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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It's the seventy seven WABC News Hour, Talking the News
with Noah Layden. All the news you need to know
with Joe Nolan, Traffic, Justin Elick's Sports.
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And no Talking the news with Noah.
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On seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, that's me, Good morning. It is Tuesday, July fourteenth.
Here forecasts from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Sunshine
today is going to be hot, the high ninety six
tonight and overnight clear low seventy nine and then Wednesday
sun and clouds warm again, the high one hundred. If
you are walking out the door Thos right now, seventy
two and clear, and river Head out on Long Island,
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it's seventy and clear. And Glen rockover in New Jersey
and it's seventy one and clear right outside our midtown studios.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
This is the top five at five.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, here comes the heat. There's a sparate search for
a missing man in the Hudson Valley. The very last
moments of Lindsey Graham's life. A gold bar scam is
fulling seniors on Long Island, and some neighbors and queens
are taking in their lawn statues. All right, let's get
into it at five oh four. Next couple of days
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going to be uncomfortable, but you know it is a
summertime as supposed to be warm. Here comes the heat.
It will not be as bad as last heat wave.
Mayor Momdni activating the city's heat emergency plan last night
with temperatures expected to feel in the upper nineties today. Well,
it actually will be the upper nineties today, the heat
index climbing into low hundreds. The stretch of heat not
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expected to be as severe or last as long is
the most recent heat wave, but the mayor warning neighbors
residents that conditions could be deadly. As part of the
heat emergency plan, cities can activate hundreds of cooling centers,
as they have in the past, that will begin today.
You can find a list of locations those cooling centers,
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along with some pools. City pools are going to be
opened late over the next couple of days by heading
on over to three one one and New Yorkers say,
you know, it is summer and it's supposed to be hot.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
That's like, can what else are you gonna do, gotta
come to work.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Is mother nature? Nothing you can do about it?
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Now?
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Water and lots and lots of sunscreen. So where your
guys are burning?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
See, how about some water. I'm just trying to survive. O.
Here's about to get real hot. Yeah, so the high
heat it'll last through Friday. I looked ahead to Saturday.
It'll only be a high of eighty on Saturdays, or
just a couple of days at five all five up
to the Hudson Valley. New York State troopers, firefighters, state
forest rangers looking for a public official in Dover who
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vanished from his backyard on Sunday. This is a strange story.
Forty nine year old Ryan Courtneyan went to do yard
work on Sunday morning and apparently never came back inside
the house. This prompted a call to police a large
search operation in the area of Old Paulding Road. He
left his cell phone other personal items inside his home.
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Here is the current town supervisor in Dover, who knows Courtney. Well,
we're doing everything we can to try to find our friend.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
When's the last time you spoke with him?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yesterday morning?
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Me through a text.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Message okay just before just before.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
Town business and you don't see you later, and that's
I'm the after.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I heard how Yeah. So the fact that the phone
was left inside his personal items, now, that could have
just been because he was doing gardening work in the backyard.
He didn't need them more, he didn't want to be found, right,
I mean, you can ping a phone now and find
somebody rather or easily. The staging area continued to grow
last night across Dutchess County as more agencies arrived. Several
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trailers full of equipment ATVs from the New York State
Division of Homeland Security. They arrived late Monday to assist
in the search for Courtney and they searched swamps, ponds,
and hiking trails yesterday. Here's somebody, a spokesperson for the
State Police.
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Yes, it is pretty remote cell phone service. The terrain,
like you said, it doesn't make it quite difficult. We
are asking the public, though, to check any ringcam, any
surveillance footage that they may have. No tip is too
small to contact New York State Police Troop headquarters with
any information.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
All right, So Courtneyan is not just a public official
up and dover He's also a math professor, apparently an
ardent supporter of nature preservation along the Appalachian Trail, and
the father of a college student. He was last seen
wearing tan pants and a black T shirt. So far
no sign of them. They'll be back in the woods
again today looking for him. WABC News Time five oh nine.
