NYC NOW - March 20, 2024: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: March 20, 2024Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news to start your day: A new order signed on Tuesday by the New York State health commissioner allows pharmacists to dispense birth control without a p...rescription to anyone in New York or to those traveling to the state. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams is again denying accusations in a lawsuit that he sexually assaulted a woman in 1993, when they both worked for the NYPD’s transit bureau. Plus, the Wagner College men’s basketball team made history on Tuesday night, beating Howard University 71-68 for their first ever NCAA tournament win.
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Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC.
It's Wednesday, March 20th.
Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill.
Pharmacists in New York have now dispensed birth control without a prescription to anyone in the state.
A new order signed yesterday by the state health commissioner increases access to birth control
after Governor Hockel signed it into law last May.
The Hockel says it.
aims to reassure women worried about diminishing reproductive health care access in other parts of the country.
Just another way to reaffirm our commitment to making sure that women in the state of New York have all these rights to reproductive freedom,
as well as to access to contraception so they can make their own decisions about their bodies.
The news comes after regulators completed a required review of the order last week.
The order applies to anyone in or traveling to New York.
individuals will have to complete a health assessment questionnaire and present their insurance card before getting birth control.
Mayor Adams is again denying accusations in a lawsuit that he sexually assaulted a woman in 1993 when they both worked for the NYPD's Transit Bureau.
This did not happen. It did not happen. I don't recall ever meeting this person during my time in the police department.
The mayor spoke about the lawsuit yesterday at City Hall after the accuser filed a more detailed complaint alleging he demanded oral sex and then forced her to touch his genitals when she refused.
The accuser is also suing the NYPD for gender discrimination.
She's seeking at least $5 million in damages.
Notice that the suit first came in November.
It's being filed under the state's Adult Survivors Act, which gave survivors of alleged sexual misconduct a one-year window to bring a case in.
civil court beyond the statute of limitations.
The Wagner College men's basketball team made history last night.
The Seahawks beat Howard University, 71 and 68, to pick up their first ever NCAA tournament
win.
Wagner's Melvin Council Jr. led all players with 21 points.
They play top-seated North Carolina and tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the women's tournament gets underway tonight with Columbia taking on Vanderbilt and
Sacred Heart playing Presbyterian.
43 with clouds right now in this first full day of spring.
We have a chance of showers, mainly after 2 o'clock, increasing clouds.
Mid-50s for a high, it'll be windy and gusty.
And then tomorrow's sunny, back to the mid-40s with a wind chill in the 20s.
It will be chilly tomorrow.
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