want Iran to have control

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overhaul moves, being able to exact tolls, for example, and
this shows the leverage that Iran has over that waterway.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
And there is no movement so far on a ten
day ceasefire that's being advanced by some mediators in Pakistan.
Marko Rubio talking about that as well yesterday.

Speaker 11 (05:43):
We remain open to diplomacy, we remain open to working
it out in a negotiated way, but right now they
don't seem to be serious about that, and so we're
going to continue to protect shipping. We think other countries
should join us in that endeavor. We don't need them to,
but they should because they're more impacted by it than
we are.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Rubio says, Iran reportedly initiated the ceasefire proposal that they're
talking about in Pakistan right now, but he says, so
far he sees no sign that they're actually serious about
making a piece deal. He says, when they are, he says,
the US is ready to do so. And what we
can tell you that's happened in the last twelve hours
or so while you were sleeping. US Central Command said
late Wednesday that strikes were launched to further degrade Iran's

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ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting transiting
regional waterzos there their words, and then Iranian meeting reported
that there were attacks in four cities overnight, all in
southern Iran. Meanwhile, Kuwait says its air defenses had confronted
an Iranian drone attack overnight, and then Iran's Islamic Revolutionary

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Guards says that a tanker is a blaze in the
straighterhorror moves, while youmen's hoodies also claim missile and drone
strikes on two Saudy oil tankers in the Red Sea.
So just guessing messier by the moment. President Trump continues
to warned that they will bomb an Iranian bridge or
power plant every time Iranian forces hit a ship in

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the Strait of Hormuse. And so if this is accurate
that they did overnight, we'll have to see how the
President responds. Five to eleven. Let's bring it back home.
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro and his wife Celia gonna
stand trial here in New York next June. That's what
a federal judge decided yesterday. Maduro showed up to court
yesterday here in Manhattan and beijed jail garb. He entered

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the courtroom without shackles. He greeted the spectators with a
loud good morning in English. He waved at one of
the sketch artists as he took a seat at a
defense table now outside the courthouse. There were those four
and against the Venezuelan leaders.

Speaker 12 (07:47):
So that is why we are here supporting non Madua,
but supporting what the United States did, and especially President
Donald Trump, who was the only one who was capable
of looking toward Venezuela and what was happening in the country.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Now some of the protests outside.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Maduro took notes during the brief hearing, and Judge Alvin
Hellerstein granted him a few minutes to huddle with his
lawyers after that.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
All conclusion, I'm out.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
Here today to demand the release of President Nicholas Madudro
and First Lady Celia Potes and to demand the US
kicks his hands off of Venezuela.

Speaker 13 (08:24):
United State does not have.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
An interested the Venezula people in mind.

Speaker 14 (08:27):
All he wants the oil, he wants a natural resources.
That's all it's interested in. So we sent his solidarity
with the people of Venezuela.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Now, Maduro pled not guilty to narco terrorism yesterday drug
trafficking charges. His defense attorney signaled yesterday that he would
challenge the government's indictment based on an argument that Moduro
is immune from prosecution because he was the leader of
a sovereign nation. Five thirteen, tropical storm Bertha churning over
southern Louisiana Louisiana Governor Jeffrey Landry was urging residency yesterday

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to main vigilant, even as Bertha has lost a fair
amount of strifth.

Speaker 15 (09:03):
Even a weaker storm can produce dangerous rainfall, localized flooding,
and hazardous travel conditions.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, we were watching on as Bertha crawled into southern
Louisiana yesterday making landfall, packing strong winds far though from
its center, after closing beaches from the floor to panhandled
the Mississippi National Hurricane Centers. As Bertha made landfall in
the afternoon, land drew. The governor was warning people just
to take care.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Even though this was not as bad as originally predicted.

Speaker 15 (09:33):
It doesn't take a major hurricane to do major damage
in communities in Louisiana. So today's forecast is encouraging, but
it doesn't mean that we should be complacent.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
And the windstorm surge, they were the main threats for
the Deep South. Parks piers were closed up and down
the coast, as were some low lying areas. The storm
moving this morning towards Texas five point fourteen. While we're
talking whether it's the heat and California just incredibly hot.
In southern California, and it's the start of a heat
wave that's going to last until at least next Monday.

