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Hour 3: 9/11 air quality reports · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: It is, in my opinion, the best thing that Zorah
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani has ever done. He finally, after all these years,
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  Speaker 1: after more than two decades, released the 9-11 air quality papers.
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  Speaker 1: Over 160,000 of them, and there may be more. They're
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  Speaker 1: all going to be posted for everyone to see. And
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  Speaker 1: he described yesterday what's in those documents.
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  Speaker 2: These are documents that show what the city knew about
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  Speaker 2: the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it,
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  Speaker 2: and how they acted to limit liability. They contain details
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  Speaker 2: about DEP's response. They show how asbestos was found nearly
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  Speaker 2: everywhere that inspectors tested. And they will help New Yorkers
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  Speaker 2: access the health care they need.
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  Speaker 1: What they did to limit liability, they hid it. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't been able to see it for over two decades.
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  Speaker 1: And it shows that nobody should have been on that pile.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody should have been working. They should have cleared the
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  Speaker 1: area or at least given them enough gear so they
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  Speaker 1: could deal with what was in the air. And instead,
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  Speaker 1: 9,000 people died. Also there yesterday with Mamdani was Jon Stewart,
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  Speaker 1: who has been a brilliant advocate for the 9-11 compensation fund.
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  Speaker 3: There was poison. in the air and on the ground
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  Speaker 3: and in the windowsills and in your air conditioners and
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  Speaker 3: covering your pets and your clothes. And it stayed there
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  Speaker 3: for months. And everyone knew.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knew. And everything that he just mentioned could make
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  Speaker 1: you sick and even make you die. 9,000 people have
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  Speaker 1: been killed. This was a mass killing by keeping that
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  Speaker 1: information secret. away from people and it has to be
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  Speaker 1: further investigated.
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  Speaker 3: The city began covering their ass three weeks in in
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  Speaker 3: a memo the memo is entitled legislative alternatives to the
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  Speaker 3: fiscal responsibility for 9-11 these people had to fight sick
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  Speaker 3: and dying for years.
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  Speaker 1: So you have a crime that is obvious You have motivation,
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  Speaker 1: which Jon Stewart just mentioned, hiding from liability. And you
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  Speaker 1: have evidence, boxes and boxes of evidence that they tried
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  Speaker 1: to hide, which is also a crime. Hiding evidence is
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  Speaker 1: also a crime. So there's got to be hearings on this.
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  Speaker 1: There's got to be charges brought. This cannot go away
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  Speaker 1: with one news conference. There has to be a clarion
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  Speaker 1: call to hold the people that hid those documents responsible.
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  Speaker 4: And we saw that Christine Todd Whitman, who after leaving
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  Speaker 4: the governorship of New Jersey, became the EPA chieftess. And
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  Speaker 4: she had issued a federal study that said the air
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  Speaker 4: was safe enough for people to continue to live in
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  Speaker 4: the area, go to school in the area, work in
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  Speaker 4: the area, and most importantly, work on the pile. Because
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  Speaker 4: that work continued nonstop around the clock. A year later,
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  Speaker 4: if you went down to the area, you could still
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  Speaker 4: smell air. the smell of death. It was like the
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  Speaker 4: world's largest crematorium, but there were all the other toxins,
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  Speaker 4: smells mixed in that obviously your nose could not identify.
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  Speaker 4: But one of the more serious issues was the asbestos.
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  Speaker 4: And that was found in so many different parts. So
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  Speaker 4: the question is, who knew it? When did you know it?
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  Speaker 4: And what did you intend to do about it? And
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  Speaker 4: in a buildup to this 25th anniversary where people were saying, well,
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  Speaker 4: you shouldn't show up. You shouldn't show up. You shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: show up. This all of a sudden brings us to
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  Speaker 4: a grinding halt because to me, this is the most
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  Speaker 4: important thing. Forget about Zoran showing up or not showing up.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be there. Is that who should be
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  Speaker 4: held culpable for this? Because I think, Larry, you said
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  Speaker 4: it best. You were embedded with the men and the
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  Speaker 4: families who were going down to D.C. time and time
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  Speaker 4: again to try to get some relief, try to get
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  Speaker 4: acknowledgement instead of how some elected officials, including Bloomberg initially,
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  Speaker 4: who thought that. People were trying to rip off the fund,
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  Speaker 4: you know, through doctors or therapists. And we were watching,
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  Speaker 4: at least I was, on film watching some of these
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  Speaker 4: valiant men die before us. You could just see, like,
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  Speaker 4: my God, I've never seen anybody that ill before. And
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  Speaker 4: there were dozens. And they continue to die. Dozens.
