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CNN —Flooding closed roads, disrupted subway service and flooded basements in the New York City area as “dangerous and life-threatening” rainfall overwhelmed the concrete expanse during the Friday morning commute. “This is a dangerous weather condition and it is not over,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a Friday morning news briefing. “I don’t want those gaps in heavy rain to give the appearance that it is over, it is not.”Happening now:New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley Friday morning. A torrent of water surged into basements in New York City Friday morning, according to New York City emergency management.

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☆ Travis Kelce jersey sales surge after Taylor Swift surprise appearance at Chiefs game
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTravis Kelce jersey sales surge after Taylor Swift surprise appearance at Chiefs gameAfter Taylor Swift attended a Chiefs game, a Fanatics rep told WNBC that sales for Travis Kelce's No. 87 jersey surged nearly 400% on Sunday. The rep also said Kelce was "one of the top-five selling NFL players." Dating rumors took off fast after Swift was spotted watching the game from a suite with Kelce's mom. The singer is on a break from her Eras Tour, which resumes Nov. 9.

Persons: Travis, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce's, Kelce, Swift Organizations: Chiefs, WNBC

Danil Shamkin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesU.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife were indicted in New York on federal bribery charges for accepting cash, gold bars, home mortgage payments and more as part of "corrupt relationship" with three businessmen from their home state. "This investigation is very much ongoing," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams at a press conference on the indictment of the senator and his wife, Nadine Menendez. Source: SDNYThis is the second time Menendez has been indicted on federal bribery charges. U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife, Nadine Arslanian, arrive for a reception honoring Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife, Mareva Mitsotakis, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2022. Those efforts allegedly included the senator recommending to Biden that he nominate a candidate for U.S. Attorney for New Jersey "who Menendez believed could be influenced by Menendez with respect to Daibes's case," the indictment charges.

Persons: Sen, Robert Menendez, Nikos Christodoulides, Danil, . Sen, Bob Menendez, Menendez, Joe Biden, Damian Williams, Nadine Menendez, Bob Menendez's, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, Fred Daibes, Nadine, NADINE MENENDEZ’s, Salomon Melgen, Melgen, Nadine Arslanian, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mareva Mitsotakis, Chip Somodevilla, Hana, Uribe, Biden, Phillip Sellinger, Sellinger, David Schertler, Ms, Daibes, Nadine Menendez's Organizations: Nurphoto, Getty, ., Bob Menendez of New, Government, U.S Department of Agriculture, Democratic, Attorney, Manhattan U.S, Foreign, NBC News, U.S, Senate Foreign Relations, Greek, White, Washington , D.C, WNBC Locations: Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, Bob Menendez of, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, New York, Egypt, New Jersey, Manhattan, Florida, Washington ,

☆ Max Gomez, Longtime TV Medical Reporter, Dies at 72
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Max Gomez, an award-winning medical and science journalist who delivered informed reports for more than 40 years on TV stations in New York and Philadelphia, most recently during the Covid-19 pandemic, died on Sept. 2 at his home in Manhattan. His partner, Amy Levin, said the cause was head and neck cancer, with which he had been diagnosed four years ago. One of his reports on Alzheimer’s disease focused on his father, a physician, who was swindled as his memory abandoned him. Dr. Gomez had been chief medical correspondent at WCBS, Channel 2, in New York City since 2007 and made his last appearance there in March 2022. He also worked at WNBC, Channel 4, and WNEW, Channel 5 (now WNYW), as well as KYW, Channel 3, in Philadelphia.

Persons: Max Gomez, Amy Levin, Dr, Max, ”, Gomez Organizations: WCBS, WNBC, WNEW, KYW Locations: New York, Philadelphia, Manhattan, New York City

☆ NYC bans TikTok on government devices
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

New York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, pointing to security concerns that have made the app a target of bipartisan scrutiny across the country. Congress already voted to ban TikTok on federal devices last year and several states have taken similar steps. City agencies have 30 days to remove the app from government-owned devices. Still, broader action against TikTok beyond government-owned devices has remained elusive. TikTok did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment on the NYC ban.