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Did you see what Axios is reporting this morning? They
say Senator Lindsay gave Ram reportedly wanted to hold off
getting medical assistance until after his scheduled appearance on Nbcason
Meet the Press on Sunday. And I was Saturday that
he came home from a trip to Ukraine and what
could have been In his final conversation, Graham, who suddenly
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died at seventy one years old after a brief and
sudden illness, told a person that he was feeling unwell.
This according to Axios. When the person pushed the lawmaker
to get medical attention, he reportedly said he would do
so after his TV hit And he said, I can't
die now. This is the quote that he gave to Axios.
I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran
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sorted out, and do Israeli sauty normalization. That's according to
this report. This is what he told an aid and then,
of course he died just a couple hours later. Speculation
continues as to what may have led to Senator Graham's death.
You had Greg Kelly, of course, the afternoon talk show
host here. He's a former military pilot, and he said
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the C seventeen military transport plane that Graham flew back
from from Ukraine back to Washington, he said, that's a
concern him for him. Here's Greg Kelly explaining.
Speaker 11 (05:56):
That a C seventeen Globemaster, you know, the big transport
Air Force plane, that's what most of these guys fly
around on the Congressional codels. It's pressurized. I mean it's
a new airplane, but flying a lot.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
You know.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
Richard Holbrook, one of the reasons why he died, and
I think he was sixty eight, was getting on and
off of these damn airplanes.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, so Kelly says that may have aggravated his heart condition.
He notes that traveling on a C seventeen can cause
water retention, negatively affect your vein.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
It can look you retain water, It does weird things
to your veins. It can be a risk and it
probably contributed to his situation.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's also believable is that he told somebody that he
wanted to wait until his TV hit on NBC's Meet
the Press. Not so much because he was a TV
hoggy he wanted to be on TV, but you know,
men in general will wait till the last possible moment
to get medical attention. Unfortunately, his case that was fatal.
Lindsey Graham's sister going to fill his South Carolina seat
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until the end of the term after his unexpected death.
I thought this was a nice moment yesterday, South Carolina Governor,
Henry you make master, making the announcement that his sister,
who he took care of for most of her life,
would take over for him.
Speaker 12 (07:11):
My honor to ask his little sister, Darlene Graham, to
finish his work for him now.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, so, Darlene said, her brother was always there for you,
no doubt likely know the story that he essentially took
over as a parent for her when she was thirteen
years old after both of his parents had passed away.
Here she was yesterday.
Speaker 13 (07:31):
My brother was the most amazing person, outstanding leader, and
just a genuinely good man.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, it seemed like the right choice to have her
filled the rest of the seat. Now the question was
will she run again? We don't know, But here she
was talking about her brother yesterday.
Speaker 13 (07:47):
My brother was the most amazing person, outstanding leader, and
just a genuinely good man. He was kind and considerate
and loved by his family Dearly.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Governor McMaster says Graham was serious about his work, but
also was kind hearted and care deeply about others. Five
point twelve, the US conducting a third consecutive night of
strikes against Iran. President Trump speaking from the Oval Office
following US Central Commands announcement of the new strikes yesterday.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
They want to make a deal, they came back.
Speaker 12 (08:20):
We made a deal two days ago, and they want
to make a deal. They've been negotiating for forty seven years.
But nobody's ever hit the militarily.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Now hitting him very hard.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Looking at Sencom, they put a post up on X
say this latest strikes were at the direction of the President.
Will continue to degrade Iran's ability to attack, they say,
innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Straighthorn move.
Speaker 12 (08:42):
We have them in a position that they don't have
any military This is not a thing they can do
about it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And the President said yesterday that the US will eventually
be reimbursed for the cost of providing security for the strain.
Speaker 12 (08:54):
Protecting a very rich part portion of the world with
spending money. And so what we've done is we are
going he could be reimbursed.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
For protection Nooka. This comes after the President says he's
reinstating the blockade of the Straight Now. Earlier in the day,
the President was on Fox and Friends and he talked
about what the US role that will be as the
guardian for the strait of her moves going forward.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
We do that, we're going to be reimbursed because the
other nations are very wealthy, they're on our side, and
we can't be expected to do that for nothing, unlike
we had for many years. But we had a deal,
but nobody knows we had a deal. It was a
done deal, and then they broke it. They always break it.
