NYC NOW - September 18, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: September 18, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: Neighbors of a Bronx daycare, where a 1-year-old boy tragically died from exposure to opioids on Friday, express concerns about the growing problem of fentanyl in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, researchers from Climate Central report that global warming has made it five times as likely for the region to experience 90-degree temperatures in September. Additionally, Help-wanted advertisements in New York State will have to disclose how much jobs pay under a new salary transparency law.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Monday, September 18th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. The neighbors of a Bronx daycare where a one-year-old boy died from exposure to opioids Friday say fentanyl is a growing problem in the neighborhood. Chanel Garcia has lived in the area of Kingsbridge Heights for 30 years. She says the neighborhood is still a great place to raise kids,

but the rising number of overdoses in the community reminds her of the crack epidemic. Fentano situation has really messed everything up. I mean, I lost so many friends to it already. You know, and for this situation right now, for kids to get hurt with that stuff, now it's affecting people that don't even deserve to be affected, you know. Three other children at the daycare were hospitalized for exposure to drugs. Police have arrested the daycare operator and the man who lived in the apartment upstairs, both of them charged with murder. You can thank the climate crisis for the brutal heat wave

that hit New York City this month. Researchers from Climate Central say global warming made it five times as likely for us to get 90 degree temperatures in September. Samuel Bartusik of Columbia University's Lamont-Dority Earth Observatory wasn't involved in the research, but he said the scientist did a good job connecting the dots between unseasonable weather and global warming. So it's really surprising to feel such intense temperatures after the peak of summer. And that makes them all the more unexpected and also all the more likely to be enhanced by climate change. Bartusik and other experts say we can expect to see more unseasonably hot Septembers so city officials should plan for it. Help wanted ads in New York State now must disclose how much jobs pay under a new salary transparency law.

The statewide initiative went into effect yesterday as part of a growing effort to give women and people of color more ways to advocate for equal pay, for equal work. Employees with at least four workers must disclose salary ranges for any job advertised externally to the public or internally to workers interested in a promotion or a transfer. A similar paid transparency ordinance has been in effect in New York since last year. Your forecast now, 66 with rain. showers through the day, a hive 73, tomorrow's sunny and 74, and then it looks as if sunshine with mid to upper 70s, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Thanks for listening.

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