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Speaker 1 (00:00):
WABC New York, WRCR Hatterstraw one oh seven one WLR
Hampton Bays.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's the seventy seven WABC News Hour, Talking the news
with Noah Leiden, All the news you need to know
with Joe Nolan, Traffic, Justin Elick's Sports, and now talking
the news with Noah on seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, that's me.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Good morning. It is Thursday, July sixteenth. Your forecast from
the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Mix of sun and
clouds today, smoky air again, high ninety one, Tonight and
overnight partly cloudy, low seventy two, and then Friday partly cloudy,
high eighty eight. If you are walking out the door
with us right now, seventy and cloudy and Yorktown Heights
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up in Westchester, It's seventy two and cloudy in Lincoln
Park over in New Jersey, and it's seventy three and
cloudy right outside our Midtown studios. This is the top
five at five. The smoke may be worse today, Thanks Canada.
A very emotional hearing inside city Hall. Still no sign
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of a missing Hudson Valley lawmaker should Rex you were
Men's ex wife profit off his murders and what kind
of creep attacks a nun. All right, let's get into it.
At five h four. Most of the tri State, including
New York City, going to be under another air quality
alert today due to the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.
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It was pretty bad yesterday. I can tell you from
where I am, we have usually a pretty nice view
of midtown Manhattan. It was essentially gone. And it wasn't clouds.
It was all the smoke from those fires, and it
smelled like a campfire when you walked out the door
all day yesterday. Apparently it's going to be worse today.
The alert was first put in place from air quality
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control folks yesterday as the smoky haze enveloped parts of
the region. But if it, she'll say, the air quality
going to be worse today. No audioly?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
H is that?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
From my side? It's gonna be a very long show
if I have no audio, since my whole show is
a wall of audio. You want me try again? All right,
let's try it. Let's see if there's something on my side.
Did someone mess with my computer? I think it's usually
working okay over here? Well, I'll keep going. See if
you can figure it out. Health officials warning smoke from
(02:30):
the Canadian wildfires, compounded by the heat wave, is affecting
the air quality in the New York metro area. And
you would have heard this woman complaining about how it
was hard to breathe yesterday. You want me to try again. Okay,
let's try this. No hum, all right, Mayor Mom, Donnie says,
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cooling centers are up and running, and all of these
cities public libraries. Some libraries are distributing N ninety five
mass to those who want them, although some have said
it's harder to breathe with the mass on because of
the heat. Now the heat won't be as bad today,
but the mayor advising residents and New York shirkers who
have issues breathing to stay indoors if necessary. Officials from
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the city's emergency management departments say the air quality is
unhealthy for sensitive groups. Children, older adults, those who are
pregnant or have other medical conditions are advised to limit
time outside and should mask up in some cases if
you do go outside. And I can tell you when
I went to take the dog for a walk yesterday,
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the dog looked at me like, WHOA no this is intense,
the breathing this. I think even for animals it's a
little bit of an issue. And what was interesting yesterday
in Nassau County out on Long Island, fire officials there
said they received an abnormally high number of calls related
to smoke stemming from the wildfires in Canada. People were saying,
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wait a minute, is there a fire in my neighborhood.
I mean, that's how intense it was in some places.
In a post on Facebook, the Nassau County Fire and
Marshall's office wrote that the fire marshals said fire communications
are adequately staffed. In nine one one people were there
to handle the increase in call volume, But what they
were saying to most folk were that no, it's not
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a fire in your neighborhood. It is the Canadian wildfires.
And as I said when we began the show just
six minutes ago, it seems like it's going to be
worse today. Now maybe you saw some of this yesterday.
I was looking at photos online from people who were
on the beach on Long Island, out at Jones Beach,
and it had that orange glow, remember from back in
twenty twenty three where it looked like Mars in Midtown.
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It may look a little bit like that again today
in some places look like that yesterday. Either way, if
you're somebody who has an issue with breathing or health issues,
today may be a day just to sort of stay
close indoors in the air conditioning. All right, I'm gonna
see if I can figure out this audio. Maybe should
I move spots? Maybe I'll move to my other spot
since this audio is not working, because this show was
(05:02):
not work if I can't play by audio. So let's
do this. Let's do a little traffic at five oh seven,
first check of traffic and transit on this early Thursday morning.
Here's Joe Noen, Good morning, Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, how many times in my life that that it's
a station has got to because things weren't working.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, and it happened, you know, and yeah, it's unfortunate.
And then you know, they always tell you never to
go back and try to play a byte again because
you know it's not gonna work. And I just did
that and that's all right, No, it was fine. You
never know, sometimes it works.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
A second night New York crowd, New York Loud with
New York attitude, all year on talk radio seventy seven WABC,
WABC News Time five eleven.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Let's go out to Brooklyn. Did you see this video?
Two utility polls collapsing on park cars in Coney Island
yesterday sparked a fire. It crushed multiple vehicles, leaving hundreds
of customers with how power. The incident happened near West
thirty six and Surf Avenue. Video from the scene shows
thick smoke billowing into the air as firefighters battled the
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flames that erupted after these poles came crashing down.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I realized I didn't have any power, so I just decided, like,
go out just for a watch, just get some fresh
air till the power just comes out.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, after those poles came down, the power went out
for about one thousand people in the neighborhood. Now by
midday they had restored a fair amount of that, but
some still didn't have power going into last week.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
This morning, about six thirty does the light start the flicker?
And then after while my wife notice and scream, emmys,
can we have no power?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You might be hearing ping pong in the background. That
family they went to a local cooling center in Brooklyn
where they had ping pong tables. They had something to
occupy their time. It remains unclear what caused those poles
to falk on. ED responded to the scene. A portion
of West thirty sixth Street remain closed. Its cruise worked
to make repairs and just figure out why these poles
came in.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
With the electricity off and the power off, a lot
of elderly are going to suffer right now because today
is a really, really hot day.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
There was an elderly center in the neighborhood. They did
get the power back on there yesterday by the afternoon.
NYPD says four cars were damaged. One of them actually
exploded when this hotel, this poll came crashing down yesterday. Again,
they don't know exactly why that took place. Five point
thirteen up to the Bronx where a man from Mount
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Vernon has been arrested now charged with the death of
a thirty nine year old woman who was shot she
sat in her car in the Wakefield section of the Bronx.
This was about midnight on Monday. Police say fifty eight
year old Michael Foster arrested last night charged with the
murder of Julia Anderson ten counts of criminal possession of
a weapon. He's facing a slew of charges. Investigators have
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not disclosed the relationship between Foster and Julia Anderson.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
It comes home twelve o'clock in the night and usually
when she comes out with her and make it some
kind of little noise or something, I know she's home.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And then I was like, I was one day, what happened?
I saw the vehicle across the street and I saw
the door open. I guess they want to investigating, and
that's all I know.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, that's Julia's mom of Julia was shot twice in
the chest while inside her jeep Grand chero Key. She
worked at a group home for people with disabilities. They're
not clear who would have a beef with her and
what the deal was with Michael Foster if the two
had a relationship. So far, police if they have a motive,
they have now detailed what that motive is for the murder.
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Five point fourteen, President Trump announcing a large investment in
national security as the US conducted new strikes on around
over ninety spoke at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit
yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
We're clearing every obstacle to building the Defense Industrial base.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Just before the President took the stage US Central Command
to announce it, it started conducting an additional round of strikes
on Iran.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
They're all pouring back, the car plans, SAI plants, they're
all coming back. If they don't, they have to pay TAXI.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah, the President wanted to talk about the economy and
not the war.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
We couldn't even function two years ago in this country.
