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Hour 1: Nor’easter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, as we get closer to the weekend, apparently we
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  Speaker 1: get closer to a more accurate forecast and everybody is
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  Speaker 1: still talking about this Nor'easter. So let's bring in WOR
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  Speaker 1: meteorologist Ray Stajic to get the latest. Ray, it looks
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  Speaker 1: a little more clear now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, certainly a Nor'easter.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a factor pretty close to it. And
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  Speaker 3: then impacts, I guess, is where You know, the big
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  Speaker 3: questions come in.
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  Speaker 2: Is it, you know, strong winds.
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  Speaker 3: 40-plus where we get into tropical storm force winds? Probably
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  Speaker 3: not New York City and the five boroughs west and
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  Speaker 3: north of that, but there'll be a cutoff probably even
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  Speaker 3: around the Nassau and Suffolk County line where we may
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  Speaker 3: see winds, especially as you get out further toward the east,
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  Speaker 3: exceed 40, 50 miles per hour with some of the gusts.
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  Speaker 3: So Eastern Long Island, certainly a greater risk for damaging winds,
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  Speaker 3: which could bring down some trees, power lines. There could
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  Speaker 3: be some power outages. Now, I do mention that even
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  Speaker 3: for us here in New York City, because we're still
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  Speaker 3: leafed out. I mean, we're going to get winds that
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  Speaker 3: could gust maybe 35 plus miles per hour. And with
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  Speaker 3: the trees being leafed out, there's a better opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: maybe some branches to break, maybe some small trees to
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  Speaker 3: come down. So there could be some problems with some
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  Speaker 3: spotty power outages. So that's the wind piece of it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you got the rain piece. The heaviest rain, again,
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  Speaker 3: will be east, flooding from rain coming out of the
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  Speaker 3: sky and I don't think is going to be a problem.
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  Speaker 3: There could be totals that could get up to a
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  Speaker 3: half inch, maybe up to an inch, but again, higher
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  Speaker 3: totals East. It's really all about the flooding coming from
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  Speaker 3: the water that's on the ground, right? Meaning the Atlantic
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  Speaker 3: and that's all coming in the coastal flood advisories and
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  Speaker 3: watches and statements are already out, especially during.
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  Speaker 2: High tides too.
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  Speaker 3: So South facing shores of long Island, maybe New York Harbor,
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  Speaker 3: going to see a water rise minor to moderate flooding
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  Speaker 3: is expected. Now, Obviously, with all that, Larry, we're looking at,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: We're still, what, two days out?
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  Speaker 3: And things could change, track further toward the west, could
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  Speaker 3: bring bigger impacts in here to the city, off to
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  Speaker 3: the east could bring less impacts. But right now, I
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  Speaker 3: think there'll be some impacts. The question will be, will
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  Speaker 3: they be greater than we're thinking right now, or will
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  Speaker 3: they be less than we're thinking right now? There's still
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  Speaker 3: some of the fine details that as we now cast,
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  Speaker 3: probably from this point forward, basically updating with every major
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  Speaker 3: model run later this morning and then get again tonight,
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  Speaker 3: every about 12 hours or so, I have a little
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  Speaker 3: better picture about what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Now, hold on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at all of your brethren and your sisters
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  Speaker 5: in solidarity on the boob tube and they're pumping fear, fright, hysteria.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean, they're hyping it. It's the lead story.
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  Speaker 5: You would think it's super storm Sandy round to this
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  Speaker 5: nor'easter floods again.
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  Speaker 4: Um, fill up the sandbags.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I mean, they are really pumping it as a
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  Speaker 5: potential crisis. You're sort of like, you got a cup
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  Speaker 5: of coffee in your hand. You're like, hey, mention, mention, poco, poco,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, that's just not my gig.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like, here's the information, right?
