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Hourly Forecast<\/a> |\u00a0Interactive Radar<\/a><\/p>\n Today’s Big Stories<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0City beaches closed to swimming Wednesday, Thursday due to rip current risk<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n New York City beaches will be closed to swimming on Wednesday and Thursday\u00a0as Hurricane Erin makes its way up the Atlantic coast, Mayor Eric Adams said today.<\/p>\n While Erin is not expected to make landfall in the five boroughs,\u00a0there is currently a high risk of rip currents at city beaches.\u00a0Breaking waves are expected to be between 9 and 13 feet, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0MTA to hold public hearings on proposed fare and toll hikes<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Ten cents might not sound like a lot of money, but that’s the amount by which the MTA wants to increase the base fare for subways and local buses \u2014 meaning it would cost riders $3 to access the transit system.\u00a0<\/p>\n The MTA is holding its first of\u00a0three public hearings on the increases\u00a0tonight in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n 3.<\/b>\u00a0Trump weaponization czar urged N.Y. attorney general to resign over mortgage probe<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n President Donald Trump\u2019s political weaponization czar sent\u00a0a letter\u00a0urging New York Attorney General Letitia James to resign from office \u201cas an act of good faith\u201d four days after starting his mortgage fraud investigation of her. Then he\u00a0showed up\u00a0outside her house.<\/p>\n Ed Martin, the director of the Justice Department\u2019s Weaponization Working Group, told James\u2019 lawyer on Aug. 12 the Democrat would best serve the \u201cgood of the state and nation\u201d by resigning and ending his probe into alleged paperwork discrepancies on her Brooklyn townhouse and a Virginia home.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0Sunrise Day Camp, serving kids with cancer and their families, celebrates 10th anniversary<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Morning lineup, gaga ball and swimming are highlights at the Lucille and Jay Chazanoff Sunrise Day Camp run by the JCC of Staten Island.<\/p>\n Every kid who attends the camp is either a cancer patient, a cancer survivor or a sibling. Many of the counselors attended the camp as campers, and get to give back to a community that deeply impacted them.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0Queens residents protest proposed battery storage facility over safety concerns<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Members of the Addisleigh Park Civic Organization and other residents of Southeast Queens have been gathering weekly to protest the construction of a new energy project there.<\/p>\n Residents who have protested say the facility is too close to homes and businesses in a largely residential neighborhood, especially given the recent fires caused by lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0Adams sues Campaign Finance Board to release matching funds<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Mayor Eric Adams is suing the city\u2019s Campaign Finance Board to force the release of $4.7 million in public matching funds for his reelection campaign.<\/p>\n In the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, Adams and his campaign accused the board of acting \u201carbitrarily, capriciously, and unconstitutionally\u201d by\u00a0denying the funds earlier this month.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spectrum_News_Plus_PromoCard_4-11-2023.jpeg\")
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