Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 1
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, good morning to you. I hope you survived the thunderstorms.
- 0:04Speaker 1: There was a tornado warning in upstate New York, in
- 0:08Speaker 1: Ulster County. Did you know that? Man, it didn't hit,
- 0:11Speaker 1: but there was a tornado warning.
- 0:12Speaker 2: It was bad. You want to be listening later on
- 0:15Speaker 2: in the program, I'll give you an update on Lone
- 0:17Speaker 2: Wolf 1 and see... baying to the moon in the
- 0:22Speaker 2: inclement weather in central park when the blood moon supposedly
- 0:27Speaker 2: appeared i couldn't see.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Anything i don't think anybody could see anything she did
- 0:31Speaker 1: really it must have just peeked through the clouds a
- 0:34Speaker 1: couple of times because it was just unfortunate that we
- 0:37Speaker 1: had this lunar show and then we also had all
- 0:40Speaker 1: these clouds and but a lot of people i i
- 0:43Speaker 1: feel for you in staten island i feel for you
- 0:44Speaker 1: in elizabeth i know there was flash flooding i know
- 0:47Speaker 1: there's A lot of cleanup going on today. So the
- 0:50Speaker 1: only good news is you're going to have some nice
- 0:52Speaker 1: weather over the weekend.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Now, was this appropriate for me? Because, you know, I'm
- 0:55Speaker 2: the guy who knows about the catch basins overflowing. You
- 0:59Speaker 2: need to clean them out, especially with this extreme flash
- 1:04Speaker 2: flooding we get when we this would be like number
- 1:07Speaker 2: eight this summer. And we haven't even reached Labor Day yet.
- 1:10Speaker 2: But a few of the folks in Staten Island, they've
- 1:12Speaker 2: seen my posts lately, you know, the catch basins. Yesterday,
- 1:15Speaker 2: I did one, all the garbage in the tracks that
- 1:18Speaker 2: are backing up the catch basins, which leads to floods
- 1:21Speaker 2: and track fires. Curtis, can you come out here with
- 1:24Speaker 2: some of your guardian angels and help us from underwater?
- 1:27Speaker 2: And what do you think I said, Quiet Storm? Chris
- 1:30Speaker 2: on loan from Mark Simone.
- 1:32Speaker 1: I love that. Chris on loan from Mark Simone.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Natalie, not away. You know what I told him? I said,
- 1:39Speaker 2: why don't you call your friend? You're a Cuomo sexual.
- 1:41Speaker 2: You voted for him, not me. Why don't you call
- 1:43Speaker 2: Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo?
- 1:45Speaker 1: Why did you bring Chris on that? Do you think
- 1:47Speaker 1: he's a Cuomo sexual? Is that what you're saying?
- 1:49Speaker 3: No, no.
- 1:50Speaker 2: But, you know, just to get him active because, you know,
- 1:52Speaker 2: Natalie is not with us today. She'll be back with
- 1:54Speaker 2: us on Monday. So you're going solo in the producer's
- 1:58Speaker 2: seat today.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Let's give him a few minutes. Go ahead. What do
- 2:01Speaker 1: you want to say?
- 2:02Speaker 4: I mean, I have nothing to say on this right now.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Hold on a second. I didn't pay attention. But, you know,
- 2:07Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore talked about date night at City Field last night.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Did they get rained out? No, they played. They lost, obviously.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 2:16Speaker 2: That was a given. Did anybody get hooked up? Did
- 2:18Speaker 2: anybody score? That I don't know. I was not there.
- 2:22Speaker 1: They didn't keep score on that? That's all anybody cared about.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Not that I saw. The Mets lost, but I'm sure...
- 2:28Speaker 4: Hopefully somebody won last night.
- 2:29Speaker 2: What else is new, right? What else is new? But anyway,
- 2:32Speaker 2: let's get to the number one story. Larry, you were
- 2:36Speaker 2: talking about it right at the tail end of the
- 2:38Speaker 2: show yesterday. We had so many talkbacks. People wanted to
- 2:41Speaker 2: talk about it. The historic settlement that Zuckerberg and his
- 2:46Speaker 2: lawyers agreed to in the case, the civil case against him.
- 2:50Speaker 2: that was being heard in Oakland, California, in California against him,
- 2:55Speaker 2: but it also involved attorney generals from all over the country.
- 2:59Speaker 2: What were the details of that settlement which protected Zuckerberg
- 3:03Speaker 2: from having to get up on that stand and make
- 3:05Speaker 2: a complete fool out of himself?
- 3:07Speaker 1: Yeah, this should get a whole lot more attention than
- 3:09Speaker 1: it's getting, actually, because this is going to be the
- 3:12Speaker 1: beginning of a long trend now. It's going to be
- 3:16Speaker 1: years and years and years in this because Meta, has
- 3:20Speaker 1: basically admitted that, yes, they were manipulating their products to
- 3:25Speaker 1: be more addictive to children, and they're going to end
- 3:28Speaker 1: up paying $ 18 billion in a settlement for that. But
- 3:32Speaker 1: that's not the most important part. The most important part
- 3:34Speaker 1: is the precedent it sets, and that now others, that
- 3:38Speaker 1: X and Twitch and all of the other social media
- 3:41Speaker 1: platforms are going to be forced to follow suit. So
- 3:45Speaker 1: Watch what's going to happen. These dominoes are now going
- 3:48Speaker 1: to start falling over the next year. This is what
- 3:50Speaker 1: the meta agreement is. There will be two-hour daily limits,
- 3:56Speaker 1: a default two-hour usage cap on Facebook and Instagram that
- 4:01Speaker 1: requires parental consent to remove. Overnight curfews, restrictions on the
- 4:07Speaker 1: app usage between midnight and 6 a.m. a ban on
- 4:11Speaker 1: push notifications on weekdays between 8 and 3 p.m. There's
- 4:18Speaker 1: a long list of these, but what it does, it's
- 4:21Speaker 1: going to limit what your kids can do and how
- 4:24Speaker 1: long they can stay on social media because their own research,
- 4:29Speaker 1: which they hid, they buried, showed that this had a
- 4:35Speaker 1: deletory effect on youths. that it was hurting our use
- 4:41Speaker 1: and it was making them angry. It was making them isolated.
