<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcbstv.com/911/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/911</link><description><![CDATA[New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:09:02 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[$657M Settlement For WTC Responders ]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/9.11.first.2.1556220.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/9.11.first.2.1556220.html</link><description><![CDATA[We all watched as they stood in what looked like a dusty, debris-filled warzone. 9/11 first responders, many of them standing in shock at the destruction before them, were charged with the task of searching for survivors and bodies. Many of the rescuers insisted they were victims of the toxic dust they inhaled. Finally, a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to rescue and recovery workers sickened by the dust goes before a judge Friday. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:52:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYC, 9/11 Responders Reach Settlement]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/9.11.first.2.1555218.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/9.11.first.2.1555218.html</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands gave it their all during the New York City's darkest hour. They are the police officers, firefighters and others who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust. On Thursday night the city agreed to pay more than $657 million to more than 10,000 people. Six years after the first lawsuit was filed first responders were finally getting the acknowledgment that their efforts on Sept. 11, 2001, to save lives and cleanup after the massive tragedy was hazardous to their health &#150; and that the city shares some of the blame. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:26:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rally To Push Rebuilding At World Trade Center]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/rally.rebuilding.wtc.2.1547214.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/rally.rebuilding.wtc.2.1547214.html</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of construction workers and some politicians were to hold a noon rally at at 7 World Trade Center Park. They're trying to pressure the two sides battling over re-building part of the site to reach an agreement. The Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein have been feuding for more than a year over how much money the agency should give Silverstein to help him build.
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:21:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newark Airport Breach Suspect Due Back In Court]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/newark.airport.security.2.1547451.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/newark.airport.security.2.1547451.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Rutgers University graduate student from China charged with a security breach at Newark Liberty Airport that led to worldwide flight delays is due back in court Tuesday. Haisong Jiang pleaded not guilty Feb. 9 to a misdemeanor charge of defiant trespassing. The charge carries a fine of up to $500. Jiang was arrested Jan. 8, days after authorities said he entered a restricted area to see his girlfriend off. His lawyer, Eric Bruce, defended himas "simply a lovesick man who made a mistake."
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:25:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Senator Urges Obama To Shift On Terror Trials]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/khalid.sheik.mohammed.2.1543237.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/khalid.sheik.mohammed.2.1543237.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Republican senator was offering the White House a deal on terror trials. Sen. Lindsey Graham said that if the president agrees to try alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused henchmen in military tribunals, he will press fellow Republicans to vote to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:45:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NJ Congressman Calls For Anthrax Probe]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/anthrax.investigation.congressman.2.1534531.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/anthrax.investigation.congressman.2.1534531.html</link><description><![CDATA[A New Jersey congressman is calling for a congressional investigation into the government's handling of a major anthrax investigation, which was closed last week. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt believes the FBI botched the case from 2001, when anthrax-laced letters were sent from a mailbox in Princeton. He also said the Postal Service and other agencies may not have learned the proper lessons from the attacks, which killed five people and sickened 17.
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:09:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Va. Man Indicted In N.J. Weapons Case]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/lloyd.woodson.indicted.2.1523026.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/lloyd.woodson.indicted.2.1523026.html</link><description><![CDATA[A former Virginia man has been indicted on charges related to a cache of weapons found inside his New Jersey motel room last month. Lloyd Woodson, whose last known address was in Reston, Va., faces numerous charges -- including attempted robbery and multiple weapons offenses -- in the indictment handed up Thursday by a Somerset County grand jury. Branchburg police found the weapons Jan. 25 after responding to a suspicious person call at a convenience store. Woodson fled when police confronted him, but was soon captured.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:19:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook Yanks NY Radio Host Tribute To Joe Stack]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/joe.stack.facebook.2.1507725.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/joe.stack.facebook.2.1507725.html</link><description><![CDATA[Facebook has banned a New York radio host's tribute page for Joe Stack, the pilot who rammed his small plane into a federal building in Austin, Texas because he was angry at the Internal Revenue Service. Jon Alvarez, host of a conservative talk program on WFBL AM 1390 in Syracuse, said he put the page up Thursday just hours after the attack. The crash killed Stack and a worker in the building. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:06:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bloomberg Urges Push To Rebuild Ground Zero]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/bloomberg.approval.ratings.2.1505872.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/bloomberg.approval.ratings.2.1505872.html</link><description><![CDATA[New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is frustrated over the slow pace of the rebuilding effort at the World Trade Center site, saying he doesn't want to see "that hole in the ground" at ground zero a decade from now. "It's time to stop this craziness of everything and we've just got to move forward here," he said on his weekly radio show Friday. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Sets Stage For Trials Over 9/11 Illnesses]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/911/wtc.health.court.2.1507379.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/911/wtc.health.court.2.1507379.html</link><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has picked 12 ground zero responders whose cases will be the first to go to trial over illnesses caused by ash and dust from the World Trade Center following the terrorist attack. More than 9,000 people who played a role in the massive rescue and recovery operation after 9/11 have filed lawsuits against New York City, claiming they developed a wide variety of health problems after being exposed to soot at the site. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein announced the select few that will go first, and perhaps serve as bellwethers for resolving the rest.
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