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  Speaker 1: There's thousands.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: They continue to die. And people are going to have
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  Speaker 4: to give answers. Right now, there's a Department of Investigation
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  Speaker 4: investigation going on. Remember, these 170,000 sheets, pages that were
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  Speaker 4: released and are being put in a portal for everyone
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  Speaker 4: to read. It's just the beginning. It's almost like, remember
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  Speaker 4: with the Epstein files, how they kept filing, filing, filing.
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  Speaker 4: There are going to be more pages filed. And everybody
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  Speaker 4: has a right to know. You're saying it's just the beginning,
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  Speaker 4: and I get that. You mean the papers that are happening.
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  Speaker 4: I hope it's just the beginning of something bigger than
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  Speaker 4: just more papers coming out. I hope it's the beginning
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  Speaker 4: of a huge investigation into who knew what and when
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  Speaker 4: and who hid this material because all of that is
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  Speaker 4: a crime. And so I don't want to just keep
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  Speaker 4: talking about the papers and I don't want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about the air quality, which is extremely important. I want
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  Speaker 4: to talk about the people that died and the people
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  Speaker 4: that got sick and who was culpable in that. Who
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  Speaker 4: didn't warn them when they knew that the air was bad.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know who those people are and then
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  Speaker 4: I want them in cuffs because that was criminal. For
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  Speaker 4: them to hide that information for this long where people
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  Speaker 4: are dying still from this is criminal. And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: hearing a lot of people saying that. I'm not hearing
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  Speaker 4: anybody saying, look, this was a crime that was committed.
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  Speaker 4: Where's the outrage? Why aren't people just now demanding, where's
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  Speaker 4: the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney in all of this? Where's litigation? Where's anything? There
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  Speaker 1: has to be. I know I realize it's the day
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  Speaker 1: after and maybe that's it, but I expected more. I
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  Speaker 1: expected a real outrage today and a call to action.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think the reason you don't have that is
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  Speaker 4: it came so fast. It took everybody by shock. Because
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  Speaker 4: let's face it, the person probably most culpable in this
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  Speaker 4: is America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his staff, his deputy
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  Speaker 4: mayors and those who were closest to him at the
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  Speaker 4: time where this catastrophe had taken place. And he so
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  Speaker 4: valiantly led us afterwards. It's kind of hard to say
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  Speaker 4: Rudy would know and then wouldn't have said anything and
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  Speaker 4: would have said to people, as his administration said, it's
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  Speaker 4: okay to go back in there. It's okay to work. Remember,
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  Speaker 4: we're talking more than just the people who went on
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  Speaker 4: the pile and the valiant men who removed the debris.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about people who were told to go back
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  Speaker 4: and live in the area, go to school in the area,
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  Speaker 4: including people who had all kinds of medical problems to
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  Speaker 4: begin with. That just probably exacerbated it. including people at
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  Speaker 4: City Hall. I remember going to City Hall. It's just
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  Speaker 4: a few blocks away. And people were there working. And
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  Speaker 4: what probably should have taken place is people should have
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  Speaker 4: been banned from a particular area until the toxins could
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  Speaker 4: be removed. I know it's easy to say that now
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  Speaker 4: as a Monday morning quarterback. But they certainly didn't have
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  Speaker 4: the equipment, and I know some will say, but the
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  Speaker 4: men didn't want the equipment. They were going to go
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  Speaker 4: into the pile. You couldn't hold them back because of
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  Speaker 4: their colleagues, because they felt that they had to go
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  Speaker 4: in there, and they had to see if anyone was
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  Speaker 4: still alive or at least around them.
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  Speaker 1: But give them equipment. Give them something to cover their faces.
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  Speaker 1: Give them something to breathe through.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if they had known— Would they have
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  Speaker 1: gone in there without a mask? You saw them all.
