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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 1: As Natalie continues in the 9-11 commemoration this week, what
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  Speaker 1: did you focus on this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so really nearly 25 years later, New York City's
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  Speaker 2: finally releasing these air quality records that were in lower
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan following the September 11th attacks. And More than 170,000
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  Speaker 2: pages released, including internal memos raising concerns about the air
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  Speaker 2: quality in the initial consensus is that New Yorkers were misled.
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  Speaker 2: And it really all comes as the attacks that killed
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  Speaker 2: more than 3,000 people on September 11th, 2001 or nearly
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  Speaker 2: have now led to the deaths of more than 6,000 people.
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  Speaker 2: due to 9-11 related illnesses. Now, Frank McCartan, affectionately known
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  Speaker 2: as Cookie, was on the pile and he was deputy
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  Speaker 2: commissioner of New York City emergency management at the time
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  Speaker 2: of the attacks.
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  Speaker 1: I could give you a list of people that have died.
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  Speaker 1: This is a day that keeps on killing. This is
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  Speaker 1: a day that keeps on killing. And we have to
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  Speaker 1: realize that. And you have to get checked out. You
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  Speaker 1: have to go. It took me a long time. uh,
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  Speaker 1: my friends used to say, why did you do it?
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  Speaker 1: And then I had to have something happen to me.
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  Speaker 1: And then I ended up under surgery and luckily enough,
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  Speaker 1: everything's fine, but you have to do this. You have
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  Speaker 1: to go get checked out. Don't be scared. Just do it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the health of the people. And listen, the
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  Speaker 1: mental health, right? You know, when you get closer this day,
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  Speaker 1: I get a little more, you know, it's coming.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Um, uh, and then when it finishes, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little more at ease.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not just the health effects of all those
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  Speaker 2: years ago, but those mental health effects, the memories that
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  Speaker 2: people have. Now, officials say the new documents may have
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  Speaker 2: information to help those with 9-11 related illnesses. A former
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  Speaker 2: longtime New York City reporter, Peter Haskell, who was at
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  Speaker 2: Ground Zero, is so dedicated to the cause. He works
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  Speaker 2: with Tunnel to Towers Foundation, and he made sure his
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  Speaker 2: last story on radio was related to 9-11 health.
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  Speaker 4: People are still suffering today. People who tried to do
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  Speaker 4: the right thing to help their city, to help their country,
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  Speaker 4: were sickened. Those people cannot be forgotten. They need to
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  Speaker 4: be helped. They need to be treated. And these programs
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  Speaker 4: need to be kept alive. And they're funded, but they
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  Speaker 4: need to have bodies filling those spots in these various programs,
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  Speaker 4: especially the World Trade Center Health Program.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the World Trade Center Health Program officially recognizes
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  Speaker 2: over 70 types of cancers linked to the toxins following
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  Speaker 2: Ground Zero. New data from Northwell Health shows cancer cases
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  Speaker 2: have already jumped 75% from 2023 to 2024 in connection
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  Speaker 2: to this. So really, these are real snippets of interviews,
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  Speaker 2: way longer interviews that I've had with these gentlemen who
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  Speaker 2: were there that day, who were there in the months
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  Speaker 2: following the 9-11 attacks. And it's just really something they've
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  Speaker 2: watched their friends die, not just on that day, but
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  Speaker 2: in years to come.
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  Speaker 3: So... The one gentleman said that he had some illness.
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  Speaker 3: Did everybody that you talked to, did anyone else talk
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  Speaker 3: about having any 9-11-related illness?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and yes, in a sense. A lot of people do.
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  Speaker 2: Even another reporter who I talked to has 9-11-related illnesses.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of people, they have that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. And they're still dying.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie Migliore is going to be back tomorrow morning with
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  Speaker 3: another 9-11 report.