We couldn't get anything built, we couldn't get approvals, We
couldn't do anything now.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Iran's military warning overnight that all infrastructure in the region
will be crushed under what they call steel blows if
the US carries out this threat to attack Iran's civilian sites.
There was a talk by the President to strike infrastructure
if the Iranians don't come to the negotiating table. The
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US military launching another wave of strikes on Iran, with
Iranian media reporting explosions in at least four different towns overnight.
US military says it also disabled an oil tanker attempting
to sail towards an Iranian port in the straight oher
moves by firing hell fire missiles. Iran says overnight, it
carried out retaliatory attacks targeting US as sets in Kuwait,
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Bahrain and Jordan, and US oil reserves under heavy pressure
as the war with Iran has reignited. News Nation's Alicia
Neeves has amo the US Strategic.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Petroleum Reserve, created as a backup in nineteen seventy five,
was designated to hold up to a billion barrels of crude,
but now that emergency supply it's dwindling. The Department of
Energy say the reserve now contains just three hundred and
sixteen point five million barrels, the lowest level since nineteen
eighty three. This after frequent jawdowns during the war, including
(10:35):
I reported three million barrels just last week.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Almost one hundred million barrels of oil have been drawn
from the emergency reserve since the war began back in February.
In a moment, JD Van's vice president sits down for
an interview with the Joe Rogan Podcast. And there were
some interesting moments. We'll get to that in just a moment.
The first five to sixteen Let's head over to the
seventy seven WABC Sports desk. Good more than.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
Justin good morning to you know, them all laden start
out here in Atlanta. Lionel Messi and Argentina are now
one step.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Away from back to back a World Cup titles.
Speaker 11 (11:10):
Rallying for a two to one victory over England to
punch their ticket to take on European champion Spain in
the final on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
From Met Life at East Rutherford.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
The best that South America has to offer against the
best of Europe and as he fed the ball to
Enzo Fernandez to sweep in the equalizer from outside the
box in the eighty fifth minute, and two minutes into
stoppage time, he sent in a cross for substitute Flataro
Martinez to head in the winner. England will meet France
in the consolation game Saturday evening in Miami, all before
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Sunday's final from met Life at a three pm. Looking
forward to that was a great game yesterday, No, Argentina
clearly the better team against England. I mean they held
the ball in England zone there for about forty straight minutes,
maybe only a matter of time until they put one
end equal.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well, especially in the set and half, I mean there
were so many shots on goal it was I would
say it was one of the more exciting games of
the entire World Cup so far.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, without a doubt, totally.
Speaker 11 (12:08):
But I mean you know, once, uh, once you saw
Argentina really just peppering their offensive zone and kind of
had England on its heels that deep into their box.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Even the commentators were making it clear like come on now,
you know you got to get that ball out.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
But yeah, you know, Argentina clearly making themselves a better team,
and they.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Move on and Messy boy, I mean, he's just incredible, unbelievable.
You know that little assist at the end were of
the second goal and he's the oldest guy out there.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Little assists that was the most perfect crossover scenes beautiful. Yeah, yeah,
with his non dominant foot too, with his right unbelievable,
right on the money. So we're looking forward to that
final coming up on a Sunday and baseball's back tonight,
and that's.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Gonna win that final? Would you putting your money off?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I'm put my money on Spain man.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Even So, okay, they're a wagon.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
I mean, defense is unbelievable and and they just seemed
like a more x's and o's put together, well put
together team in terms of logistics less sloppiness, less sort
of improvisation. Everything was sort of mapped out on their end,
at least from my eyes. So we'll see, but yeah,
I'm going with Spain. They just seemed like too much
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of a powerhouse. Baseball's back tonight. Metzer sticking in Philadelphia
where the All Star Game was seven pm tonight, first
pitch for them open over three games that Christian Scott
will get their start and there.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Against Phillys Aaron Nola.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Yanks hoping their second half action coming tomorrow night when
they welcome in the La Dodgers for the opener of a.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Three game weekend series.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
There that is yours Sports, Noah Man, I'm justin. On
seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
WABC News Time five twenty one, Vice President jd Vance
says the Trump administration absolutely screwed up the rollout of
the Jeffrey Epstein files, conceding the White House botched its
communications after raising expectations before concluding there was little new information.
He made the comments during a three hour interview on
(14:00):
the Joe Rogan podcast.
Speaker 12 (14:02):
If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty,
we did misstand, especially the communications of it.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
What do you think should have been done?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
I think that we should have just dropped everything at
the very beginning, and like, obviously it takes a little
time to review the stuff, to find the stuff, to
redact things where you have victims and so forth, but
we should have just done it as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
The Vice president to throwing the former Attorney General Pam
Bondi totally under the bus as the official most responsible
for inflating expectations surrounding the Epstein file, saying she overstated
what we had and what we did not have. Now.
Bondi did not return comment or request for a comment.
The Vice President said that nearly during this three hour
taping in Austin, Texas, why does he have three hours,
(14:42):
by the way to do an interview? He clearly, she said,
Epstein's clearly had the connections to the highest levels of
American and Israeli intelligence communities, and he pointed to the
most SAD and the CIA, though he did not provide
any evidence for that assertion. Five twenty two down to
two axis were the governor there Greg Abbott, ordering an
(15:03):
independent investigation into last week's deadly ice shooting in Houston.
Speaker 13 (15:07):
The Texas Rangers are now going to be involved in
an investigation of this matter.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
He says there is an expectation that the nation's immigration
laws will be in force, but he says it cannot
be done without gunfire, or can be done without gunfire.
An ICE agent shot Lorenzo Arujo as he drove to
his construction crew to a job site two weeks ago.
Speaker 14 (15:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
There were no body cameras used and DHS has not
released any images or footage now. At the time, they
said that Araujo had drove towards these agents and that's
why they shot him, that he was using his vehicle
as a weapon. Here's Governor Abbott says. The Texas Rangers
have begun their investigations.
Speaker 13 (15:48):
Working alongside federal officials to get to the bottom of
exactly what happened. They work independently. They're well known not
just in the state of Texas but elsewhere for the
independence and conducting investigations.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Of Houston calling for a pause on all immigration enforcement
in his city until the deadly shooting is figured out
exactly what took place.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
They need to have a more tourium to call in
their officers and retrain them.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, the mayor there. John Whitmore says that police make
arrests all the time, and he says they don't normally
see this level of vit.
Speaker 14 (16:19):
Coman Security has to train their officers to de escalate
when they have someone cornered. Police arrest people on a
regular basis without the outcome being so tragic.
Speaker 15 (16:30):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
There were reports this week that Homeland Security planned and
end the traffic stops of the Resident shut that down
with a post to social media yesterday where he called
them an important and effective crime fighting tool. While we're
in Texas, a Texas murder suspect who fled to Italy
is asking not to be extradited. To the US. Correspondent
(16:50):
Raife Sanchees reports that Lee Gilly, who's accused of killing
his pregnant wife in twenty twenty four, appeared in court
and turn in Italy yesterday.
Speaker 16 (17:00):
Emotional in court today, he says he is innocent of
these charges, but his lawyers are focusing on the narrower
question of the death penalty. The death penalty is illegal
in most European countries and they tend not to extradite
people who are at risk of execution.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, so Italian officials say they've received assurances from Texas
prosecutors that they won't seek the death penalty, but Gilly's
lawyers say that's not another.