- 4:45Speaker 1: And in some cases it was making them suicidal. And
- 4:49Speaker 1: so this is a tremendous ruling. I'm glad this is
- 4:53Speaker 1: now out in the open, but you also had a
- 4:56Speaker 1: lot to say about this.
- 4:58Speaker 5: Shame on the parents.
- 4:59Speaker 2: It's their responsibility to oversee what their children are doing.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Not Zuckerberg.
- 5:07Speaker 6: He knew how to keep his kids away from social media.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Is it too much work for the parents today?
- 5:13Speaker 2: Take their electronics away.
- 5:15Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you a thousand percent, but let's
- 5:19Speaker 1: say I do disagree with some of that. I do
- 5:22Speaker 1: disagree with some of that.
- 5:22Speaker 2: You're right.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Zuckerberg did keep children away that he knew. And other
- 5:28Speaker 1: people that were involved with Meta also kept children away.
- 5:32Speaker 1: But that's not to say that all the blame should
- 5:35Speaker 1: be on the parents because now that we've seen the settlement,
- 5:38Speaker 1: they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew how
- 5:42Speaker 1: they could get to kids. They knew how they could
- 5:45Speaker 1: hold them on. And then they formed communities online where
- 5:50Speaker 1: kids were getting bullied, could now get bullied online. And so, yeah,
- 5:55Speaker 1: they have to take some responsibility. I don't disagree. Parents
- 5:58Speaker 1: need to take some responsibility too. I don't disagree with
- 6:01Speaker 1: you at all, but you can't let Mark Zuckerberg, and
- 6:05Speaker 1: the rest of the social media companies off the hook.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sort of like letting the drug dealer off
- 6:10Speaker 2: the hook. The drug dealer knows he could get your
- 6:14Speaker 2: kid hooked. Now, you could be like, well, the parents,
- 6:16Speaker 2: you should have had more oversight. But meantime, it's the
- 6:19Speaker 2: drug dealer, right, who is the one pushing the drug.
- 6:22Speaker 2: He was pushing a drug. Look at Zuckerberg and all
- 6:26Speaker 2: of his minions. They had the data. They saw that
- 6:29Speaker 2: young people had this insatiable appetite, like adults do, too.
- 6:33Speaker 2: You know, this could be applied to adults. I mean,
- 6:35Speaker 2: how many times are adults scrolling, scrolling, scrolling? Are you
- 6:38Speaker 2: going to get to bed? What are you going to get?
- 6:41Speaker 2: What's so important on that stupid cell phone, Phil? You know,
- 6:44Speaker 2: the wife will say. Well, you know, it's addictive. It
- 6:49Speaker 2: is addictive.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Well, some kids, this became their whole life.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Well, remember, when we were kids, we didn't have that.
- 6:54Speaker 2: But we had the little Sony radio that we would
- 6:58Speaker 2: hide under the pillow so we could listen to radio,
- 7:00Speaker 2: especially baseball games. For me, the Yankees were way on
- 7:03Speaker 2: the West Coast, and the game started late. And I
- 7:06Speaker 2: know my parents, they'd go on patrol, you know, to
- 7:09Speaker 2: make sure I was asleep, and I'd fake it. Meantime,
- 7:11Speaker 2: I had the radio underneath the pillow. The moment they
- 7:14Speaker 2: went back to their bedroom, boom, I was listening through
- 7:18Speaker 2: the pillow. I don't ever remember my dad or my
- 7:20Speaker 2: mom trying to take that radio away, which would have
- 7:23Speaker 2: guaranteed I couldn't have been listening.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate sometimes when people... criticize parents. And I
- 7:30Speaker 1: don't know who this woman is, so I'm not going
- 7:31Speaker 1: to criticize her, but many times they're not parents and
- 7:35Speaker 1: they don't have kids. When you're at a restaurant and
- 7:37Speaker 1: you give your kids a social media thing, that is
- 7:40Speaker 1: your time to yourself. And now you don't have to
- 7:43Speaker 1: deal with them at dinner. You know what I mean?
- 7:46Speaker 2: It's a passion.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's a pacifier. And so then you have other
- 7:51Speaker 1: people going, Oh my God, look at them. Look at them.
- 7:53Speaker 1: They just gave their kids social media to do.
- 7:56Speaker 2: That's a $ 1, 000 iPhone right there. Why are they giving
- 8:01Speaker 2: a $ 1, 000 iPhone to their kid?
- 8:04Speaker 1: It's like, shut up, please. I want an hour. Can
- 8:08Speaker 1: I have an hour just to eat? You obviously don't
- 8:11Speaker 1: have kids.
- 8:13Speaker 7: You're missing the whole point with the meta-settlement. Zuckerberg was
- 8:17Speaker 7: right by not allowing his kids to be online that often.
- 8:21Speaker 7: He's being a responsible parent. And that's the heart to
- 8:24Speaker 7: that whole case. Parents have taken their responsibility away and
- 8:28Speaker 7: blaming other people for it. And also, where's all that
- 8:31Speaker 7: money going to go? That's just going to go into
- 8:33Speaker 7: some big fund for the states to spend on whatever
- 8:36Speaker 7: they want. They're not going to do anything with the
- 8:38Speaker 7: money to help the kids.
