Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 1: GW Bridge shooter indictment
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- 0:00Speaker 1: That was a central park morning for me you know
- 0:03Speaker 1: as i patrol the neighborhood larry you know looking for
- 0:06Speaker 1: those mail thieves they're still out there and remember if
- 0:09Speaker 1: you're sending your ballots in mail-in ballots you're running out
- 0:12Speaker 1: of time you know you got six days left in
- 0:16Speaker 1: the midterms so don't put it in the blue mailbox
- 0:20Speaker 1: there is so much mail theft going on please give
- 0:22Speaker 1: it to your mail carrier or bring it to your
- 0:25Speaker 1: post office and make sure that your ballot gets uh
- 0:30Speaker 1: But the reason I was in Central Park is I
- 0:33Speaker 1: figured I'd walk here through Central Park.
- 0:35Speaker 2: It's not that long to the iHeart Studios. They're laying
- 0:38Speaker 2: down the blue line.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Painted at the marathon finish line where you larry and
- 0:45Speaker 1: you natalie are going to be parked on sunday for
- 0:49Speaker 1: like what like half a day from uh early on
- 0:53Speaker 1: pre-race to uh after post-race am i correct on that.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Yeah we'll be on air from eight to noon so
- 1:01Speaker 3: we get on the air just as the professional wheelchair
- 1:04Speaker 3: race starts and we will be there until you know
- 1:08Speaker 3: the professionals end and All the rest start coming in,
- 1:12Speaker 3: which takes hours and.
- 1:13Speaker 4: Hours and hours.
- 1:14Speaker 2: That's what I was just going to say.
- 1:15Speaker 5: They're coming in after midnight. They're still showing up and
- 1:19Speaker 5: crossing the finish line and their families are there waiting
- 1:22Speaker 5: for them. No, we're really looking forward to it. Natalie,
- 1:25Speaker 5: by the way, let me just talk about this for
- 1:27Speaker 5: a second, is really amazing at producing these things. She is,
- 1:32Speaker 5: you know, it's really easy for me because she is
- 1:35Speaker 5: so good. I just show up and I get a
- 1:37Speaker 5: book and then, you know, I do some studying, but
- 1:40Speaker 5: She does the most of it.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you, this morning, the safest
- 1:43Speaker 1: place to be in New York City was Central Park.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Not only additional cops there for the blue line being
- 1:51Speaker 1: painted at the marathon finish line, but all the rapes
- 1:54Speaker 1: that have been occurring there of late overnight. And so
- 1:57Speaker 1: Madeline Migliore is going to sample people's reaction, especially women. Also,
- 2:04Speaker 1: as I was entering, a lot of other people who
- 2:06Speaker 1: have to get up early and go to work, and
- 2:08Speaker 1: leave Fido at home for like eight, nine, or ten hours.
- 2:12Speaker 1: They're walking through the park, walking the dog, you know,
- 2:15Speaker 1: so he can take care of his needs. So then
- 2:18Speaker 1: they can go back to the apartment, and whosoever there
- 2:21Speaker 1: goes off to work and leaves Fido alone. And then
- 2:23Speaker 1: they'll walk them back in the park later on in
- 2:26Speaker 1: the day when they return. One of the stories we're
- 2:28Speaker 1: going to be covering today, guess what? They have robots
- 2:32Speaker 1: now that are going to be dog walkers. We'll be
- 2:35Speaker 1: discussing that. But it was a mood elevator to be
- 2:38Speaker 1: in Central Park. I got to tell you, it's just
- 2:41Speaker 1: such a gorgeous park. And it's going to be a
- 2:44Speaker 1: mood elevator for some and maybe a real downer for
- 2:48Speaker 1: others because of the trick-or-treat season with Halloween coming up
- 2:53Speaker 1: and what has been described as escalating prices for the
- 2:58Speaker 1: various candies that you might have had available, the various
- 3:02Speaker 1: treats you might have had available, especially for all the kids.
- 3:05Speaker 1: who look forward to going around either in a posse
- 3:09Speaker 1: or with their adult minders and fill up those bags
- 3:14Speaker 1: as much as they can. And I was traumatized, I
- 3:17Speaker 1: must tell you, when I was a kid. I'd hit
- 3:20Speaker 1: some of these houses and I'd get an apple and
- 3:23Speaker 1: a nickel. I still cannot figure out why they would
- 3:27Speaker 1: put an apple in the bag With a nickel, or
- 3:30Speaker 1: they give you the candy corns, you know, they have
- 3:33Speaker 1: like a paper towel with a little rubber band on
- 3:35Speaker 1: the top, like you're.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Going to really get something good, and it's candy corns.
- 3:40Speaker 5: Candy corns are the worst. They were the absolute worst
- 3:43Speaker 5: of all the candies you could get. People would get
- 3:45Speaker 5: their houses egged. for giving out candy corns. That's horrible.
- 3:50Speaker 5: That's horrible. Please don't do that to the kids. Now,
- 3:53Speaker 5: did all the kids get apples and nickels or just you?
- 3:56Speaker 1: No, no, all the kids. You know, we'd warn one another, hey,
- 3:59Speaker 1: you're going to go up to that woman's house there.
- 4:01Speaker 1: The guy is there. He's sitting on the porch. You're
- 4:04Speaker 1: going to get an apple and a nickel. And maybe
- 4:07Speaker 1: somebody out there in our talk back can explain why
- 4:10Speaker 1: so many houses gave a nickel.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Why a nickel?
- 4:14Speaker 5: That must have been in your neighborhood. Until you mentioned
- 4:17Speaker 5: that today, I have never heard of that before. I've
- 4:21Speaker 5: heard of people giving money because they forgot to go
- 4:24Speaker 5: out and get candy for Halloween, so they give you
- 4:26Speaker 5: like a buck.