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  Speaker 1: Very few of them had masks on because they were
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  Speaker 1: told it was okay. They were lied to. People knew
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  Speaker 1: and they held back the information and people died.
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  Speaker 4: That's a crime. The other thing that I'd like a
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  Speaker 4: little focus on, it was brought to our attention by
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy Fallon. I think it was either his brother or
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  Speaker 4: his brother-in-law, police officer at the time, who was assigned
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  Speaker 4: to the pile at the Staten Island dump. That's where
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  Speaker 4: all the particuli were taken. So those men and women
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  Speaker 4: were subject to the same toxins. It was horrible. I
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  Speaker 4: went there twice. I couldn't believe it. It was like
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  Speaker 4: right out of apocalypse now. Many of them have since
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  Speaker 4: gotten sick, since died. And there needs to be an
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  Speaker 4: investigation of what was known there because you actually had
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  Speaker 4: a morgue that was set up. You had men and
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  Speaker 4: women on their hands and knees with little rakes and
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  Speaker 4: hazmat suits going through all the debris to try to
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  Speaker 4: find anything that would indicate that this person This DNA
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  Speaker 4: of a person was there. So there's a lot to cover.
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  Speaker 4: And you're right. It needs a full-scale examination.
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  Speaker 1: Because the evidence is already there. I mean, there doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to be much of an investigation. Just read their
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  Speaker 1: own words, and then you have them. And then there
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  Speaker 1: should be prosecution.
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  Speaker 4: Well, up next, the guy and his partner who actually
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  Speaker 4: duct taped that maniac on that flight in first class.
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  Speaker 4: Duct tape from the tip of his nose to the
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  Speaker 1: By now of the unruly passenger on a flight to
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  Speaker 1: Newark that was so unruly they had to duct tape
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  Speaker 1: him to his seat and make an emergency landing in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: What you may not know is that one of the
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  Speaker 1: hero passengers on that flight is Richard Olenek, who is
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  Speaker 1: Woodland Park, New Jersey. Richard, thanks so much for joining
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  Speaker 1: us today. What an adventure you had. Can you tell
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  Speaker 1: us what the passenger was doing that made the other
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  Speaker 1: passengers take action?
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  Speaker 5: Sure. Good morning. Good morning, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: So about two hours into the flight from Dallas heading
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  Speaker 5: into Newark, we started hearing, I was with my store
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  Speaker 5: sales manager, Juan, and him and I started hearing one
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  Speaker 5: of the passengers getting very loud and boisterous. They started,
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  Speaker 5: eventually he started using profanity and he started just yelling
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  Speaker 5: out certain things, homophobic and racial slurs and it very
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  Speaker 5: quickly escalated from there.
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  Speaker 4: What exactly then did you take it upon yourself to do,
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  Speaker 4: you and your partner?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think once it got to the point, initially
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  Speaker 5: the flight attendants were trying to manage the situation. They
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  Speaker 5: were trying to de-escalate, calm him down. They went to him,
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  Speaker 5: they said, hey, you know, you can't yell, you can't scream,
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  Speaker 5: you certainly can't use that language. So they tried to
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  Speaker 5: manage it the best they could. And That's the way
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  Speaker 5: it stayed for about 10 minutes in total. He kept
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  Speaker 5: going back and forth, raising his voice. I think everybody
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  Speaker 5: in the cabin realized that something was obviously wrong. Like,
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  Speaker 5: nobody does that. That was very odd. But at that moment,
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  Speaker 5: when all of a sudden the gentleman turned around and
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  Speaker 5: put his hands on the pastor next to him on
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  Speaker 5: his throat and started actually strangling him.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 5: And Juan and I immediately, I heard the belt buckles unclip,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm like, okay, we're just going to go and
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  Speaker 5: do this. We're going to get it done. And we
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  Speaker 5: got up right away, and we headed over there and
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  Speaker 5: started trying to contain what was happening. Juan immediately got
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  Speaker 5: there first. He started grabbing this gentleman's arm to get
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  Speaker 5: his hand off the other passenger's neck. And then he
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  Speaker 5: started to try to do the best he could to
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  Speaker 5: contain him. I kind of slid in between the passenger
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  Speaker 5: and the seat in front of him. And I worked
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  Speaker 5: on trying to restrain his legs and continue to restrain
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  Speaker 5: his arms as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I understand that you and your partner were injured
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  Speaker 1: in this whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, actually, throughout the whole incident, the gentleman was actually
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  Speaker 5: trying to bite us and he was fighting us. He
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  Speaker 5: was actively resisting throughout the entire time. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and then we also ended up with blood on us.
