Thursday Morning Politics; Long Island Traffic Fatalities; Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza; Life with Breast Cancer

On today's show:

• Nick Reisman, Politico New York reporter covering New York state government and politics and co-author of the New York Playbook, talks about the political calculations New York's Republican members of the House are making when it comes to who they're voting for in the speaker's race, especially those in districts on Long Island and the Hudson Valley that President Biden won in 2020.
  
  
• Newsday reporters Arielle Martinez and Lorena Mongelli discuss the surge in traffic fatalities on Long Island, and potential solutions.

• In the wake of the Hamas attacks, Israel has cut off the water, fuel and electricity that it normally supplies to Gaza. Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the United States, discusses how hospitals in Gaza are not able function without these critical supplies, like electricity to power hospital generators and clean water for infant formula.

• October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but often, the act of becoming more aware is simplified to sporting a pink ribbon.  Rebecca Weiss, senior listener services associate at New York Public Radio and founder of Bob's Boxes, a 501c3 nonprofit that sends post-mastectomy care packages to women with breast cancer -- and listeners -- shed light on aspects about the experience of the disease that are not often discussed but patients and survivors of breast cancer wish we all knew.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.