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  Speaker 3: And there'll be coastal flooding, and for some, moderate flooding
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  Speaker 3: is still going to bring water into places that don't
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  Speaker 3: really want to have water, but You know, looking at
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  Speaker 3: a Sandy, no, it's not going to be a Sandy.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get that out of the picture. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to be, you know, something that becomes
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  Speaker 3: further toward the West could be worse, but I really
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  Speaker 3: don't think we're going to be looking at, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the right word's catastrophic, but it's
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  Speaker 3: certainly going to have impacts. The question is going to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, where will they be right now? it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be from probably the greatest impacts, coastal flooding. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there's a little hype around it because
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  Speaker 3: just because of the slow movement of the storm and
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  Speaker 3: because of the persistent onshore flow that's already occurring. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're already seeing the water rise along the Atlantic beaches,
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  Speaker 3: especially down further South and around Chesapeake Bay at one
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  Speaker 3: to two feet. So that persistent kind of push in
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  Speaker 3: with a gradient wind with a high pressure to the
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  Speaker 3: North and then developing low certainly will cause problems. But Sandy, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't want to discount that there won't be
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  Speaker 3: some impacts for some, especially from the flooding piece of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I can give you the answer to this mystery
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  Speaker 1: on why it's being hyped. I emailed a friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine that's a meteorologist down in Philadelphia, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: so are you hyping the storm? What were the ratings
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  Speaker 1: last night? All he texted back was up 80%.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, listen, that's what we do. That's
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  Speaker 2: a piece of it, and I just....
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And especially still, you know, me, I'm like three day Ray.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you get to it outside of three days.
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  Speaker 3: Forget it. I'm not touching it today. Next model run
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  Speaker 3: later this morning, tomorrow. I'm sure we'll talk tomorrow. They'll
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  Speaker 3: probably have a higher confidence forecast and we can be
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  Speaker 3: talking tomorrow. And at this time talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: anything from this thing's going further East and we'll have
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  Speaker 3: even less impacts to, and we're shifting a little further West.
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  Speaker 3: And again, we may see more significant impacts. There's plenty
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  Speaker 3: of time.
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  Speaker 5: You should have been dancing. You should have been on
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  Speaker 5: dancing with the stars. You have danced around this question
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  Speaker 5: now two days in a row.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Forget the shoreline. Forget the sandbags.
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  Speaker 5: We've got the three biggest festivals each year in New
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  Speaker 5: York city taking place this weekend. The last two days
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  Speaker 5: is San Gennaro packed. You got the third Avenue festival
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  Speaker 5: in Bay Ridge packed. You got the Atlantic annex, uh,
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  Speaker 5: from Barkley center to, uh, the East River along Atlantic Avenue, packed.
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  Speaker 1: That's Saturday, Sunday. Is it going to be a wipeout?
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  Speaker 1: Is it going to be raining?
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Ray. You got to cough up a little
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  Speaker 4: bit here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it will be raining, and it will be fairly windy. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, I mean, it ain't pretty when it's windy.
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  Speaker 3: When you've got gusts of 35 miles per hour and
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  Speaker 3: the rain's coming down, the rain could be blowing around.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be pretty.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so poncho while I'm eating my sausage and peppers.
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  Speaker 7: Who's that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that Curtis or is that Larry Poncho? Poncho on lefty.
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  Speaker 5: Well, is the worst day Saturday or Sunday?
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  Speaker 4: So maybe they can get in a festival on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: What is worse?
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  Speaker 3: I think worse later Saturday into Saturday night, early Sunday.
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  Speaker 8: That's like the whole weekend right there.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, wait, wait. Wait, did you miss the part where
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  Speaker 2: I said slow moving?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I don't want to hear slow moving.
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  Speaker 2: You guys just hear what you want to hear.
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  Speaker 1: No, we haven't heard anything we want to hear yet.
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  Speaker 1: Not one thing we want to hear yet did we hear.
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  Speaker 1: You see, we like ratings.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be pretty.
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  Speaker 1: We like ratings. Oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 9: Hold on.
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  Speaker 1: I stepped on the... It's not going to be pretty?
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  Speaker 1: How unpretty is it going to be?
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  Speaker 3: Do you want me to say I'm not going outdoors?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Because of flying objects?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Rain, wind, 35 mile per hour gust. Did we miss
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  Speaker 2: all this in this five, six minute conversation?
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  Speaker 1: I think I did. Death and destruction?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: No, I won't go that far yet.
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  Speaker 4: Please don't.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll leave an opportunity and just a little window
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  Speaker 3: there for that.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: What worried me a bit, you gave me a little
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  Speaker 5: caveat into your thinking.
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  Speaker 4: And if it goes west, remember what you said there?