Speaker 16 (17:25):
Proscutors in Harris County say Lee Gilly killed his wife
Christa back in twenty twenty four. He was released on
bonds with electronic monitoring tag, but authorities say just weeks
before his trial was due to begin in May this year,
he cut that tag off and he fled to Italy.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Which seems to have been a good move.
Speaker 16 (17:43):
Italian authorities say they have received assurances from Texas prosecutors
that they are not seeking the death penalty in this case.
Gilly's lawyers say that those assurances are not sufficient.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Five twenty five, let's go down to Washington. Blanche grilled
by senators as he looks to be confirmed as the
next US Attorney General. He's the acting Attorney general right now.
Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Blanche about his relationship with
President Trump.
Speaker 17 (18:12):
And his lawyer was his lawyer and non the deputy
attorney general. So I met him as his criminal defense attorney.
I'm not sure there's very many people who have ever
had a criminal defense attorney who calls that person their friend.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Now, this was an interesting hearing because normally it's the
Democrats would do the grilling year, but in this case
it was the Republicans that were going after the acting
Attorney General. You had today's hearings or yesterday's hearings. Senators
were asking Blanche on the so called antony weaponization Fund
that would give one point eight billion dollars to those
claiming to be victims of the Biden administrator.
Speaker 17 (18:47):
It is a moot issue, meaning there is no weaponization fund.
The webosition fund is dead, it's not moving forward.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's Senator Chuck Grassley, who's from Iowa. He's the chair
of the Judiciary Committee. The first question Blanche yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You have a commitment that the Justice Department will make
anti trusted for soon a priority, with some concentration on agriculture.
Speaker 17 (19:10):
I have worked already closely with Secretary Rollins to not
only deal with the anti competitive behavior but also to
help ease prices in the cattle market around the country.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
So yes, Chairman, I'll commit to that.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
And then they asked Blanche about the release of the
Epstein files, with criticism of how is handled, an accusation
that some files have not been.
Speaker 14 (19:28):
Released, problematic reactions in sufficient effort to follow investigative leads,
a refusal to meet with victims.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
What would you like this committee?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
In all regarding these files.
Speaker 17 (19:42):
We reviewed over six million pages and if we learn
a new material, we will most certainly review it and
make it available.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Now, this is tough for Blanche. If he gets one
no vote from a Republican which is possible here, this
will never get out of committee. But what's interesting is
he could remain as the acting Attorney General for as
long as the White House wants him to. So even
if you weren't to become to get confirmed, he could
still be the acting Attorney General through the end of
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the Trump administration. It's the seventy seven WAVC News Hour,
Talking the News with Noah.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Laden, All the news you need to know with Joe Nolan, Traffic,
justin Elik, Sports, and now talking the news with Noah
on seventy seven WAVC.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yes, that's me. Good morning, it is Thursday, July sixteenth.
Your forecasts from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center mix
of sun and clouds today. The smoke's actually going to
be worse than it was yesterday today and it was
pretty bad yesterday. The high today ninety one. Tonight and
overnight partly cloudy, low seventy two, and then Friday partly cloudy,
high eighty eight. If you are walking out the door
(20:53):
with us right now, so happy you are seventy cloudy,
and Yorktown Heights up in Westchester, it's seventy two and cloudy.
And Lincoln Park over in New Jersey, and it's seventy
three in cloudy right outside our Midtown studios WABC News
Time five forty one. Really emotional day inside City Hall chambers.
Yesterday there was a hearing on banning the horse carriage
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industry in New York City, which animal rights activists have
been trying to do for well decades at this point.
So Council Speaker Julie Menin, she is now on board
with legislation, took part in the hearing on the matter yesterday.
Speaker 18 (21:30):
It is clearer than ever that horse drawn carriages jeopardize
as safety of our residents and our visitors, and that
is something we cannot continue to compromise on now.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The intense part, and there was a couple moments, big
moments yesterday. Family members of that teenage tourist from India
who was killed in a horse carriage cross last month
in Central Park. They testified. So here was the nephew
of the teenager who was killed in that actual I
should say, here's the aunt of the tourist to us
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skill make sure there's a.
Speaker 19 (22:05):
Last person to die from this industri His mother was shattered.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, I mean the whole family shattered. Indust I mean,
can you only imagine you're come here for a vacation
and you don't go home with your teenage son. The
parents they're back in India, but they wanted to testify
as well.
Speaker 16 (22:32):
Any of this.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
So they're asking the city to ban horse carriages around
Central Park. Now, the union representing horse carriage employees, of
course you might guess, are against the bill and they're
looking for safety changes instead. And you had some emotional
moments from them, people who make their livelihood as horse
and carriage drivers, and they say you can't take that
away from them.
Speaker 15 (22:55):
Such I couldnot imagine being ripped away from working aside
my heart in horse warm.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Just the thought of not being able to work beside
my horse is a sole qrush And for no one's
see the dedication, the love we share. Yeah, people have
done this for decades. Family members have passed these jobs
on to other family members. That built does include a
program to help course carriage workers transition to other jobs,
and we'll get to that part in a moment. One
of the people speaking out to ban the horse and
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carriages is Edie Falco, the actress.
Speaker 20 (23:23):
The fact that there's anybody in this room that can
look at an animal with the apparatus and the carriage
and the people in the traffic, and the sounds and
the smells on the heat and say sure, yeah, that's reasonable.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
And we are listening to some of the council members.
They were listen to this testimony trying to decide where
and how they'll vote. Councilwoman Lynn Shulman, she's from I
think it's the Upper east Side, supports a horse carriage ban.
Speaker 21 (23:48):
This is an industry with a long history in New
York City and for generations, carriage drivers have built their
livelihoods around this work. But times are changing and we
cannot ignore these tragic incidents.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
The legislation, if it were to pass, it would stop
the renewal of two year licenses for the city's sixty
eight horse drawn carriages, effectively ending the industry that's operated
here in the city for at least one hundred and
fifty years. Now, the key focus of this hearing is
what would happen to these workers if the industry was
phased out. They have promised these workers that the hospitality
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sector would find work for them if they lost their jobs,
but the head of their union says he does not
believe city Hall will follow through on that promise. There
are several layers of the industry.
Speaker 22 (24:30):
There are owners, there are owner operators, there are horse owners.
There are dynamics to this industry that we represent that
no one is speaking to because the truth is is
that then they would have to acknowledge that their interest
is to get rid of the livelihoods of these workers.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yes, so an incredibly impassioned hearing yesterday. So how and
when will this vote take place? We'll have to wait
and see. In a moment, we'll head up to the
Hudson Valley where this lawmaker went missing on Sunday and
they still can't find him. We'll get into that just
a moment before five forty five. Let's head over to
the seventy seven w ABC Sports desk. Here's justin alac
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Lionel Messi and Argentina are now one step away from
back to back World Cup titles, rallying for two to
one victory over England to punch their tickets to take
on European champions Spain in the final comes Sunday, and
he's to Rutherford of MetLife from Jersey, the best that
South America has to offer against the best of Europe.
Messi fed the ball to Enzo Fernandez to sweep in
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the equalizer from outside the box in the eighty fifth minute,
and two minutes into stoppage time, he sent in Across
for substitute Latara Martinez to head.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
In the winner.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
England will meet France in the Concilation Game Saturday evening
in Miami, all before Sunday's final. From Life at three pm,
We're gonna head two that one between Argentina and Spain.
MLB back in business at ten night and Mets pick
it up out in filling where they all our game was,
so they remained there against the Phillies the opener of
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a three game set. Christian Scott to get the start
for New York against Phillies.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Aaron Nola.
