{"id":12639,"date":"2025-10-22T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12639\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:30:10","slug":"evening-briefing-oct-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12639\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing: Oct. 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, New York City.\u00a0We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know about for tonight and tomorrow, as well as your weather outlook.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Tonight will be breezy as skies clear.<\/p>\n

Expect cooler morning lows for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n

Our Forecast<\/p>\n

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Highs:\u00a0Upper 60s
Lows:\u00a0Low 40s
Partly cloudy and breezy<\/p>\n

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

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

Today’s Big Stories<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0How to watch the mayoral debate on NY1<\/a><\/p>\n

Spectrum News NY1 will host a debate tonight, featuring three candidates vying to become the next mayor of New York City. A pre-debate show begins at 6:30 p.m. and the post-debate show ends at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Viewers will also be able to watch for free on Spectrum News NY1\u2019s digital platforms, including YouTube.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the debate, Democratic strategist Trip Yang and political consultant Scherie Murray joined \u201cNews All Day\u201d<\/a> to preview what viewers can expect.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Health officials urge New Yorkers to get flu and COVID shots<\/a><\/p>\n

Flu season has arrived in New York City, and health officials are urging residents to get both their flu and COVID vaccines. The city\u2019s Health Department says that every year, between 1,500 and 2,000 New Yorkers die from the flu or pneumonia.<\/p>\n

Dr. Michelle Morse, acting commissioner of the city\u2019s Department of Health, joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d to share more about what to expect this flu season.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Con Edison and DSNY gear up for winter storms and power challenges<\/a><\/p>\n

Con Edison says it\u2019s prepared for winter storms, with crews and equipment ready to respond to outages caused by wind, snow and ice. Underground power systems, which cover most of the city, are largely weatherproof \u2014 but salt used to melt snow can corrode equipment and cause outages.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the city\u2019s Sanitation Department has expanded its snow-fighting fleet, adding salt brine trucks and snow melters to keep streets clear during storms.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0U.S. strikes eighth alleged drug-carrying boat, this time in the Pacific Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. military launched its\u00a0eighth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing two people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said today, marking an expansion of the Trump administration’s\u00a0campaign against drug trafficking in South America.<\/p>\n

The attack Tuesday night was a departure from the seven previous U.S. strikes that\u00a0had targeted vessels\u00a0in the Caribbean.\u00a0Hegseth said on social media\u00a0that the latest strike killed two people, bringing the death toll to at least 34 from attacks that began last month.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Vance denies U.S. dictates to Israel as he meets with Netanyahu over Gaza ceasefire<\/a><\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance sought today to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration was dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East, as he and other top U.S. envoys visit Israel this week to support the Gaza ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want in Israel a vassal state, and that’s not what Israel is. We want a partnership, we want an ally,” Vance said beside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in response to a reporter’s question about whether Israel was becoming a “protectorate” of the U.S.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Podcast:\u00a0Eleanor Bumpurs and the system that failed her<\/a><\/p>\n

In October 1984, an NYPD officer fatally shot 66-year-old Eleanor Bumpurs during an eviction at her Bronx apartment. Bumpurs, a disabled mother and grandmother, became the face of a national outcry that helped spark one of the first anti\u2013police brutality movements centered on a Black woman.<\/p>\n

Historian LaShawn Harris, who was 10 years old and living across the street at the time, joined “You Decide” to discuss revisiting the tragedy in her new book, \u201cTell Her Story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, New York City.\u00a0We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[268,25,3281,9,24,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-12639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-evening-briefing","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-atlan-hassard","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}