NYC NOW - September 12, 2024: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: September 12, 2024Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day. Three correction officers who watched a man bleed to death on Rikers Island without helping won't face criminal charges.... Meanwhile, more than half of the 12,600 migrant families have left the shelter system as a result of Mayor Adam's migrant shelter sixty-day stay limit. Finally, MTA's current budget will not cover expenses according to the state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
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It's Thursday, September 12th.
Here's the morning headlines from David First.
Three correction officers who watched a man bleed to death on Rikers Island without helping won't face criminal charges.
WNYC's Charles Lane reports.
A captain and two corrections officers watched for 10 minutes, says Michael Nieves bled from a
self-inflicted cut to his jugular vein.
A report from New York State's Attorney General says the officers dropped a t-shirt and a blanket
at his feet but didn't attempt to apply pressure to stop the bleeding.
The AG says while the officers in actions contributed to Nieves' death, it didn't rise
to the level of criminally negligent homicide.
Even though the guards are trained and generally required to provide first aid, jail
regulations don't specifically say they have to apply pressure to bleeding wound.
The report recommends the Department of Correction change the regulations to say so.
Mayor Adam's 60-day stay limit for migrant families in city shelters appears to be having the intended effect.
New data obtained by WNYC says more than half of the 12,600 migrant families,
subject to the limits, have exited the shelter system altogether.
Nearly nine and ten evicted families who reapplied for shelter were relocated to a new site,
a third were moved across boroughs. The new data come as the city is set to expand the policy
to reach another roughly 8,000 families. Critics say the policy means needlessly disrupting children's
education. Mayoral spokesperson Liz Garcia says the city aims to keep migrant families in the borough
where their youngest child goes to school, and if they can't, staff will connect them to
transportation services. New York State's top fiscal watchdog is warning the MTA that it may not have enough
money to match its appetite for spending. WNMIC's Stephen Nesson reports.
The MTA's mass transit system isn't getting any younger. It needs a lot of repairs and upgrades,
so many that there isn't enough money to pay for them all. That's according to a new report
from the state comptroller Thomas DeNapoli. It comes just as the MTA is preparing to release its
next five-year capital plan. The comptroller says it could cost as much as $92 billion.
He says the MTA's plans might include the
Interboro Express, a Penn Station expansion, as well as new train cars, buses, and updating the
existing infrastructure. But mainly, he warns that even if the state increases all the taxes that
currently go to the MTA, it still might not be enough. He says lawmakers will need to find a new
way to pay for the projects. 63 degrees right now, expecting a day of full sunshine high near 80.
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