Speaker 11 (26:07):
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Speaker 4 (26:22):
Eighty five forty eight. Let's go up to the Hudson
Valley where New York State Police say they've ended this
multi agency searched for Ryan Ryan Courtney and Ryan courtneyon
was the Dover Town supervisor and on Sunday morning he
was doing yard work in his backyard in Dover and
then he went missing. And so they've been searching the
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woods for him over the last couple of days. No
sign of him. They're now asking hikers along the Appalachian Trail,
which is right near his property, to see if they
found him or have seen any side of him at all.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Sometimes you just have a destination and you just kind
of like you just go oh because you just want
to get some miles, and you just don't really pay
attention much, or you're surrounding.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Now, we were watching on yesterday scent tracking dogs. We're
checking spots all over, but the vegetation in this part
of Duchess County is really high overgrown. They're towering plants
that line sections of this walkway on a trail that's
right near his house. So it's just hard to go
through all this vegetation and figure out exactly where he
(27:26):
might be. Now you have the state police up there
say they're not going to give up, and you have
local people who know this law maker. He's a local
firefighter as well, and they say they're not going to
give up the search for him either.
Speaker 20 (27:36):
There's very thick brush, there is swampy areas, there are cliffs,
so the.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Men and women are experiencing difficult ays back there. Son,
he's a husband, he's a father to too.
Speaker 23 (27:46):
They want to know, just like we want to know.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We won't stop until we find out. Now here's what
we know about cordion is that he is an outdoorsman,
so he's somebody who's good at finding his way around
these hiking trails in Duchess County. But again, so far,
four days now, no sign of home. Forty nine, there
have been five hundred and seventeen reported cases of that
parasitic infection called cyclopariases. Some people know it as exploding
(28:14):
diarrhea in New York. Since May, a fair amount of
them are here in New York City. And now we're
hearing from some people who've gone through this, which is
not a lot of fun. One of them is Chase
strong Gio. He's an attorney from Queens. They spent weeks
suffering from the illness.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I felt really lethargic, nauseous, had a low grade fever,
had diarrhea. My body would not allow me to eat food,
and it even reached the point where drinking water was challenging.
I mean, I was having a lot of pain.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Now, he just thought he had a stomach fibers. But then,
of course, when he heard everybody else talking about this,
he went to the doctors. He got antibiotics. He's feeling
better now. He's trying to figure out what got him sick,
and it all points to one meal that his family
and friends had a week before he came down with
this virus.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
A common ingredient we were able to discern was either
a lettuce or a cilantro.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, and that seems to be the case and the
money of these cases across the country. You have the
Health Department, of course, trying to track this down as well.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I mean, I'm trying to be conscious, but personally, I'm
not that worried about it because I'm not gonna stop
eating berries and salad.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Gotta eat something. I mean, either you could stop eating
or you could.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Just take your chances, because I don't want to get
explosive diarrhea.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
And nobody does. So New Yorkers say, Okay, I'm just
gonna wash my fruits and vegetables a little more than
I normally. Don't know, I'm not changing anything. I'm just
you know, being careful about it. But it is what
it is. Yeah, I'm avoiding like raw veggies now.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
When my friends is vegan actually, and she told me
she's had to avoid so many of.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
The foods that she usually eats because of the Paris Nite.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, I had that moment where when they first announced
this the night before, it had had this huge salad.
But they say that bag salads, you should even wash them,
even though a lot of times they are like triple wah.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
And at first people were saying that they wanted to
get it because it's making people lose weight.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
And now no one is saying that.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Somebody saying, I think that's crazy. Wait, wait did you
hear that? Hold on a second. She said some people
want to get the virus so they could lose weight.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
And at first people were saying that they wanted to
get it because it's making people lose weight.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
But now no one is saying, well.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I haven't seen that. I think that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah, exactly, you're ready for summer. We don't like to
lose weight, but that's not the way you go about it.
Speaker 16 (30:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I guess it's not really a virus, aware of a parasite,
but I don't think you really want to do that.
The families of eight murdered women who face down Rex
Yureman during that trial last month and now want justice
beyond the courtroom. They say they're being victimized again after
this documentary has paid Asa Elurope. That's the Gilgo Beach
(30:43):
serial killer's ex wife a million bucks. Maybe you've seen this.
The documentary is on Peacock. It's called The Gilgo Beach
Killer House of Secrets. So she gets a million bucks,
and these victims say, wait a minute, why is she
profiting off of our love one's murders.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
They are not trying to rifle anybody's right. If you
want to do that, that's fine. We can go ahead
and sue because you're, you know, making money off the crime.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
The Gilgi Viach Victims Committee want lawmakers to revive New
York's Son of Sam law, which was enacted in the
nineteen seventies after serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested. It
was designed to keep criminals from profiting by writing or
speaking about their crimes. And they say there's a loophole
in this. They say that should extend to other family members.
So in this case, Rex Jorman's ex wife shouldn't be
(31:32):
able to profit off the fact that he killed eight women,
some of them being their loved ones.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
They were given this money because they were able to
get Peacock access to Rex. They are making money off
our family members that were tortured, and it's just disgusting.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Now, this bill to revise the Son of Sam law
that's been stalled now for three years, I mean constitutionality
or concerns and concerns over the constitution. It will be
reintroduced with some changes next year. But Yorman's ex wife,
her lawyer says she was a victim too, and that
these families have it all wrong, and that you know
(32:12):
she's making money because she's got a SURVI office.
Speaker 23 (32:14):
They're telling their story on how they would victimized husband's,
wise brothers, sisters, children. It's almost impossible to limit it,
and you can't take away someone's first ement rites to
tell their story.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, so we'll have to see what lawmakers do this
when they with this bill when they take it up again.
Out to Newark at five point fifty four, a nun
with Saint Rose of Lima Church in Newark is back
to performing her service within the community after she was
mugged along Eleventh Street on Saturday morning. At the time,
Sister Julia was walking to the bus stop to make
(32:48):
her way to work at a nearby nursing home. She
says that she was pushed to the ground, punch twice,
had her personal and then again this is a nun,
not that it is okay just to hit a regular home.
That this is somebody's on non New York Police they
did find the creep who did this for assaulted and
robbed this sister broad daylight.
Speaker 24 (33:08):
She's skinny, she's a very frail thing, and she's older
as you can ask, how can you do that to
a person like that?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah, that's the pastor at the church who says that
nun is now nervous of course to walk the streets,
but is back at work at Saint Rose of Lima.
The pastor says he's improving security now at the church
because he doesn't want anything like this to happen again.
Speaker 24 (33:30):
We're going to install cameras. I called it diace. I'm
gonna this is going to be a bunker. We have
no choice. Yeah, this area was improving. I mean that's
a sad thing.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yeah. So that's what the thought is is that they
caught up with this guy. What his motive was? Am
I just been a random mugging? Was there more than that?
They just don't know. The NYPD really wants to find
a man who's been robbing victims he's met on Facebook,
market place Two of the muggings took place in the Bronx,
a third in Brooks Glynn. Police say the victims each
(34:01):
agreed to meet the wanted man to sell items including
a watch, a pair of sneakers, and a Nintendo switch.
And then what happened was they showed up at the
scene and he robbed them all. He moaned them. It
has some people who put up things on Facebook Marketplace
rethinking that this is not a good idea to meet
random strangers to hand over the items and collect the cap.