- 4:27Speaker 2: I've never, ever heard of somebody giving you a nickel.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to get much when you go
- 4:32Speaker 1: to the store if, in fact, you're going to buy
- 4:34Speaker 1: treats for the kids because.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Prices are up.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I was on 116th Street, which is where a lot
- 4:40Speaker 1: of the West Africans are in Harlem on Sundays. A
- 4:43Speaker 1: lot of people from the Ivory Coast. That's where we
- 4:46Speaker 1: get so much of our chocolate from West Africa. And
- 4:48Speaker 1: apparently they had some environmental problems, you know, flooding and
- 4:52Speaker 1: stuff like that.
- 4:53Speaker 2: But still, like everything else that's gone up, candy's gone up.
- 4:58Speaker 2: It's so funny.
- 4:59Speaker 5: You know, people keep talking about how bad prices are
- 5:02Speaker 5: and how prices are up and how they've cut back
- 5:05Speaker 5: and I haven't seen anybody in reality. And this is
- 5:09Speaker 5: a great talk back. I would love to hear from people.
- 5:11Speaker 5: If you've really cut back on your groceries because prices
- 5:14Speaker 5: are up. Because I went out. I didn't even look
- 5:17Speaker 5: at the prices. Now I'm going to go back and
- 5:19Speaker 5: look at them. I bought way too many bags of candy.
- 5:22Speaker 1: No, you didn't.
- 5:23Speaker 6: I did.
- 5:24Speaker 7: No.
- 5:25Speaker 4: Because you have leftovers for yourself. That's the point.
- 5:28Speaker 3: I don't.
- 5:29Speaker 2: I mean, come on. I'm not a big candy fan. Oh,
- 5:32Speaker 2: you know, everybody does it.
- 5:36Speaker 5: My wife took the bags of candy I did and
- 5:39Speaker 5: put them around my desk because she's mad that I
- 5:43Speaker 5: got too many.
- 5:43Speaker 2: She goes, I don't want this near me.
- 5:45Speaker 5: Here.
- 5:46Speaker 2: And I have three huge bags of candy around my desk.
- 5:49Speaker 3: Everybody has to remember that this year, first of all,
- 5:52Speaker 3: it's on a Saturday. So it's going to be intense.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Packed.
- 5:55Speaker 4: Packed.
- 5:56Speaker 2: The one day there'll be more kids out there than
- 5:58Speaker 2: early voters.
- 6:00Speaker 4: Exactly. And so far the weather is looking pretty darn nice.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 6:04Speaker 4: So, yeah, you better have it.
- 6:06Speaker 2: We don't get anybody. No matter what. We don't get anybody. Yeah,
- 6:10Speaker 2: me either. Because we don't have a sidewalk.
- 6:11Speaker 4: I have a hill. Kids don't want to walk hills.
- 6:14Speaker 2: We have a hill too.
- 6:15Speaker 4: They look at the hill and they're like, eh, not
- 6:17Speaker 4: worth our effort.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Yeah, but if there was word that it's worth the schlep,
- 6:22Speaker 1: Because last year, oh my God, there was a treasure
- 6:25Speaker 1: trove of candy that ended up in my bag.
- 6:28Speaker 2: I guarantee you they'd make this schlep.
- 6:30Speaker 3: Curtis, our neighbor gives out full-size candy bars.
- 6:35Speaker 4: You know, like full-size.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Not the little bitty ones.
- 6:39Speaker 4: Like the ones you get in the store. They won't
- 6:42Speaker 4: even come up to get that.
- 6:44Speaker 2: How cheap is your neighborhood?
- 6:46Speaker 5: You all give out tiny candy and the one family
- 6:49Speaker 5: gives out full size?
- 6:51Speaker 4: Everybody gives out full size.
- 6:52Speaker 2: In my area, they do.
- 6:53Speaker 4: I give out the fun size, but I tell them
- 6:55Speaker 4: to take as many as they want. I mean, I'm
- 6:57Speaker 4: not like giving them one.
- 6:58Speaker 5: That's just like a notch above an apple.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Hey, I'm better than pretzels.
- 7:04Speaker 2: That's true.
- 7:05Speaker 8: That's true.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Oh, worst thing, worst thing, worse than the apple and
- 7:08Speaker 2: a nickel? Hard-boiled eggs.
- 7:10Speaker 1: What?
- 7:11Speaker 2: Hard-boiled eggs.
- 7:12Speaker 5: Stop.
- 7:12Speaker 2: Not true. I am not kidding you. A hard-boiled egg.
- 7:16Speaker 2: These are people that forgot to buy candy. I'm telling you.
- 7:19Speaker 2: It's like, oh, my God, I forgot to buy candy. Quick,
- 7:22Speaker 2: boil the eggs.
- 7:25Speaker 3: I was telling you guys off air that there was
- 7:27Speaker 3: one person when my kids would go, It was a dentist,
- 7:30Speaker 3: and he gave out toothbrushes.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Oh, look. Let's face it. Who racks up during Halloween?
- 7:37Speaker 2: The dentist.
- 7:38Speaker 3: The dentist.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Because, man, all the kids that are going to have
- 7:41Speaker 1: to end up going for their checkups and then maybe
- 7:43Speaker 1: their first cavity is getting filled.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Last year, I remember going to buy candy. And I'll
- 7:49Speaker 3: go to Costco or something, you know, buy the big,
- 7:51Speaker 3: big bags. But I must have spent over $ 100 on chocolate.
- 7:57Speaker 4: And I thought to myself, wow, that's. It's getting steep.
- 8:00Speaker 2: You know what?
- 8:02Speaker 5: I love that I don't even look at the prices
- 8:04Speaker 5: because I'm sure I spent more than that. I spent
- 8:07Speaker 5: a fortune on candy and for no reason.
- 8:10Speaker 4: Yeah, because three people showed up.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Because my grandkids were coming over to the house and
- 8:13Speaker 2: I was excited. That's why it was.