- 8:39Speaker 1: You got to stop demonizing the parents. And that's not
- 8:42Speaker 1: to say that they don't have a responsibility. You just
- 8:45Speaker 1: got to stop demonizing the parents. It's hard enough. And
- 8:48Speaker 1: I know most parents, most parents love their children and
- 8:52Speaker 1: would do anything for them. But to be able to
- 8:57Speaker 1: look at them 24 hours a day to find out
- 9:00Speaker 1: what they're doing and to set rules that you know
- 9:03Speaker 1: they're going to keep is a hard thing. It's a
- 9:05Speaker 1: difficult thing. And again, I don't know this gentleman, but
- 9:08Speaker 1: a lot of the people that criticize Parents are not parents.
- 9:12Speaker 2: They're not parents. Zuckerberg did the right thing. You think
- 9:14Speaker 2: Zuckerberg is at home? You think his wife is at home?
- 9:17Speaker 2: That's a good point. They're billionaires. They have nannies. They
- 9:20Speaker 2: have au pairs. They have two children now. So they
- 9:24Speaker 2: are like the oversight. You take a single parent raising kids, right?
- 9:29Speaker 2: Mostly it's women nowadays in America. 50% of families end
- 9:33Speaker 2: up going through divorce. Women's got to work a job, right?
- 9:37Speaker 2: she's sometimes having to take on a second job absolutely
- 9:40Speaker 2: when does she have time to super well well zuckerberg
- 9:43Speaker 2: does it what do you mean he doesn't do it
- 9:45Speaker 2: he's not at home it's so.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Easy to stand on the sidelines and criticize and say
- 9:50Speaker 1: hey you're not doing it the right way it's difficult
- 9:53Speaker 1: to get in the game.
- 9:55Speaker 8: Yeah so i know meta lost this lawsuit right so
- 9:58Speaker 8: think about this a minute make something addictive let's look
- 10:02Speaker 8: at all of our food all the fast food restaurants
- 10:04Speaker 8: all the products that they have out there that when
- 10:07Speaker 8: you eat them and make you want to have more
- 10:09Speaker 8: are they going to sue all these places because you
- 10:13Speaker 8: might as well you open that door you might as
- 10:14Speaker 8: well step through it now at this point.
- 10:18Speaker 1: Yeah, it's much different. I know what you're trying to say.
- 10:22Speaker 1: It's much, much different. The addictiveness of social media is
- 10:26Speaker 1: a mental thing and it can cause serious, serious problems.
- 10:30Speaker 1: This will make you fat and that's some serious problems
- 10:32Speaker 1: with that, but you can beat that.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Wait till they start with YouTube. How many people out
- 10:37Speaker 2: there right now listening to us? They're adults mostly. Unless
- 10:41Speaker 2: there's a kid in the back of the seat who
- 10:43Speaker 2: is required to listen to Larry and me in the
- 10:46Speaker 2: morning because they have no choice. How many people are
- 10:49Speaker 2: watching YouTube morning, noon, and night, right? They don't even
- 10:52Speaker 2: watch the big screen TV anymore. They've cut the cord.
- 10:56Speaker 2: They're not watching networks or cable. All they do is
- 11:00Speaker 2: watch YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. They'll be next in line.
- 11:04Speaker 2: You know they're getting sued.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Oh, I think next is TikTok.
- 11:06Speaker 2: TikTok.
- 11:07Speaker 1: I think that's what's going to be next.
- 11:09Speaker 2: You know who's going to be angry? Ellison, who did
- 11:11Speaker 2: this as a favor to Trump so we get it
- 11:13Speaker 2: away from the red Chinese. He's going to say, so
- 11:16Speaker 2: I buy in to control TikTok for America, and now
- 11:21Speaker 2: I'm going to be sued as a result? Where do
- 11:23Speaker 2: I get relief? Please, I did everybody a favor. And
- 11:26Speaker 2: by the way, TikTok is not as popular any longer.
- 11:30Speaker 2: As when the Red Chinese ran it. Oh, I don't
- 11:33Speaker 2: know about that. Oh, no, it's not. Instagram.
- 11:35Speaker 1: I'll do a deep dive on that. But man, with... Chris,
- 11:39Speaker 1: this is more of your generation.
- 11:42Speaker 2: TikTok? I use Instagram more. In TikTok? Personally, yes.
- 11:47Speaker 1: But what about people just a little bit younger than you?
- 11:50Speaker 1: All I hear about is TikTok videos going back and forth.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Every time somebody seems to get arrested, it's a TikTok video.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
- 11:58Speaker 1: It's close.
- 11:59Speaker 4: I think it depends on the more specific age range.
- 12:02Speaker 4: But yeah, I think probably a little younger might be
- 12:05Speaker 4: slightly more TikTok.
- 12:06Speaker 1: And all the artists are making it on TikTok. All
- 12:08Speaker 1: the people that are trying to get.
- 12:09Speaker 2: A recording career. Yeah, the young new artists. I think
- 12:12Speaker 2: you got to know their patterns, right? Instagram. And that
- 12:17Speaker 2: was controlled by Zuck, you pig.
- 12:23Speaker 1: When we come back, listen, we want to hear from you,
- 12:25Speaker 1: especially about the weather. And if you saw that blood-red
- 12:31Speaker 1: moon last night or any of the partial eclipse, that's
- 12:35Speaker 1: when we come back. We'll be talking about weather, the
- 12:38Speaker 1: lunar sightings, and you.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Ah, ladies and gentlemen, plus there's a chance to win
- 12:46Speaker 2: tickets for Chicago. Not the city, but the group at 825.
