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0:00Okay. The following program is intended for listeners who are blind, have low vision, or another print disability that makes reading holding a book or turning a page difficult or impossible. The content is copyrighted by the respective publishers. For more information, please visit us on the web at nfradieredireeding.org. Your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service now presents a reading of articles and features from the Buffalo News for today. Friday, September 11th, 2026. Your readers today are Don Williams. And JJ Patek and we will open with the love weather. It's a gorgeous day out there right now. It is sunny and pleasant today with low humidity with a high of 74. It'll be cleared tonight with a low of 54. Tomorrow Saturday, it'll be mostly sunny with a high of 18, a low of 64. Sunday, we'll have a thunderstorm around the high of 79 and a low of 54. Monday,

1:02mostly sunny, not as warm with a high of 68 and a low of 55. Tuesday, shower and thunderstorm, high of 76 and a low of 63. Wednesday, morning thunderstorms with some clouds and I have 71 and a low 58 and Thursday, Rain and a thunderstorm with a high of 72 and a low of 57. Yesterday's high was 78. The low was 66. The normal high is 75. The normal low is 57. The record high back in 1955 was 90 degrees in the record low and 1883, a bit before our time, 36 degrees. And last year's high was 77 and the low is 51. The air quality index today is good. The sun rose this morning at 6.51 a.m. and it's going to set tonight is 7.33 p.m. The moon rose at 7.20 a.m. and the moon will set at 7.37 p.m. And for the national extremes,

2:09the high was 108 over in Borragal Springs, California and the low at Yellowstone, Montana, was 27 degrees. And for where the trivia, what was the longest dry spell in U.S. history? The answer is a long time, 767 days at Baghdad, California from October of 1912 to November of 1914. That's quite a long spell of dry. I'm glad I don't live there. I'll be done. Turning to the front page, I had a little creative today with the articles are structured, but the big headline at the top of the page, this is going to be a tough day to read. 25 years later, remembering 9.11. Starting off with an article from Stephen Watson, the new staff reporter, Bonnie Collins, a family therapist from Hamburg who volunteered

3:11through the Salvation Army was struck by the quoting here, loud silence of New York City in the days after 9.11. Dr. Raymond D. Jean Miller, a Lancaster dentist, sent to help identify victims of the World Trade Center attack, said it was particularly difficult when firefighters or police officers observed his exams of their colleagues' remains. Gary H. Kato, an American red cross liaison, who also served as a chaplain at Crown Zero, remains haunted by what he saw and smelled during his two weeks in Lower Manhattan. It felt like I was in a combat zone, Kato said in the recent interview. Nearly 3,000 people died in the terror attacks in New York City, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania. Collins, Miller, and Kato were among the countless Western New Yorkers who were sent or volunteered to go to New York City following the 9.11 terror attacks. They offered counseling, provided medical care, coordinated the emergency response, provided aid to weary firefighters and police officers, and collected data meant to help design buildings to better

4:16withstand disasters. Five of them talked to the Buffalo News about what they experienced when they went to Manhattan, and how they think about this service as we mark the 25th anniversary of that terrible day. Here are their stories, the loud silence. Bonnie Collins, a family therapist, and longtime social work instructor at the University of Buffalo went to Manhattan with fellow social workers, Linda Abrams, and Ellen Silver, about two weeks after the 9.11 attacks. Linda Abrams called the Salvation Army and said, do you need any volunteers? And they said, yes, Collins recalled an interview this week. So the three of us went down by plane. I remember my mother saying, how can you just get enough plane after what just happened? The trio stayed in a hotel not far from ground zero with Collins describing the city's loud silence in those days. One of my vivid images, it was about dusk, and we were walking back to our hotel. And we heard this marching sound of feet, Collins said. And as we looked up, there were like

5:1610 soldiers with guns on their shoulders marching down one of the avenues. It was awful. I mean, I thought a rear war. They and other Salvation Army volunteers met with people who lived near the World Trade Center site and others affected by the attack to see what services or financial assistance they needed. For example, some required help with housing after having to evacuate their apartments because of the threat of collapse. After going through questions on the intake form, Collins said she would get people talking about how they were doing. I had a man from Afghanistan. He was paralyzed with fear that somebody was going to attack him, Collins recalled. So he came to me in whisper. I don't know where to go. She also spoke to a father from Iran with two daughters in college. And he said, is there any way I can stay here so they can finish college because I can't take them back to Iran. They don't know the language. They don't know that school. Collins said, and I don't know why to go back there. I was still in here at city Collins began recording encounters such as these and other experiences and what became a poem, Memories. Later published in

6:17the book on the ground after September 11, Metal Health responses and practical knowledge gained. I wanted to capture what we saw and a little of the vignettes that happened along the way. She said, they were important and they sent a message that even in the midst of all this trauma, there was some sort of hope. She said she and her fellow therapists were in crisis mode while volunteering in New York and it took time to adjust to the normal routine of life and buffalo when they returned. Collins was 60 then. She's 85 now a grandmother who's grandchildren range in age from 18 to 32. Even though some of them were alive at the time, they don't remember it. And I don't know how much history class has teach it. And I don't know how they teach it, it said Collins, who as a young girl remembers being awakened by her mother to join in what was for her a disorienting celebration of the end of World War II. Meredith McKay was at work at the University of Buffalo Art History Department in Clemens Hall on the North Campus when she received a call in the morning of September 11th of 2001 from an old army friend. Then 28, McKay was studying our history at UB and

7:23had joined New York Army National Guard after leaving active duty because it had a tuition reimbursment program. She was just getting ready to go to work and she kept calling where I was in Clemens Hall. A plane, another plane, McKay recalled last week. Lenshey called me about the one in Pennsylvania and so I said, okay, something's going on. McKay went to the Student Union where TV showed news broadcasts and she ran to one of her professors. As we're looking at the big screen that television screen they had in the Student Union, the tower spell she said. And I remember turning to him and saying, I've got to go home and pack. I'm getting activated today. She was right. Members of her National Guard unit arrived at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station where they boarded a bus that took them to the Air National Guard Basin in Orange County where McKay had grown up. They later got to New York City where they were staged at an army in Harlem sleeping on costs set up indoors on tennis courts. McKay said she was struck by how out of it was not to see

8:27the Twin Towers of World Trade Center as they got close to the lower Manhattan. We approached ground zero and it was just empty. You know, New York, there's not a lot of sunlight because of all those tall buildings she said and there was a lot of light paper everywhere and a horrible accurate smell. McKay, a medic and her fellow guard members were sent to New York to treat survivors of the attack. The sad part was there was nothing for us to really do. McKay said there was no rescuing. She returned to UV after 13 days in New York City where she provided medical care to searchers and rescuers, fighting off a cold and exhaustion when she came back to campus. McKay remembered riding an elevator with a two-professor shortly after return and when began to complain. All this flag flying I'm so sick of it. All this patriotism, McKay recalled her saying and she knew I was just back, I'm military, I'm just back, seeing the gravity of everything that had just happened. McKay didn't respond before this professor got off the elevator and then another professor who wasn't in my department but knew me said I want to thank you she said

9:32I didn't do anything and he goes you want and that was nice you know that acknowledgement. McKay remained in Buffalo until 2004. Now 53 and living in Groton, Connecticut, she says she finds her remarkable that for so many 9-11 is a part of history and not a lived memory. I'm amazed that people don't talk about it more maybe or don't understand because we're so far away from McKay said and like I was talking about that national fear of being under attack I hope nobody ever has to experience that again. In September of 2001 Michelle Bruno was a professor of Civil Engineering at University at Buffalo and a Deputy Director of UB's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research. He was taking part in a meeting at the center's research committee on the morning of September 11th when news of the attacks came in. I said we have a national center for earthquake engineering but this is a disaster on our home turf we cannot ignore it.

10:34Bruno said in an interview in his office at the UB North Campus of course the focus was on the twin towers that collapsed and that's what all the news was about but we rapidly realized that there were buildings surrounding the area that were damaged and did not collapse and that's where Bruno and his colleagues turned their attention. Within a week of the attack Bruno and two other UB engineers traveled to ground zero for a day to document the damage sustained by buildings near the site. They took photos and acquired copies of building blueprints and other technical information. The 40th Story Doysha Bank Building on Liberty Street drew particular interest from the researchers. The collapse of the South Tower tore a 24 story gas into bank building which lost one of its Lordbury columns but remained standing following the tower's destruction. We analyzed that building and tried to figure out why it survived and in fact we realized it could have lost two or I think three columns before anything collapsed. Bruno said so it was the way these structures were built way back then that had a lot of dead lots of redundancy.

11:35So I remember that day I was at work and we had TVs in our break room and I ran out to tell the guys on the job that the planes had just flown into the towers. They all thought I was joking and that it was all staged or something and it wasn't until break time that we found out that it was in fact true. Now you want to get back to the article? Okay. Bruno has traveled the world to visit the scenes of powerful earthquakes but he said he'd never seen the aftermath of the collapse of a hundred plus story office tower complex. You cannot ignore what you see. He said you're just as effective as anyone else but the same time you can't be paralyzed by it because you're there for a reason. In the months and years of followed research has produced numerous reports on how what they learn following the World Trade Center attack can be applied to other disasters. You contribute to do an old approach known as multi-hazard

12:37engineering with designs buildings to withstand more than one threat such as damage for earthquakes and bless. We came up with a few structural systems that worked nicely for both Bruno author of blessings of disaster the lessons that has half of these teachers and why our future depends on it. The analyses also emphasize resiliency and structural design and is disaster response systems. As a 25th anniversary approach is Bruno said he's struck by how much 9-11 changed how we access monuments and other buildings. You go to Paris and the Eiffel Tower used to be able to walk under it and now you have to go through security fences and everything Bruno said because the world is not living under the shadow of potential threats to major infrastructure which we never had to worry about. Dr. Raymond G. Miller, a Lancaster dentist, got a call in the afternoon of September 11th 2001 asking them to go to Manhattan following the attack on the World Trade Center.

13:38It came from the Federal National Disaster Medical System seeking his help as a forensic dentist in identifying victims. He arrived in New York City on September 13th. Well, it was impressed by how hard the city's firefighters and volunteers across the country worked in harrowing conditions to try to find survivors amid the pile of rubble at Crown Zero. Unfortunately, his time went on then became a recovery mission and that's where our role came in. Miller said in an interview with the UB dental school in the South Campus where he teaches aspiring dentists. At the medical examiner's office in Manhattan, he worked at two ID victims through dental records in cases where fingerprints and DNA samples weren't viable. Miller and his colleagues were often left to work with partial remains such as a jaw or remains that have been crushed or badly burned. It's not pretty, he said. Miller said he had to keep a professional distance from the victims whose remains he worked with. I don't want to know the backstory. I want to look at teeth and deal with it on that technical note. Miller said, I don't want to get into the sadness of the victims and what their story was and how, you know, somebody just got married.