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  Speaker 4: If it goes west.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 5: Then that impacts me because, you know, Friday I'm heading
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  Speaker 5: up to Marshall, New York to rescue the 16,000 beagles.
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  Speaker 5: People are on their way up there.
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  Speaker 1: That's like 18 minutes south.
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  Speaker 4: Of Utica, New York. What's it going to be like there?
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  Speaker 4: To save the beagles.
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  Speaker 2: Drive fast and you'll get out of it pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: Save the beagles, you'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He's pretty clear on that, Larry.
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  Speaker 5: Everything else, he's doing the tango, the cha-cha, everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody cares in Utica. They don't care. You know, they're hardy,
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  Speaker 2: those upstaters. I'm one of the upstaters. Rain, wind, who cares?
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  Speaker 2: Ten feet of snow, no big deal.
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  Speaker 3: You need to bring some of that down into the
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  Speaker 3: city here and everybody's like, Throws a fit. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: a little rain, a little wind.
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  Speaker 2: Deal with it. Spotty power outage. Again, I'm not going outside.
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  Speaker 4: You're so laid back, Ray. Come see, come saw.
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  Speaker 1: Live and let live.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, it could change tomorrow. Don't worry about it. But
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  Speaker 4: he ain't going out.
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  Speaker 1: A little rain, a little wind.
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  Speaker 4: You pinned him down. You said, are you going out
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  Speaker 4: this weekend?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: Because he doesn't want to get wet. That's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want to get wet, and he apparently doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a house along the shoreline. If he had a
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  Speaker 1: house along the shoreline, this would be a bigger deal. Yeah, because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the shore communities are talking about pulling cars.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they don't want people to park, and they
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure. Some of the parking garages are saying, here,
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  Speaker 1: you can have free parking. Come put your car in
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  Speaker 1: our place. So they're taking this pretty seriously, unlike you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's not really how I want it to be painted,
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  Speaker 3: but I was like, well, the coastal areas, that's where
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  Speaker 3: the greatest impacts will be. And I just feel like
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  Speaker 3: they have enough information from living there that they know
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  Speaker 3: what minor to moderate flooding during high tide, and by
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  Speaker 3: the way, it's a full moon too, that's not going
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  Speaker 3: to help.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to bring. I think for the majority of
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  Speaker 2: the population, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I'm kind of aiming at, the majority of
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  Speaker 3: the population, meaning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're just giving you a hard time.
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  Speaker 10: Jeez.
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  Speaker 1: We'll give you.
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  Speaker 2: He's bleeding, but he's on his feet. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: a catcher's mitt.
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  Speaker 1: But tomorrow, you pretty much will have this nailed down, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't expect any big changes. If there are,
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  Speaker 3: trust me, I'll come in here screaming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking right now at the news. Wind gusts at
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  Speaker 1: 45 mile an hour, waves up to 13 feet. Where's 45?
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  Speaker 2: Probably Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. See, once again, you start putting out false information.
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  Speaker 2: And somebody just caught that like me and said, when's
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  Speaker 2: the 45 mile per hour? And you could have just
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  Speaker 2: left that if I didn't say where.
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  Speaker 1: I was teasing about North Carolina. They did it. This
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  Speaker 1: is a New York forecast for our area. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those up to things, you know. you
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  Speaker 1: go by the most extremes on the TV news, but
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be something we don't, we do know
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  Speaker 1: at this point, it's going to be something. And why
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  Speaker 1: don't we talk again tomorrow and we'll be kinder.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, we, I don't, we're laughing now, but we
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  Speaker 10: might not be laughing Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right. Again. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Again, impacts will be, I'd say somebody say right on
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  Speaker 3: the scale, one to 10, like a five.
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  Speaker 1: A five, unless you level on the shoreline, it might
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  Speaker 1: be higher.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Eastern long Island. The winds will gust 50-plus. Montauk, point
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  Speaker 3: out that way. You're going to get 50-mile-an-hour winds.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: We're ready.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Ray.
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  Speaker 1: I think we got it. I think we got it.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again tomorrow if you do come back.