- 8:15Speaker 5: And then I went out and just kept buying candy
- 8:17Speaker 5: and kept buying candy and kept buying candy. But I'll
- 8:20Speaker 5: tell you what, the worst, worse than the eggs, worse
- 8:24Speaker 5: than the toothbrush are the people that turn.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Their lights out.
- 8:27Speaker 4: Oh, that's rude. Don't do that to the kids. Come on.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Well, you know, they got a special treatment of toilet paper. Yeah, exactly.
- 8:37Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's what we do. We bomb their
- 8:39Speaker 1: houses with turley paper. I just figured out what the
- 8:42Speaker 1: eggs are for.
- 8:42Speaker 4: That was it.
- 8:43Speaker 2: To egg the houses that put the lights out. Yeah,
- 8:46Speaker 2: but not a hard-boiled egg. Oh, even better. Even better.
- 8:50Speaker 4: Now, that'll break a window.
- 8:51Speaker 2: Man, you're devious. You're devious. A hard-boiled egg.
- 8:55Speaker 3: And egg prices have come down. I was paying like
- 8:58Speaker 3: two bucks for a dozen the other day, so, you know, better.
- 9:00Speaker 3: When they were $ 7.
- 9:02Speaker 4: Maybe not. But I don't know. I just keep hearing stories.
- 9:06Speaker 3: About people saying they're not going to buy chocolate this year.
- 9:10Speaker 4: They're going to buy pretzels or potato chip bags. I
- 9:13Speaker 4: don't believe it. I feel like people are going to
- 9:15Speaker 4: still buy chocolate.
- 9:17Speaker 2: It's not going to happen.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Kids love potato chips, but when they get a bag
- 9:21Speaker 1: of pretzels, it's sort of like, ah.
- 9:24Speaker 4: That's when I take it. I'm like, oh, little bags
- 9:26Speaker 4: of pretzels. Thank you.
- 9:27Speaker 5: Kids want candy. They don't want something you made. They
- 9:30Speaker 5: don't want potato chips. They don't want pretzels. They don't
- 9:34Speaker 5: want little boxes of cereals. And they certainly don't want
- 9:37Speaker 5: a toothbrush. So if you're going to give out something,
- 9:40Speaker 5: give out candy. If not, turn your lights out.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Yeah, and they don't want a little blueberry muffin, you know,
- 9:46Speaker 1: put in, again, a paper towel, you know, with a
- 9:48Speaker 1: rubber band at the top.
- 9:51Speaker 5: They'll accept muffins depending on the age of the person
- 9:54Speaker 5: giving to them. Like if it's a nice old woman
- 9:56Speaker 5: coming up with a thing of muffins, you're polite.
- 9:59Speaker 2: You go, oh, yeah. so sweet. That's so nice.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Look, this is when you prove that you're a politician.
- 10:04Speaker 1: There are times you want to say what?
- 10:07Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
- 10:08Speaker 2: And you're, oh, this is the best Halloween I've ever had.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Thank you, Mrs. McGillicuddy.
- 10:13Speaker 1: This is really outstanding. And you walk away and you say, man,
- 10:18Speaker 1: I'm wearing deep boots today, man. I'm shoveling the flotsam
- 10:23Speaker 1: and jetsam here.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Hey, we'd like to find out.
- 10:26Speaker 5: About Halloween in your neighborhood and some of your memories
- 10:29Speaker 5: of Halloween when you were a kid. Go to the
- 10:31Speaker 5: iHeartRadio app and leave us a talk back. You could
- 10:34Speaker 5: win a Curtis Lee win Larry Menti in the morning t-shirt,
- 10:37Speaker 5: which is going to be awarded every day to our
- 10:38Speaker 5: favorite talk back of the morning. And while you're on
- 10:41Speaker 5: the free iHeartRadio app, be sure to set a preset
- 10:44Speaker 5: for 710WOR. And don't forget, the best talk back of
- 10:47Speaker 5: the week takes home a C-Crane radio. What would you do?
- 10:54Speaker 5: What kind of plea would you make to murder? If
- 10:58Speaker 5: you got something in return, what would that be? What
- 11:01Speaker 5: would you want in return for a guilty plea? Because
- 11:04Speaker 5: you're not going to believe what this one guy asked
- 11:08Speaker 5: for in return for a guilty plea for murder. Plus
- 11:12Speaker 5: a chance to see comedian John Mulaney at age 25.
- 11:17Speaker 5: So this is one of the strangest stories that you
- 11:20Speaker 5: will ever hear. There's a gentleman by the name of
- 11:23Speaker 5: Robert Kessler. I guess I shouldn't call him a gentleman
- 11:26Speaker 5: since he... is charged with killing his live-in girlfriend and
- 11:31Speaker 5: dismembering the body. He's now blind. He's a 74-year-old blind man.
- 11:38Speaker 5: And now he had a, finally they're bringing this to
- 11:41Speaker 5: trial and he had a choice to make. The judge
- 11:44Speaker 5: said to him, do you want to stand trial or
- 11:47Speaker 5: will you now plead guilty in open court? And he
- 11:51Speaker 5: wanted to make a deal.
- 11:52Speaker 2: In an open plea and get life in prison and
- 11:54Speaker 2: be done with it. And just go on from there.
- 11:57Speaker 2: That's the base.
- 11:58Speaker 1: For a Philly cheesesteak and an order of fries and
- 12:03Speaker 1: a Pepsi.
- 12:05Speaker 8: So you're telling me you would open plate, you would
- 12:07Speaker 8: plead to life in prison.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Philly cheesesteak with onions on it and mayonnaise and fries.
- 12:14Speaker 2: I understand. And 20 ounce Pepsi.
