NYC NOW - August 28, 2024: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: August 28, 2024Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: The latest COVID vaccine, designed to protect against current variants, will be widely available in New York City by earl...y September. Meanwhile, newly unveiled text messages show some NYPD officers egged each other on before arresting hundreds of people at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Mott Haven. WNYC’s Samantha Max reports. Plus, New York City will be under a heat emergency this Wednesday, with both temperatures and humidity expected to reach dangerous highs.
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Welcome to NYC Now.
Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC.
It's Wednesday, August 28th.
Here's the morning headlines.
I'm Jene Pierre.
This season's COVID shot will be widely available in New York City by early September.
The new version of the vaccine is designed to protect against the variants of the virus that are currently in circulation.
The CDC recommends the shot for everyone over six months.
months old. Dr. Sybil Hodgson is the clinical director at Montefiore Medical Group in the
Bronx. She said the annual COVID shot should become routine. Every year you will need an updated
COVID vaccine because COVID continues to change. It doesn't stay dormant. It doesn't stay the same.
The CDC says people who have recently recovered from COVID may want to wait three months to get
vaccinated since they likely have some immunity against the virus. New Yorkers can call their
doctor's office or pharmacy to find out when the vaccine will be in stock.
Newly unveiled text messages show some NYPD officers egged one another on before arresting hundreds of people at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Mott Haven.
WMYC's Samantha Max reports.
Most of the messages are mundane communications about logistics or safety concerns.
But some suggest that members of a controversial protest response unit were eager to make arrests and use force at the June 4th 2020 demonstration.
In one message sent the day before,
the protest, the cabinet said they were, quote, looking for arrests and asked if they could, quote,
play. A federal judge made the text public in connection with a pending lawsuit. Remy Green is the
attorney in that case. It is clear that their plan was to brutalize the protesters. The NYPD and the
city's law department declined to comment on the pending litigation. New York City will be under
a heat emergency for much of today, with temperatures and humidity both expected to hit significant
highs. City emergency management officials say the heat emergency will kick in starting at 11 this morning
and run until 8 at night. And according to the National Weather Service, the heat index will top 100.
The agency has issued heat advisories for much of northeast New Jersey portions of the lower Hudson Valley
and northern Nassau County on Long Island. At beaches, lifeguards will remain on duty until 8 tonight.
They usually end their day at 6 and you're still not supposed to swim after 6, by the way. Also,
cooling centers are open to help residents and visitors beat the heat. A full list of those
locations is available on the city's website. You're listening to WMYC. Thanks for listening.
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See you this afternoon.