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  Speaker 1: Ray Stajic, meteorologist for WOR. Thanks a lot. Well, on
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  Speaker 1: the internet, Swifties, those following Taylor Swift, may be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest population of all. And anybody that criticizes Taylor Swift,
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  Speaker 1: they are going to hear from the Swifties, but also
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  Speaker 1: they hang on to every word she says on Facebook
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  Speaker 1: and Instagram and on X. And so this week... She
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  Speaker 1: released a new song and said this. About a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: you guys did a truly unfathomable thing, something that completely
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  Speaker 1: blew my mind. You gave The Life of a Showgirl,
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  Speaker 1: that was her last album, the biggest first week for
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  Speaker 1: an album in music history. So here's some other songs
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  Speaker 1: that I wrote for Life of a Showgirl.
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  Speaker 4: Causing me anxiety.
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  Speaker 5: So you hate the Taylor Swift song? This song is horrible.
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  Speaker 5: I like Coney Island. I like her song on Coney Island.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm telling you this, I hate to go back.
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  Speaker 5: You just did this big build-up because you're afraid of
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  Speaker 5: the Swifties.
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  Speaker 4: Number one all time. And yet yesterday... They.
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  Speaker 1: Have closed businesses down. They've attacked you online, so I
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  Speaker 1: can understand.
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  Speaker 4: Why you'd be afraid.
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  Speaker 5: But you were on air for the second time telling
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  Speaker 5: us this Ella Langley, who most people never heard of
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  Speaker 5: with that song.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, let me just.
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  Speaker 1: Finish the Taylor Swift story because... With this, she's putting
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  Speaker 1: out a short EP with only four songs that's going
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  Speaker 1: to include Patient Zero, which you just heard. That's going
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  Speaker 1: to drop on Friday. So, Me and all the other
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  Speaker 1: Swifties are very excited about this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. Those are four songs I'll never
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  Speaker 4: listen to.
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  Speaker 5: Now, let's go back to what you were saying yesterday
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  Speaker 5: about Ella Langley having the number one song, longest duration
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  Speaker 5: because of sales, radio airplay, streaming on the Billboard Top 40.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to Tom Cuddy. He's the most knowledgeable in
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  Speaker 5: this field. I think they were playing technology with the analytics.
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  Speaker 5: And hopefully we can bring this to a conclusion. In fact,
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  Speaker 5: when you go to Instagram after the show, you'll see
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  Speaker 5: that Natalie is posting my video, which is all about this.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: And to all the country music fans out there, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a huge Ella Langley fan. I think this is a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful song.
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  Speaker 5: Beatles, Elvis, Mariah Carey, Diva, Beyonce, Diva, Taylor Swift, Diva.
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  Speaker 1: Better than Stairway to Heaven. Here we go. Let's hear
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  Speaker 1: from some of the people in the talkbacks. They They
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  Speaker 1: left these yesterday about Ella Langley.
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  Speaker 11: So great to hear Ella Langley's getting the credit she deserves,
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  Speaker 11: but also worth noting the Nashville musicians that helped put
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  Speaker 11: that song on the map. Tom Bukovec, guitar player, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 11: Uncle Larry, and others are just absolute geniuses.
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  Speaker 1: I agree completely.
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  Speaker 4: Who's out of Nashville? Isn't that Taylor Swift? Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: And she's not number one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a Long Islander. I was down in the Carolinas
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  Speaker 7: building a house when that song came on, Choosing Texas.
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  Speaker 7: And right from the beginning, I said, wow, that is amazing.
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  Speaker 7: It's the most perfect country song. So that's my two cents.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, country song. Not number one of all time. By
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  Speaker 5: the way, you're choosing Texas. Pack your bags. Get out
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  Speaker 5: of here and go down to Texas like so many
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  Speaker 5: others in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you are on a roll. Now anybody that likes
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  Speaker 1: the song must leave. Now let's get to Daria.
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  Speaker 4: How about that, Daria? I'm going to Tom Cuddy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm from Texas.
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  Speaker 5: He knows this better than anybody. I think they've been
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  Speaker 5: tricking us with the analytics.
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  Speaker 1: Daria, would you like to comment?
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty close to a perfect song.
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: And I love all different genres of music.
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  Speaker 4: I really do. Perfect song?
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  Speaker 1: Wholeheartedly agree with.
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  Speaker 2: You, Daria.
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  Speaker 4: Lyrics, music.
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  Speaker 1: She's a great musician.
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  Speaker 4: It's like every other country song.
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  Speaker 1: You, me, and a hundred other million people. We all agree.
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  Speaker 10: And don't mess with Texas, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's going to find that out.