We've had ten deals with these people, and so we're
just going to hit him very hard. They made all
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the money in the United States, it was just, you know,
not they wouldn't. It's amazing. It's we never make we
guarded it for nothing, and now we're going to guard
it and we're going to get paid for guarding it
a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Now. Iran says it attacked US military size yesterday overnight
in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and two oil supertankers in the
Strait of her Moves five point fourteen. Venezuela has put
elections on the hold as earthquake recovery takes priority there
feed the poor, and Venezuelan native Caesar Gulvera says, all
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humanitarian channels remain open, so emergency supplies are getting to
where they need to go.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Now, shipments from air freights that are going on a
weekly basis to containers that are being sent via ocean
freight to Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Now, it's been about three weeks since those back to
back earthquakes struck. The death toll more than forty four hundred.
There's thousands though that are still missing. The interim government
will remain in place until elections can be held.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It is chaotic. It is a stretch that if you
can imagine stretch of buildings destroyed all the way from
Miami to for Lauderdale, that so much the impact.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Is Yeah, so there's a major crisis on the ground
there that needs to be taken care of first before
they can hold those elections.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Didn't have what was needed as far as machinery to
be able to remove the rubble and probably save more
people than what has been.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And here in the Venezuelan communities in New York and
New Juse they continue to send supplies to Venezuela. In
a moment, we'll head over to Saint Louis where these
two teenagers went on a shooting rampage. We'll get into
that in just a moment. For first five to fifteen,
let's head over to the seventy seven w ABC Sports desk.
Good more than justin La.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Good morning. Do you know them? Laden start out in Philadelphia.
Saint Louis. Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker headed out hometown here
o Kyle Schwarber to win the twenty twenty six home
run Derby that Citizens Vank Park in Philly, becoming the
first player in Cardinals franchise history to take the Derby crown.
Walker hit to all of homers in the final to
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Schwarbers eleven and won it with a walk off four
hundred and seven foot blast to a left Tonight eight
pm from Philadelphia the American League versus the National League
for your twenty twenty six All Star Game. Toronto's Dylan
Ceas will start for the American League and on the
National League lot of things, it will be PHILADELPHIAUS Christopher
Sanchez getting a start. You will see Yankees first base
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from Ben Rice start for the American link up seventh
in tonight's a lineup. And as for the Mets, they've
got a starter in right field named One Soto starting
for the National League and he will hit second in
tonight's and now lineup.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
PA, ask you a really stupid question because I'm just
not paying attention. Sure, do fans still vote on who
goes to the All Star Game?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Oh, okay, it's mostly fan voting, act.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It is okay, and it's all online. I am right.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Mostly Yeah, you can vote. I mean I think it's
up until about a month ago you could. You could vote.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Because I remember as a kid, this was like the
most exciting thing is they would hand out these cards
at the game, and the holes I used to love
those of your favorite players. Of course, I would go
to either a Phillies or a Yankees game, and I
would just pick those players. The Phillies are the Yankees.
But now it's kind of boring. You just go online.
There's no they don't do it at the ballpark, do
they do. They encourage you to vote.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
In the line you're doing a one. They send you
something on the app.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Because I remember you'd be at the ballpark and they say,
don't forget right, punch all.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
The card for the Phillies in your punch cards. Yeah, yeah,
I mean obviously there are exceptions, right, justin Verlander and
ends he's retiring, so the MLB just decided to give
him automatic and automatic you know, invitation to the All
Star Game this year. And you do see the league
intervene and you know, but.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Otherwise the fans player doing Yeah, of course. Yeah. Somehow
though it doesn't seem as a big of the deal.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, oh okay, it's not.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Yeah, exactly. It's lost its luster for sure over the years. No, oliden,
and we'll check in on the World Cup as well.