14:43It was particularly difficult when firefighters or police officers were allowed into the exam rooms to observe as a fallen colleagues remains were analyzed. Miller said, Miller worked there for two weeks before returning home. He said some people were later reluctant to ask him about his time in Manhattan for fear of triggering an emotional reaction, but he said he will talk if asked. In the years that followed, he was deployed to Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and closer to home he worked to identify those who died in the flight 3407 crash in Clarence in 2009. When he and his wife were cleaning out their home of 31 years prior to a recent move, he said he found a small plastic box that he received while he was in New York. The box included candy, a t-shirt, work gloves, and a note of thanks. It was sent by a family of four from Angelica in Elgini County. They wanted the care box to pick me up and put a smile on my face. Miller recounted in a MyView essay published in the Buffalo News last September, what the box did in reality was show me that good caring people exist. The gifts senders members of the Pursuiti family saw the essay and shared

15:47an update with them. They think what a shoe box of goodies can do to a soul they wrote. And finally, segment here, our lost innocence. 9-11, Gary Cadeau was serving as a government liaison officer for the American Red Cross after retiring from a career in banking and later the federal government. This required him to keep a bag packed of a rig or leave within hours for deployment of weeks or months coordinating the local state and federal responses to major disasters. His wife called him at their Cheetahwaga home from her job to alert him to what had happened at the World Trade Center. That morning, in my mind, I thought we just lost our innocence. Cadeau said an interview from the villages Florida where he was lived for 21 years. Short time later, he got a phone call from Washington, D.C. telling him he would be immobilized. Cadeau's got a state police escort on the through way to Albany where he met Governor George Pataki in an underground bunker. Pataki sent Cadeau by Amtrak train to Penn Station in Manhattan where he walked to street level, got into the back of a New York police cruiser and received a ride to ground zero. He walked through

16:52the thick dust covering the ground to reach a command center where he asked a fire department battalion chief what he needed. He said, I need a chaplain. And I said, what? He says, I need a chaplain. He said, Father Judge is lost. Cadeau recalled referring to Father Michael Judge, a Franciscan friar and fire department chaplain who was killed by falling debris in the South Tower collapse. Cadeau, an episcopal chaplain who happened to pack his clerical collar and his field community communion kit with him agreed to help. So every day for two weeks, Cadeau worked an eight hour shift in Albany, took the train to Manhattan and spent up to 10 hours there before returning to Albany. He set up a makeshift chapel in a heavily damaged burger king near ground zero where he gave communion to first responders before they went to work at the site. He said he would annoy the victim's body or the outside of the body bag after they were found in the rubble. I remember the first fireman I found and we covered the spot with a little pink blanket. I remember his body was completely melted to the ground, including his badge, Cadeau said.

17:56But we could still see the badge and that really shook me up. A three months after Cadeau returned home he said he was still having nightmares about what he saw. He woke up his wife Barbara with his screaming and crying in the night. The worst part was the bodies. The ones that had deteriorated and rotted and the ones that had burned Cadeau said I just couldn't get that out of my head. He found a counselor who specialized in treating trauma. This helped as it did co-authoring a book, Ten Days of Hell and Heroes. I went to his account of the first 10 days after the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center tragedy. The book includes some of the photos he took at ground zero. Cadeau now gives talks about what he experienced and he found it a nonprofit project SOS, support our soldiers, to assist veterans and members of the military in need. I don't have the nightmares anymore. I can tell you that Cadeau said but September 10th is the one worst night of my life every year because it does come back then.

18:57Did I mention this was going to be a difficult day to read? It's very tough. Well onto the opinion pages. It is tough. As the work of healing continues, teaching next generation about 9-11. The shock of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 remains. So does the everlasting grief of those who lost family and friends. 25 years later, we remember the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. But remember also, remembrance also requires us to recognize those who answered the call to help. Those who carried the trauma home with them and the thousands would later become a sick and die from their exposure to the toxic dust at ground zero. The news has been telling some of those stories through Western New Yorkers whose lives intersected with September 11th. Those who responded, those who lost loved ones, those who witnessed the admon imaginable, and those who

20:03spent the years since making sure others are not forgotten. That sentiment is on display in the small American flags about 3,000 at all, and all that as the news is Matt Glen wrote, reappear every year in front of the state league climate house on Delaware Avenue. Each flag tells a story, a tag list of victims named age hometown occupation. Together they are a strict reminder of the scale of the loss. Individually, they remind us that nearly 3,000 people killed were not a number. Nick Bond, CEO of the American Red Cross of Western New York, region captured that distinction. It's one thing to put a 3,000 flags. It's another thing to have each flag represents something. One of those lives is Leonard Castriano, the twin brother of Lee Maccaldor, Maccadlow. Castriano was 30 years old working at the Cantor of Pistero, the love working in the Towers. He was, his sister said, as amazing young man who died way too soon. This is what never forget asks of us,

21:10to resist the tendency of history to turn people into statistics. Remembering September 11th also means remembering what people did for one another, and Pearson, and Pish Kuski, and Barbara Hulksdrow represented different forms of service, National Guard duty, First Aid, and Security Work, Mental Health Counseling, Pearson and Louise Simon Shona, as the news John Harris reports, carried that service forward for years after the attack, spying former guard members, connecting families of resources, and helping people navigate illnesses that emerge long after they returned home. Their work reminds us that the most meaningful form of never forget is active, not merely ceremonial. That obligation is especially clear because September 11th did not end when the fires went out. Responders were told the air was safe. Pish Kuski remembers specifically asking about masks and being told they were unnecessary. Years later she was diagnosed with breast cancer,

22:11which was eventually certified by the World Trade Center Health Program. Cancer and other diseases are now part of the continuing toll with the attacks. As Michael Barash of Barash and McGarry, which has represented about 50,000 members of the 9-11 community, including 37 National Guard members from Buffalo, put at 9-11, didn't end at 9-11. Ensuring that people sick and because they answered the country's call, received medical care and compensation has required another kind of persistence. Inescapable memories are a big part of the 9-11 story. Buffalo Attorney, Terrence Flynn, I witness a calendar told the news, Dern Herbeck and Albany Bureau Chief Robert Gavin's first person recollection shows how vividly September 11th remains with those who experienced it. Flynn cannot erase the image of a man and woman holding hands before jumping from the burning north tower. Gavin remembers Staten Island becoming a landscape of funerals, candlelight vigils, and street signs bearing the names of those

23:12who died. But an entire generation now knows September 11th on this history. Children who were not alive in September 11th should learn not only what was destroyed that morning, but what people did afterward. Firefighters and police officers were rushing toward danger. Soldiers reporting for duty, counselors sitting with traumatized responders, families preserving the names of those they lost, neighbors helping neighbors, and decades later, people still fighting to make sure the sick are cared for. We are, after all, each other's keepers. Now on another note, we have the cartoons. The first one is from Adam Ziegles, and we have a drawing of a bills fan jumping on a table. There's a little sign over on the one side saying hi, Cindy NFL. At the very top, we have an anvil falling. This is stadium costs and below that,

24:15we have a kind of a trophy with a football on top saying expectations and on the bottom is this fan ready to land on that table. And on the other side, Steve Kelly from Creator Syndicate, as a shaman with a big presidential badge holding, he's pointing, he's got a pointer in his hand, and he's pointing to a sign that says, Texas. And it says, watch closely as I reveal my next trick, Presto Changel. And there he is standing in the A and the A every verse positions. And it now says, Texas. That's James Talleriko, currently running for Texas Senate position. US Senate position from Texas, rather. And we're turning to the big editorial for today. Germany is a very dark place and time's running out from this from the Bloomberg opinion writer

25:16Chris Bryant. The far right alternative for Germany's national, a dramatic election win in the Eastern state of Saxony and Halt and on Sunday is a watershed in the country's post-war history. In a nation known in modern era for stability, Germans in this small federal region of embraced populist nationalist ideas in large numbers. Whether this electoral censure marks the low point for Germany or the start of a descent into something far worse is an opt to chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition. It needs to deliver economic growth and a narrow and a renewed sense of optimism and trust in democracy. I'm not confident that Merz is up to the task. After gaining 44% of the vote, the AFD doesn't quite have the seats in Albany's and Saxony and Halt needed to form a state government by itself. While various permutations are possible, it could still end up ruling there, either by securing defecions from other parties or with the tacit support of the B.S.W. It left us but culturally conservative and Russia-friendly group,

26:19governing would give it authority over domestic security and education. Whatever happens, its electoral win will normalize the AFD's anti-immigrant agenda and policy of drawing closer to Moscow. It's true that this former communist state isn't representative Germany as a whole. Its 2.1 million residents make up less than 3% of the population. The AFD has gained less ground and more prosperous West. Overall, some 28% of German voters' favorite compared with 21% for Merz's conservative block. That means the AFD is still a long way from taking power at the federal level. Something one can't say about France's nationalist ahead of the presidential election. Next year, where Marine Le Pen could secure victory, yet one cannot underestimate the repercussions of the AFD winning such an overwhelming support in Saxony and Halt. The result can't be blamed on epithetia. Turn out was a post-ruinification high of 78%

27:22contrary to the party's angry tone. When was achieved by running an up-be-campaign and presenting itself as a bastion of hope? Its candidate for state premiere, Ulrich Siegman, is telegenic and charismatic. The 35-year-old Smiley Demeter, Moe Pedrides, and election slogan, everything is possible. Earn him a fan-based on social media. It's quite acclaimed to be the party of good vibes when domestic intelligence considers the party's right-wing extremist and its electoral program includes separate schooling for refugee children, overhauling history teaching to emphasize Germany's power or positive achievements rather than his ugly past. Establishing a immigration task force on having voluntary citizens patrols to support policing. But attempts by national media to portray segmentism was dangerous man in Germany backfired, as it did caused by senior politicians for the AFD to be manned. These interventions elevate

28:22his iconoclast status while compounding his supporters' feelings of being ignored. Confronting the AFD is difficult. Germany's mainstream parties rule out cooperating with it at a state or federal level. But this firewall forces them into uncomfortable coalitions while the far-right party takes no responsibility for the inevitable letdowns and compromises that come with governing. This spending plans are reckless and is about to quit the euro would be disastrous for Germany. Ruling in Saxony on-helt, a comparably poor state might inject a dose of reality. But its success also underscores how centrist parties lack the answers to Germany's many problems. In aging populations, pressuring government finances and a social security system. As an export nation, the country has been hobbled by US tariffs and Chinese emergencies as an industrial competitor particularly in car making where Volkswagen AG is having to cut tens of thousands of