- 12:19Speaker 5: Now the judge said, I have never in my 40
- 12:22Speaker 5: years heard anybody ask for a meal in return for
- 12:27Speaker 5: a plea that will put them away for the rest
- 12:29Speaker 5: of their life. But there are a thousand reasons I
- 12:33Speaker 5: can't do that. I can't offer you something for your plea.
- 12:37Speaker 5: I can promise you lunch later today, but that's the
- 12:41Speaker 5: only thing I can promise you. Then Kessler said, okay,
- 12:45Speaker 5: forget the whole thing then.
- 12:46Speaker 2: I want to go to trial.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Oh, man, it would have saved the taxpayers so much money.
- 12:52Speaker 1: For a Philly cheesesteak with mayonnaise and fries.
- 12:56Speaker 2: And what else? What else did he want? A 20-ounce Pepsi.
- 12:59Speaker 5: He was very specific. He wanted 20 ounces and French fries.
- 13:04Speaker 1: That is so cheap. The taxpayers would have said, give
- 13:07Speaker 1: it to him.
- 13:08Speaker 5: Do you realize the door that opens up to everybody
- 13:10Speaker 5: else that wants to, I want this money from my family.
- 13:14Speaker 2: I want this meal. I want certain things.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Do you know how expensive the trial process is? and
- 13:21Speaker 1: how long it can take, and if there's a glitch,
- 13:24Speaker 1: and then they may have to do it all over again.
- 13:27Speaker 1: To me, this is helpful. First of all, he's guilty.
- 13:30Speaker 1: So this is helpful to the taxpayers.
- 13:32Speaker 5: Yeah. Do you know who else made that argument? The
- 13:33Speaker 5: exact same one you're making? The Kessler, the guy that's accused.
- 13:38Speaker 5: He actually said, I will save the taxpayers money, and
- 13:42Speaker 5: you won't even have to have a jury or a trial.
- 13:44Speaker 2: So I just want this cheesesteak. He said it a
- 13:47Speaker 2: couple of times.
- 13:47Speaker 1: God, he's such a dastardly guy, and yet there's a
- 13:50Speaker 1: part of him that taxpayers love.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Oh, come on.
- 13:56Speaker 1: You realize how much money gets wasted in court cases
- 14:01Speaker 1: where the guy is clearly guilty, wants to plea, but, hey, man,
- 14:06Speaker 1: if you give me this, we'll avoid a trial.
- 14:09Speaker 2: We'll avoid all extra costs to the taxpayers. I love it. Yeah,
- 14:14Speaker 2: it is wrong in so many ways. Well, yeah. Asking
- 14:17Speaker 2: for mayonnaise on a cheesesteak.
- 14:19Speaker 5: That is really wrong. Now, listen, I love mayonnaise, as
- 14:22Speaker 5: I've mentioned before. I will have mayonnaise just with white
- 14:25Speaker 5: bread and eat it. I haven't done that in a
- 14:27Speaker 5: long time. But when I was a kid, I used
- 14:29Speaker 5: to just like to eat a mayonnaise sandwich. I still
- 14:32Speaker 5: wouldn't put mayonnaise on a Philly cheesesteak.
- 14:34Speaker 2: What about Miracle Whip? That's sad. No, Miracle Whip is worse.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Yeah, you just can't. I just don't see putting mayonnaise
- 14:40Speaker 3: on anything that's hot. You know, mayonnaise is for a
- 14:43Speaker 3: cold sandwich.
- 14:44Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, I didn't think of
- 14:45Speaker 5: it that way, but that's exactly right. I can't think
- 14:47Speaker 5: of any hot sandwich I would put mayonnaise on. But
- 14:50Speaker 5: I would put mayonnaise on all kinds of meats.
- 14:52Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see Larry coming over with us to
- 14:55Speaker 1: the Carnegie, our favorite deli that's reopened, and you order
- 14:58Speaker 1: a pastrami, right, with mayonnaise?
- 15:00Speaker 2: Oh, no, don't do that there.
- 15:01Speaker 5: No, I probably would. I don't think I'd do pastrami.
- 15:03Speaker 5: But I did one time order the very first time
- 15:05Speaker 5: I was there because I didn't know any better. I
- 15:07Speaker 5: had come from Columbus, Ohio to get my first job
- 15:09Speaker 5: at WABC. And they took me to Carnegie Deli, and
- 15:13Speaker 5: I ordered roast beef with mayonnaise on white.
- 15:15Speaker 3: Oh.
- 15:17Speaker 2: What a gabon. That's the best sandwich in the world.
- 15:19Speaker 4: It's a great sandwich, just not there.
- 15:22Speaker 5: Why?
- 15:22Speaker 2: Because you're not supposed to?
- 15:24Speaker 1: What?
- 15:24Speaker 2: Because you're breaking protocol? Yeah.
- 15:26Speaker 1: What a gabon. People were probably looking at you when
- 15:29Speaker 1: they heard what you had said, especially the wait staff.
- 15:31Speaker 5: You should have seen the sound man and the cameraman
- 15:34Speaker 5: who were both Jewish.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no. What they said. They wanted me
- 15:38Speaker 2: to go sit at another table. I don't blame them.
- 15:42Speaker 6: They were embarrassed out of their heads. I'm going to
- 15:45Speaker 6: warn you ahead of time today. We're having a little
- 15:48Speaker 6: trouble with the talkbacks. It has nothing to do with you.
- 15:51Speaker 6: You got them coming in. You're doing really well. We
- 15:54Speaker 6: have some internal problems with the computers. We'll get to them,
- 15:58Speaker 6: but we're not going to be able to play any
- 16:00Speaker 6: in this segment. You mean our dischronificator is not working?
- 16:04Speaker 6: You see, that's the one thing I remember from Popular Mechanics.
- 16:08Speaker 6: It's all about the dischronificator, and that is not working today.