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  Speaker 5: He had injured his arm. We believe he injured his
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  Speaker 5: arm before this all even started. When he was attacking
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  Speaker 5: the other passenger, he had cut himself. So by the
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  Speaker 5: time we jumped in, he was bleeding from that. And
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  Speaker 5: then when we tried to restrain him, he was very
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  Speaker 5: upset about that, obviously, saying, you know, you know, get
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  Speaker 5: off of me, get off of me. Why are you
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  Speaker 5: doing this? And he, he was shouting some other obscenities
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  Speaker 5: throughout it as well. And yeah. And, and so we,
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  Speaker 5: but we, we, we definitely tried to, we tried to
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  Speaker 5: deescalate the situation and we tried to bring it down and, and,
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  Speaker 5: But he just wasn't having that at that point.
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  Speaker 4: Richard, the photo we saw that's gone global is him
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  Speaker 4: duct taped to the chair from like his ankles right
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  Speaker 4: to his head. Where did you get the duct tape
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  Speaker 4: and the ties? Because you use those ties to tie
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  Speaker 4: him down, right?
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  Speaker 5: What, you don't bring duct tape and ties with you
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  Speaker 5: on every flight?
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  Speaker 1: Just in case.
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  Speaker 5: Don't we all? I mean, I thought everybody did.
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  Speaker 4: That's standard. So where did it come from?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it didn't fall out of the sky, that's for sure. No,
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  Speaker 5: the flight attendants actually walked over and gave it to us. Initially,
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  Speaker 5: they started with the tie cuffs, right? And they saw, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: they were... So at the moment when it turned physical,
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  Speaker 5: throughout the initial part of it, there were flight attendants nearby.
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  Speaker 5: They were addressing him. They were talking to him. But
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  Speaker 5: at that very moment when it got physical, there were
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  Speaker 5: no flight attendants around. So that's when we kind of,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, we kind of just knew we were
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  Speaker 5: going to get involved with this. We knew we had to.
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  Speaker 5: It had turned physical. Nobody was actually there at that
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  Speaker 5: moment to sort of help this gentleman. And we decided
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  Speaker 5: to get involved. So we start engaging with him. We
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  Speaker 5: start trying to restrain him. And at that point, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: the flight attendants came over. They saw what was going on.
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  Speaker 5: They kind of took a backseat a little bit because
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  Speaker 5: we were engaging and we were trying to de-escalate and
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  Speaker 5: restrain this gentleman. But that's when they started seeing that, okay,
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  Speaker 5: this is not de-escalating. This is only continuing to get worse.
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  Speaker 5: So they came over with these zip cuffs on. And
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  Speaker 5: then at which time Juan and I worked on getting
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  Speaker 5: those cuffs on him. We got those cuffs on him.
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  Speaker 5: And believe it or not, at that point, we were
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  Speaker 5: kind of hoping, well, OK, maybe this is it. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: he'll calm down after. Well, that's not what happened. He
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  Speaker 5: ended up just continuing to go full throttle. He was like, no,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to continue to restrain and continue to fight
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  Speaker 5: and continue to bite. So that's how it came out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been treated for all these injuries and did
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  Speaker 1: you get a rabies shot?
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  Speaker 5: No, but I did ask. As soon as it ended,
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  Speaker 5: I asked, does anyone have any baby wipes? And they
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  Speaker 5: just were throwing baby wipes at me. And I was
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  Speaker 5: kind of buried in baby wipes. So I'm like, so
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  Speaker 5: thank you very much, everybody. I really appreciate that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: there was blood. His blood was everywhere. It was really uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 5: That was probably more uncomfortable than the physical part. I
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  Speaker 5: would have rather... you know, have a fistfight than have
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  Speaker 5: someone's blood all over me. But it, you know, there
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  Speaker 5: was nothing we could do about it. So we just,
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  Speaker 5: we just went with it for, you know, for the
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  Speaker 5: time being. And then I just tried to wipe down
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  Speaker 5: as quickly as I could right after.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were one of the Plains heroes and thanks
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  Speaker 1: for spending time with us. Richard Olenek, owner of Gun
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  Speaker 1: For Hire, the world's only family destination gun range, gun
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  Speaker 1: store and training academy in Woodland Park. Now, Daria Albinger
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  Speaker 1: with the 830 News.
