now the mark simone show on seven ten w o r filling in for mark here's ken rosado and finally the end of the week is here marks off in a nice long weekend this is former new york city tv news anchor k r reporting for duty you're probably best of remembering me from the twenty plus years i spent anchoring the morning show at Channel 7. Not 20 plus, it's just 20. I'm padding it now. I don't want to be quite. Some will say, ah, you're lying! 20 years, 20 great years I spent at Channel 7. And these days, I host a daily show on a New Jersey-based news channel. It's called On New Jersey. and if you want to take a look at it, we're on like 20 different social media platforms, rumble, tumble, bumble, you name it. We're on, I don't think Bumble, but we're on every social media platform. Or just go to the website, on nj.com. On New Jersey, onnnj.com. I also run a food website for all you foodies. It's called The Food Dude with links to thousands of recipes from around the world absolutely free. You could find it at thefooddood.us. So it's the fooddood.us. So it's good to be here with you. We got a lot to talk about today to wrap up the busy news week. Phone lines are open. Be part of the conversation. 800. 321710. And before I forget, I want to tell you, we all remember that one teacher who made a difference, who believed in us, challenged us, or just made learning fun. Well, now's your chance to say thank you in a big way

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My mother-in-law was a teacher in a very poor school in South Florida for years. She used to go around raising money and she would give out of our own pocket. They were kids who came in. They didn't have food. They didn't have anything for school. And she would buy all their school stuff for them. And I know she's not alone. A lot of teachers do that. So if you could help out, make some kids at least feel like part of the crowd,

like they're like everyone else and they should so that they don't feel inferior because

their families can't afford back to school supplies. It's not the kids' fault. So it'd be nice

we can help them out. Well, how did you fare with all that horrible weather? The amount of rain

that fell from yesterday afternoon through early this morning,

just unbelievable. I was with my folks up in Westchester yesterday and we were hanging out and

they were up in New Rochelle. And I saw the weather start to change. And I said, look, love you,

mean it, got to go. Got in the highway. By the time I got within 10 minutes at my home in New Jersey,

the rain started the fall. And like two hours later, later my phone i'm sure like yours too started blowing up with warnings and videos from

social media i went over to x and there were like 200 videos from the tri-state of flooded out roadways

flooded out subways and then of course you flip on the tv you the TV, you go to IHeart Radio, any of the

radio stations we were streaming. It's just unreal to see that much. But I must say to the governor

of New York and the lieutenant governor, Tisha Way, who was in charge yesterday in New Jersey,

because Governor Murphy was, you know, it was pre, it was known in advance that he was going

to be out of the state. They both declared states of emergency early enough so that everyone was prepared.

And, you know, I don't usually applaud them publicly because I have a lot of differences in my politics with them.

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