NYC NOW - November 19, 2024: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: November 19, 2024Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: The NYPD says a homeless man fatally stabbed three people with kitchen knives during a 20-block spree in Manhattan on Mon...day morning. Police arrested the suspect. Meanwhile, Daniel Penny’s defense attorneys are questioning whether the chokehold he used on Jordan Neely last year was the cause of Neely’s death. Plus, a new report from the Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia University shows more employed New Yorkers are relying on food pantries as wages fail to keep up with the cost of living.
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It's Tuesday, November 19th.
Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill.
The NYPD says a unhoused man stabbed and kills three people with a pair of kitchen knives
in a morning spree of violence that span more than 20 blocks to Manhattan.
Police arrested the man. Mayor Adam says the man suffers
from mental health issues.
It is a clear, clear example of the criminal justice system, mental health system that continues
to fail New Yorkers.
Authorities identify the man as 51-year-old Ramon Rivera and charged him with three murders.
His attorney information was not immediately available.
Adams and officials say Rivera has eight arrests and was recently sentenced.
Police say his next court date is next month.
Daniel Penny's defense attorney is questioning whether his client's chokehold was really the thing that killed Jordan Neely on the F train last year.
WNYC, Samantha Max, has this dispatch from court.
Medical examiner Cynthia Harris says Neely died from the chokehold Penny placed him in.
Penny now stands trial on manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges.
But during a cross-examination that spanned two days, Penny's defense attorney asked Harris whether
Neely could have died from other causes, like a drug overdose or a genetic defect.
Neely's defense lawyer repeatedly asked the medical examiner to explain how she could know the
amount of force Penny was using at any given moment. But over and over, Harris maintained that
the chokehold was the most probable cause of Neely's death. A new report from the Robin Hood Foundation
in Columbia University shows that a growing portion of the New Yorkers who pick up free groceries at
food pantries have jobs or have worked recently. Advocates fighting hunger say it's yet another sign that
wages are not keeping up with the cost of living in the big city. Many food pantry users are also on
SNAP benefits, formerly called food stamps, but the share of pantry users enrolled in that benefit
is also shrinking. Researchers say that may be because of their immigration status or because they
don't meet the income limits.
49 and clear right now, sunny and 58.
That's the high for today.
They're tomorrow mostly cloudy near 60,
and then Wednesday night.
Here comes the rain.
We may get a lot of it.
Gusty as well, and the temperatures drop to 48.
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