- 12:52Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. There is a danger to
- 12:55Speaker 2: people out there who are adults. And let me get
- 12:58Speaker 2: specific with this. Let me take you back to the headlines.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Remember a while back, a guy walks up to the
- 13:07Speaker 2: door of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband walks in
- 13:11Speaker 2: and then just kills him. And everybody said, how could
- 13:15Speaker 2: this happen? And they found a notebook police inside. A
- 13:19Speaker 2: handwritten list of 11 websites. And immediately everybody assumed, oh,
- 13:23Speaker 2: it's probably a weapons website. Not one of them. They
- 13:27Speaker 2: were from data brokers and people's search sites. And this
- 13:30Speaker 2: guy who was on a mission to kill had found
- 13:34Speaker 2: the home address for just a couple of bucks. You
- 13:37Speaker 2: type in your name. Do it right now. There you are,
- 13:40Speaker 2: your address, your phone number, your family's names, a photo
- 13:44Speaker 2: of your front door, your front door. And you say,
- 13:46Speaker 2: how could this be legal? What they do is the
- 13:48Speaker 2: data brokers is they bundle it up and they sell
- 13:50Speaker 2: it to whoever it is will pay them a price. Now,
- 13:53Speaker 2: it's up to you. You got to put up the firewall.
- 13:56Speaker 2: I've certainly done that. Obviously, I'm a well-known individual. A
- 13:59Speaker 2: lot of people are going to be searching for me.
- 14:01Speaker 2: We know. But I immediately got incognito. I get a
- 14:05Speaker 2: pen and a pen and write it down because you
- 14:07Speaker 2: want to share this information with family and friends who
- 14:10Speaker 2: themselves are being besieged. And they're wondering, who the hell
- 14:13Speaker 2: got all this information? It forces data brokers and people
- 14:17Speaker 2: search sites to delete you, then keeps checking because deleted
- 14:21Speaker 2: data creeps back. Incognia scrubbed my info and it can
- 14:25Speaker 2: for you. And you don't have to do anything in
- 14:27Speaker 2: the process. And trust me, they're not naive. They go
- 14:30Speaker 2: back and look at it again and again and again
- 14:32Speaker 2: and play whack-a-mole for you. You lock your doors every night. Tonight,
- 14:36Speaker 2: lock down your address. Go to incogni.com slash Curtis. That's
- 14:40Speaker 2: I-N-C-O-G-N-I dot com slash Curtis. Sign up now. Get 60% off.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Well, it was quite a downpour yesterday and it was
- 14:49Speaker 1: fast moving. It came through, created flash floods throughout North Jersey. Elizabeth,
- 14:54Speaker 1: I think all the TV stations were at and that
- 14:57Speaker 1: was a severe problem. And again, people tried to navigate
- 15:03Speaker 1: it with their cars and several cars got stuck. People
- 15:07Speaker 1: had to climb out of their windows because some of
- 15:10Speaker 1: the water was so deep. Staten Island was the other
- 15:13Speaker 1: one that was badly hit. Now, you had saw some flooding, too,
- 15:18Speaker 1: and you did a video on it.
- 15:19Speaker 2: I did a video a while back about the catch basins.
- 15:24Speaker 2: There are 150,000 in New York City, sewers. They're all
- 15:27Speaker 2: backed up with trash, flotsam, jetsam. They never get cleaned out.
- 15:31Speaker 2: That was true in Staten Island. That's true in most locales,
- 15:34Speaker 2: even beyond New York City. Yesterday, I did one in
- 15:36Speaker 2: the subways. right where the shuttle train runs from Times
- 15:40Speaker 2: Square to Grand Central. You see all the garbage in
- 15:42Speaker 2: the tracks. It's all collected near the catch basins. So
- 15:45Speaker 2: any water that goes there is going to be backed up,
- 15:48Speaker 2: and then there's flooding there. So we're not talking a
- 15:50Speaker 2: lot of money here. We're talking about good old-fashioned manual labor,
- 15:55Speaker 2: men and women going down and removing the debris, which
- 15:58Speaker 2: allows more of a flow of water. And we're not
- 16:00Speaker 2: talking about what we're seeing on television nonstop, that horrible flood.
- 16:05Speaker 2: between Nepal and Tibet. Oh my God. You know, there
- 16:08Speaker 2: was part of that glacier breaking off. No, we're talking
- 16:11Speaker 2: about flooding that's going to happen now on a regular
- 16:13Speaker 2: basis because of climate change. We just got to get
- 16:16Speaker 2: ready for it and start doing the basics. We don't
- 16:19Speaker 2: even do that now. Well, we got to dig, you know,
- 16:21Speaker 2: deeper tunnels underground. How about doing the basics first and
- 16:24Speaker 2: then we can look towards a long-term plan?
- 16:27Speaker 1: So I'm driving home in this yesterday and in the
- 16:30Speaker 1: middle of it, I get a flat tire. And so
- 16:33Speaker 1: I have three A's, which is great. And they're tremendous.
- 16:36Speaker 1: And they came and they towed my car. I go
- 16:39Speaker 1: to the tow place and I'm talking to the guy.
- 16:41Speaker 1: And he looked at my name because I was down south.
- 16:44Speaker 1: And he looks at my name and he says, oh,
- 16:47Speaker 1: Larry Menti. He said, you were on TV. What are
- 16:51Speaker 1: you doing now? And I said, I'm up at WOR.
- 16:54Speaker 1: You're going to love this. I said, I'm working with
- 16:58Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa. You know Curtis Sliwa?
- 16:59Speaker 2: He goes, oh, yeah.
- 17:00Speaker 1: My two daughters both went to college up in New York.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I've been there a lot. He's a hero.
- 17:06Speaker 2: How about that?
- 17:07Speaker 5: Wow.
- 17:08Speaker 2: That is great that he remembers that, that we're going
- 17:13Speaker 2: to school here. We were patrolling the subways and streets.
