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Boston Globe Spotlight investigation finds U.S. registration of planes, or pilot and mechanic licenses, easily obtainable by drug traffickers, people with ties to terrorism

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Spotlight probe: Post-9/11, FAA continues lax oversight of airplane registration, licenses

A study that came out Thursday said former football star Aaron Hernandez had a severe form of CTE, a degenerative brain disease found in people who have received repeated blows to the head. Hernandez took his life earlier this year in prison. James Brown reports.

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Aaron Hernandez had severe form of CTE, study says

Photo Credit: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Best of Burlesque Bring on the fishnets and feather boas! Four nights of shimmying stripteases come with the 15th Annual New York Burlesque Festival, kicking off this Thursday. Expect performers from near and far, including local favorites such as the World Famous *Bob* and Darlinda Just Darlinda, to bring the razzle dazzle. There will also be plenty of live music, comedy, and variety acts sprinkled in each evening. The weekend ends with the Golden Pasties awards on Sunday, where the boldest queens are crowned in categories such as The Catch And Release Artist Award (for burlesque’s serial dater) and The Rear Of The Year Award (for best booty, of course). Check out the full list of festivities and grab your tickets now. Photo Credit: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Towering Over Central Park There’s nothing like a bird’s eye view of Central Park — and a new proposed project will make it possible without a Fifth Avenue apartment. Design firm DFA has come up with the idea of building a 712-foot wooden tower in the middle of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. The Central Park Tower, which looks quite skinny to avoid casting a major shadow over prime sun-bathing space, would double as an observation deck as well as a filtration device for the water. “DFA envisions a temporary landmark that is remarkably of its time to creatively transform the reservoir into one of New York’s boldest urban amenities,” said studio founder Laith Sayigh. “This conceptual project pushes the boundaries of what we perceive is possible in a city as dense, historic and environmentally vulnerable as ours.” It would inevitably be crowded with tourists, but these photos kind of make the climb seem worth it anyway. Photo Credit: Al Bello/Getty Images Pony Up Don’t be surprised if Central Park smells more like horse droppings than usual — the Rolex Central Park Horse Show prances into Wollman Rink this week. Some of the biggest equestrian competitors in the world, including Georgina Bloomberg and Kent Farrington, will go head-to-head in show jumping, dressage competitions, trained exhibition acts, and more. And hey, you can head to the zoo for some more animals after! Purchase tickets to the action-packed $50,000 Arena Eventing competition on Saturday, or check out the full schedule of events here. Photo Credit: Alex Goodlett/Getty Images Work Out With a Pro Motivation is hard to come by when it’s time to head to the gym and get moving. Every excuse is out there — how many times has “I’ll start my workout routine tomorrow” or “I’m just not feeling great today” crossed your mind? Well, what if a professional athlete was watching you exercise? Would that get your butt in gear? MetroPlus Health Plan and AMP Radio are teaming up with Assemblywoman Pam Harris to bring Brooklynites a workout they’ll never forget, featuring New York Jets player Buster Skrine. This cornerback knows a thing or two about a worthwhile workout, so a meet and greet with him will kick this free community exercise session — featuring focus on cardio, strength, and dance — up a few notches. It all goes down September 22 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Kaiser Park in Brooklyn. Learn more about the free event here.

