Brian Lairn on WNYC. And just to put a pin in the call in, we were just having the actual word count from the newsletter responses had the word all as the actual number one word

that people used in their responses last week. The number one word was all. The number two word,

tied for number two, were justice and freedom, and number three was equality, followed by respect

and fair. So those were the actual results of top words

used in your six-word descriptions of your core political values. Now, as usual on Wednesdays,

our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim is here with excerpts and analysis from the mayor's

Tuesday news conference, and she'll take your calls and texts about

some of these things. One of the headlines is that despite four beach drownings, less than three

weeks into the season, the mayor dismissed calls for longer lifeguard hours. Mayor Adams was also

asked to reflect on the ways in which migration has been turned into a major

election issue on the national stage. I think he broke some news about a declining number of asylum

seekers coming since Joe Biden changed the border policy. So we'll hear those clips and touch on a few

more topics in city politics. Hi, Liz. Happy Wednesday, Brian. And listeners,

we can take some calls if anybody wants to weigh in or ask Liz a question. 212, 433, WNYC,

212, 433, 9692, call or text. So before yesterday's news conference, Mayor Adams attended a funeral for two young sisters from the Bronx who drowned at Coney Island.

And last month, two teenage boys drowned at Jacob Rees Park.

Before we hear our first clip, can you give us some context for these tragic losses of life?

So as you said, the mayor that very morning had attended the funeral.

And even before the funeral, after the drowning on Friday night, the Queensboro President

Donovan Richards began making a call demanding that the city address this as an emergency issue. And one of the

suggestions that he had was to extend lifeguard hours. I should say that this is not, you know,

this is not a new idea. It's not a new proposal by any means. But I think in this moment, there were four

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