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WOR street reporter Natalie Migliore interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's seventen w oars Beat on the Street with
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori. Oh wow, with Jimmy failure coming up in
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  Speaker 1: the eight o'clock hour. That's the two legged rat. But
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  Speaker 1: you would down in the streets sourcing New Yorkers for
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  Speaker 1: their opinions on the four legged rats? Am I correct?
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  Speaker 2: Only the four legged ones?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we didn't ask about Jimmy, but there and I'm
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  Speaker 3: bummed dominissing him. But there's many things, you guys know
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  Speaker 3: that make up a New Yorker's way of life. The subways,
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  Speaker 3: the honking, the traffic that comes with the honking, the
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  Speaker 3: fruit vendors, and the rats. But two years ago, the
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  Speaker 3: former Marrier had had enough of the rats and declared
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  Speaker 3: a war on them, at one point hiring New York's
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  Speaker 3: first ever rats are and that positions now vacant.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a ratsar anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But the Mamdani administration seems to find its own way
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  Speaker 3: to combat Curtis loves loves the rat, You love the rats.
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  Speaker 2: In my script, I had the creepy rodents. But it
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  Speaker 2: to each his own right.
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  Speaker 3: And it all comes as a Bloomberg report shows New
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  Speaker 3: York is on track to report its fewest rat sightings
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  Speaker 3: since the pandemic, down twenty two percent in the first
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  Speaker 3: seven months of this year compared to last year. So
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  Speaker 3: are we winning the war on rats?
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of them. I don't think New York
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  Speaker 4: is winning one now. I just think it's just a
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  Speaker 4: waste of money. It's something about nature. New York's have
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  Speaker 4: to deal with it constantly, so it's part of God's environments.
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  Speaker 1: No, I feel like I see them all the time,
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  Speaker 1: Like I think I'm going to go into the subway
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  Speaker 1: and see one right now.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're fixing our rat problem. Because I'm retiring.
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  Speaker 5: I spend a lot of time in Central Park. I
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  Speaker 5: live right by there, and I've noticed there were a
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  Speaker 5: fewer rats coming around. A lot of people tend to
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  Speaker 5: sit down and throw popcorn and breadcrumbs and candy to
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  Speaker 5: the pigeons and the squirrels, and the rats come out too.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen a significant decline of that.
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  Speaker 3: Just by sitting in Central Park. Have you seen rats
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  Speaker 3: in Central Park?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, I've seen rats, raccoons, possums, coyotes. Because my
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  Speaker 1: wife was able to find the coyotes in the wee
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  Speaker 1: hours of the morning, and don't tell my wife not
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  Speaker 1: to feed the pigeons.
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  Speaker 2: You're ready for a fight.
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  Speaker 6: Does she feed the rats?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, she does whatever comes her way. It's just you can't,
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  Speaker 3: you can't, you can't DIFFERENTI.
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  Speaker 1: You you'll be waiting for a change. She sees the
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  Speaker 1: rats down there in the track, she'll throw them a
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  Speaker 1: few of the.
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  Speaker 2: Bird see wow, wow. All right.
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  Speaker 3: So the city has made strides not in changing how
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  Speaker 3: people feed the rats, but in its garbage regulations, on
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  Speaker 3: its way to requiring trash be put in secure garbage
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  Speaker 3: cans with lids by twenty thirty one. Right now, more
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  Speaker 3: than seventy percent of the city's trash is in containers.
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  Speaker 3: But are people as are they passionate? Do rats really
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  Speaker 3: impact the quality of life here?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're I'm super used to it, Like I
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  Speaker 2: think it's just part of daily life.
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  Speaker 3: You see them in the subway.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't even care.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know who says that effects our quality of life?
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  Speaker 5: Those people running for office who don't live in New
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  Speaker 5: York City, well.
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  Speaker 4: They do carry diseases, so I have to understand why
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  Speaker 4: they're going. They do carry live viruses and stuff, so
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  Speaker 4: you have to worry about the public's health. You gotta
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  Speaker 4: worry about health in general.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that it is something to declare war
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  Speaker 2: on rats. Do you think it's something to declare war
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  Speaker 2: on rats? You can't win.
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  Speaker 1: All you can hope for is daytime because they are nocturnal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm nocturnal. Owls are nocturnal. There are certain animals who
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  Speaker 1: are nocturnal and they come out at night. Now that
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  Speaker 1: they don't have enough food supply, they'll be out during
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  Speaker 1: the day, and that's what grosses people out.
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  Speaker 2: Well as people see if you were in fere rats.
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  Speaker 3: Although there's still a healthy dose of them in our
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  Speaker 3: subway system, Okay, in some biles of trash you walk past,
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  Speaker 3: you see them crawling around. New Yorkers have not about trash,
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  Speaker 3: but a few more recommendations. Some they think are simple
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  Speaker 3: ways that could potentially starve out the rats.
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  Speaker 5: Curtis, I do think that uptown they need more garbage
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  Speaker 5: cans because we don't have them uptown where I left.
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  Speaker 1: People have to clean more. The restaurant, have to be careful,
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  Speaker 1: don't throwing food out.
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  Speaker 4: I wish they had like experts, like sciences, actual sciences
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  Speaker 4: work in city government and you know, helping out with
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  Speaker 4: the problem. I think that would be the solution, just
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  Speaker 4: to solve the problem.
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  Speaker 6: You can't get rid of the rats because the tourists
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  Speaker 6: love them. There's there's actually tours all over the city
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  Speaker 6: rat tours, right, And have you ever seen the tourists
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  Speaker 6: when a rat goes by, they take their camera out
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  Speaker 6: right away and start taking pictures of the rats.
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  Speaker 1: I think what we have to do is have rat
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  Speaker 1: birth control. The male rats who can have quite a
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  Speaker 1: few litters with female rats, we need to find them.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Capps condoms put on those male rats and you know,
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  Speaker 1: decrease the population through birth control.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that that. I mean, I'm not that
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  Speaker 2: it matters, but don't take it, I know, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Just I'm left speechless by just the ideas that come
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  Speaker 3: out of your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everything else has not worked, right.
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  Speaker 3: We have discussed how they're able to avoid the pellets
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  Speaker 3: that the city gives them. There's all these things and
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  Speaker 3: preventive measures that the city has tried to teach don't work.
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  Speaker 1: Does the Department of Help not give out free condoms
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  Speaker 1: to human beings to prevent two legged right unwanted births
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  Speaker 1: or to spread of STDs? We need to get condoms
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  Speaker 1: onto every male rat to cause a diminishment of the population.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be your job, right, I'll hand them out to them.
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  Speaker 3: Come here.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks a lot, Natalie mgleori. I'll be back again to
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  Speaker 6: Bissy failure. Just came in. He's coming up next. Let's
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  Speaker 6: get the news at eight o'clock with the area