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Happenings, September 20

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Facebook and Reddit users posed more questions Monday for the New Jersey gubernatorial candidates at a second virtual town hall meeting. CBS2’s Kristine Johnson and The Record’s Alfred Doblin analyzed the social media users’ questions and where Democratic nominee Phil Murphy and Republican nominee Kim Guadagno stand on the issues specifically affecting northern New Jersey. Tax policy, infrastructure repairs and drug laws were among the issues raised. Johnson and Doblin also discussed what might come next for Gov. Chris Christie after he leaves office at the end of the year. Doblin noted that the campaign between Murphy and Guadagno is moving into comparison with past governors – Murphy to Democrat Jon Corzine who also came from the finance sector, and Guadagno to Christie, under whom she serves as lieutenant governor. The Guadagno campaign has also attempted to link Murphy to U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) who is now on trial for corruption allegations. Someone from the Guadagno campaign was even seen handed out M&M’s to represent Menendez and Murphy, Doblin said. One social media user asked about the New Jersey gas tax. The tax goes up by 23 cents per gallon last fall after 28 years of no change, so as to keep the state’s Transportation Trust Fund from running dry. Doblin noted that Guadagno broke with Christie on the gas tax as lieutenant governor – she came out against raising the tax while Christie favored it. But eliminating the tax is not likely to be a priority for either candidate, given that the extra 23 cents instituted last ear is “basically keeping everything afloat,” Doblin said. Doblin also said he did not expect either candidate to change policies when it comes to drug laws specifically concerning opioids. He said Christie was a leader on the issue, with such accomplishment as instituting drug courts. As for legalization of marijuana, Doblin noted that Murphy favors it and believes it will generate new tax revenue, but, “I think he’s blowing the wrong smoke on that one.” A Reddit user asked how the candidates would repair the state’s crumbling infrastructure and poor-quality roads, as well as construction projects that have never been finished. Doblin said both Guadagno and Murphy want to invest in infrastructure. He also noted that Christie did not want to raise taxes, and while the Pulaski Skyway was rebuilt on his watch, he also killed a plan for a new Hudson River rail tunnel. Doblin said in campaigning, Murphy will likely link Guadagno to Christie and his decision to cancel the tunnel in 2010. Meanwhile, there are reports that Murphy wants to privatize roadways and other infrastructure such as the New Jersey Turnpike on a limited basis, in what is known as “asset monetization,” Doblin said. Doblin noted that Corzine was also a proponent. Doblin said both Guadagno and Murphy recognize that “one of the largest single failures of the Christie administration is no investment in mass transit.” Johnson later asked what Christie might be doing in the future. The governor auditioned for a sports radio role on WFAN, but said last month that he was no longer interested in seeking the job. Doblin said many people can imagine Christie as a commentator on a cable news station, or he could be in a high-profile law position somewhere. “I think it’s a mistake to write him off,” Doblin said. “You know, his popularity is very low, but he doesn’t need to be elected anymore, so it doesn’t necessarily matter.” As to sports radio, Johnson said of Christie, “It did seem like he would have a good time, but I don’t know if he would have found it completely fulfilling in the end.” Doblin added, “Even if you’re dong sports radio, there’s not a lot of sexiness to any form of journalism.” A gubernatorial debate is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, at William Paterson University in Wayne. It is sponsored by The Record and other Gannett newspapers, CBS2, and KYW-TV, CBS3 Philadelphia.

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Taxes, Infrastructure, Drug Laws Among Subjects Of Questions For N.J. Gubernatorial Candidates At Virtual Town Hall

YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A frustrated Westchester County homeowner said Tuesday that he was tired of getting the runaround. The homeowner says a construction crew hired by the City of Yonkers damaged his 100-year-old rock wall last month. So he called CBS2’s Brian Conybeare, who was demanding answers Tuesday night. “This wall has been absolutely pulverized,” said Frank Giannettino. You can see right through the three-foot thick, century-old stone wall outside Giannettino’s historic home in Yonkers. “All I asked for was to pave our roads — for four years,” Giannettino said. Giannettino said he was happy to see trucks hired by the City of Yonkers to repave Cedar Lane in the leafy Cedar Knolls neighborhood last month. But on Aug. 18, there was trouble. “The machines that they were doing battered the wall and broke the beam that was on the road,” he said. The protective steel beam is now gone, and the wall has been knocked its foundation and up against a huge tree. Now, nearly a month later, Giannettino said nobody has taken responsibility to pay for repairs. “City Hall blames the contractor. The contractor blames City Hall,” Giannettino said. No one at Yonkers City Hall would answer CBS2’s questions on camera, but they did confirm the damage was done by their contractor and said it is up to that contractor to make good on the repairs. So CBS2 went to Montesano Brothers Contracting in New Rochelle, but no one would open the door. One of the company owners, Frank Montesano, called Conybeare later – admitting that the “paving machine malfunctioned” and it the wall and they will fix it. He said he himself was “appalled that it took so long” to get the homeowner an answer. Giannettino still fears the unstable wall could tumble onto his neighbors’ property below. “That can collapse and go into this woman’s driveway and car,” he said,“and God forbid her grandkids are out there playing.” That is why Ginannettino is desperate for repairs to be done as soon as possible. After CBS2 started making calls, the contractor has now agreed to have his crew repair the wall next week.