Persons: Eric Adams, TikTok Organizations: U.S . Conference, Mayors, Washington , D.C, New York City, NYC City Hall, WNBC, ., CNBC, YouTube Locations: New York, Washington ,, China

☆ Frank Field, Who Brought Expertise to TV Weathercasting, Dies at 100
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Frank Field, who as a meteorologist brought a groundbreaking credential to his job as a television weather forecaster in New York, and who also had a long career presenting network programs on science and medicine, died on Saturday in Florida. His death was announced by WNBC-TV in New York, where Dr. Field began his broadcast career in 1958. Dr. Field, a presence on New York and network television for more than 40 years, was not the city’s first popular TV forecaster. Ms. Reed signed off her nightly reports on WCBS-TV with a cheery “Have a happy.” Both enjoyed long runs on television. “Weather forecasting used to be in a class with reporting real estate transactions for the newspaper,” Dr. Field told The New Yorker for a 1966 profile.

Persons: Frank Field, Field, Tex Antoine, Carol Reed, Mr, Antoine, Wethbee, Reed Organizations: WNBC, NBC, ABC, WCBS, New Yorker Locations: New York, Florida

☆ Death threat, powder sent to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg after Trump warning of violence
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was threatened with assassination in a letter containing powder, hours after former President Donald Trump warned Friday of "potential death & destruction" if he is indicted by a grand jury in a criminal case led by Bragg. said the typewritten note in a letter contained in an envelope addressed to Bragg, WNBC reported, citing law-enforcement sources. The letter, containing an Orlando, Florida, postmark from Tuesday, was found in the DA's mail room in a lower Manhattan building after being received at 11:40 a.m. The white powder in the envelope was found to be non-hazardous, the New York Police Department told CNBC. NYPD investigators and the FBI, which has an office close by, were at the scene investigating the letter.

☆ New York law enforcement preparing for possible Trump indictment in porn star payoff case
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

If he is indicted, Trump, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate , would become the first former president ever to face criminal charges. The law enforcement agencies involved in security talks about that possibility include the New York Police Department, the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, and New York State Court Officers, WNBC reported. In recent days, Trump has lashed out at Cohen, Daniels and prosecutors. The Trump Organization was convicted in December in an unrelated criminal tax fraud case brought by the Manhattan DA's office. A grand jury impaneled in that case recommended that a number of people be charged with a range of crimes.

☆ Trump will surrender to face charges if indicted, defense lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during an event at a fire station following the recent derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste, in East Palestine, Ohio, February 22, 2023. Former President Donald Trump will surrender to face criminal charges if indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, his lawyer said Friday evening. The lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, spoke on the heels of a report by WNBC that federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are preparing security arrangements for the possibility that Trump will be indicted as early as next week. "Will follow normal procedures if it gets to that point," Tacopina told CNBC when asked what Trump would do if that possibility becomes reality. Trump denies having sex with Daniels, and has condemned the probe and other criminal investigations he faces as partisan witch hunts.

☆ Climate change is making plane turbulence worse, and it could make flights bumpier and more expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Crystal Raypole | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Experts believe severe turbulence may increase in years to come as patterns of severe weather continue around the globe. But pilots also have to contend with clear-air turbulence, which is turbulence that has no visible cause. Weather researchers further predict clear-air turbulence will double by 2050, with severe turbulence increasing the most. "The highest altitude flights over the North Atlantic will encounter the most significant increase in severe turbulence," Bennett said. Only 1% of the atmosphere has moderately severe turbulence, and a few tenths of a percent have severe turbulence," she said.

☆ New York girl, 15, sentenced to up to 9 years in jail in fatal stabbing of cheerleader
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A 15-year-old New York girl who fatally stabbed a 16-year-old cheerleader in April has been sentenced to up to nine years behind bars. The April 8 stabbing unfolded after a parade was held to honor the boys basketball team at Mount Vernon High School for its state championship win. The defendant stabbed Green in the abdomen with a knife on Gramatan Avenue in Mount Vernon, prosecutors said. We had a young lady in school, wreaking havoc in the Mount Vernon school system." NBC News has reached out to an attorney for the teen defendant, and the school district, for comment.