29:24jobs. Meanwhile, Russia is carrying out hybrid attacks on European soil and is no longer a reliable source of cheap energy. Previous governments made things harder by shutting down the country's nuclear power plants failing to equip the armed forces properly and opening the doors to fix a huge influx of refugees, a laudable humanitarian gesture but when they fuel the populist lurch. Heavy-handed measures curtailing civil liberties during COVID pandemic added to the loss of trust in politics. Merritt understands what ails the Germany economy. He's loose in constitutional restrictions on borrowing to fund defense and infrastructure and he's overhauling the tax and pension system so that workers have more spending power and their savings are channeled into the capital markets. The economy is starting to respond with output and business improvement, sorry, sentiment improving. Germans are founding more startups partly because of the weakness of the labor market. Last month Merritt's urged his fellow

30:27citizens to look more confidently to the future but he's no Ronald Reagan declaring it's morning again in America. Instead, Merritt's comes across as a luth and pulls show how hardly any Germans are satisfied with his performance. He was largely absent from the campaign trail in Saxony Unhalt. Even after his party is resounding defeat on Sunday, I can't see him stepping aside anytime soon, yet reversing his disastrous poll ratings looks like mission impossible. His government's controversial pension reforms will cause further division when they're debated by parliament in the coming weeks. There also was a hint of sunlight for those still hoping Europe's biggest economy can turn things around. On Saturday evening, a rocket built by Bavaria Base Startup, Easthar Aerospace blasted off from a spaceport in Norway, man delivered a payload of satellites into orbit, thus becoming the first privately funded company to do so from the continent's soil. It's exactly the kind of pioneering spirit Germany needs to overcome its economic malaise. It felt like a symbolic repose to the US billionaire Elon Musk. It was declared that the AFD

31:33AFD, by the way, is the alternative for Germany. The D comes from, of course, to Deutschland. It felt like a symbolic repose to the US billionaire Elon Musk. It was declared that the AFD as Germany's only hope, Merz's coalition, needs to tap the same entrepreneurial energy time is running out. Yeah, and you're listening to a reading of the days Buffalo News on your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service. It's 31 minutes past the hour. And for my view, Linda Hunter of Amherst has been making quilts and teaching quilting for decades. The month of September always seems to arrive too soon. Whether in Western New York or Zoffaness, Prime in September, summer is still in full swing with many activities for family, outdoor concerts, walks along the shore and food festivals, suddenly Labor Day is upon us. Do we appreciate the meaning of Labor Day? It's actually began in the 19th century as a protest by the Labor Force for better working

32:36conditions, fed up with unfair conditions, industrial workers, and major cities like Philadelphia, Chicago and New York got together to fight for their common interests. By the 1880s, Labor Union's all over the country were reeling together to try to change the way American workers were treated. When some of those were achieved, the day you all, President Glover Cleveland, signed legislation making Labor Day in official U.S. federal holiday on June 28th of 1894, following nationwide labor unrest and the Pullman Strike. However, I think many of us now simply see as a day off from work, a day to have a picnic and often the day before school begins. Our holidays meant to recognize or honor a person or event sometimes, become a day off from work or school, a respite from our mundane lives. I hope that a September day, that a few of us will never forget September 11th does not become another one of those days. Many people wanted to be named a federal holiday. There have been requests by our legislators to

33:39do so for 25 years. I fear that it would simply then become another day off for many Americans. As we observe September 11th of 2026, now Patriot Day is difficult for me to realize that this tragic act of terror isn't that took 2977 lives and altered all of our lives, happened 25 years ago. Shortly after that unbelievable tragedy, the members of our Western New York Committee honored those lost with a simple heartfelt signs and gestures. I was overwhelmed by their messages and began taking photographs of the many different humble tributes. As a quilt maker, a founding member of the Amherst quilters guild and a long time teacher of quilting, I decided a memorial quilt would be the best way to show those photos and ironed those lost. I printed the photos of tributes on fabric and sew them into my quilt. This quilt, Western New York Response 9-11-2001, has traveled the museums and historical societies and different groups throughout New York State.

34:41It has also been shown in quilts shows even in Missouri where you folks empathy often tears in those who you it. This is not because it's a beautiful quilt, but because of the hearts felt responses to this tragedy by Western New York residents, it was beautiful. Other quilts have been created and responded to events of 9-11 including the National Tribute Quilt, which can be seen in the 9-11 Memorial Museum in New York City. As our country has become divided more recently, I want all of us to remember, especially on this 25th anniversary of an attempt to destroy America, how politics were put aside. We came together in the face of this tragedy as a true United States of America. My wishes at the loss of so many loved ones and the ongoing threats to our freedom will remind us that we are one. That's a great tribute from Linda Hunter of Amherst. Indeed. Turning to another voice, this one from Steve Schoenberg in New

35:44York City-based marketing and communications executive. 25 years after 9-11, I was watching CNN's new documentary Top of the World about Windows on the World, the restaurant that once said atop the World Trade Center. It premiered on Labor Day during anniversary week. I saw a quiet portrait of the people who worked there, one floor in a tower that held tens of thousands of people each day. Then the documentary moved into the footage everyone knows, the towers, the planes, that Blue Sky Tuesday. And I noticed watching it that I didn't cry for years. I couldn't watch that footage without flinching. Even brief anniversary clips would catch me off guard. That reaction felt human. Somewhere along the way without my noticing, it stopped. I was a college student in Boston that morning, waking to a television already showing the first tower on fire, then watching still groggy as the second plane hit live. I spent the next stretch of that morning frantically trying to reach my parents on Long Island and nowhere near danger, but I needed to hear their voices anyway.

36:46That kind of panic doesn't fully leave you. I count myself fortunate not to have personally lost anyone that day, though I know that lost second hand through people in my life who did. What I keep coming back to is this, for all that horror of that day, something else happened alongside it. We came together. Strangers helped strangers. A shaken country found for a while, a shared sense of purpose that crossed the usual lines. Then came a different kind of trauma, one that by numbers actually claimed far more lives than 9-11 did, and it asked something different of us. Instead of gathering, we were told to separate that kind of prolonged isolation leaves its own mark, and I don't think we found our way back from it. Look at where we are now. It's hard not to see two countries occupying the same map further apart than they were 25 years ago. 9-11 for all its horror pulled the country together. COVID for all its necessity pulled us apart in ways we're still living with. Neither deserves to be minimized, but I keep wondering whether there's a middle ground we haven't found yet. Some way to hold each other close without needing a

37:52tragedy on a scale of 9-11 or the isolation of COVID. That's the question I can't shake. The thoughts of Steve Schoenberg on New York City-based marketing and communications executive. Very good question. Indeed. Open Buffalo Next. From Jordan Valinsky of CNN, America wants beef. How Omaha steaks is changing. Omaha steaks, the pioneering meat delivery company has been around for over a century, but if Omaha says survive amid record high beef prices, the company has to become Spaniard, leaner, and offer cheaper cuts. That's the direction CEO Nate Rempi has taken. The 109-year-old company will an overhaul that slashes its listed offerings by 75% to focus on the business on its selection of U.S. grown meats. Under his planned unveil Thursday, the company will double its retail footprint over the next two years, part of an ambitious effort to displace the grocery store

38:53as people's first choice for beef. America's consumers are getting worn up by the cost of lots of different proteins beef being included. Rempi said, we shrink down our assortment and focus on the things that matter. The changes, however, are happening at a time when the size of American cattle herds are at their lowest levels in 75 years and prices are soaring. That is prompted President Trump to allow 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef to enter the United States duty-free until November 30th. It had sent to lower prices a move that's disappointing to Rempi. As a talking point, it's not a meaningful solution to American consumerity said. Rempi recommends that U.S. ranches who have been dealing with drought conditions and rising feed prices for over a decade need incentives to make investments to bring the herd size up. Prices and demand have soared over the past three years with consumers paying 27% more for all kinds of beef including ground beef and veal according to the July consumer price index data.

39:59Although sales for cheaper meats like chicken and pork has also risen in recent years, Rempi said it's not enough to satisfy America's insatiable appetite for cows. Omaha Stakes hasn't raised prices yet except for its premium offerings of the layman-yone and tender loin. Then instead the company is heavily promoting cheaper cuts of meat like its top-shrill wine. Rempi said it's as tender as a filet man-yone in a great option for a customer who's really feeling the pressure on their wallet. Prices started $40 for four steaks which is half the amount of a filet man-yone package. Omaha Stakes has also taken a butcher knife to a selection to reduce the items it sells from nearly 500 to 120. Some of their desserts, slow cooker meals and single serve options are getting the X. Shipping frozen states from Omaha and a heavy box packed with ice packs is not just sustainable anymore in this market. Rempi said, setting record-high diesel prices, indeed.

40:59Rather having a store closer by the customer means lighter packaging and lower-freight cost as well as faster arrival times. The company will eventually open 80 locations across the United States that will also serve as miniature fulfillment centers. Expanding retail could help Omaha Stakes two biggest problems which are convenience and visibility. Said Neil Sanders managing director of global data. Stores allow customers to see their brands products in person. The growth of warehouse clubs like Costco and Sam's Club has also likely been unhelpful to a player like Omaha Stakes as his bulk offerings are a source of competition he said. I've never gotten an Omaha Stake. Meanwhile, newswire services reports that global oil prices hit $107 per barrel. Oil prices rose yesterday with Brent crude hitting $107 per barrel for the first time since May as conflict in the Middle East continued to a royal global markets.

42:03Oil prices have climbed back above the $100 per barrel mark this week as fighting in the state of Hormuz and Red Sea has intensified. The US and Iran have traded strikes while the Iran-based Houthis have attacked Saudi Arabia and ignited tensions in the Bab El Mandab state. Brent crude the global oil benchmark and US crude each rose more than 4% yesterday before pulling back slightly US crude oil hit $100 per barrel for the first time since May before pairing some gains and trading at $99 a barrel. Research and conflict has stoked concerns of further disruptions to global oil supplies and the flow of crude through the state of Hormuz. The rise in oil prices has added to nerves about inflation and central bank rate heights hikes sending ripples through stocks and bonds. This step up in attacks in the state of Hormuz and by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia suggested Iran and its proxies not trying to regain the initiative

43:04in the war. Jason Tovey, deputy chief emergent markets economist at Capital Economics said in a note. This could set back the recovery and oil I'll put in the golf and raises the risk that global energy prices rise even further in the coming weeks. Tovey said Iran aligned move Houthis seized control of Yemen's port city of Mokha on Thursday. Military sources said, posing a further threat to global energy supplies hours after President Trump said he expected the war to end after midterm elections. For Yemeni government military sources said the Houthis gained further leverage over the Bob El-Mandeb straight, the southern outweigh of the Red Sea, and one of the world's most important shipping routes, and were launching attacks on the strategic islands of Hanish. Later to Yemeni government sources reported the Houthis had reached the islands. If the Houthis imposes stranglehold over the waterway on the opposite side of the Arabian

44:06peninsula from the state of Hormuz, it could give their sponsor around a critical advantage in the war with the United States, reducing supplies through a second major transit corridor and sending oil prices surging in. Those are part of our newspaper reading we now present the day's death listings. If you need further information on any of these names please call 716-821-5555. That's 716-821-5555. We have Brown, Robin, the array of Amherst, New York, passed away in September 5th of 2026. Campees, Maryanne, and Eardorandi. 91 years old, passed away in September 9th of 2026. Donaldson, Walter J. Halson, on his Wally. 90 of North Ta'nawanda passed away on September 9th.

