Brian Laird on W.N.C. and if it's Wednesday it probably means our lead Mayor

Adams reporter Elizabeth Kim is joining the show with clips and analysis after

the Mayor's weekly Tuesday news conference.

He recently established the Tuesday news conference as the only time each week he will take

reporters questions on topics of their choosing, so we've started to have Liz join us on

Wednesdays to break down what the mayor was saying to questions asked by Liz and other journalists who were there.

What can we learn from this once a week open conversation?

Hi Liz, welcome back to the show.

Morning, Brian.

Let's start with the clip of the mayor on the building collapse in the Bronx.

1915 Billingsley Terrace that's in the Morris Heights section for those who don't know the area that's we can call it a little north of Yankee Stadium for some geographical pinning

Amazingly nobody was killed or seriously injured apparently but many families are now

homeless.

Here's the mayor.

Every collapse is a bad collapse.

But many of our buildings come from an older stock and so you have this from time to time. Thank

God we didn't we didn't lose any lives if you were there and you saw that building

it's miraculous that we did not lose lives and thank God we didn't.

And Liz, I don't know what else he said.

I didn't get to watch the news conference yesterday as I sometimes can, but he sounded a little complacent. Like, well, older buildings, this was a 1920s building, these things happen.

He didn't say the landlord was on the public advocate's worst landlords list, which

the landlord is.

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