- 17:16Speaker 2: We still do. But back then, in the 80s, there
- 17:19Speaker 2: were no cops. So if you didn't see a Red
- 17:23Speaker 2: Beret sometimes, you were on your own. So I appreciate
- 17:26Speaker 2: the fact that he remembered that and conveyed it to you.
- 17:28Speaker 2: That's why our partnership is so strong. Because it spans
- 17:32Speaker 2: the decades, and both of us have performed a lot
- 17:36Speaker 2: of goodwill for a lot of people that will last
- 17:40Speaker 2: throughout their lifetimes. Can't really say that about a lot
- 17:42Speaker 2: of other radio shows, but we certainly can say that
- 17:45Speaker 2: about this thing of ours that Tom Cuddy put together.
- 17:48Speaker 1: You know, I'm so glad you said that, because you're right.
- 17:52Speaker 1: This media has a power, and a lot of people
- 17:55Speaker 1: take that power to ingratiate themselves.
- 17:59Speaker 2: Yes.
- 18:00Speaker 1: To make themselves bigger and make themselves better. And they
- 18:03Speaker 1: go give, give, give, give, give. Part of the gift
- 18:07Speaker 1: of being on the media is to help others. And so,
- 18:11Speaker 1: you know, especially when I did the documentaries, I was
- 18:13Speaker 1: able to do that over and over again. And you've
- 18:15Speaker 1: lived a whole adult life doing that. So you're right.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I wish others would know the responsibility and the power
- 18:24Speaker 1: of what they do. Like Daria Aubiger. who is here
- 18:27Speaker 1: now with the 630 News.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Darian.
- 18:29Speaker 6: And I am proud to be in the company of
- 18:31Speaker 6: two heroes.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Oh, that's nice.
- 18:33Speaker 1: I'm sitting with a hero. I just did some good things.
- 18:37Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 18:37Speaker 1: He did it every day.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Two, two heroes.
- 18:40Speaker 6: And you know what? If you reach one person, you
- 18:42Speaker 6: know you have done a good job in this business.
- 18:44Speaker 6: And if you reach many, many, many more, that's epic.
- 18:47Speaker 6: Partly sunny and muggy today. Chance for an afternoon shower.
- 18:50Speaker 6: A high of 82 degrees. The big cleanup is underway
- 18:53Speaker 6: after the latest round of strong storms that rolled through
- 18:55Speaker 6: the area. New Jersey was hit especially hard.
- 18:58Speaker 5: There were reports of flooding and car rescues coming Thursday
- 19:01Speaker 5: afternoon in Hasbrook and Teterboro and waist-high water in parts
- 19:06Speaker 5: of Elizabeth. Sayreville in Middlesex County reported flooding, quote, all
- 19:10Speaker 5: over town, according to police. A lightning strike also sparked
- 19:14Speaker 5: a house fire in Sayreville. Nearby Old Bridge reported three
- 19:18Speaker 5: inches of rain in three hours Thursday. More storms move
- 19:22Speaker 5: through the region Thursday night. Andrew Whitman, WOR News.
- 19:26Speaker 6: Some of the surviving former presidents are expected to be
- 19:28Speaker 6: at ground zero to mark 25 years since the September
- 19:32Speaker 6: 11th attacks. Now we're learning President Trump will not be there.
- 19:35Speaker 6: The White House says he'll be at the Pentagon instead.
- 19:37Speaker 6: The president upping the trade war with Canada by signing
- 19:40Speaker 6: an executive order to rename Lake Ontario, Lake America. And
- 19:45Speaker 6: it was met with considerable pushback.
- 19:46Speaker 9: Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney noting the name of the lake.
- 19:50Speaker 9: dates back more than 400 years, adding this lake is
- 19:54Speaker 9: called Lake Ontario today. and forever. The lake borders New York,
- 19:59Speaker 9: whose governor, Kathy Hochul, bluntly rejected the president's new name, posting,
- 20:03Speaker 9: New York won't be calling it that.
- 20:06Speaker 6: That's ABC's Mary Bruce. The president signed the order in
- 20:08Speaker 6: front of a map that read, Making the Great Lakes
- 20:10Speaker 6: Even Greater. The markets will be watching as Fed Chair
- 20:13Speaker 6: Kevin Walsh delivers the keynote address today at the Central
- 20:16Speaker 6: Banks Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And California State Senate
- 20:21Speaker 6: has passed a bill, a first-in-the-nation measure, which adds Jewish
- 20:25Speaker 6: as an ethnicity. in the state's demographic data collection. The
- 20:29Speaker 6: proposal will now head to the state's house. Yankees and
- 20:32Speaker 6: Mets both lose. Jets and the Giants meet tonight. Next news,
- 20:35Speaker 6: 7 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Up next, more airline problems. It seems every week, if
- 20:46Speaker 2: it's not one airline, it's another airline. And finally, a
- 20:49Speaker 2: resolution to the two air traffic controllers who have been
- 20:53Speaker 2: found responsible. That crash, remember, of that Canadian flight in
- 20:58Speaker 2: LaGuardia into that emergency response vehicle. We'll break it down
- 21:02Speaker 2: to you with more details.