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  Speaker 7: Not you, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis, you didn't mess with Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Don't mess with Texas, Curtis.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: I messed with her, Ella Langley. I messed with Taylor Swift.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: I messed with Texas. I scored the trifecta.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: You're messing with me, too. He just wants clicks.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, he does.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: He's getting them.
• 15:23
  Speaker 10: Partly sunny, breezy and cool today. High 67 degrees. Well,
• 15:27
  Speaker 10: we are just days into fall, and we are preparing
• 15:29
  Speaker 10: for a possible nor'easter.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: Forecasters are tracking a storm that could bring very strong
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: wind gusts, heavy rain, erosion, and flooding. possibly Friday and Saturday.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: This is for the New York City area and other
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: parts of the Northeast could be hit, including New Jersey.
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: Highs surf already present along the New Jersey shore, where
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: officials are preparing for coastal flooding in a few days.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Forecasters say strong winds could bring dangerous rip currents and
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: beach erosion as well. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 15:54
  Speaker 10: China's President Xi and President Trump are expected to discuss
• 15:57
  Speaker 10: trade and artificial intelligence when they meet today at the
• 16:00
  Speaker 10: White House. They'll attend a state dinner tonight. Israeli Prime
• 16:04
  Speaker 10: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak to the UN General Assembly today.
• 16:07
  Speaker 10: He's expected to criticize Meir Mamdani, who has called Netanyahu
• 16:11
  Speaker 10: a war criminal who should be arrested. Yesterday, the UN
• 16:15
  Speaker 10: Security Council got a briefing on artificial intelligence and its
• 16:18
  Speaker 10: possible impact on global security.
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  Speaker 5: I believe that this is the most important global security
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: issue facing the world today.
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  Speaker 10: That's Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei, who said without regulation... AI
• 16:30
  Speaker 10: could get out of hand very, very quickly. A hearing
• 16:34
  Speaker 10: on the proposed lawsuit settlement over the merger of Paramount
• 16:37
  Speaker 10: and Warner Bros. Discovery is set for today. A dozen states,
• 16:40
  Speaker 10: including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, agreed to the deal,
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: and that clears the way for two studios to merge.
• 16:47
  Speaker 10: Remember when holiday shopping started the day after Thanksgiving? Well,
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: some people can't wait that long, and that may cost
• 16:53
  Speaker 10: them in the long run.
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: Bankrate says 34% of shoppers start buying holiday presents before October.
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: It beats markups and sellouts, but it can come with
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: misplaced items. Because when you shop early, you need a
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: good hiding place. Inside suitcases, top shelves of the closet,
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: under beds. But 55% of parents say they've forgotten where
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: they hid them and end up buying more. To avoid that,
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: experts say drop a tracker in your hiding space.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: I'm Bree Tennis.
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: The Yankees and the Mets win and it is official.
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: Jackson Dart, Giants quarterback, out for the season. He's having
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: knee surgery. Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: Daria Albinger on 710 WOR.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Wow, more than 100 writers allege brain injuries from Six Flags,
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  Speaker 5: roller coaster, double X, triple X, whatever you want to
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: call it. It ain't got nothing on what we all
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: remember about Action Park, a.k.a. Traction Park there in Vernon Valley,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: the Great Gorge Sea Resort in West New Jersey. We'll
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: talk about that so much more. And right now, 2026
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: iHeartRadio Music Festival airs Presented by Capital One. You get
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: to relieve all the big moments. It was a great
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: weekend of performances streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu beginning
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: October 1st.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: You're going to remember just a couple of years ago
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: at Six Flags here in New Jersey, they shut down
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the very popular Konakai. It was a huge roller coaster,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: one of the fastest in the country. And they just
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: said at the time, it just got too old. Remember,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: it opened all the way back in 2005, so it
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: was 20 years old. It was the tallest and fastest
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: roller coaster in the world. And when they shut it down,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: people came from all over the world to ride it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: They kept the park open a little bit longer. But
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: now we may kind of know why they needed to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: shut that one down. Because there is a lawsuit right now.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And one of the most famous roller coasters in the country,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: now that Konakai is done, is the subject of a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: new lawsuit. As a matter of fact, several lawsuits claiming,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and this number is going to grow, claiming more than
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: 100 people suffered brain damage after riding it. A few
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: people died. Three deaths have been linked to the ride,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: including 22-year-old Christopher Hawley's death in 2022. Now, Six Flags
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: settled with that family, but now a whole lot of
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: people have come forward saying that they also suffered greatly,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: including Pamela Gillen, who wrote this. This is Magic Mountain
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in California. It is one of the Six Flags. Remember,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: they're all over the country, and I think you're going
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to be hearing a lot more of these lawsuits from
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: some of the roller coasters across the country. And my
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: feeling is, and I can't prove this, it at least
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: went into the reasoning that Kona Kai had to shut down.