☆ Ex-FBI official arrested for alleged money laundering, Russia sanctions, taking money from former foreign agent
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan_Dienst_Byline.Jpg | Jonathan Dienst | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Charles McGonigal, 55, was arrested on Saturday after arriving at JFK airport in New York on a flight from the Middle East. From August 2017 through his retirement in September 2018, McGonigal allegedly concealed his relationship with this former foreign security officer from the FBI. Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York office. In 2022, federal prosecutors in New York charged Deripaska with violating sanctions. McGonigal joined the FBI in 1996, and was first assigned to the New York Field Office, where he worked on Russian foreign counterintelligence and organized crime.

☆ More than 20 people, including 3 children, injured after car crashes into NYC sports bar
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Mirna-Alsharif-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Mirna Alsharif | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

At least 23 people, including three children, were injured after an SUV operating as an Uber crashed into a sports bar and restaurant in New York City Monday night, officials say. An SUV crashed into Inwood Bar & Grill in Manhattan, N.Y., on Jan. 2, 2023. This caused the 31-year-old male driver of the RAV4 to lose control of the car, mount the curb and crash into the Inwood Bar & Grill, police said. It was not immediately clear if there were passengers in Toyota RAV4, and Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Nineteen people, including the driver of the RAV4, were taken to area hospitals while the others refused medical care.

A suspect in the slayings of four University of Idaho students has been taken into custody in Pennsylvania, law enforcement sources said Friday. Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was apprehended in Monroe County in northeastern Pennsylvania, law enforcement sources told NBC News. Police in Moscow, Idaho, have scheduled a news conference for 1 p.m. PT, where it is expected they will reveal more details about the November murders that stunned the small college town. Three of the victims shared the home they were killed in — Goncalves, Mogen and Kernodle — while Kernodle’s boyfriend, Chapin, was staying overnight, according to investigators. An arrest comes as a “celebration of life” was planned later Friday for two of the roommates, Goncalves and Mogen.

Her death, first reported by local news outlets in North Carolina and Black-centered blog sites, was heart-wrenching to Black social media users. Now, less than a month later, her family, social media users and experts are acknowledging the power of Black social media support, saying it was crucial keeping attention on her case. Black social media is extremely powerful.”Social media users have also used the #SayHerName hashtag when amplifying Robinson’s story. This isn’t the first time Black social media users have used their platform to draw attention to injustice. The professor, Ijeoma Opara, wanted to support the child’s interest in science, and social media users made it possible.

Two men with access to weapons were arrested at New York City's Penn Station early Saturday in connection with a probe of threats to the Jewish community, authorities said. The senior law enforcement sources said Brown had the swastika armband on him when he was arrested at the train station. NYPD Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell said in a statement that authorities first identified "a developing threat to the Jewish community" Friday. Three law enforcement sources said threats against the Jewish community were posted online. "Today, we’re extremely grateful to NYPD investigators and our law enforcement partners who uncovered and stopped a threat to our Jewish community," Sewell tweeted Saturday.

☆ Nationwide catalytic converter theft ring made hundreds of millions of dollars, feds say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan_Dienst_Byline.Jpg | Jonathan Dienst | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

“Amidst a rise in catalytic converter thefts across the country, the Justice Department has today carried out an operation arresting 21 defendants and executing 32 search warrants in a nation-wide takedown of a multimillion-dollar catalytic converter theft network,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Thieves made off with 12 times as many catalytic converters in 2021 as they did in 2019, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. On his Instagram account, he posted a photo of a necklace with a pendant made to look like a catalytic converter. Prosecutors say that was among the businesses allegedly purchasing stolen catalytic converters and reselling them. Technician Adelmo Rodriguez etches a catalytic converter with a license plate number in Huntington Beach, Calif, in 2021.

U.S. law enforcement has circulated bulletins warning that conspiracy theorists could become violent around the midterm elections on Nov. 8. The bulletins, obtained by NBC News, are unclassified but intended only for law enforcement. One of the bulletins, issued Friday by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center, and marked “for official use only,” warned about domestic violent extremism, or DVE in law enforcement circles. “The most plausible DVE threat is posed by lone offenders who leverage election-related issues to justify violence,” it said. Those include an Oct. 10 post on the fringe social media platform Gab in which a user wrote, “Death penalty for election fraud!

