Mornings on the Hill for November 11, 2020

over 140 cases of COVID 19 among students and staff how SU is responding and the county is
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also facing a spike in cases mayor ben Walsh taking measures to stop the spread governor Cuomo
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warning new Yorkers that cases across the state will rise heading into the winter see how his new
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plan is marking counties based on their counts all that and more coming up on mornings on the hill
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good morning i’m Maya Lockett thanks for joining us for the mornings on the hill
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and i’m rob flaks here’s what you need to know this morning
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a massive COVID spike among SU students has sent the semester online but this time it’s for a
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different reason our reporter Ryan Clark is live outside with the reason why Ryan? well guys as if
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2020 couldn’t get any worse now SU’s fall semester has ended a week early this Friday all classes
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will now be online and will continue to be online for the rest of the semester SU administration
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says the reason why is a lack of contact tracing among high coveted clusters they also said their
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confidence that we’ll be healthy and happy come thanksgiving is very very low let’s look at an
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email from administration from just two days ago to see exactly what this decision looks like
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this decision comes just two days after the university came two cases shy of closing its
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doors Syracuse university then reported 98 active cases two away from the law mandated
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by governor Cuomo that would force a shutdown now the Syracuse coronavirus dashboard has 132 cases
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reported as active in the past administration believed a party would shut down campus
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last night the university reported 50 cases pushing SU well above the safety threshold
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and they say they can’t trace them back to one single event now it seems as if what we all
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thought would send students home wasn’t in fact the truth this decision comes just a week after
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the university came two cases shy of closing its doors Syracuse university then reported 98 active
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cases two away from the law mandated by governor Cuomo that would force a shutdown now the Syracuse
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coronavirus dashboard only has 88 recorded cases as active in the past administration
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believed a party would shut down campus now even with Syracuse having lower numbers the school is
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eating their words you know at the end of the day we just cannot tolerate this one single incident
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still very well could be one that evolves to the point where it impacts our ability to stay open
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well that was a press conference from about a month ago where the administration had pointed
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out multiple coveted clusters due to parties off-campus housing and bars and restaurants
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now the lack of contact tracing has made it so SU administration says they don’t feel that everyone
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is safe back on campus even the students that are obliging by the say safe pledge
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we’ll have more on mornings on the hill about covet clusters and the status of your classes
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coming up shortly reporting live on the SU campus for mornings on the hill i’m ryan clark
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and with the move online coming earlier than expected some students are scrambling
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to finalize their plans to move out for winter break
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as we previously reported unlike in past years students need to move out for break as if they
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won’t be returning to campus in the spring loading up their cars to head home something
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sophomore Mackenzie murphy says is a pain it makes me mad because like there’s so much stuff you have
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in your dorm that you have no use for at home and now I just have to pack up everything and
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then have it sit in my basement for two months and then put everything back to where exactly
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put everything back exactly where it was right now so the students have the option to box up
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larger items and leave them behind for the school to ship to their permanent address
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the rising cases at SU are part of a larger trend throughout Syracuse and central New York
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James Corrigan is live to give us an update on the latest numbers
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Maya the situation in Central New York is far from rosy Onondaga county reported
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98 new positive cases yesterday bringing the total of 593 in just the last five days alone
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county executive Ryan McMahon has said that today is likely to be the worst day when it comes to
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new positive cases now Syracuse mayor ben Walsh is taking action starting today he’s limiting
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public gatherings to just 25 people he’s cutting capacity at restaurants and places of worship and
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he’s adding new testing requirements for in-person learning statewide new York state recorded
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nearly 4 000 new positive cases yesterday that’s the most since May 2nd and local businesses are
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already bearing the brunt regal movie theaters tomorrow will be closing all 11 of their movie
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reopened just three weeks ago in new York state and with the trend of the
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virus continuing to rise it’s likely that they will not be alone reporting live James Corrigan
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morning’s on the hill and based on that governor Cuomo is telling New Yorkers to brace for a spike
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in winter coved cases the governor has been warning new Yorkers of a stronger second
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wave of the virus that could cause New York to get quote back up on that mountain of cases
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the governor in a call this week outlined how counties would be designated based on the amount
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of cases being assigned either a yellow or red rating now Onondaga county is currently in
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the yellow zone and that’s with 593 new cases as of the latest numbers released on Friday
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that means any education institution including SU will have to test 20 of faculty and students
