It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC.

I'm Matt Katz from the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian while he's

out on vacation this week.

Coming up on today's show, as we do every Wednesday, we'll talk to my colleague Liz Kim,

who keeps tabs on Mayor Adams. There was a lot of talk at yesterday's press conference with the mayor

about using drones to warn New Yorkers about dangerous flooding. We'll see how that's going as

Tropical Storm Debbie heads into the

area. Plus, Republicans in the Nassau County Legislature on Long Island have passed a ban on masks

in public. They say it's to prevent anti-Semitic incidents, while progressives say it's stoking a

culture war and that protesters supporting Palestinians will be targeted.

Our reporter Charles Lane will be here to talk about that and the raucous debate earlier this week when the ban was passed.

Nassau County listeners will definitely want to hear from you on this.

That's coming up in about an hour.

And we'll wrap up today's show with the 10th conversation in our Centennial series,

100 Years of 100 Things, which is about the history of ice cream.

I bought Klondike bars the other day, by the way, on a whim, and I was really disappointed,

did not taste good, not as I remembered.

I'm going to go back to Fish Food and Cherry Garcia from Ben & Jerry's next time I'm out.

In any case, onto more important things, Kamala Harris introduced her choice for VP, Minnesota governor Tim Walls,

and she really had to introduce him so many Americans hadn't heard of him,

or at least they had it until he

began popping up on the Veep shortlists and cable TV a couple weeks ago. So who is Tim Wals?

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