Today semi finals getting underway three pm from Arlington, France
and Spain, and then tomorrow three pm from Atlanta. It
is England and Argentina. Is your sports, No man, I'm
justin alic on seventy.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Seven WABCA WABC News Time five nineteen. Two teenagers in
custody in East Saint Louis after police say they went
on the shooting rampage, killing five family members critically injuring
two others. The Illinois State Police say the shootings took
place three different locations, including an apartment complex. Samuel McLain Junior,
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who lives at that complex, discovered some of the victims.
Speaker 14 (14:11):
It's not normal to find a woman's body behind the
trash game. That's not normal for us to see. And
though we feel the sensitized to death in a way,
this isn't anything I feel. This is how too this
this has too like, this is hard to see.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Police and prosecutors declined to name the sixteen and fifteen
year old suspects or reveal their genders a day after
they were captured in Saint Louis. All they did say
is they are related to the people that were shot dead.
Down to Florida, just a horrible tragedy there in Kissimi, Florida,
investigators continue to look into a deadly gun accident that
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took the life of a toddler. The local sheriff there
says a four year old discovered loaded gun in a
car on Sunday and shot his two year old sibling.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
A four year old found the firearm in the vehicle unsecured.
Ree Tree did a discharge of firearms, striking the two
year old and something killing.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
The child, and the police say the gun was out
in the open, unsecured, not holstered. The family was visiting
Florida from Georgia and just arrived at a vacation rental there.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Corny investigation. A four year old family member located an
unsecured firearm inside of the vehicle and discharged it, striking
the two year old. But it's literally laying out by itself,
so it's easy to grab, and you pulled the trigger
and you can't recall that. It's not a video game.
You can't hit and reset and start over. Once you
pull that trigger. That projectile is going somewhere. And this
one hit a two year old and killed it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, horrific. New charges have been filed. One person is
dead after shooting involving an Immigration and Customs enforcement officer
in Maine. News Nations Ali Bradley as more.
Speaker 15 (15:46):
This one was that ice involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine,
early this morning. Advocacy groups are saying it was a
twenty six year old Columbian man that was shot and
killed here in an altercation with Ice this morning. We
don't have a lot of details right now. My sources
are telling me the individual who was killed was a target,
was someone who they say had a final order of removal.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And now we're hearing they were not a target. Ice
officers were not wearing body cameras during the incident. This
is the second deadly shooting involving ICE in just a
week five point twenty two. You know, it's been two
years since a gunman opened fire at Donald Trump's campaign
rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The President's ear was Gray's bio bullet.
A fire chief there was shot and killed. A new
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report highlighting the Secret Service failures that day is out.
It found the agency did not receive dozens of reports
about the search for a suspicious person, which later turned
out to be Thomas Crooks. The Gunmen News Nations spoke
with the widow of Corey Comparatory, Helen about this report
that came out.
Speaker 16 (16:49):
Why wouldn't you have reacted from one if they would
have held him back off that stage and not let
him go, I wouldn't be sitting.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Here with you today.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
A comparatory says she wants President Trump to reach out
again because she says she has a ton of questions
she believes have been left unanswered since that day. Five
point twenty three, A meeting between former President Biden's son
Hunter and white nationalist internet personality Nick Fuents reportedly almost
turned physical this past weekend.
Speaker 17 (17:23):
The meeting, arranged in the Philadelphia hotel room by independent
journalist Andrew Callahan, was set up as a no limits conversation.
According to a report Monday from TMZ, the conversation soon
grew tense and Callahan had to intervene before it came
to blows. The meeting is sent to air later this
month by Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
California eleven other states suing now to block Paramounts sky
Dance from taking over Warner Brothers Discovery. California Attorney General
Rob Bonta making the announcement yesterday in Los Angeles with
the Hollywood Sign as his backdrop.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
The largest merger in Hollywood history extinguished competition. It would
result in higher prices, lower content quality, and fewer movies
and TV shows.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Bonta claims the one hundred and ten billion dollar deal
would also kill jobs.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
This merger will mean fewer journalists in forming the electorate.