45:07Coldvoice, Ellen, Nate Power passed away on September 8th of 2026. And Kishka Dorothe, age 91, passed away on the 9th of September of 2026. If you did any information on any of these names call us at 716-815-5555. And we do have one obituary of note. Bruce Davis, 83 a long time film Academy Chief Executive. Bruce Davis spent more than two decades as a most motion picture academy's chief executive, even when he retired in 2011 it was not because he didn't still love the work. In fact he kept it at an retirement, retaining an office at the Pickford Center for motion picture study where he focused on writing a definitive history of the early days of the Oscars. I don't think I've been bored for a minute and 30 years here. Davis told the Associated Press

46:10Up on Leaving the Academy. I feel like such a rube sometimes. So this day when I get out of the car on Oscar, might you step up there under the carpet? You get that rush of energy. Well, it's repopping. Not that anybody's any me at me, but I still think it's one of the great rushes emotionally speaking that a person can have following a battle with leukemia. Davis died on Saturday. At the age of 83. His career at the Academy was according to his wife, Joanne, partly a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Not that he wasn't really good at what he did. She said by phone, but he was also lucky man. Davis was working a chair of the theater department at the Juniata College in Pennsylvania when he and Joanne loaded all their belongings, a top there, Mazza GLC and headed to Los Angeles and pursuit of what dreams. And Davis had been working on a few screenplays while teaching in his agent home. He needed to move closer to the actions and network and then take meetings. And he was there was there was there was a lot of

47:11nonsense out there. Davis said in the real stories almost always more interesting. He was deeply committed to preserving the Academy's history, establishing dedicated homes for the Library of Film Archive and relaunching the concept of creating a museum. It's the current Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Lynn Adhal Taylor said in this statement he had a profound love for the Academy and Davis loved to read and collect books to borrow anything from John Uptake and Margaret Acquid among other authors a passionate and associated having bookshelves in every room of his home. Languages self was an obsession with many family dinners ending with Davis pulling out as unabridged expert dictionary. The English dictionary to share the derivation of a word. It was a really fascinating guy. Joanne said, perhaps the only thing Davis didn't like about the Oscars was a ceremony's annual in memorium segments which pays tribute to those who died in a previous year. This is a single most troubling element of the Oscars show every year. Davis told

48:14the Associated Press because more people die each year. They can possibly be included in that segment. Next year's ceremony now has one certain edition. In addition to his wife, Joanne, Davis is survived by four daughters, Brandon Davis, Alexandra Davis, Archer Davis, and Roxanne Davis. If you need further information on any of these names please call us at 716-821-5555. Turning for some entertainment for the royal stars that column by Georgian Nichols. Happy Birthday for Friday, September 11, 2026. Your observant, strategic, and empathetic. You're also organized and have the courage of your convictions. Take time to socialize and enjoy your life this year. Nurture the happiness and beauty you have within. Let your guard down and listen up a bit. Have fun but remember your goals. For Aries, today be careful because most of

49:17this day is a moon alert which can promote creative outside the box thinking, tonight listen and cooperate. Taurus, due to the moon alert, today holds lots of creative opportunities for you. If you work in the arts or you make art, you will be widely imaginative. Tonight, work, Gemini. You're focused on home and family and perhaps apparent more than usual. Try carefully when making important decisions today because there's a moon alert, tonight socialize. Cancer, be careful in discussions with others. Don't trust a sudden decision or idea because either not today as a moon alert relax at home tonight. Leo, you have to be careful today because a moon alert is taking place in your money house. This means you'll be tempted to make financial decisions tonight. A new idea. Fergo, today the moon alert is taking place in your sign which is why you might feel a bit of drifter in decisive. Don't act on a sudden decision that occurs to you. Tonight, check your money. Libra, your ruler, Venus is going to be in your house of

50:22money for the next six weeks encouraging you to spend money on beautiful things. Tonight, you win. Scorpio, this is a great day to shmooze with friends and get in contact with people in groups and organizations. Tonight, enjoy privacy. Sagittarius, you are a future-oriented sign because today's moon alert is taking place at the top of your chart. You might have some far-out ideas about future plans and goals. Tonight, be friendly. Capricorn, air interest in publishing, the media, medicine, the law, and higher education is stronger than usual. Right now, tonight, you're admired. Aquarius, be careful because today, the moon alert is taking place in one of your money houses. Therefore, avoid decisions about banking, shared property, taxes, and debt. Tonight, explore and learn. And Pisces, today the only moon alert opposite your sign all year is taking place. Don't agree to anything important when talking to spouses, partners, and close friends.

51:26Tonight, check your finances. Well, today in history. 1789, Alexander Hamilton took the oath of office as the nation's first secretary of the treasury. In 1903, the Milwaukee Mile in West Ellis, Wisconsin, re-downed as the world's oldest major speedway hosted its inaugural automobile race. 1903, an automobile race in Milwaukee. In 1941, the construction began on the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, one of the largest office buildings in the world. This state became doubly historically significant 60 years later when the building was attacked on September 11, 2001. In 1941, a aviator and military officer, Charles Lindbergh, identified the British, the Jewish community, and the Roosevelt administration as advocates for America's entry into world war with Germany. In 1999, in Tennessee, Serena Williams defeated Martina Hengus to become the second black woman to win the

52:30US open. And in 2001, the series of coordinated terrorist attacks took place in the United States using four plans, hijacked by 19 members of Al Qaeda, two crashed into the world trade centers, twin towers in New York City, bringing down both towers, a third crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth crashed into a field near Sanctville, Pennsylvania. It's an ultimate destination, up to some speculations either with the White House or the halls of Congress. But the passengers hijacked it as we all recall and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. So that's the stars and today in history. Um, before next week, the US investors remain wary of Treasury plans behind byback. Just from a time toffee of CNN, the US bonds yields rose Thursday morning. Their highest

53:36levels in almost three years a day after the Treasury Department said it would buy back up to $6 billion in government bonds giving investors more insight into the size of the operations first announced last month. The 10 year US Treasury yield rose to 4.92 percent on Thursday after hitting its highest closing levels since October of 2023 on Wednesday and Wednesday. And yields move higher after the Treasury Department's announcement, signaling some skepticism from investors. The Treasury Department on August 19th announced it would spend at least double the size of bond bybacks bybacks from September to November. The announcement pins the first byback at up to $6 billion. Triple the size of the standard $2 billion operation. The Treasury Department said the increased size of bybacks aims to provide support and help bond markets function smoothly. Bybacks can also help try help to try to tame rising bond yields which have climbed in recent weeks

54:36to multi year highs. Yields rise when bond prices fall. Investors have sold bonds that's your pushing prices lower and yields higher. The rise in yields is lifting borrowing costs for consumers and government alike. By increasing the size of bybacks, a Treasury secretary, Scott Bessentis, flexing the tools it is disposal at the Treasury Department to try to temper the rise in yields. The bybacks target long outdated bonds like the 10 year bybacks can bring bonds off the market pushing prices and pushing yields lower. The byback of up to $6 billion was set to take place Thursday followed by schedule bybacks in the coming weeks that could be worth $4 billion or more in line with the Treasury's guidelines of at least doubling the size of bybacks. Yields moved higher after the Treasury announced a $6 billion figure highlighting that investors weren't satisfied. Some analysts expect the byback figure to be larger while others say bybacks aren't

55:40enough to change the trajectory for yields. Markets may be telegrafing to Bessentis that it will be tough for him to have meaningful control over long and rates. Padreck, Garvey, head of global rates and debt strategy at IMG toll CNN in an email. Bond's yields have surged this year right, raising the cost of borrowing and exacerbating concerns about affordability. Yields have climbed across the globe as investors were reckoned with surging energy prices and potential central bank rate cuts hikes. A deluge of corporate debt to fund the AI build out is also pushing up yields and in the backdrop rising government deficits and concerns over fiscal health are adding to the bond market uncertainty. Bybacks from Treasury departments are a standard operation of bonds market but the size and timing of the announcement highlights the Trump administration's sensitivity to the rise in yields. While bybacks can provide short term relief they don't change

56:42the fundamentals contributing to higher yields analysts say from rising corporate debt issuance to lingering concerns about government deficits and business briefly wholesale prices rise faster as energy prices increase. The U.S. producer prices increased in line with expectations in August amid a rebound in the cost of energy products. The producer price index for final demand rose 0.4% last month after an upper lead revised 0.1 in july. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Thursday economics pulled by Reuters had forecast the PPI increasing 0.4% after previously unchanged reading in july and the 12 months through August the PPI advanced by 0.4% and that followed a 4.8% rise in july. You were listening to a reading of articles from about the low news for today Friday September 11th of 2026 on your Niagara Frontier Radio

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59:50And we're back. We'll continue now with our reading of articles from today's Buffalo News. Your readers are? J.J. Protect. And Don Williams. Turning to the local news. Stephen Watson, news staff reporter, tells us the public will enjoy a closer view of the Niagara River in the city of Tanoanda when a news scenic overlook opens at Nioanda Park. The state will cover the $500,000 cost of the overlook which is expected to open in 2028 at the foot of Kohler Street in the park. The city plans to build new paths from Niagara Street and a parking lot to the overlook. State Senator Jeremy Zelnor, a Democrat from the city of Tanoanda, said at a Thursday morning news conference announcing the state's funding that this is just the latest public and private investment in the city's waterfront. They build in one another. They create better public spaces, bring more people to our waterfront and give visitors

1:00:54reasons to spend time in our communities and support our local businesses. Zelnor said he was joined by state senate majority leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, Tanoanda Mayor Bill Strasberg and other local elected officials at Nioanda Park. Stewart Cousins noted that Yonkers in Westchester County for years neglected its own water front. We have evolved as a community and we understand the importance not only of relaxation and having the opportunity to be in spaces like this but what it does for economic development, what it does for the vitality of the community, as you said. The overlook will be at the foot of Kohler Street in Nioanda Park across Niagara Street from Mississippi Muds. The deck of the overlook will stretch for 110 feet along the waterfront with a depth of 11 feet and an 8 foot diameter semicircle in the middle offering views upriver and downriver from the platform. Tanoanda city engineer Jason Lamanico said.

