NYC NOW - November 2, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: November 2, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: A New Jersey entrepreneur and school board member says 10 members of his family were killed over the weekend in Gaza. Also, The NYPD is preparing a more robust counter-terrorism deployment than normal for this weekend's New York City marathon.

NYC now. Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Thursday, November 2nd. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. A New Jersey entrepreneur and school board members says 10 members of his family were killed over the weekend in Gaza. Sammy Shaban is calling on elected officials to push for a ceasefire, and for humanitarian aid to reach Gazans. The Palestinian-American and Franklin Township Board of Ed Member

says the dead represent four generations of his relatives all killed in their own house. My cousin, who had invited my uncle over his house, told him, come to my house because that's where you'll be safe. And it was in that house that they faced their end. Separately, Shaman says a pregnant cousin was turned away from a hospital had to deliver her baby on the sidewalk. The NYPD is preparing a more robust counterterrorism deployment than normal for this weekend's New York City Marathon.

Officials say they have no credible threats, but that there has been an increase in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes. NYPD deputy commissioner Rebecca Weiner says runners and their belongings will be screened and there will be a litany of measures, including cameras, to detect any dangerous weapons. Canines, special vapor wake detection canines, radiation detection patrols, the deployment of our chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive detection and mitigation capabilities. Police also say they're monitoring propaganda from overseas as they prepare for some 50,000 runners and more than a million spectators in the city for the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Thanks for listening. This is NYC Now from WNYC.

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