It'll mean fewer opportunities for Americans to hear the full
breadth of information and opinions on a subject and then
come to their own conclusion now.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Paramount sky Dance responding in a statement, writing that the
lawsuit is wrong on both the facts and the law,
and delaying the purchase, they say, will actually hurt workers.
The FEDS approve that merger. Back in June five, twenty four,
down to DC where President Trump gearing up for next
month's Freedom two fifty Grand Prix in the nation's capital.
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Yesterday he welcomed in several Indie car drivers to the
White House to preview the event.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
August twenty second and twenty third.
Speaker 12 (18:57):
It'll be an awesome display of American patriotism and raw
horsepower ingenuity.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, this will be a wild scene. They're going to
drive around the street to Washington, d C. Pass some
of the iconic monuments. Of course the White House too.
Speaker 12 (19:11):
Which all three of you recently do very well.
Speaker 17 (19:13):
Thank you very well, and.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
They're going to go all around the National Mall at
speeds that are not quite If we.
Speaker 12 (19:19):
Did that during the regular day, I think people would
be put in jail.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Perhaps for the rest of their lives. Yeah, you came.
The DC is the worst traffic. They would not be
able to move unless they close those streets. Now in
the White House says the race will showcase the majesty
of DC as drivers navigator track full of iconic monuments
in celebration of America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. That
race is going to take place on August twenty second,
five twenty five. Did you see this video of this
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senior citizen being headbudded by a bison at Yellowstone National Park.
I had to watch it like five times. It is crazy.
He is thrown into the air, he flips over course
on it. CAMIOA Bernal says. The video, shot by a
photographer who was in the area, shows the man and
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his grandson standing some distance away from the anifal when
all of a sudden, it charges at the grandfather.
Speaker 18 (20:13):
The two visitors stopped to take photos of the animal
lying in the grass before it began rolling and then
charging at a passing car, the par guest spotted running
away from the animal, who proceeded to chase him through
the trees, the bison catching up, sending the man flying
several feet into the air.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Now, if you see this video, you're like, how did
this guy survive this thing? But he did, and apparently
he's not in terrible shit. He says.
Speaker 18 (20:36):
He and other campers ran at the bison, chasing it
away and then tending to the man, who he says
was in a lot of pain. The man's family telling
NBC News he underwent surgery and remains at the hospital.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, and apparently he's gonna be okay. Now, the guy
who shot this video says, things got scary really fast.
Speaker 19 (20:55):
I stopped the video because I could see that bison
was standing over him and pumping his head, very aggressive
and agitated, and I knew that somebody had to distract
that thing. They were doing everything right, and they were respectful,
and once the bison showed any agitation, they left and
they were just at the wrong time, in the wrong place.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, well, think that death the grandfather, he's really gonna
be okay.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
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 now.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Talking the news with Noah.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
On seventy seven WADC.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yes, that's me, Good morning. It is Tuesday, July fourteenth.
Your forecast from the seventy seven WABC Weather Center. Sunshine today, hot,
the high ninety six tonight and overnight clear low seventy
nine and even warmer for Wednesday, sun and clouds high
one hundred. If you're walking out the door with us
right now, so happy you are seventy two and clear,
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and Riverhead out on Long Island, it's seventy and clear,
and Glenn in New Jersey and it's seventy one and clear.
Right outside our midtown studios WABC News Time five forty.