1:01:55Lamanico said the city needs to work out a formal agreement with the state and obtains permits from state and federal environmental regulators before construction can begin. This likely will happen in 2028 with work finishing in the same year. He said the bike trail that runs through the park will need to be temporarily closed during construction. Lamanico said. The state funding will cover the full cost of the overlook, including the benches it will be installed while the city will pay for new paths that will make it easier for people to get from Niagara Street and nearby parking lot to the overlook officials said. Officials yesterday said the overlook will be a welcome addition to the city's waterfront. Tanoanda residents for years have looked across the canal with envy at North Tanoanda where new apartments, restaurants and other businesses have opened along that city's riverfront. However, the city of Tanoanda has seen some recent progress in taking advantage of this natural resource. These include a pavilion at Nyawanda Park and improvements at Erie County's Isleview Park, which is just west of Nyawanda.

1:02:58Poppy Grande's opened a seasonal restaurant this year in Nyawanda Park and not far from the future site of the overlook. Joshberg told the Buffalo News that the city will later this fall renovate the Nyawanda Park bathrooms and repay of Niagara Street between Kohler and Seymour Streets. At the news conference, Joshberg expressed thanks for the $500,000 state grant, saying the city couldn't afford this on its own, this kind of improvement, to a park that draws visitors from throughout the area. This is really a regional asset, the major of the mayor told reporters. Yes, it's owned by the city of Tanoanda, and we're proud of it. We're proud of our residents and our residents and joy, but it's much more than that. It's really a spot for everybody in western New York that can come. And as the senator said, touch grass, watch birds, come down and enjoy themselves. Erie County Legislator John Bargnese, a Democrat who's district includes the city of Tanoanda, credited Zellner for winning state funding for the overlook. The reference Zellner's in impending departure from the state senate.

1:04:00A result of his June Democratic primary defeat by a senator by Assembly Member, Jonathan Rivera, a Democrat from Buffalo. He's going to be missed, Bargnese said. He said, he's done a fabulous job, and these types of projects that you see here change our community for a lifetime. What do you remember when that was all of the rags and stuff? It's such a nice place to go now. It is. Boy. When I visited, I guess finishing touches, and this is from Deeter Williams. The setting is a members only social club in Havana, Cuba in the 1950s snapshots of a culture. The floor tiles are painted to look like the trapecanic club. Stucco paint looks as though it's peeling back from the walls and everything else from the black, wrought iron railings to lighting. It's meant to be both a tropical setting for moments in time through the past century. The entire set for the National Tour of the One of Is the Social Club Broadway musical was builds in Buffalo, and the attention to detail must be exact.

1:05:04On Wednesday, workers are putting the final touches before the show opens or run at the Shays Buffalo Theatre from September 20th to the 19th. The design of the show is really beautiful and the attention to detail. You can even see that on some of the scenery and the shutters and the paint you see here is kind of a Davis production stage manager. Of course, the music is the ultimate detail, Davis said. The Tony Award winning One of Is the Social Club tells a story to four musicians in Havana, Cuba, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Let's just show about healing and the power of music producer, Orn Wolf said. The show is really about second chances. You get the story of these young people on the heels of a revolution and finding their way to the music and finding out with music is this thing that keeps them together when the world is sort of falling apart. It's really about how music was a thing that was a consistent for all these different people, and it kept them together through a very difficult life. Wolf said. The touring company of the One of Is the Social Club producers, cast and creative team

1:06:06members, nearly 100 people in total will have spent about three weeks in Buffalo between the tech process and the shows run in Buffalo, teching the production means the bringing the full team together to finalize staging and choreography, lighting, sound and other technical elements before opening night. The touring company builds all the technical and creative elements for the show which are then disassembled and rebuilt the next venue. But to be sure, the physical production of the tour is exactly the same as it is on Broadway Wolf said. The number one thing for me is always what is the experience for the audience on Broadway and how do I preserve that because I never want a person sing the tour to feel like they're getting less of an experience than what you get on Broadway Wolf said. You're getting the exact same show. The 3000 C-Shades Buffalo is a fire cry from the first theater. The show played in off Broadway the Atlantic theater company. So there's show's director, Sahim Ali. This is probably the most beautiful theater I've ever been in. Ali said of Shades Buffalo.

1:07:07It's just stunning. I can't believe how majestic it is. Our little One of Is the Social Club set feels like a little post-in-step. It's so wild because the first theater we ever performed was the 300-seat theater. So we've gone from 300 seats to 3000 seats. Regardless of the venue size, Ali said he just wants the audience to connect to the emotions and the music. The show has its own life, has its own kind of emotional musical signature. So I care about his every space is making sure that every audience member can feel that, he said. The economic and community impact in Western New York is significant when Broadway shows tech that Shades Buffalo theater. The Buena Bissa Social Club alone will have an impact of more than $6 million during the show's run, a figure they're grossed substantially when accounting for the weeks of pre-launch activity according to Shades. The show is that tech here comes to town for weeks with dozens of people that eat their meals here and stay in lodging, whether it's hotel rooms or short-term rentals. The higher local laborer including choreographers, lighting designers, design orchestrators, musicians,

1:08:13stage hands and wardrobe specialists. The Buena Bissa Social Club is the 10th Broadway production of tech and launch from Shades Buffalo Theater since 2016 and one of the two launching from Shades this season. Pastors included the outsiders, Mrs. Dalfoyer, into the woods to Kilomockingbird. Disney's frozen, mean girls, Charlie and the Chalka factory on your feet and fighting Neverland. The time, the economic impact on the community has been robust, said Brian Higgins, president and CEO of Shades Performing Arts Center. A production of this caliber, choosing Shades, a statement of the confidence in our workforce, our community and our audiences, Higgins said, beyond the thrill of being first these weeks of teching and rehearsing mean hotel rooms booked. Restaurants busy and local cruise inventors put to work. That is what a thriving cultural economy looks like he had. In addition, the Buena Bissa Social Club and Shades are partnering to offer several community engagement opportunities while the production is in Buffalo.

1:09:16Nearly 100 Buffalo public school students and another 100 members of local community organizations will attend an invited dress rehearsal at no cost prior to the show's opening. And also members of the Buena Bissa Social Club company will make a school visit to Buffalo Academy for visual and performing arts. Go in a post show talk back session with audience members following this September 15 performance and participate in a Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York, Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff at the Buffalo and Eerie County Central Library. So that sounds pretty exciting. It does. And if you want to hear some music from the Buena Bissa Social Club, tune in to 91.1 on your FM dial any Saturday afternoon from three until seven. A lot of Fernandez likes to play music from the Buena Bissa Social Club on her show called Cafe Latino. She's very actual on this Jackie. She's brilliant. I like the way she does things.

1:10:17I love her voice. I could listen to her read the phone book. Well, get back to work here. Patrick LaCamp news editor enterprise editor reports that Rebecca Iso, who has served as a law clerk for US District Judge Lawrence Valardo, a familiar name here, has been selected to become a federal magistrate judge. Iso 41 will succeed. Magistrate judge Jeremiah McCarthy, who will retire from the position after two decades on the bench. I am deeply honored to join the Western District of New York bench. Iso said she will sit at the Robert Jackson, US Courthouse in Buffalo when her term begins on February 28th. Valardo says he would work closely with Iso for several years and knows she's ready for the judicial job. She has all the tools needed to be a superb judge and I'm looking forward to continuing to work with her. But in a new way, Valardo told the news. Iso is dealt with some of the most high profile cases in Buffalo in recent years, including the trials presided over by Valardo for Peter Jarese Jr. The former Chief of Augustribkelbohner convicted of bibrous sex and drug trafficking offenses

1:11:22and former drug enforcement administration agent Joseph Banjivani was convicted of charges after two trials. Valardo was also presided over hearings and oral arguments involving Peyton Chandron, who faces the federal death penalty for killing ten people and injuring the three others in his racist attack at top markets on Jefferson Avenue in May 14, 2022. Magistrate judges handle civil and criminal matters. For criminal cases, they oversee first appearances, arrangements, and set bail or conditions of release. They conduct preliminary hearings, detention hearings, and evidentiary hearings on motions to suppress evidence. Magistrate judges also issue search warrants. For civil cases, they hedgell scheduling conferences resolve discovery disputes and hear pretrial motions. They write reports and recommendations to district judges who make the ultimate rulings on cases. Iso previously worked as a trial attorney at the U.S. Equal Opportunity and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and is an associate attorney at firms in Buffalo and Boston.

1:12:27In private practice, she had a case load that included both civil and criminal law at the trial and appellate levels. She previously served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for a district judge in Rhode Island. Iso were in the bachelor's degree from Boston College, a master's degree from York University and a law degree from Yale Law School. The judges decide who to select for the magistrate positions after candidates are vetted by an independent merit selection panel comprised of lawyers and community members and the panel reviews applications and identifies the five best qualified candidates and presents them to the district judges for consideration. They chose Rebecca Iso. We're moving out a little bit to sports here. Sort of. Sort of. Sort of. The Sabers practice will get fans free preview of the team. The Buffalo Sabers now have the wrong version of the bill's popular blue and red practice. The team is hosting a blue and blue scrimmage on September 19th, opening the keys to the

1:13:31doors to the key bank center before the preseason gets underway. Players on the Sabers training in Camp Roster will go ahead to head in an interesting squad game that will begin on the 11.30am and the scrimmage is free but will be a ticket event with general admission seating. Tickets will be available starting Friday. The scrimmage is a play off the bill's annual practice as held at High Mark Stadium preseason during training camp. It's drawn more and more fans every year including more than 50,000 people last month through the team's new stadium. It was its first opportunity for all season ticket holders to see the $2.2 billion building. The Sabers are coming off a run of census or it's after bringing a long postseason drought running an Atlantic division title and making it into the second round of the Stanley Cup playoff last season. The team has sold out a portion of season tickets that has made available at its over 19,000 C-Darina and the Sabers have reached a high water market of sorts as this year is the first time since the 2016-17 season that the team has sold out that inventory of season

1:14:36tickets. The team has sold 14,000 season tickets for this season and uptick from 2025 to 26 when his sold 9,000 season tickets fans can get on the season ticket. Member waiting list for 100 Tyler deposit attendance in 2025 to 26 reflected a popularity and interest in the Sabers is a complete of their most successful season in recent years. The Sabers had 24 sellouts of their 41 home games in the regular season including 18 consecutive sellouts in the final 18 games of the regular season which was the longest sellout streak for the franchise since 2011 to 12. This preseason will begin for the Sabers on September 21 at the Pittsburgh Penguins and continue the next night at home hosting the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Sabers open the regular season October 1st at Columbus then host the Chicago Black Hawks in their home opener on October 3rd at Keybank Center. Training camp for the Sabers is going, gets going September 17th with on ice activities

1:15:40following the following day. For the blue and gold scrimmage fans can claim tickets starting at 10am for full and half season ticket members, noon for partial planned ticket holders and season ticket weight list in members and 2pm for the general public and then doors will open about an hour prior to puck drop. So they're getting in on that preseason game I guess they see it as a good thing. I would think. It is a good thing. The bill showed that. Yep. Well you're listening to a reading of today's Buffalo News on your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service and it's now time to turn officially to sports. Yes. Catherine Fitzgerald, the news sports reporter says Jim Leonard has made his decision. He'll coach from the field on Sunday in Houston. The Buffalo Bill's defensive coordinator saw benefits to calling plays both on the field and in the box but he ultimately decided that the energy and excitement from being around the players would better help him.