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- 21:41Speaker 1: Well, this is a story that is shocking when you
- 21:44Speaker 1: hear it. It's been five months since an Air Canada
- 21:47Speaker 1: jet crashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport. We
- 21:51Speaker 1: all remember it killing two people. And while the federal
- 21:55Speaker 1: investigators into the accident put together all the information, we're
- 22:01Speaker 1: now told that the FAA... wants to fire two air
- 22:07Speaker 1: traffic controllers, not the people you heard on the air.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Remember how upsetting it was when they made a mistake
- 22:14Speaker 1: and they realized they made a mistake? Because the crash
- 22:18Speaker 1: was caused by a truck, a Port Authority fire truck
- 22:24Speaker 1: that was going to another emergency, given permission to cross
- 22:28Speaker 1: the runway less than 30 seconds before the crash. And
- 22:33Speaker 1: so it was in the way of an airliner coming in,
- 22:36Speaker 1: and that's what caused the crash and the two people
- 22:39Speaker 1: to die. And you heard the air traffic controller at
- 22:43Speaker 1: the time realizing he just had made a horrible mistake.
- 22:48Speaker 1: But it's not him that they're going after. They're going
- 22:52Speaker 1: after the two that left early. They want them fired.
- 22:56Speaker 1: But here is the even more shocking part. A lot
- 23:00Speaker 1: of air traffic controllers say that happens all the time.
- 23:04Speaker 10: When there's not a lot of traffic, when there's not
- 23:06Speaker 10: a lot of work to do, we go home early
- 23:11Speaker 10: and leave it with the backup crew or the crew
- 23:14Speaker 10: that just came in.
- 23:15Speaker 1: We don't all have to be there. Well, you did
- 23:18Speaker 1: that day. And so we're going to see what's going
- 23:22Speaker 1: to happen. This is going to be fought out between
- 23:24Speaker 1: the union and the federal government and the FAA. It's
- 23:27Speaker 1: all going to happen. But it seems clear at this
- 23:30Speaker 1: point the FAA wants the air traffic controllers, and apparently
- 23:34Speaker 1: there are two of them, who went home early that
- 23:38Speaker 1: day right before a deadly crash.
- 23:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and as the union has said, this has consistently
- 23:46Speaker 2: gone on. They call it, quote, early departure. The federal government,
- 23:51Speaker 2: rightfully so, our transportation secretary is saying that's time card fraud.
- 23:56Speaker 2: So probably what happened, because we don't have all the details,
- 23:59Speaker 2: is that because this is systemic now, you have two
- 24:02Speaker 2: guys in the tower where you had four. OK, you
- 24:05Speaker 2: two go out early. We'll punch your cards out in
- 24:07Speaker 2: a little while. Same thing. We've seen that on the
- 24:10Speaker 2: Long Island Railroad. We've seen that with other things with
- 24:12Speaker 2: fellow employees. We'll say, yeah, I'll punch your time card
- 24:16Speaker 2: out for you, even though they've already left. But to
- 24:19Speaker 2: find out that this has been systemic because the argument
- 24:23Speaker 2: by the union is, well, these men and women have
- 24:25Speaker 2: to work six days a week mandatory. That is true
- 24:28Speaker 2: because it was a shortage of air traffic controllers. But
- 24:31Speaker 2: that doesn't give you the right to basically be on
- 24:35Speaker 2: the clock and not be there. Particularly, this is such
- 24:40Speaker 2: a sensitive area where it's life and death decision. Who's
- 24:45Speaker 2: making the decision that there should be only two in
- 24:47Speaker 2: the tower and when four should have been there and
- 24:50Speaker 2: you're letting the other two go home early.
- 24:52Speaker 10: Right.
- 24:52Speaker 1: And it might have saved two lives. In this case,
- 24:55Speaker 1: it may have saved two lives. But you're right. The
- 24:57Speaker 1: most ridiculous part of this is that the union came
- 25:01Speaker 1: back and said, oh, this happens all the time. What
- 25:04Speaker 1: are you talking about? This is standard operating procedure. That's
- 25:07Speaker 1: the worst argument in the world. I mean, we have seen, remember,
- 25:13Speaker 1: they decided to move. Newark International Airport had such horrific problems.
- 25:18Speaker 1: Because somebody in the Biden administration, Boudier, Boudier, Boudier, decided
- 25:23Speaker 1: to move the center of air traffic control down in Philadelphia, remember?
- 25:27Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 25:28Speaker 2: Instead of keeping it there in Newark. And you had
- 25:31Speaker 2: all kinds of delays and there were problems and near misses.
- 25:36Speaker 2: And finally, our transportation secretary, who happens to be from
- 25:40Speaker 2: New Jersey, said, Well, you know, part of the problem
- 25:42Speaker 2: was that Buttigieg, Buttigieg, Buttigieg, I want to be president
- 25:45Speaker 2: over my dead body, decided in order to cut costs,
- 25:50Speaker 2: we'll have the air traffic control center in Philadelphia to
- 25:53Speaker 2: monitor all the flights coming in and out of Newark.
- 25:55Speaker 2: You say to yourself, how crazy is that?
- 25:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And then they didn't put in the
- 25:59Speaker 1: optic lines. I mean, there was, it was huge problems. Buttigieg,
- 26:03Speaker 1: I can't believe that guy wants to run for president.
- 26:06Speaker 1: There were other problems in the sky. Listen to this one.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Marine One, which is the helicopter, coming into Washington, D.C.,
- 26:15Speaker 1: tries to call air traffic control to make sure everything's secure.
- 26:20Speaker 1: And this is what happened.
- 26:21Speaker 7: I can't hear Marine One.
- 26:22Speaker 1: If you hear Marine One, can you let me know?
- 26:25Speaker 2: They couldn't.
- 26:26Speaker 1: The communication was dead. Communication was down because they were
- 26:29Speaker 1: doing some construction. They were doing some construction. And so
- 26:33Speaker 1: Marine One couldn't get information on whether it was secure
- 26:37Speaker 1: to land. And they're saying that this– another time, they're saying, oh,
- 26:42Speaker 1: this happens all the time. It happens– that's not an
- 26:46Speaker 1: excuse and it's not constructive. You have to fix these problems.