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every week now cuomo also praised the testing in new york but he stressed how much more difficult
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a potential vaccine would be to distribute compared to COVID testing now he’s saying
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that in response to pfizer announcing that their new vaccine was 90 percent effective in testing
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and coming up here on mornings on the hill our reporter Sarah Al-Shaikh found out how SU is
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honoring those who serve on veteran s day coming up a look at your weather and it’s looking just a
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little wet outside stay with us for those stories and much more here are mornings on the hill
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time to check your weather for today sierra rider is live out to tell us what to expect
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sierra is still raining out there [Music] hey maya well good morning on this veteran s day and yes
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it is still raining out here it’s definitely a white one but it’s also a little bit warm so if
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you’re hanging out for some veteran s day plans or work or school definitely bring that umbrella
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and that rain jacket but don’t wear too many layers because again it’s a little bit warmer
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than normal so let’s look at that forecast take a look at the hourly forecast the temperatures are
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still pretty warm for this time of year nothing compared to the past two record-breaking days that
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we have but if you look to later in the day and night those temperatures are starting to dip back
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down from the 60s to the 50s but variable weather is still coming in hot you can see that large
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green wave just coming into Syracuse and that’s what we are experiencing right now
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so how long will this will we be seeing this rain i’m glad that you asked because taking a look at
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our five-day forecast today there’s a high of 68 but it’s raining and tomorrow and Friday
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it is clearing out and cooling down making way for some more rain on Sunday
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so don’t ditch that umbrella just yet and again the temperature right now it’s about 66 degrees
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it’s still raining and well it’s definitely been a very interesting week for weather the past today
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since we’ve had those highs of the in the high 70s 78 and 79 and today it’s raining and it’s
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kind of warm still but luckily those temperatures are going to start going back to the normal trend
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that we see in November here in Syracuse later this week back to you in the studio
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today across the nation Americans are celebrating veteran s day here on campus
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reporter Sarah Al-Shaikh tells us how our veterans center and student cadets made sure
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that even in a pandemic we can celebrate a long-running SU veterans day tradition
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hi guys yes i’m actually inside the SU veterans center where we actually have the longest
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running consecutively running army ROTC program in the nation but
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this long running program is not the only thing that’s going to be running today
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it’s really important to take that special day to honor those who have served our nation
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both our veterans as well as their family members who have you know served by their side
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here on campus the office of veteran and military affairs at SU celebrates veterans day with a 5k
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run but like a lot this year it’s going to look a little different today’s veterans day fun run is
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virtual but actually with this change more people can lace up their running shoes we have alum who
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are possibly even deployed or in other countries who can still participate virtually and so we have
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this great virtual map that’ll have little s’s all over the map and i’m hoping all over the world
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to join you must first register at cuse community then create a participant profile in dm life
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where you can join a team based on the different branches of service kathleen edwards is an rotc
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cadet at su who helped set up this year’s fun run she says celebrating veterans day is personal for
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her although obviously I don’t know every veteran out there I understand part of what they’re going
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through and so I think taking the time to honor that sacrifice that only one percent of Americans
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take on is important hannah mcnabb is another SU ROTC cadet who helped with the virtual fun run
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she says this day couldn’t have come sooner we’ve been planning it for
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uh probably going on about three months now so it’s hap i’m happy that it’s finally happening
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so the fun one actually started this morning at 6 30 a.m and it’s going to be going on for the
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next 24 hours so start stretching you guys you guys still have time to put on those tiny shoes
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back to you guys in the studio now for a new segment here on mornings on the hill called money
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with miller our own josh miller will give you a few tips when it comes to your pocket and finances
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thank you maya that’s right many were surprised when joe biden was elected he’s been doing a good
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job in the election but this is promising for the next four years many thought with trump not
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being elected the economy and market would take a huge hit but it’s not really going to be like
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that because of Biden being elected so because of a split congress that we’re going to have with the
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senate and the house of representatives to occur since 1945 having a democratic president and a
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split congress has created the best average annual return in the stock market in fact in the last
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75 years a split congress has generated nearly a 14 percent annual return in dollar terms when it
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comes to the market a promising stat if you are looking to start investing sticking with the stock
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market recent announcement from Pfizer stating about a 90 rate with the success of a vaccine a
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lot of stay-at-home stocks like Netflix zoom and amazon took big hits the other day the market is