Dozens of federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued in the past several months as part of the federal criminal investigation involving several people in New Jersey and the powerful Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News. Two people familiar with the matter said one of the entities involved in the investigation is IS EG Halal of Edgewater, New Jersey. According to a filing by Lustberg, federal agents seized cellphones, computers, tablets, USB drives, business documents, notepads, a photo album, $5,943 dollars in cash, jewelry and Hana’s passport. The court filings do not specify why federal investigators conducted the search, and NBC News could not confirm whether it was tied to the current investigation involving Menendez. Federal prosecutors decided in 2018 not to retry him.

☆ Facial recognition used in arrest of 9/11 conspiracy theory lawyer accused of trying to disarm officer on Jan. 6
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Ryan J. Reilly | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan_Dienst_Byline.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — The FBI on Thursday arrested a New York lawyer who is accused of trying to disarm an officer protecting the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, law enforcement sources told NBC News. Authorities say O'Kelly tried to "disarm" a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer on Jan. 6 by grabbing an officer's baton and "attempting to wrestle it from the officer’s hands." U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of ColumbiaO’Kelly, known to online sleuths investigating the Jan. 6 attack as “MidWhiteCrisis,” was No. A judge dismissed the lawsuit in March 2021, and an appeals court upheld the lower court ruling in August 2022. More than 870 people have been arrested by the FBI in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.

A French cement company has been charged in the U.S. with making $17 million in payments to the Islamic State terror group in exchange for the protection of its plant in Syria, the Justice Department said Tuesday. While no individuals have been charged, Justice Department officials said the investigation is ongoing. "We deeply regret that this conduct occurred and have worked with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve this matter," the statement added. In 2015, Lafarge was purchased by Holcim, a company in Switzerland. Holcim added that Lafarge concealed the conduct from Holcim before and after the acquisition.

☆ Unul dintre participanţii la asediul Capitoliului, arestat după ce s-a lăudat pe internet
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

", s-a lăudat el într-o conversaţie a cărei captură de ecran a fost difuzată de justiţia americană. După acest raport, un agent FBI a studiat imagini ale camerelor de securitate pentru a-l identifica pe Robert Chapman, care se afla într-adevăr în acea sală a Capitoliului în cursul asaltului. FBI a găsit, de asemenea, fotografii şi mesaje publicate pe Facebook care atestă prezenţa lui Robert Chapman în sediul legislativului american la 6 ianuarie. Potrivit canalului de televiziune WNBC din New York, Robert Chapman a fost arestat joi în oraşul Carmel (statul New York), apoi a compărut prin videoconferinţă în faţa unui tribunal federal. Ulterior, a fost eliberat condiţionat, mai scrie AFP.

Persons: Reuters, Robert Chapman, Donald Trump, Joe Biden Organizations: Agerpres, FBI, Facebook Locations: Capitoliului, Washington, Yonkers, New York, SUA, republican, Capitoliul, american, Carmel

☆ NBC Buys Local Video Maker LX.TV
▼ + stars: | 2008-01-28 | by ( Michael Learmonth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

NBC's is acquiring LX.TV, a producer of local entertainment programming for TV and the web. NBC U says LX.TV will form the basis of a new unit called NBC Local Media that will produce cultural and lifestyle programming for local TV stations and web sites around the country. LX.TV started out as Code Networks, an indie producer of broadband content for wealthy urbanites. A local real estate show, OpenHouseNYC began airing on New York's WNBC in January 2007. Varet and Hertzan will remain with the company and report to Phyllis Schwartz, EVP, news, promotion and original content for NBC Local Media.

Persons: LX.TV, MTV execs Joseph Varet, Morgan Hertzan, Mo Rocca, Tim, Nina Zagat, OpenHouseNYC, Phyllis Schwartz Organizations: NBC, NBC Local Media, Networks, MTV, Viacom, WNBC, TitanTV Locations: New York, Los Angeles

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