A bunch of people sending me this story, just making
sure I didn't miss it. New York City parents and
caregivers will be eligible to drop off their kids for
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free in a one night program at the New York
City Parks and Recreation Centers. The idea is to enable
those parents in caregivers to have a night off. It's
being called the Parents' Night Off Program. It's going to
take place on Sunday, August sixteenth, mayor Mom Donnie making
this announcement yesterday, So the program's free. Now I'm hearing
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from parents whore all freaked out. They'd be like, why
would you lead your kids off with total strangers at
a park and then go out?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I can remember there were times when my kids were
a lot younger, and you know, I was tired and
I wanted a night off with the wife, and I
think I would have left them with a complete stranger
back then just to get a night off. But these
are not complete strangers be monitored, I imagine by a whole
host of people. So I know lots of people are
freaked out by this, saying hey, don't leave your kids
off with strangers. But it's you know, if you send
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your kids to summer camp, you don't know who's the
counselor is there. Usually works out okay. So in this case,
you'll have to pre register by July twentieth if you
want a free night out and your kids will be
entertained for a couple hours at a local park in
the city. Sounds like a good time for everybody. Five
forty one out to New Jersey, where a daycare owner
is under investigation after being accused of giving kids melatonin
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in order to get them to fall asleep during nap time.
The Precious Gifts daycare center in Danellen. It is closed
this morning after a tipster told the family that their
child was being given melatonin. Well, now they've hired an attorney,
and that attorney speaking out yesterday.
Speaker 20 (23:50):
Inntionally, this is a lot for him, this is a
lot for his family. He's a very vulnerable child for
many reasons, because of his age and because he's on
an autism spectrum.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
So the owner of this daycare center, her name is
Cheryl Mbickie. She has been detained by police. The family
that reported the incident chose to remain anonymous for the
security of their child. But of course they're livid thinking
that somebody's giving their kid pills. I mean, it's melatonin
to a young kid.
Speaker 20 (24:19):
The trust was severely broken where my client had to
learn this, and thank God for the anonymous source that
was bold enough, you know, and set up for these
this child and possibly other children that may have been
affected by this extreme negligence.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So inspectors from the State Department of Children and Families,
they paid a visit to this daycare center. Its report
says not one, but two children were given melatonin without
their parents' permission. There were parents that were giving permission.
I'm not sure about that, but it also outlined a
list of changes for the facility to make before they
will be able to open again. Five point forty three,
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while we're in New Jersey, police investigating a major bag
heist at a vintage luxury boutique in Morristown, so security
camera videos caught several thiefs racing into the store. This
is middle of the day, by the way, running off
with as much merchandise as they could get their hands
on while customers were in the store. The store Sellabella,
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was stocked up for a big sale that was going
to take place today, and the store's owner says he
does remember two people coming in on Sunday and he
kind of felt like they were chasing the place, but
he wasn't sure. So you can imagine he's pretty distraught
that he didn't report this ahead of time to police.
Speaker 21 (25:38):
They got in, got out in like fifteen seconds, got
as much as they could. They've like aggressively told us
to get out of the way. I'm one hundred percent
sure that they were casing and.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Stacking the place out.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So, he says, two women came in the day before
wearing hats and glasses and he knew something was a
miss One returned yesterday and minutes later, that's when this
group of people ran in, ransacked the store, grabbed as
many handbags as they could.
Speaker 21 (26:06):
Really need to get together and figure out what we
can do about this. And the women took two Chanelle's,
their very high end bags. The rest of them got
Bucci Louis the Time Selene, things like that.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah, so about thirty two bags taken. In all, it
was about forty two thousand dollars worth. The crimes, these
crimes of high end resale shops have become really common,
but of course they're unsettling for the shop ers and
the shop owners.
Speaker 21 (26:34):
I am still kind of shocked.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Yeah, I would say I'm in shock.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I don't.
Speaker 21 (26:41):
It hasn't really hit me yet.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
And so two cars were seen outside this store where
the crime took place. They took off shoppers in Morristown surprise.
This happened middle of the day.
Speaker 15 (26:50):
That's scary to know that that's happening in this neighborhood
because usually Marstown's really a safe place to come to.