Speaker 16 (10:08):
There's some more oppressive type heat for a prolonged period
of time, and not that extreme heat that we can
get the same of year.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Meteorologist Doctor Robbie Monroe there with the National Weather Service,
he expects temps will be about one hundred and eight
just north of Santa Barbara down in San Diego. Those
sea temperatures, they don't normally see close to one.

Speaker 16 (10:27):
Hundred overnight lows from any area, So not a lot
of relief for the heat, especially in those evening time frames.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, and he says it's going to be hot for
a while.

Speaker 16 (10:35):
Heap building through Thursday and then continuing through at least Monday.
And you know, we might get a little bit of
a break for at least some areas early next week,
but that looks like the heat may build again.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, at least through Monday out in California. In a moment,
we'll head down to d C. Where it seems lawmakers
on both sides of the aisle are in favor of
this new healthcare bill. We'll tell you about that in
just a moment. For first five point fifteen. Let's head
over to the seventy seven w ABC Sports desk.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Good more than justin Ellen.

Speaker 17 (11:06):
Good morning to you know them all and start here
in the Bronx Smax Freed and the Yankees shut out
the Pirates, stood in up them last night in the
second game of a day night double header, so I
have to lose in the first game five to three
to Pittsburgh. Max Freed returned from the io and was
back to his usual self, dust in five innings of
one hit phone, striking out seven Firates along the way
at RBI from Jason Dominguez, his twelfth of the year

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in Antony Volpi is fifteenth of the year.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
New York now sits two.

Speaker 17 (11:31):
And a half games back of Tampa Bay for first
place in the Al East.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Up next four the.

Speaker 17 (11:36):
Yankees and off day to day before traveling to Philadelphia
for the weekend and a three game series against the Phillies.
In game one yesterday, though know him, you did see
some development with this story surrounding shortstop jose A Cabellero
from the Yankees finally getting reprimanded for his if you
want to call it a routine in the batter's box

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waiting until the eight second mark on the pitchclock to
make guye contact with the pitch.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
So what's the rule exactly?

Speaker 17 (12:02):
You have to do what you have to make eye
contact and engage with the pitcher. It's basically a telepathic
communication towards the pitcher to say we're ready to.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Go here, okay, and it's an acknowledgement and you have
a certain time for him. There's a clock.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
You have to do it by the eight second mark
of the pitch clock, and so he's been waiting till
the eight second right.

Speaker 17 (12:22):
At the eight second mark, so it's that very last.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Possible second that's legal wills.

Speaker 17 (12:27):
It technically within the confines of the rules, but the MLB,
with you know they which they have every right to do,
crack down on it. I mean, this is a new
rule with the pitch clock, with the making the eye contact.
So there's going to be some growing pains, you know,
there have been since this rule has been implemented and there.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Continue will continue to be.

Speaker 17 (12:46):
And this is one of the bigger contentions this year
so far, was this Cabalira waiting until the very last
second to really deceive the pitcher into you know, going
on his time.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
For is that working for him? Is he having a
good season?

Speaker 17 (13:00):
Was working for him?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know?

Speaker 17 (13:01):
I mean it was. It wasn't a glaring statistical difference,
and you know whether or not he'd get on base
or get a hit or anything like that, but yeah,
it was certainly making a difference in his production and
was definitely annoying opposing managers, pitchers, and clearly here he
got all the way up to the front offices of the.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Mlbing So what are they going to slap him with them?

Speaker 17 (13:22):
They know they slapped him with a shot not a
shot clock, a pitchclock violation yesterday And what is that?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
What is that? How much it strikes got he gets
called out? Oh I got you? Okay. So it's not
like a monetary fine. No no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 17 (13:34):
But he got called out last night, I got charged
with a pitchclock or yesterday afternoon got charged with the
pitchclock violation.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I mean, it's not the end of the world.

Speaker 17 (13:41):
It's not like he got suspended for a game or
he got fined or anything.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
But that and a certain game, it could change the
narrative of the game.

Speaker 17 (13:47):
Yeah, I think it certainly sent the message that he's
got to stop doing this.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
So what did he do? He just walked back to
the dugout.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, he didn't like take his bat and throw it
on the ground or anything like that.

