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Good Morning America

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Good Morning America

ABC News

Politics, Entertainment News, Daily News, News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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LIRR strike enters day 2 with impacts to hit commuters; DOJ to create 'Truth and Justice Commission' to compensate allies: Sources; Memorial Day deals to grab for travel and products Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Live from ABC News headquarters in New York City. This is Good Morning America. And good morning America. It's great to have you with us. Nice words of wisdom from Shaq on this Sunday morning, right? Yes, it's very wise. Yes, yes. In Rihanna, it's great to have you at the desk. Gio is off this morning. We've got a jam-pack show for you here, including a preview of game's game seven of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Pistons and the Cavs, plus highlights from last night's NHL playoff matchup. Sabers fans waking up very excited this morning. They clawed back from the brink of elimination, forcing a game seven against the Canadians. Also forcing that game back to Buffalo. That's right.

0:38.3

Very happy fans.

0:39.3

But we also want to talk about Louisiana's primary results overnight.

0:42.3

Senator Bill Cassidy is ousted, marking a major Republican primary victory for President Trump and new details out of Italy after a car plows into pedestrians injuring at least eight people.

0:53.3

But we do begin here with the strike on the nation's busiest commuter rail.

0:56.6

The walkout now entering its second day and the clock is ticking ahead of the busy Monday morning commute.

1:02.8

ABC's Morgan Orwood is at New York's Penn Station with the latest.

1:06.0

Morgan, good morning.

1:06.8

Good morning to you, Witt, and you can see these workers back on the picket lines for day two of this strike.

1:13.6

And this morning, there was growing concern for that Monday morning commute, which could turn out to be costly and chaotic for the nearly 250,000 riders who depend on the Long Island Railroad to get in and out of New York City.

1:27.0

This morning, day two of a massive rail strike, now threatening to up in the start of the work week for hundreds of thousands of New York commuters.

1:35.3

The Long Island Railroad, the busiest commuter rail system in North America, now shut down, leaving some 250,000 daily riders scrambling for a way into New York City.

1:48.8

Give them what they want. Let me get back to work. The walkout starting just after midnight Saturday, after months of negotiations between the MTA and unions representing some 3500 rare workers collapsed.

2:00.6

We're just looking for an agreement that ensures our members stand. and unions representing some 3,500 rare workers collapsed.

2:05.5

We're just looking for an agreement that ensures our member's standard of living.

2:06.7

That's all this is about.

2:13.2

Our last offer literally gave the unions everything they said they had wanted in terms of pay,

2:15.6

but they rejected even that.

2:20.8

The main sticking points, pay raises between 4 and a half and five percent, along with health care costs.

2:21.8

So you guys are prepared to hold out for not just days, but months.

2:25.8

Yes, if we have to, yes.

2:27.0

We have no choice.

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