Speaker 15 (34:23):
I think that you better move within your own circle
because there's enough people that you can change exchange within
your own circle. Then to go out and air on
course shit and then the line up with a zero yes.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
So Facebook Marketplace is safe in one way if you
do this. This is the the NYPD came up with
this idea and it's a great one. Every NYPD precinct
has a designated e commerce exchange zone for Facebook Marketplace
meetups or anything like that. So if you're selling something
and you want to meet somebody who's a complete stranger,
which a lot of times it is, head to one
(34:57):
of these NYPD precinct co commerce exchange zones. And you'll
be a whole lot safer because you're doing it right
in front of a police precinct.
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What the heck is going on here
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's the seventy seven WABC News Hour, Talking the news
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the news with Noah on seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, that's me.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Good morning. It is Thursday, July sixteenth. Your forecast from
the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Mix of sun and
clouds today, smoky air again, high ninety one, Tonight and
overnight partly cloudy, low seventy two, and then Friday partly cloudy,
high eighty eight. If you are walking out the door
with us right now, seventy and cloudy and Yorktown Heights
(00:47):
up in Westchester, It's seventy two and cloudy in Lincoln
Park over in New Jersey, and it's seventy three and
cloudy right outside our Midtown studios. This is the top
five at five. The smoke may be worse today, Thanks Canada.
A very emotional hearing inside city Hall. Still no sign
(01:08):
of a missing Hudson Valley lawmaker should Rex you were
Men's ex wife profit off his murders and what kind
of creep attacks a nun. All right, let's get into it.
At five h four. Most of the tri State, including
New York City, going to be under another air quality
alert today due to the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.
(01:28):
It was pretty bad yesterday. I can tell you from
where I am, we have usually a pretty nice view
of midtown Manhattan. It was essentially gone. And it wasn't clouds.
It was all the smoke from those fires, and it
smelled like a campfire when you walked out the door
all day yesterday. Apparently it's going to be worse today.
The alert was first put in place from air quality
(01:48):
control folks yesterday as the smoky haze enveloped parts of
the region. But if it, she'll say, the air quality
going to be worse today. No audioly?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
H is that?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
From my side? It's gonna be a very long show
if I have no audio, since my whole show is
a wall of audio. You want me try again? All right,
let's try it. Let's see if there's something on my side.
Did someone mess with my computer? I think it's usually
working okay over here? Well, I'll keep going. See if
you can figure it out. Health officials warning smoke from
(02:30):
the Canadian wildfires, compounded by the heat wave, is affecting
the air quality in the New York metro area. And
you would have heard this woman complaining about how it
was hard to breathe yesterday. You want me to try again. Okay,
let's try this. No hum, all right, Mayor Mom, Donnie says,
(02:52):
cooling centers are up and running, and all of these
cities public libraries. Some libraries are distributing N ninety five
mass to those who want them, although some have said
it's harder to breathe with the mass on because of
the heat. Now the heat won't be as bad today,
but the mayor advising residents and New York shirkers who
have issues breathing to stay indoors if necessary. Officials from
(03:15):
the city's emergency management departments say the air quality is
unhealthy for sensitive groups. Children, older adults, those who are
pregnant or have other medical conditions are advised to limit
time outside and should mask up in some cases if
you do go outside. And I can tell you when
I went to take the dog for a walk yesterday,
(03:35):
the dog looked at me like, WHOA no this is intense,
the breathing this. I think even for animals it's a
little bit of an issue. And what was interesting yesterday
in Nassau County out on Long Island, fire officials there
said they received an abnormally high number of calls related
to smoke stemming from the wildfires in Canada. People were saying,
(03:56):
wait a minute, is there a fire in my neighborhood.
I mean, that's how intense it was in some places.
In a post on Facebook, the Nassau County Fire and
Marshall's office wrote that the fire marshals said fire communications
are adequately staffed. In nine one one people were there
to handle the increase in call volume, But what they
were saying to most folk were that no, it's not
(04:17):
a fire in your neighborhood. It is the Canadian wildfires.
And as I said when we began the show just
six minutes ago, it seems like it's going to be
worse today. Now maybe you saw some of this yesterday.
I was looking at photos online from people who were
on the beach on Long Island, out at Jones Beach,
and it had that orange glow, remember from back in
twenty twenty three where it looked like Mars in Midtown.
(04:40):
It may look a little bit like that again today
in some places look like that yesterday. Either way, if
you're somebody who has an issue with breathing or health issues,
today may be a day just to sort of stay
close indoors in the air conditioning. All right, I'm gonna
see if I can figure out this audio. Maybe should
I move spots? Maybe I'll move to my other spot
since this audio is not working, because this show was
(05:02):
not work if I can't play by audio. So let's
do this. Let's do a little traffic at five oh seven,
first check of traffic and transit on this early Thursday morning.
Here's Joe Noen, Good morning, Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, how many times in my life that that it's
a station has got to because things weren't working.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, and it happened, you know, and yeah, it's unfortunate.
And then you know, they always tell you never to
go back and try to play a byte again because
you know it's not gonna work. And I just did
that and that's all right, No, it was fine. You
never know, sometimes it works.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
A second night New York crowd, New York Loud with
New York attitude, all year on talk radio seventy seven WABC,
WABC News Time five eleven.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Let's go out to Brooklyn. Did you see this video?
Two utility polls collapsing on park cars in Coney Island
yesterday sparked a fire. It crushed multiple vehicles, leaving hundreds
of customers with how power. The incident happened near West
thirty six and Surf Avenue. Video from the scene shows
thick smoke billowing into the air as firefighters battled the
(06:08):
flames that erupted after these poles came crashing down.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I realized I didn't have any power, so I just decided, like,
go out just for a watch, just get some fresh
air till the power just comes out.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, after those poles came down, the power went out
for about one thousand people in the neighborhood. Now by
midday they had restored a fair amount of that, but
some still didn't have power going into last week.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
This morning, about six thirty does the light start the flicker?
And then after while my wife notice and scream, emmys,
can we have no power?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You might be hearing ping pong in the background. That
family they went to a local cooling center in Brooklyn
where they had ping pong tables. They had something to
occupy their time. It remains unclear what caused those poles
to falk on. ED responded to the scene. A portion
of West thirty sixth Street remain closed. Its cruise worked
to make repairs and just figure out why these poles
came in.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
With the electricity off and the power off, a lot
of elderly are going to suffer right now because today
is a really, really hot day.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
There was an elderly center in the neighborhood. They did
get the power back on there yesterday by the afternoon.
NYPD says four cars were damaged. One of them actually
exploded when this hotel, this poll came crashing down yesterday. Again,
they don't know exactly why that took place. Five point
thirteen up to the Bronx where a man from Mount
(07:30):
Vernon has been arrested now charged with the death of
a thirty nine year old woman who was shot she
sat in her car in the Wakefield section of the Bronx.
This was about midnight on Monday. Police say fifty eight
year old Michael Foster arrested last night charged with the
murder of Julia Anderson ten counts of criminal possession of
a weapon. He's facing a slew of charges. Investigators have
(07:54):
not disclosed the relationship between Foster and Julia Anderson.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
It comes home twelve o'clock in the night and usually
when she comes out with her and make it some
kind of little noise or something, I know she's home.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And then I was like, I was one day, what happened?
I saw the vehicle across the street and I saw
the door open. I guess they want to investigating, and
that's all I know.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, that's Julia's mom of Julia was shot twice in
the chest while inside her jeep Grand chero Key. She
worked at a group home for people with disabilities. They're
not clear who would have a beef with her and
what the deal was with Michael Foster if the two
had a relationship. So far, police if they have a motive,
they have now detailed what that motive is for the murder.