Speaker 17 (13:55):
No, he didn't go beat up the umpire with his
baseball bat. But you know, there was obviously so pushback
for the they argued, Yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Hitting, the hit they did. The hitting came out.

Speaker 17 (14:04):
The hitting coach for the Yankees did get.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Ejected thereaf Oh and it wasn't an Aaron It was
a big deal.

Speaker 17 (14:08):
Yeah, it was of course, Well, of course somebody's gonna
get ejected after your you know, your shortstop gets called
on a pitchclock violation for something that technically is within
the rules. So yeah, there's definitely a reason for the
Yankees and Aaron Boone to be, you know, moderately upset
about this. But I think at the end of the day,
you're going to see Jose Cabaliro start to behave a
little bit lose battle though. I think so if you know,

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the MLB starts to communicate with their umpires and tell
them what to call out and what to look for,
you know, then it seems like really a collective effort
to get Cabayar to shape up here a little bit.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Well, so he has to practice so he can do
it within seven and nine tenths of a second, so
they can't get them.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah there you go.

Speaker 17 (14:46):
Yeah, take like, let's get milliseconds on that pitch clock
out in center field.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
How about it?

Speaker 17 (14:51):
And uh out In Milwaukee, the Mets lost four to
three last night's robber game series finale, dropping two of
three to the Brewers in the process. Marcus Senmion and
Brett Beatty forward for the Mets, who were and the
ant least started. Christian Scott struck out six and allowed
three runs, four hits, three walks in three and two
thirds innings. Next for the Mets, and off they today
before tomorrow night series opener against visiting Los Angeles Dodgers.
And we're looking ahead to football already. Jihants officially open

(15:13):
training camp on Tuesday next week, rookies reporting today. As
for the Jets, rookies will report on Saturday, followed by
veterans reporting on Tuesday of next week as well. That
is your sports No One man, I'm justin allock on
seventy seven WABCA.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Five twenty one. Let's go down to d C.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
There's a bipartisan bill to make healthcare costs more transparent
and a past a Senate committee. It seems like Democrats
Republicans are on board with this. It's called the Patients
Deserve Price Tags Act, which requires healthcare providers to publish
the cost of services so consumers will have the opportunity
to compare prices. This is great, right, I mean, how

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many times do you go to the doctors ive you
have no idea what you're going to.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Pay to get out of there?

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Colorado Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper is a co sponsor of
the measure.

Speaker 9 (15:58):
Our bill, let's patient snow before they go in the hospital,
what's going to cost there, itemized receipts, that's specified.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Employers will have negotiating power.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now you have senators on both sides of the AIS.
I will say the current system is an aggregated monopoly
where there is no trail price transparency at all.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
And they say with this bill that would have patients.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
Do deserve price tags as opposed to surprised bills.

Speaker 16 (16:22):
Our bill forces transparency, it forces competition.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Republicans on board with us, like Senator Bill Cassidy, He's
chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and
he's confident this bill will pass if.

Speaker 18 (16:35):
We hope to decrease the cost of health care and
therefore the cost of health insurance and therefore less out
of pocket for the patient. It begins with price transparency.
It's not the end of the story. It's certainly the
beginning of this.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah, you got to start somewhere.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
The senators say, if Americans don't know the cost, there's
no way to lower them. A similar bill has already
passed in the halse while we're down to DC. There's
a bipartisan push and has been for months more than
that at this point. Save AM radio in new vehicles.
Several large manufacturers argue that AM radio is becoming less necessary,

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citing rising costs and declining listenership.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
No doubt, if you listen to us.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know that AM radio is incredibly important, not just
because we give you lots of news information, because we're
entertaining as well. The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act
would require automakers to keep AM radio receivers in all
new passenger vehicles. The Oklahoma Broadcasters Association one of many
on board with this, and they explain why these radios

(17:35):
continue to be am radios.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Incredibly important. It really is about security.