1:16:42And on Sunday he finally gets to show off the place he's been thinking about for months now. This is what you play for Leonard said Thursday. This is what you coach for. So guys are excited. There's a lot of nervous energy going around and we got to knock that out and get ready to go play a big game on the road. While the bills were able to install their new defense this off season the unveiling part is something to which Leonard can look forward. Yeah, the preseason we got to work on some things really evaluate the talent scheme pretty straightforward a little watered down from what we want to do. Leonard said and now it's time to get to go. I love competitive football. You get to the regular season and it's time to throw everything out there and ride until the wheels fall off. Some of it has been on display but Leonard has been coy about exactly how much of his handy has shown. What do we benefit from me telling you how much we saw? Right. I mean there's one there's core elements to what we do that were obviously out in the preseason. Leonard said but at the same time there's a lot more in there. During the preseason Leonard was not ready to name a starter opposite to all Bernard at

1:17:44inside linebacker between Dorian Williams and her rookie Caleb L.M.'s or Leonard still says sees upside each player. I think it's still a competition. I really do Leonard said I think both guys are going to see the field at some point. I'm excited for they're both at. They're different players. They have different skill set. They have enough similarities and that's why they're playing the same position. But there's differences in the way they move. There's differences in the way they process things and what their strengths are. So I think they're going to make us a better defense when they're on the field. Williams is listed as the starter of the team's unofficial depth chart but then it means so much. Likewise the bills could rotate at boundary corner opposite Christian Benford between Maxwell Harrison and rookie David Davidson, Igg Binozon although Leonard did not say that outright he delved into his philosophy of platoon players versus having one guy in all game at quarterback. I've done and seen both he said to me it's more guys earning the right to not come off the field as opposed to earning the right to be on the field sometimes.

1:18:47There's a flow element to the game and there's rhythm and timing and some guys you don't want to disrupt that and some other guys that's going to create a go a couple series and take a step back. Bill's offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael knows what he and the Buffalo offensive are up against when it comes to the Texans defense. I think obviously there are top defense in the league Carmichael said. I think when you start talking about them as a defense obviously they create a lot of disruption, ton of pressure on the edges and then their linebackers they're fast, they're physical, they tackle well and you start talking about the secondary and you're talking about ball skills, turnovers that they're able to create. So obviously it's a big challenge for us going forward. Carmichael had coach Joe Brady and the offensive coaching staff set down together to watch last year's Bill's Texans game. It inspired an influx of ideas from coaches old and new as the group tried to solve the Texans. Carmichael had coach Joe Brady and the offensive coaching staff set down together to watch the last year's Bill's Texans game. It inspired an influx of ideas from coaches old and new as groups tried to solve the Texans.

1:19:50Sorry, read that twice. We got four new coaches on offense like Drew Torell, a vice receiver coach. Well they played him last year, Carmichael said. Quarterbacks coach Bo Hardy-Gree played him a couple times. Offensive coach Pat Meyer played them a couple times. So I think that from a cumulative effort we played them last year in Denver maybe just being able to run by some thoughts. Three days before their season begins in Houston there are bills for without two notable players for practice. Yesterday in Orchard Park, Tai Johnson, hamstring, their third down running back. And defensive lineman TJ Sanders, knee, we're not on the field. Sanders was limited as a, was listed as a limited participant on the injury report Wednesday. So the absence represents a possible setback. Jordan Hancock, a quad and the nickel, a backup, nickel quarterback on the other hand, returned to practice. And the bills will practice again today to prepare for their games on against the Texans at NRG Stadium. Go bills. They're playing their opener on the road and followed by three games at home in a row.

1:20:51They're all good. They can practice up a storm. Sounds like a plan. You have to we beat them. Well from Jay Skursky, for now Brady has tight-lipped the bow. Well, everything. Joe Brady stuck to the script Wednesday. The script had been made being a blank piece of paper. The Buffalo Bill's new head coach started his first news conference of week one by taking a request for an injury report and tossing it aside. Yeah, there'll be an injury report later today. He said, Brady's reluctance to provide pretty much any inside on injuries wasn't lying with his modus operandi throughout the summer. The first year head coach has been less and forthcoming with any and all injury updates believing his decision to keep that information close to the vest will give his team some sort of a banished over his opponent. So ever slim, it may be. Interesting strategy. You guys obviously don't want to hear any of that, but when it is things that guys are

1:21:51going to be out for an extended period of time or some of the obvious, I obviously communicate that to you. He said, decline, do you even run down which players would participate in practice? I'm always going to try to have the mindset as long as I can hold on to what the better, right? Not really failing to answer whether a certain player is going to practice literally 30 minutes later serves absolutely no purpose. League rules mandate that teams release injury reports that document player participation. So failing to provide the information ahead of practice provides no advantage to the bills or any other team that does so for what it's worth. Running back to high johnson and defensive back Jordan Hancock were the only two members of the team not to practice Wednesday as the bills began on field preparations for this season opener against a Texans at 1 p.m. Sunday in Houston. The rest of the bill's long way injury list included limited participation for defensive tackle T.J. Sanders because of any injury will acknowledge that johnson missed practice

1:22:54with a hamstring injury and that Hancock sat up because of quad ailment, tipped the scales and a Texans favor, probably not. But this is a big week for Brady who was trying to leave a little to chance. The NFL's youngest had coach at 36. He will realize a monumental career, it's even Sunday when he takes a sideline against the Texans. He was asked Wednesday whether he had afforded himself a few minutes this week to let that sink in and imagine what the moment will be like. No, he said, right, wrong or indifferent. I'm kind of not built to ever take those seconds and kind of appreciate that. I know we have a huge test to our guys this week and I've got to be whatever they need me to be. I think that's the most important thing. This was a layup question for Brady and opportunity to shed just a little bit of light on what Sunday will mean to him and he opted not to take it. Brady deserves some slack here too. He's handling all that comes with being a head coach, media responsibilities included for the first time. Getting the guys ready to go, that's his main priority quarterback, Josh Allen said,

1:23:56discussing whether he has noticed a shift in Brady's mentality now or the game has arrived. He's extremely excited, just like he is when he was the offensive coordinator in the quarterback coach here. He's not approaching it any differently from that aspect. Allen described Brady as extremely confident. He'll coach you, carries himself with this little south floor to swear to him. He cares about the game of football. He understands it and he just loves what he does. Allen said he's the first one in and the last one out. I never see his card not here so he's doing everything he can to get this team prepared and try to win football games and that's what trickles down to the guys. Ultimately, that is what matters most. Brady's job isn't to win the press conference. It's to devise a game plan that can beat the Texans. His players are behind him, right tackle. Spencer Brown referenced seeing how Brady interacted with the starters who weren't playing during the final preseason game. He was really cool to see him fire people up and see him on the field in the flesh and set up up in a box and just some voice and Josh's head.

1:24:58Brown said, I look forward to seeing him a regular season game for him. I'm looking forward to seeing a regular season game for him. It's not uncommon for first time head coaches to clam up at news conferences, Brady's predecessor, Sean McDermott was also reluctant to give many straight answers, especially at the beginning of his tenure. Eventually, McDermott loosened up. Louis never turned into Winston Churchill behind a microphone. McDermott did get more comfortable in the setting, sharing injury updates and letting people get to know him just a little bit. Here's hoping that Brady follows suit. In time, he learned that connecting with fans is important in his seat, unless he's bumping into them at the grocery store. The only way for the bills coach to communicate what is going out with this team is through media. Rex Ryan never took the time to warm up the reporters on a regular basis. He was on a job less than two full seasons, despite a record that wasn't as bad as you might remember. Maybe it wouldn't have saved Ryan's job if he'd had more media support, but it sure wouldn't

1:25:58have hurt. Ultimately, none of this will matter if the bills win. But if they don't, Brady will start to face questions a lot harder than ones about the injury reports. Well, I don't think there was any way to save Rex Ryan's job here. According to high school sports, it's that time again, school opened this week, last week for some schools. For months, anticipation built for the Dick Gallagher Classic to kick off the first week of the Western New York football season, and despite lopsided scores, the event delivered. Put together by Western New York Athletics founder Frank Wolff, the draw of the event was pitting the best public and private schools against each other, something that has been rare in the area. Last Friday night's slate at the University of Buffalo's Broadview Stadium included Lancaster victory over Section 5's McQuade. Since 2023, Lancaster has moved to 3-1 against private schools, and coincidentally, Lancaster's loan loss was to McQuade two years ago in double overtime.