(08:39):
Five point fourteen, President Trump announcing a large investment in
national security as the US conducted new strikes on around
over ninety spoke at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit
yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
We're clearing every obstacle to building the Defense Industrial base.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Just before the President took the stage US Central Command
to announce it, it started conducting an additional round of strikes
on Iran.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
They're all pouring back, the car plans, SAI plants, they're
all coming back. If they don't, they have to pay TAXI.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah, the President wanted to talk about the economy and
not the war.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
We couldn't even function two years ago in this country.
We couldn't get anything built, we couldn't get approvals, We
couldn't do anything now.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Iran's military warning overnight that all infrastructure in the region
will be crushed under what they call steel blows if
the US carries out this threat to attack Iran's civilian sites.
There was a talk by the President to strike infrastructure
if the Iranians don't come to the negotiating table. The
(09:40):
US military launching another wave of strikes on Iran, with
Iranian media reporting explosions in at least four different towns overnight.
US military says it also disabled an oil tanker attempting
to sail towards an Iranian port in the straight oher
moves by firing hell fire missiles. Iran says overnight, it
carried out retaliatory attacks targeting US as sets in Kuwait,
(10:02):
Bahrain and Jordan, and US oil reserves under heavy pressure
as the war with Iran has reignited. News Nation's Alicia
Neeves has amo the US Strategic.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Petroleum Reserve, created as a backup in nineteen seventy five,
was designated to hold up to a billion barrels of crude,
but now that emergency supply it's dwindling. The Department of
Energy say the reserve now contains just three hundred and
sixteen point five million barrels, the lowest level since nineteen
eighty three. This after frequent jawdowns during the war, including
(10:35):
I reported three million barrels just last week.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Almost one hundred million barrels of oil have been drawn
from the emergency reserve since the war began back in February.
In a moment, JD Van's vice president sits down for
an interview with the Joe Rogan Podcast. And there were
some interesting moments. We'll get to that in just a moment.
The first five to sixteen Let's head over to the
seventy seven WABC Sports desk. Good more than.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
Justin good morning to you know, them all laden start
out here in Atlanta. Lionel Messi and Argentina are now
one step.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Away from back to back a World Cup titles.
Speaker 11 (11:10):
Rallying for a two to one victory over England to
punch their ticket to take on European champion Spain in
the final on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
From Met Life at East Rutherford.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
The best that South America has to offer against the
best of Europe and as he fed the ball to
Enzo Fernandez to sweep in the equalizer from outside the
box in the eighty fifth minute, and two minutes into
stoppage time, he sent in a cross for substitute Flataro
Martinez to head in the winner. England will meet France
in the consolation game Saturday evening in Miami, all before
(11:42):
Sunday's final from met Life at a three pm. Looking
forward to that was a great game yesterday, No, Argentina
clearly the better team against England. I mean they held
the ball in England zone there for about forty straight minutes,
maybe only a matter of time until they put one
end equal.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well, especially in the set and half, I mean there
were so many shots on goal it was I would
say it was one of the more exciting games of
the entire World Cup so far.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, without a doubt, totally.
Speaker 11 (12:08):
But I mean you know, once, uh, once you saw
Argentina really just peppering their offensive zone and kind of
had England on its heels that deep into their box.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Even the commentators were making it clear like come on now,
you know you got to get that ball out.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
But yeah, you know, Argentina clearly making themselves a better team,
and they.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Move on and Messy boy, I mean, he's just incredible, unbelievable.
You know that little assist at the end were of
the second goal and he's the oldest guy out there.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Little assists that was the most perfect crossover scenes beautiful. Yeah, yeah,
with his non dominant foot too, with his right unbelievable,
right on the money. So we're looking forward to that
final coming up on a Sunday and baseball's back tonight,
and that's.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Gonna win that final? Would you putting your money off?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I'm put my money on Spain man.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Even So, okay, they're a wagon.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
I mean, defense is unbelievable and and they just seemed
like a more x's and o's put together, well put
together team in terms of logistics less sloppiness, less sort
of improvisation. Everything was sort of mapped out on their end,
at least from my eyes. So we'll see, but yeah,
I'm going with Spain. They just seemed like too much
(13:18):
of a powerhouse. Baseball's back tonight. Metzer sticking in Philadelphia
where the All Star Game was seven pm tonight, first
pitch for them open over three games that Christian Scott
will get their start and there.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Against Phillys Aaron Nola.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Yanks hoping their second half action coming tomorrow night when
they welcome in the La Dodgers for the opener of a.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Three game weekend series.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
There that is yours Sports, Noah Man, I'm justin. On
seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
WABC News Time five twenty one, Vice President jd Vance
says the Trump administration absolutely screwed up the rollout of
the Jeffrey Epstein files, conceding the White House botched its
communications after raising expectations before concluding there was little new information.
He made the comments during a three hour interview on
(14:00):
the Joe Rogan podcast.
Speaker 12 (14:02):
If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty,
we did misstand, especially the communications of it.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
What do you think should have been done?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
I think that we should have just dropped everything at
the very beginning, and like, obviously it takes a little
time to review the stuff, to find the stuff, to
redact things where you have victims and so forth, but
we should have just done it as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
The Vice president to throwing the former Attorney General Pam
Bondi totally under the bus as the official most responsible
for inflating expectations surrounding the Epstein file, saying she overstated
what we had and what we did not have. Now.
Bondi did not return comment or request for a comment.
The Vice President said that nearly during this three hour
taping in Austin, Texas, why does he have three hours,
(14:42):
by the way to do an interview? He clearly, she said,
Epstein's clearly had the connections to the highest levels of
American and Israeli intelligence communities, and he pointed to the
most SAD and the CIA, though he did not provide
any evidence for that assertion. Five twenty two down to
two axis were the governor there Greg Abbott, ordering an
(15:03):
independent investigation into last week's deadly ice shooting in Houston.
Speaker 13 (15:07):
The Texas Rangers are now going to be involved in
an investigation of this matter.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
He says there is an expectation that the nation's immigration
laws will be in force, but he says it cannot
be done without gunfire, or can be done without gunfire.
An ICE agent shot Lorenzo Arujo as he drove to
his construction crew to a job site two weeks ago.
Speaker 14 (15:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
There were no body cameras used and DHS has not
released any images or footage now. At the time, they
said that Araujo had drove towards these agents and that's
why they shot him, that he was using his vehicle
as a weapon. Here's Governor Abbott says. The Texas Rangers
have begun their investigations.
Speaker 13 (15:48):
Working alongside federal officials to get to the bottom of
exactly what happened. They work independently. They're well known not
just in the state of Texas but elsewhere for the
independence and conducting investigations.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Of Houston calling for a pause on all immigration enforcement
in his city until the deadly shooting is figured out
exactly what took place.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
They need to have a more tourium to call in
their officers and retrain them.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, the mayor there. John Whitmore says that police make
arrests all the time, and he says they don't normally
see this level of vit.
Speaker 14 (16:19):
Coman Security has to train their officers to de escalate
when they have someone cornered. Police arrest people on a
regular basis without the outcome being so tragic.
Speaker 15 (16:30):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
There were reports this week that Homeland Security planned and
end the traffic stops of the Resident shut that down
with a post to social media yesterday where he called
them an important and effective crime fighting tool. While we're
in Texas, a Texas murder suspect who fled to Italy
is asking not to be extradited. To the US. Correspondent
(16:50):
Raife Sanchees reports that Lee Gilly, who's accused of killing
his pregnant wife in twenty twenty four, appeared in court
and turn in Italy yesterday.