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Demanding Answers: Yonkers Man Says Contractor Ruined 100-Year-Old Rock Wall

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former City Council Member Sal Albanese will face off in the second and final debate before next week’s  Democratic mayoral primary . De Blasio and Albanese are the only two candidates who qualified for this debate based on criteria set by the Campaign Finance Board. The debate is being held at the CUNY Graduate Center and will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. on CBS2, simulcast in Spanish on WLNY-TV 10/55, and available in both languages on Facebook. It will also air on 1010 WINS and WCBS NewsRadio 880 . When the pair last met , De Blasio defended his record on making New York more affordable and fighting for the city’s residents, while his opponent said the mayor has failed at handling the homelessness crisis and mass transit woes. The hour-long debate will be moderated by CBS2’s Maurice DuBois leading a panel of questions from political reporter Marcia Kramer, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa and Jillian Jorgensen of the NY Daily News. The debate is co-sponsored by the New York Daily News, Common Cause New York, the New York Immigration Coalition, Rock the Vote and CUNY.

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De Blasio, Albanese To Face Off In Final Democratic Mayoral Primary Debate

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – On the morning of September 11, 2001, WCBS reporter Sean Adams was covering a teacher strike at Cathedral High School on the East Side. “Went to the car, got on the phone to do a live report, heard Tom Kaminski say something to effect of, ‘I can’t confirm this, but I think a plane flew into the side of the World Trade Center,’” he recalls. “So as soon as I heard that, I dropped the phone and I started driving.” Find more 50th anniversary Back Stories and other special features here , and be sure to follow the station on Facebook and Twitter . “By the time I got a view of it, the second plane had hit. And how do you take that in? It’s surreal,” he continues. “A reporter’s instinct is run to the center, run to the story, but I said, ‘I am not going on the plaza.’ I said to myself, ‘You do no good dead.’” He made his way to Church Street, where the mayor was expected to speak. “I had my back to the towers. All of a sudden, the ground shook. There was this roar. It sounded like a rocket,” he says. The building had completely collapsed. Adams turned and joined the crowd of panicked people running for their lives. “Nothing you ever learned in a journalism class at New York University ever taught you how to handle this,” he says.

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Back Stories: On The Ground At Ground Zero