Speaker 17 (17:39):
Whether you have tornado alerts, severe fire alerts, anything that
needs to come across to alert the public, it all
originates through am radio.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, and again, we're entertaining, at least I think most
of us are. Anyway, President Trump says he would sign
the legislation. You're just waiting for Congress to pass it.
President Trump giving a campaign style speech with the midterms approaching.
He was in mary Atta, Georgia yesterday at a local
high school there. One of the many issues President speaking

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about was his investment program called Trump Accounts, and he says,
it's as hot as a pistol.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
And under this groundbreaking new policy, every American child gets
a tax free investment savings account that can grow over
the course of their childhood and be used for them
when they reach eighteen or twenty one.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Great idea.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
By the way, the President, touching on immigration Iran as
well as he spoke to his borders in.

Speaker 19 (18:31):
Georgia, these accounts will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars
for these young people by the time they get to
let's say eighteen, Let's say twenty one, but by the
time they're just young adults, they could be worth hundreds.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Most likely will be huge money. Five twenty four, Secret
Service says they are ramping up security for the rescheduled
White House Correspondence dinner. It's taking place on Friday that follows.
You'll remember the assassination attempt at the original event back
in April at the Hilton. Secret Service Director Sean Curran
acknowledging that global instability, he says, is playing a part

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in the agency's threat profile ahead of this event on front.

Speaker 20 (19:12):
Just generally speaking, we are in a heightened level of
a threat environment right now. It's no secret now there
are things happening around the globe that are always going
to impact how we move, and that's how we evaluate
what our security plan is going to be.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Friday's dinner will be held at the Waldorf Astoria instead of.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
The Washington Hilton. It will be a shorter guest list,
and you can imagine this security will be much more enhanced.

Speaker 20 (19:36):
We'll always evaluate every plan, just like we do every site.
So if, to example, the President goes to the same
site one hundred times, we will send an advanced team
there one hundred times. Because things change, the environment changes,
the actual footprint will change.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
It all comes after thirty one year old Cole Allen,
who's from California, the accused of sprinting through security with
guns and knives in an attempt to assassinate the president
at the original dinner back in April Thfully, there was
a number of police officers who.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Tackled him before he could get inside that ballroom.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Out to California at five twenty six, the governor there,
Gavin Newsom, standing by his order for state workers to
return to the office. Can you imagine there's still in
California you can work from home? Not many two places
you can do that still, But they're fighting back. The
unionized workers say they don't want to go back to
the office. The govinor Newsom's Gavin Newsom, the governor there,

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says no, at least four days a week you got
to be in office.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Now you get three day weekends.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
You still do you know four years ago that would
have been a triumph.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Now it's some burden.

Speaker 15 (20:37):
So respectfully, I have a different point of view.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
We have some employees say their workplaces are not ready
with problems like lack of space and parking. But the
governor says office work benefits employees and communities, and he
disagrees that the mandate is too demanding.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
I mean, can you imagine too demanding to be four
days in office?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
He says, in person work builds a relationships and helps
downtown businesses.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
He's absolutely correct about that.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
While we're in California, the Republican candidate for governor in
California now focusing his campaign on voters who are unhappy
with President Trump. Republican Steve Hilton says he knows he
has a problem with some who say they won't vote
for a Republican because they're connected to the president, who's
kind of unpopular. Now, so the former Fox host calls

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himself a problem solver, and in some new ads that
are a good beginning to air, he says, look, you know, yes,
I'm a supporter of Donald Trump, but you don't have
to be to support me, because I want to radically
change the way California's wrong.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Maybe you hate Trump, Mago, whatever, but life here.

Speaker 12 (21:41):
Has become impossible for anyone who isn't already rich.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
We are going to fix that.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, So he says you don't have to like Trump
to vote for him. This comes as a recent Paul
finds that sixty one percent of likely California voter support
Javier Besserra, that's the Democrat, while thirty six percent support
Hilton in the upcoming election that's in November.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
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Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yes, that's me, good morning. It is Thursday, July twenty third,
or forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Sunny, beautiful day on the way.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
The high going to be eighty two, low humidity tonight
and overnight clear low sixty six, and then Friday is
much like Thursday, sunshine, high eighty three. If you're walking
out the door with us right now, so happy you are.
It's sixty clear in Spring Valley up in Rockland. It's
sixty three and clear in Patterson over in New Jersey,
and it's sixty six and clear right outside our Midtown.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Studios five forty two.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, we're finding out there were a lot more twisters
on Tuesday than we had initially told you. In fact,
inspectors with the National Weather Service that were out yesterday
confirming at least three tornadoes touched down in North Jersey
after Tuesday severe storms. Officials confirmed the one in Stanhope
that we knew about them we didn't know about was

