NYC NOW - Morning Headlines: Manhattan Prosecutors Test New Interview Methods, Gov. Hochul Warns Medicaid Cuts Could Cripple Health System, and Lawmaker Pushes ICE to Release Recently Detained Teen

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

Prosecutors and investigators in Manhattan are adopting new research-backed methods for questioning suspects, witnesses, and victims aiming to improve accuracy and reduce wrongful convictions. Meanwhile, Governor Kathy Hochul warns that cuts to federal Medicaid funding could destabilize New York’s healthcare system. Plus, Assembly-member Amy Paulin is calling on ICE to release a South Korean national and recent Scarsdale High School graduate detained after a routine court appearance.

Welcome to NYC Now, your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Monday, August 4th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Prosecutors and investigators in Manhattan are learning a new way to interview suspects, witnesses, and victims. As WNMYC, Samantha Max reports, the goal is to get more reliable information and prevent wrongful convictions. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office is teaching an interview. technique that draws on scientific research about the human brain. We want to make sure that we are following up and getting appropriate, reliable leads,

right, and not suggesting answers that may take us down the wrong roads. Science-based interviewing rebuff's old school methods that can lead to false confessions. Governor Cathy Huckle says the federal government's cuts to Medicaid will put New York State's health care system on the brink of collapse. Governor Hokel estimates nearly a million and a half New Yorkers are expected to lose health coverage through Medicaid and the essential plan as a result of major cuts. The Republican-controlled Congress has approved. She told ABC station yesterday that many more will be affected.

Someone may not be on Medicaid. They may never think about it. But if they have to now go to a hospital that's either has smaller staffs because they'd have cutbacks or a hospital closes, then they and their families are affected as well. The state health department has set up a website so New Yorkers enrolled in Medicaid can get updates and track coverage changes. Assembly member, Amy Paulin, is demanding ICE release a 24 Scarsdale High School graduate from ICE custody agents took the South Korean National after routine court appearance. We don't know where she is. We don't know why she was

taken. She's here on a legal visa, and we just want her home. Pauline says 20-year-old Yonsu-Go was detained by ICE last Thursday as she exited a routine visa hearing at New York Immigration Court. A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says Goh's visit had expired and visa had expired, and they were expediting her removal. Paulin plans to hold a community to rally in scars. There were Goh went to high school this week to demand her release. Here's our forecast now. 70 and sunny right now with an air quality alert.

Widespread haze after 7 o'clock this morning. Sunny in 88 with a calm wind. And then tomorrow partly sunny 87. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday sunshine and low 80s. So a relatively dry week. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WMYC. Check us out for updates every weekday, three times a date,

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