From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! It's the first day of a new month, and today's road stop takes us to Hudson Yards near Jacob Javits Center Hospital, where some coronavirus patients are being housed.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
1. Deaths from the coronavirus topped 1,000 in New York City as officials warned that the worst of the virus' toll is yet to come. The city's Health Department reported late Tuesday that nearly 1,100 people have died of the virus in the city. There are more than 1,500 deaths across New York state. Data released by the city shows that the virus is having a disproportionate effect in certain neighborhoods, mainly in Brooklyn and Queens.
2. Authorities say two NYPD officers have shot and wounded a man after he menaced them with a knife and what appeared to be a gun. Police say officers responded to a 911 call about a man with a knife at 4 a.m. Wednesday.They found a 55-year-old man holding a knife and what looked like a handgun.
3. A Nobel Prize-winning physicist who expanded the world's understanding of magnetism and superconductivity has died at 96. Philip Anderson's daughter says he died Sunday at the Princeton Windrows retirement community in Princeton, New Jersey. No cause was reported. The New York Times reports that Anderson researched the electronic behavior of glass, crystal and alloys.