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in Mount Olive, a third one in Pinebrook. They were
all EF one tornadoes, which ef ones are anywhere from
eighty six miles to one hundred and ten miles per
hour that can like you know, pull your roof off,
that can take mobile homes, pick them up and put
them in another place. Thankfully, there was not a lot
of damage from any of these, but neighbors say the

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big thing they saw in their neighborhood, this was people
in Parsipany Troy Hills.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Which was the fourth place that was hit on.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Tuesday, was that these big old trees that you thought
would never go anywhere because they were so gigantic and
deeply rooted into the ground. They tipped over and it
was so big it was like like it's I took
a picture beside it just to show my friends. They
didn't believe me, yes, so, trees, power lines they were
damaged in those twisters as well. Many people in certain

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sections in these towns still don't have power. They're waiting
for the juice to get flowing again. And the neighbors
describe the tense moments as these warnings appeared on their
phone that a tornado was coming, and then all of
a sudden, yeah, it was there.

Speaker 14 (24:15):
It went from zero to one hundred, so to speak,
extremely fast. He stepped outside shortly thereafter in the debris,
and that damage was quite significant, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Morris County homeowner Gianna Wasser. So she watched on her
doorbell camera as her Amazon pack just flew away.

Speaker 19 (24:33):
The way that they were swept up into the wind
and thrown down the street.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
It looked like the.

Speaker 10 (24:39):
Wizard of Ox.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Wasser said she had never seen any torrential like that
rain in her life. Before National Weather Services A tornado
made landfall in Westchester's well on Tuesday. It struck Purchase.
It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. It traveled
nearly two miles until it finished and rite book and
we were getting these Eyewinness accounts yesterday from people who

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said it was incredibly frightening, and they said it was
like seeing the movie Twister. They couldn't believe that it
was happening in a place like Westchester. They say, hey,
that happens in the Midwest, whether officials say it packed
winds that topped eighty five miles per hour likely started
on the Manhattanville College campbells where there were a bunch
of trees that were uprooted. Again, thank god, we didn't

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see any injuries from anybody, and the damage on all
these tornadoes ended up being quite minimal. In a moment,
we'll head to city Hall where Mayor Mom Donnie can't
stop talking about bb Nettanyal who He was talking about
him again yesterday.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
We'll get into that in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
For verse five forty five, let's head over to the
seventy seven WABC sports desk, and he.

Speaker 17 (25:45):
Was justin Now, have you ever seen that movie, that
new movie Obsession that came out.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
No one, milady, you love this movie. I haven't seen
it yet. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (25:51):
Well, in the movie the Kid, he snaps a stick
to make this girl fall madly in love with him,
become obsessed with him to the point where it becomes
concerning and she starts murdering all of his friends because
he's spending too much time with him. That's sort of
the situation we're starting to see here. To bb Nenna,
who snap a stick and say, I would say, Joe
run Momdani would love me more than anybody in the.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
World, it seems that that may have happened.

Speaker 17 (26:11):
Yeah, yeah, right, that's what I'm thinking, because that's the
only thing I could possibly think of as to why
it's the only thing the guy thinks of.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, whatever, it is an obsession for sure.

Speaker 17 (26:21):
Yeah, there's got to be some sort of heckuck you know,
hex on him or you or whatever.

Speaker 16 (26:25):
Whatever.

Speaker 17 (26:25):
There is magic is that play here?

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Anyway?

Speaker 17 (26:28):
There's I'm here for sports, not really to talk about mom.
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returned from the aisle was back to his usual self,
toss in five innings of one hit poll and striking

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out seven Pirates.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Along the way.