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  Speaker 7: Daria.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 8: Warmer and more humid today. We'll see a high of
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  Speaker 8: 84 degrees. Just in time for the new school year,
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  Speaker 8: a study finds American kids' reading comprehension has hit a
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  Speaker 8: 25-year low.
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  Speaker 9: After seeing the findings of the exam given to 760,000
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  Speaker 9: teenagers worldwide, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon was blunt.
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  Speaker 8: The American education system is failing its students.
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  Speaker 9: It's not just an American problem. The same test results
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  Speaker 9: find reading ability among 15-year-olds worldwide declining in the past
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  Speaker 9: four years.
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  Speaker 8: ABC's Jim Ryan. A man already out on bail for
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  Speaker 8: a previous shooting is the first person who was arrested
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  Speaker 8: in Monday's violence surrounding the West Indian Day Parade. Police
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  Speaker 8: say Nashawn Wilkinson is charged with attempted manslaughter and other
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  Speaker 8: offenses after allegedly shooting a man just two blocks from
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  Speaker 8: the parade route. CENCOM confirms the U.S. struck a number
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  Speaker 8: of Iranian oil tankers overnight in response to an attack
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  Speaker 8: on a U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Navy ship.
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  Speaker 8: Well, your kid is probably going to ask you for
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: a flip phone, but not the kind that you once had.
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  Speaker 6: For years, Apple has been rumored to have been working
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  Speaker 6: on a foldable version of the iPhone. And at Apple's event,
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: which it's calling Surprise and Shine, we could get our
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: first look at the new device. Leaks stemming from smartphone
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: case manufacturers indicate the first foldable iPhone will open and
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: close horizontally like a small notebook. Competitor Samsung is currently
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: on the eighth generation of its Galaxy Z Fold device.
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  Speaker 6: Google and Huawei also have their own takes on that
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  Speaker 6: form factor. Mike Dabosky, ABC News.
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  Speaker 3: U.S.
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  Speaker 8: Open tickets aren't cheap, but if you go, you're probably
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: going to get your money's worth. The average match has
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: gone on for more than two hours, including last night's
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: more than four and a half hour battle. Five sets
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: where American Ben Shelton upset Spain's Carlos Alcarez. Shelton is
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: now headed to the men's singles semifinals. The Mets and
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: Yankees win. New England and Seattle meet tonight in the
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  Speaker 8: NFL's regular season opener. Next news, 9 o'clock, bulletins at once.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Congratulations to May G. Perosi from Seacliff, New York, who
• 20:18
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  Speaker 1: And coming up next, an amazing woman, an amazing storyteller,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Beth Feehan, creator, producer of Aftermath 9-11 Stories of Hope
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and Resilience, the weekly 710WOR radio show and podcast. We'll
• 20:46
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• 21:19
  Speaker 1: That's AXS.com. Get yours while you still can. Let me
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: introduce you all to somebody I got to talk to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and got to know a little bit. She is a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: great storyteller. Her name is Beth Feehan, executive producer of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the award-winning documentary Chief and creator-producer of Aftermath, 9-11 Stories
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: of Hope and Resilience. That is a weekly 710 WOR
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: radio show. You can hear Sundays at 9 a.m. And
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the podcast can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Beth,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: it's wonderful to be able to talk to you again.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get from you a quick reaction from
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you about the 9-11 air quality documents finally being released
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: by the city.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Larry. Thank you for having me on. I'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: not surprised by the report. We started to do this
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: podcast on because we understood there were long-term health implications
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: for anyone who was downtown. A lot of the stories
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: we have in Aftermath are about families affected by the
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: aftermath of the air quality and the toxins that were
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: created by those buildings falling. That's not the focus or
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: the feature of our podcast, but we're telling stories of
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: first responder families that were down there, community members that
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: were down there, and how the past 25 years have
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: played out. So I'm not surprised by the report. We're
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: not in this for political purposes, but I'm not surprised
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: by the report.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Beth, I think it's important that this broadcast go
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: forward because With all the politics that has led up
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: to this 25th commemoration, who should show up, who should
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: not show up, what is said, what was not said,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I think the stories of the people involved have been
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: lost up until this point, and we're running out of time.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: The 25th commemoration is on Friday, so I salute you.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: What are some of those stories that our audience should
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: really be aware of?