- 16:12Speaker 6: Because normally it's aimed.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Totally to the west, but ours today, for some reason,
- 16:17Speaker 1: Crash and the other engineers have it to the east,
- 16:20Speaker 1: and the east puts it out in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 16:24Speaker 2: Okay.
- 16:24Speaker 5: I just looked up the sonica theater and it's amazing
- 16:27Speaker 5: that there is a definition.
- 16:29Speaker 2: You want to hear the definition?
- 16:30Speaker 8: Yes, please.
- 16:32Speaker 5: Often playfully or mistakenly spelled with a C, it actually
- 16:36Speaker 5: has a G. It's a famous satirical term popularized by
- 16:40Speaker 5: radio host.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Curtis Sliwa. It says Rush Limbaugh. Did he steal it
- 16:45Speaker 2: from you?
- 16:45Speaker 1: No, I probably stole it from him. You know, I'm
- 16:50Speaker 1: like a comedian. I steal a lot of my lines
- 16:53Speaker 1: from other talk show hosts, especially the king of talk radio,
- 16:56Speaker 1: Bob Grant.
- 16:57Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, many, many, many.
- 16:59Speaker 5: So he made the word up to mock confusing, overly technical,
- 17:04Speaker 5: or dishonest explanations given by auto mechanics or repairmen.
- 17:09Speaker 4: Oh, that's great. Because you know what? When they start talking,
- 17:11Speaker 4: I'm like, English, please. I do not understand what you're saying.
- 17:14Speaker 2: He said it. I looked it up just thinking to myself,
- 17:17Speaker 2: there's no such word. And there is. Look at that.
- 17:20Speaker 1: That proves I've been in talk radio 35 years. I've
- 17:22Speaker 1: picked up a lot of these terms along the way.
- 17:25Speaker 2: All right. Now let's get to the news at 630
- 17:28Speaker 2: with Daria Albinger.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Daria.
- 17:30Speaker 3: Morning, guys.
- 17:30Speaker 9: Partly sunny and chilly today. We'll see a high of
- 17:33Speaker 9: 62 degrees. A grand jury in Manhattan has upgraded the
- 17:37Speaker 9: charges against Victor Romero and the death of Coran Irvine.
- 17:41Speaker 9: Now he's charged with murder. Irvine's family and friends rallied
- 17:44Speaker 9: outside the courthouse yesterday.
- 17:46Speaker 10: He has an incredible union that came out for him
- 17:49Speaker 10: and that galvanized this. He has an incredible family that
- 17:54Speaker 10: put this together. And so this is not the work
- 17:57Speaker 10: of some lawyer, some activist.
- 18:01Speaker 2: This is people.
- 18:02Speaker 10: This is all blue-collar people getting together.
- 18:05Speaker 9: Family attorney Keith White Romero is accused of firing a
- 18:08Speaker 9: single fatal gunshot at Irvine after the cars nearly collided
- 18:12Speaker 9: at the entrance to the bridge. Six days to the midterms.
- 18:15Speaker 9: President Trump will be campaigning today in Ohio. A Long
- 18:18Speaker 9: Island man is under arrest accused of sex trafficking a
- 18:21Speaker 9: teenage girl for more than two years.
- 18:23Speaker 8: Luis Parada of Brentwood is behind bars. The 57-year-old is
- 18:27Speaker 8: charged with rape, sex trafficking of a minor, and a
- 18:30Speaker 8: drug count. Suffolk County police raided his home on MacArthur
- 18:34Speaker 8: Avenue Tuesday morning. They say he raped the 17-year-old girl
- 18:38Speaker 8: starting when she was 15 and took money from other
- 18:41Speaker 8: men to have sex with her. They also seized weapons,
- 18:44Speaker 8: 22 cell phones, and a Winnebago. No word on the
- 18:47Speaker 8: girl or her condition. Two other men were also arrested
- 18:50Speaker 8: on drug counts. They may face additional charges. Andrew Whitman,
- 18:55Speaker 8: WOR News.
- 18:56Speaker 9: The FBI has conducted a search on a Beverly Hills
- 18:59Speaker 9: mansion as part of its investigation into former Democratic Congressman
- 19:02Speaker 9: Eric Swalwell. The property belongs to a former associate of Swalwell's.
- 19:07Speaker 9: The congressman resigned earlier this year after alleged sexual misconduct,
- 19:12Speaker 9: which he denies. The number two in charge at the
- 19:15Speaker 9: CDC is stepping down after just six months on the job.
- 19:18Speaker 9: Deputy Director Dr. Jennifer Shuford says she wants to spend
- 19:20Speaker 9: more time with her family. It's kind of been a
- 19:23Speaker 9: revolving door at the agency. It's had six directors or
- 19:26Speaker 9: acting directors since the start of 2025. Knicks, Devils, and
- 19:29Speaker 9: Islanders win.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Nets lose.
- 19:31Speaker 9: Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
- 19:35Speaker 9: on 710-WOWR.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Thank you, Daria.
- 19:37Speaker 5: You remember the road rage incident on the George Washington
- 19:40Speaker 5: Bridge where a former NYPD detective shot and killed a man?
- 19:46Speaker 5: There was outrage the way he was treated and the charges...
- 19:50Speaker 5: against him part of that's been fixed not all of
- 19:54Speaker 5: it and the family is still unhappy we'll talk about
- 19:58Speaker 5: it all next there was a large crowd of interested
- 20:05Speaker 5: people outside of a courthouse in manhattan When NYPD detective
- 20:11Speaker 5: Victor Romero was to be indicted for the death of
- 20:16Speaker 5: Corin Irvine, a 46-year-old father and Con Ed employee on
- 20:20Speaker 5: the George Washington Bridge a few days ago. It was
- 20:23Speaker 5: a road rage incident and accused Victor Romero is said
- 20:29Speaker 5: to have fired shots into a car because of road rage,
- 20:34Speaker 5: killing the 46-year-old father of two. So his family was outside,
- 20:40Speaker 5: but that's not all. They're not the only people that
- 20:42Speaker 5: were outside. It was a huge crowd because his union
- 20:47Speaker 5: was also outside. The Utility Workers Union of America Local
- 20:52Speaker 5: 1-2 was outside in mass. They lined up as people
- 20:57Speaker 5: were walking in to show their support. And in the end,
- 21:02Speaker 5: after letters were written and there were protests, The officer,
- 21:07Speaker 5: the charges were upgraded from manslaughter to second degree murder.