Speaker 16 (17:00):
Emotional in court today, he says he is innocent of
these charges, but his lawyers are focusing on the narrower
question of the death penalty. The death penalty is illegal
in most European countries and they tend not to extradite
people who are at risk of execution.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, so Italian officials say they've received assurances from Texas
prosecutors that they won't seek the death penalty, but Gilly's
lawyers say that's not another.
Speaker 16 (17:25):
Proscutors in Harris County say Lee Gilly killed his wife
Christa back in twenty twenty four. He was released on
bonds with electronic monitoring tag, but authorities say just weeks
before his trial was due to begin in May this year,
he cut that tag off and he fled to Italy.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Which seems to have been a good move.
Speaker 16 (17:43):
Italian authorities say they have received assurances from Texas prosecutors
that they are not seeking the death penalty in this case.
Gilly's lawyers say that those assurances are not sufficient.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Five twenty five, let's go down to Washington. Blanche grilled
by senators as he looks to be confirmed as the
next US Attorney General. He's the acting Attorney general right now.
Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Blanche about his relationship with
President Trump.
Speaker 17 (18:12):
And his lawyer was his lawyer and non the deputy
attorney general. So I met him as his criminal defense attorney.
I'm not sure there's very many people who have ever
had a criminal defense attorney who calls that person their friend.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Now, this was an interesting hearing because normally it's the
Democrats would do the grilling year, but in this case
it was the Republicans that were going after the acting
Attorney General. You had today's hearings or yesterday's hearings. Senators
were asking Blanche on the so called antony weaponization Fund
that would give one point eight billion dollars to those
claiming to be victims of the Biden administrator.
Speaker 17 (18:47):
It is a moot issue, meaning there is no weaponization fund.
The webosition fund is dead, it's not moving forward.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's Senator Chuck Grassley, who's from Iowa. He's the chair
of the Judiciary Committee. The first question Blanche yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You have a commitment that the Justice Department will make
anti trusted for soon a priority, with some concentration on agriculture.
Speaker 17 (19:10):
I have worked already closely with Secretary Rollins to not
only deal with the anti competitive behavior but also to
help ease prices in the cattle market around the country.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
So yes, Chairman, I'll commit to that.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
And then they asked Blanche about the release of the
Epstein files, with criticism of how is handled, an accusation
that some files have not been.
Speaker 14 (19:28):
Released, problematic reactions in sufficient effort to follow investigative leads,
a refusal to meet with victims.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
What would you like this committee?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
In all regarding these files.
Speaker 17 (19:42):
We reviewed over six million pages and if we learn
a new material, we will most certainly review it and
make it available.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Now, this is tough for Blanche. If he gets one
no vote from a Republican which is possible here, this
will never get out of committee. But what's interesting is
he could remain as the acting Attorney General for as
long as the White House wants him to. So even
if you weren't to become to get confirmed, he could
still be the acting Attorney General through the end of
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Time five forty one. Really emotional day inside City Hall chambers.
Yesterday there was a hearing on banning the horse carriage
(21:17):
industry in New York City, which animal rights activists have
been trying to do for well decades at this point.
So Council Speaker Julie Menin, she is now on board
with legislation, took part in the hearing on the matter yesterday.
Speaker 18 (21:30):
It is clearer than ever that horse drawn carriages jeopardize
as safety of our residents and our visitors, and that
is something we cannot continue to compromise on now.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The intense part, and there was a couple moments, big
moments yesterday. Family members of that teenage tourist from India
who was killed in a horse carriage cross last month
in Central Park. They testified. So here was the nephew
of the teenager who was killed in that actual I
should say, here's the aunt of the tourist to us
(22:04):
skill make sure there's a.
Speaker 19 (22:05):
Last person to die from this industri His mother was shattered.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, I mean the whole family shattered. Indust I mean,
can you only imagine you're come here for a vacation
and you don't go home with your teenage son. The
parents they're back in India, but they wanted to testify
as well.
Speaker 16 (22:32):
Any of this.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
So they're asking the city to ban horse carriages around
Central Park. Now, the union representing horse carriage employees, of
course you might guess, are against the bill and they're
looking for safety changes instead. And you had some emotional
moments from them, people who make their livelihood as horse
and carriage drivers, and they say you can't take that
away from them.
Speaker 15 (22:55):
Such I couldnot imagine being ripped away from working aside
my heart in horse warm.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Just the thought of not being able to work beside
my horse is a sole qrush And for no one's
see the dedication, the love we share. Yeah, people have
done this for decades. Family members have passed these jobs
on to other family members. That built does include a
program to help course carriage workers transition to other jobs,
and we'll get to that part in a moment. One
of the people speaking out to ban the horse and
(23:21):
carriages is Edie Falco, the actress.
Speaker 20 (23:23):
The fact that there's anybody in this room that can
look at an animal with the apparatus and the carriage
and the people in the traffic, and the sounds and
the smells on the heat and say sure, yeah, that's reasonable.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
And we are listening to some of the council members.
They were listen to this testimony trying to decide where
and how they'll vote. Councilwoman Lynn Shulman, she's from I
think it's the Upper east Side, supports a horse carriage ban.
Speaker 21 (23:48):
This is an industry with a long history in New
York City and for generations, carriage drivers have built their
livelihoods around this work. But times are changing and we
cannot ignore these tragic incidents.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
The legislation, if it were to pass, it would stop
the renewal of two year licenses for the city's sixty
eight horse drawn carriages, effectively ending the industry that's operated
here in the city for at least one hundred and
fifty years. Now, the key focus of this hearing is
what would happen to these workers if the industry was
phased out. They have promised these workers that the hospitality
(24:20):
sector would find work for them if they lost their jobs,
but the head of their union says he does not
believe city Hall will follow through on that promise. There
are several layers of the industry.
Speaker 22 (24:30):
There are owners, there are owner operators, there are horse owners.
There are dynamics to this industry that we represent that
no one is speaking to because the truth is is
that then they would have to acknowledge that their interest
is to get rid of the livelihoods of these workers.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yes, so an incredibly impassioned hearing yesterday. So how and
when will this vote take place? We'll have to wait
and see. In a moment, we'll head up to the
Hudson Valley where this lawmaker went missing on Sunday and
they still can't find him. We'll get into that just
a moment before five forty five. Let's head over to
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back to back World Cup titles, rallying for two to
one victory over England to punch their tickets to take
on European champions Spain in the final comes Sunday, and
he's to Rutherford of MetLife from Jersey, the best that
South America has to offer against the best of Europe.
Messi fed the ball to Enzo Fernandez to sweep in
(25:33):
the equalizer from outside the box in the eighty fifth minute,
and two minutes into stoppage time, he sent in Across
for substitute Latara Martinez to head.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
In the winner.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
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in Miami, all before Sunday's final. From Life at three pm,
We're gonna head two that one between Argentina and Spain.
MLB back in business at ten night and Mets pick
it up out in filling where they all our game was,
so they remained there against the Phillies the opener of
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a three game set. Christian Scott to get the start
for New York against Phillies.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
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Speaker 11 (26:07):
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Speaker 4 (26:22):
Eighty five forty eight. Let's go up to the Hudson
Valley where New York State Police say they've ended this
multi agency searched for Ryan Ryan Courtney and Ryan courtneyon
was the Dover Town supervisor and on Sunday morning he
was doing yard work in his backyard in Dover and
then he went missing. And so they've been searching the
(26:44):
woods for him over the last couple of days. No
sign of him. They're now asking hikers along the Appalachian Trail,
which is right near his property, to see if they
found him or have seen any side of him at all.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Sometimes you just have a destination and you just kind
of like you just go oh because you just want
to get some miles, and you just don't really pay
attention much, or you're surrounding.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Now, we were watching on yesterday scent tracking dogs. We're
checking spots all over, but the vegetation in this part
of Duchess County is really high overgrown. They're towering plants
that line sections of this walkway on a trail that's
right near his house. So it's just hard to go
through all this vegetation and figure out exactly where he
(27:26):
might be. Now you have the state police up there
say they're not going to give up, and you have
local people who know this law maker. He's a local
firefighter as well, and they say they're not going to
give up the search for him either.