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: Well, I think that the mental health toll on the
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: entire New York region has not been digested yet. We
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: have one episode talking about the mental health of first responders.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: That is part of, I think, the craziness of what's
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: going on now. It's just the vitriol. And I will
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: say that my father-in-law's way of operating was so... uh,
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: steady and how do you be of service? And he
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: was not a political animal. He was a man who
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: did the job and stayed away from the spotlight. Uh,
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: and his method of operating was worthy of, of studying
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: because his leadership, the respect that he had and the
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: leadership that he presented to the department that, you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: is iconic throughout the world. is what we wanted to
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: share with people and not get into the finger-pointing and
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: the politics.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we should point out that your father-in-law, Bill Feehan,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: was the FDNY's first deputy commissioner and one of the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: most recognizable leaders in the department. And it was Bill
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that inspired the documentary, right, Chief?
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: Correct, correct. My husband had done an interview with a
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: good friend, Harvey Wang, when Chief Feehan was made Deputy Commissioner,
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: I believe. And that three-hour interview was the basis for
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: making Chief, because I felt at the 20th anniversary, like
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: three years before the 20th anniversary, that his story needed
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: to be told. He was such an incredible icon for
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: leadership that... That's that's how that movie came about.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: And what is the message that everybody should get out
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: of this commemoration? Because one third for a full one
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: third of our citizens were not born at the time
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: of 9-11. And I'm finding that many of these young men,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: young women now were never taught about 9-11 in their
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: school system or whether it's parochial or public schools.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: I would say that my takeaway is that anyone who
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: takes advantage of civil service workers and screams about the
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: taxes that they have to pay for fire and police
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: and public entities like schools is missing the absolute infrastructure
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: for a city like this that is so vast and
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: so complex. And it's not a perfect beast for sure.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: New York's got a lot of issues. But considering how
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: many people live here and work here and the diversity
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: that exists here, the civil service workers are absolutely one
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: of the most important entities to be funded and to
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: make sure that those who do those jobs are paid back,
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: can live here. We have rules in New York that
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: you have to be living within certain boroughs and certain
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: regional areas in order to live here. But if it is...
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: not able to be, if it's too expensive to live here,
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: we're going to lose that workforce. So I don't know.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: I think the takeaway is that civil service and our institutions,
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: we need to support them financially because they were the
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: ones who got us through that day.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you, Beth, for what you do
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: because a lot of people say never forget and then
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: memories start to fade a little bit and you and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: your work make sure that doesn't happen. You've interviewed So
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: many people, I was going to say dozens, but it
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: might be hundreds at this point, that were there that day.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: What is the common theme? Is there a common theme
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: among all the people that you talk to?
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: Well, because our podcast is FDNY birthed, you know, because
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: of the connection I have through my in-laws and my father-in-law,
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: and my brother-in-laws and all the folks who, that's where
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: we started. It was a natural place to start. There
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: are so many more stories that could be told. I
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: believe that the thousands of stories we're seeing right now
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: on the 25th anniversary, if anybody is on social media,
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: on Instagram, you can see that everyone is focusing on
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: this right now because it's a seminal date. 25 years
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: is just huge. We don't want to forget the stories
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: or the people because so many lives were affected. So
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: many lives beyond the first responders. This entire region was affected.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: And as the country, as the world, the world shifted
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: on 9-11. And there are still so many lessons to
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: be learned from that. So I think that's why we
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: keep talking about it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Well, amen to that. And you can listen to more
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: from Beth Fee, an executive producer of the award-winning documentary Chief.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: By the way, where can people see Chief?