- 21:13Speaker 5: And the union couldn't be happier with that.
- 21:16Speaker 10: So today we just found out within the last few
- 21:17Speaker 10: minutes it is second degree murder.
- 21:19Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
- 21:21Speaker 11: Super, super happy, super excited, but I'm not satisfied. At
- 21:24Speaker 11: the end of the day, this man is still home.
- 21:27Speaker 11: He should be brought back and remanded until his trial
- 21:30Speaker 11: is done.
- 21:31Speaker 5: That is Frank Morales, who is the president of the
- 21:34Speaker 5: union that Irvine was part of. His wife, Patricia, was
- 21:39Speaker 5: at home during this, didn't want to go, but she
- 21:43Speaker 5: had the same sentiment.
- 21:44Speaker 7: This is not something you come back from, you know.
- 21:50Speaker 7: He doesn't come back, right? But his killer does, right?
- 21:56Speaker 2: He's homeless.
- 21:58Speaker 1: He's home.
- 22:00Speaker 2: How is that possible? That is a tremendous point. A
- 22:04Speaker 2: great point.
- 22:05Speaker 5: The fact that she lost a husband, but someone else's
- 22:08Speaker 5: husband that shot her husband gets to go home every night.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Con Ed workers turned out in mass. He
- 22:14Speaker 1: was obviously beloved by his fraternity and sorority of workers.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Men and women came out. They referred to him as Flacco.
- 22:22Speaker 1: That was his nickname. They told stories about how helpful
- 22:26Speaker 1: he was, not only on the job, but coming to
- 22:29Speaker 1: the aid of other workers when they were having hard
- 22:32Speaker 1: times at home. So he was obviously a really all-around
- 22:36Speaker 1: nice guy. Then you had civil rights leaders who were
- 22:40Speaker 1: out there. I saw Reverend McCall. He's sort of like
- 22:43Speaker 1: the B grade to Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton's A grade, right?
- 22:48Speaker 1: If you can't afford Al Slim Shady Sharpton or he's
- 22:51Speaker 1: not available, you get Reverend McCall. So you had the
- 22:55Speaker 1: civil rights activists, you had his lawyers out there on
- 22:59Speaker 1: behalf of the family. And it all gets down to
- 23:02Speaker 1: Victor Romero, former NYPD detective, who went out on two-thirds
- 23:08Speaker 1: disability because of a shootout he got into. Not on duty,
- 23:13Speaker 1: but when he was visiting his family's laundromat in Bushwick,
- 23:18Speaker 1: Three guys tried to hold him up. The whole family there,
- 23:23Speaker 1: he pulled out his revolver. He shot them. He got
- 23:25Speaker 1: shot in the chest and in the arm and wasn't
- 23:28Speaker 1: able to continue on as a police officer. So he
- 23:31Speaker 1: had a disability option out. But then years later, he
- 23:36Speaker 1: went to work for private security, these executives. So he'll
- 23:41Speaker 1: drive you around, Larry. If you were an executive coming
- 23:43Speaker 1: into New York, or let's say a delegate from some
- 23:47Speaker 1: political organization, he's available.
- 23:50Speaker 2: And that means he's not only able to.
- 23:52Speaker 1: Carry a gun legally, But he also has to know
- 23:55Speaker 1: his way around. He's got to be a good talker.
- 23:57Speaker 1: I've met many of these men and women who do
- 23:59Speaker 1: this once they've retired from the department. So something happened
- 24:03Speaker 1: on that entryway, the bridge, you know, where you're coming
- 24:06Speaker 1: off the West Side Highway, you're going to the upper level.
- 24:09Speaker 1: And you have like three grades. You have the lower level.
- 24:13Speaker 1: Then you have the street, 187th. It'll take you right
- 24:16Speaker 1: into Washington Heights. And then you have the upper level.
- 24:19Speaker 1: And they're always jockeying. I mean, drivers are always jockeying. Sometimes,
- 24:23Speaker 1: you know, they're flipping the bird to one another or
- 24:26Speaker 1: getting angry, beeping their horn. But in this case, and
- 24:29Speaker 1: we'll find out more once the details are revealed, this guy,
- 24:33Speaker 1: Victor Romero, took out his legally registered revolver and apparently
- 24:38Speaker 1: shot through the back windshield. The bullet went into Corrin
- 24:43Speaker 1: Irvin's shoulder, and then it spun its way through his
- 24:47Speaker 1: neck right into his head.
- 24:48Speaker 5: Yeah, and so why is he out? And that is
- 24:51Speaker 5: the biggest question. Why is he out? He's out because
- 24:54Speaker 5: he's a cop. He got a perp walk because he
- 24:56Speaker 5: was a cop. They tried to get away with charging
- 24:58Speaker 5: him with manslaughter because he's a cop. If anybody in
- 25:00Speaker 5: your family... was just shot by this man simply because
- 25:05Speaker 5: of road rage, simply because maybe you cut him off
- 25:07Speaker 5: and you didn't even know it and he's upset and
- 25:11Speaker 5: he can pull out a gun. I hope he doesn't
- 25:12Speaker 5: have that gun anymore. I hope they took that away
- 25:14Speaker 5: from him because it seems like they've been treating him
- 25:16Speaker 5: with kid gloves.
- 25:18Speaker 2: And the union is out there.
