NYC NOW - January 30, 2024 : Morning Headlines

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

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Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Tuesday, January 30th. Here's the morning headlines for Michael Hill. The New York City Council will vote today to try to overturn Mayor Adams veto of the How Many Stops Act, which would require police to report all basic investigatory stops and provide demographic data about them. Council members who support the bill say officers can,

quickly enter the information into a smartphone. But Mayor Adams tells WNIC's The Brian Lear Show that those seconds will add up and potentially drive up overtime. Let's get the counsel what they want, because I think in the spirit of what they want is the right thing, but let's not do it at the threat of having offices not carrying out public safety. A federal monitor overseeing the NYPD determined last year

that roughly a quarter of stops are unconstitutional. About 97% of those stops are black and Brown. The council will meet today at noon to vote on this and another vetoed bill that would ban solitary confinement. Governor Kathy Hokel calls it poison. Mayor Adams says it's a public health hazard. As WNYC's John Campbell reports, some of the New York's top officials are taking issue with social media. Last week, the Adams administration warned parents against letting their kids on social media until they're at least 14. In Albany, Governor Hockel and Attorney General Letitia James are pushing a bill that would restrict the use of addictive algorithm-based feeds for minors.

Tech companies are expected to sue if the bill passes. But James says it's constitutional. We will be victorious at the end of the day because our objective is to protect children because unfortunately the federal government has failed to do so. A trade group representing tech companies opposes the bill. It says verifying a user's age is no simple task. in New Jersey will fly at half-staff to honor U.S. Army Sergeant William Jerome Rivers. One of three American soldiers killed in that drone attack in Jordan over the weekend.

Rivers is from Willingboro in Burlington County. The Defense Department says he joined the Army Reserve in New Jersey in 2011 and served a nine-month tour of Iraq in 2018. Governor Phil Murphy says he'll sign an executive order later this week to lower flags in Rivers' honor. Sergeant William Rivers was 46 years. old. The EPA says the air quality is good today. 35 and overcasts now, mostly cloudy in the high today of 38. The night's still cold in the city, but above freezing, and then tomorrow mostly cloudy, low 40s, Thursday, mostly cloudy and upper 40s. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WNYC. Be sure to catch us every weekday, three times a day, for your

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