He knows the news before it's news.

Mr. New York, Mark Simone.

On 710 WOR.

Hey, let's take some calls.

800, 321.0-710 is the number.

Let's go to Bill in New Jersey.

Bill, how you doing?

Good.

Thank you, Mark.

Mark, I want to mention the innocent 15-year-old handicapped girl

in massachusetts who was raped by one uh Haitian oh i love you bill but you're always so doom and

gloom it's always uh i'm just want to get to call and say hey first day of spring tomorrow

well it's kind of not too cheery no i know but they're trying to I'm just one of... Can't you call and say, hey, first day of spring tomorrow?

Well, it's kind of not too chilly.

No, I know, but we're trying to do a show here. You're calling up about this. 15-year-old. She's handicapped. She's raped. She's killed. She's stabbed. But anyway, Bill, we love you. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?

Good morning, Mark.

Yes, Mark. WPiX- the few one of the places I was a stage manager back uh I must have been 16 17 years ago when I

started Jim Watkins and Heidi Tong would the anchors when I started during the

weekend I came like permalance on the weekends and mr. G would always stop by my desk

and he would say tell me a joke and it was like a constant thing he couldn't remember my name and whenever there was a celebrity in a place he'd sort of show for them around and he walked by like Jerry Lewis and they go to me tell him a joke and I'm going I don't know Jerry Lewis we he was the sweetest guy at the world Mr. G and it was a great place to work back in those days. Mr. G., a very, very nice guy.

He's still there, right? I think... I think he is. He's never leaving, I don't think. But they still do a Channel 11 news every night at 10 o'clock. I don't know why, but they still do it every night. And so you work there? Did you ever work with the guy

Bill Jorgensen, the anchor that just died?

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