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starting to shift now so look for airline and oil stocks to now be on the uptrend stocks like Exxon
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Mobil chevron American airlines and southwest airlines are good stocks to pay attention to that
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pay good dividends with a vaccine hopefully we’ll see these sectors start to take off
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new data show Syracuse ranks 18th on the national poverty list
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that’s why it is no surprise as the number of children who need beds I talked with
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Syracuse professor about how he is helping providing beds for the children of Syracuse
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the need here is pretty high uh estimated need Syracuse is between four and five thousand beds
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four and five thousand kids don’t have beds sleep in heavenly peace is a national organization that
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was founded in twin falls Idaho we build beds with community help for kids who are in our local
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area and deliver the beds to the kids for free including mattresses bedding pillows and blankets
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out of 240 sleeping heavily pieces nationwide Syracuse is one of the most demanding
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Syracuse delivers more beds than most of the other chapters I believe we’re in the
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I know we’re in the top 10 in delivered beds per year I think we’re in the top five
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we’re delivering about 750 beds a year
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it’s amazing you walk into a kid’s house and often you’ll walk in there’s nothing in the room at all
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and we walk in the kids are all excited happy my new bed is here
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it’s a dream come true is your bed buddy are you excited yay this is going to last you a long time
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some kids sleep in piles of clothes on the floor sometimes they’re on an air mattress a couch
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sometimes they’re three or four to a bed we’re filling two needs we’re filling the needs for the
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kids who need beds but we’re also filling the need for people in Syracuse who want to give
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back to the community but aren’t sure how to help and calling all jazz music fans Syracuse
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university has partnered with cny jazz for some virtual concerts our sarah Ryder is live to tell
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us how you can listen along sierra how can we get a listen we gotta listen hey rob well going
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to a concert and listening to live music with your friends might seem like a distant memory
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from the past well i’m here to tell you that cny jazz has you covered for a virtual option
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the cny jazz has been partnering with Syracuse university to provide live yes live jazz music
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to Syracuse students and faculty there’s a new artist featured every week and if you
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don’t like jazz well don’t worry because these genres reach far beyond just jazz music I spoke
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with the Syracuse alum and executive director of cny jazz about this weekly music fix [Music]
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the entire impetus the entire uh
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uh reason for the whole series is to give students an in-place alternative uh to uh
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to club going and traveling as a health and wellness uh and uh quality of life measure
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well wasn’t that some soothing jasmine music you guys well the good news is that these concerts are
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two hours long and the link is available for the whole week after the concert happens on Fridays
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they’re going to be keep they’re going to keep this partnership up until the end of the semester
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and they’re also working on providing the links for students that are going to be on campus
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for longer than the break so those of us that are around for thanksgiving can still listen to
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that great jazz music and I don’t know about you guys i’m definitely going to be listening to that
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music this weekend because it’s very soothing as we are entering the end of the semester
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reporting live for mornings on the hill i’m sierra rider coming up on mornings on the
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hill a freshman quarterback makes his su football debut and the men’s basketball schedule has been
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released stay tuned after the break for the full story good morning i’m steven shoemaker and this
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is your sports update Syracuse football suffered another heartbreaking loss at home on Saturday
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against Boston college with both tommy Devito and rex Culpepper being sidelined with injuries
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it was time for the rookie jacobi morgan to get his first career start
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morgan showed a lot of heart in this game in the first quarter he displayed his versatility
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scrambling out of the pocket and hitting anthony qwaley in stride down the sideline for a nice gain
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but boston college’s phil jerkovic struck right back in the closing moments of the first half he
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finds zay flowers for a 20-yard touchdown pass to give the eagles a 10-3 lead putting points up was
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a struggle for the orange in this one in the in the third andre schmidt knocks through a 45-yard
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45-yarder which was followed by three more points from the eagles to start the fourth
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with time becoming a factor morgan finds his tight end aaron hackett in the back
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of the end zone to make it a three-point game unfortunately time ran out for the orange as they
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lost their fifth straight here’s dino babers no one likes losing but the effort was it was a
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good effort and what I tried to explain is when you put an effort out like that you don’t win
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it’s damaging it hurts you but if you’re going to win those type of games then you can’t have
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the penalties you can’t have the turnovers it’s those things that you don’t think is really big
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until the game is over and then you wish you had an opera another opportunity to do it
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and our Syracuse football analyst mat Mlodzinski joins us now mat, jacobi
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morgan didn’t look that bad in my eyes what were your thoughts on the freshman’s first start?