1:26:59Lancaster was a warm-up for the game everyone had been waiting for, St. Francis versus Bennett. The game didn't live up to the hype, but St. Francis reminded everyone why it finished ranked number one in the news poll last season, and currently is a number four ranked in the state, according to rivals. Red Raiders quarterback and Rutgers commit to Trent Buttles, the new Dick Gallagher player of the year last season, controlled Bennett in the pocket and on the ground. Buttles dismantled the Tigers and St. Francis backed him up by putting a pounding on arguably the best public school in the area. This game was a litmus test for how much Western New York cares about high school football and the crowd, filling a whole side of the stadium, answered it. Bennett coach Steve McDuffie and St. Francis coach Jerry Smith for agreeing to the game, and to McDuffie for confirming his every intention of playing the Red Raiders next year, barring a defeat to Kineshius. St. Francis' like will be the wire-to-wire number one ranked team in the news-large school polls. Speaking of the Crusaders, Erie Community College might have been too small of a venue

1:28:01for their game against health sciences. Students lined the fence Saturday afternoon for the finaly like St. Francis. Kineshius asserted dominance against the Falcons, beyond proving where they stand in the Western New York hierarchy that Crusaders got to showcase senior running back, Elijah Kimball, who fled out overwhelmed health sciences defense, not used to being dominated. Whenever Kimball touched the ball, the crowd's volume rose each time believing he was about to reach the end zone. The crowd brought their kids just to watch and play. Fans stayed after for photos and autographs. The pull of Kimball was something to see. Just a reminder, he gained over 200 yards and four touchdowns. A few takeaways in the slate. Buttles and Kimball are by leaps and bounds. The best players in the area will see the season unfolds, but I'd be shocked if player of the year and the Connolly Cup weren't held by one of them. In 2022, in local public versus private games involving Kineshius, St. Francis and St.

1:29:02Joe's private schools are six and two. And I've won the last five such games by an average of 22 points. And with being an online lonely game and the outpouring of fans, I'm curious if there's a future for an annual best versus best matchup between public and private schools. I'm sure Jamestown or Tred Park and St. Joe's would want in if it makes sense for their programs. Yeah, I think it'd be a good idea. I think so too. But this is me. And I'm sure they think it's a good idea. Well, who am I? And top four seeds clash in the semi-finals. The two-time defending champion, Ariana Sublenka, bid to move. When stuff falls through the third straight U.S. Open title, when she faced familiar photos, Jessica Pagula in Thursday night semi-finals, while Alina Rybikina. Took on home favorite Coco Galf in the last, the other last four clash. For the first time since Wimbledon in 2009, all four top seeds at a Grand Slam have reached

1:30:06to the semi-finals with Sublenka, Rabakina and Galf, all former major champions in third seed Pagula seeking a maiden Grand Slam title. Sublenka has reached U.S. Open semi-finals for a six consecutive year and is now two wins away from becoming the first woman since Serena Williams from 2012 to 2014. To win three straight titles in New York, the Belorussian had not dropped a set before surviving her toughest test of the tour tournament on Tuesday, edging Wimbledon champion Linda Nascova, 7-6 at first, 3-6, 7-6, and 10-7. The 28-year-old faced Bakula on Thursday with the rivalry returning to flushing medals for a third straight year after Sublenka denied the American title in 2024 and then beat her again in last year's semi-finals. Sublenka led their head to head 94, but Pagula had won two of their last three encounters,

1:31:06including a victory at the Berlin Open semi-finals earlier this year and she took the deciding set as six and nothing. I think it's fun to look at the rivalry we've had. She's gotten me here the last couple years, Pagula said, and I've been able to beat her a few times and maybe on a smaller stage so I think that's kind of be a hurdle for me to get over. Pagula advanced by fighting back to beat fellow American Emma Navarro at 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, reaching her second major semi-finals this year after the Australian Open. The 32-year-old has also reached five finals this season, the most on the WTA tour. Sublenka entered Thursday semi-finals after a surrendering tap spot in the World Rankings, which Rybikina secured with her quarter-final victory over the Olympic Champion Zhang, King Wen, on Wednesday. The Australian Open winner will become the 30th woman to win the WTA rankings and the first from Kazakstand to reach World Number 1 when the new rankings are released after the

1:32:09tournament. Sublenka, who would help the top spots since October of 2024, said she would gladly trade it for another US Open title. I'll be more than happy, she said. Yes, a three-peat. Sounds great. Rybikina's reward for reaching the semi-finals for the first time in New York was a meeting with fan-favorite golf who would produce a stunning comeback to beat fifth seed in fellow French Open winner, Mira Andriva, 267-6 as 7 and 6 and 2. The 2023 US Open Champion was on a break of defeat in the second set before saving two match points and returning the match around and golf's victory put her into the semi-finals at a second straight Grand Slam after her run to the last four at Wimbledon and she had the home crowd behind her as she biddy to clinch the second US Open title. For Bikina was going for a third Grand Slam title, Andriva looked completely at home in Arthur Ashe Stadium as she sprinted through the first four games, never allowing golf to set up a break point chance in the opening set where the Russian had just five unforced

1:33:13errors to 14 from her opponent. Golf who took a break in the locker room between sets took inspiration from her compatriot Francis TFO, who recovered from two sets in a breakdown on Tuesday night to reach the semi-finals on the men's side. I just had to reset. I came out not feeling the ball and giving her too many free points at golf, I was thinking about Francis TFO and how he came back yesterday and we all wanted to well in front of this crowd. Golf finally found some momentum in the second set and was serving for the match in the ninth game when old issues from her server surfaced and she produced three double faults allowing her opponent to break back. And he turned, golf recovered her poison deployed, perfectly plays backhand to win a 39 shot rally twice, saving match points before forcing a third set with a forehand shot to the corner that Andriva could not contain. She kept up the pace from there and Andriva flung her racket at her pension, discussed

1:34:16after dropping her last serve in the third game of the decider and golf broke her to love in the seventh game to put the contest completely out of reach. So, well said report that last night's competition that they mentioned here, Jessica Pugola fell to 7662 and Coco Gough fell to Andriva. Andriva. She won the first set at 636 and then lost 466. Oh well. So that's the way it goes. Oh well. There's always next year. Turning to some advice from Eric. It's about time. Yeah. Listening to articles from the Buffalo News and your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service

1:35:16and 35 minutes passed the hour. Here we go. Dear Eric, 10 years ago my dad passed away and after 25 years of marriage within a few months my stepmother started dating again. She is now involved with a partner who is kind and fair. My issue is with her assumed role as conservator of my family's things. Nothing of huge value but of great importance to me. My father was a writer and his parents were classical composers, things like my grandfather's grand piano and library were given to my dad and are still in his house. My father was a deeply semile person as MI. So I find it difficult to believe he left my sister and I nothing to remember him by. What seems more likely is she has chosen not to execute his will. Or perhaps he trusted her. We'll never know. This woman travels constantly and has a taste for the finer things. Recently I contacted her regarding my grandmother's estate which was left to my dad. By default this woman now has it in her possession. When I've asked for even small things with no significance to her paintings, my great grandmother's

1:36:17ring etc. She has shut it down expertly. I'm not a calculating person. I just want my things. We keep a very superficial relationship. My sister wretches when she comes up. So it's all on me. I want to go right by my family and this just isn't it. Lost heirlooms. Dear heirlooms, if your father did have a will for which your stepmother was the executor, she does not have the option of simply choosing not to execute it. All executors have time to complete a state administration. Ten years stretches beyond reasonable expectations. So it behooves you to try to determine if there was a will. You can talk to an estate attorney about your options there and with regard to making a formal request for some of the other heirlooms, it would be a shame for this to escalate to illegal back and forth. But if she hasn't executed the will, ours is being unresponsive to request for items to which she has no connection, that may be your only recourse. I would have thought of contacting his father's lawyer.

1:37:20See about the will. Yeah. Well, the other letter to Eric, I have an incurable disease that governs my life. I've had this disease for years. But the past four years I've deteriorated quite significantly and I never know if I can keep plans or go out with others until the last minute. Because of this, I can't eat from restaurants. I'm his car my own food and my friends have completely stopped asking me to join them in any capacity. Even a group outing where we'll be coming wouldn't hinder the event. I feel very left out. I've expressed this and for a bit I was re-included but have gotten very ill this last year and I'm even more housebound. I'd be okay with people gathering in my place just so I can have a social life but I don't live near them like 30 minutes away. They say it's a burden to drive out to me and I see they post on social media places that are out by me or 30 minutes from them in the other direction. They refer to me as a great friend. Some say BFF but I'm treated like I don't exist. What do you suggest? I'm only 62 and may have many years to go although not the healthiest but I'm still here

1:38:21feeling left out. I'm sorry your health and your social situation are causing so much difficulty in your life. It can be so easy for folks to forget that we all have needs and want that our friends and wants that our friends accommodate. Remembering that we're all here to support each other and to see each other in our fullness, what we need and what we have in abundance, what we can still learn and what we know by heart is one of the gifts of friendship. It may be helpful to think about your friends individually rather than as a group. Either some would be better at re-inclusion than others. Maybe I try to reach out to them with a concrete suggestion of something you'd like to do. It's also okay to challenge your friends when they say things like driving out to see you as a burden. That's not language that expresses care. Say something like I feel hurt and dismissing you say things like that. I value you as a friend and from what you've said I believe you value me but it's hard for me to feel that when you won't help me stay included. If they can't or won't meet you where you are conceptually and physically, they may not be the friends you need at this point in your life. But it's hard to get new friends at his situation.

1:39:24Seriously saying something like that. That's blue. Yeah. Back to the sadder news. The new bell will mark the growing total of victims from wild dominoes of the CNN. Until this year, the annual September 11th commemoration ceremony of grounds here has included six moments of silence, one for each of the key fatal moments of that day in 2001. As the names of the nearly 3,000 victims are read aloud to bell rings at the exact minute each of the four planes crashed and won each of the twin towers fell. Silence follows each time and the reading of the name continues. But what will follow this year acknowledges another growing toll. A seventh moment of silence will be held for the thousands more who have since died from diseases linked to their exposure to the toxic ash than the rubble of the World Trade Center. As a years passed and the human toll grows, you reckon with the cost of September 11th,

1:40:24whatever another New Yorker is stolen from us too soon. Mayor Zoran Mamdani said this week, and now close to 24 years later, more people have died from 9.11 illnesses and women were killed on the day itself. New York City released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records Tuesday, showing the city officials at the time misled the public about air quality round ground zero. The release not only underscores how dangerous the conditions were, but it also was an important moment for responders and survivors who have long fought for help and recognition. The World Trade Center Health Program established in 2011 after years of advocacy for compensation for survivors provides medical monitoring for the first responders and survivors and free treatment for 9.11 rated conditions. Other than more than 57,000 responders and survivors enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program have been diagnosed with cancer.