Speaker 13 (26:56):
Sad to hear that the business was impacted that way.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, so the owner says he planned to reopen the
store as soon as possible. In a moment, we'll head
out to Long Island and tell you about a gold
bar scam that's targeting senior citizens there. We'll get into
that in just a moment. The first five forty five,
let's head over to the seventy seven w ABC Sports
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tonight eight pm. American League versus Nationally your twenty twenty
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Who am I rooting for?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Then that's going to agree.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
No, I'm a Yankee fan. First. If I was watching
the game and I was invested in the game, I'd
be rooting for the American League. But you know, I'm
voting for Ben Rice to have won at bad Go
out there, get a nice little hit, and I'll make
himself look good in the All Star Game, and then
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want to see anybody waste any energy on their arm
during this exhibition game. And then we move on. Now
we see the Dodgers on Friday for a World Series rematch,
and we get the second half going with a bang
year in just a couple of weeks, Geary Judge back,
get John Carlos Stanton back, and then all of a sudden,
it's a brand new baseball game. How about that?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Okay, that sounds good. Yeah, you could be watching this
World Cup match this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
No, okay, yeah, how about that? So Ben Rice will
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airline up, and we'll see Juan Soto from the Mets
starting for the National League hit second in the NL lineup.
And speaking of that semifinal this afternoon, which I will
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Speaker 3 (29:21):
WABC WABC News Time five forty nine. Authorities on Long
Island warning about a gold bar scam that's targeting senior citizens.
The District Attorney in Suffolk County, Ray Tyranny, says there
have been over a dozen cases in Suffolk County just
this past year.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Once the gold is handed over to these scammers, the
gold and the scammers disappear forever.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Along with the victims savings. Okay, so detectives say they
were tipped off about a woman who was about to
buy gold bars and then hand them over to scammers.
Her bank notified police, who went to the women's home
and discovered the scammers were listening into their conversations through
her laptop. Now, Suffa county police stopped one incident that
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almost costs an elderly woman one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
In that case, she had responded to a pop up
notification on her laptop and that was she was convinced
was her bank that her bank account had been compromised.
And so that's the scam is they convince these seniors
that their bank account has been compromised in a way
and that they need to turn all of their cash
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into gold bars. And then they say we'll come and
pick up your gold bars for safe keeping. And a
fair amount of seniors at least twelve have fallen for
this so far.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
They will spoof numbers, it will say you know, Sefa
County PD on the victim's caller ID or irs hurt
them to the fact that these scams exist.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Again, they're horrible, horrible people. They will stop it nothing
to steal their money. They're really horrible people, I mean,
and you know their masters apparently at psychological manipulation. And
local lawmakers are proposing a bill that would require now
waiting period for purchasing precious metals, along with interviews for
customers over the age of sixty. So if some senior
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comes in and says, all of a sudden they want
to turn sixty thousand dollars into gold bars, they'd have
to wait. But of course that's just one scam, and
once that scams up, of course they'll just find another one,
as we're finding out. Nearby in Long Island, police asking
for the public's help identifying a man they say posed
as a Walmart employee and scammed a customer out of
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nine hundred bucks at the Riverhead store. Suffolk County Police
say this happened at the Walmart on Old Country Road.
They say the victim, who works at a nearby car dealership,
was approached by somebody who was in Walmart clothing said
he could get him a good deal on a TV
if he just handed him nine hundred bucks. Now you
think that one would be a little more obvious, but
the guy fell for It happens everywhere.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Unfortunately, there were both people who know that a scam,
then there are those that don't.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Scam at all. Yeah, so that individual gave the Walmart
employee nine hundred bucks. Of course he never got the TV.
The employee who was fake walked away from the store.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
You have to be careful, Mata where you are.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I would be surprised that someone would be so believing
a situation like that.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well, you know, people fall for things, and sometimes you know,
somebody's really good at manipulating you on the phone or
in person, and so you'd be surprised. All kinds of
people fall for these scams. Five point fifty two A
sixty three year old. One more story out of Long
Island a sixty three year old linden Herst grandmother. She
is in serious condition this morning after being hit by
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her own car when police say it was set in
motion by her eight year old grandchild yesterday. The police
say this child got into his grandmother's Honda, which was
parked in the driveway of their home, and pressed the
vehicle start button and that's when Gina Bente saw the
car rolling down the driveway and then tried to get
(32:54):
into the car because she realized her grandchild was inside,
and as she tried to intervene, the driver's doors hit her,
causing her to fall. She hit her head on the pavement.