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yeah steve you know jacobi morgan is that like the stat line might not throw you away but he’s
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an athletic guy who can really extend plays more than tommy devito or rex kolpat but
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remember he’s just a freshman so while the stats may not look good if he can continue to trust his
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arm because he does have a good arm and gain confidence then that’ll be big going forward
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Syracuse heads into the bye week next game is a week from friday at louisville
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what does coach babers need to focus on most during the bye week yeah well they have jv on
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hawkins at running back so louisville has a tough running back that Syracuse will need to stop and
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then malik cunningham is a dual threat quarterback so if Syracuse can play good on the defensive
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front up front and make initial tackles that’ll be big and obviously that buy week will help as well
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in an email to season ticket holders Syracuse university officials announced that they will
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only be selling single game tickets for the upcoming men’s and women’s basketball seasons
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fans are still not allowed to attend games due to the ongoing pandemic
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but the university hopes they’ll be able to come to the dome at a later date
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the 2020 2021 acc men’s basketball schedule was released yesterday let’s take a look at some
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notable opponents non-conference schedule hasn’t been released yet but right now the first game is
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at rutgers for the big ten acc challenge going into the acc schedule the orange have
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notable home and homes with north carolina and louisville only one game each against virginia
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and duke but both are on the road in addition one game against florida state and notre dame
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both of those will be in the dome to check out the full schedule go to cues.com
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the top point guard in the class of 2022 is decommitting from Syracuse dior johnson posted
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on social media yesterday that he is reopening his commitment johnson thanks Syracuse for their
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interest and is keeping the school as an option however some believe he won’t play in college at
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all and join the g-league this will be the second time a Syracuse player has decommitted and joined
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the g-league you remember darius baisley started this trend a couple of years ago
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still to come here are mornings on the hill students across campus found new friends
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and new ways to socialize and miss the pandemic stay with us that story and more just ahead
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welcome back to mornings on hill coming back to your final weather forecast we just came off
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such a beautiful weekend on the hill sierra how is that weather looking as we head into the weekend
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as we head into the weekend hey mile you’re right it was such a nice weekend the past weekend and
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this past two days have been so nice but today it is just raining and it’s coming down hard
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um this weekend you’re going to see a saturday that’s going to be pretty clear but it’s going
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to be a little bit colder definitely a day to get those errands in because on sun on sunday it is
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going to be raining again so if I were you I would have that umbrella ready have those coats ready
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for saturday when it’s a little bit chilly and looking to be another fall weekend in Syracuse
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back to you the salvation army provides services for over 42 thousand people in Syracuse
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and our Samantha Croston tells us how for one man the army provided more than just housing and food
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they gave him a second chance at life i’m truly blessed that’s it i’m blessed it’s not
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else I can put it I should have been I shouldn’t even be here right now
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after serving eight years in prison Terrell Holmes was ready to turn his life around but
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he needed help the salvation army staff has given Holmes the encouragement and community he needed
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to get his life back on track I got support if I could come here to the salvation army red door
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and they’re smiling and they’re happy to see me that support Tyrrell I need you to do this Terrell
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you got to do this love if you don’t do this you ain’t gonna get this they’re my inspiration not
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only does the salvation army surround homes with the right people they help him stay away from the
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wrong ones he says the location of his new house gives him a better chance to stay out of trouble
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and have a successful life they didn’t want to put me in the hood you know they wanted to put me
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where to get my life together he was very adamant that you know he wanted to be
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in an area that’s kind of away from you know all those old temptations and the people and
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the crowds because he didn’t want to go back into all that Terrell isn’t only inspired by the family
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that he’s built at the salvation army he also has one of his own that he uses as motivation
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to be his best self my son I have an opportunity to be there for Tyrrell jr Tyrrell joseph Holmes
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jr this weekend uh we’re going to put his mocha choke car together and tell scary stories yes
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he’s probably the most valuable thing that’s going for me right now
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the relationship has now come full circle holm says he helps the salvation army just as much
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as the army has helped him and then I make them laugh too they told me one day they said you know
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what we’d be having bad days too when you come and make us laugh that makes our mornings better too
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being isolated in your room has been one of the most challenging parts of covet 19. our steven
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shoemaker tells us how one four-legged friend has been one of the real saviors of the pandemic
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one Syracuse university student recently became a dog owner because he knew the challenges that
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came with being stuck inside before all this happened I went out a lot I saw a lot of people
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like with Ella’s just it just helps with being alone another way Ella can help both her and
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pierce’s physical health is by getting exercise through exploring the many trails central New
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York has to offer if you’re from central New York and you often find yourself stuck indoors with you
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and your dog one of the perfect solutions to be able to benefit both you and your dog’s physical
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and mental health is by going out and completing the 80k 9 challenge all you have to do is go onto
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their website and navigate to their registration page there you can fill out a form detailing your
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dog’s information and all nine of the selected trails central New York has to offer the creator
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of the adk-9 challenges says completing the trails in central new York provides a special bond and
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appreciation for the outdoors between a dog and our owner so I kind of started this whole thing
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um as kind of like a way to just get my mind out of just sitting home all day so to be able
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to combine so many of my favorite things hiking dogs the outdoors into something beneficial for
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dozens and dozens of people now it’s been really
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rewarding the 80k9 challenge is one of the unique ways to help you and your dog
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work through the difficult and isolated times of the coronavirus pandemic
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certainly great to see so many dogs on campus these days it always puts a smile on my face
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that is going to do it for us this Wednesday here on mornings on the hill i’m maya Lockett
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follow us on social media and i’m rob flaks thanks for watching orange nation
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we’ll see you next Wednesday which will be our final show of the semester and it’s going to
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be one you’re not going to want to miss we’ll be right here at 10 a.m. right here on OTN
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