- 26:51Speaker 1: If you knew it happened all the time, it's on
- 26:54Speaker 1: you at that point.
- 26:54Speaker 2: Well, remember at– I think it was either Reagan National
- 26:59Speaker 2: or it was at Dulles. Remember the helicopter pilot?
- 27:03Speaker 3: Yes.
- 27:04Speaker 2: Who came too close and then crashed because of a
- 27:08Speaker 2: lack of proper communication. You know, as they were tailing
- 27:11Speaker 2: an airline flight. I mean, it is so congested in D.C.
- 27:15Speaker 2: around Reagan National Airport. It's such a small airport to
- 27:18Speaker 2: begin with.
- 27:19Speaker 1: You know why a lot of it's congested? Because those
- 27:22Speaker 1: fat cats at the Pentagon who take military planes to
- 27:25Speaker 1: fly over the airport instead of putting their rear ends
- 27:28Speaker 1: in a in a limo or a car and driving
- 27:31Speaker 1: over there. That's why it's so congested. You can talk
- 27:34Speaker 1: to the people that work down there. That's half of
- 27:36Speaker 1: the things they do, is taking people back and forth
- 27:39Speaker 1: from the airport to the Pentagon. Drive.
- 27:44Speaker 2: Get a driver. Now, remember, there's two stories affecting Las Vegas.
- 27:47Speaker 2: One has to do with an airline, but I want
- 27:49Speaker 2: to get this in quickly because You focused on this.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Remember that crazy guy in Philly who was stalking women
- 27:55Speaker 2: with that mask on? And then that black woman, I
- 27:58Speaker 2: call her SWA, Sister With Attitude, wasn't going to have
- 28:01Speaker 2: it no more. Threw a reverse kick, knocked him out.
- 28:04Speaker 2: The guy fled. They didn't catch him. Guess where they
- 28:07Speaker 2: caught up to him in? He was so terrified, he
- 28:10Speaker 2: fled to Vegas. They just nailed him in Vegas.
- 28:12Speaker 1: I know, yeah.
- 28:13Speaker 2: I do.
- 28:14Speaker 1: I saw that. Here's the other story. A cargo plane
- 28:17Speaker 1: catching fire. This is from Las Vegas as it landed
- 28:20Speaker 1: at Los Angeles International Airport. This happened just last night.
- 28:25Speaker 1: DHL and the FAA says the brakes on the Boeing
- 28:30Speaker 1: 737 malfunctioned on landing. And here's what the ATC saw.
- 28:35Speaker 1: I don't know if we blew a tire, but it
- 28:37Speaker 1: feels like the brakes locked up. Yeah, it does feel
- 28:41Speaker 1: like the brakes locked up. And you know what happens
- 28:42Speaker 1: when the brakes locked up?
- 28:44Speaker 9: You do have a small tire.
- 28:47Speaker 1: On your left main gear. We're now getting.
- 28:50Speaker 2: Water on it.
- 28:52Speaker 1: So the brakes lock up and it causes a fire
- 28:56Speaker 1: almost immediately. Again, this is not the first time this happened, apparently.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Did you hear how calm they were? Looks like your
- 29:04Speaker 1: brakes locked up. You got a small fire down there
- 29:07Speaker 1: on the thing. That, again, is a major problem that's
- 29:11Speaker 1: not being addressed. All three of these problems in the
- 29:15Speaker 1: air that we've been talking about, the air traffic controllers
- 29:18Speaker 1: not being there on time, construction causing communication delays that
- 29:23Speaker 1: almost caused a major accident again at Ronald Reagan International,
- 29:28Speaker 1: and another problem with Marine One.
- 29:31Speaker 2: And this.
- 29:32Speaker 1: If you know, that's what gets me about this, if
- 29:35Speaker 1: you know that these are continuing problems, then it's on you.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Then it's on the FAA. Then it's on the airlines.
- 29:44Speaker 1: It's not on these pilots and air traffic controllers. It's
- 29:46Speaker 1: on them.
- 29:47Speaker 2: Well, speaking of air traffic controllers, we can never forget
- 29:51Speaker 2: what happened on 9-11 25 years ago, the commemoration this
- 29:53Speaker 2: year The president was scheduled to be in New York City.
- 29:58Speaker 2: He's chosen instead to be at the Pentagon commemoration. We'll
- 30:03Speaker 2: give you an update on that next.
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- 31:29Speaker 2: So already, Larry, people are trying to make something out
- 31:33Speaker 2: of what is really just something in the past that
- 31:36Speaker 2: has been done by a president or a vice president
- 31:39Speaker 2: serving our country, Democrat or Republican. Originally, it was scheduled
- 31:43Speaker 2: that President Donald Trump would be in attendance at the
- 31:47Speaker 2: 25th commemoration of the attack on 9-11. downtown Manhattan. They
- 31:52Speaker 2: had decided it would be better for him to be
- 31:54Speaker 2: at the Pentagon. He will give a speech, which you
- 31:58Speaker 2: can do at the Pentagon. Presidents have done that before.
- 32:01Speaker 2: When you're at the commemoration in lower Manhattan, there are
- 32:04Speaker 2: no speeches. I remember originally, Larry, and it was pretty ridiculous.
- 32:08Speaker 2: They had the officials who would attend, the elected officials,
- 32:11Speaker 2: read either a poem or some statement from some document
- 32:18Speaker 2: in history. And I think the families came to the
- 32:21Speaker 2: conclusion along with the museum people that was put together
- 32:25Speaker 2: by former mayor Michael Bloomberg. No, just stand there silently,
- 32:29Speaker 2: commemorate the anniversary. Obviously this one, the 25th, the big one.
