The Latest COVID Wave; New York's New Maps; Hate Crimes Expert on Buffalo; Ask a Meteorologist: Why Weather's So Hard to Predict
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 18, 2022
Coming up on today's show:
- COVID cases and now hospitalizations are rising and New York City is now at a high alert level. Uché Blackstock, emergency medicine physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equity and an MSNBC medical contributor, talks about what that means and what precautions she thinks the city should be requiring and people should be taking.
- Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about the court-ordered special master's new district maps and what they mean for New York's communities.
- Brian Levin, criminologist, civil rights attorney and professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, talks about the hate crime investigation, and the motivation of the suspect who shot 13 people in a Buffalo supermarket this weekend.
- This past Monday, the weather forecast included a chance of an isolated tornado and a severe thunderstorm warning in some parts of the NY metro region. But how do meteorologists do it? John Homenuk, meteorologist and founder of New York Metro Weather, explains why the weather is so hard to predict.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