BALTIMORE (CBSNewYork/AP) —  Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez had his suspension reduced from four games to three after appealing his punishment for his part in a brawl against Detroit. Sanchez will begin serving the MLB suspension Monday and will miss New York’s three-game series against the Orioles. The suspension stems from the Aug. 24 game against the Tigers . Yankees reliever Tommy Kahnle threw behind Miguel Cabrera in the sixth inning, and Kahnle was ejected. But before play resumed, Cabrera and New York catcher Austin Romine scuffled near home plate. Sanchez, the designated hitter, left the bench and punched both Cabrera and Nick Castellanos. Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez looks into the stands during the third inning of their game with the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field on September 21, 2016 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Joseph Garnett Jr. /Getty Images) Sanchez released a statement on Facebook on Monday apologizing for his actions in the fight. “The heat of the moment and my desire to protect my teammates led me to commit some errors during the brawl,” he wrote. “It’s an incident I regret and from which I have learned. I know to some these may be mere words, but they are words that I feel the need to express because I sincerely feel this way, and for respect to you, the fans, the Yankees organization, the Detroit Tigers and the game of Baseball.” New York trails first-place Boston by 3½ games in the AL East and holds the league’s top wild-card spot. The series with the Orioles could be a pivotal one. Baltimore sits 3½ games behind the Yankees and has won nine of its last 11 games. MORE:  Judge Homers As Yankees Rout Red Sox Sanchez is hitting .276 with 28 homers and 79 RBIs. Since Aug. 9, he’s batting .314 with 11 home runs. (© Copyright 2017 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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HOUSTON (AP) — Cameron Maybin hit a three-run homer, George Springer connected for the second straight day and the Houston Astros beat the New York Mets 8-6 on Sunday for a sweep of their weekend series. Josh Reddick added two hits and three RBIs for the Astros, who won both games of a doubleheader on Saturday in their first home games since flooding from Hurricane Harvey devastated the city. Houston trailed 4-1 before pushing across five runs in the third. Carlos Correa hit an RBI single in his return from the disabled list. Reddick also singled in a run before Maybin connected for his first homer since he was claimed on waivers from the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday. Springer led off the fourth with his career-best 31st homer, making it 7-4 Houston. Will Harris (3-2) pitches a scoreless sixth for the win and Chris Devenski allowed one hit in two scoreless innings for his fourth save. The Mets pulled within one with two runs in the fifth inning. Former Astros outfielder Nori Aoki, who signed with the Mets on Saturday, hit an RBI single and Tyler Clippard walked Brandon Nimmo with the bases loaded with two outs. But Kevin Plawecki struck out to end the inning, and Houston added an insurance run when Jose Altuve scored on Reddick’s sacrifice fly in the seventh. Correa went 1 for 3 with a walk and scored in his return after sitting out since July 18 following surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb. Mets starter Chris Flexen (3-4) allowed a career-high nine hits and matched a career high from his last start with seven runs in just four innings. Fiers allowed seven hits and six runs in 4 1/3 innings in his second tough start after allowing eight runs in his last outing. TRAINER’S ROOM Mets: INF Wilmer Flores broke his nose on Saturday night when he fouled a ball off his face. Manager Terry Collins said they’ll know more about his injury after he visits a doctor in New York on Monday, but added that he doesn’t expect the injury to end his season. … Assistant general manager John Ricco told reporters this weekend that OF Michael Conforto will have surgery to repair a torn posterior capsule in his left shoulder sometime next week. Conforto was injured when he dislocated his shoulder on a swing on Aug. 24. Astros: RHP Lance McCullers (back discomfort) will come off the disabled list to make his first start since July 30 on Wednesday at Seattle. UP NEXT Mets: Rafael Montero (3-9, 5.12 ERA) will pitch for New York on Monday in the opener of a three-game series against the Phillies. Montero pitched 8 1/3 innings of three-hit ball in a 2-0 win over the Reds in his last start. Astros: Ace Dallas Keuchel (11-3, 2.91 ERA) is scheduled to pitch in the opener of a series against the Mariners on Monday. He allowed six runs in six innings in an 8-1 loss to the Rangers in his last outing. (Copyright 2017 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Astros Top Mets With 3-Run Homer, Sweep Weekend Series

TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Gov. Chris Christie said his biggest mistake was “hiring the people who pulled the shenanigans” at the George Washington Bridge in 2013. The Republican, speaking Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, said the lane closures were “done by a group of folks who clearly were on their own agenda and not mine.” Christie says he does not want to see anyone go to jail , “but people have to be held responsible for their conduct.” Bridget Kelly , Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, Christie’s appointee to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, were convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy and misusing the bridge for improper purposes. Kelly faces 18 months in prison while Baroni was sentenced to two years. Both have appealed and say their actions did not amount to criminal conduct under the law. Another Christie appointee, David Wildstein, pleaded guilty to orchestrating the traffic jams to punish a Democratic mayor who didn’t endorse Christie’s re-election bid. Wildstein testified for the prosecution at Baroni and Kelly’s trial. “How can you not feel sympathy for a woman who is a single mother with four children who’s going to have to go to prison?” Christie said of Kelly. “But I — also I am to this day still incensed at people who would use public power and public authority that was given to them by someone who was elected by the people to conduct themselves that way.” Christie was not charged with any wrongdoing, and he denied any prior knowledge of the plot. But questions were raised at the trial over how much he knew about the scheme and when. He said the idea that he would ever want something like that done was “ridiculous.” Christie’s term ends in January and the state constitution prevents him from seeking a third term. (© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Christie Says Biggest Mistake Was Hiring People Responsible For ‘Bridgegate’

Twists, turns and concerns in the Kyrie Irving trade

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Twists, turns and concerns in the Kyrie Irving trade