- 32:33Speaker 2: So with Donald Trump going to the Pentagon, he will
- 32:37Speaker 2: be replaced by vice president Vance. And the interest now
- 32:41Speaker 2: is in what will the queue look like? Because they
- 32:44Speaker 2: all stand together. Generally it's Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor
- 32:47Speaker 2: in the middle, because he has funded the museum. I
- 32:50Speaker 2: would assume that Vice President Vance stands next to him.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Where will Schumer be? You're going to have Obama's going
- 32:58Speaker 2: to be there, Bush 43. And of course, the mayor
- 33:00Speaker 2: has said he will be there. So what will the
- 33:03Speaker 2: queue look like? And remember, they cannot speak at this event.
- 33:07Speaker 2: They just stand there as the family members come up
- 33:11Speaker 2: and start reading the names on the rolls. They go
- 33:13Speaker 2: for a few hours.
- 33:15Speaker 1: When I hear something about what will the queue look like,
- 33:18Speaker 1: I think these poor staffers, because that's going to be
- 33:21Speaker 1: on them. They're the ones that have to have these conversations.
- 33:24Speaker 1: And then they have to go back and be told, no,
- 33:27Speaker 1: that's not good enough. And then they have to have
- 33:30Speaker 1: another conversation. And you'd think on a day like this,
- 33:33Speaker 1: who cares? Who cares where you are? As long as
- 33:36Speaker 1: you're there.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 33:38Speaker 1: I don't get it at all. By the way, I
- 33:40Speaker 1: was busy last night because I have some maps in
- 33:43Speaker 1: our basement down in the wall.
- 33:46Speaker 2: Oh, you're a map guy, huh?
- 33:47Speaker 1: Yeah, I was crossing out Ontario and the Great Lakes
- 33:50Speaker 1: and writing in America because I'm not sure I'll be
- 33:52Speaker 1: able to ever buy one. But I don't know if
- 33:54Speaker 1: you heard. Yeah, it's now Lake America. It's not Lake
- 33:58Speaker 1: Ontario anymore.
- 33:59Speaker 3: And finally, I guess the purpose of this more than
- 34:02Speaker 3: anything else is we're going to be changing the name
- 34:05Speaker 3: of Lake Ontario. Effective immediately to Lake America. That's going
- 34:11Speaker 3: to take place right now as I sign the order.
- 34:15Speaker 1: Don't ask me.
- 34:16Speaker 2: Can you imagine if you are the official map makers? Now,
- 34:20Speaker 2: this is an executive order. So regardless of what your
- 34:23Speaker 2: opinion is, any new maps, if this stays in effect,
- 34:28Speaker 2: would have to reflect the executive order. Remember the Gulf
- 34:33Speaker 2: of Mexico? He declared we were having a problem with Mexico,
- 34:36Speaker 2: the Gulf of America. I don't know if that's reflected
- 34:39Speaker 2: on the maps. And recently he said the Straits of
- 34:41Speaker 2: Hormuz will be a territory of the United States, you know,
- 34:44Speaker 2: like Guam. I understand this is the president being the president,
- 34:51Speaker 2: but I don't think anybody is going to start referring
- 34:55Speaker 2: to Lake Ontario as Lake America. Just ain't going to happen.
- 35:02Speaker 1: It is amazing to me. You know, I just Googled it.
- 35:05Speaker 1: I did an AI search on Google because when you
- 35:08Speaker 1: said that about the Gulf of America, I thought, did
- 35:11Speaker 1: anybody really change it? And it says yes. Yeah. Google
- 35:15Speaker 1: Maps says Gulf of America for users located in the
- 35:19Speaker 1: United States. If you're outside of the United States, it
- 35:23Speaker 1: says Gulf of Mexico.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Now, interesting. When I was in Bahrain in Dubai, I
- 35:26Speaker 2: was giving speeches. And, you know, you have mostly Sunnis.
- 35:30Speaker 2: The minority is Shias. The Shias refer to it as
- 35:34Speaker 2: the Persian Gulf, right? Persian Gulf. The Sunnis refer to
- 35:38Speaker 2: it as the Arabian Gulf.
- 35:40Speaker 1: Oh, that's funny.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Their maps reflect that. Now, naturally, we accept it as
- 35:45Speaker 2: the Persian Gulf. It's been the Persian Gulf for, like, forever.
- 35:49Speaker 2: But they'll get into those nuances. So in Bahrain, we
- 35:52Speaker 2: have our naval, big naval base in the Middle East.
- 35:56Speaker 2: And they have to be, they have to reflect that
- 35:58Speaker 2: on the map.
- 35:59Speaker 3: Both.
- 36:00Speaker 2: Both names. Both names so as to not to offend
- 36:03Speaker 2: the Sunnis or the Shias.
- 36:05Speaker 1: Now, if you want to know as a journalist, and
- 36:09Speaker 1: I'm sure Derry has already looked at this, if you
- 36:11Speaker 1: want to know as a journalist what you should be
- 36:15Speaker 1: saying now, if it's the Gulf of Mexico or the
- 36:17Speaker 1: Gulf of America, where do you go? You go to
- 36:19Speaker 1: the AP Style Guide. Guess what they say? Golf of Mexico.
- 36:26Speaker 1: They are not going along. And I don't think they're
- 36:29Speaker 1: going to do Lake America either. I think the MAP members,
- 36:35Speaker 1: Google's smart politically because they need some money. AP doesn't
- 36:38Speaker 1: need the money. And AP is saying, nope, we're not
- 36:41Speaker 1: going to make that change. Well, when we come back, Curtis,
- 36:46Speaker 1: what are we doing when we come back?
- 36:47Speaker 2: Lindsay Clancy. The jury has been charged. The mother who
- 36:51Speaker 2: killed her three children. We'll break it down to you
- 36:54Speaker 2: up next, but first in the news at 7.