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Well, I just want to say humbly, it's not award-winning,
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: but thank you for that.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: It should be.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: It is available on YouTube. Our YouTube page is Be
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: The Can Man Studio, and our Instagram page is Aftermath Stories.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: And I hope people will check us out.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: She also does a weekly podcast on 710WOR. Tune in
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: this Sunday at 9 a.m. to the podcast. What's coming
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: up this Sunday?
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: We have former city agency employees and a CBS, Peter Haskell,
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: who was a former reporter, is interviewing Frank Cookie mccartan
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: who has worked for several city agencies and was um
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: down there on 9-11 met his wife his wife was
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: a producer on aftermath met his wife because of 9-11
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: and mccartan and uh matt um Higgins was a communications
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: director for Giuliani's office on 9-11. So they will talk
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: about that day.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Beth.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: And the aftermath.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: We'll be listening on Sunday at 9 a.m. Thank you
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: for talking to us today, Beth.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: Thanks for bringing me on. Thank you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: When we come back, I hope this isn't a continuous thing,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a midterm convention. It's a first, I think.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: So first, two days starting today and then tomorrow for
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: the Republicans down in Dallas. We'll break it down for you. Wow,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: first ever midterm convention hosted by President Donald Trump in Dallas.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: They expect thousands of GOP delegates to go from all
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: across the nation, including some of the candidates who are
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: running in the midterm elections. Some have opted to stay
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: home because... They have to continue to run every day
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: is incumbent that they spend at least 20 hours a
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: day on the road. But we will see. Trump will
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: speak both nights, J.D. Vance, one of the nights. There'll
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: be other speakers. What the message will be, Larry, and
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: I think Rob Astorino stated what my concerns are. I
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: don't want to lose these midterm elections because it'll be
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: horrible for the country. There'll be total chaos. There'll be impeachment.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: There'll be committee hearings hosted by the majority Democrats in
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: the House and nothing will happen. Nothing will happen. But
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: the president leads and the other GOP members follow. Hopefully
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: he'll be very disciplined with the message because the message
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: he gets out will be the message that the other
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: candidates will be running on the rest of the campaigns.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Rob brought up a great point, and it is that
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the midterms are base elections. It's getting out your base.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So a lot of people might look at this and say,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump right now with the war in Iran,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: his popularity is down. Maybe he's not the best person
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: right now to be doing this. No, no, no, no, no.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Because he has 90 percent popularity among Republicans and getting
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Republicans out to vote. is paramount in this election, and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: he is probably the best one at doing it. So
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: good for him in coming up with this. We'll see
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: if it works. We'll see if they can stay on message.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: You brought up a great point about staying on message.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: You know that socialism and communism is going to come
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: up a whole lot. But that's been tracking in the polls.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: That's been doing very well. People are worried about it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Well, it's NFL football starts tonight and then tomorrow. Two
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: really good games, New England versus the Seahawks, round two
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: of the previous Super Bowl, and then the 49ers versus
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: the Rams. So we'll see how eyeballs compete with that.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I am so psyched that football is back. I can't wait.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Now my weekends mean something again.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: The talkback of the morning.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: And winner of the Curtis Lee and Larry Minty in
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the morning t-shirt was personally affected by the air at
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Ground Zero. Good morning, gentlemen.
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: I'm glad that you're covering everything with the air and
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: the reports that came out. I've worked the piles. I've
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: lost friends. I've gotten sick from it. I hate to
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: say it.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Nothing's going to happen.
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: This story will go away in a week. Nobody will
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: be held accountable. The payouts for victims will be done.
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: And this story will just go away. It's unfortunate. It's terrible.
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: But no one's ever going to be held accountable for this.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: My God, I hope you're wrong. And remember, the Talkback
• 33:29
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• 33:46
  Speaker 4: going all day. Larry's riff was about the tainted air
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: and the report released yesterday. Mine was on Girl Scout cookies,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: which this year include cookies for your little doggies. You
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: don't want to miss that. Tomorrow, tickets to see Andrea
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Bocelli at 825. Bravo, bravo, bravo, fortissimo. Coming up on
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Mark Simone at Now, best-selling authoress Ann Coulter. And boy,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: we'll have a lot to talk about tomorrow, Larry, one
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: day before the commemoration. And I think there's been a shift.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: A focus is now on what is in these reports,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: all the paperwork. It is going to hold people responsible
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: for what took place, but it's 9 o'clock and the news.