Speaker 20 (27:36):
There's very thick brush, there is swampy areas, there are cliffs,
so the.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Men and women are experiencing difficult ays back there. Son,
he's a husband, he's a father to too.
Speaker 23 (27:46):
They want to know, just like we want to know.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We won't stop until we find out. Now here's what
we know about cordion is that he is an outdoorsman,
so he's somebody who's good at finding his way around
these hiking trails in Duchess County. But again, so far,
four days now, no sign of home. Forty nine, there
have been five hundred and seventeen reported cases of that
parasitic infection called cyclopariases. Some people know it as exploding
(28:14):
diarrhea in New York. Since May, a fair amount of
them are here in New York City. And now we're
hearing from some people who've gone through this, which is
not a lot of fun. One of them is Chase
strong Gio. He's an attorney from Queens. They spent weeks
suffering from the illness.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I felt really lethargic, nauseous, had a low grade fever,
had diarrhea. My body would not allow me to eat food,
and it even reached the point where drinking water was challenging.
I mean, I was having a lot of pain.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Now, he just thought he had a stomach fibers. But then,
of course, when he heard everybody else talking about this,
he went to the doctors. He got antibiotics. He's feeling
better now. He's trying to figure out what got him sick,
and it all points to one meal that his family
and friends had a week before he came down with
this virus.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
A common ingredient we were able to discern was either
a lettuce or a cilantro.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, and that seems to be the case and the
money of these cases across the country. You have the
Health Department, of course, trying to track this down as well.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I mean, I'm trying to be conscious, but personally, I'm
not that worried about it because I'm not gonna stop
eating berries and salad.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Gotta eat something. I mean, either you could stop eating
or you could.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Just take your chances, because I don't want to get
explosive diarrhea.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
And nobody does. So New Yorkers say, Okay, I'm just
gonna wash my fruits and vegetables a little more than
I normally. Don't know, I'm not changing anything. I'm just
you know, being careful about it. But it is what
it is. Yeah, I'm avoiding like raw veggies now.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
When my friends is vegan actually, and she told me
she's had to avoid so many of.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
The foods that she usually eats because of the Paris Nite.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, I had that moment where when they first announced
this the night before, it had had this huge salad.
But they say that bag salads, you should even wash them,
even though a lot of times they are like triple wah.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
And at first people were saying that they wanted to
get it because it's making people lose weight.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
And now no one is saying that.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Somebody saying, I think that's crazy. Wait, wait did you
hear that? Hold on a second. She said some people
want to get the virus so they could lose weight.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
And at first people were saying that they wanted to
get it because it's making people lose weight.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
But now no one is saying, well.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I haven't seen that. I think that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah, exactly, you're ready for summer. We don't like to
lose weight, but that's not the way you go about it.
Speaker 16 (30:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I guess it's not really a virus, aware of a parasite,
but I don't think you really want to do that.
The families of eight murdered women who face down Rex
Yureman during that trial last month and now want justice
beyond the courtroom. They say they're being victimized again after
this documentary has paid Asa Elurope. That's the Gilgo Beach
(30:43):
serial killer's ex wife a million bucks. Maybe you've seen this.
The documentary is on Peacock. It's called The Gilgo Beach
Killer House of Secrets. So she gets a million bucks,
and these victims say, wait a minute, why is she
profiting off of our love one's murders.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
They are not trying to rifle anybody's right. If you
want to do that, that's fine. We can go ahead
and sue because you're, you know, making money off the crime.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
The Gilgi Viach Victims Committee want lawmakers to revive New
York's Son of Sam law, which was enacted in the
nineteen seventies after serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested. It
was designed to keep criminals from profiting by writing or
speaking about their crimes. And they say there's a loophole
in this. They say that should extend to other family members.
So in this case, Rex Jorman's ex wife shouldn't be
(31:32):
able to profit off the fact that he killed eight women,
some of them being their loved ones.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
They were given this money because they were able to
get Peacock access to Rex. They are making money off
our family members that were tortured, and it's just disgusting.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Now, this bill to revise the Son of Sam law
that's been stalled now for three years, I mean constitutionality
or concerns and concerns over the constitution. It will be
reintroduced with some changes next year. But Yorman's ex wife,
her lawyer says she was a victim too, and that
these families have it all wrong, and that you know
(32:12):
she's making money because she's got a SURVI office.
Speaker 23 (32:14):
They're telling their story on how they would victimized husband's,
wise brothers, sisters, children. It's almost impossible to limit it,
and you can't take away someone's first ement rites to
tell their story.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, so we'll have to see what lawmakers do this
when they with this bill when they take it up again.
Out to Newark at five point fifty four, a nun
with Saint Rose of Lima Church in Newark is back
to performing her service within the community after she was
mugged along Eleventh Street on Saturday morning. At the time,
Sister Julia was walking to the bus stop to make
(32:48):
her way to work at a nearby nursing home. She
says that she was pushed to the ground, punch twice,
had her personal and then again this is a nun,
not that it is okay just to hit a regular home.
That this is somebody's on non New York Police they
did find the creep who did this for assaulted and
robbed this sister broad daylight.
Speaker 24 (33:08):
She's skinny, she's a very frail thing, and she's older
as you can ask, how can you do that to
a person like that?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah, that's the pastor at the church who says that
nun is now nervous of course to walk the streets,
but is back at work at Saint Rose of Lima.
The pastor says he's improving security now at the church
because he doesn't want anything like this to happen again.
Speaker 24 (33:30):
We're going to install cameras. I called it diace. I'm
gonna this is going to be a bunker. We have
no choice. Yeah, this area was improving. I mean that's
a sad thing.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yeah. So that's what the thought is is that they
caught up with this guy. What his motive was? Am
I just been a random mugging? Was there more than that?
They just don't know. The NYPD really wants to find
a man who's been robbing victims he's met on Facebook,
market place Two of the muggings took place in the Bronx,
a third in Brooks Glynn. Police say the victims each
(34:01):
agreed to meet the wanted man to sell items including
a watch, a pair of sneakers, and a Nintendo switch.
And then what happened was they showed up at the
scene and he robbed them all. He moaned them. It
has some people who put up things on Facebook Marketplace
rethinking that this is not a good idea to meet
random strangers to hand over the items and collect the cap.
Speaker 15 (34:23):
I think that you better move within your own circle
because there's enough people that you can change exchange within
your own circle. Then to go out and air on
course shit and then the line up with a zero yes.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
So Facebook Marketplace is safe in one way if you
do this. This is the the NYPD came up with
this idea and it's a great one. Every NYPD precinct
has a designated e commerce exchange zone for Facebook Marketplace
meetups or anything like that. So if you're selling something
and you want to meet somebody who's a complete stranger,
which a lot of times it is, head to one
(34:57):
of these NYPD precinct co commerce exchange zones. And you'll
be a whole lot safer because you're doing it right
in front of a police precinct.
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