Speaker 17 (26:51):
He had RBI from Jason Diminguez, an entity ovolpe taking
care of the Yankees offense there, and I sit two
and a half games back of Tampa Bay for first
place in the AL E up next to the Yankees
and off day to day before traveling to Philadelphia for
the weekend. In three game series against the Phillies shortstop
Jose Caballerro, he was targeted in game one by Major
League based fall for some pest control if you will,

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sparking get another squabble between Cabayiro and the league where
he of his routine of waiting to acknowledge the pitcher
just before the pitch clock reaches eight seconds. MLB told
umpires yesterday his regiment amounted to deception. Plighted umpire Quinn
Wolcott charge Cabierro with the pitchclock violation in the sixth
then into Game one that led to a strikeout and
the ejection of hitting coach James Rolson, and as New

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York did lose that game one of that doubleheader as
previously mentioned five to three, So we'll see if Caballerro
shapes up here when he comes into the box. Tout
in Milwaukee, Mets lost four to three, and last night's
rubber game series finale, dropping two of three to the
Brewers in the process. Marcus Simeon and britt Baty Homer
for the Mets, who are last in the NL East,
started Christian Scott struck out six and allowed three runs,
four hits, and three walks in three and two thirds innings.

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Up next for the Mets and off day to day
before tomorrow tomorrow night's series opener against for visiting LA Dodgers,
and we'll check in on the NFL Giants Fitchley opening
training camp on Tuesday next week. Brookies reporting today and
as for the Jets, rookies will report on Saturday, followed
by veterans reporting on Tuesday of next week.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
As well.

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Speaker 3 (28:21):
WABC News Time five point forty nine. Mayor Mom Donnie.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Is taking a lot of heat from Jewish groups across
the city, not ones that you usually hear from, who
are lambasting him for his continued attacks on Israel and
Prime Minister BB Netanyahu. You remember on Tuesday night he
had that two minute address where he talked about Neta
Yaho's not welcome in New York City. Then he was
talking about BB being a criminal again yesterday. Now, the

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International Criminal Court had issued this arrest warrant for Netta
Nyaho in twenty twenty four for alleged war crimes and
crimes against humanity over the war and Gauza. And that's
what Mayor has been dow on.

Speaker 8 (29:00):
We are talking about someone who has been charged with
crimes against humanity, someone who has visited the city on
many an occasion, and who has been welcomed by previous mayors.
And I want to make it very clear that that
welcome ends with me.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
He did not stop there talking again about Neta Nyaho
in his visit here in September for the UN General Assembly,
and he called for people to come to the street
to protest against netaen Yah, who when he arrives here
for the General Assembly.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
There is in fact a rule of law across the
world where there are crimes that are so grave that
they offend all of humanity, and I believe that we
should hold those who perpetrate them accountable. And I can
also look at Benjamin Netanya who and see the way
that he has orchestrated this genocide and also deem him
to similarly be a war criminal.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Now, there were a bunch of Jewish organizations and these
are not necessarily political organizations that really came out after
Mom Donnie saying that he's making it unsafe for the
Jewish community. Was a constant talk about bb Netanyahoo. In fact,
one of them, Simon Weisenthal Center, saying that this is
a profound misuse of the office that's entrusted to the

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mayor by all New Yorkers. And they told them just
you know, basically, they stop Ordy, shut up, and they
said the group accused Man Donnie of repeatedly singling out
Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize
rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish States and will likely
deepen divisions here at home for the Jewish community.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
And then yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
The UGA that's the largest Jewish organization in New York City,
the United Jewish Appeal, they came out with the statement
yesterday too. I will point out these organizations that normally
keep quiet about this stuff, but they can't help themselves
because they can't believe what's going on.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
So here was the UJA yesterday.

Speaker 21 (30:44):
We asked that the mayor stop his relentless and singular
focus on the only Jewish state of Israel, and we
asked that the mayor jew his job. And I think
the reason why people elected the mayor was to help
bring the city together. We know that demonizing rhetoric against Israel.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Leads by yeah, and sure enough it did already. NYPD
investigating a hate crime Wednesday victim targeted over religion. Police
A video shows the aftermath of an anti Semitic attack
that happened Tuesday in Midwood. The suspect shoved a sixty
four year old man to the ground at the corner
of King's Highway and made a bunch of anti Jewish remarks.

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The victims back and hip were injured. So far, no
sign of that individual.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Five point fifty two.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
New York City's Health Department continues to investigate the legionnaire's
outbreak on the Upper east Side that has caused five
deaths and eighty two cases. Now the Health Department pushing
back big time against Council Speaker Julie Mennon, who says
that City Hall's done a terrible job of handling this.
So yesterday they put out their own people. The Health Commissioner,

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doctor Alistair Martin says there's been no cases over the
last week, and he says city Hall has done.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
A fine job.