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: I was confused and disoriented. And I remember seeing the
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: fear in my daughter's eyes. and how scared she was.
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: Everything went blank. My next memory is waking up in
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: the hospital about two weeks later.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was out of it when she got off
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the ride, and she went to the people that run
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the ride and said, hey, listen, I got to sit down.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: There's something wrong. She doesn't remember that happening.
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: I have suffered a traumatic brain injury and needed emergency
• 20:32
  Speaker 12: brain surgery. to stop the bleeding, and had to be intubated.
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: I was in a coma. I spent almost a month
• 20:39
  Speaker 12: at the hospital.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be a class action lawsuit against
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: that particular park. Expect this to grow, not only in numbers,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: but in the parks that get sued.
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: Magic Mountain, as a business, seems to think that it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: okay that if people voluntarily choose to ride a roller coaster,
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: then they've assumed the risk.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 7: No.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: No, they don't. That's a big assumption.
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: They don't assume a risk of death or catastrophic brain
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: damage for some family fun.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Now, I have never heard of this before. I have
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: never heard of people saying, listen, my head hurt when
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: they got off of a roller coaster. Larry, you missed it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: You missed this period. It was a 20-year period. the
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: most raucous amusement water park that ever existed. And it
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: was right there, the Great Gorge Ski Resort, Vernon Valley,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: West New Jersey, across from Florida, New York. This place
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: was nicknamed Traction Park, Accident Park, Class Action Park. The
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: more accidents that occurred, the more attendance. They would actually
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: have ambulances on consignment waiting outside. They had six deaths,
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: six deaths in just one park. There were personal injury
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: lawsuits galore. Eventually it closed what they called Action Park
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: and I call Traction Park in 1996. But let me
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: tell you something. The more problems, the more attendance. They
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: had intoxicated guests, intoxicated staff. It seems they did nothing
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: to rein it in. They realized it was a lure.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: To get more people coming.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Any deaths?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Six deaths alone. It was only one part.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: One part.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: And a lot of people listening right now probably remember
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: in which they snuck out of the house with their
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: friends because if they had told their mothers or dads, hey,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: we're going to Action Park or the Great Court Ski Resort,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: they'd have said no. Let me tell you how popular
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: this area was. They had a Playboy Club at the top.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Of the mountain there.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: This is West New Jersey, but the flood of people
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: between Action Park, Traction Park, the ski resorts when we
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: were getting real snow instead of the fake snow, and
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: the play, they had a Playboy Mansion up there.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Who would have thought?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: No, wow. You know, that brings up a whole lot
• 23:06
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  Speaker 1: it matters most. Have you ever been on a roller
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: coaster and your head started to hurt?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: We're talking about traumatic brain injuries from these roller coasters.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Action Bark? And have you
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: ever gone on some of the rides there? And did
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you know it was dangerous before you got there? And
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: what's the scariest roller coaster you've ever been on?