1:41:27As of March 2024, nearly 7,000 people enrolled in the program have died. After the additional six bells have run as a ceremony opened to family members of people who died on 9.11, the 7th bell will ring. The victims who are still alive and the family of those who died later will join the ceremony at 11 a.m. as names of the victims continue to be read. The newly added bell followed by the additional moment of silence will then ring at approximately 12.30 p.m. according to a spokesperson for the 9.11 Memorial Museum. It means having my dad's story along with all the other stories acknowledged as part of the entire 9.11 story as well said Leah Vesso, whose father of us are James Betso, the New York City Police Department died from brain cancer in 2015 after spending months in recovery operations at ground zero after the attacks. For a long time, I think that a lot of the folks, the people who lost their lives on that horrific day. But for families like me, the loss came many years later and this moment is recognizing

1:42:33that. The path to recognition. This moment of silence is for many first responders and survivors of validation they've long fought for. But now the lingering death impacts of 9.11 are better understood with cancer, respiratory diseases and post-traumatic stress disorder among the most commonly diagnosed conditions. First responders and survivors can be treated for injuries and illnesses that arise from their exposure to the dust and debris through the World Trade Center Health Program, which despite its name. Also covers those who were at the Pentagon and responded to the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania where the third and fourth planes crashed. What the road to help was fraught. Bridget Gormley suspects her father was well aware he might one day get sick. She imagines him feeling a dark cloud following him around waiting to come when it wanted to. But the terrorist attacks and the potential sicknesses that loomed over everyone who worked at ground zero were never discussed in Gormley's household she told CNN.

1:43:36Even after her father, Billy Gormley got sick. It was likely a mix of PTSD and guilt, she said. Only after her father in New York City firefighter has spent months working at the World Trade Center died of bladder cancer in 2017, did she start to understand the connection to his recovery events, sorry efforts and the magnitude of 9.11 related illnesses that Billy Gormley is one of thousands whose death is directly linked to exposure shocked her. After her father died, Bridget Gormley started speaking to many of his friends while making a firm, also a film about the health effects of 9.11. One of the men recalled that in the early days at ground zero he had said to a friend this is going to kill us all one day. They said it like ingest and joking but like they knew Gormley said. But others hadn't been aware. Michael O'Connell was 25 on 9.11 and I just joined the New York City Fire Department as a probationary firefighter four months earlier. I was a kid, said O'Connell. I don't think anybody else ever really thought that oh this is going to be bad in the future.

1:44:38You know what we're breathing in, he said. Even though he was aware of the asthma and lung issues, firefighters often face years later that started to change. I started seeing firemen develop cancers and then in 2007 I wound up getting sick with sarcoidosis. O'Connell said that's when it really became apparent that most people aren't escaping this. Sarcoidosis is a disease in which nodules form most commonly in the lymph nodes, lungs, bones and skin. WTC health program has certified O'Connell's condition, he said. The documents released Tuesday showed city officials at the time new conditions at the long smoldering pit made the air their unsafe debris. Despite repeatedly ensuring New Yorkers the opposite, people got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air. Mom, Danny said. O'Connell is one of the many first responders who spent years advocating and testifying in Congress for better health coverage for first responders.

1:45:40While there were various programs to help survivors and responders, they were short term and left many responders still in need of care and financial support. The federal September 11th victim compensation fund launched in 2001 but initially ran only until 2003. In 2011, after a near decade of advocacy on the part of first responders, President Barack Obama signed the James Zedroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, which established the WTC health program and reopened the compensation fund. The law was named for an NYPD officer whose death was linked to the toxic plume at ground zero. But even after the fund was reopened, responders continued advocate for long term care. It was until 2019, after emotional pleas in Congress, including an angry speech by comedian John Stewart that the health program funding was extended for another seven decades through 2,090. Those responders are still feeling 9-11's physical toll.

1:46:45They replayed us, section of that speech from John Stewart to the Senate and just on TV just the other night. He said, those firefighters did their job. It's time to do yours. Hey, man. Survivors and first responders are still being diagnosed with 9-11 related illnesses. More than 7,000 first responders have been certified with the health condition by the WTC health program within the 12 months ending June 30. According to data released last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, others have been reckoning with 9-11's physical toll for years. Ivan Sanchez, who worked in emergency medical services, recovering and identifying bodies was injured twice, both at ground zero and decades later. Sanchez fell sometime in the winter after September 11th while working in recovery, she recalled. She was startled after she looked down and noticed remains, then fell back or down to a piece of rebar, which left her needing stitches. She remembered the triage doctors giving her a pain relief, her offering to send her home

1:47:47or to the hospital, but she chose to stay. She attributed the pain that persisted in her back to the hours they were working. In the beginning, she remembered working twenty and even twenty-five hours shifts. She said she continued to work until May 2002, determining to find more victims, though the pain persisted. Every time I go down to 9-11 during the ceremony, I always, when I go to a new museum, I feel like this heaviness, like their ghosts are saying, you didn't find us, you didn't find us. And in my head, I'm going, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we tried. This is what has stayed with her most, even as her own health has been turbulent. Well, when she finally saw an orthopedist after the recovery efforts were over, Sanchez said she was told she had so much nerve damage she would never work again and she was taken out of the line of duty. Today, she also has a spinal cord stimulator in her back to help with drop foot and her left leg. In 2014, Sanchez would diagnose with breast cancer, which she says has been certified through the WTC health program.

1:48:49In the early 9-11, first responders alive today, Phil Sanchez does more preoccupied with their survivor's guilt than their own ailments. My heart goes to the families that lost loved ones that day. And you know, so the people that were perished of 9-11's illnesses since then said retired near police sergeant Thomas Wilson, all my ailments happened afterwards. I've been able to live my life, though it's been painful. Through the WTC health program, Wilson has been by his own account certified with tongue cancer, skin cancer, PTSD, anxiety, asthma, sinus conditions, and gastrointestinal conditions. Wilson estimated he served 300 hours at ground zero where he worked recovery and security and fresh kills land fill on Staten Island, which became a dumping ground in forensic sites for ground zero debris. At fresh kills, Wilson worked as a sifter, calming through debris with a metal rake. You hope to find a wedding ring or something to ring closure, said Wilson. This last time at fresh kills was in April 2002.

1:49:52I never found anything. Yeah, the family members who were left behind, well, tens of thousands still suffer and recover from their diagnoses. Thousands have died because of their 9-11 exposure. Their family still mourned them and reckoned with the pain of knowing that their loss has tied to that day. Evelyn Betso still vividly remembers the morning of 9-11. She had just dropped her daughter, Leav off for her first day of kindergarten. The sun was shining. It was a beautiful morning. They were all in there in the little Catholic uniforms, Evelyn, said, recalling the students out in the play yard. Evelyn was all bright-eyed and bushy tail when she got out of her office and I walked into work and everyone in the office was just looking at me and I thought, God, what's going on? Her husband, Jane, was in the New York Police Department and her brother, Paul, was a flight attendant. Her mother and mother-in-law started calling her, where were their sons? Paul and James were both safe that day. Paul and a flight to Miami and James was already working at Ground Zero. Years later, in April 2010, while taking his daughter, Jay, to the movies, James saw a

1:50:55blood drive and went to Donate, Evelyn, said, his hemoglobin, a protein and blood was so low he was sent to the hospital. There, she said he was diagnosed with two blood cancers, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myelose dysplastic syndrome. For two years, James was very sick. Evelyn said he couldn't walk or even go to the bed to the couch without getting out of breath. All the treatments really took a toll on him. After nearly two years, James finally went into remission. We thought, oh, God, this is great. It's all done. It's, you know, it's behind us, Evelyn said. He was getting on with his life. Then in 2013, James returned from getting bagels on a Sunday morning and said, I don't feel good. He said to Evelyn. There's something going on. An element tried to take over the emergency. He was, he was fine. A menace later he fell to the ground in their backyard. His hands on his head and started to seize. Jade, 12 of the time, came running out in her bare feet and she was screaming, Evelyn said. He had a grand malceasure now known as tonic colonic seizure among the most severe kinds.

1:52:01He would ultimately be diagnosed with glioblastoma, the cancer he would die from two years later. James's cancers, Evelyn said, were certified by the WTC health program. In the final years of James's life, it was very hard on their daughter. Evelyn said, and they both struggled to watch their father deteriorate. The last year of his life, he couldn't express himself, Evelyn said. He couldn't talk. He was on a cane. He couldn't button his shirt one morning. He was making himself coffee in the kitchen to remember the whole gyro coffee fell on the floor. Evelyn remembered James as a tall, strong and independent man. He broke his heart to know that his daughters could see him like this. Marcy Borders was known in the world as a dust lady. And what became an iconic image from that day, 28-year-old Marcy dressed for work in a skirt, suit, and pearls. Reaches out her hands, looking almost like a statue coated in a thick layer of dust and a lobby of the World Trade Center's North Tower. When her daughter, Noel Borders, first saw the him as she was frightened. It was a reflection of what my mom felt once she saw it, said Noel, who was only eight

1:53:02at the time. Marcy struggled with the depression addiction for years in the aftermath, but eventually grew to embrace the powerful image for what it meant, now into herself, but to the world. In 2015, Marcy died a stomach cancer at the age of 42. The diagnosis initially shocked her family as she'd never had any health issues. She said Noel, she's always been 100% healthy. Noel said she believes her mother's cancer had been certified by the WTC health program. The Borders family has seen how others were getting sick and it wasn't difficult to connect the dots. You may feel like, okay, we got through this tragic event. Now in another way, still affecting your life, said Noel, even though you felt like you overcame it. The health program continues to try to reach those suffering. The WTC health program continues to reach and treat people as of June. There were more than 154,000 people enrolled. One does not have to be sick to be enrolled in the program. Michael Cran is a medical director of the WTC health program, clinical center of excellence

1:54:06at Mount Sinai in New York and he encourages as many people as possible who are living in the city at or around the time of 9-11 to get involved with the World Trade Center's health programs. More than 95,000 first responders are enrolled in the WTC health program, which strain estimates is close to the true number of first responders, but the percentage is much smaller than other survivors. As a June, there were fewer than 60,000 of them enrolled in a program, which concerns Cran, who set around 400,000 people who live and worked around the tower, qualify as survivors. And viral mental exposures proven to have an impact on everybody, adults, children, babies, say Cran, particularly exposure like this. Cran would call the dust, the exposure being everywhere. He doesn't think the dust was truly out of the subways until Super Storm standing in 2012 when the place flooded and got rid finally of large amounts of lingering dust. While most first responders who get sick later in life may quickly draw a connection to

1:55:07their work at the site of the World Trade Center, survivors who develop illnesses decades later, Cran fears may not. He said he hopes the 25th anniversary and the new moment of silence is a renewed opportunity to spread the word. You have this program out there for you folks who live down there and for your children so take advantage of it. And you know it can't hurt. It can't hurt to go out and get evaluated. So yeah. Well, we are coming to the end of our reading today and you've been listening to a reading of articles and features from the Buffalo News for today, Friday, September 11th of 26th and we read the Buffalo News Live on weekday and Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. and re-broadcast at 4 p.m. We're going to take a quick look at a comic here. Family circus is terrific. It is. Billy is coming running through the doorway and his sister, Dalley's behind him and little wagons upside down.

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