Speaker 7 (31:53):
Our job now now that we've eliminated the source is
to identify specifically which tower this cluster, So that's the
work ahead of US.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Health officials believe all sources of the bacteria have been
eliminated after cooling towers were disinfected on thirty three buildings
that tested positive for the Legionella bacteria. You had the
council speakers saying they should just clean out all of
the tanks, and she still doesn't understand why they're can
to do that.

Speaker 8 (32:17):
We will not rest until each and every New Yorker
is living the public health that they deserve.

Speaker 7 (32:24):
Every single one of those deaths for US underscores the
importance of identifying the source and eliminating the source that
causes investigation in the first place.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, so you've got the city Council's going to do
a full investigation of city Hall's response to the legionnaire's
outbreak come September out to New Jersey at five point
fifty three. The town of Edison is essentially closed today,
this sort of strange story. So they can't decide and
can't get a vote on the city budget because there

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are some city council members who say they don't like
the way the money is being spent, and they.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Walked out on a vote for the budget.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
And so because this budget did not pass, the town
of Edison, which is big by the way, if you're
not familiar with this is not a small town. They
had to furlough three hundred and sixty workers yesterday, including
ten police officers, and that could increase to fifty four
officers today if there's not a rapid resolution now. One
of the council members who walked out on this budget

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hearing causing all of these furloughs is Richard Breschler, and
he says they're bresher and he says he doesn't like
what he's seen in this budget, and he wants answers
to how some of the money's being spent out.

Speaker 13 (33:36):
The simple things I was asking for was the bills
for easy pass right, total amount of fuel gallons that
you bought for the last two years, and then the
year from the prior administration.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
And then you had some people in Edison who were
just trying to do basic stuff at city Hall and
they were turned away.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yesterday, everything's canceled.

Speaker 12 (33:57):
So I need to figure out a new mode of childcare.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah. And the Edison police chief, he says this is
not good. He had to furlow some officers and he's
worried about furlowing more.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
I tried to tell them, listen, this is this is
a speedmump.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
But this is.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
Certainly an extraordinary circumstance. And I fully believe that Thursday
the council will come together, take care of what needs
to be taken care of it, and get these officers
back on the street.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, we'll have to wait and see the mayor there.
Sam Josie is calling for an emergency meeting tonight. The
council needs five votes for the temporary appropriation's budget to pass.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
What's happened before is that not all those members that
needed were needed in a public in person to vote
ended up showing up. So that's why they weren't able
to pass that.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
And we told you earlier this week about this Muslim
school that wants to open in the Long Island hamlet
of Base.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
They want to take over a Catholic boarding school. It
was a Catholic boarding school from the nineteen twenties until
nineteen seventy two, and more recently had served as a
home for Catholic priests. Well, they bought this piece of property,
this organization called the United American Muslim Association, and now
they want to turn it into a Muslim boarding school. Well,
there was a zoning meeting about this on Tuesday where

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about five hundred people shut up. And then over the
last twenty four hours people put up signs on their
lawn who oppose this religious complex, and they say it
strictly on a zoning issue.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Here are some members of the community solar traffic right
here on the main road. I think it would be
atrocious for the community.

Speaker 18 (35:30):
We don't want one hundred and twenty high school kids
living here.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
The town says that it has no comment on pending
land use applications, which is what they're debating. The Historical
Society says that nothing will change about this property and
the only thing that'll change is the faith of those
using the religious center. So there are people pushing back.
But neighbors say again they say has nothing to do
with the fact for their Muslim They say they don't

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like the fact that this is going to be a
full on boarding school.

Speaker 11 (35:58):
Again, they wanted to put a senior sent to hear
and we didn't want that due to the density and
the more traffic and all the problems that came with it.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
This is a boarding school has the same problems.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
And for the first time we're hearing from members of
the Muslim association that want to build this school. They say,
you should be fearful of us. We just want to
build a school.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
They don't need a fred Nunti. People come here like
the praide. This is for our future generations, for good
for our kids.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yes, of the town held a public hearing on a
proposed boarding school base or zoning board and meeting and
they have not made a final decision on that proposal.
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Speaker 3 (37:07):
What the heck is going on here