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: By the way, up next, remember this is a story
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: we reveal to all of you. In Brooklyn, when the
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: mole people were coming out of the sewers... Well, apparently
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: there have been 20 other instances, and now the biggest one,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: with all the UN delegations in just one block from
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: where the Israeli delegation is staying at a hotel, the
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: mole people came out at 4.38 in the morning. 4.38
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: in the morning, and I always tell you it's between
• 24:23
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• 24:25
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• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Well, the mole people are back at it. And I
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: have been labeled the expert of the mole people. Going
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: back to when a book was written about the mole
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: people and the woman who wrote it actually gave me
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: credit because I showed her where all the mole people live.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: These are different kind of mole people. These are not
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: people living in the underground, the sewers, or under the
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: old Waldorf Astoria where you had seven levels and the
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: steam pipes. They used to call that the hobo jungle.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: So in a frigid winter. the homeless people would be
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: down there. They go through what they call, Larry, the
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: golden door of the Waldorf story. And I brought so
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: many people to show them. They were shocked. This has
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: nothing to do with living circumstances. It's not like places
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: you've looked at from Las Vegas to L.A., you know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: where people are living in tunnels, which, as you know, Larry,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: having been out there, is where the excess water runs
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: when they have flooding. These are our sewers, and it's
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: not like where Con Ed works or Verizon, because that's
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: separate sewers.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: This is where our sewers.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Attract all the sewage that eventually goes to the plants
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: and then goes through a recycling process and then gets
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: brought to the landfill. There's also the water pipes that
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: run down there. So it's illegal to go down there.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: You cannot be Ed Norton, a sewer engineer. He was
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: made famous, remember, in the Honeymooners. with Cramden, who was
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: the bus driver.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: These are men who are going down into these sewers.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: It's occurred now 20 times, 20 times, but the most
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: recent has to be the most shocking because, as I've
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: said before, they have a method of operation.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: They always emerge out of the sewers.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: They push the sewer grate up when they're getting out
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: between 4 in the morning and 5 in the morning
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: when there's the police shift change, and they know that
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: nobody's going.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: To be out there.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Well, three men emerged, pushed a sewer cap up on
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Park Avenue near 61st Street yesterday, overnight, down the block
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: from where the Israeli delegation that flew in with Bibi
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: are staying at the Lowe's Regency. Now, you know there
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: are more cops, federal security, Israeli security than anywhere else
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: in the world. So they pushed the sewer cap up.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: They get into two cars and they drive away.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: This is the 20th occasion. But this is embarrassing for us.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: So if you happen to be Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: and this occurred, which could lead you to believe that, hey, God,
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: if terrorists ever start doing this, my God, you haven't
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: made any arrests. And by the way, when you go
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: into a sewer, you have to go in somewhere and
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: they're coming out there. But we've never seen any video
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: of that. So you know what? I'm going to have
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: to make this my priority. Since I've been in the sewers,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: I'm going to figure this out because I know they're scavenging.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: And I don't get called a xenophobe any longer because
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: it appears they're from which country?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Venezuela.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank God.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Everybody is reporting that. By the way, it is embarrassing
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: for Jessica Tisch because this is now a national story.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Everybody showing the video of this, every national publication has
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: printed a story on this. So she now has to
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: explain why she allowed this to happen this many times.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: But it's also embarrassing for all of the feds who
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: were supposed to be there protecting all those people at
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the U.N. They got some questions to answer. That sewer
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: near the U.N. is going to be one of the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: most secure sewers in the world over the next 24 hours.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: So before I came here, after I patrolled the Upper
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: West Side for the male bandits, who I also believe
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: are Venezuelan— we'll see if that turns out to be true,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: I came through Times Square.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Racist.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Xenophobes.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: So I took the train down to Times Square, I
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: walked through Times Square, and there was a big Con
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Edison truck. They had opened up their sewer cap. They
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: were down in there. I said, you don't mind if
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: I go down there, do you guys? And they said,
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: you know that's illegal, Curtis. I said, how can it
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: be illegal? Everybody else is doing it. The lead story
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: today is not out of your sewer, the Conair or Verizon,
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: but the normal city run sewer. By the way, if
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: you notice, all the sewer caps no longer made in
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: the United States, the cast iron, it says made in India.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: So maybe that's why they're lighter. That's why they're able
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to lift it up.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: Because these are small men coming out of those sewer holes.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: But I think I'm going to have to deputize myself,
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: go down there, and find out what's going on.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: And of all the people that are going to be arrested,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you will be arrested. They're going to take you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: They'll say bail. They'll say bail. Wait, wait. I thought
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: there's no bail, Alvin Brake. For you, bail.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen. Nobody else gets arrested but you.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: But how great would that be for the show?
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm thinking right now.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: When we come back, man, we have a lot to
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: talk about with John Decker. We have Bibi Netanyahu coming
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to town. We have the Chinese president. In Washington, we
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: have the lawsuit from the press corps that has now
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: been settled, at least for the time being, at least
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: for two weeks. All that with John Decker, WOR White House,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and Washington correspondent coming up after the 7 o'clock news.