- 25:19Speaker 5: They are furious and they want to know where are
- 25:23Speaker 5: all the politicians? How come they're the only ones out there?
- 25:26Speaker 5: Where are all the city leaders? They specifically want to
- 25:29Speaker 5: know where Kathy Hochul was.
- 25:31Speaker 11: I'm kind of upset that no one has took an
- 25:33Speaker 11: official position on it.
- 25:35Speaker 2: We're out here.
- 25:36Speaker 11: We're making so much noise. We're trying to do everything
- 25:38Speaker 11: possible to draw attention to this.
- 25:40Speaker 2: Where is everyone?
- 25:41Speaker 5: Yeah, this isn't going away. And this union is going
- 25:43Speaker 5: to make sure it doesn't go away. And his family
- 25:45Speaker 5: has been tremendous. His family are out there all the time.
- 25:49Speaker 5: The wife is saying Patricia has said it's too much
- 25:52Speaker 5: for me right now. She's done some individual interviews at
- 25:55Speaker 5: her house in the backyard. But she said, I have
- 25:58Speaker 5: two kids at home. I have to console them. They're
- 26:01Speaker 5: staying up at night. They're having bad dreams. I have
- 26:04Speaker 5: to do something. Look, this was horrendous. This crime was horrendous.
- 26:08Speaker 5: For somebody that drives on those roads all the time,
- 26:11Speaker 5: I've seen people with road rage. Now you're afraid somebody's
- 26:15Speaker 5: going to open fire on you.
- 26:16Speaker 2: Think of this.
- 26:16Speaker 1: And this is Alvin Bragg's fault. He's a DA in Manhattan.
- 26:19Speaker 1: It occurred on the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge.
- 26:23Speaker 1: When Victor Romero was originally arrested by the detectives, I'm
- 26:28Speaker 1: assuming from the 3-4, the 3-3, that's Washington Heights, he
- 26:31Speaker 1: was charged with murder. Then they downgraded it in assistant
- 26:35Speaker 1: DA to manslaughter, and then they knocked it up a
- 26:39Speaker 1: notch yesterday when everybody was in court to second-degree murder.
- 26:44Speaker 5: Well, the union said they had a writing campaign to
- 26:46Speaker 5: Alvin Bragg, so he heard from all of them.
- 26:48Speaker 2: Well, not only that.
- 26:50Speaker 1: He saw that the predominant number of them were African Americans,
- 26:54Speaker 1: and he didn't want a no justice, no peace demonstration
- 26:58Speaker 1: outside of his office downtown.
- 27:00Speaker 2: I guarantee you that.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Up next, we're going to talk about the controversy of
- 27:05Speaker 1: how there have been investigations into whether we have legal voters.
- 27:09Speaker 1: We know in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, in California. We'll
- 27:13Speaker 1: add another one to the list when we come back,
- 27:16Speaker 1: and apparently nothing's going to be done about it. before
- 27:19Speaker 1: the midterm elections up next.
- 27:21Speaker 5: Well, New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill has got some explaining
- 27:25Speaker 5: to do. You'll remember she made a big deal. She
- 27:28Speaker 5: made national news. The White House got... She got the
- 27:31Speaker 5: attention of the White House, too. When Mikey Sherrill had
- 27:34Speaker 5: a news conference to say that they found 6,600 illegal
- 27:40Speaker 5: aliens on the voting rolls and that they were going
- 27:44Speaker 5: to fix the problem immediately. Of course, it's been around
- 27:46Speaker 5: for three years.
- 27:47Speaker 2: It was.
- 27:48Speaker 5: there for the murphy administration and it wasn't fixed then
- 27:52Speaker 5: so these people actually voted many of them did but
- 27:56Speaker 5: she's going to fix that and then the justice department
- 27:59Speaker 5: in the white house got interested and they said immediately
- 28:01Speaker 5: well you know we want to see these roles we
- 28:03Speaker 5: want to check it we want to check what's going on.
- 28:06Speaker 2: She took him to court no no no i.
- 28:08Speaker 5: Fixed it she said i have this fixed you don't
- 28:12Speaker 5: have to get involved in this at all and it's
- 28:14Speaker 5: already in court well now we find out that through
- 28:18Speaker 5: a very brave woman who didn't want to get in
- 28:21Speaker 5: trouble named Ilaria Gugliano, who is not here legally but
- 28:27Speaker 5: wants to be a U.S. citizen, and she's going through
- 28:29Speaker 5: the process. When she was 17 years old, she went
- 28:33Speaker 5: to get her driver's license, and she was really excited
- 28:36Speaker 5: about it. And she told them, I'm not a citizen,
- 28:40Speaker 5: right up front, I'm not a citizen, but I'm applying
- 28:44Speaker 5: for citizenship. Then she found out, she got a notification
- 28:48Speaker 5: in the mail, she's on the voting rolls. This just happened.
- 28:52Speaker 5: So how many others are there out there? We were
- 28:55Speaker 5: told this was fixed. We were told we didn't have
- 28:58Speaker 5: to worry about this anymore. And it's still happening. So
- 29:02Speaker 5: now they're looking for hearings, of course, in New Jersey.
- 29:06Speaker 5: I can promise you the White House is going to
- 29:08Speaker 5: get involved. And the court cases, they've changed significantly.
- 29:13Speaker 2: Sure.
- 29:13Speaker 1: It's called motor voters. You know, you go to your
- 29:16Speaker 1: Department of Motor Vehicles to sign up, get a license.
- 29:20Speaker 1: You're an illegal or you're green card. You know, you're
- 29:22Speaker 1: not eligible to vote. And all of a sudden you
- 29:25Speaker 1: appear on the election rolls with a warning. You know,
- 29:30Speaker 1: you're not a citizen. You shouldn't vote. You go to jail.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Nobody pays attention to that. So New Jersey is kind
- 29:37Speaker 1: of a big problem, but the Democrats don't think it's
- 29:40Speaker 1: a problem. You have Pennsylvania in the same situation. We
- 29:43Speaker 1: know California, there's massive numbers of illegals who are on
- 29:48Speaker 1: the rolls. And now, adding a one to your list, Larry,
- 29:52Speaker 1: federal officials identified 400 citizens registered to vote in Washington
- 29:57Speaker 1: State who were not citizens.
