From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Rockefeller Park in Tribeca.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
1. New York City’s health commissioner says as many as 1 million people in the city may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Dr. Oxiris Barbot said Thursday that more than 142,000 people in the city have tested positive for the virus but that's “the tip of the iceberg."
2. A lawyer for a college instructor who was accused last year of carrying gasoline and lighters into New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral says his client has died. Attorney Christopher DiLorenzo told the Daily News on Wednesday that Marc Lamparello died by suicide April 17. Lamparello had been released from a secure psychiatric hospital last month because of the spread of the coronavirus.
3. The New York Jets and team chairman and CEO Christopher Johnson and his family are making an additional $2 million donation to support the COVID-19 relief response in New York and New Jersey. The Johnson family and the Jets last month made a joint $1 million donation to multiple local United Way agencies to help combat the pandemic.
