NYC NOW - March 15, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: March 15, 2024

Police say a suspect is in custody after a man was shot in the head with his own gun inside the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station on Thursday after a fight with another rider. Meanwhile, the New Jersey State Legislature is withdrawing a bill that would overhaul the state's open records laws, responding to pressure from a wide range of groups. Plus, New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks says the education department will increase efforts to ensure children who sell candy on the subways are going to school.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Friday, March 15th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Police say a suspect is in custody after a man was shot in the head with his own gun inside the Hoyt's Skimmerhorn subway station yesterday. After a fight with another man, ABC reporter Joyce Philippe was riding the train when it stopped. at the platform and people flooded the car screaming that someone had a gun. People were afraid for their lives. People were crying, praying, huddled amongst each other,

hoping that the situation would lead to someone being caught and not the worst-case scenario. Police say the shooting happened inside a northbound A train around the 450 when the two men, a 32-year-old and a 36-year-old had a fight. The suspect has not been charged at the victim was in surgery last night, according to the NYPD, is in a critical condition. The New Jersey State Legislature is withdrawing a bill that would overhaul the state's open records law responding to pressure from a wide range of groups. WNYC's Nancy Solomon reports. Good government groups, unions, environmentalists, legal organizations, and political activists

jam the Capitol this week to oppose the changes to what's called the Open Public Records Act, or Oprah. The legislature wanted to change the law to make it harder to sue government agencies when they don't comply, obtain emails, or get any document that could be labeled as a draft. Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin says the bills will now be amended to ensure legislators get it right. The York City Schools Chancellor David Banks says the Education Department will increase efforts to ensure children who sell candy on the subways are going to school. Banks says many of the children are migrants who move from shelter to shelter. shelter with their families that's made outreach more challenging. Traditionally, our attendance teachers are not going through the subway system looking for kids.

That's not the way it usually works. So it has presented a new set of challenges, but we're going to figure it out. Banks' comment comes after the New York Times reported on gaps in the city's response to child vendors. Officials say the school system is partnering with multiple agencies to get kids in school and help families get by without selling food on the subways. Today's forecast, a slight chance of showers or sprinkles this morning and this afternoon, mostly clouded, still above average at 67 and then still in the 60s this weekend. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WNYC.

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