- 30:00Speaker 2: The U.S.
- 30:00Speaker 1: Attorney says this is just the tip of the iceberg.
- 30:03Speaker 1: There are many more non-citizen green card holders, people illegally
- 30:09Speaker 1: in Washington state who are on the voting rolls.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Now, some of them won't vote, but we know some
- 30:14Speaker 2: of them will.
- 30:15Speaker 1: And it could, especially in races where you're talking 1%, 2%.
- 30:21Speaker 2: Could end up affecting a race.
- 30:23Speaker 5: Well, it depends on how many there are. We don't
- 30:26Speaker 5: know how many there are in California where there may
- 30:29Speaker 5: be the most. Remember, they had an investigation recently where
- 30:33Speaker 5: they found not a lot, you know, a few dozen
- 30:37Speaker 5: in Los Angeles, and they said, oh, that's a drop
- 30:40Speaker 5: in the bucket. You extrapolate that, that's hundreds of thousands
- 30:42Speaker 5: of votes across California. And so the fact that there
- 30:47Speaker 5: is so little interest by the Democratic Party in this
- 30:51Speaker 5: story to the point where first they were saying, oh,
- 30:55Speaker 5: that's a fairy tale. That doesn't exist. Now it's proved
- 30:58Speaker 5: that it doesn't exist. What are you going to do
- 31:00Speaker 5: about it? Well, it's just so little that we really
- 31:03Speaker 5: don't have to. And yet we keep finding thousands or
- 31:07Speaker 5: hundreds in the case you just talked about. in state
- 31:09Speaker 5: after state after state after state, and we're only talking
- 31:12Speaker 5: about a few precincts and a few districts.
- 31:14Speaker 1: Well, that's why California is very hopeful they have their
- 31:17Speaker 1: initiative and referendums.
- 31:19Speaker 2: I like that. The people get to decide. They got
- 31:21Speaker 2: enough signatures.
- 31:23Speaker 1: And if this initiative passes, every time you vote, local election,
- 31:28Speaker 1: statewide election, right, obviously... the other elections you're involved with
- 31:32Speaker 1: you got to show an official id imagine california the
- 31:36Speaker 1: bluest of blue states there had to be a lot
- 31:38Speaker 1: of democrats who signed you know in order to put
- 31:41Speaker 1: that on the ballot and 80 percent of americans want
- 31:45Speaker 1: it mandatory that you have to show government identification.
- 31:49Speaker 5: What if your what if your voter id is a
- 31:51Speaker 5: driver's license What if your voter ID is a driver's license?
- 31:56Speaker 5: Which is most states. That's what you can use. If
- 31:59Speaker 5: it's a driver's license and in New Jersey and in
- 32:01Speaker 5: Pennsylvania and in other states, if you're not here illegally,
- 32:04Speaker 5: you can get a driver's license.
- 32:06Speaker 2: I think this was all thought out. I don't think
- 32:09Speaker 2: this is an accident. It's motor voter.
- 32:11Speaker 1: And by the way, it was Eliot Spitzer when he
- 32:13Speaker 1: was governor before he had to leave.
- 32:15Speaker 2: You know why?
- 32:15Speaker 1: Who advocated illegals get to drive. Guess who was the
- 32:19Speaker 1: first county clerk to object and say, I'll go to jail.
- 32:24Speaker 2: In Erie County.
- 32:25Speaker 4: Hold cool.
- 32:26Speaker 1: I will not issue driver's licenses to illegals. Boy, has
- 32:31Speaker 1: she done it. And one last one. Zoran Mandami did
- 32:34Speaker 1: one of these videos. You don't got to bring any ID.
- 32:37Speaker 1: You can vote. But if you're going to come and
- 32:40Speaker 1: shovel snow in case there's a snow emergency, you got
- 32:43Speaker 1: to show three forms of official government ID.
- 32:46Speaker 2: The thing is, it doesn't have to be this way.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Of course not. You don't have to.
- 32:51Speaker 5: get to you should register to vote separately when you
- 32:54Speaker 5: shouldn't get to vote just because you got a driver's
- 32:57Speaker 5: license and this woman did everything right that's why she
- 33:00Speaker 5: came forward she thought she was gonna get in trouble
- 33:02Speaker 5: she's close to being a citizen she doesn't want to
- 33:04Speaker 5: screw it up so she came forward and said look
- 33:07Speaker 5: i shouldn't be on the voting rolls they put me
- 33:09Speaker 5: on the voting rolls i did nothing wrong they did
- 33:12Speaker 5: it and but it's happening across the country just.
- 33:15Speaker 1: So people know if you go to your polling location
- 33:18Speaker 1: and you're not on the rolls this happens Just ask
- 33:21Speaker 1: for an affidavit.
- 33:22Speaker 2: You fill it out. She did it?
- 33:23Speaker 1: No, I know that, but I'm just saying for everybody,
- 33:26Speaker 1: whether you're a citizen or not, this applies to everybody.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Fill out the affidavit.
- 33:30Speaker 5: Why don't we stop the voters, putting people on the
- 33:33Speaker 5: voter rolls just because they get their license? Why don't
- 33:34Speaker 5: we stop that?
- 33:35Speaker 2: Absolutely should. There's so much fraud involved in all of that.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Anyway, up next, wow, another massive turnout of an election
- 33:45Speaker 1: in Israel.
- 33:45Speaker 2: We'll give you the results up next, but first the
- 33:48Speaker 2: news at 7.