{"id":162178,"date":"2025-08-20T22:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:13:17","slug":"evening-briefing-aug-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162178\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing: Aug. 20, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, New York City.\u00a0<\/b>We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know about for tonight and tomorrow, as well as your weather outlook.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Tonight will be cloudy, with periods of on-and-off showers.<\/p>\n

Expect cooler temperatures tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Our Forecast<\/p>\n\n\n<\/td>\nHighs:<\/b>\u00a0Mid-70s
Lows:<\/b>\u00a0Mid-60s
Thundershowers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Hourly Forecast<\/a> |\u00a0Interactive Radar<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIntroducing Spectrum News+
Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Today’s Big Stories<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Adams ally and former top aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin to face new charges<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 former top aide, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, is expected to appear in court Thursday to face new charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lewis-Martin was charged in late 2024 with bribery and money laundering, among other corruption-related charges. She\u00a0resigned from the Adams administration\u00a0shortly before she was indicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Workers sickened in Legionnaires’ outbreak file suit against construction firms<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Two construction workers are suing a pair of contractors they claim did not warn them about or protect them from Legionella bacteria in the cooling tower at Harlem Hospital where they were working, even after receiving notice of the outbreak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The outbreak in Harlem has led to more than 100 cases and at least five deaths.<\/p>\n

3.<\/b>\u00a0Inside the chaotic arrests at New York’s immigration court<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The 12th floor of\u00a026 Federal Plaza, which houses one of the city’s immigration courts, has become a flashpoint as the Trump administration expands its immigration crackdown. Officers, attorneys, advocates and reporters regularly crowd the hallways.<\/p>\n

As part of NY1\u2019s ongoing coverage of the issue, NY1’s Noorulain Khawaja spent some time with two attorneys who make it their job to go to the building and stand in the hallways each day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Trump administration again threatens MTA funding<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The Trump administration this week reiterated a warning that it would withhold federal funding from the MTA if the agency does not improve safety for maintenance workers.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Federal Transit Administration Administrator Marc Molinaro announced it had issued a final notice to city officials, calling on the local government to conduct a risk assessment and take steps toward remediation.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Report: Thousands of N.Y. seniors languish on home care, meals waitlists despite aid boost<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

At least 16,000 older New Yorkers who need home care, meals or other services continue to languish on waitlists and not receive the support they need, according to a state comptroller’s report released today, though state funding for those programs has nearly doubled in recent years.<\/p>\n

The comptroller is pushing the state Office For the Aging to improve its data reporting and transparency to ensure resources reach elderly people who are most in need \u2014 especially with billions of dollars in anticipated cuts to federal aid and a growing older population.\u00a0<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Hurricane Erin moves north and strengthens with Tropical Storm Warnings in effect along East Coast<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Hurricane Erin is still a strong hurricane and is expected to grow even larger, expanding its wind field.\u00a0Erin is expected to produce life-threatening surf and rip currents along the beaches of the Bahamas, the U.S. East Coast, Bermuda and Atlantic Canada this week.<\/p>\n

Erin formed on Aug. 11 and strengthened into a hurricane on Aug. 15. Just one day later, it rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane on Aug. 16. It brushed past the northern Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, bringing heavy rain, gusty winds and dangerous surf, but it has avoided any direct impacts to land.\u00a0Erin is not expected to make landfall in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, New York City.\u00a0We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12762,7448,34097,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-162178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-evening-briefing","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-atlan-hassard","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115063397222445478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}