The vehicle continued into the roadway it hit a curb.
Thankfully it came to a stop in the middle of
the street. That grandchild is fine, but Bente, who was
transported to Good Samaritan University Hospital, she's in a serious condition.
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Today five point fifty three out to Queens where we
got another creep that police have to find. It is
a targeted spree that began back in June. It seems
someone is stealing those sacred religious statues that people like
to put on their front lawn and this is happening
in Howard Beach and in Ozone Park in southwestern Queens.
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The thief four thieves are specifically stealing those heavy lawn
statues of like the Blessed Mother and Saint Anthony. And
they don't even know how many it is, but they
think it's a fair amount. At this point. Here's one
woman who says she knows of a neighbor who lost
a statue overnight.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
It seems to be more overnight.
Speaker 19 (33:58):
You feeling like someone is coming after you because of
your faith in Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
And we want answers now. Police are telling us this
string of thefts began in mid June, escalated in July.
It is prompting outrage from neighbors and from city council
member Joanne Ariola. This is her district. She says that
people should be able to put out these statues of
faith on the front lawn and not worry about somebody
stealing there.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
There had been a number of statues taken from the
Rockaway Peninsula outside of a few of the churches, and
one of them was damaged. Actually, so this seems to
be a cluster within my district. Designate this as a
hate crime because that certainly has a little more teeth
when the person is found and prosecuted.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
And eventually they will be fine. The NYPDS one hundred
and six precinct, they says they're reviewing surveillance footage to
track down these creeps who are still in the statue.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
Yet that statue is taken, can it be replaced, yes,
but can the meaning behind it? Because your grandfather, a
great grandfather or father and mother put that statue there
and they're no longer with us. No, that cannot be replaced.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, of course. So meanwhile, some neighbors in Howard Beach say,
you know what, I'm going to put my statues out.
I'm not taking them in at night, and I'm just
going to hope that police and others will protect them.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Howard Beach has always been very resilient, and we're not
going to put our statues away.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
We're going to keep putting them out.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, I don't blame them. Five point fifty five Mayor
Mom Donnie is working on holding companies accountable to a
new rule that mandates they give customers the option to
cancel a subscription with a one click. I'm sure you've
run into this where you have some app you've downloaded,
and then you realize you're being charged for it, and
(35:44):
then you can't figure out and it's not easy to
figure out purposely, so how to cancel that thing. Well,
the mayor says, this new law would make it so
you could do that in one click, and it'd be
easy to find if you want to cancel something you've downloaded.
Speaker 22 (35:58):
I'm currently subscribed to something that I I don't even
know my login for. Yeah, but they have my credit
card information and I don't know how to cancel it.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
It is the most annoying thing I've had that happened
to me before. The administration starting to build an online
portal that allows New Yorkers to file complaints against companies
that don't fool with this new rule.
Speaker 22 (36:15):
The platform will not only provide recourse for New Yorkers
who are being exploited, it will also provide a database
that City Hall will use to hold violators accountable.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yes, so, the mayor says, is starting to build this
online portal that would allow New Yorkers to file those
complaints against companies that trap customers and subscriptions that are
almost impossible to cancel. And one last story with the Mayor,
he says, yes, he will be in the crowd at
MetLife Stadium for the World Cup final on Sunday. The
Mayor was asked if he has any plans to speak
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with President Trump, who's going to hand out the World
Cup trophy at the end of the match. Here's what
he had to.
Speaker 22 (36:50):
Say for Sunday's final, My focus will be on the
game and I anticipate just watching for ninety or one
hundred and twenty or maybe even penalties as well.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Yeah, you'll remember the mayor and the president. We're both
at Madison Square Garden for Game three of the NBA Finals,
but there, of course seated in very different sections. The
mayor was in the nosebleeds. The President sat in the
box with the Knicks owners.
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