Good morning, New York City. Here's what you need to know today.
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It's the warmest day of the year and it will end with severe storms. Look for sunshine this morning and thunderstorms for the evening rush. Downpours and damaging winds are expected.
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Highs: Near 80
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Around NYC
1. 'I've never seen him hang out with no one': former neighbor of subway shooting suspect speaks out
William Pride, a Bronx local who’s lived in a Morrisania apartment building for the past 10 years, says the alleged Brooklyn subway shooter was his former neighbor years ago. Looking back on Wednesday, Prides says the shooting suspect, Frank James, who is now in police custody, would say things that might have concerned him, but he never thought he would act on anything.
2. Timeline: Suspected subway shooter's movements in New York City
At 4:11 a.m. on Tuesday, NYPD cameras captured a U-Haul van driving over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge by a man prosecutors say is Frank James, the suspect in the subway mass shooting later that morning.
Here's a comprehensive timeline of his known movements since.
3. Doormen's union authorizes strike
Thousands of 32BJ SEIU members on Wednesday authorized their bargaining committee to call a strike if the current contract for doormen and other residential workers expires on April 20. The union is in the middle of negotiations with landlords of thousands of buildings across the city, with their next bargaining session scheduled for Thursday.
Around the Nation
1. CDC extends travel mask mandate for two weeks amid uptick in COVID cases
2. Bipartisan push on mental health crisis that COVID worsened
3. Video: Michigan cop on Black man's back, fatally shot him