On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, a 127-year-old water main under New York’s Times Square gave way, flooding midtown streets and the busy Times Square subway station. A longtime superintendent at a New York City building fatally stabbed his wife and two young children before taking his own life earlier this week. And The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to the sunken Titanic shipwreck that could recover items of historic interest. 🇺🇲⛴️

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, For days now, newly arrived migrants have been waiting outside New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel, hoping for a bed in an overly crowded shelter system. And for weeks, Mayor Eric Adams has said the city is out of room. New lawsuits claim that the U.S. Defense Department and the Department of Veteran Affairs are making it difficult and sometimes impossible for veterans to get infertility treatments. And Authorities say a man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape. 🩸🚪

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On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York City has directed its employees to delete TikTok from their city-issued phones. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans. And The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency has resigned after facing criticism for not activating disaster sirens during last week’s deadly wildfires that killed at least 111 people. 🔥🏝️

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, The 21-year-old social media influencer who was charged with inciting a riot after a crowd of thousands of his followers erupted in chaos in New York City last week says he is “beyond disappointed” in the bad behavior. Police say a prisoner receiving medical treatment escaped from a New York City hospital by tying sheets together, rappelling from a fifth-floor window and hailing a taxi. And About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever. 🇺🇲⚰️⚱️

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Police say a family of four has been found stabbed to death inside a New York City apartment. The dead were a mother, father and their two young children, ages 1 and 3. Authorities in Massachusetts have concluded a woman whose mutilated body was discovered on Cape Cod nearly 50 years ago was killed by her husband. And Floridians pray that when Idalia hits the Gulf Coast it won’t join the long list of destructive Atlantic Ocean storms whose names started with “I.” 🌀

There was a lot to talk about on Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate. New York City police say a man driving a stolen SUV struck a group of pedestrians on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk near Grand Central Terminal and injured 10 people. Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who rose to become one of New Jersey’s most prominent Black leaders and passionately advocated for revitalizing cities and against gun violence, died Tuesday after a sudden illness. She was 71. Justin Verlander is headed back to the Astros, who reacquired the three-time Cy Young Award winner from the Mets in a trade-deadline blockbuster. Max Scherzer never anticipated being traded from the New York Mets, and says the sentiment in their clubhouse was that the underachieving team would reload for 2024. And Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who accuse the Grammy winner of sexual harassment and allege the singer and her production company created a hostile work environment. 👩‍🎤💵

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally. The death of a Long Island resident has been linked to a bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater that has also been blamed for two deaths in Connecticut. And Transgender youth in North Carolina have lost access to gender-affirming treatments after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of that legislation and others involving gender in sports and LGBTQ classroom instruction. 🏳️‍⚧️

On #TheUpdate this Monday, the NYPDsay a man fleeing a New York City drug bust crashed his motorcycle and died after a police sergeant threw a cooler at him in an attempt to stop him. Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of false confessions and other examples of malfeasance by police and prosecutors. And A publicist says the enduring and dapper game show host Bob Barker has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99. 📺🎰

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Outdoor dining was a rare part of the pandemic that many people actually liked. As New York City has moved out from under its pandemic-era regulations, how to handle the new landscape of outdoor dining structures has been a growing question. A retired political science professor who traveled in Washington’s elite social circles has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry from his wealthy acquaintances. And United States Steel Corp. seems poised to be soon purchased by a competitor, with two bidders revealed in a matter of days and more in the wings. It would mean the takeover of a symbol of American industrialization that for more than a century helped build everything from the United Nations building in New York City to the New Orleans Superdome. 🧲🇺🇲