Good morning and welcome to sunday today on this may 19th. Im willie geist. The 2024 president ial campaign is in full swing this weekend with less than six months until election day. This morning President Biden is in georgia, a state he won narrowly last time around, where he will deliver the commencement address at the historically black Morehouse College. Meanwhile, on saturday, former President Trump was in texas speaking at the National Rifle Association Convention and picking up that groups endorsement. Well have the latest in a pair of live reports and talk to Kristen Welker just ahead. Plus, our sunday focus on the president ial debate this week after back and forth public challenges between President Biden and former President Trump. How will these ones be different . Will they really matter in the end . Then, our sunday spotlight on 50 years of People Magazine at the center of american Popular Culture with famous covers, behindthescenes stories and, of course, a roundup of t
Its thursday, may 16, 2024. Back on the stand. Michael cohen is facing another tough day of crossexamination in the former president s hush money trial. How mr. Trumps team is working to discredit his former fixers credibility. Access denied. President biden blocks the release of audio recordings of his interview with special counsel robert hurd. Why republican lawmakers are balking. Families nationwide are struggling to keep up with soaring child care costs. The drastic measures some parents are forced to take. Age before beauty . Guess who is buying antiaging skinCare Products . Teens and tweens. That is an interesting conversation. Happy thursday. We begin with the criminal trial of former president donald trump. Today Michael Cohen, trumps former fixer and lawyer, testified for the Third Straight day. Mr. Cohen was grilled by trumps attorney about a number of times he had previously lied under oath and cohens dispointment when he was not given a position in the trump white house. V
Tells us tonight that testing has been completed. Authorities identified two new locations as confirmed sites. Both the death toll and the number of cases are on the rise. Eyewitness News Reporter a. J. Ross is live in the bronx tonight. A. J. . Reporter joe, sandra, we are live outside park avenue in the bronx. This is the last of five sites Health Officials have positively identified as a possible source of this legionnaires cluster. Deputy Health Commissioner dr. Varma expects the number of cases to rise as they try to narrow down which cooling tower is responsible for the bacteria. As Health Officials narrow down the source for the legionnaires cluster, the deaths among older residents continues to rise. A fourth death was reported saturday among what is 65 confirmed cases and counting. Health officials warn things could get worse before they get better. We think its very possible that there will be an increase in cases often the next seven days. And then we are also quite confiden
Its unreasonable, which means that its like a fear on steroids. It prevents us from doing the things that we want and being the person who we really are. Okay, so, how does a phobia differ from just plain everyday fear . An everyday plain fear is good because its there to protect us. You wanna fear fire to a certain degree because you want to avoid it so you remain safe. You wanna be fearful of not doing well on your test so that you take all the steps necessary to get the grade that you want. Alright, so, besides fire and fear of failing a test, what are some of the things people have phobias about . All sorts of things like dogs, spiders, snakes, clowns, ghosts and even the dark. You name it. Okay, ghosts i can understand since i dont believe ghosts exist but i am afraid of snakes. They can be deadly, which is real. Is my fear of snakes a phobia . The key word is irrational fear because if you live in a place where there arent many snakes and that prevents you from going outside beca
Bayonne right now. The lower portion of manhattan will get the brunt of these downpours over the next half hour. Between one and two and a half inches of rain falling into the 5 boroughs of new york city. Some of the more recent flooding reports. Theres more off to the west over pennsylvania. During the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Well detail that in the full accuweather forecast coming up. Thank you very much. Downpours are swamping the garden state. This sudden and heavy rain flooded roads in an instance. Aj ross is in patterson reporter sandra, garbage and debris have littered all over the streets of patterson tonight after the severe flooding swept across major arteries here. These are the garbage and debris cluttered under the cars on union avenue. One of the roadways hit hardest. The rain fall was so hard and fast many roads looked like rivers. It was something unbelievable. Ive been part of this for over 20 years. Ive seen Something Like this no more than three times. It was